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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a achatina used for? achatina battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Not only do these guys defecate cementing paste, they produce it & organic polymer passively if set on wander. If you need cp, tame a few. They produce 100 cp. Idk if lvling weight effects how much org poly it can hold? Maybe lvling food makes it defecate more? Idk 🤷♂️ Leveling these guys doesn’t do anything :/ frustrating but I have 3, building a metal base a lot faster than grinding chitin and stone or beezlebuffo. Swear beezlebuffo should be able to harvest cp off spiders and scorpions, dinos that drops chitin ;( but they don’t
A good idea is to capture loads of them and put them in a big box so they can’t escape, this way you don’t have to tame or feed them cake and you can still run around picking up their poo paste, this is good if you need a lot paste but it requires you to actively run around collecting as it doesn’t build up over time.
I know that all you guys are looking for cementing paste so if your on the island ragnorok somewhere with beavers you can get 100 to 600 cementing paste from each beavers dam you raid . But be worned when you steel from a beaver dam all of them will start chasing you so have a fast pet ready or be prepared to kill them all
Plop it at your base and then somehow aquire a personal honey bee hive for veggie cakes. Great for polymer and cementing paste. Upgrade their food bar whenever it gets enough exp. So then it can go a lot longer without food, and wont die as fast from starvation. I can play for like three days and then decide whether or not I want to top up its food bar.
In my experience, it's just easier to farm bugs on beelzebufo for cementing paste and use a pelagornis to farm organic polymer from wild/bred kairuku instead of using expensive resources to feed the achatina. I guess if you live in redwoods by a lake with irrigation pipes carrying water up to your trees base with tons of sap taps, then go ahead and tame an army. But if you're like me, and you live on the southern haven, you can't really get the resources needed for achatina efficiently.