A must have for PVE or PVP, ultimate wood gathering machines

the saddle also doubles as a smithy

On dam-building, it's correct that wild beavers cause dams to spawn, BUT dams don't cause beavers to spawn.

Build a hut and put a bed in it near where these guys spawn and make dams for loads of cementing paste. They are also good and gathering wood before you can get a mammoth, but be warned they hit hard and make sure you have narcotics or lots of narco berries or they won't stay asleep for long.

It turns out that these beavers don’t use stam while swimming!

These guys can collect wood for you when put to "wander" And a lot in that. Wild beaver build beaver dams, so don't kill one in the wild. Just look for a nearby dam, loot it and run for life (beaver dams have valuable and rare resources in them)

A very good mount for wood and even self defense. High level Castro does do a lot of damage, in early game I would take a high level for self defense. I could still build with it at protect myself at the same time. Have a team of a dodic, Castro, megaloceros, and argy you have yourself the perfect building team.

If you breed them and unclaim their children will they make dams?

have you encountered a problem taming one of these then put it on wander mode to gather wood passively in the near jungle then after a couple of hours theyre just gone! its lvl 200 and no other predator around and no notifications of it dying. happened trice so not a coincident.

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

Really powerful, a few of these can kill good animals. Also great at harvesting wood, and halfing the stack's weight. Also good for berries and killing fish. :)

I don't know if it was luck but I left it alone for 2 mintues and it got 108 wood wandering

Just like argy, it can be used as a smithy, that’s from my experience on mobile.

use a diplodocus and a therizinosaurs to raid bever dams so use the diplo to carry the wood (lvl the diplos weight only) and the theri to kill the pissed off bevers and it needs to tribe members to work

This guy is probably the best wood collector, alongside with the mammoth. Taming it is pretty simple if you have enough tranqs and biotoxin/narcos, and it can help you get through early and midgame.

They spawn In the southern islets on the island but not too often so be patient They have the same spawn point as the sarco so be warned you might come across one

[Ark Mobile] Live. In. The. Hidden. Lakes. Casteroides spawn there all the time so I have a constant supply of dams. I just have my tames kill them and I have a nice amount of cement paste, rare flowers and mushrooms now. Note: The occasional Sarco spawns in that area so have the equipment ready to kill them and keep your weaker tames protected in Dino pens! Also seal the Hidden lake openings close if you can, raptors and Therizs can wander in if you don’t! (SB: I play Single-Player Mode.)

This and the Beelzebufo are the most useful and versatile dinos someone can tame, especially when you're not playing on a public server where you have to worry about other taming things to fend off other players. Besides the awesome wood gathering, the Casteroides also has decent stats across the board, is a great underwater mount, and it's saddle functions as a smithy!

Knock them out and leave, so you don’t have to wait for another to spawn

Tame one of these guys and use him as a mobile smithy and he is good at gathering wood from trees