Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
How to tame: Castoroides
Preferred food: Crops
Preferred kibble: Superior Kibble(extraordinary works too)/Gallimimus Kibble (mobile)
Difficulty - 3/10
Castoroides are wonder tames that can gather wood with amazing efficiency, saddled or not. Castoroides are small and fairly fast and can be found in lakes and rivers.
You will need:
• Bola (Take a stack or two in case it breaks free or has friends)
● Tranq arrows (Use darts for high levels)
• Narcoberries/narcotics (try to bring as much as possible - 200 Narcotics for example)
● Taming food
• Spike walls to protect from Sarcos and Raptors
How to tame
• Place sleeping bags near the Castoroides just in case you die
● If a dam is present, open it and bola all Castoroides that aggro to you.
• Proceed to knock out with tranqs/clubs, fists are not recommended for higher levels
● Feed the Castoroides and watch its torpor - it drops fast
○ If the Castoroides is a higher level, chances are it will take a while to tame, so surround it in spike walls.
• Have fun with your beaver!
More Castoroides Taming & KO Tips
Why is everyone saying to build a trap? Like come on! Just bola it and shoot with tranq darts!!!
If you want the stuff from their dams...don't tame them cause they won't build any more dams!
Do not leave unattended the torpor goes down at a monsterous rate
Strong as hell, especially in packs. Don't put such nice things in your dam if you don't want me to raid it. Jerks.
There is in fact a slot limit! All dinos have 300 slots available
Taming these takes so ‘dam’ long
Step 1 find a dam
Step 2 grab all the cementing paste ( useful for later )
Step 3 trap or take castaroides with argenttavis or a trap
Step 4 knock unconscious and feed
Step 5 use the cementing paste and other materials for saddle
Step 6 tame and ride
Step 7 hit a tree and get tons-o-wood
Step 8 your welcome 👍
A Castoroides can be picked up by a argentavis
I tamed a level 150 of one of these wood gods, and then... it fell of a cliff... with me on it
The method I used to tame was picking up the beaver with my crystal wyvern and dropping it in a taming pen. Pretty easy knockouts but their torpor drop rate is INSANITY and you can't leave then for more than 3 minutes. Feed them either mejoberries or crops (kibble is really expensive but if you want to do that, go for it).
Hope this helps!