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Steam 252.0
Nov 24, 2016
Xbox One 748.2
Dec 16, 2016
PS 502.0
Dec 19, 2016
Logo Mobile 1.0
May 24, 2018
Nintendo Switch 599.0
Nov 30, 2018
Epic Games 311.74
Jun 11, 2020
Stadia 678.15
Sep 1, 2021
Spawn Command
cheat summon Achatina_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Achatina/Achatina_Character_BP.Achatina_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Aberrant Achatina
cheat summon Achatina_Character_BP_Aberrant_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Achatina/Achatina_Character_BP_Aberrant.Achatina_Character_BP_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35
Taming Method
Preferred Food
Preferred Food Primitive Plus
Equipment
Gestation Time
7h 56m 11.429s
Baby Time
9h 15m 33.333s
Juvenile Time
1d 13h 2m 13.333s
Adolescent Time
1d 22h 17m 46.667s
Total Maturation Time
3d 20h 35m 33.333s
Breeding Interval
18h - 2d

The Achatina (ah-kah-tee-na) is a species of Invertebrate in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Basic Info

Dossier

This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.

NoteHelena
Wild

Found mostly in marshes and jungles, Achatina limusegnis is a very slow, very non-threatening land mollusk. It might be the simplest creature on the Island to hunt, and while it only provides a small amount of meat and chitin, an easy meal is always of value on the Island. Unlike nearly every other creature on the Island, Achatina does not defecate normally. Instead, it secretes a thick, sticky substance. Achatina leaves trails of this slime, but the trails are so thin that they crumble to dust quickly.

Domesticated

There is a very disgusting, but useful fact about Achatina that causes tribes to seek to tame them: its secretions are chemically similar to the "Cementing Paste" and "Organic Polymer" used by many tribes for building materials. Tamed Achatina naturally accumulates this slime over time, which can then be collected at the tribe's convenience. Legend has it that Achatina can be tamed with a special "cake" made from harvested crops & resources.

Behavior

Achatina is one of the few truly docile creatures on the Island and will Hide when attacked.

Appearance

Achatina has all of the features typical of any other genus of snail, with the notable exception of its remarkable size. The shells are very ornate with streaks of bright color and sharp ridges that provide protection from the island's predators; the rest of its soft body is also typically characterized by vibrant or earthy coloration.

Color Scheme and Regions

This section displays the Achatina's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Achatina. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Achatina will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.

This information can be used to alter the Achatina's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Achatina's "body" magenta.

Achatina PaintRegion0
Region 0:
Body
22
33
34
41
42
43
49
Achatina PaintRegion1
Region 1:
Shell
8
13
14
19
21
22
23
24
28
30
32
33
34
35
X mark

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Achatina PaintRegion3
Region 3:
Shell Highlights
19
21
23
25
28
30
32
33
43
Achatina PaintRegion4
Region 4:
Stripe
19
21
23
25
30
32
41
50
Achatina PaintRegion5
Region 5:
Underside
19
21
23
25
30
33
50

Drops

Harvest

In ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile:

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute Base Value Level Increase Taming Bonus
Wild Tamed Additive Multiplicative
Health Health 75 +15 +5.4% 0.07
Stamina Stamina 100 +10 +10%
Oxygen Oxygen N/A N/A N/A
Food Food 450 +45 +10%
Weight Weight 150 +3 +4%
Melee Damage Melee Damage 0 +0 +1.7% 7% 17.6%
Movement Speed Movement Speed 100% N/A +1%
Torpidity Torpidity 50 +3 N/A 0.5
Movement
[u/s]
Base Speed Sprinting Speed Stamina
Wild Tamed1 Tamed2 Wild Tamed1 Tamed2
Walking 50 ? ? ? ? ? ?
Swimming 300 ? ? ? ? ? ?
  • 1These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed.
  • 2These are the speeds of the creature tamed and non-imprinted.
  • For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.

Wild Stats Level-up

Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.[1]

Achatina

The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps

Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

Since damage is significantly reduced by the shell, it is best to hit it on the soft, fleshy parts instead. If it takes enough damage, it will retreat into its shell, making it very easy to kill it before the torpor from tranquillizers can knock it out. Be mindful of how bloody the Achatina gets, and use Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shocking Tranquilizer Darts or normal Tranquilizer Dart Tranquilizer Darts to minimize this risk.

