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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for roll rat? Tips and strategies for roll rat in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
While usually passive, if it comes out of the ground and gems pop up, DO NOT GRAB THEM. It will chase you for a very long time and does a respectable amount of damage.
Dont be like me and spend the time to knock it out to realize its a passive tame
Nobody has said it yet so here it is
You need to put the honey into your hot bar inorder to throw it
It's just like activating everything else you will not eat it in the hot bar
Only way I’ve found to tame is honey. Put honey in your last slot of hot bar and use it like you were trying to eat it but only when it digs and you have to be aiming at the hole.
Wondering if anyone thinks it possible to kill rock well by useing a well bred roll rat with a Mastercraft saddle ( which I found in the elemental vault) and rolling around the tentacles doing more and more damage as you gain momentum. I think the roll rats turning radius when rolling is perfect for this. What do you think of my wierd strategy?
Just a little heads up, this thing's saddle has a durability bar. Guess how I found out?
Visiting ab using this armored scrotum's magical ability to blackbox itself with wood in 2 minutes. Completely naked, no weapon, no other dino. Carelessly rolling down crab river at mach 6 and poof. Ejected me into the water to get mercilessly beaten to dust by 5 karkinos, two spinos, the liquid that seems to be made entirely of piranhas, and 3 sarcos.
Make an extra saddle or two if you take this thing out.
"MY PRECIOUS!" Don't take its preciouses cause unlike Gollum it will bite off more than your finger!
When they go under the earth, throw honey at them!
You can craft prim fishing rods and equip your honey to them to stop the honey from spoiling while you search for rats to tame. Simply unequip honey from the rod to use it.
Taming:
Step 1- get honey, 5 is good unless it’s a super high level.
Step 2- clear out all predators.
Step 3- put the honey in your hot bar.
Step 4- follow the Rollrat until it digs a hole. DO NOT TOUCH ANY GEMS IT DIGS UP!! That will aggro it and you will lose taming.
Step 5- immediately run on top of the hole, look down and throw the honey. The Rollrat will return and eat the honey.
Step 6- repeat until tamed😁
Roll rats DO NOT swim well.
If running away from one, lead it into deep water and swim around; it will eventually drown.