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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a carcharodontosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a carcharodontosaurus.
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)
NOTE: IF YOU CRYO A CHAR DON’T THROW IT OUT UNTIL YOU DROP ALL YOUR ITEM OR STORE THEM AWAY. THE ITEM WILL GET DELETED OR YOUR FILES GET CORRUPTED IF YOU THROW THE CHAR OUT. THIS MIGHT ONLY APPLIES TO ARK MOBILE.
Baby Diplos give 100% trust so tame and cryo one
After you tame it you will be automatically dismounted and flung to either side of the carcharo, then after you land near it you can take anywhere from 75 to 150 fall damage. This can instantly kill you then leave your carcharo and your items lost if you don't know where you died.
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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(This is a solo tip idk how it would go in PVE or PVP) not that hard of a tame actually, it basicaly only take a baby apex creature (rex, spino, yuty etc...) to allow you to mount it, my first Carcha was a lvl 25 and i was level 32, i tamed 2 really low level spinos, made them breed, mercilessly killed their offspring, dragged it to the Carcha, the beast sniff the corpse giving you time to take some distance off of it, and once it eat its meal you mount ! Then you kill everything in your path, took me only one run with some hit taken (91% effectiveness) but i managed to get this wonderfull beast, though now its kinda useless because i can't ride her...
But technically you can get a Carcha really soon in the game, rex are kinda easy to tame for the SACRIFICE !
Just kill everything you see that’s not a them spikey small Dino’s that you attack does dance back
Craft a mindwipe potion if your high level put lot in health get 634 weight then you can drag a rex,paraceratherium,rhynio,spino but still can't drag a yuty
How to tame a Carcha with the Equus Hunter
1. Get a baby yuty, or Rex
2. If you have galli’s line them up and unclaim them
3. Ride the Carcha and kill the galli’s
4. Success! You now have a Carcha!
5. Make the saddle!
Gl and hope it helped!
It's not a ko tame bring trikes to it and rexs
I don't know why (and it's also like this for giga for me), when i tame them they always have 50% melee not 100%.
Use the votes to indicate if this happens to you as well. (This is ark survival evolved on custom settings)
It may look easy or might be easier to tame.
You just need at least creatures with drag weight, mainly
•𝐑𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐬, 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬
•𝐆𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬
•𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨
• 𝐘𝐮𝐭𝐲
Or anything that's an apex predator or a creature around and above 500 drag weight
Though you might need to get their baby variants via tamed creature breeding, for those who might not have cryopods (like me) you might wanna pre-hatch the egg (Keeping the egg incubation at 5 or more) then kill once it's ragdolled, and slowly but steadily sacrifice the baby to rise the trust meter if it's drooling (passive state with head close to her body) if it sniffs, it's good to drop the sacrifice and back up a a few meters away because you'll never know when she'll jump or not, make sure to at least keep carnivores away from the sacrifice corpse because they'll eat it (why keep them away alive? Because you need it for the second phase)
Once that's done and allows mounting, just jump at least any creature, (mostly the bigger ones with health) and try not to get hit because if you get hit or accidentally jumped off the landscape (due to it's speed) that decreases the taming efficiency and since the Carcha has a hell lotta damage it might be easier, though It'll be reduced by 80% once tamed but to tame it you'll have to avoid reaching 100 kills, getting damage on the Carcha too badly or letting the time run out because they will get the Carcha buck you off and bite you.
(I just realized this could be shortened)
If you don’t have a baby rex this is what I did instead I used a alpha raptor
First try to tame one. I hadn’t been able to find a good level one but if you need creatures to kill- you can give several babies or low levels.
I used Wyvern babies- didn’t even trap it- I did have to run after him but other than that he was an easy tame.
Make sure the area is clear of anything that can kill you. And ensure you sit your flier a bit back
Um, shouldn’t all large carnivores be tamed this way, logically? Instead of shooting them with 100+ arrows/darts tipped with drugs so that they get knocked unconscious and then you somehow force meat down their throat?
Not asking anyone to change anything, but it is curious to me. Carch is the only one getting fair treatment here.🤣
On fjordur these guys along with gigas spawn at the mountain nearest to the green obelisk
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
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.
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
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.