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

We trapped several of these but was very difficult. Several times they would see the trap and turn around, run, and you could not get agro back. The ones we did trap would not agro once in the trap. Did WC implement some sort of trap avoidance BS?

Once we had it in the trap…

If you're taming these use a cannon it will be 1-2 cannon balls, ensure the cannon is about 3 foundations from the trap and 4 pillars high. Easiest tame ever and op

Use a catapult or cannon to knock out. Fire at the head, and the crab will do a little hop NOT a jump to signify you have correctly inflicted torpor

One of the best there is, can pick up 2 ankys at a time and on ab just go down to the blue zone and farm metal till u die (figuratively). We slot capped an anky, myself, a bulbdog, and a rollrat metal farming with one of these bad boys😂

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For easy Rare Flowers to mass tame or keep hives fed, Megachelon will passively produce them. Toss one out for a while, then check its inventory later for far more than you’ll ever use at one time.

People say don’t use a cannon but there are three workarounds that makes the cannon viable for taming efficiency.

1. Build a trap with ceilings across the top where the crabs back sticks thru. You can still hit the back and the ceilings block the splash damage that lowers…

Choose the soldier class, use your rocket launcher to rocket jump over it and shoot it in the back with the rocket launcher.

If you don’t have exceptional kibble, and play on switch/mobile, then you can use turtle kibble, which is way easier to get, due to turtles being common.