Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a castoroides? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a castoroides.
If you want the stuff from their dams...don't tame them cause they won't build any more dams!
Tamed one last night I used tranq darts it ate mejoberrys had to use alot of narcotic and when I ran out of 84 narcotics I used narcoberry it was a lvl 168 but keep an eye on it don't wander away for too long
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
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 👍
Taming these takes so ‘dam’ long
Here is how to tame a beaver
1. Bola it
2. Club it
3. Feed it
There you go now you have a beaver
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
FYI for exact stats, crossbow + tranq arrows=157.5 torpor, and 35 damage. I posted the next newest tip before this one, if you want to know what it is about select Newest ( by default it is probably on Popular)
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!
These thing lose torpor FAST, be prepared, happy taming
make 4 foundations and 6 doorframes
set the foundations and doorframes down on a flat surface
shoot the beaver with tranq arrows or tranq darts
(if you hit one they all start to attack you and if your not careful they will swarm you and deal enough damage to kill you and your tame)
guide the beavers in the little trap you made from the foundations and doorframes
kill the ones you don’t want and tranq out the one you do want
And boom you have itself a big prehistoric beaver
(up this was helpful to u noobs out there)
It will take more narcotics than posted. takes very long to tame even with crops
Have a ton of narcotics and do not leave them
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
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 recommend bringing a trike or any other Dino that harvests berries so you can just keep getting narcoberries! It was a real life saver.
Up if helpful 😁
You should get a couple tranq Arrows and a crossbow with at least 700 berries, and some narcotics . And BOOM you have Justin beaver ready to get wood.👍