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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Utility Tips

What is a achatina used for? achatina battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
These creatures are great for cementing paste. Just tame some using veggie cakes, (that’s the only thing they eat) and KO is very easy. Put them in a small hut or something and set them to wander. You will get so much paste! If you kill them in the wild, you get angler gel. It’s much easier than diving for anglers or killing deathworms. Thx for reading!
It will only produce 100 Achatina paste at a time. Once it holds 100 it stops producing so be sure to collect it often. You can carry these while flying a mountain as well so flying to the artic with one and clubbing penguins and storing the organic polymer in the snail takes advantage of the 3x spoil timer. Pump carry weight and FOOD
You can absolutely abuse this things, this things can be used to dupe Polymer...
Get the polymer out of this things, put it on a storage Unit you have, manually save the game, then enter the game again, then check this things inventory and it should be working finely... Only for mobile sadly...
(If this still working, You know what you should do, Last tested was 29-Oct/24)
The achatina is a small snail, carryable by hand, that can be useful if you are missing a small amount of cementing paste, and can’t be bothered to go and get the supplies to craft more. It poops and passively generates achatina paste, which is identical functionally and visually to cementing paste. It can hold up to 100 at a time.
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.~Steel Cookie 123
What I've seen from the other tips and my personal experience in one tip!
Spawn: Edge of Swamp to basically all of Redwoods
Taming Style: Passive.
Taming Food: Sweet Vegetable Cake
Food after tame: Herbivorous Food (berries n stuff)
Drops when Killed: Chitin, Meat, (mobile) Angler Gel
Damage Reduction: Shell, 0.1x
Behavior: usually chills around, very passive
Ability: produces up to ~50 CP, then produces org poly until the CP is removed
~ CPG
True story. We tamed 6 achitnas for cementing paste and polymer farming. Their pen is near our ovirapter who is weighted down and set on wander. These snails reproduced. We returned from an adventure and found 6 mini me's! We separated the achitnas into pens divided with wooden rails and they still reproduced. Not one was set to "enable mating". We finally spayed all of them to get them to stop! If you want organic polymer (store on the achitnas) and cementing paste you will have more than enough in no time. Spare the baby penguins!