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What is a dung beetle used for? dung beetle battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Byfar the best strat for getting maximum fertilizer, first get yourself a Phiomia and slot cap yourself with feces or as much as you want, next take off all of your armour, then set dung beetle to neutral, and victim item collection, unclaim beetle, hit it and then it will aggro to you as if it was wild, but still with the settings you left it on, let it kill you, it will collect all of your inventory of feces which can be hundreds instead of 12 or whatever it’s base weight is, this is called over capping and since you’ve slot capped it, it won’t be able to move! So set it to wandering and it will just sit in one spot while making you fertilizer! I hope it’s helpful (PSA unclaiming isn’t always an option, so make sure you know your server rules, it works on official tho! Hope this helps!)
The Dung Beettle is awesome and crucial for fertilizer production. Keep the beetle in the corner of the main area your tribe has the most traffic again. I have my beetle next to our fabricator and Smitty in the corner with the door frame to get in and out to keep it full of poop. As long as there's players around it it produces more fertilizer just like the tames when they drop eggs around more people.
BLACK SLOT PRODUCTION:
1. Have black slot of poop in your inventory.
2. Go in a 1x1 box with beetle naked.
3. Set agressive, then unclaim it.
4. Let it kill you. It will eat your body and take everything to it’s inventory.
5. Wait 24hrs or more for black slot of fertilizer.
-ANY level beetle is fine. Even lv 5s, don’t matter.
You’re welcome. F.M.