Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
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
No one seems to have mentioned that karkinos can use tools, they just need a special type of tool: doedicurus, use a karkinos to pick up a tamed armadillo and walk around to rocks and the armadillo hits the rocks and keeps them stored, argies and quetz can do it to but they can only hold one and they don't spawn on abberation, not sure but if you transfer a beaver to abberation you might be able to use it and an armadillo at the same time to gather both rock and wood
If you want to kill one use a Dino or a crossbow. Don't use guns because it Tales less damage from them! Thank me later!
People were commenting boulders are better than cannons for taming these so I just assumed they meant rock golems. Kind of went out of my way to tame one. Doesn't seem to work for this but eh, I got a golem now. Lol
Knock theme out by firing boulders at their body. Each successful hit adds 250 torpor.
Alpha version can damage stone. Everything is lost.
Want an effective trap for the crab?
For about 300 stone and wood the youtuber Captain Fatdog will show you the cheapest and most effective trap
You can use explosive arrows on the tek bow to knock out
If you intend on fighting a Karkinos with a creature that can not be picked up, make sure to never attack the Karkinos from the back of your mount. Ex, crossbow, rifle, etc. If you do the Karkinos will agro onto the player at witch point it can pluck you right off your mount.
Watch YouTube video from captain fatdog karkinos trap and use this to tame them. I struggled so many times and then I realised you can't do it going up a hill. Flat surface and hitting it in the head are the two main problems but as soon as I had got it right it was so easy.
Up for noobs
Emu
Even though it was a big difference
An all around amazing tame with a variety of uses. Hunt trilobites for oil. Carry armadillos for farming stone and clearing paths. Delicately plucking dinos off an elevator. Exploring. Farming gems from rats. The list goes on and on, just be creative. Its almost OP but it is hard to tame. Not only do you need a catapult but you also need to score only body shots and even then pray that its strong enough to survive the hits. It's tanky, uses surprisingly very little stamina, has a good attack even without the grab, well worth the trouble.
If it's getting low on health almost die while taming, don't worry just use owl to heal it up so u can continue to knock him out. Up this please so people can know small tip from me.
If they are in water the can crab you, which leads to a certain death. Not so dangerous on land. (Pun intended)
I don’t know if this was just a glitch or if anyone has experienced this, but when I took mine down to the ocean floor, the only creatures to actually aggro to me was the Europtryd. Plesiosaurs, electric eels, the giant squids, even an alpha Mosa didn’t try to attack me. Super slow, but this might be the best tame for trekking the ocean floor.