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What is a castoroides used for? castoroides battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
I found out how to get resources from this creature 100% safe, you'll need an arge with a saddle,grab the castoroides and take it next to your base if you live near the sea like I do , then just let him work and everytime you want to collect resources from his home just use normal tranq arrow he sleep after the 3-5 arrows when he wakes up he won't agro you (it's on easy mode gameplay,low lvl)
Its saddle works as a smithy. However, unlike the actual smithy structure, the beaver can hold about 300 stacks of objects, opposed to the smithy’s 75. This allows you to craft ascended stuff that otherwise would be impossible (due to the crafting requirements asking for more materials than you can fit into the smithy). It’s also extremely handy if you are doing multiple Behemoth gates.
since nobody knows how to build a very good taming pen for creatures like these or theri heres mine:
just take a 3x3 stone foundation (total 9) and get 36 doorways
and place them to make a cube on the foundations
and finish up placing stone floor doing a circle on the doorways
and boom you have got an awesome taming pen where even therizinos cant escape
Phenomenal tames. Excellent wood gatherers and I would put them up against the Bronto or Steg for berry gathering, especially for smaller tribes. They don't gather as much per attack as either of the above, but they are orders of magnitude faster. Can zip around spamming attack and be at you weight limit in berries in no time.
Built our base on The Center right next to a pond with our trough just out of range. Tamed a couple of the beavers (named Sharon Stone and Wynonna because I dare you to come up with two better beaver names) for berry and wood gathering. Still get spawns and 3 to 5 dams. Never ending supply of cementing paste, silica pearls, rare flowers, mushrooms and more wood than we know what to do with.
There is a simple way to get cementing paste off of these guys. You only need any flyer (I personally use a griffin) and a decent pike.
1. Whistle your flyer on follow
2. Find a couple beaver dams
3. Jump off your flyer and get the cementing paste
4. Drop anything you don’t want out of the dam
5. Jump back on your flyer and fly away
6. Come back and repeat
Do not kill or tame beavers if you want free cementing paste. if you kill them, you’ll have to go round killing everything else until more spawn, and if you tame them, same thing. If the beavers catch up to you in the water, stab them a couple times so their health is low and they start running away.
Their saddle acts as a mobile smithy, team it up with a horse to get the ultimate travelling team. The horse saddle = a smithy and the beaver saddle = mortar and pestle so you can craft gunpowder while on horse, and then transfer that to the beaver, so you can make your grenades and such on the go.
How to build dam farm:
Needed:
12 foundations (preferably stone)
12-24 doorframe (preferably stone)
1)find an already existing dam
2)build a 3x3 box around the dam with fence foundations
3)place doorframe on top of the foundations;if the dam is underwater, put enough layers for the top doorframe to be out of the water
4)using an argie, pick up 2 to 3 beavers and drop them into the box. 2 is the minimum number needed for them to spawn a dam but I find that 3 works better. (note:if you want more dams, bring beavers from another spawn location as no more beavers will naturally spawn in that area. Its also preferable to build another box so they don't end up pushing each other out the top)
Dams will spawn around every 12 hours
Remember to not leave the items you don't want in the dam. Drop them so that the beavers can spawn a new one without having the dam demolish after a week.