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.
For ppl who are too lazy to make kibble like me find a jellyfish and kill it then use the bio toxin to keep it knocked out
Some people the theri is better for WOOD but the beaver is better for wood and gets a weight reduction for it also on mobile they can get quite a bit of rock carrots from jungle bushes
I was trying to find one I went to the redwood forest to my tree base I left I forgot the beavers were there my game crashed I also had some gally kibble on me
Pick up with an Argy then drop in an enclosure and knockout. Don't leave it unattended! The torpor goes down very, very fast.
Narcotics estimate is incorrect.
If you want to tame these at a high level bring crops or kibble. They are disgusted by mejoberries.
How do you get a trap?
I like can’t find it anwere
Castoroides are passive. If you see one check the immediate area for beaver dams. Beaver dams give you wood, cementing paste, and rare mushrooms/flowers. Beaver dams offer one of the fastest cementing paste gathering rates in the game. Once you open a beaver dam all castoroides become hostile so be quick. When you grab cementing paste from the beaver dam inventory make sure to dump all the wood or excess thing you will not collect. This is important because more cementing paste will not spawn once it's taken, a new dam needs to be created. By dumping all items the beaver dam is destroyed and a new one will be created later. Wild beavers are not worth killing. They offer little pelt if any and leave a mean bite.
Ok so I was gonna tame one of these little badger dudes, and I had this big prep time and all that, then it was time... I grabbed one with my argy and tranqed it out away from its little badger friends. I put in a 10x balm and gallimimus kibble (I’m on mobile btw) and, after all that prep, it was tamed in about ten seconds! A breeze if u have 10x balm :)
So try and knock it out (this might take a while) feed it berries. But if you don’t bring any narcotics it will wake up. (This creature is in packs. So try to knock one and kill one but the downside is this creatures torpor will drain faster than any other. Be careful)!
New players just go for a lvl 50 until you feel safe enough to tame a higher lvl.
Have a tribemate pick up the beaver with an argy, carry it to your base (or safe place)... have tribemate hold the beaver up with the argy and you shoot until it falls. Easiest way in knocking it out.
YOU NEED NARCOTICS don’t make the same mistake I did
For castoriodes, they can fit through a conventional pillar trap, so you have to put your pillars closer together rather then the normal length apart
Can be carried by argys, Dododex says it can't. Drop it into a trap near your base and easy tame.
The argent can pick this up ...
You need a LOT of narcs to tame this giant beaver just get on a rock and shoot it also u need lots of berries
A quick and easier : / way to get the metal for the saddles is to get like 4 furnaces so you can smelt quicker. For example if you have 100 raw metal you can split the metal into 4ths and it will take less time to smelt because it is not in one bi chunk.
If speed is leveled right they can be outpaced; they can be snared with a bola and knocked out or shot with tranq arrows through a 2x2x2 pen with open windows and a ramp to trap the castoroides to prevent carnivores from getting at it. Torpor goes down quick so a lot of narcotics and/or biotoxin is needed, if you can’t make their kibble use crops. I use starve tame because their food goes up relatively quick unless you allow it to go down for a while. Dedicated taming process, but worth it. My two beavers Frost and Char just had a baby, and unlike other dinos they gestate inside the mother instead of hatch from an egg. And they are mobile smithys
If you just stand on top of a rock even a small one, these cant get you cause they are very bad at climbing. From there u can just tranq them. I got a level 150 that way