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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for castoroides? Tips and strategies for castoroides in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Ignore all comments about wild castoroides being able to build giant beaver dams. They're making it up.
Giant beaver dams spawn alongside 2 Castoroides, so if you spawn in south zone 2 and see a giant beaver dam, kill all the castoroides plus some coelacanths, and you'll get another beaver dam plus 2 beavers, which again, you should kill plus some coelacanths to free up space for more giant beaver dams to spawn.
Wild giant queen bees can't build bee hives, so don't expect wild castoroides to be able to build giant beaver dams.
It took me more time than my gameplay time to tame this MF. 🥴. And ate almost 30 of bio toxin
Because it's torpor was draining rapid fast.
We can't even look into other things because
We will need to feed it narcotics in seconds,
The fun was it was only lvl 4🥴🤣
I One of the dams or whatever you call it and it gave me 305 cementing paste and 24 silica pearls so take a risk and take that loot
These beavers can be be stopped using a bola and and get a lot of arrows if your early game and kill them for pelt
It will eat ur ass if u loot iys dam
Best way to get resources from their dams is to
1) find a wild beaver
2) bring it to a water source closest to your base
3) let it wander around until it makes a dam
4) collect everything
5) manual save then leave and rejoin to make it not try to kill you
6) when you collect everything , destroy the dam and then wait until it makes another.
7) repeat for lots of resources
Feed it rockarrot it tames a little faster
If taming, watch the torpor rate EVERY SECOND and use Bio Toxin. Torpor drain rate RIVALS even the Therizinos’. Pro taming tip. Only use bio toxin when taming. Tame stuff with narcs ONLY when you have a narcoberry farm, and a crap ton of meat on your carnivorous tames. I only use narcotics for crafting tranq darts and tranq arrows. There are a crap ton of Cnidaria on South Zone 3.
Tame one and let the hairy, wet, and good with wood beaver jokes commence.
Do not under estimate these beavers because there can be alot more in one area than you think qnd they are tanky and do pretty decent damage
These guys are easy to tame with a soothing balm. Im a beginner and just started a new game and im in the early 20's of the game. I had completed a pursuit before for killing piranhas, and as a reward i got a sotting balm. I was going to use it to tame a high level raptor, but it didnt work out. But since i heard that these beavers do dams, i wanted to tame one. I went after a 110 level female, and it took about 10 tranqs in the head. I boloed it and shot it in the head. I gave it the soothing balm and then gave it about 30 rockarrots at most. With the soothing balm, i suggest about at least 50 Narcotics. I used about 30, but if it is higher level, i recommend 50 narcotics. Just stay to guard your beaver and itll be fine if you keep its torpor levels up. I honestly dont know how many narcotics it takes to do without soothing balm but i hope this helped! Also, the coordinates of a safe place to find beavers is Lat:n98, Lon: 58.
Peace, CouchPotatoe
If you can make the kibble.
They take so long to tame even with crops the increase is 1%
And torpor drains ridiculously fast. I’ve lost 4 now trying to get to my base trying to get more narcotics