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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
In the wild, the Achatina should not be your first item of prey, as it will…
In the wild, the Achatina should not be your first item of prey, as it will crall into it's shell, which can lead to a number of problems. One being the fact that the shell has a very high defense, therefore you could kill yourself due to recoil before the thing even has low health. Another problem is that the Achatina is found in the Swamps and Redwood Forests, some of the more dangerous areas of the ARK, so while attacking the Achatina, other predators have the chance to sneak up on you while your trying to clame your snail supper.
Taming, on the other hand, is very useful for this species, as if set on wondering, can produce Achatina Paste (Cementing Paste produced by the Achatina) and Organic Polymer, which can last up to 3 times as long in the Achatina's inventory. While the Achatina collects the Organic Polymer in it's inventory, the Achatina drops the Achatina Paste that has a low despawn time, and serves as a replacement for it's feces.
More Achatina Utility Tips
You have to enable wandering for it to passively generate cementing paste, so build a small pen for them to slime around in then go collect your reward. Also, don’t use a feeding trough…The cake spoils too quickly for how hard it is to make, I recommend hand feeding them before you get off each day, it will save you A LOT of resources and they will not die from starvation in that amount of time. Hope this helps 👍🏼
Just tame 5 or 10 of these and put inside them a lot of Stone or something heavy so they cannot move when you put them into patrol. With that, they passively generated 100 achatina paste every hour. When you don't take those achatina paste, they start to generate organic Polymer. Just make sure those snaila cannot move and you have a nice auto-paste farming.