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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips

How do I kill a castoroides? castoroides battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Do NOT underestimate these suckers if you’re fairly new at the game..they can keep up with you and also hit quite hard so you better have your bolas and arrows ready.
So these things might SEEM easy to kill, but no, they have a lot of health and do a lot of damage. I saw one kill a alpha raptor on its own. If you want rare mushrooms, rare flowers, cementing paste, wood, and silica pearls, get a stegosaurus, 1-2 trikes, 2-3 carbonemys, and a Rex and you can get the stuff
If you want to get their stuff from the dam knock them out with a couple of tranq darts/arrows and grab and go. they Agro for a little bit if you wait it out on an argy you should be ok😁
Castorides are an really strong dinosaur type , i love them , today i found a 145 lvl (i play on medium) and i knocked it out, heres how:
I had 1 bola and an ascendant bow with 20 tranq arrows,
Step 1 : run and get free hits (just to make sure it doesnt run after the bola)
Step 2 : bola it
Step 3 : Shoot it until it goes down it took 8 arrows for my ascendant bow with 284 damage.
Ok so i made a mistake i should have made kibble and got a soothing balm but i dont have a raptor for a cave or i dont have a gallimimus soooo yeah i gotta wait 3 hours for this thing (1.2% with 100% taming effectiveness and carrots..) Basically when you want to tame an castorides
Dont forget,
Kibble ( if its an high level )
Soothing balm ( if its an high level )
Bio Toxin/Narcotic/Narco Berries (I got around 70 biotoxic 80 narcotic and 1200 narcoberries for my own castorides and i had to use all)
Oh and if you dont have a ascendant bow/rifle use a longneck with darts it takes around 20 darts for 150
IF YOU WANT TO KILL YOU NEED A RAPTOR POUNCE AND YOU KILL HIM
Stealing from beaver dams 101
Step 1: tame itchy
Step 2:steal stuff from the dam
Step 3:run with your itchy
If you see this running at you run but if you are high level with a good Dino you have nothing to worry about but they do a lot of damage
Has anyone ever looked in a beaver dam when the beaver wasn’t nearby and 10 minutes later the beaver visits you? I have a theory that the beavers track you down even when you look in the beaver dam and they aren’t even there.
When knocked out I think it’s so cute eeek!!!
I bet you look in a beaver dam and you’ll find many murdering you
Low levels should not go into their dams. The moment you open it’s inventory, them beavers are gonna mess ya up. If you are planning to take from them, have an escape mount like a flyer or a strong dinosaur.
Seriously, I’ve had multiple near death experiences. ;-;
You think your rifle is stronger than an angry beavers teeth? I proved you wrong...we died hardcore...
This is epic. I get metal battlements from it and get a lot of iron. *****
Don't break the dam because the Beavers will attack. One time I was trying to tame a Beaver and I found the dam. I broke the dam and my poor pachy didn't know what hit him. At least ten Beavers attacked us.
Just because u can't ride one doesn't make them worthless! Take him to a group of trees and set him to wander and he will harvest them for you, this is better than a metal hatchet for wood if you level his melee, I would tame one the moment I unlocked tranq arrows to make setting up a base easy!
Beavers when killed give you an odd amount of pelt good for beginners who can make a cage and lour them in then shoot them with bow. Also when you tame a beaver you may set it on wandering and it collects wood for you
Tamed a carchar just to kill those things muahahaha (evil laugh) kept one trapped for cementing paste, thats slavery at its finest
These motherflufers are EVIL if you take some rare flowers from its den it go BEAST mode on you remember that if you see it’s den don’t steal from it
if you want to take things from its dam, BE PREPARED!!! They will hunt you down after you take their stuff, and they won't stop hunting you until your dead, or it's dead.
I thought it was a cute little thing….. then came the teeth and claws. Don’t break into dams as a noob. You’ll regret it.