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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for arthropluera? Tips and strategies for arthropluera in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
This is true not only for this creature, but also for Araneo and Pulmono, but if you tame this one, wild animals will no longer be hostile towards you, which is the best thing. It's just too cheaty.
Use a tribemate as a shield for protection from spitballs
timer for TOPOR 3 seconds so RTF AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN AND WHILE YOU STILL LAST
don’t melee this, use a longneck and aim for its face (3x more damage). The reason they do so much damage is because whenever it’s touched (including grazing it slightly and hitting it with a sword) it does insane damage. died in 3 hits to this guy with 5k total armor and 300 hp.
How to tame an Arthro without getting attacked:
1.) Find an Arthro.
2.) use your (Ascendant) Shield (wood) or you can just use a raptor/Baryonyx/Direwolf.
3.) go to a water area and jump on it.
4.) let the arthro come close and make a contact (as soon as the arthro touches you, it won't be able to attack and becomes passive, which means you don't need bug repellant or Ghillie set).
5.) Feed it with spoiled meat (I'd recommend you use a 10x taming boost).
And there you have it, you've tamed an Arthro.
This method works in all difficulities (Easy, Normal, Hard, Brutal).
I encountered one in the south cave,I saw 2 of these fast creeps.I thought my tamed raptor could not kill 2.So I ran to a safer place and going to prepare for attack.
If you go into a cave with these do not bring your best armor unless it is very easy to repair forgot and had to kill hundreds of penguins for pollimer wasted a whole day of ark.
You can easily tame one on foot without Ghillie or bug repellant. You just need to kill everything else then back away till the music stops! If it’s in a good position behind a wall or around a corner you can creep up to it! Might take a few tries but I’ve done it several time hugging the cave wall peeking around the corner at its face! Actually very easy to tame.
Don’t pay attention to any of these rip unless they suggest to tame it in deep water
Picking it up with an argy and attacking it hurts the argy.
You can tame this by dropping them in kinda deep water and then in will become passive tame knock-out tame wont work
Don’t use your ascendant 500 damage sword you got from that terror bird pursuit on them… I learned that the hard way.
If you wack it with a melee weapon he will return the damage back to you,I got one-shot with my own sword,it takes more damage from range so bow,pistol,and the best one Shotgun
They aren't scary or hard to deal with when you get a good bow