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4 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Nov 6, 2020   Report

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

8 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 6, 2016   Report

Put your beetles in a wooden cage so they don't wander off

2 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Aug 1, 2022   Report

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.

2 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jul 29, 2022   Report

ON lost island u can find them on swamp beaches

1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 13, 2023   Report

Use Biggest poop you can find. The bigger the better.

3 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 26, 2021   Report

If you (like me) use the poo oil from these to make the jerky you (like me) eat, you (like me) may be slightly above average.

3 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 8, 2021   Report

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

4 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 18, 2020   Report

Wanna upgrade other stats? Listen well! Grab a tamed beetle fill your own inventory with all the poop that phiomia produces lock you and your beetle in a cage. Set his ass to Aggressive and unclaim it. Let it murder you and it'll have all the poop from your inventory. Reclaim it and wallah. Now you can increase its health

5 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 10, 2019   Report

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

1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 9, 2023   Report

They take forever to be hungry again so use bigger poops

7 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 5, 2017   Report

Awesome for eating your feces if you want a buddy that does that? For some reason...

1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   May 11, 2023   Report

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

2 points   🔧 Utility   May 3, 2022   Report

Poop + dungbeetle inventory = oil + fertilizer

5 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jan 23, 2019   Report

My dung ate my newly hatched sarco. Devastated.

2 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 28, 2022   Report

Lost iland they spawn around 25.5 62.0 easy no cave

2 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 24, 2022   Report

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.

3 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 13, 2021   Report

TIPP: (EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW)

1) They spawn inside the LOWER SOUTH CAVE and you can easily tame them up PASSIB using ROTTEN FLESH

2) If you put POOP inside their Inventory and let them WALK they will produce FRETILIZER and OIL after a period of time

3) I would recommend to JUST LVL UP THEIR WEIGHT so they can CARRY MORE POOP and PRODUCE more FERTILIZER and OIL

4) Build a small enclosure (or a box) for them to walk around inside it and also place a feeding trough filled with rotten flesh if you want

5) THEY CAN CLIMB OVER FENCES

~MADARA UCHIHA

3 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jan 25, 2021   Report

In the desert on crystal isles. Tame them by using a grappling hook then get to a safe spot and load them up with rotten meat. I got four of them doing this!! Ringo, Paul, John and George!!

2 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 6, 2022   Report

Lost island? Head to middle of dessert. You’re welcome. Take a Rex or Giga and get tons of chitin and organic poly while wandering around.

5 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Sep 27, 2018   Report

Use a argie to carry it where you need to go

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