Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a dung beetle used for? dung beetle battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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.
I love these things so much! I always keep a few of them at my base. They’re a passive tame that eats poop, i mean, what’s easier than that? I guess the hard part is its location. The easiest location to find them is the lower south cave. Be sure to bring a strong mount and arm yourself because the cave is home to some pretty nasty creatures. Once tamed they eat poop and produce fertilizer and oil. It only produces the oil and fertilizer if it’s set to wander, so just put in a cage.
-M.L.
My tribe has a larger 'wandering room' upstairs where we have multiple dung beetles and snails. They tend to naturally group up in the middle of the room so they're easy to manage. Just watch out, they can escape through an open door or glitch through the ceiling to the level below. You also can't pick them up when you have a shoulder pet on.
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.