Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for dung beetle? Tips and strategies for dung beetle in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Carryable by Kaprosuchus as of May 2020. (Not sure if they were before; Dododex says they are not)
Just feed it poop. It’s not that hard
Add a variety of feces (in. Large, Medium and Small) to produce oil and fertilizer faster. They can convert multiple varieties at the same time but not multiple of the same.
You can also place them in wooden cages to keep them from wandering around while wandering to convert feces to oil and fertilizer.
I found one of these unclaimed on the beach, 22 seconds from dying of negligence, i claimed brought to my base and named it goober, later that night all my progress was gone due to some dude with a quetz
You can find them in the desmodus cave on fjourdor
Get yourself a full ghille suit, load up with large feces and go hunting with your Argy. Tame two at a time, pickup one and mount up then grab the second in Argy talons. Safe flight home
My tribe has a larger 'wandering room' upstairs where we have multiple dung beetles and snails. They tend to naturally group up in the middle of the room so they're easy to manage. Just watch out, they can escape through an open door or glitch through the ceiling to the level below. You also can't pick them up when you have a shoulder pet on.
I love these things so much! I always keep a few of them at my base. They’re a passive tame that eats poop, i mean, what’s easier than that? I guess the hard part is its location. The easiest location to find them is the lower south cave. Be sure to bring a strong mount and arm yourself because the cave is home to some pretty nasty creatures. Once tamed they eat poop and produce fertilizer and oil. It only produces the oil and fertilizer if it’s set to wander, so just put in a cage.
-M.L.
This may not work for everyone, but it works for me. I took a saber down in the Central Cave (maxed at lvl 190 so not a good one at all), I ran past all the creatures that were hostile until I came across a dung beetle, once I found one, I killed any creatures that followed me/ are with the beetle, you don't need an amazing tame to kill these creatures, once isolated from all dangers, feed large animal feces until fully tamed, what I did was collect feces from my T-Rex'S (I only have 4 and it took about 5 minutes to get 10 large feces) hope this helps!
Picked up the dung beetle with my Arg and flew to a safe bldg and dropped the beetle into the bldg. Walked behind it to feed it as it requested. Took 3 med fees or 2 LG feeses for lol 260 beetle