Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Utility Tips

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)
Achatina
Pronunciation: AK-e-TY-nuh
Group: Invertibra, Mollusca
Favorite Food: Sweet Vegetable Cake
Symbol Association: 🐌🎂🏞
The Achatina is a swamp-dweller. It has a hard shell and a slimy body. When the slime hardens slightly, it can be used like Cement Paste.
I am doing Utility Bios in alphabetical order.
Instead of caging mine, I put them in a non ground level room, set to wander and they stay in place creating paste and poly. You're welcome. Easier to lone them out especially when you have 20+ out at a time. I only raise on multiplier events. Low levels aren't worth the tame, you need high food slimers
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.
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...