Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
It is affected by a net, so to keep it from squirming in trap, net it
Net projectile works on these, so craft your catapult and boulders, find your crab and net it. Proceed to set up the catapult a few feet from its face and you can easily just fire all required shots before the net expires. You’re welcome!
TRANQ ARROWS DON,T WORK you haft to shoot a cannonball shoot it in its head if you shoot it in the leg or it will die. Up if helpful
Put a catapult on a paracer, bring a high health turtle (carbomemys), whistle attack with the turtle and when the crab hits it put it in passive so you can easily aim and hit him on the body. No weird engineering needed.
Make sure to carry around grappling hooks
If picked you can graple the crab and it will let go
The Canon Knocks 150s out in one shot to its core!
Alright not exactly my tip, but heard this from the YouTuber pterafier. He said that using a Crab with a Turtle with C4 strapped on it is a good seige device. Put C4 on Turtle, then use Crab to throw the Turtle at a base. Detonate the C4, blowing up the base where the Turtle is at. I'd recommend watching Pterafier, he has a lot of tips on his channel.
Available at floating island caves in Crystal Isles.
They're very rare in there so be patient
The Karkinos is considered a large predator and therefore does not aggro other predators when ridden (with the exception of other karkinos, rock drakes, etc.), making it a great mount for relatively safe traveling!
HOWEVER!!! Smaller predators WILL attack if your karkinos is holding a prey creature in its claws, so keep this in mind while transporting tames and wild creatures!
In the wild crabs and spinos are buddies... they use the buddy system...
DO NOT USE A CANNON!! If you use a cannon the taming efficiency will drop all the way down to 58%. Use a catapult and shoot its back, don't waste resources on cannon or cannonballs
They can walk over spiked walls.
Trap it with bear trap and shoot catipults into its body to KO
You can tell if you shot the legs if it throws it’s arms up in the air when you shoot. If it doesn’t move at all when you shoot that means you shot it correctly, so make sure you don’t get it to throw its arms up when you’re nocking it out
Handy trick, if you're playing on Fjordur and want a high level DO NOT go to the Aberration Cave. There is a second Aberration cave near the Vannaland (South) Southeast teleport. Go inside, and if you find a low level kill it and harvest the corpse. Then do a lap of the cave (make sure to fight stuff to slow you down as if you run too fast this doesn't work), and you should have another spawn. I used this trick and in 5 minutes I had already killed 7 Karkinos, and they were a mix of levels. This is also a great way to farm Organic Polymer. Hope this helped
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Even though it was a big difference