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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
This sort of falls under two categories. Taming and utility. Dung beetles are a great early game tame to have, and great for mid and even late game as well. If you have a diplo, bronto, or even a spino, feed them a couple stacks of stim berries, and put their poop in their inventory so it don’t spoil. (My base is a decent treck from all the caves, but I tend to store all the turd in my argi.) The quickest way to tame a dung beetle is using large animal dung. You should only need 2…. Best to bring a third one just in case.
The best thing about the dung beetle is, when set to wander in a 8x8 foundation area (it must be 8x8 or larger. I’ve tried smaller enclosures for them, they glitch through the wall and despawn. Lost a few dung beetles to them glitching through walls and despawning) and with inventory filled with small dung, it will produce oil and fertilizer passively for you. So you can leave the dung beetle to do it’s thing, while your out building, gathering, taming, etc. but the best thing is when you leave a dung beetle to do it’s thing while your out gathering oil in the snowy area. It’s basically adding on to your oil supply.
Please note that the dung beetle inventory weight isn’t much thus you want to increase it as much as possible. And it is best to use small animal dung and human dung to fill it’s inventory to make most of its limited capacity and to get the biggest return for the amount of dung you put in.
More Dung Beetle Taming & KO Tips
How to tame
1 tame Barry and get saddle
2 enter lower south cave
3find dung beetle(s)
4kill all other creatures (except dung beetles)
5 tame with spoiled meat (don’t knock out)
6 carry it
7ride Barry out
You do not have to like the tip
I took my level 500 direbear to the hunters cave and easily tamed my dung beetle he is now my best farmer (of making fertilizer) PS:dont tell compost bin i said that.
You can grab Wild Dung Bettles using a Grappling Hook and bring them to a safer place to tame, even on PVE. Works Great on Skull Cave on The Center and probably on caves too.
On mobile you can kill one take its implant and revive it to tame safely
(Do not harvest body until after grabbing implant)
It is possible for your dung beetle to crawl on a lit forge, which will kill it! So keep it away from any forges if possible.
How to raise a good dung beetle remake
1. Locate the dung beetle. They are found in the chitin cave or the south cave on the island, at the edges of the map for where the death worms are for scorched earth, in the city for extinction, (sorry idk where they are on valgero or crystal isle), they are everywhere except for the green area in aberration
2. (Optional) locate is dossier for a good explanation on what it’s good for
3. Once you reach your new Friend. They might be surrounded by danger so kill of the other creatures or where bug repellent to slip buy
4. They can be tamed using feces, spoiled meat, and raw meat. Feces should be up to medium.
5 tip for low levels: tame low level dung beetle they take a long time to eat so the lower are the less food they need
6. Dont hit them or they will get mad and gore you with there horn, but they are slow
7. They eat spoiled meat not poop
8. They are a passive tame so just go up to them and feed them some food.
9. Tame more than 1 so your beetle doesn’t get lonely
10. Pick him up and hug him give him some love he is very important for food
11. They turn poop into fertilizer and/or oil if ur an American just by saying that you may already have 10.
12. Dispite that horn they aren’t very strong protect them or level them up to be stronger
13. If your interest is there utility role then just level up weight so they can carry more poop
Have fun with your new friend. Phew that was long
Introducing the New Dung beetle!
Compost bins hate them!
I am unsure why people say “Use spoiled meat”. My friend told me to but I brought Large animal Feces (keep in mind, I’m in mobile so it says what it wants from your inventory. Usually the BEST food for that one) and it wanted the dung. It tamed in 2 pieces. Don’t need to up.
While spoiled meat seems the easy way to go for taming, if you want to be more effective, poop is the way… easy way to get a load of fresh excrement for your beetle ? Just take a tame with you… and feed them lots of stimberries ! At the cost of your pets intestines, they shall have a new friend soon :)
They can't eat massive animal feces, their code doesn't recognize titanosaur poo as food.