Dung Beetle
Immobilized by: Bola, Bear Trap, Plant Species Y
Spawn command
GMSummon spawns a creature already tamed to you at the chosen level.
Spawn class
Base stats
- Health
- 200
- Stamina
- 100
- Oxygen
- 150
- Food
- 900
- Weight
- 5
- Melee Damage
- 100%
- Movement Speed
- 100%
- Torpidity
- 200
Wild base values at level 1. Stats not shown use the game default.
Taming calculator (passive tame)
Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.
| Food | Use / Max | Time | Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|---|
 Kibble (preferred)85 food · 19.0% per item | /6 | 34m 8s | 98.5% +73 → Lv 223 |
 Raw Mutton50 food · 8.9% per item | /12 | 40m 1s | 93.7% +70 → Lv 220 |
 Raw Prime Meat50 food · 7.1% per item | /14 | 46m 41s | 91.1% +68 → Lv 218 |
 Raw Meat50 food · 2.4% per item | /42 | 2h 20m | 53.3% +39 → Lv 189 |
 Crops (Rockarrot, etc.)40 food · 1.9% per item | /53 | 2h 21m | 42% +31 → Lv 181 |
 Mejoberry30 food · 1.4% per item | /70 | 2h 20m | 29.1% +21 → Lv 171 |
 Cooked Meat25 food · 1.2% per item | /84 | 2h 20m | 22.2% +16 → Lv 166 |
 Berries20 food · 1.0% per item | /105 | 2h 20m | 15.5% +11 → Lv 161 |
Passive tame. Approach the unmounted creature and feed it from your last inventory slot — no knockout needed. Set a quantity on any row to plan a mix; higher-affinity foods keep effectiveness up, so feed those first.
Stat calculator
| Stat | Wild level | Domesticated level | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 201 | ||
| Stamina | 100 | ||
| Oxygen | 150 | ||
| Food | 900 | ||
| Weight | 5 | ||
| Melee Damage | 210% | ||
| Movement Speed | — | 100% | |
| Torpidity | — | 201 |
Forward calculator. Enter the wild points a creature rolled (and domesticated points you spend after taming) to get each stat's value. Uses official-server rates with no imprint bonus. Melee and movement speed are shown as a percentage; taming effectiveness only boosts stats with a taming bonus (such as melee).
Where to find
Wild Dung Beetle spawn zones across the catalogued maps. Each dot is a spawn cluster — open the full interactive map for exact GPS and a teleport command.
Combat & handling
- Base melee damage
- 10
- Melee damage
- 5
- Drag weight
- 90
- XP on kill (base)
- 2
- Cloning cost (base)
- 2250 element shards
Dung Beetle guide
The Dung Beetle is an omnivore in ARK: Survival Ascended. It spawns wild on The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration and Extinction. This page covers its spawn commands, base stats, taming and breeding — with interactive calculators you can drive by level.
How to tame the Dung Beetle
The Dung Beetle is a passive tame — no knockout needed. Approach it carefully without weapons drawn and feed it both meat and berries — with its preferred kibble taming fastest and at higher effectiveness from your last inventory slot, waiting for the feeding cooldown between each. Staying out of its line of sight and avoiding sudden moves stops it fleeing or turning hostile.
Dung Beetle spawn command
To spawn a wild Dung Beetle, open the console and run its Summon command. To spawn one already tamed at a chosen level, use GMSummon instead — both are copy-ready in the Spawn commands panel above, along with the raw spawn class (DungBeetle_Character_BP_C) for use with commands like SpawnDino.