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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a dung beetle? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a dung beetle.
This sort of falls under two categories. Taming and utility. Dung beetles are a great early game tame to have, and great for mid and even late game as well. If you have a diplo, bronto, or even a spino, feed them a couple stacks of stim berries, and put their poop in their inventory so it don’t spoil. (My base is a decent treck from all the caves, but I tend to store all the turd in my argi.) The quickest way to tame a dung beetle is using large animal dung. You should only need 2…. Best to bring a third one just in case.
The best thing about the dung beetle is, when set to wander in a 8x8 foundation area (it must be 8x8 or larger. I’ve tried smaller enclosures for them, they glitch through the wall and despawn. Lost a few dung beetles to them glitching through walls and despawning) and with inventory filled with small dung, it will produce oil and fertilizer passively for you. So you can leave the dung beetle to do it’s thing, while your out building, gathering, taming, etc. but the best thing is when you leave a dung beetle to do it’s thing while your out gathering oil in the snowy area. It’s basically adding on to your oil supply.
Please note that the dung beetle inventory weight isn’t much thus you want to increase it as much as possible. And it is best to use small animal dung and human dung to fill it’s inventory to make most of its limited capacity and to get the biggest return for the amount of dung you put in.
If you have a farm set up and have a phiomia, just use stimberries to feed phiomia and get poop. If you aren't ready for south cave than you can use phiomia poop rather than fertilizer and bypass the beetle for a bit. As soon as you get a good barry, you should tame a dung beetle. You should tame lots of low levels because high levels take forever to tame. Up if this was helpful.
They take forever to be hungry again so use bigger poops
The new owl pellets from Extinction don't work on the beetles for taming purposes.
If want one go to south cave wonder around but be prepared for snakes spiders and scorpions try tameing scorpion when going in
1. To tame put poop in last hotbar slot.
2. Once it tamed it eats spoiled meat !
To the person who lets us all know about the spino trick, thank you and if you drain an argys stam, it will double, but not naturally, unlike the spino
Were can you find them on extinction??
Found everywhere in blue biome on abberation. Easiest way to tame is get a creature that produces large feces, then cryopod it (pve method), when you throw it out it poops instantly making it easy to tame. You could also force feed stim berries (make sure you're mounted on it) then bring the poop with you all at once.
Lost iland they spawn around 25.5 62.0 easy no cave
В мобайле капрозух могут их перетаскивать в зубах
Lost island? Head to middle of dessert. You’re welcome. Take a Rex or Giga and get tons of chitin and organic poly while wandering around.
You can find dung beetles in the LOST ISLAND DESERT, meaning that they'll be easy to see. There’s lots of aggressive creatures, but you can easily kill them with a fast but strong creature.
In the desert on crystal isles. Tame them by using a grappling hook then get to a safe spot and load them up with rotten meat. I got four of them doing this!! Ringo, Paul, John and George!!
Use a argie to carry it where you need to go
After clearing out the cave with a dire wolf, tame the dung beetle, pick it up and ride out on your wolf for a safe journey back with it.
I saw around 3-4in the cave containing the artefact of the clever. Just clear out the cave with wolf/saber, tame the beetles. Have a friend with a quetz outside with a base with enough cages for each beetle. This can also be done with Arventagis with riders. Pick up beetles. Only problem is that u need around 6 people this way and I don’t think that arventagis can pick up dung beetles am checking this after.- also either have fridges or wood fridges for the dung on quetz so it doesn’t spoil
If taming without access to an argent or larger flying creature, you can use a raft and keep carnivores from aggro-ing the beetle by carrying it while driving the raft, both you and the beetle will be safe no matter how near to shore you wind up (useful for traversing black sand river on the island map)
They are everywhere on the rag volcano area
Using a Griffin, pick up the Dung Beetle with your hands and get on the Griffin, doesn't make you drop the beetle.