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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.
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.
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!!!
The blood rage makes this beast’s uses fundamentally different from the giga’s.
The giga is roughly 2x carch. The giga has a rage that can be a contagious disease, making a huge army even deadlier.
The carch is faster, more stam, and has great healing. With 100 blood rage, this beast easily eclipses the giga’s damage. After a kill, they get healing and speed buff.
When in a large group, use giga’s since more carches = less blood rage per carch. But if only one tame is used and there are enough creatures for the carch to eat, the carcharodontosaur is without equal.
I had to wait like an hour for it to spawn so you might have to wait a little bit
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
You can kill em with lightning wyverns on rag. Almost died by landing within render of the carch to regain stamina(they are extremely fast), but I eventually killed it. Lightning wyverns do ridiculous amounts of damage.
Lure a wild one to an enemy's base then get it to trust you, if they have small tames or tames that have a low max health in general then that's an easy clap because since youre riding a wild carcharo you can instantly heal to max health when you kill a creature and harvest its corpse.
However the trust timer only lasts 10 min and the carcharo will automatically dismount you upon reaching 100 stacks of bloodrage then start attacking anything shortly after it dismounts you.
If you aren't prepared
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Passive tame build a metal trap u might need a friend give dead bodies give it a saddle kill creatures so it gains trust and hopn
One baby yutyrannus also fills the trust bar
⚠️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.
Just bring a baby rex to it and if u want do what I did, use 4 rexes,unclaimed them and kill them they give around 40-60% tame then just kill diplos and creatures with high hp and there you have it carchar
(DO NOT DROP THE BABY REX or else you'll get COOKED if you do try to drag it as fast as possible before he gets you)
Got my base on the hill near the wyvern trench , normaly they spawn about 500 meter away …. But something happend and now they com down The Valley and start eating EVERYTHING , that looks like a lifeform . These things really put up a fight …..
Bugged as hell. Prepare to die lots and spend hours raging trying to tame these asshats. If anything can go wrong, it will. Enjoy
Step 1: trap it with help from bear traps
Step 2: get a stock pile of dead bodies (turtles and Andrew worked best for me)
Step 3: tame it
Note: my server has 5x taming and a 30min decomp time