ARK: How to Farm Cementing Paste Fast (Achatina, Beelzebufo, Beaver Dams and Recipes)

 

    Cementing Paste is the resource that gates almost every serious base upgrade in ARK — it's a crafting ingredient in 247 items, including the Auto Turret, Fabricated Firearms, Fabricated Explosives, Platform Saddles, Metal Structures and Buildings, Elevator Structures, Metal Irrigation Pipes, Night Vision Goggles, Polymer, Vault, Water Jar, and Tree Platform. There's no single "best" way to get it — a passive Achatina, an active Beelzebufo, Giant Beaver Dams, and straight-up crafting all work, and each fits a different play style. Here's exactly what each route produces, with the arithmetic shown.

 

Passive Farming: Put an Achatina to Work

 

    The lowest-effort route is an Achatina. Left in its inventory, it passively produces 1 Achatina Paste per minute, up to a maximum of 100, and it simply stops producing once it hits that cap. Achatina Paste is a direct substitute for Cementing Paste in crafting.

 

    Do the arithmetic on that cap: at 1 paste per minute, filling an Achatina from empty to its 100-paste ceiling takes 100 minutes — 1 hour, 40 minutes — with zero player input beyond checking its inventory. As a bonus, the same creature also passively produces 1 Organic Polymer every 60 minutes, also capped at 100, so one tame covers two crafting bottlenecks at once. The tradeoff is the cap itself: once an Achatina is full, it produces nothing further until you empty it, so a single Achatina is a slow drip, not a bulk source.

 

Active Farming: Feed Insect Corpses to a Beelzebufo

 

    For faster, hands-on farming, Beelzebufo converts insect corpses directly into Cementing Paste. It produces paste by consuming the corpses of Titanomyrma, Meganeura, Jug Bug, and Glowbug, and any of these creatures killed by the Beelzebufo are immediately harvested (eaten) by it automatically — no manual harvesting swing needed.

 

 

    The yield per corpse is 0 to 20 Cementing Paste, regardless of melee damage — the wiki is explicit that damage dealt doesn't change the roll. That variance matters for planning a session: attacking, say, 10 bug corpses in a row could net anywhere from 0 to 200 paste (10 × 0–20) depending purely on the random roll each time, not on how hard the Beelzebufo hits. There's no documented average yield, so budget for the low end of that range rather than assuming you'll land near the top every time.

 

Direct Harvest: Giant Beaver Dams

 

    Giant Beaver Dams can be harvested directly for Cementing Paste, and the source describes the payout as "large quantities" — no exact per-harvest number is documented, so treat that phrase as a hedge rather than a figure you can plan a build around. The catch: the beavers will become hostile when you take from the dam, so this route trades farming speed for a fight (or at least the risk of one) every time you loot it.

 

 

Crafting It Yourself: Mortar & Pestle and Chemistry Bench

 

    If you'd rather not farm creatures at all, Cementing Paste can be crafted directly from materials you likely already have:

 

• Mortar and Pestle: 4 × Chitin, Keratin, or Shell Fragment + 8 × Stone → 6 Cementing Paste. That works out to roughly 1.33 Stone per paste (8 ÷ 6) and 0.67 Chitin/Keratin/Shell per paste (4 ÷ 6).
• Chemistry Bench: 16 × Chitin, Keratin, or Shell Fragment + 32 × Stone — the same 1:2 material ratio as the Mortar and Pestle, scaled up 4×, and the wiki describes it as crafting "in larger batches, faster than the Mortar and Pestle." The exact output amount for a Chemistry Bench batch isn't stated in the source, so treat that number as undocumented — don't assume it scales to exactly 24 paste just because the inputs scale 4×.

 

 

    This also explains a map-level pattern the wiki notes directly: obtaining Cementing Paste on The Island can be harder than on Scorched Earth or Aberration, because crafting it in a Chemistry Bench with Chitin and Stone "can be more efficient than farming Giant Beaver Dams" there. In other words, if your map doesn't hand you an easy Beaver Dam route, leaning on Chitin/Keratin/Shell plus Stone in a Chemistry Bench is the documented fallback.

 

Practical tips

• Park an Achatina at base for a hands-off drip — 100 minutes to fill its 100-paste cap, plus free Organic Polymer on the side.
• A Beelzebufo turns bug-corpse farming into a numbers game: expect 0–20 paste per corpse, not a fixed amount, and let it auto-harvest kills for you.
• Giant Beaver Dams pay well ("large quantities," per the source) but come with a fight — go in ready for the beavers to turn hostile.
• No creatures nearby? Stockpile Chitin/Keratin/Shell Fragment and Stone at a 1:2 ratio and run the Chemistry Bench — it's the documented go-to when Beaver Dams aren't practical on your map.
• Don't assume the Chemistry Bench's output scales cleanly with its scaled-up inputs — the wiki doesn't state the batch yield, only that it's larger and faster.

 

Running your own ARK server

 

    Whichever route you lean on, Cementing Paste farming works best when your tames and structures aren't waiting on you to be logged in. A dedicated ARK server keeps your Achatina's passive drip running and your Chemistry Bench stockpile accessible around the clock, so Auto Turrets, Vaults, and Metal Structures keep going up on your schedule, not just when you happen to be online. One-click backups also mean a hostile Giant Beaver encounter gone wrong doesn't cost you your whole base.

 

Conclusion

 

    There's no single fastest way to farm Cementing Paste — there's a fastest way for your situation. An Achatina gives a slow, effortless 1-per-minute drip up to 100. A Beelzebufo turns bug corpses into a 0–20-per-kill gamble that can outpace passive farming fast if you're actively hunting. Giant Beaver Dams offer undocumented but reportedly large payouts at the cost of a fight. And crafting at a Mortar and Pestle (6 paste per 4 Chitin + 8 Stone) or Chemistry Bench (same ratio, larger and faster, exact yield undocumented) turns raw materials directly into paste whenever creature farming isn't an option — which the wiki itself flags as the more efficient route on maps like The Island.

 

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