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.

Short Tip: Baby Carcharodontosaurus give more xp then gigas.

For the first taming stage, it is based on drag weight. A baby Rex is good for getting 100% trust. Keep more than one dead baby Rex on hand. If it’s trapped, sometimes it will bug out and it won’t get the friend bar after eating it. Either try again if you have enough baby Rexes to spare, or leave render, come back, and try again.

The second taming stage is based off max health of the Dino you kill. It doesn’t matter how much health that Dino has lost, just what the max health is. Baby brontos work very well for this because they have a high max health at high levels, have low health when hatched, and don’t fight back.

The first thing is to find your carchar. I play on 5x taming at level 9 (max Dino level being 270), that roughly equates to 3x taming at level 5. Do be aware that anything less than 5x taming speed will kick you off when you reach a certain percent of taming. At 1x it’s 20%, 2x 40%, 3x 60%, and 4x 80%. This scales with taming level, not difficulty level. If you’re playing on anything less than 5x, have someone else there with you because you will need to bring it back to the trap and re-trap it before being kicked off at whatever percent and whatever taming. To put it like this: if you are on 1x settings, bring it back to the trap before reaching 20% and continue to chomp on things while in the trap until you are kicked off. You’ll need to feed it another Rex to make it friendly again. If you get kicked off due to running out of time, you will lose a large chunk of taming effectiveness. If you get kicked off because of blood rage or percentage, you will lose very little taming effectiveness. If you fat finger and dismount you’ll lose a good chunk of taming effectiveness.

Once you have your carchar and you know your settings, breed together Rexes for babies, and ideally some at or near max level brontos. Next, using either a dimetredon, otter, ac units, or the egg incubator, incubate the eggs until they have about a minute left on the timer. Pick them up/remove them. If you don’t remove it from the egg incubator in time just pick up the structure and they will drop in a bag. Put all your Rex eggs and bronto eggs on a flying Dino with a high weight stat (argys and dreadmares are good for this, if you want you can put it on a different Dino and black hole that Dino if you have a dreadmare and don’t want to worry about weight)

At your trapped carchar, build some two by two foundation squares with decent spacing. Place railing on three sides. I usually build anywhere from 5-10 of these, depending on the level of the carchar. Using an ac unit (you’ll need a generator with gasoline to run it), otter, or dimetredon, throw out 5-6 bronto eggs into each pen and hatch them all the way. Do this before you do your Rex eggs. When all your baby brontos are out, hatch your Rexes and claim the one you are going to shoot. It stops the rest of the babies from fleeing. Bring your bay over to the carchar and feed it. Pick up one of the gate traps and immediately hop on, don’t let it attack any of the babies yet. If it does, it will raise the blood rage but not the taming meter. You’ll have to wait for it to go back down. Go to the first pen and eat the baby brontos there. Keep an eye on your rage and taming meter, and how much the babies in that pen raised it. That will give you a rough estimate on how many you can eat before you have to wait for it to go down again, like if six babies brought your taming to 15% and your rage to 26, you can chomp on 12 more babies before having to wait to chomp again and bring your taming to 30% (if you’re on 1x rates you need to go back to the trap). If you’re on anything below 5x, bring the carchar back to the trap and have someone bring things to you to chomp on. Ideally you want to be kicked off due to percent or blood rage. Wear good armor for the tame so that if it decides to nibble at you, you don’t get one tapped.

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)

3 baby therizinosaurus does it 2 if your very fast

If you get cryo sickness because like me you forgot to turn it off, then just use stem berries or stimulant to wake any creature up

If it takes damage while u ride it it will lower tame efficiency

Everyone says use baby Rex which is true but if you are playing asa then don’t bother breeding Rex’s like they say simply find a wild one with a baby kill it imprint to lead it closer to char ha then kill it and feed this also works with diplo if your on 2x server rates

Always use a trap because if you don’t and I know this from experience that they will almost always agro on to you after feeding it the corpse

If you really need one of these perfect tamed, and accidentally get hit during taming, you can get off and KO it to feed it Archelon sushi to restore effectiveness. Might take a while for it to wake up however…. Debatably worthwhile

The Charchar is a extremely fast and deadly creature.Its believed that a tamed charchar can even kill most of the largest creatures in Ark!I also tested and saw that no matter the stats of this beast.You can tame a Charchar at ANY level!Just be warned...if you approach it with a dead dino in hand to feed.It might bite back.

U can use a yuty or rex baby to feed him

Since I saw people asking where to find these on Ragnarok you can find them in the Highlands

You don't need baby rex's, it's just extremely helpful. I used rex's but it's really up to preference

Took 3 trikes lvl 100+ to get the bar to full up on a level 50. Wouldn't eat them unless I dropped the body outside the trap then left render distance. Came back and he ate while I was gone. Try to be in an area with easy access to dinos to kill and bring back. After circle turned green was able to ride it to finish the tame. Had a 10 min timer. After killing mainly stegos got thrown off and it was tamed. Need a saddle to ride again. Was during event with 8.75 rates

Hey, this is the person who experimented taming these multiple times and wrote that long ass method on how to tame it. I’m back with a similar method on how to tame, but only applies if you have a buddy or two. Build your square trap made out of metal behemoth gateways and attach the needed gates (dinosaur gateways might work too, just make sure they’re made of metal). Make sure you have a space to enter and exit. Build large bear traps at the end of the trap (farthest away from the side you want the carcha to enter). You’re gonna use your friends as bait, so you might have to play rock paper scissors to decide who takes it for the team. Put your bro or any number of people behind the bear traps and have them shoot the carcha to lure it into the trap. One or both of them may die, but it’s a sacrifice you’re willing to make. When the carcha is attacking your homies and/or stuck in the trap, SHUT THAT DAMN DOOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Kill some animals (gallimimuses, trikes, and wooly rhinos are good examples) and stick them into the trap. Get out of render distance so the carcha will eat it. After eating, the carcha will be a little ornery. This is normal. Get an argy or any carrying animal and scatter a bunch of animals around the area. Get your argy or your carrier tame out of harm’s way, far from the trap as possible. Keep feeding the carcha carcasses until the trust meter goes green, and when it is, ride the carcha and kill many animals as you can.

If you have tamed the carcha, congratulations, you’ve done it!!

If the time that the dinosaur is chill is running out and you’re not far into taming progress, ride the carcha back into the trap and repeat the process.

I hope this tip and my previous one has helped people.

You have to feed it a creature as soon as you feed him the first time! So stock up on bodies and just have it close to you (not to the carchar or it eat them to and won’t give any more friendliness)

If you bring 2 gallis or 2 trikes it's trust meter goes to 100