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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a carnotaurus used for? carnotaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Outclassed by Allos somewhat but a good early-mid game mount (especially since Allos can be very hard to tame considering how hazardous the regions they inhabit are).
They are fast and have a slim profile making them great for traversing the forests and the coastlines, their bleed lets them tear through otherwise tanky dinos with some work. However they are not good for handling the bigger dangers on the Island since they don’t get any pack benefits and are pretty frail, luckily their speed lets them escape most dangers.
These guys make creatures bleed like the Deinonychus I had about five that were high level and we managed to kill a Giganotosaurus! It was about level six. Two of them died, their names were Strike and Smash. Please up this tip to encourage me to look for more Stolen Headstones so I can give them a personal gravestone. Sniff Sniff
CAREFULL WITH THAT PRIME MEAT even though the spoil bar doesn't go down in a carno inventory they do spoil in his inventory just as fast as your inventory I learned this after me and my pod of ichthyosaur killed a basilo and got its meat put it in Carno and boom its gone and I knew he didn't eat it cause there where like 20 spoiled meat and his regular meat stack I had for him was still the exact same from when I had put the prime meat in
Its a very good mid game tame here are how useful it is during levels
1-20 8/10 hard to tame during this early a low level is good enough
21-31 9/10 good late early game dino good to tame a level 10 to 30 at this level
32-49 10-10 one of the best mid game dinosaur to tame at this level the recommended level to tame one is 51 to 70
50-70 8/10 late game good tame but out shined by better dinosaurs if you want to tame one first find a high level carno preferably in its hundreds repeat till you get at least 15 to100 like an army
71-123 5/10 yea it sucks like a lot if you want one yea just get a trex or a giga
I have a little story. So I'm exploring with my iguanadon and I get swarmed by a pack of Raptors. Of course I left the thing on passive flee so it gets destroyed and I die. I'm like whatever and go get my other iguanadon. It doesn't stand a chance. I'm throughly pissed so just grab my carno (who I dont like, they look dumb as hell) and go to get my stuff. It killed many dilos, chompies, Raptors and a thezanisaurus. The thing is a beast. 10/10 would recommend for protection
While it can be overshadowed by more useful alternatives (argentavis) or stronger predators (Rex, Spino, etc), it is a very accessible tame early on if you need something to protect yourself and run around with (looking at you Aberration). Even with a bow, you don’t really need that many tranq arrows and it can, at high levels, shred everything you encounter, except maybe other tamed dinos or gigas (Would not recommend for bosses either), which helped me commit genocidal war crimes at the spino river in Aberration to level up fast.