Since ark ascended they now pick up the feces themselves. The range is actually ridiculous AND it won’t stop picking up feces even if it’s past its max weight. My dung beetle is 60/8 overencumbered and he still keeps picking up feces from all my tames without moving. Don’t even bother setting up a cage, the range for picking up feces is so broken they will overencumber themselves and stop moving in no time. And they’ll still pick up.

The little QoL turned this guy from a neat early game source of oil and slightly better bin for fertilizer into an actual 0 maintenance oil pump

Ragnarok easy tame.

1) tame a few Rex, save the poop.

2) feed the poop to dung beetle(desert area).

Congratulations you have a beetle...

After you tame a dung beetle, you can throw it in a cage on wonder. That way they don't get in the way.

The best method for the dung beetles productivity and keeping them out of the way…

When building your Dino garage make a lower level (only one wall high) underneath your Dino pen and use it as a dung beetle pen, (I keep my dodos down there with them too)

This way when you sent them to wandering they will have access to all the dino poo and keep your pen clean but not get in the way. No escaping. (make sure to close the door when going in and out)

Only level up weight. And when they fill up with fertilizer, either use it or drop it all after collecting the oil. The oil production slows down when they are holding too much fertilizer.

I have 4 beetles under my Dino pen and every day I’m getting about 600+ oil

DO NOT UPGRADE WEIGHT!!! they will keep collecting past their weight just keep them in a cage.

Something everyone needs to know, they don’t like massive animal poops, I tried taming one I got from an oasisaur but it didn’t work

Crop boxes are stackable on top each other on ASA. I put this tip here as these guys go with crops. I stacked 5 medium crop boxes on top each other and they are all growing crops in each one. Small crop boxes are working also. Haven’t tested large yet. I’m assuming they work as well.

#Triggz

2x better than a compost bin, just put in poop and let it wander in a box and you will never need to use poop for crops or compost fertilizer ever again. also gives oil so its worth it. that is untill you realize it only spawns in caves.

If you didn’t know or you can’t figure out how to get fertilizer from one of these things here’s how to do it!

1 Tame one (you can find them in caves and The dunes)

2 create a small pen (don’t use foundations)

3 set them on wandering inside the pen

4 put poop in inventory

5 you’ll be getting fertilizer soon!

Hope this was helpful!

Only up weight for dem big poops.

random tip: on mobile, spinos poop 2 large feces at a time

They spawn in south lower cave and bring poop for faster tame. Upgrade the weight so they can carry more poop for fertilizers and oil. Force feed Phiomia stimberry so they will poop.

On Valguero, they only spawn in the scar so be careful for Wyvs but grappling hooks work perfectly in PVE if you’re alone. I used a PT for easy getaways :)

Make a separate building for the beetle. It wanders around, and can be quite annoying, as it's usually in the doorway. Put it near your greenhouse, or somewhere easily accessible to encourage your tribe to keep it loaded with poo.

U can find loads of them in the center's lava island cave

Poo. Tame with poo. If you have a cryopod when you release a dino it will poo. Free poo. Big poo is great. Much faster than rotten meat.

These are passive tames meaning you tame them while awake. They are very easy to tame. You can just feed it poop or you can pick it up with a argentavis and put in a box.

If you hit them they won’t start running away. They will run at you and take out there anger by smacking you with its horn. And ima just say it they hit you.... it’s gonna hurt.

Level it's points into weight so it can carry more poop and there for make more fert

Dung Beetles collect Snow Owl pellets - amazing.