Better make sure you have a refrigerator for the tasty cakes
Achatina
The Achatina is a massive snail, mostly used for its production of Cementing Paste, or as a pet. This creature produces its paste passively — and quite frequently — so many survivors keep them around their bases. However, its usefulness pretty much ends there, as it cannot attack and moves quite slow. The Achatina must be tamed violently.
Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Achatina in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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.
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!
The Achatina (Or just snail) can be found in the redwoods and swamp biome. Just be wary that these biome are filled with nasties
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…
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.
A good way to also store them and save space is triangle foundations with railings stacked 2 high they never get out and access to multiple is a must!
My advice is to catch him with the argent and take him out of the swamps
Put it in your greenhouse garden to give off PvZ vibes
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…
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...
Can be carried in arms while riding a land or air dino.
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.
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
Babies die with cakes in their inventory for some reason, just force feed them till juvenile.
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
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…
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!)
When taming. It takes about 200 food for it to eat a piece of cake.
Sweet vegetable cake is the preferred food for Achatina
They are found in the swamp and love nothing more than cake. Capable of producing Achatina paste (alternative to cementing paste) and organic polymer . Once set to wandering, will produce and store a max of 100 paste.They also defecate CP.
Whoever is saying this is useless is WRONG this thing is a paste powerhouse. Get like 10 of these and you’ll never want for paste again.