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ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

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What is a achatina used for? achatina battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
TIPP: Achatinas can produce organic Polymer. You can just craft a fridge with the organic Polymer and destroy it. Every time you destroy a fridge you get normal Polymer back. That means you can transform organic Polymer to normal Polymer. I found it out yesterday by myself.
(It also works with organic Oil)
Only get one of these AFTER you have set up a redwood platform for tree sap. And AFTER you have mastered stealing honey from bees, or tamed 2 or 3 queen bees. Once tamed, just build a little 2x2 room with no roof and keep the snails in there. I level only food stat and I have 6 snails right now. When breeding, THEY ALL GET PREGNANT! So you can easily increase their numbers if you have the cake production. The snail team produces like 100+ organic polymer by the time i log in each day(each snail has 16 on it currently and over 3k food each so I dont need to feed them everyday) which I use to turn into metal arrows and any upgraded guillie suit pieces and use crafted polymer for the major items.
I have 10 of these and never have a issue with paste... ever. I have flown 3 argies full of obsidian back to base and ran out of that before the paste. Also makes repairing gillie suit so much easier. Any time it breaks I run to the snail shed and have enough organic poly to repair pretty much anything.
Anyone who says don't take is an idiot... Theses guys aren't hard to take care of. I use to own 20 snails before I left the game a year ago. What's hard is getting bee hives for their honey. Once you have a hive and sap collectors. It's a piece of cake (no pun intended)
Lastly DO NOT GO FOR ANYTHING LOW LEVELED! Just like another wrong person said. Low level is very bad. Go for 110 or greater as it's food will be much higher and that means less feeding of cakes. Mine were so high, I didn't need to feed but ever 10 days or more. So worth the investment.
Lastly, like someone else said. Theses guys are really good at escape. Far worse than dung Beatles 😅 Dino leash works fine for me. Though tried wooden cages in the past and they got out. So either weigh down or dino leash down on the lowest setting (depending on how many snails you got)
So in the end. A worthy investment period. Just a pain on the honey...
Line 10 in a half circle. Put stone in inventory so they can't move. Put dino leash down on lowest setting, just incase. They are very good escape artist. Place gacha down and let gacha pick up all the paste. Getting 200 stacks a day. Better than farming. Only upgrade weight in gacha and food in snails.
*** YOU WILL WANT TO KNOW THIS IF YOU NEED CEMENTING PASTE *** if you have enough of these snails (about 10 of em) all you need to do is stick them in front of any Gacha and wait a little while.(they’ll need to be tamed so you’re gonna need veggie cakes) The gacha will collect the paste fast enough that it won’t eat it and collects SOOO Much. I’m telling you it’s a Super efficient way of gathering cementing paste with not a lot of work to do. Hope This helps people :)