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!
Be warned!! I’ve seen 2-3 of these take on a Spino and kill it!
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.
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 👍
There is in fact a slot limit! All dinos have 300 slots available
Taming these takes so ‘dam’ long
How to VERY easily tame Beavers (or any medium dinos with high torpor) on single player :
Step 1: Build a 4x4 trap with 2 high walls built with door frames (add ramps on one side if you don’t have an argy)
Step 2: Carry one with an argy or lure it into the trap with aggro if you don’t have an argy
Step 3: Leave it there but don’t go out too far so it won’t despawn, wait for night, put sleeping bag down and sleep for 4 hours. This step is to drain it’s food.
Step 4: Knock it out with tranqs and feed it berries or carrots (you can get plenty with a trike or stego, if not then parasaur is also good)
Step 5: Enjoy having a beaver then cry that you need to be level 61 to make a saddle for it…
Pros: Insanely fast starve tame method, doesn’t use any narcs of any kind for a level 145, doesn’t reduce much taming efficiency like the old starve tame method where you have to knock it out THEN let it starve, almost always gets 80-90% taming effectiveness.
Cons: Have to be in the area for a long while so it won’t despawn and wait for night time, it eats a lot and if you don’t check on it, it will eat everything you put in if you wanted to save stuff like crops or prime meats, you have to trap it for it to starve so will cost a lot of building mats to start.
- Erizo, your fellow ARK newbie
I tamed a level 150 of one of these wood gods, and then... it fell of a cliff... with me on it
A Castoroides can be picked up by a argentavis
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)
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!
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 😁
It will take more narcotics than posted. takes very long to tame even with crops
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
It’s torp drops incredibly fast , bio toxins work best to keep it sleeping
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
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.👍
Have an argentavis and bring it in a inclosure near your base. This will allow you to tame it much easier than out in the open.
Best have some kibble, or your in for a afternoon of hell.