This is one of the easiest to tame dangerous creatures and one of the more helpful carnivores in the game. It has speed to chase down fast herbivores, it’s a great prime meat gatherer, and it has an easy and quick kibble for powerful creatures like dire wolves. Definitely a good choice for a person taming their first dangerous dinosaur.

HOW TO TAME A CARNO

PREPARATION

At least 20 or so tranq arrows, (get as many as you need, check Dododex’s KO section), use a crossbow if you can to speed up the process. Get regular kibble, and if you don’t have one, then get a lot of meats, preferably prime meat. You do not need a trap for the carnotaurus; level up your speed and stamina a bunch of times and you can outrun the Carno. If you think this is dangerous, use a quetzal with platform saddle, or use a natural terrain like a small cliff.

KNOCK OUT

Here comes the intense part, knockout. Even if it may seem intimidating, knocking the Carno out is fairly simple. All you have to do is to find a spot, go on a quetzal with platform saddle, or run while shooting tranq arrows at the Carno. When the Carno is running away, chase after it, if you are on foot, this is where your speed comes in to play. Keep a safe distance away from the carnotaurus though because sometimes they fight back and fake you out. Shoot another few times until it’s knocked out.

FEEDING

Once it’s knocked out, you can feed it the kibble or the meats you have. You can stay next to it while it’s asleep or take the safer option, go away from it since they usually stay in dangerous areas. Once you are far away from the Carno, the server will stop making creatures attack each other. Use Dododex’s taming timer and wait until it’s done. Go back to it and voila! You have successfully tamed a Carno. (Unless you are like me and a Spino suddenly spawned and killed my Carno the first time)

WARNINGS

Do not use bolas on him, it does not work. Get him to a safe area before attempting to tame him because he is not the strongest nor smartest creature in ARK. Only use bows, crossbows, and other high torpor low damage weapons like longneck with tranq darts. Don’t think taming a Carno makes you the boss of ARK, raptors can still jump you from the shadow realm and pounce you off.

FEATURES

The Carno is a great harvester of meats and is a good early ~ mid-game tame to have. It is a great fighter, protecting you in many scenarios. If you live in the southern part of the island, you will be completely safe (mostly).

And that’s it for how to tame a Carno, hope this helps and wish y’all a great day.

—Fluxzy

HOW TO TAME A CARNO

PREPARATION

At least 20 or so tranq arrows, (get as many as you need, check Dododex’s KO section), use a crossbow if you can to speed up the process. Get regular kibble, and if you don’t have one, then get a lot of meats, preferably prime meat. You do not need a trap for the carnotaurus; level up your speed and stamina a bunch of times and you can outrun the Carno. If you think this is dangerous, use a quetzal with platform saddle, or use a natural terrain like a small cliff.

KNOCK OUT

Here comes the intense part, knockout. Even if it may seem intimidating, knocking the Carno out is fairly simple. All you have to do is to find a spot, go on a quetzal with platform saddle, or run while shooting tranq arrows at the Carno. When the Carno is running away, chase after it, if you are on foot, this is where your speed comes in to play. Keep a safe distance away from the carnotaurus though because sometimes they fight back and fake you out. Shoot another few times until it’s knocked out.

FEEDING

Once it’s knocked out, you can feed it the kibble or the meats you have. You can stay next to it while it’s asleep or take the safer option, go away from it since they usually stay in dangerous areas. Once you are far away from the Carno, the server will stop making creatures attack each other. Use Dododex’s taming timer and wait until it’s done. Go back to it and voila! You have successfully tamed a Carno. (Unless you are like me and a Spino suddenly spawned and killed my Carno the first time)

WARNINGS

Do not use bolas on him, it does not work. Get him to a safe area before attempting to tame him because he is not the strongest nor smartest creature in ARK. Only use bows, crossbows, and other high torpor low damage weapons like longneck with tranq darts. Do not think that you are the boss of ARK after taming him, raptors can still jump you from the shadow realm and pounce you off.

FEATURES

The Carno is a great harvester of meats and is a good early ~ mid-game tame to have. It is a great fighter, protecting you in many scenarios. If you live in the southern part of the island, you will be completely safe (mostly).

And that’s it for how to tame a Carno, hope this helps and wish y’all a great day.

—Fluxzy

Rule of thumb. If these guys attack your tame while you are riding on it, that means that it is not an apex predator. Apex predators include the rex, spino, giga, carcharo, rhynio, and I guess megatheriums too, so only wild versions of these dinos will be aggressive to the tamed versions.

Here’s how I easily tamed one:

Step 1: locate a Carno

Step 2: use an already tamed flying dino such as the pteranodon and lead it towards a cliff

Step 3: If it’s on the top part of the cliff then make it jump and fall into the lower part

Step 3: land on the top part of the cliff and shoot the Carno with tranq arrows (the cliff needs to be steep so that it doesn’t ham you)

Step 4: give it meat and surround it with wooden spikes if there are dangerous dinos nearby

Like so that noobs see this

You just need a couple trank arrows, at least about nine, maybe some hide armor, and then climb up onto a rock that he can’t get up onto, then shoot him or something to Agro him, and once he comes to the base of the rock and attempts to kill you, shoot him with the tranks. Then when he tries to run away, just jump down and chase him. But make sure he doesn’t get KOed in water.

Helpfull words here, (last tip I made was in raptor)

And I'm here to tell you why carnos are one of the best mid to late game tames. Why? Let's find out.

Mid game : carnos.... well there good and I mean really good. Left click attack is a bite that last for 2 seconds and right click attack is a horn ability that uses its horn/head to hit a target. Right click ability has bleed and good push back. I recommend spamming the right click ability as the bleed helps a lot. Carnos mid game and late game are great defenders of bases due to there melea,hp, and speed. Recommended level ups are hp , melee, weight, stamina and like 5 into speed. 30 into melee 30 into hp 10 into weight 10 into stamina and 8 into speed. (RECOMMENDED BY ME)

Late game : ok carnos in late game are really good. Like mid game, perfect gaurds for late game. Mix carnos and raptors with gaurds and you got a deadly mix. Easily takes out rexes and spinos 10 carnos 10 raptors 20 carnos can take on mid to maybe high lvl alpha rexes. Just make sure if your riding one. Don't go in the water as there the same speed as raptors in water.

Extra stuff : (pvp stuff is in the top in mid game) yes there is alpha carnos (they are red whitish and have a orange glow) much stronger than normal carnos and can not be Tamable. As though there stronger than alpha raptors there not stronger than alpha rexes in this case.

Thank you for reading this... name suggestion : Toast (The gaming beaver) (male) I'll work on a female name.

I recommend, if u don’t have a spyglass, to get enough arrows for a 150. Just in case the Carno you have your eye on happens to be that. I tamed a lvl 60 but outrunning it with my raptor and shooting it with arrows. Its not easy, but it gets the job done without having to build traps and stuff like that. You can just bear trap it and knock it that way.