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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for burrowbuck? Tips and strategies for burrowbuck in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
HOW TO TAME BURROWBUCK:
1: get about 10-15 rockarats to feed the burrowbuck.
2: than go up to it in ghille and you must be crouching when approaching or it will run away! And passively feed it the carrots.
3: Then it teleports away and repeat the process until tamed!
So don’t make a trap to tame it in it just doesn’t work
BONUS
Do NOT interact with the burrows around the burrowbuck because they are traps and you will get stuck.
Thx for reading!
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Has 3 modes of burrows: Hidey hole, gateway, trap. Hidey hole is a bunker that auto decays in 2 days (Timer resets if you go inside, at least in single player) you can place anything that will fit other than Turrets, cannot fit a industrial forge for reference. You can deploy cryopods inside, enemies cannot place c4 inside burrow but can rocket inside, and can c4 the burrow entrance which will be outside, like the tek bunker. Players CAN enter no matter what, but the name will be hidden so they won’t know which of the 3 burrow types it will be. Only defense will be outside or a Dino inside at entrance.
Gateway is essentially a mini tp, you can have up to 6 anywhere across the map, you can select to travel between them like you would fast travel a bed, but you won’t drop anything and Dino’s near you will teleport with you, you can use this while heavy. Other players CAN use your gateway burrows, but it will be at random. Has a 1 hour refresh timer, teleport to your gateways to refresh timer.
Trap burrow has a 12 hour timer, any player that goes near your trap excluding allies will be blinded and trapped (like a bola except cannot jump) Around 10 seconds and can reduce timer by punching with a random chance of it reducing.
Outside of this Burrowbuck has only a melee attack, weak stats, invisibility for 7seconds, a far leap with holding spacebar as a charge, can jump two times in the air. That’s all I know for now.
Can find them a lot in the redwoods on the center!
So far I found some on Genesis in the snow biome
The burrow is a passive tame. A lot of people say you need ghilli to tame them but you don't. I tame them with my tek suit on. Just crouch and approach them slowly, have superior kibble in your last slot on the right of your hot bar. When you see the feed burrow in blue hit the triangle button to feed it (Ps5) Quickly back away as they will teleport and you will get blinded by sand, track it and wait for it to become hungry again. Rinse and repeat
It gives you the ability to create up to 6 teleporters (burrows) in almost any location and with no distance limit that all link to eachother but have a 1 hour decay timer that resets upon use. It can create 2 more burrow types as well, 1 being it's hidey hole with a 2 day decay timer which is a small room underground for you to chill in. The third burrow type is a pitfall trap.
It has a triple jump ability, a long jump ability like that of the reaper or karakinos and a cloak/camouflage ability that enables you to be invisible for a few seconds. Stats do not affect duration of burrows.
These are like any passive tame as far as the action goes. Put the highest quality best taming food in your last slot and when close enough feed it
Now to get close enough to feed, you do need full grille and to be crouched and walk up behind it will let you get close enough.
Be prepared as it does jump/runaway after each feed, this is normal just track it back down and repeat.
It can jump into trees and cliff sides and 100s of meters away so be prepared to follow and kill other Dino’s it may get near.
These love the Chalk Hills in Valguero. They constantly feud with the deinons there so keep an eye out & be ready to pick them out with a flyer so they don’t immediately die
Here's all you need to do... put extraordinary kibble in last slot, slowly approach while coaching. Stopping every once and a while, then get close to butt, press feed and voila! Having ghili suit of course! You should be good!
These guys are incredible for traveling. Not only do they have respectable speed and incredible stamina, they have a triple jump that can launch you over wide distances if you use it right (also, as far as I can tell they are immune to fall damage). They're also incredible at staying safe while you ride them. Their jump blinds nearby enemies, causing them to lose aggro and begin to wander. They can also turn invisible for a short time and even burrow if you need to escape or rest for a moment. Extremely solid for traveling over land. However, they have some downsides. Their DPS is pretty garbage and they aren't tanks. I'd definitely pump a lot into their health just in case. They're also pretty bad as gatherers. They can't swim very fast and their weight is only okay. I'd use them mostly as a scout since you can use weapons off their back. Very good for scoping out prospective tames.
Crouch and walk up to it then feed it. It will then do a burrow animation and will jump (invisible) in the opposite direction of where you’re standing. Can make it easier if you aim it toward a cliff so it will just bounce back to you instead of landing far away. Rinse and repeat. If you or a wild creature trigger its burrow traps it will lose taming effectiveness. If you trigger the burrow trap while it is close enough it will attack you.
I've had a lot of luck with flat grassy areas on Valguero
Just look for a mound of dirt on the ground; the burrowbuck (or burrowdoe!) will be nearby
PastelGothPower
You can encounter them in open plains on several maps i just dont have an exact list of maps
You'll hear people say that you need gillie and cactus broth to tame these guys. It may make your life easier to do so, but I tamed a level 145 without either. Just crouch and approach them from behind. They love carrots, so start a farm early and you'll get one of these guys very quickly in your playthrough. Sneak up behind them and feed. Once they eat they'll teleport away. Follow them and wait to feed them again until they dig a burrow (it won't let you feed them if they don't have a burrow yet). Rinse and repeat. WARNING: if you get too close to their burrow you'll fall in and be immobilized. If this happens there's a chance that the burrowbuck will attack you. If you hit it back you'll lose taming effectiveness and have to start all over. Try not to get too close to their burrows if you can help it.
They spawn in the big meadows in korinthos on astraoes i saw some at 58.6 lat and 21.3 long. Sadly I can't tame it 😢.
On Val you can find them around Lat 74.2 and Long 87 just look for their burrowss. They are mean and babies seem to be as well.
I’ve noticed taming a 140 it was 1 min and 33 sec in between feeds
***YOU DO NOT NEED GHILLIE***
Just slow crouch to it when it stops moving, stop when its moving and once youre close enough feed it. *Im on a 15x so im not sure what happens after the first feed*
Using ghillie crouch up to bunny and using extraordinary kibble feed it and walk away it is the most effective way, I found having a desmo near by (not to close you’ll spook it) is handy if you’re taming anywhere near water because they tend to run everywhere an end up in water.
Also if it’s injured during taming you’ll loose all taming and have to start over, each time you do this the effectiveness goes down