Ark: Survival Ascended - How To Tame Arthropluera

The world of Ark: Survival Ascended is mostly full of ancient reptiles and mammals, but there are a few creeping, crawling insects and arthropods on The Island. Deep in the caves that hide loot and important Artifacts, you can also find subterranean creatures like Onyx, Araneo, and the Athropluera living within.

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Arthropluera are the ancestors of modern day Centipedes, and these massive arthropods lurk inside The Island's caves, feeding on corpses, and requiring special tactics to deal with them if you don't want to end up armorless. It may be difficult and dangerous, but it's worth searching out and taming one of these illusive, acid-spitting invertebrates.

Ark: Survival Ascended is in Early Access, so information in this article may be subject to change.

Where To Find Arthropluera

Arthropluera are exclusively found within several of the caves dotted around The Island, and can't be found anywhere else.

They can be found in five of the nine land-based caves on The Island, but can only be tamed within four of them:

• The Swamp Cave, located in the Redwood Forest at Latitude 62.7 and Longitude 37.2.
• The Upper South Cave, located at the bottom middle of The Island at Latitude 68.2 and Longitude 56.1.
• The Lower South Cave, located at the bottom of The Island at Latitude 80.2 and Longitude 53.5.
• The Central Cave, located between the two mountains in the center of The Island at Latitude 41.5 and Longitude 47.1.

The Lower South Cave is the easiest cave to tame an Arthropluera in due to the normal levels, and the creature density inside.

How To Tame Arthropluera

Since you'll need to delve into a cave, you'll need to come prepared for both the taming, and surviving in general, as caves have tons of enemies that can do a lot of damage easily, and inflict torpor.

You'll want to bring several things with you on your trip, whether you're going just for taming, or plan to get the Artifact as well:

• At least onestrong tame capable of fitting through the cave itself, such as a Raptor, Terror Bird, Pulminoscorpius, Sabertooth, or Kaprosuchus.
• At least two sets of Ghillie Armor to help make the wild creatures not notice you, as well as a backup set of regular armor.
• Materials to repair your Ghillie Armor, especially Organic Polymer.
• A few stacks of Spoiled Meat for taming and health regeneration for your tamed Arthropluera.
• At least two stacks of Cooked Meat of any kind for yourself, and at least a few Waterskins, Water Jars, or a Canteen.
• At least 10 Bug Repellant to ensure you have plenty for the taming process and survival.
• A good melee and ranged weapon to fight off wild creatures like Araneo and Titanoboa.
• A saddle for your tamed Arthropluera to get it in and out of the cave easily.

Despite being a larger carrion-feeder slash carnivore, the Arthropluera is tamed passively, though its aggressive demeanor makes it impossible to approachwithout Bug Repellant.

Bug Repellant is a consumable item that's made in the Mortar and Pestal and applying it makes certain enemies ignore your presence if you're nearby unless you attack them, or you touch them.

Item

Recipe

Bug Repellant

• 6x Pelt, Hair or Wool
• 2x Narcotic
• 4x Citronal
• 4 x Rockarrot

With Bug Repellant on, Arthropluera will ignore you unless you touch or attack them, allowing you to get close enough to them to feed them one of their preferred Taming Foods: Broth of Enlightenment, Spoiled Meat, Raw Meat, or Raw Fish Meat.

Spoiled Meat is the cheapest option for taming Arthropluera, and other carrion-feeders, like Pulminoscorpius, and provides the second best taming progress.

You can also use Bug Repellant and Spoiled Meat to tame other creatures such as Araneo and Dung Beetles.

Since attacking with Bug Repellant on can cause issues, you'll want to try and isolate your chosen Arthropluera, and get rid of any creatures it'll aggro on to, such as your tames. If you aren't able to, keep your Ghillie Armor on and Bug Repellant up, and you should be fine.

It's also possible to put them in a taming pen, but this is difficult due to their size, unpredictable movement, and their Acidic Spit can break through your structure if they aggro onto you.

From there, carefully approach it, make sure your taming food is at the far right end of your bar, feed it the taming food you have access to, then quickly retreat before you get too close, or the Arthropluera turns and gets too close to you.

It will take a few minutes after you first feed them to be able to feed them again, but the time between each feed gets lower each time that you do feed them.

If the Athropluera aggros onto you or one of your tames, you'll need to run far enough away for it to lose interest, and this will affect its taming progress.

How To Use Arthropluera In Combat

Arthropluera is a great combat unit, both in PVE and PVP, but it especially shines in PVP thanks to its Acidic Spit attack doing heavy damage to armor and structures.

Arthropluera also does damage to player weapons and reflects 20 percentage of damage done to them due to their acidic blood and armor.

Its Acidic Spit and regular melee attacks can easily eat through player armor, help destroyplayer structures whether they're made of Wood, Stone, or Tek, and are great at defending your base as well when set to Turret Mode.

Arthropluera take five times more damage from Explosives like C4 and three times more ranged damage, so they can die quickly if they don't have additional help when raiding or defending.

Arthropluera are also great for underwater combat, as they have a decent swim speed and don't need to come up for air since they lack an Oxygen stat, but their one downside in water is that they can't regain Stamina without touching land of some kind.

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