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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Achatina can be hard to tame and maintain but they are well worth it, so here’s a guide to tame one
1. You MUST use tranq darts. Tranq arrows will do too much damage, and make it hide in its shell, and it will not knock out. You will also need to prepare veggie cakes before you tame it, because it is the only food that it eats to tame.
2. These are found in the swamp, and on the edge of the redwoods. I recommend using a flyer like an argy to pick it up and move it to a safe location. You can knock it out and tame it in the swamp but there are lots of hostile crocodilians and snakes that would like to eat you and your snail, so be prepared to deal with them you don’t need a trap because they are slow but if you want to use one to keep it safe you can
3. It will take at max 10ish tranqs to knock, so you don't need to make a ton. I HIGHLY recommend NOT starve taming it, because if you starve it too much, it will be really hungry when it is tamed, and you will need to feed it even more veggie cakes, because that is the only food they eat when wild or tamed.
Happy taming!
More Achatina Taming & KO Tips
Infinite cementing paste hack:
Step1: make 5 cakes
Step2: blast some random sail in the head and feed it
Step3: Name it “Gary”
Step 4: set to wander
Step 5: lock it up in a cage for the rest of its worthless life and throw the key in a industrial grinder
Step 5 give me a 👍🏽
U CAN GET CAKES THROUGH CHEF STATION ON MOBILE!
I like to make note that this is a knock out tame
They can wear hats!!!
Has a high torpor drain ASA. Up for all to see.
And their not breedable! Why. I want baby achatina!!!!
If you are considering breeding these, go slam your hand in a car door a few times. It will be much less painful. Literally one veggie cake per percent of growth....and it grows slow.. Digests roughly one point of food per second, so feed a cake about one for every 7 mins (during event boost) and it will gain one percent of growth.
Pick it out of the swamp with pterodactyl and plop it around your base
Do not starve tame. There is a cool down on the veggie cakes that don't allow it to eat them as quickly as needed.
If you are playing Official PvE, you can grapple them with a grappling hook and then fly or walk them back somewhere safer for them to be knocked out, such as your base for example.