Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Center: in caves
Island: in caves / carno island
Scorched: in the dunes
When taming you can use a grappling hook to bring them to a safe place.
Crawl up and feed it poop, but don't stand up, because they see you and attack. So crawl up, feed, crawl back. Keep doing this and soon it will be tamed.
Best way to tame these guys is get as much rotten meat as possible and go find em, once found, try to take out all nearby bad animals and start feedin’. Up if u thought this was useful. ;)
They can destroy wooden structures. I was in the east underwatercave for deep SEA loot and Had a 1x1 wooden House with a bed. I had No weapon and so a lvl 200 dungbeatle Killed me nearly, Destroyer my bed and my foundation not what i expected.
I found one of these unclaimed on the beach, 22 seconds from dying of negligence, i claimed brought to my base and named it goober, later that night all my progress was gone due to some dude with a quetz
I just used bug repellent and I tamed the dung beetle easy using spoiled meat and just walked out of the cave with holding the dung beetle then flew away on my Argie back home. I called him horn and he lives in a nice home.
If you didn’t know or you can’t figure out how to get fertilizer from one of these things here’s how to do it!
1 Tame one (you can find them in caves and The dunes)
2 create a small pen (don’t use foundations)
3 set them on wandering inside the pen
4 put poop in inventory
5 you’ll be getting fertilizer soon!
Hope this was helpful!
I have only seen these in caves so far but they are useful for fertiliser when you are growing crops and Plants Species X etc.
The dung beetles are often found in caves and around swamps
If your playing on the lost island you can find some in the swamp
For Ark Mobile: When filling their inventory with poop, temporarily put a weight collar on them. You’ll be able to fill them up with more poop than usual. When you’re done, make sure to take the collar off. The beetle will still be able to make fertilizer and oil even though they are encumbered.
-NoMiddleSliders
these are amazing, i made an island for them, they love it!!
Poo. Tame with poo. If you have a cryopod when you release a dino it will poo. Free poo. Big poo is great. Much faster than rotten meat.
You can’t feed beetles titanosaur poop. So best is diplo or bronto poop. Go in a cave with bug repellent and a raptor (a strong one). You can go to the hunter’s cave because it is the easiest cave and megalosaurus won’t spawn there nor will centipedes spawn a lot in the there. If you are far away, bring Argentavis to carry the raptor and pick up the beetle yourself. If your lvl is too low well I guess you’re gonna need to travel all the way back on raptor-back. Again.