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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Utility Tips

What is a mammoth used for? mammoth battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
One of the BEST tames for farming wood on mobile.
take with you a Pteranodon, your best clothing, some health brew (you can get the recipe by killing raptors or other predators easily) so you don’t die in the cold, tranc darts, narcotics, and root carrots you can easily farm in a medium sized plot.
Fly to the snow biome
Find a group of three, which is easy.
But make sure they kill any wolves or whatever would hurt you in the taming process so you don’t have to deal with it yourself
After everything is clear, kill the two mammoths you don’t need.
Then fly on a ledge and you’re all set.
To boost your taming rate, go caving wit a raptor/whatever and get smoothing balm for 10x rate
You might die the first time around by those guys who junk out of the dirt (I did lol)
Some people say that because it can carry more wood than the beaver, it's already better than it. Well yes, but actually no. The Beaver still gathers more wood than the mammoth can even if the mammoth can carry a lot more. It's a lot slower to farm wood with a mammoth. Solution? Take the beaver and put the mammoth on follow so you can take both of them for gathering wood. Easy 30k wood per 10 minutes.
One of the best tames u could actually get,their saddle isn’t hard to get in terms of level nor ressources,they gather decent amounts of thatch and huge amounts of wood,they are really big and have a decent speed,faster than the trike tho,the stamina is better and it is well balanced in its stats
i HATE castorides, i’ll always go for a mammoth, first time i tamed a castoride she ended up not being relevant or needed watsoever, (she was not a B O N D). second time i tamed one my monkey, Macaque was killed. LITERAL DESPAIR
also, for me, they don’t harvest that much wood and even if they do, they weighed down by it.
i vote (love) mammoths.