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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for castoroides? Tips and strategies for castoroides in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
You could capture wild castoroides and put them in damming pens, and if you do, put them in half water half land pens. They will dam better like that. If you put more beavers in the same pen, they will, again, dam faster. This makes a good cementing paste farm, but will also give wood, silica pearls, rare flowers, and rare mushrooms. This is quite a bit of work though. If you're not into it or don't have enough resources or a good bird, you could just find an area( most likely in or near water) that beavers are around and passively build dams. When you check them, destroy them. Resources don't respawn in the same dam they already were in to the best of my knowledge. P.S. If you tame a beaver, there is no way to let build a dam ( I've tried ?)
These creatures are found usually in packs, I would suggest picking it up with an argy or queztal then bringing it back to your base and taming it.
According to some people “ you can passive tame with wood”, No. it doesn’t work. You have to knock it out.
If you ever encounter a casteroids around, there is likely a dam nearby( it looks like a tent made of sticks). They contain lots of wood, cementing paste, and rare ingredients and resources(silica pearls, rare flowers and mushrooms). However, make sure you get rid of the beavers first, since they become aggressive if you loot the dam.
This fella takes nearly 200 narcotics to tame, and takes ages, be warned
Surprisingly, these things are terrifying, aggressive and somewhat powerful when you steal from their dams
How to tame
0. 100 NARCOTICS NEED TO BE MADE!(10 for truanq arrows)
1. Build bola
2.build bow
3.build 10 traunq arrows
4.open beaver dam
5.ready bola
6.throw bola at rampaging beaver
7. Shoot arrows at beaver
8. Follow scared beaver and hit with bat
9. Put berries in inventory AND 90 narcotics
10.wait
11.Wait
12.WAIt
13.WAIT
14.WWWAAAIIITTT!!!!?!!!?
15. AYY! You got an OP starter pet! It’s gonna be a long time until you get a saddle though✋😓🤚
Their saddle acts as a mobile smithy, team it up with a horse to get the ultimate travelling team. The horse saddle = a smithy and the beaver saddle = mortar and pestle so you can craft gunpowder while on horse, and then transfer that to the beaver, so you can make your grenades and such on the go.
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
How to build dam farm:
Needed:
12 foundations (preferably stone)
12-24 doorframe (preferably stone)
1)find an already existing dam
2)build a 3x3 box around the dam with fence foundations
3)place doorframe on top of the foundations;if the dam is underwater, put enough layers for the top doorframe to be out of the water
4)using an argie, pick up 2 to 3 beavers and drop them into the box. 2 is the minimum number needed for them to spawn a dam but I find that 3 works better. (note:if you want more dams, bring beavers from another spawn location as no more beavers will naturally spawn in that area. Its also preferable to build another box so they don't end up pushing each other out the top)
Dams will spawn around every 12 hours
Remember to not leave the items you don't want in the dam. Drop them so that the beavers can spawn a new one without having the dam demolish after a week.
There is a simple way to get cementing paste off of these guys. You only need any flyer (I personally use a griffin) and a decent pike.
1. Whistle your flyer on follow
2. Find a couple beaver dams
3. Jump off your flyer and get the cementing paste
4. Drop anything you don’t want out of the dam
5. Jump back on your flyer and fly away
6. Come back and repeat
Do not kill or tame beavers if you want free cementing paste. if you kill them, you’ll have to go round killing everything else until more spawn, and if you tame them, same thing. If the beavers catch up to you in the water, stab them a couple times so their health is low and they start running away.
Use a grappeling hook to repel from your argy ...play mission impossible theme...profit
His saddle is a smithy,but make sure to have the materials in him to craft!
I hope you have a t of bio toxin and narcotics because when I used rockarots it only went up by 7.9 percent.