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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Encountering
This section describes how to react to an encounter with the Achatina.
General
If engaged and damaged, the Achatina will retreat into its shell and will neither flee nor fight back. Damage dealt to the Achatina will be heavily reduced for as long as it is inside of its shell. Achatinas do however drop a considerable amount of chitin when harvested, so they are a worthy kill for those looking to collect it, at the expense of the time and effort needed to kill one.
Strategy
Although the Achatina itself is not dangerous, its surroundings are usually filled with dangerous predators. Clear the area of hostile creatures before attempting to tame Achatinas, or pick them up with a flying mount. An Argentavis can carry two Achatina at once when using its claws and beak.
Weaponry
Any weapon or creature will be able to sufficiently kill an Achatina given a little time, though one should shoot the achatina with tranquilizer darts to knock it out for taming, as there is little benefit from exterminating them.
Weaknesses
Wild Achatina sometimes take damage over time randomly as a result of being knocked out by titanoboas, waking up, and having their food lowered to 0 in the process.
Achatina - wild and domesticated - do not and cannot fight back when attacked.
More Achatina Encountering Tips
Here is an overview of the achatina (aka snail.)
You can tame a snail exclusively with sweet vegetable cakes. When tamed they also only consume sweet vegetable cake. They can take anywhere from 1-8 cakes to tame. (Levels 1-150) They always tame with max bonus levels. Never hit them in the shell because they take much less torpor damage. Try and aim for their head. These guys drop chitin and raw meat. (They can also drop angler gel in old mobile.) They also defecate achatina paste. Achatina paste is used as a substitute for cementing paste. When tamed, they will passively produce one organic polymer in their inventory every 60 minutes and its spoil timer will be 3x slower along with corrupted nodule. It has a 90% weight reduction for achatina paste, organic polymer, and corrupted nodule. They produce achatina paste in their inventory every minute. (Everything they produce caps at 100) They can wear hats. They can be picked up by everything but the tapejara and tropeognathus. That is everything I know! Have an amazing day and thank you for reading. :)
I don't understand if it only eats cake then how does it survive in the wild? For every good ded does it get cake? These are questions that will never be answered
I recommend you find a wild one and trap it in an enclosure, it'll poop out cementing paste without you needing to tame it
- Snippet the compy
I once knocked one out in the redwoods and got it to 85% when a carno came out and started eating him. He wouldn’t even re-agro onto me when i was hitting him.
He slip, he slime, but most importantly... to tame take a lot of time.😎😎😎
You can encounter them in deep forests
Passive Little Guys Walk Up and Pet them
Pwr: 8
They live in REDWOODS And swamp
Sometimes it drops angler gel. A helpful tip should include more information