Wyvern Egg (Scorched Earth)

Wyvern Eggs are items in the Scorched Earth and Ragnarok-DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. They come in four varieties and are used to hatch, , , or Wyverns accordingly, and can be used to make.

Overview
Breeding Wyverns must be of the same element type (I.E: Two Poison).

Acquisition
On Scorched Earth Wyvern Eggs are only found in The World Scar near the blue and red obelisks. Along the walls there are many indentations, some of which will contain a nest with a Wyvern Egg. Upon stealing the egg, any nearby wild Wyverns will begin to attack the player.

On Ragnarok, Wyvern Eggs can be found in the Wyvern Cave as well as the Dragonmalte Trench, which is between Murdersnow and the northern Highlands. Like on Scorched Earth, the nests are found in indentations along the walls. Ice Wyvern Eggs are not found in the trench, but can instead be found in the Murdersnow around the area where Ice Wyverns spawn.

On Valguero Wyvern Eggs can be found in the Great Trench (only Ice Wyvern ones) and the adjoining cave (only Fire Wyvern ones).

Trap
Building a trap near the scar to either trap or kill nearby wild Wyverns can take off some of the pressure when getting an egg.

Using an Oviraptor+Pteranodon/Argentavis
Oviraptors will, in fact, steal Wyvern eggs from nests when they are positioned close enough to do so, despite some sources claiming otherwise. (Tested working as of 306.89 on official servers) Consider using Nearest Follow settings to aid Oviraptor positioning. When the Oviraptor grabs the egg simply take it from Oviraptor. This avoids the penalty of angering every Wyvern in a large radius as you technically did not steal the egg from the nest yourself according to the game. This is probably the safest method, but also probably the most labour intensive as taming even a low level Oviraptor can be outright impossible without already established egg production. '''Make sure you take the egg from the Oviraptor and do not carry it away while it is still holding the egg. This is reported to both erase the egg and break the Oviraptors ability to grab eggs in the future, likely related to the draw distance of the nest that the game may think the egg is still located at.'''

Using a Wyvern
If one already has a tamed, they are the easiest way of getting an egg, and the only flying mount other than the (on Ragnarok) capable of outrunning a wild Wyvern with pure speed.

Using a Tapejara
s are very agile and can strafe to the side to avoid the s' attacks. They can have decent health(around 1500) and enough weight to collect multiple eggs in one run. They are around the same speed as a.

Using an Argentavis
has good weight, making it capable of snagging the eggs, but escaping may be difficult due to its speed. It is advised to choose an egg that has as few as possible surrounding. One could increase the health of their and try to tank their way out. If all of the eggs have at least one surrounding, try to choose one that has a lone as it is easy to dodge its attacks. Alternatively, by putting points into health, stamina and melee, it is possible to kill enough wyverns to escape. This is not recommended if there are many wyverns nearby, multiple alphas, or if you are using a low-level Argentavis.

Using a Pteranodon
The is the fastest alternate flyer, although it is BARELY faster than wild s (as long as it is not encumbered) and has low health. When escaping, try to fly low, through arches, around rocks, or any other maneuvering to put objects between you and the pursuing s. They can sometimes get stuck on the rocks, putting more distance between you and them, and allowing more time to escape. If the 's stamina pool is high enough, the 'C'-spin maneuver can be used to create more distance between the and the pursuing  as the 'C'-spin maneuver provides a small burst of increased speed.

Using a Rock Elemental
has decent health, ranged attack and immunity to wyverns' breath attacks, plus its natural melee damage reduction, wyverns are having headache to deal with this golem. Watch out for Poison Wyvern's projectile, it cannot damage the golem but the player sitting on it.

Using a Griffin
With its high base speed, dual passenger seat and skydive ability, the makes an ideal egg picker mount. Level up stamina and health.

Using a Tropeognathus
A  with saddle can simply outrun wyverns with engine boost. The cannon can do massive damage to wyverns as well. Level up stamina.

Using a Giganotosaurus
, when fully imprinted, can outmatch pursuing wyverns in term of brute force. If you are not very confident, any buff such as mate-boost, rider-imprinted and Yutyrannus encouragement may be utilized to ensure the victory. It is not native on Scorched Earth, but can be imported via an Obelisk or a Tek Transmitter.

Using a Bloodstalker
With it's high speed, mobility and redirection the Bloodstalker can easily lead Wyverns away so you can turn back and get out of their agro radius to get eggs with little problems. WARNING: The breath of a fire wyvern hitting your Bloodstalker will render you unable to pull in or shoot out new webs. This effect lasts throughout the entirety of the burning debuff. You can slow your fall with left CTRL and use your double jumps until the debuff ends, but the wyverns will likely catch you.

Using a Rock Drake
Rock Drakes are a great mount to steal wyvern eggs with, as its ability to go invisible combined with its mobility makes for an easy way to get into and out of the trenches. And, while it is not recommended, a Rock Drake can fight more than one wyvern at a time (It might be hard to fight them though unless your Rock Drake has a Tek Saddle). If done right, you can even get an egg and escape without having to engage a single wyvern. The only problem is the Rock Drakes are acquired through a similar means via stealing eggs from a Rock Drake trench.

Using Turrets
At a very high cost, a sufficient number of  can wipe out a swarm of Wyverns in mere seconds.

Host Tethering
If playing on a non dedicated server, survivors can abuse the tethering mechanic to get an egg. Have a player that is not the host grab an egg, then have the host player kill themselves and quickly respawn far away. This will force all non-host players to teleport to the host's location. or have the host player step into a cave, which teleports all non-hosts to the host.

Self-Sacrificing
Although it's unfair, if not on Hardcore mode, players can cheat death(as they revive as many time as they are dead). You will eventually obtain an egg by following the steps below:


 * 1) Tame a flying mount, any level is ok.
 * 2) Go to the wyvern nest, pick an egg and run for your life. The flying mount should be at least able to carry you and the egg out the wyvern trench.
 * 3) Get killed by the wyvern, respawn, and find your corpse(or item cache).
 * 4) Pickup the egg from your corpse or item cache. If it does aggro nearby wyverns, use  or go back to step 2. The wyverns will eventually end up attacking other creatures, going back to their nests, or get deleted for being outside their main habitat for too long.

Hatching
Wyvern Eggs require a very high temperature in order to hatch. A minimum of 15 will be needed to reach the required temperature. More fires may be required during the night, to accommodate the lower ambient temperature. It takes around 3 days and 20 hours to grow to an adult and they will take for imprinting and petting but can be rare prompt.

Using Adobe structures can greatly reduce the amount of heat or insulation sources needed. On Scorched Earth, s are greatly discouraged because of their costs and impossibility to run during Electrical Storms.

Another viable solution to hatch Wyvewn Eggs is to keep them close to a levelled Up in Damage to provide a powerful thermal insulation. Multiple Dimetrodons can be used to stack their insulation up to entirely replace Campfires and Air Conditioners.