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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a mammoth used for? mammoth battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
cut wood with chainsaw and put whe wood in the mammoth, as it has 75% weight reduction its the best way to farm trees. There is a theory that says on scorched earth, the trees are having more hp so they give more wood, but i cant confirm it, you cant tame a mammoth on scorched earth tho.
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.
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.