
What are tips for carcharodontosaurus? Tips and strategies for carcharodontosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
If you don’t have a baby rex this is what I did instead I used a alpha raptor
It may look easy or might be easier to tame.
You just need at least creatures with drag weight, mainly
•𝐑𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐬, 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬
•𝐆𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬
•𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨
• 𝐘𝐮𝐭𝐲
Or anything that's an apex predator or a creature around and above 500 drag weight
Though you might need to get their baby variants via tamed creature breeding, for those who might not have cryopods (like me) you might wanna pre-hatch the egg (Keeping the egg incubation at 5 or more) then kill once it's ragdolled, and slowly but steadily sacrifice the baby to rise the trust meter if it's drooling (passive state with head close to her body) if it sniffs, it's good to drop the sacrifice and back up a a few meters away because you'll never know when she'll jump or not, make sure to at least keep carnivores away from the sacrifice corpse because they'll eat it (why keep them away alive? Because you need it for the second phase)
Once that's done and allows mounting, just jump at least any creature, (mostly the bigger ones with health) and try not to get hit because if you get hit or accidentally jumped off the landscape (due to it's speed) that decreases the taming efficiency and since the Carcha has a hell lotta damage it might be easier, though It'll be reduced by 80% once tamed but to tame it you'll have to avoid reaching 100 kills, getting damage on the Carcha too badly or letting the time run out because they will get the Carcha buck you off and bite you.
(I just realized this could be shortened)
On fjordur these guys along with gigas spawn at the mountain nearest to the green obelisk
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.🤣
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
Unlike gigas you can easily kill a wild one in this process:
1. Find a carcharo that you dont want existing (e.g. its a low level, you want its exp or you need a giga heart) then get the carcharo to trust you
2. Mount the carcharo and ride it off cliffs until it dies or until it reaches low enough health that you can finish it off quickly with a tame since they wont fight back and cant even damage tamed creatures
3. After it dies you will even sometimes get a free giga heart since its a wild dino or if it died from fall damage you and the corpse will have the same momentum so beware of fall damage
First try to tame one. I hadn’t been able to find a good level one but if you need creatures to kill- you can give several babies or low levels.
I used Wyvern babies- didn’t even trap it- I did have to run after him but other than that he was an easy tame.
Make sure the area is clear of anything that can kill you. And ensure you sit your flier a bit back
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.
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.
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
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.
Short Tip: Baby Carcharodontosaurus give more xp then gigas.
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)
if you don’t have a a pair of breeding rexes yet, you could also use yutys for 100%