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What is a carnotaurus used for? carnotaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Jurassic Bio: Carnotaurus
Name means: Flesh-Eating Bull
Period: Mid to Late Cretaceous
Diet: Carnivore
Height: 12ft
Length: 20ft
Description: Carnotaurus was a South-American predator, named after its bull like horns. As alarming as those horns look, they where not used as weapons. They were used for desplay when looking for a mate.
— The Wyvern King tm
In the wild these guys arent very dangerous. But a tamed one with a saddle is menacing. It can ring quicker than a rex. Its stronger than a raptor and also ignored by raptors. They only have one downside and that is that it has a slow stamina regeneration. But other than that. This is amazing as a tame. And is also pretty safe to tame cause raptors won't attack it.
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.
The first thing I tame once I get tranq arrows and a bow.
Just build a trap out of stone (or wood if You don’t have stone yet)
shoot it with in the head with tranqs, feed it raw mutton and narcotics, You have a Carno now!
They’re great with Raptors or even Dilos if you don’t have the saddle unlocked yet. They can even take out Rexes or low level Basilisks if there’s multiple.
Besides, they can go inside your base for defending it since they’re not too big.
Carnos are excellent mounts and hunting and battle companions. At mid-level, my pack of five have speed slightly superior to a raptor and strength comparable to a low level Rex. Focus on building melee, speed and stamina. Combine them with a couple raptors, a Rex and a Trike and there will be very little you can't overcome.