The Dung Beetle is a great creature to have. Will make Fertilizer and Oil when any kind of Feces is in its inventory. Make sure you have a phiomia as these guys are like best friends. Boost weight only to hold more feces . Have fun gardenening 😁

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

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

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

It usually found in caves, in the easy south cave is one of the best locations to tame them

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

Recommend looking up the toilet fertilizer glitch, makes it so you don’t have to use one of these guys

Found everywhere in blue biome on abberation. Easiest way to tame is get a creature that produces large feces, then cryopod it (pve method), when you throw it out it poops instantly making it easy to tame. You could also force feed stim berries (make sure you're mounted on it) then bring the poop with you all at once.

If the jellyfish is tamers’ heavens, these guys are farmers’ heavens.

Just like a Phioma, a Role Rat can ingest stimberry and will produce a lot of manure. Just make sure you’re riding it while feeding then transfer the feces to your Dung Beetle.

Make a circle of Lystros. Put beetle(s) inside circle. Pet Lystros, feed beetle(s), store fertilizer in Lystro inventory. 300 per Lystro, no cage/fences needed. (Set follow to lowest and whistle one at a time to arrange Lystros.)

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!

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.

For easy fert and oil, get loads of medium poop, set your ding beetle to neutral, only have poop in your inventory, disclaim the beetle then let it kill you, it should gather all the poop in your inventory with no weight restrictions. You can do this to slot cap it so no need to refill it every hour or so and no needed cages. Best way to farm and most time efficient. Can say it works as I use it all the time. Never needed to go oil farming with 7 of these. O P G O D

Dung beetles are like the mobile compost bin but better

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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.

Can you pick these up anymore? I tamed 2 in aberration and I can’t pick them up

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

Why does this thing has a saddle slot