Guide: Tribble Breeding

Tribble Breeding can be a fun and interesting part of Star Trek Online gameplay. There are as many as 40 different sub-species of Tribbles: some of them provide a quick heal and are pretty common to find, while others are more rare and give various types of buffs to the player (or any Bridge Officer who has them equipped) when used.

Food

In order to breed, Tribbles must be fed; in other words, food or drink must be placed in the same area as them. Tribbles can be bred in the player inventory, while equipped in the player's device slots, or in your personal bank. Tribbles do not breed in Bridge Officer device slots, the Account bank, and the fleet bank.

Tribbles breed every hour, on the hour, after you've started playing the game.

Your game time can be found by typing in /played in the chat window.

There are three levels of food and drink: +56%, +64%, and +72% food. The higher the HP boost a food/drink provides to the player, the more rare it is in-game, and the more it is needed for higher-level breeding.

To breed higher level Tribbles (Tier 4+), lower level Tribbles must be fed specific food items. For details on which food items are required to breed a Tribble, click on that Tribble below or check the Tribble Breeding Table.

It is possible to intentionally bulk breed multiple tribbles at the same time. Just ensure that the number of food items equals the number of parent, or stud, tribbles, and that the food is not stacked. One food item per cell, per tribble. However, there is no safe way to ensure a specific offspring if different stud types are in the same zone, as there is no way to control which food item any given tribble will eat.

Alphabetical List of Breeding Food

Any food not listed below will produce a tribble, low level, unknown type.

Bajoran Moba Fruit Baked Tribble Betazoid Uttaberry Blood Wine Cardassian Kanar Cardassian Taspar Egg Cardassian Yamok Sauce Cardassian Zabu Stew Chateau Picard Comet Cocktail (<64%) Deferi Snow Tuber (<64%) Ferengi Jellied Gree-worm Ferengi Snail Steak Ferengi Tube Grubs Flaked Blood Fleas Glazed Ham (<64%) Glazed Targ (<64%)

Jumbo Romulan Mollusk Ketracel White (<64%) Klingon Grapok Sauce Klingon Gagh Klingon Gladst Klingon Grapok Sauce Klingon Heart of Targ Klingon Octopus Klingon Racht Last Year's Fruitcake (<64%) Livanian Beet Lowfat Egg Nog (<64%) Minty Raktajino (<64%) Nog's Nog (<64%) Quadrotriticale Ratamba Stew Rippleberry Fruitcake (<64%)

Romulan Ale Romulan Kali-fal Romulan Osol Twist Romulan Ale Rum. Buttered. Hot. (<64%) Saurian Brandy Slug-O-Cola Tranya Tribble Kebab Trixian Bubble Juice Tulaberry Tulaberry Wine Vorta Q'lava Vorta Rippleberry Vulcan Plomeek Soup Vulcan Spice Tea

Sub-Species Tiers

There are eight levels of Tribbles in the game — nine if you include the Best Buy pre-order Tribble with all 3 possible buffs at once. While all non-preorder Tribbles can have two buffs, one buff, or no buffs (simple heal), some provide more powerful buffs than others.

A Tribble can only breed other Tribbles at the same or next level as itself with the right food. With the wrong food, a Tier 1 Tribble will result. Below is a list of the levels of Tribble sub-species players will encounter.

For example, if a Tier 6 or 7 Tribble consumed a food item that gives a boost below +72%, a Tier 1 Tribble will replace that food item. Hence, breeding should be done in steps, with all Tier 1 Tribbles being removed before breeding Tier 2 to Tier 3, and so forth.

For more information on exactly which food or drink to feed a certain sub-species to get which offspring, click on each sub-species' picture.

Tiers 1 to 3

Tier 1 Tribbles only can be found in enemy loot (Klingons, allies and enemy crates) and only provide a simple self-heal. Tribble 1 or 2 tribbles result from feeding any tribble any level of food below 63%.

