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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for carcharodontosaurus? Tips and strategies for carcharodontosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Fun fact I found one without even trying and i had just entered a freshly new world 🥲
Baby giga is also an insta trust.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …..
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
If you aren't prepared
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⚠️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.
One baby yutyrannus also fills the trust bar
I found one near my base on extinction in the morning biome. I was not even a bit prepared to tame it so I had to kill it or I would have killed all my dinos and would have destroyed my whole stone structure base. I've killed a female Level 22 of it with an Argentavis which had about 3.000% melee damage. It took a while and my Argentavis was several times at 800 HP or less of 2.700 HP. The Carcha was a bit stuck or at least slowed down by trees or otherwise it would have turned faster and it would have been much harder to hit it with the Argentavis without my Argentavis getting killed.
I have 1 even better get mindwipe stew put crazy stats in weight around 630 is nice cause you can than drag mamoths but I advice you to trap it then kill 2 to 3 mamoths or 5 megatheriums close to it as it loses meter hella fast
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The easiest way to kill one of these is to knock it out with a mantis and then kill it from what I've experienced
It is actually a very simple tame
1.place 3 metal billboards sothat it looks like an n
2.place 2 large bear traps inside
3.lead the carch into the trap and place the last billboard
4.kill animals and feed it to him or you can feed him a baby Rex they give 💯 trust.
5.once the trust meter is full you can ride it and kill animals until the taming is full
6.give your carch a saddle and name ( saddle unlocks on lvl.96)
7.upp sothat I can rest my fingers from this long tip 😢 😹
Bugged as hell. Prepare to die lots and spend hours raging trying to tame these asshats. If anything can go wrong, it will. Enjoy