

If no structures are built in or next to the lake, it will spawn and maintain a healthy population of beavers and dams for whatever tribe can hold the area. The Hidden Lake is often a coveted base location, part of which is its status as a natural beaver dam farm.


The wood in the dam can be used to repair the raft for damage and a sheltered one will block the beavers out. If you can reach a land dam or hover over a water dam from the raft or just below it in the water, you can easily remove all the supplies in the dam and remount the raft without a scratch. The easiest way to raid the dam without hurting the Castoroides is by using a raft.Simply respawn and take the loot from your body. Placing a bed next to the dam before looting is a great strategy, as beavers will not harvest or take from your corpse after looting.Have the frog next to you, and the moment you acquire the building material and dart away unharmed. Looting the dam without hurting the Castoroides is made considerably easier with a Beelzebufo, especially in shallow water and cliffsides were out hopping the beaver is considerably easier.At present, it appears that a damless Castoroides will not claim an unclaimed dam and will instead spawn a new one of its own. If the beaver moves out of range, the dam becomes unclaimed. A dam is "claimed" when it is built by a Castoroides, which will try to stay within a few dozen meters of its claimed dam.While a player can create a "dam farm" by importing beavers to another area, beavers outside of their native environment or in an insufficiently large enclosed area in their native environment will despawn in a few hours.Players should clear the area of Sarcos and Titanoboas in addition to other threats, especially if you'll have to swim to the dam. Two of the locations that spawn dams on The Island are on the edge of swamp biomes.Be ready to kill these before you harvest the dam! Also, the moment the player begins swimming they will attract the attention of every Megapiranha in range. Castoroides are considerably faster and more maneuverable underwater, and may be difficult to spot in the distance. Underwater dams require special preparation and caution.If you see several Castoroides but no dams, they may be in hard-to-see spots, including behind waterfalls, under a resource node (often a large stone), or deep in murky water. Beaver dams can spawn both above and under the water, on cliffsides, and even in seemingly inaccessible nooks and crannies.As they will be far away from their dams, you may return and loot at your leisure. Once the Castoroides no longer render on your screen they will no longer be hostile to you. One tactic is to take a flyer, open and close the dam to aggro the nearby beavers, then lead them somewhere up- or downstream before flying out of render range. If possible, do not kill the Castoroides protecting the dams.It is possible to build a Beaver Dam Farm, by building walls around a beaver and allowing them to build a dam at a more desirable location.Above is true for original "little" Giant Beaver Dam, but on Ragnarok "big" Giant Beaver Dam can restock their inventory and don't need to be destroyed completely.

Throw the wood on the ground instead so that the dam is demolished, and the now-homeless Castoroides will soon build another which can then be harvested for more resources. As wood is the only heavy resource spawned inside the dam, many players will harvest everything else and leave the wood inside. Beaver Dams will not restock their inventory.However, to get the most out of vandalizing beaver homes, keep the following in mind: The Giant Beaver Dam is an excellent source of several important resources.
