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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for carcharodontosaurus? Tips and strategies for carcharodontosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Bro if you have a good rhynio killing one should be a breeze. I killed one HEAD ON with my rhynio that has 16k health and 600% melee. I was landed in front of him and spammed attack while he hit me back. And i STILL WON. For a higher level i wouldnt suggest taking it head on as the damage output is worlds apart from a low level. It will take a good 20 minutes but you can kill it in the air with relative ease. Btw i also was using a primitive rhynio saddle so this victory was purely because of my rhynio’s stats and no outside stuff.
Keep in mind if you find one of these and it sees you, you are very dead.
Um, shouldn’t all large carnivores be tamed this way, logically? Instead of shooting them with 100+ arrows/darts tipped with drugs so that they get knocked unconscious and then you somehow force meat down their throat?
Not asking anyone to change anything, but it is curious to me. Carch is the only one getting fair treatment here.🤣
On fjordur these guys along with gigas spawn at the mountain nearest to the green obelisk
If you don’t have a baby rex this is what I did instead I used a alpha raptor
if you don’t have a a pair of breeding rexes yet, you could also use yutys for 100%
So, here are some dinos that give 100% trust: Rex, Spino, Bronto, wyvern, and a Giga. Best options will be Rex, or Bronto, because they take longer to be harvested by dragonflies. If you find a carcha above 130 (I've found yesterday, on 15 February 2025 a beatiful Carcharo on 145), YOU HAVE to tame
Sanguine elixers work on these guys but u have to get the friendship meter full first I built 2 traps on gen 2 that are big enough for them to walk around in a small space out of a behemoth gate and 8 dino gates I play on pvp and left it unlocked so the whole server can use if they want it's pretty effective got a mate pair of low level ones this morning just to test and now looking for higher levels
I don't see anybody mentioning that if you let the blood rage get to max while taming it you get dismounted and have to feed it body's again. This might only be a problem with lower taming speeds but it's still worth mentioning.
Prep:
1. Bring fodder cryopodded dinos (preferably a rex for instant friendship bar; gallis and rhinos will take a couple of feedings but it will work too).
2. Tek Suit (If you don't have the engrams learned make sure to have a fast mount on stand-by to run/fly away)
3. Kill off any annoying garbage around the area. Leave harmless creatures for the 2nd part of taming.
Tips:
1. Don’t use traps when taming. They will often refuse to eat.
2. They will sometimes walk away after sniffing a corpse (garbage pathfinding). If this happens, use the SAME exact corpse. It will not eat any other corpses. Keep trying until you can get the corpse into eating distance.
Guide: Find High Level Carcha (150 or higher) (Any level if you want) Get your Rexes and Breed them (If you don't have rexes tame a Male and female to breed) Breed them and get any gender Baby Rex and Cryopod it (If you want to) Find the Carcha again and Trap it in metal gates Feed it the Baby Rex when it does a sniffing animation, It will have a green circle bar above it's head and you can ride it (DISCLAIMER: Get rid of the metal gates first then ride it) Ride it and then kill many, MANY Dinosaurs until it is tamed (ANOTHER DISCLAIMER: There is a taming bar below when you ride it) and that is the Guide to The Carcha Taming! Thank you and Good Day to you!
Now, we all know they are distributed in areas similar to that of the Giganotosaurus, yet this may prove as an advantage. The volcanoes and mountains in the north are steep and tall, enabling you to drop corpses from steeper ledges the Carcha may not be able to reach.
Short Tip: Baby Carcharodontosaurus give more xp then gigas.
When you trap it and start feeding it if it stops eating and glitches out then you need to fly out of render distance and come back and then it will start eating. Also a good way to tame one is to tame a breeding pair of rexes and cryo a baby Rex and when you find a carchar throw the baby Rex out the unclaimed the baby’s Rex the kill the Baby Rex then feed it to the carchar and his taming will go all the way up then hop on it and kill everything around you to tame it.
To tame, place Dino gates in |_| shape lead carchar into close in 🔲 shape now feed two gallimius then ride kill everything possible don’t bleed too much takes away effectiveness now u run out of time repeat process boom you have carchar
-MrMeola (actually tamed it)
-Horsingdale (writer)
Their healing ability is overpowered. At 100 bloodrage, they regenerate health faster than any healing dino in the game. With a decent Carchar, you can kill wild gigas with ease if you have the bloodrage. Their healing out heals the bleeding effect. Not just that, they don’t rage, and if a fight is looking bad, they can zoom away at a speed as fast as a tek suit. They have a very nice turn radius, and they have better stamina management than a giga has. Overall, these guys are insane for osds and element nodes on extinction. Tested, I ran a purple osd with one tribemate. We had 2 carchars, both non mutated and only 36 base melee points. At 100 bloodrage, we were out healing the damage against us. At wave 7, we were around half hp, but the Carchars were already healing thousands of health by the second. With an extra tribemate, we could have gone for as long as we wanted to. I would definitely use Carchars over gigas in everyday use. The only purpose I see in gigas now is to run bosses on extinction and the mini bosses on fjordur. Even then, gigas may be completely discarded once Carchars are mutated enough. (Gigas will probably always have a use, I’m just being a silly Carchar fan)