Bird
Kairuku
Kairuku waitaki
- Tameable
- Breedable
- Diet
- Piscivore
- Temperament
- Friendly
- Era
- Late Paleogene
- Drag weight
- 35
Where it spawns
- Very common
- Common
- Uncommon
- Very uncommon
- Rare
- Very rare
Spawn areas mined from the game files by the ARK Wiki; Ascended data where the wiki has it. Creatures roam a little outside their areas.
Base stats and growth
| Stat | Base | Per wild level | Per tamed level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 95 | +19 | +5.4% |
| Stamina | 200 | +20 | +10.0% |
| Food | 900 | +90 | +10.0% |
| Weight | 70 | +1.4 | +4.0% |
| Melee | 8 | +0.4 | +1.7% |
| Move Speed | 100% | — | +1.0% |
| Torpidity | 300 | +18 | — |
Dossier
In the wild
Kairuku waitaki is an amazingly docile and friendly creature, to everything but fish. Honestly, I'm not quite sure how Kairuku manages to stay populated across the Island's colder climes, with the many predators stalking these frozen lands. It is weak, and has only one small defensive trait: suspended in Kairuku blubber are small, dense particles that act as a light form of armor. Adding to Kairuku's problems, a clever survivor discovered that refining Kairuku blubber (concentrating the particles in it) can yield a natural form of the same Polymer utilized in advanced tribes' manufacturing processes. This has caused many tribes to hunt Kairuku extensively, a practice colloquially known as "Kairu Clubbing."
Once tamed
There is no reason to tame Kairuku for combat, since they are useless at it. Still, Kairuku are regularly tamed for their cuteness and friendly nature, and the fact that their bodies run extremely hot. Just standing near Kairuku can help keep a survivor stay warm through long, harsh nights on the icebergs.
Breeding
1 Incubation
1h 30m 54s
2 Baby
2h 48m 21s
3 Juvenile
11h 13m 24s
4 Adolescent
14h 1m 45s
- Fully grown after
- 1d 4h 3m 30s
- Mate again after
- 18h - 2d
- Incubation temperature
- 22 - 30 °C / 72 - 86 °F
- Egg incubator setting
- 26 °C / 79 °F
- Egg
- Kairuku Egg
Taming
- Method
- Knockout
Technical
- Entity ID
Kairuku_Character_BP_C- Cloneable
- No