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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Achatina in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

First time playing ark and just found this ones

I tried to kill it with a hatchet but a snake appeared and killed me

A long time later I thought I was killing a ammonite because of it’s skill

If your base is far away from the swamp, use a Argentavis to carry it in his mouth. On this way you still carry it when you land and transport wild ones to your base for taming

The achatina will only bug when it's says there's no food if your in the inventory if you go out of the inventory soon it will eat again but this won't always happen because remember it's just a bug

Achitina guide:

Where to find: anywhere but the Arctic

Size: small

What it is: prehistoric snail

The achitina is a small prehistoric snail that can be found anywhere but the Arctic probably bcs it would freeze to death. These snails are quite stupid and are hunted by…

If you use a flyer and pick it up while it is untamed you can put it in a cage and get paste without taming.

-2 points🔧 Utility5 years oldReport

If you managed to tame one and, you play on ark mobile you can set it to wander. leave the game and come back you will get infinite cementing paste and organic polymers.

-2 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

All tips in one:

Only level food and weight, as they only eat sweet cakes even after taming and you would want to save those cakes. Weight for the organic polymer and paste. After producing 100 paste in their inventory, they will start producing organic polymer. Do not take…

-2 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

If you want quick cp just raid a giant dam mobile players. Dam it people. Stop wasting cake on snails! It’s so much easier and quicker to just raid dams. Literally got 1000 cp in 20 min.

-2 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

Some people think these guys are useless, but unless you want to be making cementing paste all the time, you NEED to tame one

-2 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

Update: Sorry to say that both babies did not survive. The last survivor actually took food from the Maewing twice but after 5 game days it stopped taking food and starved to death. So, I am at a loss. Sorry for the bad news.

Maras_Dad: Zyraties Tribe. PS4. Rag 30.…

Taming is pretty expensive tbh, so if you're just after the paste, you can easily make a little pen or something for them and pick up wild ones, they wander around and drop the paste. On my singleplayer world I have around 15 on my tree platform, all I did was line the…

Stealing cementing paste from beaver dams is much much more effecient, you can also take a dire wolf caving to collect tons of chitin and make your own cement, you can easily get 1k+ even running the Hunter's cave in the south of the island.

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saw a couple of people mentioning pteranodons dont pick them up and thats false THEY DO also what do they eat after? i placed berries only and it seems to be working -AB

Just tame achatina then make it wonder then quit game and re join game and boom Your acha will give you instant cementing paste and polymer but my acha is also giving me these but i was wondering if he dies for hunger then what i do! I cand make cake i use chef station to do it