20GT Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 When the structure is unrendered they get away. If you weigh them down there's no room for their food. I was considering blocking them in with sheep or saber's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHighlander Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Put them in cages https://ark.gamepedia.com/Wooden_Cage I've had dung beetles glitch through just about every possible enclosure I've ever made for them, with the exception of the wooden cages, never had a single one get out of these. I now use these for all dung beetles and achatinas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demigod Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 cage them in a small box. a few fence foundations, a door, and a stack of railings should do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekromantiker Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 put it in the wood jail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJRone89 Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Doesn’t really matter how you do it, wandering creatures are prone to structure rendering issues. However, like others have said, the best method for me is the wooden cage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BubbaCrawfish Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Last dungbeetle cage I had was in the middle of my egg farm. Made them a 3x2 box, and had the feed trough in the back edge. Never had issue with them escaping, but had issues opening the door at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivar Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Either put them in cages, or surround them with fences. Whatever pleases you or fits the aesthetics of your base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorium Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 1 hour ago, IanHighlander said: Put them in cages https://ark.gamepedia.com/Wooden_Cage I've had dung beetles glitch through just about every possible enclosure I've ever made for them, with the exception of the wooden cages, never had a single one get out of these. I now use these for all dung beetles and achatinas. This is the right way to do it. If i remember correctly cages was been patched to allow small creatures for this specific reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullisius Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 I got a build-limit-hit base on official PC platform. Got 6x beetles, each on a cage. I am alone in tribe. Has happened three times in 1.8k hours for them to escape wooden cages. When they do, it's never just one of them. Last time it happened was during v277. Keep that in mind. You're never safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oieru Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Wooden cages is the way to go! Place the cages in an enclosure, just in case one gets out (it is extremely rare). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerstuck Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 2 hours ago, IanHighlander said: Put them in cages https://ark.gamepedia.com/Wooden_Cage I've had dung beetles glitch through just about every possible enclosure I've ever made for them, with the exception of the wooden cages, never had a single one get out of these. I now use these for all dung beetles and achatinas. I've tried this method many many times and it failed miserably. Our trick is to build a double pen. Like in this picture. The idea is that the wider space is a level one box, it can be empty, or like in our case, we put a feeding trough and boxes where we store the fert/poop. Beetles are in the smaller box that is level two box. Usually they will not glitch thru walls but thru ceilings when they get rendered. Most of the time, they do not glitch, but when they do, they drop down in the level one box area where they are easy to pick up and put back into their holding area. I've had this set up for over a year now and I have never had a beetle escape the 2nd (level 1) box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaSarlo Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 odd, we have a wandering room for both snails and beetles and never had one escape, I am curious how this is being done? we have ours in a simple stone wall room, 4 snails and beetles repectively and login and they have always been there, Not saying it does not happen, only in our experience it has not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesDoty Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Putting them in a wooden cage is half the answer. The BACK of the cage needs to be against a wall of some kind. I have had them get out of cages in the middle of a room. Never had one get out of a cage that had it's back against a wall. EDIT: Wooden cages can also be used to keep problem dinos from falling through the floor. I have put a lot of cages together in a small area, side by side, front to back to create a kind of platform. I then place my mantises and thylas on top of them. They don't fall through and end up on the ground below my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChargingParacerParacer Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 I always built a seperate room in my house for them so they would stop wondering off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirPeter Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 43 minutes ago, JamesDoty said: EDIT: Wooden cages can also be used to keep problem dinos from falling through the floor. I have put a lot of cages together in a small area, side by side, front to back to create a kind of platform. I then place my mantises and thylas on top of them. They don't fall through and end up on the ground below my house. any floor on top of the cages? Screen shot? Curious exactly how you implemented it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesDoty Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 3 minutes ago, SirPeter said: any floor on top of the cages? Screen shot? Curious exactly how you implemented it. No floor. I just built a rectangle about 4 walls long, 2 deep, of cages sitting next to each other, packed pretty close to each other. If my base from my old legacy server is still up, I will get a pic tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdligerAdler Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Only way that worked for me was wooden cages. I built some fancy beetle pen for like nooblets did in one of his videos, but they kept escaping or just vanished without a trace (no death message in tribe log ever). I've never had one escaping from a wooden cage. Well I had, but only when I put 2 in 1 cage. So don't do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtallbloke Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 cages seem to work better nowadays then they ever did before In legacy (well before release) I found a guide about having them in a room, and using storage boxes around the walls to stop them escaping- Left on wander mine couldnt work out how to get out past them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesDoty Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Here is a pic of how I set up cages for animals to stand on so they don't fall through the floor. Nothing fancy, but they don't end up on the ground under my house. The bottom floor of this building is on metal pillars tall enough that a wild giga can not reach the floor from ground. From the bottom floor, the building is more that three behemouth gates tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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