Dung bettle very usefull cuz can make some poops into vertilizer and oil, u should have this one bugs if you are the farmer (usefull tip : you better tame it after having a green house and large corp plots)

I wonder why this guy isn’t part of the top 5 on the list... seems fair though but they generate enough oil for days as long as you supply them with poop... they basically are a safer and easy way to gather oil.

The new owl pellets from Extinction don't work on the beetles for taming purposes.

Why does this thing has a saddle slot

Even though these dudes are superior, I highly recommend getting a compost bin just for storing poop for taming them because for some reason can never find enough poop. The compost bin prevents crap from degrading and the dung beetle especially loves human feces. this is the only tame who's preferred food is made by the player without a cooking pot or crafting. It's like everyone gets a car except instead the dung beetle eats every one's poop.

Feed 'em some medium to large animal droppings and you'll have a friend for life.

Fun fact: On mobile, this b*stards can crawl out of the back of wooden cages. Either put the back to a wall or build a double high wooden post behind.

They can be found in the dunes near the blue obilisk on scorched earth

On Ab, there are no Phiomias, so here's an alternative: If you go into the red mushrooms, you will poop... A lot. You can load all that poop on a dung beatle and get lots of fertilizer! It will give you more for bigger poop though.

Were can you find them on extinction??

If you enter cave riding an Araneo or Arthropluera that was cave-tamed, you can ride up and tame without any creature going agro. Load soothing balm and spoiled meat in your hot bar for an easy passive tame, and no rush to finish like like using ghuillie armor and insect repellant.

If want one go to south cave wonder around but be prepared for snakes spiders and scorpions try tameing scorpion when going in

If put poop in this inventory it can produce fertilizer in 15 minutes

I wanna know why it says saddle I mean they’re tiny plus there is no saddle and I’m confused

Btw I’m on mobile maybe it’s different on pc

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.

DO NOT USE MEAT! If you use meat, it will take a very long time! Try using feces instead, as weird as it may sound, use medium. This can be acquired from brontos, paras, trikes, etc. Medium is fastest to tame. In the higher levels it might take a lot more than large, but in the lower levels it will take really close to large, if not the same amount!

If you add unicorn residue in the beetles inventory, it doesn't spoil, but regular poop makes fertilizer and oil.

1. To tame put poop in last hotbar slot.

2. Once it tamed it eats spoiled meat !

Dung beetles are like the mobile compost bin but better

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You can find these on the center of Extinction, sometimes nearby the swamp area.

In Genesis they are also roaming around the swamp.