ARK: Survival Evolved Taming Calculator
Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

  • Creatures▾
    • All Creatures
    • Capabilites & Carrying
    • Headshots & Modifiers
    • Stats
    • XP Per Kill
  • Items▾
    • Kibble
    • Resources
    • Consumables
    • Dyes
    • Saddles
    • Custom Recipe Calculator
  • More▾
    • Breeding Calculator NEW
    • Stat Calculator
    • Admin Commands
    • Official Server Rates
    • Stories
    • Get Dododex On
    • Android
    • iOS
    • Overwolf

Karkinos
Tips & Strategies

Karkinos Taming Calculator Tips Stat Calculator Spawn Command
Karkinos
All 🥚 Taming & KO 🔧 Utility ⚔️ Encountering 😂 Funny 💡 Everything Else NEW! 📖 Stories 🏷️ Name Ideas

3 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 15, 2022   Report

Fire cannonballs at its head. It's immune to radiation, gives polymer when killed and harvested. Throws dinos and can jump high. Pretty good tame

5 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jan 27, 2021   Report

Don't follow into the water, don't use tranqs and don't hit its legs with a catapult

7 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 11, 2019   Report

Unbelievable but u can actually knock them out with a slingshot, it does roughly 10 torpor so it'd take like 500 shots and it does 20 damage per hit, early game tame technically

7 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jun 17, 2019   Report

Beware of the front as they do a smash attack with their claws. They also have a pick up move which can pick up small dinos.

8 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Sep 16, 2018   Report

Then I told the police he grabbed me...

8 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 30, 2018   Report

On PS4

If you tap the inventory key as fast as you can while airborn on your karkinos, it will glide almost forever.

Over long distances it'll almost be faster than a rock drake as it keeps on building up speed using this trick.

9 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 18, 2017   Report

This thing can hold dodis so you can have to tribe mates in your claws auto harvesting stones as you walk around one your crab, this also keeps the team safe so happy harvesting ;)

4 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 8, 2021   Report

The boulders in ark have very bad hit tracking. You can still tame the karkinos with it however you just have be very patient and have a lot of them. A snow owl is also highly recommended so you can heal your crab when it inevitably gets super low. A magnifying glass is also essential to see if your hits are even doing torpor.

4 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 24, 2021   Report

Always check its health because it can be surprisingly easy to kill them on accident. Let the death of my AMAZING crab learnt from.

0 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 18, 2024   Report

When u pick up velons and u put on agro and turret mode with high stam u basically got crab with miniguns

HAVE FUN WITH UR RAPID FIRE GUNS

1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 26, 2023   Report

How are these omnivores?

4 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 7, 2021   Report

I just got mine so basically make a stone dino gate way with door open and a large bear trap and lead into it and it will get stuck then place one stone dino gateway on its side then another one behind it make them close as possible and then make sure they all have reinforced doors then in between the gaps make a stone foundation and place a catapult and have your friend leading it in circles and hit it in its butt and eventually It will get bloody so make your friends or dino get eaten for karkinos to heal and then fire a boulder and it should get knocked out they like spoiled meat and their torpor takes while to drain

4 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 26, 2021   Report

Note if the if it’s too low of a level knocking it out probably will kill it if it’s any lower than level 20 there’s a good chance you’re gonna kill it.

7 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Dec 9, 2018   Report

Um just tell your dinosaurs to follow you and run if your an early player

0 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Sep 9, 2024   Report

If it's distracted enough with something else you can attack it's rear legs with something smaller and quicker to kill it

0 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Sep 8, 2024   Report

If it's distracted enough or you can get to it's rear legs you can basically ankle bite it to death

4 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 12, 2021   Report

DONT USE CANNON BALLS!! They drop taming effectiveness down to 63% boulders are the way to go. Place three stone gateways in a box shape. Put a large bear tarp in the middle lure him to it. Put the other stone dinosaur gateway to close the trap. Place a catapult on a paracer platform saddle and only aim for the head. If it rotates in the trap just keep moving around on the paracer until you get some shots on him. A Max level takes 16 boulders to the head to get knocked out. If you do it right when it gets knocked out the taming effectiveness will be 100%

5 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 9, 2020   Report

If u want to tame just build a 3×3 stone foundation ang put stone doordrame aroint the foundations exept for the entrace in whick the karkinos will come in and just put a large bear trao ang lure it in and after it will get caught in the vear trap and run around to out a stone dino gat ang badabing bada boom karki os traopes and the rest wll u know what to do catapalut recommended noc cannon

3 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 23, 2021   Report

Made a raft with crab trap and a catapult at the end. Tamed max level like that. Sometimes u can just drive over them to trap them. Super easy and mobile. Amount for the body. Anything else will kill it. U know your doing it right when they do a “cartoonish” pop you on the head animation

4 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jan 19, 2021   Report

In the Crystal Isles, there's a large floating island with a massive river. There's at least six of them throughout that river. Get a couple high level aquatic or amphibious tames, I use a max level baryonix and Deinosuchus (modded), but a sarco might work. Don't just bring one creature, these things have no issues teaming up on their prey. Anyway, EXCELLENT resource for chitin and organic polymer, best I've found yet! Beware, though, you're not safe just because you're hovering over the water on a flyer, those things can JUMP!

Previous Page Next Page
All Karkinos Tips
Switch language: English, العَرَبِيَّة, Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, Español (España), Suomi, Français, עברית, Hrvatski, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Latviešu, Norsk, Nederlands, Polski, Português (Brasil), Română, Русский, ภาษาไทย, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, 简体中文

More ARK Tools

  • ARK Maps
  • Forge Calculator
  • PC Patch Notes
  • XBOX Patch Notes
  • PS4 Patch Notes

Community

  • Discord
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • ARK Facebook Group
  • Instagram

Guides

  • ARK Taming Guide
  • ARK Knock Out Guide
  • ARK Breeding Guide

Partners

  • Rent an ARK Server
  • Top ARK Servers
  • FR ARK France
  • DE ArkForum.de

More

  • 💡 Suggest A Feature
  • 🚩 Report An Error
  • 👕 Shirts & Merchandise
  • 🌎 Translate
  • 🦕 ARK 2
Support Me on Patreon
List of Supporters & Credits
Dododex is an ARK taming calculator app for ARK: Survival Evolved (PC, Xbox, PS4, Switch). © Dan Leveille 2025. All rights reserved. Privacy.
More things I've made:   🏳️‍🌈 Equaldex   |   Chacy