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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a araneo used for? araneo battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I Think the best way to use this ugly mofo is to have like 3-5 on aggressive outside of your base and 3-5 inside of your base. The ones outside I like to put stone in there inv so they can't move but act as turrets instead and my other dinos would obliterate anyone on the outside, and the ones inside would protect yur base from intruders. Probably best to have 5 spiders w/ 2-4 troodons inside to make sure nobody is left alive >:)
Why bother taming the Areneo:
1. There easy to tame and almost always have above 90 taming efficacy
2. High levels are strong enough to take down raptors on their own
3. Start imaging what 10 could kill, now imagine what 20 could kill… ( you get the idea)
4. Webs slow creatures down for easy taming
That’s about it…
If you tame it inside a cave (warning this will not work if you revive and tame or chronicle it!!!!) agressive creatures will not attack you even if you just walk right up to them BUT if you shoot another cave creature from thezt back of your araneo they WILL attack you
I was riding my araneo and i bit another araneo and it ignored me. Then without dismounting i shot at it and it realized i was there even if i was on the back of my own araneo. Same works for the other cave creatures as long as theyre tamed in the cave. Hope this helped
Overall just a bad designed creature.
Maybe, the devs could add the ability to set up some sort of trap by making a spider web between two trees or something and you could check it once in a while and see if anything ran in.
Also, they should be able to climb walls and ceilings like the Megalania as they are spiders.
When using areano to run artifact of the strong bring really good pelt. It is really cold in there. And when in water it’s so cold it does damage. 🥶 So be sure if you low on health stay on land so you don’t lose your spider. I learned the hard way😢🥶 pls pls up this so ppl who love doing caves can see! R.I.P spider- boi😢🕷️
My only survivor that had one of these got corrupted so I may not be right, but I'm pretty sure these things are decently fast, and even if not they have the slowing webs ability, so if you have something you need to tame or get away from, web, these guys do need TLC, but these guys are underrated