Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
The first thing I tame once I get tranq arrows and a bow.
Just build a trap out of stone (or wood if You don’t have stone yet)
shoot it with in the head with tranqs, feed it raw mutton and narcotics, You have a Carno now!
They’re great with Raptors or even Dilos if you don’t have the saddle unlocked yet. They can even take out Rexes or low level Basilisks if there’s multiple.
Besides, they can go inside your base for defending it since they’re not too big.
More Carnotaurus Utility Tips
These guys are not good swimmers lol. My first carno named Ravager (yeah, like the Aberration dog) drowned when I lead my creatures up a cliff in Ragnarok. He couldn’t find the way up, so he ran into a small lake, ran out of stamina, and drowned. RIP Ravager, too stupid to survive.
Tamed carnos are excellent almost all around: their health, attack speed, and base damage allow you to take on most of the creatures on the island, including Rexes and Alpha Raptors. Having a mated pair greatly strengthens this quality. They run fairly fast and can carry a lot, making great transport mounts. They are a fairly good harvester of meat and prime meat.
Their only real disadvantage is a slow stamina regen, even when stood completely still.
It is sad to see the Carno for not getting too much love these days. Whenever I try to find mutated Carno videos, it only shows a few of them before showing off Rex, Thyla, basically everything else except the Carno, and I'm disappointed. Carnos are basically a nerfed apex predator. They have the power and health you would expect while being speedy as well. They are not too difficult to tame, just a simple knock out tame. Even though a TLC could spice things up a bit, I love it for what it is.
I have a level 92 carno and it is my GO TO mount when I need to go on a hide run. The funny thing is it is not even a level 100 and yet it wrecks brontos and pretty much everything else in the general area. Try to get a carno as soon as you can because if you put in the time to level them up they are a force to be reckoned with.
People who say this is useless on mobile, STOP!
My carno Isabel ran me through hunter cave without any problem, and defended me against a spino. Also, she has great stam like over 1500.
She does 124 damage now, and is my fourth tame, behind my pt black pearl, which I sadly lost to a giga just yesterday.
Conclusion: find high level, tame high level.