Very essential for new players up to alpha, definantely worth the time.
Doedicurus
The Doedicurus is an armored, armadillo-like herbivore prized for gathering and carrying stone. When threatened, it curls into a remarkably well-protected ball.

Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Doedicurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
All you need is a bow and tranq arrows simply shoot it until it balls up, wait for it to unball, and repeat until knocked out
These little buggers are so hard to knock out they get in their shell if their health is really low when it pulls into its. She’ll then use tranq arrows or normal arrows to hit it
Use in bee cave on Crystals Isles to harvest ridiculous amounts of organic polymer.
Quetz keep flying and the Doedic's rolling
Get some stone earliear and dont waste a lot of weigth. This dinosaur takes a lot of stone with a lower weight
These guys are your stone gatherers, to tame simply shoot it in the head with tranq arrows / darts and feed berries / crops / kibble and he is yours
Good for gathering stone for building stone structures. Good for early/midgame. Can get away pretty quick as well with the roll.
If you make it aggro on you,tranq it and walk backwards it can't hit you tamed a lvl 90 event gren doed this way 😊
They swing by themselves but stop once invos full
I would use Tranq darts because if you use arrows they do to much damage to fast and they will curl up into a ball
Doedicurus are essential for base construction. While they are easy to harvest with an argentavis carrying them, they are also great swimmers and gather stone quickly while in water when using the button/key for the roll action.
Put him on wandering, then pick it up with an argentavis or other flyer that can pick him, and just fly near rocks and he will hit them.
On ab I found a great way to get stone you get two of these and a Karkinos pick up the Doedicuruss and walk over rock and the doedics will get stone
it makes a decomposing sound when eating
Grab with Argy go into safe place (not surrounded by aggressive mobs or your other tame) basically just let your argy grab onto them and you go down and shot its underside hope it helps
If ur trying to defeat it for example this weeks boss the mega doedic I highly recommend using an explosive weapon or tek bcc it does increased dmg to a bow or rifle. Like this is it’s useful
For everyone who is worried about the doe rolling up in a ball I reccomend using an argy to pick it up and have s tribe mate use tranq arrows to knock it out. Rly good early game tame strongly suggested.
Pick it up with a argi then you can auto farm
You can use tranq arrows. It needs to be high health because if it isn't it will roll up in a ball and you won't be able to tame it.