Phiomia + dung beetle = the most fertilizer anyone can have (and a bunch of gasoline).

An easy area to find the dung beetles is the south cave.

These are the most underrated things for fertilizer. More reliable than a compost bin and they eat meat when tamed so you don't have to waste your precious poops when you have a pen of them.

Best way 2 quickly get fertilizer, and oil is a added bonus and they are very easy 2 tame

They produce fertilizer and oil but are also easy to tame just bring poop in cave.

If you have a farm set up and have a phiomia, just use stimberries to feed phiomia and get poop. If you aren't ready for south cave than you can use phiomia poop rather than fertilizer and bypass the beetle for a bit. As soon as you get a good barry, you should tame a dung beetle. You should tame lots of low levels because high levels take forever to tame. Up if this was helpful.

Tip for fjordur:

Can be found in the dung beatle cave in the red woods located at 25.1 LAT and 93.1 LON. It's just a small little cave full of these little fertilizer machines.

ON lost island u can find them on swamp beaches

Use a argie to carry it where you need to go

Drowning in Phiomia Poop?

Put it in a Dung Beetles' inventory and it'll produce tons of fertilizer for you!

Poop + dungbeetle inventory = oil + fertilizer

They make fertilizer faster than compost bins

Lost iland they spawn around 25.5 62.0 easy no cave

You should be training these guys in 2 things: Health (for the off chance of a predator attack) and weight. The weight part might seem pointless now, especially since it barely adds anything, but you want to be able to feed these guys as much poop as possible.

Besides, the higher the starting level, the better you will be able to increase a stat (example: Moschops tamed at level 1 weight upgrade: 15%. Moschops tamed at level 100 weight upgrade: 30%-35%.)

Besides, Dung Beetles are a key progression point in ARK. Don’t believe me? Well, you need to cook certain foods for certain quests, and most recipes require some kind of crop or berry.

The problem? Poop will eventually decompose and your crops will disappear, meanwhile fertilizer lasts a lot longer before needing to be replaced. So not only do you want one of these with high health and weight capacity levels, but you also want multiple to maximize output.

How do they have so much health for such a small thing

You can place these in a wooden jail so they don't wander away. You can access inventory without opening the door as it frequently wanders towards the edge of the cage.

They take forever to be hungry again so use bigger poops

For those people playing mobile,

These aren’t only in dungeons, they are also found in the south cave AND lava cave! Trust me, I’ve seen them in there. The ones in caves usually want spoiled meat, but I’ve done passive tames and if it says, for example, (on a diplo) “feed azulberry to tame” you don’t have to. You can give it kibble instead. So I guess you can give dung beetles poo if they want spoiled meat. Raw meat also works to tame them. Oh, and have yourselves a good day with beetles! (Sorry it was long.)

~ screamingrangler

To the person who lets us all know about the spino trick, thank you and if you drain an argys stam, it will double, but not naturally, unlike the spino

Keep them in a wooden cage when set on wander so they don't actually wander off.