Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
DONT TRAP THEM it messes with their ai horribly! instead take a baby rex (newborn) and wait a few seconds if you let it out of a cryo so it doesn’t mesh then kill it and drag it’s body to the carcha let the body go and run when it does the sniff animation it should be instantly trusting towards you and all you have to do is ride and go on a killing spree to tame its a lot easier than people seem to think
Not a giga remake HOWEVER it has similarities to other dinos.
It's special attack is a slow version of the baryonyx's tail spin
It has a distinct roar similar to a giga and yutyrannus.
It looks like a giga with spikes.
It's walk and run and kill buff are all unlike any ark dino.
(And only old ark players will recognize the eye fire the giga used to have once u fell off a cliff riding one. Luckily it doesn't kick off the rider and go berserk on everything it sees like the giga used to)
I learned this from syntac: when you have it's trust bar filled, ride it then go on a killing spree with the carcha but when the dino your carcha is trying to kill is neutral or aggressive, it will attack the carcha as normal, but it will lower the taming sensitivity, so yeah don't get attacked too much.
Here's a little tip, whatever you do DON'T try to tame a carcha on fjordur if you don't want your roitine for the next irl week to be boot up ark and fly around 3 spots with no effect. Try. On ragnarok or the island instead
Short Tip: Baby Carcharodontosaurus give more xp then gigas.
To the person who asked where to find in ragnorock I found mine on the Highlands in NE
Baby giga is also an insta trust.
This creature might be slightly larger then a giga sense in the dossier it says Helena isn't even sure if it was fully grown and hopes it was. Meaning this thing at most is as tall as a giga or slightly taller. As for the abilities, it has a war cry similar to that of a yutyrannus but we aren't sure what it fully does, a tail sweep which is super powerful, a bite that even if it misses will cause critical levels of damage and the most noteable ability, the bloodlust ability. Just like a shark, it gets more vicious when it tastes blood and in the dossier it says it can take on larger creatures when it is in the bloodlust mode. Meaning the bloodlust mode is an overall attack boost to it. However there is one critical downside to this thing, when tamed it doesn't have a saddle so it may be like a wyvern to where you take all damage thrown at you and or like how shadowmanes are with their natural armor. We just gotta see what the Carchara is like on release.
⚠️NINTENDO SWITCH PLAYERS: Please try not to put these guys in Cryopods. There’s a bug where your tools/armor/inventory turns invisible and unusable when releasing carchars from Cryopods, only fixable by dying to reset your inventory. ⚠️
If you absolutely have to cryo one, store your items before releasing it to avoid losing everything. Be aware that this still means you lose the empty Crypod the carchar was held in.
Fun fact I found one without even trying and i had just entered a freshly new world 🥲
After you trap one you can use a pachyrhinosaurus too attract a bunch of wild stuff to you then kill them and feed it for the taming.
Trap it, kill and drag a couple woolly rhino corpses to it. Do not drop the corpse, it will sniff then eat. You must make the kills. You can then ride it briefly and kill things to give taming progress. You can sacrifice tames for this. Doesn't seem to work with babies. Use caution, it's highly aggressive during the entire process and can hit you while you're feeding or dismount you while riding and attack you. As it makes kills, it gets a bloodrage buff that massively spikes damage output.
Keep in mind if you find one of these and it sees you, you are very dead.
Seems to get a larger friendship boost from dead carbonemys, trikes are pretty close second....definitely recommend killing your own tames for food because if you hunt the friendship timer goes down way too fast
I’ve experimented with taming these multiple times. It’s pretty easy once you have the hang of it. What I do is build four behemoth gateways and attach the gates to them (people say dinosaur gates work too, but I haven’t tested them yet so I don’t know). Make sure they are made of metal so that the carcha doesn’t damage them. Have a space where you can escape and also so you can enter and exit (this is relevant later). Open the gate that you want the carcha to enter, and at the end of the trap, put large bear traps down. Then, shoot at it or whatever to lure the carcha into your trap and make your escape through the small space. When it’s in the bear trap, SHUT THAT DAMN DOOR AS FAST AS YOU CAN. Make sure there are NO gates open. Now that the hard part is done, get an army or a flier that carries stuff and scatter a bunch of animals around. Get as many as possible. This is relevant later. Then, kill a ton of animals and drag the corpses into the trap where the carcha is. Get out of render distance so it’ll eat the corpses, and after eating, the carcha will be a little ornery. This is normal. Keep feeding it corpses until the trust meter turns green. With the animals you scattered, kill them while riding the carcha until it is tamed. If you have to search for more animals to kill, do so.
If you tamed the carcha, congratulations!! You’ve done it!
If the time that the dinosaur is chill is running out and it’s not close to being tamed, ride the carcha back into your trap and close the doors. Repeat the process.
This is how I did it throughout all my experiments and taming my pets. They’re cool asf and worth the stress and heart attacks.
Make sure you wait for it to sniff the carcass, I made my mistake of getting too close. He snatched my pants and made my booty cry.
Yo I have a question about it why can't I tame one on scorched also to tame 4 metal gates get body if not run or kill it no way to out run you may have a chance with 200 or 250 300 speed