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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.
Make trap with 4-5 metall gates and a behemoth gate. Trap him inside . (Gate closed of course)Make the Same trap on the other side of the gate . Feed him with some Baby rex -spino -Wyvern. If he is in friendship Mode throw a Kryo with Bronto - gigas or other Fully grown Tames you can spare. When the are in Kryosleep on the other Side of the Gate .Release the tamed Dinos. Ride the Carcho open the gate eat sleeping Dino. Close the gate and get of him and throw another kryod Dino on the empty Side. Repeat untill you get 100% . That way you can get 100% taming efficency
Do NOT trap this dino. It will usually (not always but usually) aggro to the trap and when it stops it will nerf out and won't eat. It will sniff but not eat.
Get a very durable wyvern with lots of health, set it to follow you, let it munch on the wyv, throw out a baby rex, kill it and drag to carchar. Once carchar sniffs and eats you should be able to ride instantly. Repeat till tamed
Here’s how to tame a carcharodontosaurus:
1. Find one (use gene scanner if u got bob tales on Asa
2. Make sure there are plenty of Dino’s around, bc you’ll need to ride and kill stuff to tame it
3. Place 3 gates, put bear traps in it, and once the carcha is ensnared, then put the fourth gate behind it
4. Feed it corpses (ideally baby Rex corpses)
5. Once it’s tamed, go kill a bunch of stuff quickly, be careful if you do it too slowly taming effectiveness will go down
Then finally you’ll get thrown off and congrats you just tamed a carcha!
Best you can do is drag a baby rex or spino to it, have a cryo'd flier so you can run away when it kicks you off, and repeat the process until it's tamed.
Also make sure it isn't raged (glowing eyes) while you're dragging the corpse to it.
Swamps are good for taming these after getting the trust meter
The Absolute Best Method my tribe has found with taming these guys is to use a standard metal Dino gate trap for a giga, once trapped things get simpler.
The next step is to use baby Rexs, chuck one out near by but not to close, kill it then drag it close to the trap and when you see him sniff the air drop the body and move away to avoid taking damage.
One Rex baby is enough to fill his trust and you will be able to ride him, so you can demo a gate and use an elixir before you mount if you have them handy for that sweet bonus 30% taming.
So now the fun part, mount up and eat everything you see BUT you need to avoid Alpha Dino’s as you will not be able to kill them they take no damage from the Char as it’s still technically wild, be mindful to try avoid taking damage where possible as it will chip away at your taming effectiveness and on standard rates you will need to repeat the feeding of baby rexs a number of times through out the taming as it will kick you off and can try to kill you.
taming can be quite slow depending on how many wild Dino’s you can find in each run and you may need to repeat the process 4-5 times depending on level and current rates.
A thing I noticed is that they only appear near or on an a mountain so yah
Because of their ability to heal off of kills, these guys are the ultimate kings of anything endurance related. Gigas may still be the one to toss out if there's something in front of you that needs to die right this moment, but if you want to run around just about anywhere killing everything in your way for hours, without ever needing to stop to heal, a imprinted char with good stats, is unmatched.
High level carcha> gigant in all cases
If you have a baby rex that you don’t want trap the carch an feed it the Rex. Ps it HAS to be a baby
I want one. I want one. I want one
An easy animal to kill to fill up its tame meter are trikes-bread
If trying to tame on fjourdur wooly rhinos work really well next to baby Rex’s or spinos!
These guys give Giga hearts aswell
Something i found out is they drop giga hearts so if you need that for the tributes don't reset for a giga just kill on of these instead
Baby Spinos Works Just As Good As Baby Rex’s So If You Love Spinos Like Me And Want A Carch Then Give ‘Em A Baby Spino
Here is your one stop tip on taming the Carcharodontosaurus, the killing machine that is better than the giga for several reasons, but anyways here is how to tame with 100% effectiveness;
Firstly; decide how you will go about taming it from one of two approaches. You can either go for it without bringing and building a trap and just drag bodies you find from wild Dino’s. This could actually work but is more risky and will certainly take longer, but it can work and won’t negatively affect taming effectiveness.
Secondly; Lure it into your trap if you made one (trap is usually just like the giga trap with 4 dino gates and a large bear trap in the middle, when it gets caught you place last dino gate behind it.)
IF you have baby Rexes to kill, you should use them to gain the Carchars trust as they will shoot the bar up to 100% with one Rex!
Now go on a killing spree of course to get its taming up. However there are some things you should be aware of;
1. DO NOT TAKE FALL DAMAGE, taking fall damage while riding it will ANNIHILATE the taming effectiveness, so be careful especially on the island where they only spawn around the mountains.
2. If PvP is turned on, you could kill your own tames to guarantee a quick perfect tame, just be careful not to allow his kill streak to reach over 100 because you will get kicked off.
Good luck and happy kill streaks!
-Latr