Taming Food

Achatina Level 1 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 3 9 2 1 0:06:31
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 5; Slingshot Hits × 3; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 1; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 1; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:02:46
Achatina Level 30 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 6 29 6 3 0:13:01
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 14; Slingshot Hits × 6; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 2; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 1; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:04:34
Achatina Level 60 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 9 57 12 6 0:19:31
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 23; Slingshot Hits × 10; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 3; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 2; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 2; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:05:49
Achatina Level 90 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 11 83 18 9 0:23:51
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 32; Slingshot Hits × 13; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 4; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 3; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 2; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:06:42
Achatina Level 120 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 14 123 27 14 0:30:21
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 41; Slingshot Hits × 17; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 5; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 3; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 2; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:07:25
Achatina Level 150 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 17 169 38 19 0:36:51
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 50; Slingshot Hits × 21; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 6; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 4; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 3; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:08:00

Soothing Balm Achatina Level 1 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Values without Soothing Balm Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 3 9 2 1 0:06:31
Minor Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
Regular Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
Major Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 5; Slingshot Hits × 3; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 1; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 1; Toxicant Arrows with a Bow × 1; Toxicant Arrows with a Compound Bow × 1; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:02:46
Soothing Balm Achatina Level 30 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Values without Soothing Balm Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 7 36 8 4 0:15:11
Minor Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 3 7 2 1 0:06:31
Regular Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
Major Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 14; Slingshot Hits × 6; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 2; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 1; Toxicant Arrows with a Bow × 1; Toxicant Arrows with a Compound Bow × 1; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:04:34
Soothing Balm Achatina Level 75 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Values without Soothing Balm Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 11 79 17 9 0:23:51
Minor Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 4 11 3 2 0:08:41
Regular Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
Major Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 28; Slingshot Hits × 12; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 4; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 2; Toxicant Arrows with a Bow × 2; Toxicant Arrows with a Compound Bow × 2; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 2; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.72 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:06:17
Soothing Balm Achatina Level 150 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Values without Soothing Balm Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 19 195 43 22 0:41:11
Minor Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 7 43 10 5 0:15:11
Regular Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
Major Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 50; Slingshot Hits × 21; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 6; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 4; Toxicant Arrows with a Bow × 3; Toxicant Arrows with a Compound Bow × 3; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 3; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:08:00
Soothing Balm Achatina Level 300 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Values without Soothing Balm Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 35 512 119 60 1:15:51
Minor Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 12 125 29 15 0:26:01
Regular Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 2 0 0 0 0:04:21
Major Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 95; Slingshot Hits × 39; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 11; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 7; Toxicant Arrows with a Bow × 6; Toxicant Arrows with a Compound Bow × 4; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 5; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 1.59 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:09:57
Soothing Balm Achatina Level 450 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Values without Soothing Balm Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 52 922 224 112 1:52:41
Minor Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 18 253 62 31 0:39:01
Regular Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 2 0 0 0 0:04:21
Major Soothing Balm (Mobile) Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake 1 0 0 0 0:02:11
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 140; Slingshot Hits × 58; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 16; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 9; Toxicant Arrows with a Bow × 8; Toxicant Arrows with a Compound Bow × 6; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 7; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 4
Torpidity-depletion: 2.08 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:11:12


Note that the values are for optimal cases, always bring extra supplies!
For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator.

Preferred Food

Food after taming

A tamed Achatina will only eat Sweet Vegetable Cake Sweet Vegetable Cake, so it is advised to not tame an Achatina unless one has a steady supply of Sap, Giant Bee Honey, and Advanced Crops for making cakes.

Note that all Stacks of Cake will go onto a 30-second cooldown after consumption during which the game will temporarily think there is no food in inventory.

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Achatina.

General

Shortly after being engaged, the Achatina will retreat into its shell: it will neither flee nor fight back. Damage dealt to the Achatina will be heavily reduced for as long as it is inside of its shell.

Strategy

Although the Achatina itself is not dangerous, its surroundings are usually filled with predators or Alpha Creatures. Clear the area of hostile creatures before attempting to tame or pick it it up with a flying mount. An Argentavis can carry two Achatina at once when using its claws and beak.

Weaponry

Any weapon or creature will be able to kill an Achatina, although fists are ill-advised as you may kill yourself with recoil damage before killing the Achatina.

