Even if you have a swarm of Carnos don't mess with karkinos chances are it will pull you off and turn you into powder before your dinos kill it.
Karkinos
The Karkinos is a massive crab-like creature in Ark: Aberration that can grab and smash creatures and players. It can also throw them at great lengths. Using its strong legs, the Karkinos can leap to impressive heights.
Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Karkinos in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Use a catapult. If you hit all shots you’ll get 100% effectiveness. Cannons are a one shot and a lot easier to use but lower taming effectiveness to about 50% cause of splash damage
Use rare flowers while Usingen the catapult so it will focus you and ITS easy to Hit His Back
Agro it and lead it into bear trap, then shoot it in the back with catapults
To knock out a lvl 150,you need 17 boulders +/-. The maths are simple: boulder give 400 torpor to karkinos each good shot.
(torpor to lvl)/400 = number of boulder (round up)
Like so dododex will know now.
Can you add what kibble it takes on both the animal profile and the kibble chart.
Don’t use old kibble on this it only goes up by .1% per kibble.
If a stego is soaking your turrets you can pick it up with the crab and throw it away to either slow it down or to get to a place where your dinos can finish it off. A death pit also works.
If available, use a quetz with a catapult. Makes it a pretty simple tame.
if you want to shoot him use a crossbow rather than a firearm personally I fired a dozen bullets he hardly lost his life but with three crossbow arrows it was over
When trying to KO the krab and if you do too much damage from hitting the legs accidentally like me lol..put honey on the last spot of your hot bar and toss it at him for fast health recovery, faster than dragging corpse to it.. use a ballista , took about 12 boulders for me to…
When trying to KO the krab and if you do too much damage from hitting the legs accidentally like me lol..put honey on the last spot of your hot bar and toss it at him for fast health recovery, faster than dragging corpse to it.. use a ballista , took about 12 boulders for me to Ko a 145 ( approx as I missed a few)
Having a crab already makes getting more crabs easy. Make a trap, lure a crab into the trap with a parasaur. (Aggroing it on you will work, but it's not 100%, better to grab a parasaur or something like that) then get the wild crab stuck in one section of the trap so it…
Having a crab already makes getting more crabs easy. Make a trap, lure a crab into the trap with a parasaur. (Aggroing it on you will work, but it's not 100%, better to grab a parasaur or something like that) then get the wild crab stuck in one section of the trap so it can't move. (Body block with your own crab, it most likely won't even attack your crab)
Bam. Easy lure, easy body shots.
Use a catapult to KO a cannon lowers taming efficiency just dont hit the legs or face they take a lot of damage if you do
Hitting it in the body and head will do torpor damage in the claws and legs it wont do torpor damage
Keep an eye on health when trying to knock out with catapult. If it gets low, throw herbivores in trap to boost health and keep from dying. Works great!
Having your catapult at ground level is much easier than aiming from above. The boulder will land a little bit above where the counterweight rock at the end of the catapult.
It can grab a Carno. :( Also, Stegos.
These things are overpowered when it comes to defending your base because you can throw away anything they send at you.
I recommend building a trap and using a catapult because if you hit the crab on its pinchers or legs... bye bye karkinos!
Make four stone Dino gates and get a friend to lead it in to the trap then you go behind it and place the 4th Dino gate to trap it. Then get your other friend to agro it so he can shoot the catapult at its back. Put catapult 3 pillars high