Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a dung beetle used for? dung beetle battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
If you didn’t know or you can’t figure out how to get fertilizer from one of these things here’s how to do it!
1 Tame one (you can find them in caves and The dunes)
2 create a small pen (don’t use foundations)
3 set them on wandering inside the pen
4 put poop in inventory
5 you’ll be getting fertilizer soon!
Hope this was helpful!
For Ark Mobile: When filling their inventory with poop, temporarily put a weight collar on them. You’ll be able to fill them up with more poop than usual. When you’re done, make sure to take the collar off. The beetle will still be able to make fertilizer and oil even though they are encumbered.
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PC players on Lost island- I found one really quickly in the estuary swamps down the way from the redwoods castle. Once you have one or a few they will make compost bins obsolete as they make compost way faster and added bonus of oil. It was surprisingly docile in those trees too. I’m always nervous to got down in heavy tree cover cuz I’m a scaredy cat and care way too much about my Dino’s but I just landed on my argy and walked around down there on the litter islands the slitting rivers make on their way to the ocean and found in almost immediately. Also on the north east side of that river there a small shallow pond where hecka Ovid spawn for me. Enjoy.
Add a variety of feces (in. Large, Medium and Small) to produce oil and fertilizer faster. They can convert multiple varieties at the same time but not multiple of the same.
You can also place them in wooden cages to keep them from wandering around while wandering to convert feces to oil and fertilizer.