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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a carnotaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a carnotaurus.
Very easy to find a high level one on "the island map". Go to the island in the upper right corner of the map, its known as carno island, but I call it carnivor island cause theres more than carnos there. You can find Raptors, alpha raptors, scorpions, carnos, arges, sabers, and rexes. I suggest looking towards the shore, it isn't as dangerous, and its easier to spot enemies if you already knocked something out. There is an abundance of carnos so finding a good level one is good. And be careful when knocking one out that it doesnt get knocked out in water, they will drown, I lost a level 120 and 150 like that, dont be me! Large bear traps will work on carnos, but depending on how high the level, the more you will need, I suggest 2-3. Knockout with either darts or the tranq arrows. And prime meat is easiest, just let it starve out long enough, you can use kibble but I prefer prime meat.
EZ tame. Take crossbow with tranquilizer arrows. Equip Flak Armor. Go to Carnotaurus of your choice. Get on ground with it. Let it smack you while you tranquilize it. After knockout, place narcotics in inventory with raw meat/raw prime. Tame Carnotaurus. Bring home.
If you just knock it out with a tranq dart and give it meat it will take like two seconds to tame with smoothing balm but if it’s above 20 you might want to get something they like better then meat like a type of kibble
These are super easy to kill if you have a pike
After dlc, they got better but way scaryer, with there main attack degenerating armor and there second doing that bleed, a trap is heavily advised
You don’t need taming pens to tame a carno. Just make some big bear traps and shoot it with tranq arrows. When it runs away just shoot some more arrows while making sure not to kill it and it will get knocked out. Then feed it regular meat and have some narcotics ready
Try and get a pteranodon and use it to get far away then load it up with tramways while it’s coming to you by the time it gets to your you’ll have 3-4 arrows and it will start to run when it does you know your close good luck
I have a strategy to build towers around my island on my single player game so stuff can’t reach me so I finally got a carno around my house and I got to to the top of one of my towers so I could tranq it and I seriously suggest this strategy :)
I personally have tamed them in mass amounts using a ballista turret on a raft made just for taming, and have someone gun it down with tranqs.
low level Carnos are very easy to knockout with tranq darts from the longneck rifle. aim for the head. you can shoot from a distance by time they reach you you hope they are knocked out. if not run for the hills.
Use quetzal to drop them in a taming pen (2x3 worked for me) the you have a save, easy tame.
Took a level 42 carno down within 3seconds with 2 narc arrows! Highly recommend a good distance as very quick. Not to be underestimated !
Use tranq arrows then put meat and bio toxin in bam carno
Can the carno be bolaed? (On mobile)
If your taming a level 7 with raw meat bring 15 bio toxins with you
As soon as you get crossbow tame em! Because according to this app its pretty easy to tame a carno, its so easy to tame it should be early game ( unless this app is wrong)
It says u cant use a regular bola but that's how I trap mine is with a bola.then I tran arrow it in the head
I was tameing a lvl 1 canotaurus and it was atacking me then I got it down then my pets killed it and I hate it
It took me three tranqs to KO a lvl nine
Don't use rocks to tame, they are really good climbers. Only go on Hard cliffs.