Make a circle of Lystros. Put beetle(s) inside circle. Pet Lystros, feed beetle(s), store fertilizer in Lystro inventory. 300 per Lystro, no cage/fences needed. (Set follow to lowest and whistle one at a time to arrange Lystros.)

Dung beetles are like the mobile compost bin but better

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For easy fert and oil, get loads of medium poop, set your ding beetle to neutral, only have poop in your inventory, disclaim the beetle then let it kill you, it should gather all the poop in your inventory with no weight restrictions. You can do this to slot cap it so no need to refill it every hour or so and no needed cages. Best way to farm and most time efficient. Can say it works as I use it all the time. Never needed to go oil farming with 7 of these. O P G O D

Can you pick these up anymore? I tamed 2 in aberration and I can’t pick them up

Why does this thing has a saddle slot

I'm not sure if anyone has already said this, but on Aberration there are no phiomias. Roll rats can serve the same purpose, be force fed a ton of stim berries to get loads of poop. Just watch the hunger, cuz it drops quick!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Enable wandering & then have it follow a nearby Dino on highest distance. It will stay put & produce fertilizer & oil.

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

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.

Put the beetle in your greenhouse and shut the door. Fill it with doody and fertilizer is right there for your plants at all times.