Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a castoroides used for? castoroides battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Best way to get resources from their dams is to
1) find a wild beaver
2) bring it to a water source closest to your base
3) let it wander around until it makes a dam
4) collect everything
5) manual save then leave and rejoin to make it not try to kill you
6) when you collect everything , destroy the dam and then wait until it makes another.
7) repeat for lots of resources
You could capture wild castoroides and put them in damming pens, and if you do, put them in half water half land pens. They will dam better like that. If you put more beavers in the same pen, they will, again, dam faster. This makes a good cementing paste farm, but will also give wood, silica pearls, rare flowers, and rare mushrooms. This is quite a bit of work though. If you're not into it or don't have enough resources or a good bird, you could just find an area( most likely in or near water) that beavers are around and passively build dams. When you check them, destroy them. Resources don't respawn in the same dam they already were in to the best of my knowledge. P.S. If you tame a beaver, there is no way to let build a dam ( I've tried ?)
These beavers have become one of my most used "Dino". Their ability to hold wood at 25% weight and stone at 50% weight comes in handy when building. I recommend lvling weight and breeding high lvl beavers. Breeding is very easy. Once they are born and imprinted let them wander around bushes in a protected area. They will passively collect berries to their full weight capacity (full as in once they're grown). This means they are self sufficient even in the baby stage.
This is just a suggestion when taming these guys, the higher the lvl the wood you can carry is outstanding, I have a lvl 200 something an admin gave me. (I play on unofficial servers) named gibby, I kept him until the server sadly closed (or I think it did) they can carry A MASSIVE amount of wood, on the server I play on now, I have a beaver, can u guess what I named him? Of course I named him gibby :D I wear swat gear (witch is VERY heavy as well as my fav primary weapons ALSO heavy) and even with all of that, I can come back with 1000 wood np, so if your in dire need of wood, this dude is your friend to consider. I hope this helped
Eassyy wood hack, build a triangular pen with 3 STONE dino dino gateway and reinforced doors on each of them( make sure they are stone so as to take zero damage from beaver raging)
lead beavers into them (personally I used a argy to carry them in), and wah lah free wood and precious resource once in awhile
Make sure u leave enough space for u to fit thru to access its nest.
DO NOT TAME THEM, tamed beavers don’t produce nests
The wild beavers don’t have to be near a water body to produce nest btw, I have 2 wild beavers trapped on a hill far from river and they still produce fine.