Chitin/Keratin/Cementing Paste Farming on The Island?

[Jack The Ripper]

I'm living in the north and was wondering what people farm for what I have in the title as I can get mountains of stone but lack the other resources up in the north

I've got an Angler Fish for Trilobite farming ig and great tools I just don't know where I'm supposed to go for any of this stuff besides venturing far out with a Frog or something.

[Anubis]

Hi there. Trilobites are the best way to get chitin, as for cementing paste you can farm them from the beavers dam, if lucky you can get 300-400 from each. If you go collect them, dont forget to drop all the itens inside you dont want, like wood for example.
You can always tame the achantina (snail) they produce it too.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Jack The Ripper:

I'm living in the north and was wondering what people farm for what I have in the title as I can get mountains of stone but lack the other resources up in the north

I've got an Angler Fish for Trilobite farming ig and great tools I just don't know where I'm supposed to go for any of this stuff besides venturing far out with a Frog or something.

Living in the north (or many various areas) means that some resources require you to go out from there to of course get.

Cement paste is grabbed more in bulk from beaver dams scattered across the map for some but if on a server with ecocide having stopped beaver dam spawns, then bug hunting with a frog and chitin or taming snails from swamps may be your next best option.

On the island, there are certain beaches or area locations that tend to have lots of trilo spawns but again too, if people built there, you're left looking for such otherwise. Most are in the far south bottom sides of the map.

If Im playing in single player(and not using mods that let you farm paste differently) I just hop on a flyer and make a route between the 6 or so map locations beavers tend to build dams at.

Just make sure too to empty and destroy the dams and even killing the beavers helps. This lets respawns happen when you leave rendering which then can make dams appear faster usually.

[mayhem]

You'd have to travel, but Swamp cave with Megatherium. You don't even have to go very far into it and you can have 10s of thousands of Chitin.

[burningmime]

Originally posted by mayhem:

You'd have to travel, but Swamp cave with Megatherium. You don't even have to go very far into it and you can have 10s of thousands of Chitin.

This. If you have a decent level megatherium, even witha prim saddle, you should be able to fill its entire weight up with Chitin in just a few minutes. For CP, you can turn chitin into CP in a chem bench; your only real bottleneck will be stone since you can only get like 5k-8k from a dode run.

[🦊 Hermit]

Swamp cave and beaver dams are options, as mentioned above. Running the central cave close to the volcano with a saber or thylaco is also decent for chitin, as there's a number of bugs in that cave.

But a pretty decent option which is largely overlooked is dunkleosteus in the ocean. Killing one of those can net you quite a large amount of keratin depending on your harvest rates, and if you have a reasonably fast and powerful ocean mount you can circumnavigate the island quickly hunting them down.

[Jack The Ripper]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

Swamp cave and beaver dams are options, as mentioned above. Running the central cave close to the volcano with a saber or thylaco is also decent for chitin, as there's a number of bugs in that cave.

But a pretty decent option which is largely overlooked is dunkleosteus in the ocean. Killing one of those can net you quite a large amount of keratin depending on your harvest rates, and if you have a reasonably fast and powerful ocean mount you can circumnavigate the island quickly hunting them down.

I had no idea Dunkleosteus dropped Keratin. What Dino should I get for harvesting those guys or should I just hit them with tools?

[🦊 Hermit]

Never tried with tools, so don't know how efficient that would be - usually dinos are better than tools, but if you have a crazy good blueprint it might be special enough.

As to creatures, I usually just use my basilosaurus, which is almost the only creature worth using in the ocean due to it's immunity to jellyfish and tusos. However if you're prepared to risk those two threats, a tuso, mosa or even plessie might be better as they have better attack and movement speed. Baryonix could even work at a pinch, especially if you have a good saddle for them.

[william_es]

For cementing paste, you tame achatina (giant snails). They produce achatina paste over time, and it's a direct replacement for cementing paste. With a few snails you will have thousands.

Slight bad news: The snails are in the redwood (watch out for thylas). And you need sweet vegetable cakes to tame them. So that means you need tree sap, bee honey, advanced crops, etc. And veggie cakes are what they eat for food after taming.

Good news, is you can breed them after you have a pair. They have no genders, so a pair will both get pregnant at the same time.

[BananaGirl⁧ ⎝⧹KiTiTy⧸⎠]

afaik there is no chitin/keratin farm outside of killing stuff.. but i'd be surprised if there wasn't one out there we just dont know about..

as far as cement paste, the best way other than beaver dams is using a frog (bezelwhatever) to gobble up insects, and it will convert them into tons of cement ^_^