This guy is probably the best wood collector, alongside with the mammoth. Taming it is pretty simple if you have enough tranqs and biotoxin/narcos, and it can help you get through early and midgame.

Great to tame for the weight reduction, but also less dams will spawn on the map which means less cementing paste.

[Ark Mobile] Live. In. The. Hidden. Lakes. Casteroides spawn there all the time so I have a constant supply of dams. I just have my tames kill them and I have a nice amount of cement paste, rare flowers and mushrooms now. Note: The occasional Sarco spawns in that area so have the equipment ready to kill them and keep your weaker tames protected in Dino pens! Also seal the Hidden lake openings close if you can, raptors and Therizs can wander in if you don’t! (SB: I play Single-Player Mode.)

If u ever attack these DONT go in the water to try to escape..your dead if u do

On mobile, usually they spawn on hidden lake or in the souther islets (where that hunter cave is lying down) if you see their dams get all of its resources-quit the game-and then re enter the game (it resets their aggro on you so you can farm wood without being hurt

They are WAY Better at gathering berries than a moschops!

Try using soothing balm thats a good trick

You better put some sleeping bag, near their dam or any spot you preferred, before you raiding their dam.

When you start to open the inventory dam, quickly click "transfer all", then let them kill you

Respawn at the sleeping bag you recently put, then go to your corpse to loot back the previously raided item. And the good thing is, they will not aggroing you anymore

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Do NOT attack one of these without a good weapon, especially if there are others present. One can kill you if you’re not prepared, and several will really mess you up.

If you want their dams for their materials don’t hunt for dams take a tapejara i think the tapejara will work if not a quetzal grab on of the bad suckers and transport them to a nearby lake or river near your base and they will make dams you also might wanna clear the area of baddies

Use an argy to grab wild ones and drop in an area close to your base. I have an area with over 20 wild ones roaming free. They will build dams even far inland. No need to fence them in.

Tame one of these guys and use him as a mobile smithy and he is good at gathering wood from trees

It’s torp drops incredibly fast , bio toxins work best to keep it sleeping

Tutorial on how to tame this animal:

Items needed: bola, tranquilizer arrow, and bow

step 1: Find the animal

Step 2: Bola it

Step 3: Shoot tranquilizer arrows

Step 4: After unconscious feed him with fruits, if he is a low level castoroid, he will be tamed quickly

Note: USE THE BOLA, BECAUSE IT RUNS VERY FAST AND DEALS A LOT OF DAMAGE

Bring at least more than 80 narcotics, these guys' torpor goes down at a ridiculous speed

yo are these guys better for wood farming than a therizino cuz I just found a max level. ( im on mobile)

up for yes

It takes so long to tame these beavers

Always use kibble! I tamed a level 150 with pure mejoberries... Had some carrots too, it was an entire afternoon of checking it's torpor. It's nice and all but it doesn't have too good weight. I would get 1000-2000 wood and go back to base fairly unsatisfied. I use mammoths now since they can defend themselves, gather berries as well and hold a TON of wood. I'd rather collect less but hold more than collect more and hold lesd since that just means less trips back to base and a more fullfilling trip each time.

2025 Valguero, you can still knock it out in a trap, and let it wake up and the food still drains while it’s up 🙌🏾

A very good mount for wood and even self defense. High level Castro does do a lot of damage, in early game I would take a high level for self defense. I could still build with it at protect myself at the same time. Have a team of a dodic, Castro, megaloceros, and argy you have yourself the perfect building team.