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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Karkinos in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

Welp, I’m going to tell you how I and I think you should tame a Karkinos using this hopefully simple method, to begin with, you can only knock out a Karkinos with a cannon or catapult, nothing else, And they are omnivores, they spawn on valguero, aberration, gen1, Crystal…

I don’t see this a lot but if you pick something up, you can knock it out while the crab is holding it. I nicked out a Dodic this way and it worked pretty whell. If wou get one with high health you can probably use it to get a ravager or raptor.

Don’t forget to bring a magnifying glass to make sure the torpor stays above the hp other wise you have a decent chance of killing it if it was recently fighting sarco or dimetrodon

On fjordur these can be found on the abberation cave near balheimr they need catapult turrets to tame these things are walking taming pens on pc they pick creatures using right or left click respecting each hands by c they'll throw the creatures they can jump super long…

Can harvest with chain saw for poly just tame a low level cloner or kill wilds but as far in know chainsaw best tool

Karkinos is also great at defense, is someone is trying to soak your turrets with stegos or turtles you can toss them away and win a lot of time while the atackers have to go take their tames back. Especially if near a ledge or cliff

Make sure that you hit it's back if you hit it's legs it will die and trust me you feel like a idiot if you kill it

Walking harvesting tank. Dual wield doedics and auto harvest stone or have friends on them to really load them or an anky up

My friends and I tamed one and I then tamed an anky. Boom tons of metal, I just picked him and the anky up with the crab and then he would harvest the metal nodes

Use stone dinosaur gates to trap it next to a bank or cliff. Build a catapult on high ground and hit it in the body with boulders. Be careful not to hit it anywhere else as a couple misses will kill it before it downs.

Basically immune to status effects like pachy gas and dilo spit since they won't use their ability when picked up

Knocking it out with a cannon is easier, but will cost you 30 taming effectiveness. Choose wisely. Also, only aim for the head/torso. Hitting it's limbs will NOT induce torpor, and may kill it if you hit them too many times.

My "trap" for a 140 consisted of 3…

Aim for his butt with bolders. Also, be carful or you’ll end up dying if you Don’t have backup

Honesty it’s ability to carry is insane, you can dismount and it will still hold the creature you’re carrying, can carry two, can throw insanely far, and can even pick up stegos.