How old can a dinosaur get?

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
With a proper care, no stress, good food and company, they can apparently get way older than the life span suggests.

Here's one of my darlings, finally eating dust, unfortunately. BUT! I haven't modified her life span, yet she got to 100!
I'm amazed. (And sad. :( )

ZuD5czJ.png
 

PCMR4Life

PCMR4Life
Not very old it seems cause it's like mine die as soon as they walk out of the Hammond lab.

People complained about how easy it is to make money in this game. I can see it getting expensive to have to replace Dinosaurs every hour or so.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Well on my way to one billion money units and haven't left the first island yet...

OSdp5NR.jpg

But anyway, yeah, they can live a bit longer or shorter. I think it's RNG tic based, but not sure. I seem to remember having one die just before exiting the game and then when loading the previous save when I came back to it, the dino not dying as soon.
 
Last edited:

smokecombs

S
This is one thing I'd suggest Frontier allow us to do, change dinosaur age "possibilities". It seems to be canon in Jurassic Park that some dinosaurs are just "built better", as Rexy is a case of longevity and survival, and then Blue to a certain extent. I know that dinosaurs evidently grew at 2, to maybe 50 times the rate of modern reptiles, but I still imagine a brachiosaurus would be quite long lived. Take crocs who can be well over 100 years old, elephants living into their late 70s and early 80s. Or if we go the bird route, a pet parrot can easily outlive it's owner twice over. I just think that's a good thing to maybe have as an option for the game. It would also maybe give us more attachment to say a favorite T Rex, one we have modified and spent a lot of individual research on. Maybe his name is Greg, and we love Greg...
 

Falco57

F
My Ceratosaurus had a life span of 72 and lived to be 101. I suppose if you keep them happy and comfortable they will live longer. Personally I wish there was an option to have your dinos never die of old age, it would make sandbox mode much more enjoyable for those of uis who just wanna kick back and relax and explore our park on Nublar.
 

Jakpearl71

J
Started on Isla Tacano and the sauropods that become available (ie Brachiosaurus and Diplodicus) at their base stat are at passed 100 age. With full genomes and added genes, they could probably live close to 200 age points, whatever that is.
 

Imperios

I
Imperios said:
Would be interesting how long in playtime the age in stats is. One unit = 1 minute maybe ?
Click to expand...

To answer my own question i stopped increasing age for a couple minutes on two different dinos (just in case it's different for each dino) and it seems it's ~2 minutes per age increase.
So a dino with a max age of 100 should live for over 3 hours playtime.
 
Last edited:

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Imperios said:
To answer my own question i stopped increasing age for a couple minutes on two different dinos (just in case it's different for each dino) and it seems it's ~2 minutes per age increase.
So a dino with a max age of 100 should live for over 3 hours playtime.
Click to expand...

That doesn't quite add up. I think that 100 is at least 6 real time hours. I'm too lazy to do a proper test, though, when I breed a new dino, she usually DOESN'T die in the same game session.
 

xKUMBAx

X
They can go far beyond at times. Had a Tri that was 97 and only could go to 63. Best so far was a Ceratosaurus. Lived to be 138 life span was 60 something
 

S3B4ST13N

S
Got one of my dinosaur species at an expected life span of 105; and since I focus strongly on keeping my dinosaurs happy and well-fed, I expect her to live very long.
 
Last edited:

Imperios

I
Chris Simon said:
That doesn't quite add up. I think that 100 is at least 6 real time hours. I'm too lazy to do a proper test, though, when I breed a new dino, she usually DOESN'T die in the same game session.
Click to expand...

Can only say that a rex with age of 10 increased to 20 after 20 minutes and another dino by the same amount in the same time
 

Hexeract

H
They die quickly when you incubate them while they still have a low genome %. Get that % higher, add some lifespan genes and you can have them live quite long. Especially the longer living species.
 
Last edited:

XxToxicxAlienxX

X
It all depends on how you modify the genome when you're creating the dinosaur. I've had a rex that was supposed to live to be 94. it died at 118. I don't know exactly how the surpass the ages they're given but it probably has something to do with the way they are taken care of and their happiness through their lives. I hope this helped!
 

impcaeaug

impcaeaug
I wish that a fifty percent genome dinosaur could at least live for 24 hours while a one hundred gets 48 hours.
I don't want to see any dinosaurs dying...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom