Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for castoroides? Tips and strategies for castoroides in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Everyone. TAMING OR KILLING THESE MFERS DOESNT MATTER THE GAME WILL RESPAWN MORE. Also when you take stuff out of the dams, dump the rest of the stuff out to destroy the dam. They won’t fill the dam again until it’s destroyed. Nobody likes opening a damn to find a bunch of wood!!!!
A Castoroides can be picked up by a argentavis
YOU CAN BOLA THEM!!!
There’s really great stuff inside. Take a look, you won’t regret it
Come on, No one’s stopping you.
go ahead
I attacked one. I didn’t come out alive.
I tamed a level 150 of one of these wood gods, and then... it fell of a cliff... with me on it
Outstanding wood collectors. Mine has 770 weight and can carry 3K wood plus rider. Holds wood at 1/5 weight and can be used as mobile smithy. This teamed with a doed can construct a base in minutes. Must have.
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!
The most versatile tame I can think of. Personally I have used the Castoroides for the following things:
-get wood
-raid wild beaver dams (cuz they have weight reduction for wood found in the dams)
-explore the oceans
-kill Megalodons
-kill Mantas
-tame ichthyosaurs
-tame basilosaurus
-gather underwater oil (by swimming down to them and holding a pickaxe without dismounting)
-mobile smithy
-run the lower south cave (for chitin, metal, obsidian, crystal, and the artifact)
It will take more narcotics than posted. takes very long to tame even with crops
Has more item slots that a traditional smithy witch allows you to allow you to craft some ascendant saddles that resources just don't fit in the slots
If you get two tamed ones in an enclosed area and set both to wander, they’ll breed and fill the area with wild beavers who will make you cement paste and mushrooms and pearls. Trying this in the natural enclosed pool at bottom center of ASA, closing off the one entrance though so they don’t get out.
Make sure no other Castoroides are around then bola it and shoot it with tranqs until it knocks out. Make sure you bring loads of bio toxin, because their torpor drains fast. I used this method and tamed one at level 42
I once got killed by these raiding their dam...That was the start of a chain kill
I still didn't get back my stuff
If you want to raid the damage il use an argy to lift them in the air and pick them of 1 by 1 so less threats
I recommend bringing a trike or any other Dino that harvests berries so you can just keep getting narcoberries! It was a real life saver.
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