Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for grand tortugar? Tips and strategies for grand tortugar in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
They seem peaceful but they are aggressive. Just like Deinotherium
1. Knock it out with any tranq weapon of your choice
2. Add superior kibble or a higher grade one (if no kibble is available for you, you can feed it less effective food like berries -> crops -> or archelon algae(algae is best of these 3 other options))
3. Enjoy your new tame without a saddle or you can craft a normal saddle to ride it with bonus armor or a platform saddle where you can build stuff on it.
4. On PC: press C to open/close shell. Closed shell while riding it gives you unlimited oxygen.
LMB: for normal bite attack / RMB for tail whip. You can only attack when shell is closed. Press X to walk on the sea floor. (Careful I heard somewhere that it can get fall damage in walking mode in the water while walking there and falling down an abyss)
5. It can farm black pearls with a good amount of weight reduction on these.
Overall the new best gatherer for blackpearls due to its high weight stat and weight reduction on blackpearls!
!!! It cannot harvest Silica Pearls as far as I know !!!
Honestly this looks really cool! although i have heard they are just a copy-paste from atlas
Not hard to tame early just get tranq arrows or for a faster
Tame a long neck rifle with tranq darts will do more torpor
I recamend bringing a good set of armor for high levels
What you need: Metal dino gates (without the doorways), honey, high % longneck and plenty of tranqs. Rex taming equivalent.
1. Set up a half circle with the Dino gates, leaving space for 2 gates (make sure you turn off build clipping here).
2. Shoot the tortugar lead it into the trap, backing up through the gates. Once it’s in, place 1 final gate in the open space in the middle(it shouldn’t be able to fit through the gaps on the side)
3. Shoot it until it knocks out. Feed it honey if you don’t have ext. kibble. (It LOVES honey)
Just K.O them and feed them kibble. I used extraordinary kibble not sure if it eats lesser quality ones.
Knock out tame they eat berries
It is not a chainbola passive tame anymore. You knock it out and feed it exceptional kibble. 130 was about 24 kibble with our tribe tower.
Probably a omnivore but definitely not a carnivore
It's probably bigger than a noglin
It will be strong and on the picture in the Menu it seems Like you Can Ride in its shell
How to tame the big back turtle is easy
First get a ballista turret and some chain bolas and exceptional kibble and there is your turtle
It has two saddles a normal and a platform
If you keep the shell open then you can shoot from inside but you can’t do the tortugar attacks
If you close the shell then you can do the two attacks
One a bite and Two a tail slap
A bonus fact is that since it’s a turtle it is slow on land but fast on water
#High Achiever
So I think it’s wrong on the kibble type. I got 60% effectiveness with superior and 90% with exceptional. Might need to run a few tests to figure it out completely