Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Dung beetles are a must have for any crop plots, so this guide will help you to get one for yourself.
1. Dung beetles eat feces, so the first thing you need to do is gather some, whether by farming it from your own dinos, or gathering it from wild dinos. The bigger the feces, the more progress and effectiveness it gives, so go for as large of dung as you can get. They can also eat regular meat, but literally anything is better, so never use it, if you are unable to get medium or large feces spoiled meat can be used for better effectiveness and progress than other foods.
2. Dung beetles are a passive tame, so all you need to do is walk up to it and feed it, and since it is slow and will wander like normal a trap is not needed but can be helpful, however like all passive tames they take around 10 to 20 minutes between the first and second feed, so keep that in mind when planning to tame one.
3. The biggest threat/difficulty to taming one of these is the risk of other hostile creatures attacking you or it when taming. As such it is wise to bring a weapon or tame to fend them off or to trap it in a space you and it will not be attacked.
Happy taming!
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 (donโt 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.
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.
Introducing the New Dung beetle!
Compost bins hate them!
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 itโs 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 doesnโt 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 arenโt 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
I am unsure why people say โUse spoiled meatโ. My friend told me to but I brought Large animal Feces (keep in mind, Iโm 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. Donโt need to up.
Just feed it poop you donโt have to knock it out.
If you have a tribe mate have one of you pick up the wild beetle with a large bird, such as an argent, the you can tame the beetle in its talons without it roaming around
Center: in caves
Island: in caves / carno island
Scorched: in the dunes
When taming you can use a grappling hook to bring them to a safe place.
Crawl up and feed it poop, but don't stand up, because they see you and attack. So crawl up, feed, crawl back. Keep doing this and soon it will be tamed.