Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
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I tamed a level 150 of one of these wood gods, and then... it fell of a cliff... with me on it
A Castoroides can be picked up by a argentavis
I attacked one. I didn’t come out alive.
make 4 foundations and 6 doorframes
set the foundations and doorframes down on a flat surface
shoot the beaver with tranq arrows or tranq darts
(if you hit one they all start to attack you and if your not careful they will swarm you and deal enough damage to kill you and your tame)
guide the beavers in the little trap you made from the foundations and doorframes
kill the ones you don’t want and tranq out the one you do want
And boom you have itself a big prehistoric beaver
(up this was helpful to u noobs out there)
The method I used to tame was picking up the beaver with my crystal wyvern and dropping it in a taming pen. Pretty easy knockouts but their torpor drop rate is INSANITY and you can't leave then for more than 3 minutes. Feed them either mejoberries or crops (kibble is really expensive but if you want to do that, go for it).
Hope this helps!
Outstanding wood collectors. Mine has 770 weight and can carry 3K wood plus rider. Holds wood at 1/5 weight and can be used as mobile smithy. This teamed with a doed can construct a base in minutes. Must have.
For Dam raiding, I drive my armored raft on top and take the goodies, i hear them chomping unsuccessfully on the stone foundations. However, I did have to replace all my wooden ramps with metal...🤣
I recommend bringing a trike or any other Dino that harvests berries so you can just keep getting narcoberries! It was a real life saver.
Up if helpful 😁
How to VERY easily tame Beavers (or any medium dinos with high torpor) on single player :
Step 1: Build a 4x4 trap with 2 high walls built with door frames (add ramps on one side if you don’t have an argy)
Step 2: Carry one with an argy or lure it into the trap with aggro if you don’t have an argy
Step 3: Leave it there but don’t go out too far so it won’t despawn, wait for night, put sleeping bag down and sleep for 4 hours. This step is to drain it’s food.
Step 4: Knock it out with tranqs and feed it berries or carrots (you can get plenty with a trike or stego, if not then parasaur is also good)
Step 5: Enjoy having a beaver then cry that you need to be level 61 to make a saddle for it…
Pros: Insanely fast starve tame method, doesn’t use any narcs of any kind for a level 145, doesn’t reduce much taming efficiency like the old starve tame method where you have to knock it out THEN let it starve, almost always gets 80-90% taming effectiveness.
Cons: Have to be in the area for a long while so it won’t despawn and wait for night time, it eats a lot and if you don’t check on it, it will eat everything you put in if you wanted to save stuff like crops or prime meats, you have to trap it for it to starve so will cost a lot of building mats to start.
- Erizo, your fellow ARK newbie
The most versatile tame I can think of. Personally I have used the Castoroides for the following things:
-get wood
-raid wild beaver dams (cuz they have weight reduction for wood found in the dams)
-explore the oceans
-kill Megalodons
-kill Mantas
-tame ichthyosaurs
-tame basilosaurus
-gather underwater oil (by swimming down to them and holding a pickaxe without dismounting)
-mobile smithy
-run the lower south cave (for chitin, metal, obsidian, crystal, and the artifact)
Empty out their wild dams if you want them to make new ones. No refills.
Relocate them to nearby river, pond, or sea and they will make dams if they survive. New ones will spawn in to replace the relocated ones.
Boxing them in on land near water will also force them to make dam in the box, but creature eventually despawns.