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4023 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 28, 2018   Report

Tranq Arrows/Darts DO NOT WORK!!! To knock this out you need to use a catapult and shoot in only on it's back. If you shoot it on it's legs it will kill it.

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1521 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 29, 2020   Report

Cannon balls discrease taming effeciency significantly! So for high tame level, always use boulders. Please let other people know! :)

867 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 6, 2020   Report

Pretty easy to tame. Trap it in a circular form of stone Dino gates, place catapult low if catapult is high the crab will die. Then shoot it with a catapult. Cannons insta kill the crab, do not use cannons

425 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 12, 2022   Report

Are this guys worth taming there’s a max level in around my base up if I should go for it down if no

606 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 2, 2020   Report

Guide to using Stego(s) as Swords:

1. Put Stego(s) on aggressive.

2. Pick them up using the Crab

3. Walk near target.

4.Enjoy

869 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 12, 2017   Report

Jumps super high and can launch stegos ... two at a time RIP turrets lol

8 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 10, 2023   Report

You can tell if you shot the legs if it throws it’s arms up in the air when you shoot. If it doesn’t move at all when you shoot that means you shot it correctly, so make sure you don’t get it to throw its arms up when you’re nocking it out

56 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 22, 2022   Report

You can pickup and yeet dinos with it

598 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 20, 2017   Report

If you are missing with your catapult and it's dying, drag dino corpses to it and let the karkinos eat the corpses. It will heal him up a lot then try again with the same torpor you left off with.

1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   9 days ago   Report

How do you stop it from jumping out of the trap

559 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 14, 2017   Report

This tame is like the Rock elemental, but do not shoot it in the head. Shoot it right in the back of it's shell. Anywhere else will kill it fast.

268 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Sep 15, 2020   Report

To the guy who said "rare on floaty islands on crystal" that is a load of crap found 20 on 1 ISLAND!!!

319 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 11, 2020   Report

I understand that all the previous tips submitted were useful, but just in case it was not clear, hit the TOP OF THE CRAB, it will have a special animation if you hit it in the correct spot, and will take only a small amount of boulders to tame, even a high level. (Irrelevant with Cannons)

477 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 15, 2017   Report

If you're carrying a tamed Doedicurus in your claw the Doedic will automatically start harvesting any stones you hover him over. Just start pumping points into your Doedic's weight because it will stop at about half of its own carry weight. I've yet to discover another tame it will work with though...

6 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 30, 2023   Report

Watch YouTube video from captain fatdog karkinos trap and use this to tame them. I struggled so many times and then I realised you can't do it going up a hill. Flat surface and hitting it in the head are the two main problems but as soon as I had got it right it was so easy.

Up for noobs

433 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 19, 2017   Report

Be careful when carrying a Dino that has a tribe mate mounted on it. I was walking up a hill carrying my anky with a tribe mate on it and they went under the map and died. RIP ANKY AND SHINEHORN. Tribemate was eh anyway.

207 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Oct 23, 2020   Report

I’d say I’m having pretty bad day. So, I just bought Abberation and I was so excited, so I went over to the water. I don’t know much about Abberation, so I thought the Karkinos was just a kind little crab. Oh boy was I wrong.. I went closer to the water, as I was thirsty. But the Karkinos comes running up to me, picks me up and shreds me to pieces. Let’s just say I took a little break from Abberation 1 minute after I bought it.

60 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 3, 2022   Report

TRANQ ARROWS DON,T WORK you haft to shoot a cannonball shoot it in its head if you shoot it in the leg or it will die. Up if helpful

371 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Dec 10, 2017   Report

It's a Giant crab that can throw it's enemies far away

34 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 16, 2022   Report

Net projectile works on these, so craft your catapult and boulders, find your crab and net it. Proceed to set up the catapult a few feet from its face and you can easily just fire all required shots before the net expires. You’re welcome!

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