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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a achatina used for? achatina battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
All tips in one:
Only level food and weight, as they only eat sweet cakes even after taming and you would want to save those cakes. Weight for the organic polymer and paste. After producing 100 paste in their inventory, they will start producing organic polymer. Do not take the paste. Transfer the polymer to a different creature. For taming, pick it up with a pteranodon, put it somewhere safe, and use tranq darts. Do not use tranq arrows as they may one hit the achatina due to the low health. If you want, use a spyglass to measure torpor and calculate how many darts or arrows or stone you need. Get multiplr achatinas.
Don't worry about level when you're looking for them. Get any level, even a lvl 25 I got has 156 weight. Considering achatina paste weighs just 0.01. That's 16,500 paste in a level 25. But it will never reach that as you get like 60 paste per hour. Set them to wander and feed veggie cakes, once in a while. Veggies cakes last 24 hours+ in real time. So spoil timer is massive, make a cage and put cakes in a feeding trough as that has same spoil timer as the animals inventory. My suggestion tame about 10-20. That way you get anywhere from 600 paste to 1200 paste every hour, and suitably all snails below level 30 but since they're hard to find, swoop any and all snails. On an unrelated note if you want cementing paste and you're not high level enough for veggie cake production, go the south cave(hunter) with a wolf, saber with at least 1500hp. Run around the cave and you will get 10000 chitin. Hope this helps!
They make Achatina paste not cementing paste. YES it counts as the same thing UNLESS you are trying to put it in a dedicated storage bin that has CP in it which WILL NOT work. It does NOT stack with CP. They also only eat veggie cakes so in my opinion don’t waste your time with this little guy.