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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for carcharodontosaurus? Tips and strategies for carcharodontosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
So, here are some dinos that give 100% trust: Rex, Spino, Bronto, wyvern, and a Giga. Best options will be Rex, or Bronto, because they take longer to be harvested by dragonflies. If you find a carcha above 130 (I've found yesterday, on 15 February 2025 a beatiful Carcharo on 145), YOU HAVE to tame
On fjordur these guys along with gigas spawn at the mountain nearest to the green obelisk
Now, we all know they are distributed in areas similar to that of the Giganotosaurus, yet this may prove as an advantage. The volcanoes and mountains in the north are steep and tall, enabling you to drop corpses from steeper ledges the Carcha may not be able to reach.
Really not a tip... I need to know where these spawn because I searched the whole map and couldn't find a giga and I read that its a giga lite so anything could help
If you don’t have a baby rex this is what I did instead I used a alpha raptor
I don't see anybody mentioning that if you let the blood rage get to max while taming it you get dismounted and have to feed it body's again. This might only be a problem with lower taming speeds but it's still worth mentioning.
Sanguine elixers work on these guys but u have to get the friendship meter full first I built 2 traps on gen 2 that are big enough for them to walk around in a small space out of a behemoth gate and 8 dino gates I play on pvp and left it unlocked so the whole server can use if they want it's pretty effective got a mate pair of low level ones this morning just to test and now looking for higher levels
Short Tip: Baby Carcharodontosaurus give more xp then gigas.
Prep:
1. Bring fodder cryopodded dinos (preferably a rex for instant friendship bar; gallis and rhinos will take a couple of feedings but it will work too).
2. Tek Suit (If you don't have the engrams learned make sure to have a fast mount on stand-by to run/fly away)
3. Kill off any annoying garbage around the area. Leave harmless creatures for the 2nd part of taming.
Tips:
1. Don’t use traps when taming. They will often refuse to eat.
2. They will sometimes walk away after sniffing a corpse (garbage pathfinding). If this happens, use the SAME exact corpse. It will not eat any other corpses. Keep trying until you can get the corpse into eating distance.
Here is a massive tip, a high level bronto baby will 100% feed a lower level carchar, this meaning, you don't need to trap it, for safety (if you want) you can use a bear trap. Rare flowers are super useful because while riding the carchar, eating a rare flower will make any and every animal near you aggressive, making less of a hassle. (This does not include tames)
When you trap it and start feeding it if it stops eating and glitches out then you need to fly out of render distance and come back and then it will start eating. Also a good way to tame one is to tame a breeding pair of rexes and cryo a baby Rex and when you find a carchar throw the baby Rex out the unclaimed the baby’s Rex the kill the Baby Rex then feed it to the carchar and his taming will go all the way up then hop on it and kill everything around you to tame it.
To tame, place Dino gates in |_| shape lead carchar into close in 🔲 shape now feed two gallimius then ride kill everything possible don’t bleed too much takes away effectiveness now u run out of time repeat process boom you have carchar
-MrMeola (actually tamed it)
-Horsingdale (writer)
Their healing ability is overpowered. At 100 bloodrage, they regenerate health faster than any healing dino in the game. With a decent Carchar, you can kill wild gigas with ease if you have the bloodrage. Their healing out heals the bleeding effect. Not just that, they don’t rage, and if a fight is looking bad, they can zoom away at a speed as fast as a tek suit. They have a very nice turn radius, and they have better stamina management than a giga has. Overall, these guys are insane for osds and element nodes on extinction. Tested, I ran a purple osd with one tribemate. We had 2 carchars, both non mutated and only 36 base melee points. At 100 bloodrage, we were out healing the damage against us. At wave 7, we were around half hp, but the Carchars were already healing thousands of health by the second. With an extra tribemate, we could have gone for as long as we wanted to. I would definitely use Carchars over gigas in everyday use. The only purpose I see in gigas now is to run bosses on extinction and the mini bosses on fjordur. Even then, gigas may be completely discarded once Carchars are mutated enough. (Gigas will probably always have a use, I’m just being a silly Carchar fan)
3 baby therizinosaurus does it 2 if your very fast
If you bring 2 gallis or 2 trikes it's trust meter goes to 100