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What are tips for carcharodontosaurus? Tips and strategies for carcharodontosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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
How to tell if your carcharo's melee damage is good:
If the melee damage increases by +5% each time it levels up. If your leveling is multiplicative instead, then you did not tame a good enough carcharo.
Also if your carcharo has at least 260% melee damage, then you can use it to kill gigas, other carcharos, and titanos easily to get more exp. If it's imprinted, then you only need 200% melee damage. (1.5k damage per bite with 100 stacks)
I was going to blue obelisk to fight Megapithecus, and saw a level 9 of one these bad boys. I told my friend that I’m going to keep our army as far as I possibly could from that thing, then the rexes start running, me and my friend look over, and they are fighting. I have no choice, I send in the whole army for the most scariest battle of my life, I thought I would win. 30 seconds later I lost 19 rexes, 1 yuty, myself, and my friend. DO NOT GO NEAR THESE THINGS IF YOU LOVE YOUR FAMILY.
Don’t do this near an argentavis it will eat the dead body
Watch Syntac's video for taming this creature is the best advice I can give. Best of luck.
The person who said it’s only tamed for ten minutes is wrong they just didn’t understand the taming process you feed it creature bodies (gallimimus is favorite) then you can ride it but it’s not “your friend” you have to kill things with it wile you ride it then it’s tamed forever this person just didn’t do the last part of taming
The Critical Carcharodontosaurus
DIFFICULTY LVL:- 8/10 [ARDUOUS]
IN ORDER TO TAME A CARCHARODONTOSAURUS:-
THINGS YOU'LL NEED:-
1. A Shotgun or anything that can kill dinos easily.
2. 5 Metal Gates to trap it and a Large Bear Trap. (It can damage stone).
TAMING:-
METHOD NO. 1:
Kill the dinos nearby and now leave their corpse. Then build 4 Metal Gates in a round formation. Then put the Large Bear Trap. Moving forward, if you have a quick mount (such as a Thylacoleo, Gallimimus etc) or a flyer (such as Argentavis, Griffin etc) or even barefoot by putting some points in speed trap it in the Large bear trap and then quickly put the 5th Metal Gate behind it.
Once trapped, feed it a corpse and then a Trust Metre appears on the Carcharodontosaurus. Feed it more dead bodies. When the Trust Metre/Bar gets completed/full, you can ride on it and kill creatures. There will be a time limit for it. If the time limit gets over, you'll get dismounted and you know next. If you kill the creatures before the time limit, you'll own yourself a Carcharodontosaurus :D
DIFFICULTY:- 6/10 [INTERMEDIATE]
FACTS:-
1. It's saddle unlocks on lvl 96 an needs:-
590 Hide
350 Fibre
180 Metal Ingot
250 Chitin/Keratin or Shell Fragment
2. It's basically way more faster than a Giganotosaurus
So, faster = deadlier. However the Giganotosaurus hits harder but slower.
3. It's more stronger in long battles as the Giganotosaurus hits hard but Carcharodontosaurus scales up during long battles, making it more deadlier the longer it fights.
4. It has a rage mode like the Giganotosaurus called Bloodrage Mechanic. The more dinos it kills, the damage, movement speed and health regeneration increases. When fully stacked, it can surpass a Giganotosaurus.
5. It can damage structures upto stone like the Giganotosaurus.
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Carch give almost 4x more xp than a giga.
K really you only find these were Gigas are in highlands mountains snow up it this was helpful
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when taming these guys after trust meter us filled get baby dinosaur with max health because the more health something has the faster and higher the taming bar goes up
I just found a level 10 giga and then 10 meterd away from that a level 30 giga… then 60 meters to the right a level 100 charcharo im planning on sacrificing a baby rex to it wish me luck guys
I don’t have to run faster than the carcha. I just have to run faster than my friends.
I just tamed my first Carchar and I found out that you don’t have to use traps you can just stay a good distance away and bring the dead thing close and then run away to avoid being eaten. Hopes this helps anyone
After you gain a wild carcharos trust (the hexagon turns GREEN), it you are able to damage it and it will not attack back (tested on ark use) this allows you to easily kill it within 10 minutes using a high damage dino as carcharos with a green hexagon cannot damage tamed creatures unless the tamed creatures are unclaimed, (I tried this with tamed low level creatures I no longer needed) and are only aggressive to wild creatures. However when the 10 minute timer expires the carcharo will roar, dismount you if you were riding on it then after a few seconds it will act like a wild carcharo again and attack you and your tames.
Don’t make these guys angry they will kill you, your pt, your rex, your neighbor, your disowned uncle, and your favorite cartoon character, please be careful.
Me and my dad were getting metal at the volcano and we saw a stuck charcardontosaurus, so I was like no way I’m going in there, but my dad was like it’s stuck it’ll be fine. So he went in but I stayed flying. We were both on argys btw. He goes in turns out, surprise, surprise, the charcardontosaurus wasn’t stuck and he got one shotted, buuuuut his level 80 argy literally one v oned that charcardontosaurus and beat him!
They’re adding this! Finally! A new creature that actually lived once!
P.S. I’m a dino nerd🤓☺️
-Eighthop