Tier 1	Breeding Foods			Tier 2	Breeding Foods			Tier 3	Type
		Any <64% food				Any 64% food.			Self-Heal

Tiers 3 to 6

Tier 3	Breeding Foods			Tier 4	Breeding Foods			Tier 5	Breeding Foods			Tier 6	Type
													Damage
													Health Regeneration
													Damage
													Damage Resistance

Tiers 6 to 8

Tier 6	Breeding Food			Tier 7	Breeding Food			Tier 8	Type
									Damage
									Health Regeneration
									Damage
									Damage Resistance

Cannibal Tribbles

Cannibal Tribbles are not part of the normal breeding tiers, but operate in a similar manner. Tribble foods can be made through Klingon duty officer assignments. When fed to tribbles, it produces a cannibal tribble which will eat other tribbles in your inventory. These can then be turned in at Klingon security officers as part of a Tribble Bounty. Cannibal Tribbles can also be acquired occasionally via a critical outcome of the duty officer assignment Assignment: Confiscate Contraband From Crew.

Tribble	Breeding Food			Result	Breeding Food			Carcass
Any Common Tribble						Any Common Tribble
Any Uncommon Tribble						Any Uncommon Tribble

Special Tribbles

Special tribbles are either bred by feeding any tribble a particular food (i.e. the Gamma Quadrant Tribble can be bred by feeding any tribble ketracel white), or they are otherwise purchased and unable to be bred (i.e. Tribble of Borg was originally a testing reward and is now obtainable from the c-store). Feeding these tribbles regular foods usually grants a tier 5 tribble.

Tribble	Notes	Acqui- sition
	The [Black Alert Tribble] grants 2% extra run speed, and 3% extra maximum health.	Promo
	[Tribble of Borg] grants damage resistance and a damage buff vs Borg.	300
	The [Cryo Tribble] grants damage and cold resistance.
	The [Crossfire Tribble] grants damage resistance in RPG mode, and a damage buff in shooter mode.
	The [Daring Tribble] grants a buff to kit performance and kit readiness.
	The [Fleet Tribble] provides hold, disable and slow resistance. It also provides 1 fleet mark per hour.
	The [Fluidic Space Tribble] provides damage, psionic and toxic resistance.	300
	The [Gamma Quadrant Tribble] provides damage vs Dominion, and a buff to stealth & perception.
	The [Genetically-Altered Safe Tribble] provides +0.1% health regen for 3,600 seconds, +2% max health for 3,600 seconds.	Promo
	The [Grand Slam Tribble] provides a buff to run speed and melee damage.
	The [Heroic Tribble] provides +10 Willpower for 3,600 sec, +2.5 Psionic Damage Resistance Rating for 3,600 sec.	Promo
	The [IDIC Tribble] provides a team-wide buff dependent on your profession.	300
	The [Inquisitive Tribble] provides damage resistance and a buff to experience points.	Promo
	The [Kelvin Timeline Tribble] provides a damage and damage-resistance buff.
	The [Lohlunat Tribble] grants psionic damage resistance and health regeneration. During the Lohlunat Festival it also provides a flight buff.
	The [Mol'Rihan Tribble] provides a buff to plasma and disruptor damage, to plasma and disruptor resistance, and grants 1 Romulan Mark per hour.
	The [Mycelium Tribble] grants 3% extra run speed, 5% extra maximum health, and 100% extra movement speed. Can only be bred from the Black Alert Tribble.
	The [Nukara Tribble] provides environmental damage resistance and 1 Nukara Mark per hour. It was previously a reward during the testing of the Legacy of Romulus update and is not otherwise available.	n/a
	The [Photonic Tribble] grants a buff for damage resistance and health regeneration.
	The [Radan Tribble] grants extra shield capacity and a buff to energy damage. It also grants 5 Dilithium once per hour.
	The [Rainbow Tribble] grants additional critical chance, stacked with teammates.	50
	The [Risian Tribble] grants increased maximum hit points and health regeneration. During the Lohlunat Festival it also provides a flight buff.
	The [Tribble (riv)] grants a buff to damage, damage resistance and health regeneration.	300
	The [Solanae Tribble] grants antiproton damage resistance, an increased critical hit chance and one Dyson Mark per hour.
	The [Terran Fortune Tribble] provides a runspeed buff and a fortune.
	The [Transcendent Tribble] grants a constant, passive small chance to resist and throw off control effects, stacked with teammates.	50
	The [Triolic Tribble] provides a damage resistance buff.
	The [Winter Tribble] resistance to repel, knockback and cold damage. It grants an AOE bonus during the Q's Winter Wonderland event.
	The [Andorian Tribble] grants a buff to Cold, Melee Damage and All Damage Resistance Rating	50

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