Weaknesses

Wild Achatina appear to take damage over time if not in or near a body of water. Domesticated ones, however, do not appear to have this weakness. This weakness in wild Achatina is likely an in-game balance to prevent tribes just simply farming wild ones without needing Sweet Vegetable Cakes. Achatina - wild and domesticated - do not fight back when attacked.

Utility

Role

Organic Polymer/Corrupted Nodule Storage

Provides a Spoil Multiplier of 3x for Organic Polymer Organic Polymer and Corrupted Nodule (Extinction) Corrupted Nodule (Extinction) within its inventory (90 minutes). As they can be carried, similar to a Dodo, Achatina can be carried while hunting creatures such as Kairuku to extend the lifespan of the Organic Polymer harvested.

Cementing Paste and Organic Polymer Supplier

While Wander is enabled, the Achatina will passively produce both Organic Polymer and Achatina Paste Achatina Paste in its inventory.

Achatina Paste Production

Rate of production

    • Passively produces 1 Achatina Paste per minute within its inventory, up to 100.
      • This can be paired with a Gacha Gacha picking up their feces (the Achatina Paste it leaves on the ground) to farm more than 100 and at more than double the rate; its feces accumulate faster than the cementing paste being created within its inventory. Fill the Gacha's inventory with another resource to lower the chance of the gathered paste being eaten.
    • Passively produces 1 Organic Polymer every 60 minutes, up to 100.
      • Due to the spoil timer, the first in a chain of three will spoil as the third is produced, making the effective rate 2 Organic Polymer every 90 minutes. Likewise, due to multiple stacks spoiling concurrently, an Achatina will obtain 12 Organic Polymer after 1080 minutes and then alternate between 11 and 12 thereafter.
    • Wild and Tamed Achatina will also passively produce Achatina Paste on the ground instead of feces. Paste dropped this way has a short despawn timer and must be manually collected. Tamed Achatina do not need to be on wander for this, but the paste will spawn underneath them if they aren't, so the player must pick up the Achatina or use a Whip Whip to collect it.

Pet

Though rather unintelligent and too large to place on the shoulder, the Achatina can make a wonderful addition to Ark pet collecters/breeders and can make a great companion to survivors lonely enough to sympathize with a snail. Like most other small creatures that are sometimes collectively known as, 'pets', the Achatina can wear hats/helmets, which appear either on its shell or on the head of the creature when equipped.

Domestication tips

The Achatina is unable to climb over a railing, but can still glitch through it whilst wandering. If it is filled with stone, it does not adversely affect resource production but does prevent them from moving and thus escaping their pens. It's best to simply put them into a Wooden Cage (just like what can be done with the Dung Beetle Dung Beetle) and have them on wander; they can not phase through the cage and the cage is easily movable to your preferred location for the Achatina.

Spotlight

Additional Notes

  • The Dino Dossier for Achatina was revealed on July 15, 2015 in the ARK Digest #10 [2]
  • The Achatina is able to wear headgear. With exceptions the headgear will be placed on its shell. (See gallery)
  • The Achatina can be picked up by the player and transported manually. If you are trying to get a tamed Achatina from one place to another, it is best to pick it up and run it there yourself. (Players are still able to ride mounts while carrying Achatina.)

Trivia

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Achatina, see the relevant Wikipedia article.

  • Achatina is part of a genus of snails that still exists to this day, although none have ever been as big as the dossier shows. It is part of a genus of air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.
  • When damaged to a full enough extent, the Achatina will curl into its shell to protect itself. Wild Achatinas cannot be attacked by wild creatures after balling up in their shells but can be attacked by a survivor or his/her tame for about 1/3x damage in this state, similar to the Doedicurus Doedicurus.
    • The Ark Achatina has no oxygen stat and thus can survive in the water and air. This is very unlike other members the terrestrial snail groups as these members lack gills that most gastropods have; they instead have a pallial lung and would asphyxiate if submerged in water for a prolonged period of time. However, all snails and other gastropods at least need water moisture to function and survive.
  • Real Achatina lay eggs, however Ark's Achatina do not. As a matter of fact, the Ark Achatina can't reproduce at all, at least when domesticated.
  • Although Achatina can't lay eggs or reproduce, they still some how manage to spawn into the Ark worlds. This either means their reproduction hasn't been documented, or they are spawned by the ARK itself, specifically the Overseer Overseer.

Gallery

References

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