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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for achatina? Tips and strategies for achatina in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I wish that the veggie cakes didn’t spoil. Heck, hostess twinkies and cupcakes basically last forever irl!
This is my first tip on here
I've got four of these at my base and I've got way too much cementing paste so take note four is enough, but you probably also heard that they produce organic polymer which acts the exact same way as regular polymer except for having a spoil timer which is it's downfall. These don't produce very large quantities of this material however if you have a lot of it and you don't want it to spoil, turns out you can add it to their inventories on top of what they naturally produce and they will triple it's time left as an item - which works perfectly alongside something like a kairuku farm.
Hope that helps some of you, this gives me so much more time to get more polymer now and it even makes converting it to regular polymer through demolishing structures inefficient :)
These creatures are great for cementing paste. Just tame some using veggie cakes, (that’s the only thing they eat) and KO is very easy. Put them in a small hut or something and set them to wander. You will get so much paste! If you kill them in the wild, you get angler gel. It’s much easier than diving for anglers or killing deathworms. Thx for reading!
Pick it up so you can shoot him from under where he is more woneralble
The ultimate paste maker. Tame this for 20 organic polymer and 100 paste per hour. This creature is a strong bargaining chip for scorched tribes. All lv ups should be food! It had to have food to live and is isolated from war so no need.
While you are taming achatha it will tell you to put food the it's inventory but the taming effectiveness or taming bar won't go down
You should use tranquillizer darts to knock it out for taming as it makes it easier
For anyone wondering like I was on why it’s not eating the berries you put in it’s inventory after it’s been tamed is because yes they do still need the vegetable cake. As soon as I put the cake in its inventory it started eating it.
Easy to tame and worth doing so. Each one produces 1 paste a minute (level doesn’t matter so go for the lower ones) and carries a max stack of 100 paste. Only eats cake, even after tamed but the foot goes down real slow so it’s not too much of a bother. Once the paste is full it then starts producing organic polymer at a rate of 1 every 60minutes. However, they spoil every 1 1/2 hours so you don’t really see it.
The Achatina (Or just snail) can be found in the redwoods and swamp biome. Just be wary that these biome are filled with nasties
Better make sure you have a refrigerator for the tasty cakes
It will only produce 100 Achatina paste at a time. Once it holds 100 it stops producing so be sure to collect it often. You can carry these while flying a mountain as well so flying to the artic with one and clubbing penguins and storing the organic polymer in the snail takes advantage of the 3x spoil timer. Pump carry weight and FOOD
The cake is not a lie. It does feed on cake while trying tame.
Dear WHAT ARE CAKES?!
You need to make Sweet Vegetable Cake. Learn in engrams.
Important tip! They only eat cake! So level up their hunger so they can go a long time without food!