Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for achatina? Tips and strategies for achatina in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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
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
Better make sure you have a refrigerator for the tasty cakes
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!
My advice is to catch him with the argent and take him out of the swamps
I picked up a “snail” in the redwoods with my “pterodactyl”, and dropped it in my base (surrounded by spike walls). It wondered around and dropped cement paste for a while, but it kept trying (unsuccessfully) to escape... so I built a wooden platform with 3 window walls and a door, & dropped it in with my “pterodactyl”. I could stand outside the window and grab the cement paste before I was able to tame it (with 10 cakes). Very handy companion. I’m trying to make a tree platform and you need like 1,000,000,000 cement paste to do it...
Use a tranq dart and aim for the soft butt or head. Wait 5 to 10 seconds between shots, less wasted ammo, faster KO and less likely to kill. Easy to keep up with, kill everything on the ground around it to ensure a safe start. After KO add cakes and sleepy stuff (narcoberries, narcotic, or bio toxin) stand a bit away incase you are attacked so you don't kill it accidentally. I fly argy when taming snails since usually attacked by troodons and little thieves.
Dodo ex says that this does not drop any angler gel but when I killed one of these I got 1 angler gel I am on mobile also
Some obvious tips no one really mentions: Remember to aim for the slug, not the shell. Otherwise you’re just wasting your ammo. Also, if you can, pick them up and carry them to someplace safe before taming. I recommend ruins where you can throw down a quick gate or spike wall to seal the entrances. Final tip; their torpor drains fast. Best route is narco berries, which take longer to raise torpor (and the longer it takes to rise, the more time before it starts draining!)
Must be set to wander to produce paste. Rarely moves anyway. Roughly 1 CP produced per minute in it's inventory. Can stack to 100. Also randomly produces organic poly as well. Having 2-3 of these will give you an over abundance of CP in just a few hours.
Tame a low level one. No difference in drops from a lvl 15 one and a lvl 300 one. Just be careful that you don't accidentally kill them while trying to knock them out
To effectively farm cementing paste, put the achatina in a cage and set it to wander. It will generate 100 cementing paste in its inventory over a period of time, as well as dropping one every 60 seconds or so. Keep in mind that the cementing paste generated caps at 40, so be sure to empty it’s inventory frequently as possible. Although it is labeled achatina paste, there is no visual or use-case differences. They also increase the spoil timer on organic polymer so I recommend using it as storage for poly.
When taming. It takes about 200 food for it to eat a piece of cake.
Sweet vegetable cake is the preferred food for Achatina