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Tips & Strategies

hei,the carcha's health and melee damage likes giga,it decrease 64000Heath when you tame him.and a level 1 tamed carcha's melee damage is 20%,it's base damage is 211(tamed),265(wild).That's my tips
More Carcharodontosaurus Taming & KO Tips
Baby Spinosauruses work as well as baby rexs
If you have no moral compass, like me, if you cryo a baby rex after hatching it, find a carchar, uncryo the Rex and kill it, baby rex’s give 100% trust…. So yeah
If you're on the killing spree part of the tame, stay away from deep water at ALL costs!!! I just lost a perfect 150 Carcha in the snow biome (The Island) at around 70% taming because a yuty's attack knocked the carcha off a cliff and into the ocean (messed up physics, I know) and no matter how hard I tried to salvage it it still ended up drowning. Additionally, for all on ARK UME single-player, one yuty baby is enough for 100% trust (which is what I used). However, I noticed that sometimes the carcha will eat the corpse and not gain any trust, but going out of render distance before feeding it the second yuty seemed to work. Good luck everyone!!!
On the island, try to get a spawn near the redwoods since due to how many things live there, the second stage of the tame will be easy
Crack crack crack… what was that? Well if looks could kill you would have died right there and then, This is the Carcharodontasaurus! Wanna tame one yourself? Where to find some? Or maybe how to defend yourself? All of those will be answered in one massive tip! So let’s jump in!
So where would you find one? They have the same spawn points as gigas, so if you want to find eithor of these apex predators that’s where you have the best chance of finding them. (Do note that they are a rare spawn)
How would you defend yourself? If you don’t have a flying tame next to you, then you can consider yourself very very dead. Other than that Carcharodontasaurus have a gnash defect they can inflict, very similar to that of a Giga.
Alright and that leaves us with how tame one, starting with all the supplies you will need: a tribe mate, a wyvern, 5-9 metal gateways, a simple bed and foundation, some large beartraps, and loads of patience. Start by finding one, fly a decent 150 meters away from it, (to avoid grabbing its attention while making the trap) and place the metal gateways in a circle, while leaving a opening. (Try not to make the circle to small because the Carcharodontasaurus HAS to move or the taming process will break) now that the cage is set, place the beartraps in the middle of the trap. The hard part is getting the Carcharodontasaurus into the trap. Use the wyvern to grab the Dino’s attention and lure it to the trap, and right when it enters and hits a trap, you run behind it and place the final gateways insuring the Dino stays in. Have your tribe mate watch the Carcharodontasaurus, while you grab the wyvern and grab large dinos, or vise versa, and bring them back to the enclosure, have your tribe mate kill it, while you grab more (keep doing this until you have a pile of dead things). So now your ready for the grueling taming process: have your tribemate drag dead animals to you, while you (hopefully having armor on) drag it and hold it near the Carcharodontasaurus, (the Carcharodontasaurus should sniff the air, and walk towards you, reach down and eat the corpse) after eating the corpse you gain a friendship meter, (this is a good thing) however you have to be quick, with haste continue dragging Dead Dino’s to the Carcharodontasaurus, and when the friendship meter is completely full, break down the side of the trap, and ride the Carcharodontasaurus. It is not tamed yet, but this is the last step and it’s the easiest: Go on the worlds bloodiest merciless dino massecre you possibly can. Eventually after eating and killing enough Dino’s the Carcharodontasaurus will have full taming effectiveness and then you have your very own Carcharodontasaurus! :D
Thx for reading! :D
Eat rare flowers while riding that beast. Wild Dinos love that.
And dont forget to remove your metal gates after taming... so other survivors can try it too
Don’t do this near an argentavis it will eat the dead body
After taming 3 carchars, this is what I have learned:
-the best way to trap these fellas is a 1x1 of metal dino gateways. You must have a bear trap in the middle of 3 gates to trap the carchar and then put up the 4th gate
-when trapped, the bastards will often refuse to eat, in order to fix this you can leave the corpse by it and simply go out of render from it. All tames must be out of render for this to work. If you left the corpse by it’s feet like I earlier said then by the time you come back the corpse will be eaten and the carchars progress will rise
-In the process of leaving and entering render to reset them, it a a must that you do this in a swiftly manner, as if you load in the carchar before you load the trap in the charcar has a large chance of meshing through your trap. I like to use a dino which can quickly elevate and dive for this
-when you have fed them enough corpses their progress bar will turn green and you can ride them, leave up the trap except for one gateway and start killing anything you see
-it is a good idea to head for highly populated areas instead of going for big kills
-elixirs do work on them so make sure you pop one when the car gets to 70% taming
-I’m not sure if this is possible with our rates yet, but if the car gets to a 99 kill streak it is very important that you roar. If you don’t and you hit a streak of 100 you will be kicked off of the car. Some dinos give a higher boost than just one, so if you feel as though you are getting to close to 100 you should roar sooner
-If you don’t get to 100% before the ten minutes is up it is much easier if you walk the car back into the old trap while you still have control of it. If you would like, you can also put up a new trap around the car while you still have control
-each time you have to feed and mount the car it’s timing effectiveness will tank. It will also fall if you take damage so make sure you don’t hit creatures with a thorn aspect like arthlos or kentros. It is also important that you negate all fall damage by jumping off of them because this drops their effectiveness as well
It's like a giga lite version, easier tame for sure since you just need eyes and a dead body to tame one. You don't necessarily need sacrifices like baby rexes, or brontos though it will make it a thousand times easier (as if it wasn't easy enough) and traps? You can play it safe but it's such a hassle to trap one.
