Base Stats (Wild Lv150)
| Stat | Base Value | Per Level (Wild) | Per Level (Tamed) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 450 | +90 | +5.4% |
| Stamina | 180 | +18 | +10% |
| Weight | 300 | +6 | +4% |
| Melee Damage | 100% (32 base) | +5% | +1.7% |
Taming Guide
| Food | Amount (Lv150, 1x) | Time | Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Kibble | 14 | ~30min | +99% |
| Fresh Barley | 60 | ~45min | +82% |
| Mejoberry | 190 | ~1h 20min | +62% |
Resource Harvesting
Honestly the Castoroides is pretty much the best wood farmer you can get your hands on before you unlock a Mammoth or a Theri and I've literally built entire bases on the back of this chunky beaver ngl the wood gathering is kind of insane with a 50% weight reduction on wood so you can carry basically double what you'd normally haul and the amount it pulls per tree is just stupid good like you swing once and your inventory explodes with wood it's almost comical in my experience I've never found anything faster in the early game for wood and trust me I've tried a bunch of different dinos and nothing comes close at that level also it collects a ton of thatch as a byproduct with the same 50% weight reduction so you kind of end up drowning in thatch too which is like whatever but it's there you know and berries it does pick berries moderately but honestly that's not really what you tame this thing for it's more of a side hustle if you're passing through some bushes anyway whatever tbh I don't even bother picking berries with it most of the time because I've got a Trike or a Stego for that stuff but here's the really cool part I've used this trick so many times and it's saved me countless hours of grinding you can set the Castoroides to wander near your base and it will autonomously harvest wood from trees so I literally just enclose it near a forest with some fence foundations or walls and it just chops wood for me passively while I'm off taming other stuff or building or whatever and when I come back there's a mountain of wood in its inventory it's kind of the ultimate lazy wood farming strat tbh just make sure you pen it in properly because I've definitely come back to find my beaver wandered halfway across the map chasing a tree and that was a whole rescue mission I don't want to repeat lol and I mean like a real rescue mission involving a Ptera a GPS tracker and about 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back so yeah fence it in properly the first time is my advice
Smithy Saddle
Tbh the smithy saddle is honestly what makes this creature so special imo. It literally means you never have to go back to base. Craft anything metal right there. I've used this more times than I can count. The saddle doubles as a mobile Smithy so you can make metal tools and weapons and basic structures like walls and foundations right on the spot while you're out gathering wood and that changes everything about how you build I mean think about it you gather a thousand wood then you craft a bunch of stone walls and foundations directly in the saddle inventory and then you just place them immediately without ever going home it's like having a portable workshop strapped to a giant angry beaver you know and tbh when I first tamed one I didn't realize the saddle was a smithy and I spent way too long hauling wood back to base like an idiot until someone on my server was like dude just craft in the saddle and I felt so dumb but now it's literally my favorite thing about the whole game the convenience is just that good and the saddle unlocks at level 55 which is honestly pretty reasonable for what you get you're not going to have it on day one but by the time you hit midgame it's absolutely worth rushing for I promise you that
Beaver Dams
So wild Castoroides build these dams near their spawn locations in rivers and I'm not gonna lie raiding them is one of my favorite things to do early game because the loot inside is kind of ridiculous you get cementing paste which is honestly the hardest thing to farm early on and also rare flowers and rare mushrooms and silica pearls and some wood basically a grab bag of high-end resources that you'd otherwise have to grind for hours to get and the cementing paste from beaver dams is literally the best early-game source of paste in the entire game just a few dams can give you enough paste to build your first fabricator and a bunch of other stuff you get the idea once you find a good river with active beaver dams just mark it on your map and come back every few in-game days for a resupply it's kind of like having a passive paste factory and you don't have to grind chitin and stone in a mortar and pestle like some kind of caveman that's the dream honestly but here's the thing you gotta approach these dams super carefully because the moment you access a dam every single Castoroides in the area will aggro on you and they hit surprisingly hard for oversized rodents like I've been killed by beavers more times than I want to admit ngl my go-to strat is to use a flyer like a Pteranodon or an Argy and just swoop down grab the contents of the dam as fast as possible and then gtfo before the beavers swarm you it's basically a smash and grab operation and it works pretty much every time I've done this on dozens of servers and never get tired of it also super important tip I learned the hard way if you want the dams to keep respawning you gotta leave the beavers alive because destroyed dams only respawn when Castoroides are still in the area so if you kill all the beavers the dams stop coming back and you lose your cementing paste farm forever and I've made that mistake once and was so mad at myself honestly