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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a castoroides used for? castoroides battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
These things are amazing! If you find a wild one, then that’s great because you can raid it’s dam for some cementing paste. Now, if you tame one, the beaver sadly won’t make any dams. But, you can now harvest a bunch of wood with it if you put it on wandering or use a saddle. If you think it’s a bit dangerous running on the ground, let me introduce you to one of the greatest things in this game for gathering, auto-harvest. Just get an argentavis and it’s saddle, grab a tamed beaver, and go up to a tree and let the beaver hit it. ( Put on wandering for the beaver for it to work) This is way safer than being on the ground. To get way more wood, put some levels into melee and even weight if you want to. Auto-harvest also works with ankylosaurus and doedicurus.
My last tip was on the ichthyosaurus
-Some random Ark Mobile player
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!!!!
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.
For Ark Mobile;
-If you want a passive wood supply, don’t tame them. Just let them be and they’ll build a dam (just make sure to pull out all the needed resources like wood, rare flowers, silica pearl, Cementing Paste,etc) so that they can make another dam. But a tamed Castoroide, just put them on wonder and carry them with an Argy and get close to a tree (recommend to level up melee and also weight on your Castoroides). It’s like having a Doedic but it gathers wood :) Hope this helps.
—From a friendly survivor to another.