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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for carcharodontosaurus? Tips and strategies for carcharodontosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I saw one of these for the first time on my 225 Spino me being the goober thinking that it would be an easy kill 1v1ed this thing…. Mind you this thing was way lower less than 100 than my spino and my spino was all malee and health…. I died… avoid these at all costs even if you think that you have the tankiest Dino.
All you need is a baby rex, unclaim it and kill it, then aproach carca and when it starts sniffing drop it.
Bring few baby rexes just in case.
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.
I found a 150 while flying around in a pteranodon. I ran out of stam
In a desperate attempt to save my ptera, I whistled follow and suicided. Then, I used my Argy to lead my pt away.
The problem: now there is a 150 carcha that walked down onto the western approach.
The big peoplem: my base is on the west approach.
The huge problem: I had passive rexes there
Relieving fact: they are baby rexes destined for being carch food
The gigantic titanosaur-stomp sized problem for the other creatures:
A tamed 224 carch named cupcake killing everything
So if u are looking to find one of these guys in ragnarock I always find them on the beach at the highlands BUT BEWARE THEY SPAWN WITH BIG BOI GIGAS!
These spawn on top of the Island volcano
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.
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!
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.
I want one. I want one. I want one
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
Really not a tip... I need to know where these spawn because I searched the whole map and couldn't find a giga and I read that its a giga lite so anything could help
If trying to tame on fjourdur wooly rhinos work really well next to baby Rex’s or spinos!