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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a roll rat? roll rat battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
While usually passive, if it comes out of the ground and gems pop up, DO NOT GRAB THEM. It will chase you for a very long time and does a respectable amount of damage.
Wondering if anyone thinks it possible to kill rock well by useing a well bred roll rat with a Mastercraft saddle ( which I found in the elemental vault) and rolling around the tentacles doing more and more damage as you gain momentum. I think the roll rats turning radius when rolling is perfect for this. What do you think of my wierd strategy?
"MY PRECIOUS!" Don't take its preciouses cause unlike Gollum it will bite off more than your finger!
Roll rats DO NOT swim well.
If running away from one, lead it into deep water and swim around; it will eventually drown.
Piles of loose gems are like wyvern eggs to them, if you take any, instant aggro
This animal is literally based of the naked mole rat
They spawn very often in the area between the blue and green zone, or at least they did for me
Found in the abberation lunar caves of genesis
Don't pick up anything shiny it digs up or it will freak out.
They get agro if you take gems from off the ground and they see you do it
Use a crab when harvesting gems. Simply wait for it to unearth a good haul (sometimes over 25 red gems and 40 blue gems) then grab the mole with the crab, take the gems, get back on and throw the mole away and fly (well jump good) to safety. Remember no matter how far away the mole who dug up the gems will get angry when they pick them up BUT other moles only aggro with it if they are close when you pick up the gems, or hit the mole.
When it burrows underground it brings up gems, this is a great method of gathering red gems in the early stage of the game.. but be careful as it will attack when you pick up the gems
Also, just like picking up a trike/stego egg, if you pick up a gem it will agro it
It will attack you if you steal their stuff when they burrow other than that their passive
- White Fang
Spawns in genisis in lunar caves -
When they surface they leave behind a mineral. Don’t take it because they’ll hunt you down for it.
These Dudes are In Fjordurs Aberration cave, it’s how you get EZ Green Gems.
If you want easy food or hide, just steal a gem and lure it into the water. You get a gem and it drowns before reaching the shore.
Don’t steal his gems. It will attack if you do
Do not pick up the dropped gems they stay mad forever