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2487 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 23, 2017   Report

Best wood collector in aberration and if you leave baby's on wandering yard they collect berries for themselves no feeding needed

1236 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 30, 2018   Report

Poops like a phiomia if you ride it while feeding it stims!

493 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Dec 13, 2017   Report

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.

459 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 12, 2017   Report

6 seats the saddles loses durability over time of use but completely destroys all terrain in front of it and is super fast not a good swimmer though

127 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 21, 2022   Report

Dont be like me and spend the time to knock it out to realize its a passive tame

171 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 17, 2021   Report

Your castroides is evolving...

Your castroides is now a roll rat

Ewww

153 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 19, 2021   Report

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

227 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 13, 2017   Report

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.

125 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Mar 15, 2021   Report

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?

129 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 25, 2020   Report

When tamed,the moment it receives damage it can attack back immediately,something like instant counter attack,which is very useful against a pack of dinos. Also its a version of Therizino on russian drugs for abberation,best wood gatherer.

137 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 24, 2019   Report

Everyone seems to be a moron here. Put it in any slot. Use that slot when it burrows while you're looking at the hole. So if it's slot 1 then you press 1 to use it while you're looking in the hole. DONT HAVE MULTIPLE HONEY IN ONE SLOT. It will take all of them and it messes up the taming for some stupid reason, probably because the game is a garbage mess. Nobody here is clear. When people say "just drop it" you'd think to press O in your inventory to drop it, but that's completely wrong and anyone who says that is just a moron. Sorry but I'm a little triggered at how many tips I had to look at before I actually just figured it out myself.

181 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 14, 2017   Report

Set on wander and it will gather mushrooms, berries and seeds.

5 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jan 20, 2025   Report

Best to incase them in billboards and kill everything around it as they like to wander and other herbivores like to snatch the honey you drop

75 points   🔧 Utility   Aug 31, 2021   Report

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.

143 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 14, 2017   Report

When they go under the earth, throw honey at them!

134 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Dec 28, 2017   Report

"MY PRECIOUS!" Don't take its preciouses cause unlike Gollum it will bite off more than your finger!

98 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 26, 2017   Report

DO NOT hit a players structure while rolling, including yours, I had a brand new saddle insta break doing this once.

40 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 9, 2021   Report

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😁

6 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 11, 2024   Report

In ASA they can have wild baby’s following them, these wild baby’s can also burrow underground and dig up gems. The parent will still aggro though if you pick them up

67 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 31, 2017   Report

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT USE FOR ROCK DRAKES. The odds of you escaping are asronomically low.

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