This is how I tamed a lvl. 145
Stockpiling wild animals near the carcha, carrying ankys, trikes, and allos, or maybe carnos near the carcha, but not near enough for the carcha to eat em. By using a rhyniognatha, DO YOU NEED A RHYNIOGNATHA?absolutely not, carrying is just easier, but you can just pull aggro on the wild animals with other fliers.
Then, kill the wild animals. THOUGH, YOU NEED 300+ WEIGHT to carry bigger animals for more trust, 100 weight is fine, there's a reason why you stoc pile wild animals.
𝙉𝙊𝙒, 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙄𝙎 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙐𝙂𝙂𝙔 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙏
Once you drag a dead body near it, it should sniff the air. Stand still. There's a chance it might bug and you won't get trust from the body. After it's done doing the sniffing animation, RELEASE THE BODY AND RUN! them eating the bodies is still an attack. You can die from this.
Kill the other stockpiled animals, drag them to the carchar and repeat till it gets full trust.
𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙄𝙎 "𝙏𝙍𝙐𝙎𝙏"?
In Carchar taming, trust is the hexagon thing with the Dino foot symbol on top of the Carchar after feeding a body to the Carchar, if it doesn't show, then it's likely the dead body got bugged and didn't insert to the Carchar's trust bar. If you see the carchar's symbol on top green, then you can ride it.
After the trust symbol green, you have 10 minutes to ride and kill things with it. DO NOT dismount while it's attacking things, You will die because of the carchars bite. It is still a wild Dino, so it can still kill you and your dinos and tribemates.
𝘾𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙍 𝙏𝘼𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙂
Now, you DO NOT need a crap ton of preparation for this, just kill stuff while riding it, the tips that say you need a baby Rex, bronto etc, are partially true, If you're on flat mountains, like the highlands in Ragnarok, there's plenty of apex creatures near you, (Don't try to kill gigas or titanos, or other carchas though it'll ruin the taming effectiveness) what I would suggest is killing rexes, brontos or ANYTHING LITERALLY ANYTHING! sure, the taming effectiveness would go down, but just a lil bit.
Btw, you can actually tame this early game without traps or proper preparation, it'll just take longer. as long as you have a flyer
That's how I tamed a lvl 145, so honestly easy, but fun as hell
I’m going to be honest, taming this is simple…
I know there are other tips, but I’ll try to make this one as simple as I can!
4 metal dino gates and a bear trap will do the trick as far as trapping, and then you may leave it their at your leisure as you gather corpses. I’d recommend your weight capacity being about 400, and you need to completely empty your inventory.
400 weight capacity or over: drag stegos, trikes and carnos into a pile a bit off from the carch.
350 and under capacity: just grab a ton of parasaurs.
Drag a corpse over to your angry, trapped future killing machine and stay out of biting distance until it starts sniffing the air curiously… once it sniffs the ground, immediately drag the corpse and drop it where the carch was sniffing. A trike can fill up to a third of the trust bar, while a parasaur will fill about a quarter of it.
As soon as the corpse has been eaten, take advantage of the few moments of docile behavior from the carch to bring over another corpse quickly. Do this until the trust bar is filled, and then mount the carch.
You now have ten minutes to absolutely annihilate every living creature in your immediate area, and the carch will have its wild stats, too, so this should be easy.
Go for large, slow targets such as mammoths, diplos and paracers… these animals you can hit and back away from to not receive damage. The larger the creature you kill, the more taming progress you get. Taking damage puts taming efficiency down, too, so avoid that.
Pay attention to the blood rage meter in the left bottom corner of the screen, because this is important:
For every kill you get, it puts a point on the meter. Now, if you get to max(which is 100), before your carch is tamed, then you will be bucked off and you’ll have to start over. :(
My remedy is only going for large targets: less kills, more taming progress. If your blood rage is too high nearing the end of the taming cycle, try roaring… I’ve seen people mention that it helps, and in doing that I’ve never been bucked off!
Once tamed, you’ll get kicked off the carch and you’ll need to apply a saddle. Oh, and your carch will lose 54,000 hit points, and about 70% of its damage. But don’t worry, it’s still freaking awesome.
This all sounds complicated, but it was actually easier than taming a giga to me! I strongly recommend taming this dino… it is strong, extremely fast, and looks incredibly good. Blood rage also gives a boost in regeneration and after each kill your carch makes, it has 9 seconds of speed boosted by 60%. The blood rage stacks also give increased damage, so this is like a giga that you can kind of enrage on command by killing something… it’s pretty cool.
And look at that. I thought this would be short.
Happy taming, guys!