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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for arthropluera? Tips and strategies for arthropluera in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
arthro's stealth makes every creature ignores you even gigas but also remember that allo aggro on anything as they dont care bout you having stealth. allos goes brrr i hate them
Net guns don't work. But still try it in God mod it's amazing lol
Run before your armor goes poof
How can this little centipede break tek but a giga can’t,
THIS MAKES NO SENSE.
Should i use broth of elighmennt on this thing? cuz it takes 5 spoil meat after 10× soothing balm and I won't be alive after feeding it 1 spoil meat
These things melted my tek sword, literally 4 of them. Wtf.
You can lure it to water and stay below and bam
Don't do what I did and put him in a stone taming pen, I think it killed my tek para, R.I.P HONK.
Please bring full cloth armor when entering caves!
They have a serious armor damage buff!
Those who say it's very dangerous are crazy. Just bring a long neck rifle, one shot or two and boom. The first time I entered the South Cave, I tamed an scorpion and it significantly helped me to take care of the Arhtros and Boas.
Most of the creatures have arrows in their loots, so if u prefer a ballesta to deal with these bad boys, you are not running out of ammo any soon.
I tamed one the first time I went inside a cave. In the central cave there are a lot of Arthroplura so make sure you have bug repellent and ghillie armor and rotten meat in your 10th slot.
My brother and I built a stone cage 2 by 3 by 3 walls high and a stone Dino gate. Then use a megalosaurus to pick it up and put it inside be careful it drops sometimes trying to get in. Once inside will stick its head out and you can tame it easily. P.S. it can fit through doorways when trying to escape
If you wish to tame an unrecognized godsend for mobile players, you’ll want the right resources.
1 - Broth of Enlightenment
To make, you will need:
5 Wooly rhino horns - obtained just by killing them and looting (its a special drop, so it should be put into a creatures inventory if ‘loot creatures’ is on.
2 of each crop - that’s two rockarrots, citronal, savroot and longrass (you will need to farm for all of these except rockarrots (if you wish) as rockarrots can be rarely obtained from jungle ferns.
A black pearl - possibly the hardest of these to get, but otters can make it easier, fishing can get you some and mobile gets free gifts which have a random chance to give you 15 (I believe) and remember, you only need one
10 mejoberries - essential for kibbles, Rockwell recipes, basically anything made through cooking
REMEMBER - YOU MAY NEED MORE THAN ONE BROTH TO TAME AN ARTHROPLEURA - the only alternatives are raw and spoiled meat and these are the ONLY alternatives - nothing else works
Water - water skin, water jar, canteen - it doesn’t matter as long as it has enough water in it
It spoils in 5 REAL hours, and if consumed gives 50% more xp for 20 minutes which is good for alphas.
When approaching, have full ghille and bug repellant - their acid spit tears through any armor and their bite is able to damage ANY STRUCTURE including tek.
Have the Broth or alternatives in your hotbar and approach carefully - be wary of other creatures. Passive feed it until tamed.
Once tamed it has the regular uses - being a mount, terrorizing the local creature population, going places like people would do - but it has some REALLY useful uses.
1. Raids in multiplayer - with the bite damaging everywhere, nothing is safe once one is tamed
2. Mobile players saviour - it is never targeted by wild creatures including cave creatures. The Artifact of the Strong is guarded by tons of high level creatures including the Yeti which is exclusively able to go above level caps - see where this is going? Yes, the Arthropleura is practically the only way to get through the cave if you play mobile. This use is applicable for other caves, but is most prominent for the Artifact of the Strong.
Players not on mobile - I know that you can take larger creatures in but listen - WE CANNOT DO THAT ON MOBILE, WE HAVE AN EXTREMELY SMALL BARRIER NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE CAVE.
Another thing is that this aforementioned barrier can be barely passed by the Arthropleura on the left of the barrier entering the cave.
Good luck in raiding, taming and artifact cheating.
Small note - the acid spit destroys armor.
Use tall walls and 1 foundation and make a trap and then put ramps leading up to it or you could just use a argy to pick it up and drop it in
One of the best weapons to kill it is a ascendant pump shot gun
I'm gonna say it plain, get bug repellant, eat it, and feed it meat.