Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Kill the beavers first before looting the dams. I ever tried looting without killing them, and i died trying to outrun them. This was when i was a newbie.
Everyone. TAMING OR KILLING THESE MFERS DOESNT MATTER THE GAME WILL RESPAWN MORE. Also when you take stuff out of the dams, dump the rest of the stuff out to destroy the dam. They won’t fill the dam again until it’s destroyed. Nobody likes opening a damn to find a bunch of wood!!!!
YOU CAN BOLA THEM!!!
There’s really great stuff inside. Take a look, you won’t regret it
Come on, No one’s stopping you.
go ahead
If u ever attack these DONT go in the water to try to escape..your dead if u do
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)
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.
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!
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 😁
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)