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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

Hello everyone! Today we'll be looking at the Achatina.
Contents:
What is this creature?
How to tame;
Usefulness;
Loot.
- What is this creature? -
The Achatina is a snail that lives in swampy areas. It's completely harmless and easy to kill. However, if you don't kill it with one hit, it will crawl into its shell and can no longer be attacked. The same applies to wild creatures: if they don't kill the Achatina with one hit, they won't be able to attack it anymore.
There are two types of Achatina:
Normal Achatina
Aberrant Achatina (found on the Aberration map)
- How to tame? -
The Achatina can only be tamed with sweet vegetable muffins. Achatina can be easily stunned with a small number of darts (depending on its level). She wakes up fairly quickly, so bring at least 50 narcotics. Place a couple of sweet vegetable muffins (depending on her level) in her inventory and wait. There's a bug where Achatina eats a muffin without increasing her taming bar, so bring some muffins with you. Once Achatina wakes up, she can be carried by any flying creature, so you can carry her without cryocaps.
- Useful Tips -
Achatina is your home "cement" maker. She produces Achatina paste, which works like regular cement. There's a bug where when you log out and back in, Achatina's entire inventory is filled with her paste. However, for Achatina to produce paste, she needs to be wandering. To prevent it from escaping, build a wooden cage and place the Achatina in it, enable wandering, and enjoy a large flow of "Cement." The downside of the Achatina is that even after taming, it only eats sweet vegetable cakes. So, unless you have a large supply of resources for making cakes, taming the Achatina is not recommended.
- Loot -
Achatina loot is standard:
Raw meat
Chitin.
However, in Ark Survival Mobile Edition, Achatina also dropped Anglerfish Gel.
ADDMENT FROM THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE
If you have any questions about the Achatina, you can ask me personally - tg @shomyaFloppa . You can find more information about the Achatina online by searching "Ark Achatina wiki."
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More Achatina Taming & KO Tips
They can wear hats!!!
If you are considering breeding these, go slam your hand in a car door a few times. It will be much less painful. Literally one veggie cake per percent of growth....and it grows slow.. Digests roughly one point of food per second, so feed a cake about one for every 7 mins (during event boost) and it will gain one percent of growth.
U CAN GET CAKES THROUGH CHEF STATION ON MOBILE!
I like to make note that this is a knock out tame
Do not starve tame. There is a cool down on the veggie cakes that don't allow it to eat them as quickly as needed.
And their not breedable! Why. I want baby achatina!!!!
If you are playing Official PvE, you can grapple them with a grappling hook and then fly or walk them back somewhere safer for them to be knocked out, such as your base for example.
Has a high torpor drain ASA. Up for all to see.
Pick it out of the swamp with pterodactyl and plop it around your base
As of 12/20 it took 15 shots (5 tail 10 head) to knock out a 150 and 9 veggie cakes. The head, tail, or she'll shots don't seen to make a difference anymore.