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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.
Sacrificing 3 Diplos with around 78k health each will give a perfect tame. Did this yesterday on a single player world and managed to get a 150 male Carcha (tamed 225), only issue is you've got to surround the carcha in metal gates and place a behemoth gate and door in between the Carcha and Diplo in order to prevent the Carcha from eating the Diplo without you mounting it
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.
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
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.
If you aren't prepared
R U N.
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.
I actually play solo because I can't figure out how to join a server(it always kicks me out :/) meaning I dont have a tribe and things to help me, so when I want to tame a carcha, I usually use a Rhyniognatha( you dont have to, any flyer works) because they are pretty fast and reliable, so I find a carcha(usually in the cold biome on The Island map), use keys to hatch a rex egg because its to cold to incubate, and drag it straight to the carcha without a trap because I dont have to worry about it attacking me, since baby rexes usually give 100% trust, meaning you can ride the carcha instead of it attacking you.
⚠️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.
What’s with everyone trapping these, they’re insanely easy to tame , just get a baby Rex or whatnot, then it’s a free Carcha!.
One baby yutyrannus also fills the trust bar
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
Do not run out of Stam with your favorite wyvern next to it
Does not like people landing near it
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 …..