Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a karkinos? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a karkinos.
Fire cannonballs at its head. It's immune to radiation, gives polymer when killed and harvested. Throws dinos and can jump high. Pretty good tame
I have knocked out a 150 with 10 catapults but I have tamed over 100 so have at least 18 ready cause not all topor is the same...
If you dont wanna put up with this guy running make a trap it's in YouTube I looked up how to trap a karkinos in ark go to the one that looks like an explorer note it worked for me
You can knock it out with a rocket launch
It prefers Exceptional kibble, let everyone know till dododex updates
If you want to knock it out with out trapping it have a parcer with a platform saddle it must have at least 2000 health to be safe place the cattpult at the back faceing the back also bring like 15 boulders to be safe and something that you could use to kill one if things get out of control. Lastly you need to make sure there are no alphas nearby in the water because I have encountered a couple before.aim for the abdomen and good luck!
One shot to the head with a cannon can knockout a level 150
Everyone says you need a catapult or cannon, but you don’t. It gives the WORST taming effectiveness, but you can use a rocket launcher. Find a karkinos lv. 12 or higher. If it is not, lv. 12 or higher, a single rocket will kill it. After you find one lv. 12 or higher, take a fast tame and agro the karkinos. Once angry it will follow you, move a small distance away, it will move toward you, showing it’s face, fire your rocket at its face. This will almost kill the karkinos, but it will deal lots of torpor. Now use your fast tame and kill something, get really close to the body. let the karkinos come to you and attack you but in the process of trying to hit you, it will hit the body. This will heal the karkinos completely, allowing you to repeat the process until it is knocked out, feed spoiled meat (as they like that the most) until tamed. Have fun with your new karkinos! 🦀
Unbelievable but u can actually knock them out with a slingshot, it does roughly 10 torpor so it'd take like 500 shots and it does 20 damage per hit, early game tame technically
How to tame an enlarged creb:
1. Craft a catapult and a load of boulders (especially for high levels) because tranq arrows/darts won't work
2. Place the Boulder on maybe an unminable rock (i placed it on an unminable rock) and shoot the karkinos ONLY at its body (shooting legs or arms will deal damage but not give torpor)
3. Don't worry when it runs away due to high torpor, cause they are slow and when it's knocked out, give it spoiled meat or exceptional kibble
Now you have a massive crab!
Cannons work better for the high level tames. I used 1 cannon ball to knock out a lvl 135 and it barely had any health left. Wasn't too difficult of a tame after that.
The boulders in ark have very bad hit tracking. You can still tame the karkinos with it however you just have be very patient and have a lot of them. A snow owl is also highly recommended so you can heal your crab when it inevitably gets super low. A magnifying glass is also essential to see if your hits are even doing torpor.
If you stand under it, it can't Beat you
Always check its health because it can be surprisingly easy to kill them on accident. Let the death of my AMAZING crab learnt from.
A catapult turret is the way to go with this Crab! Get it up close and blast its body with rocks! Be careful of where you aim, because if you hit it legs, it will take massive damage! You might want to lay down a trap so it doesn't scuttle away.
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Do try to rapid fire the catapult it can use a boulder whithout hitting do it in .9 second intervals it will save you sooooooo much time
I just got mine so basically make a stone dino gate way with door open and a large bear trap and lead into it and it will get stuck then place one stone dino gateway on its side then another one behind it make them close as possible and then make sure they all have reinforced doors then in between the gaps make a stone foundation and place a catapult and have your friend leading it in circles and hit it in its butt and eventually It will get bloody so make your friends or dino get eaten for karkinos to heal and then fire a boulder and it should get knocked out they like spoiled meat and their torpor takes while to drain
Note if the if it’s too low of a level knocking it out probably will kill it if it’s any lower than level 20 there’s a good chance you’re gonna kill it.
Made a raft with crab trap and a catapult at the end. Tamed max level like that. Sometimes u can just drive over them to trap them. Super easy and mobile. Amount for the body. Anything else will kill it. U know your doing it right when they do a “cartoonish” pop you on the head animation
You can use canes to tame them ok 👍