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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
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.
More Arthropluera Utility Tips
reasons why YOU should tame an arthro
#1 these guys hit like a TANK
Not only do they have good melee (if u level it to have good melee) but they deal torpor which is great for taming in my opinion.
#2 they can destroy tek metal and wood structures
I play on a VERY wealthy server so metal bases are not rare at all but I haven’t seen much tek yet my arthro is very useful especially when raiding. You can easily get into and base (but thatch) useing this tame.
#3 other animals don’t attack it
If you are riding an arthro you will not be attacked by any wild animals great for running strong cave. And animals will not attack an arthro back if it attacks a wild animal.
#4 the arthro spits acid
The arthro has a turrent mode which allows it to shoot acid at enemy tames players and wild animals this ability makes it good for sitting on a rock and firing downward at your target like a poisonous Erie turrent.
We’ll hope this helps people im making more on other helpful tames -swiftwind9105
Very helpful, for caves and kill whatever you want! Because nothing will attack you. I bite a pteradodon he make he animation (ready to fly) but he stay on place and look at me! Same for giga I throw my poison, he too make his animation, but him also make his animation but nothing happens!!! (but just don't stay too near him, if he attack anything and you are near you too will takes the damages because he have a huge hit box) 🔺for other people see this!