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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a castoroides? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a castoroides.
Best have some kibble, or your in for a afternoon of hell.
They won’t attack you if you don’t look into the beaver dam so you can carry them to a taking pen without taking damage
Not sure why everyone discourages taming. I'm pretty sure the game replenishes their numbers every time the server goes through a wild dino wipe, and these little guys are really handy to have around for what little space they require.
In ark mobile it says to get some mejoberries, IGNORE IT. YOULL BE SITTING AND GUARDING FOR HOURS. Crops take long enough, Castaroides pursuit, you are cruel!
Do not leave them unattended torpor drains quicker than you can run from a giga
BOLAS, bolas make the knocking out part very easy simply throw it on them get behind them and then smack them with a bat, But make sure you have a lot of biotoxin because they’re unconsciousness go down at an insane rate
I used a ton of narcotics (maybe I spammed too much cus I’m scared he will wake up lol) and mejoberries to tame one. It took some time, but it worked out in the end.
Bring too much more narcotics than the app says… a lot of them
I play on singleplayer, make sure the one you wanna tame is alone and doesn't have it's buddies arouns, bola it and knock it out usinf tranq arrows, took around 100 mejorberries and 20 narcotics. Time? Around 20-30 minutes.
Their saddle is craftable from LVL 61!
The way to tame these guys is to run up to one of their dams and then open it and then immediately close it (you don’t have to take anything from it, opening the dam will immediately aggravate all and any nearby beavers). Once this step has been done, you must bola the beaver (assuming only one tries to fight). I actually made a hearty mistake and bolaed the first one that came whereas I should’ve killed the second first (I was making a video, the second one got killed). Once the beaver is bolaed and separated from its mates, go behind it where it can’t hit you and hit it with a bat until you knock it out, but before doing any of these either kill jellyfish for bio-toxin for torpor (the beaver’s torpor will drain quickly) or farm a bunch of narcoberries in preparation. These guys are herbivores so you should also farm other berries besides narcoberries, or gather from the nearby forests. Keep in mind that beavers EXTREMELY slow eaters when knocked out, so patience is your weapon here.
Cost of Narcotics is way off. Bring ALOT more. Like 4x more
If you want to get a lot of pelt, make your base by the hidden lake on the Island, you can look up coords. Beavers spawn there, then harvest their bodies with pick. Don't worry about overhunting they just spawn again. And free dams.
If you wanna tame theese guys, make sure you have tranq arrow berries or crops. shoot them with a bow or cross bow on a rock or something until unconcios because ive seen theese guys kill a sarco, feed it berries or crops OR kibble. And you have a beaver! (i think ;))))) )
Dont tame, just take em to your are if you've got a shallow water pen.
Pick it up with an argentavis hop off in mid air and shoot the heck out of it, if your argie lands, hop back on and try again
How to tame
0. 100 NARCOTICS NEED TO BE MADE!(10 for truanq arrows)
1. Build bola
2.build bow
3.build 10 traunq arrows
4.open beaver dam
5.ready bola
6.throw bola at rampaging beaver
7. Shoot arrows at beaver
8. Follow scared beaver and hit with bat
9. Put berries in inventory AND 90 narcotics
10.wait
11.Wait
12.WAIt
13.WAIT
14.WWWAAAIIITTT!!!!?!!!?
15. AYY! You got an OP starter pet! It’s gonna be a long time until you get a saddle though✋😓🤚
It took me more time than my gameplay time to tame this MF. 🥴. And ate almost 30 of bio toxin
Because it's torpor was draining rapid fast.
We can't even look into other things because
We will need to feed it narcotics in seconds,
The fun was it was only lvl 4🥴🤣
Great for collecting cementrical past
This fella takes nearly 200 narcotics to tame, and takes ages, be warned
Be aware they are normaly found in groups so target one that is away from the rest