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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a achatina used for? achatina utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
You have to enable wandering for it to passively generate cementing paste, so build a small pen for them to slime around in then go collect your reward. Also, don’t use a feeding trough…The cake spoils too quickly for how hard it is to make, I recommend hand feeding them before you get off each day, it will save you A LOT of resources and they will not die from starvation in that amount of time. Hope this helps 👍🏼
Just tame 5 or 10 of these and put inside them a lot of Stone or something heavy so they cannot move when you put them into patrol. With that, they passively generated 100 achatina paste every hour. When you don't take those achatina paste, they start to generate organic Polymer. Just make sure those snaila cannot move and you have a nice auto-paste farming.
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.