Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

That feeling when you’re dying of thirst, you have 10 health left, and you see a fat bug. You sigh in relief and walk up to it. You’re about to die, and just as your reaching out to it’s abdomen, you see the message pop up:
Collect oil
They are bugs.
They like jugs.
They have water for you to chug.
But sometimes you cannot chug.
For when you are in turmoil.
They will probably give you oil.
Don’t follow it when it’s in the air or else you might find yourself in a ditch somewhere.
U can't tame this weird water filled giant firefly
What I know about jug bugs:
• big behinds
• won’t attac at all
• blue= water
• red= oil
• can drink if ded or alive
• you can make it pee water in ur mouth
You can use a grappling hook to drag them into a holding pen, and then you can continue to milk the bug
If you are thirsty don’t wish for them because they will show up but wish if you don’t want them.
(Based of of experience😀)
You can force/dotame them and put them in your greenhouse for a nice (aestetic) effect.
Does it do anything? No, but they're pretty cute, but I wish it could be tamed normally.
If you want one without cheats you have to catch/trap it in a building, best to have two doors incase it tries to run away!
Make a pen use grappler to Bing it inside make sure there is no door then bring it and let go of your grappeler an place a door behind you = free oil or water
If you're playing online and planning on having one of these beautiful bugs, heres what you need to do:
Make a small or big room however you want it
Then make sure there's a jugbug near the trap (or just use a grappling hook)
Lure it into the room
Close the door
There, you now have a jugbug :)
Up to 16 oil for the red jug bugs
When I was still a noob on scorched, I was dying left right and centre- I got enough for a thatch foundation, placed it, died. Another thatch foundation, placed it died. You get the idea. Now, once I had my hut I also had enough xp to get a spear, so I did and I hunted a water jug bug, but dragged it into my house and shut the door. I examined it, and saw that I could drink water from it. I survived! I built up my hut more, and when that one ran out, I harvested the corpse and brought another dead one inside. I survived like this until finally I tamed a Morrellatops, and we hiked back and forth from a nearby lake I discovered while chasing my new friend. That is how I survived- use these guys, they’re lifesavers. Literally.
Also, just me or when I’m low level mainly oil ones spawn but when I’m high level only water ones spawn??? Maybe they just hate me