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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a dung beetle? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a dung beetle.
How to tame:
Go to South Cave and find it
Make sure a strong tame is with you and start feeding it some feces or spoiled meat
When tamed quickly pick him up and leave the cave.
The new owl pellets from Extinction don't work on the beetles for taming purposes.
An easy tame if you have poop/rotten meat! I got two well leveling up in the bog today and they have very pretty colors so if you carry meat or pick up random poop and have something to KO them with then I suggest taming one!
They are passive tames. I always pick them up with my Argy and take them to my base and drop into a taming pen or at least somewhere safe on the map (whichever is closer). I’ve always used spoiled meat to tame and it doesn’t take much time at all.
1. To tame put poop in last hotbar slot.
2. Once it tamed it eats spoiled meat !
Were can you find them on extinction??
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 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.
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.
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!
Feed 'em some medium to large animal droppings and you'll have a friend for life.
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.
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.
Use a argie to carry it where you need to go
Lost iland they spawn around 25.5 62.0 easy no cave
They take forever to be hungry again so use bigger poops
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
I saw around 3-4in the cave containing the artefact of the clever. Just clear out the cave with wolf/saber, tame the beetles. Have a friend with a quetz outside with a base with enough cages for each beetle. This can also be done with Arventagis with riders. Pick up beetles. Only problem is that u need around 6 people this way and I don’t think that arventagis can pick up dung beetles am checking this after.- also either have fridges or wood fridges for the dung on quetz so it doesn’t spoil
В мобайле капрозух могут их перетаскивать в зубах
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!!