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
These are indeed found on Fjordur in the Volcano area. Dododex doesnt show, Up so they know!
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.
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
U can't tame this weird water filled giant firefly
Don’t follow it when it’s in the air or else you might find yourself in a ditch somewhere.
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!
You can use a grappling hook to drag them into a holding pen, and then you can continue to milk the bug
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
One of the weakest yet most valuable thing you’ll come across whilst exploring Scorched earth. Look for ones with a blue abdomen if in search of water and red ones if advanced and searching for oil. Usually found everywhere except up in the mountains were most of the dangerous carnivores live. Quite common to find throughout Scorched earth but easily startled if accessed.
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 :)
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