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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

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 isles, and gen 2, they eat spoiled meat, normal raw meat, raw fish meat, and basilosaurus exceptional kibble, now for the trap your going to need 3 stone pillars, 2 stone dino gateways, and one large bear trap, for my method I just go for the kibble, I would prefer taming a Karkinos with a catapult rather than a cannon mainly because the cannon takes away the taming effectiveness and has a chance to kill the Karkinos, catapults do not take away any taming effectiveness and have a lower chance of killing the Karkinos, and for the cannon method you will only need 1 cannon ball, for the catapult method about 12 boulders or more depending on the level, now, find a place that has a hill and a flat area, put a thatch platform on the small hill and put the catapult on there and load it, and then place 3 pillars in a way like this, one hugging the middle of the hill, and the two others lowered a little bit and far away (not too far away) from eachother, and then place the large bear trap inside of the pillars, find a Karkinos of your desire and then agro it, lure it to the large bear trap and once it’s stuck put two dinosaur gateways behind it, start knocking it out with the catapult, aim for the body and not the legs since if you hit the legs you will kill it, once it’s knocked out enter inside the trap and feed it whatever it likes to eat, after a bit you will have you own Karkinos! It’s saddle is unlocked at level 65, 🆙 if this helped you :>
More Karkinos Taming & KO Tips
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.
@Stormwebb19
Cannon balls discrease taming effeciency significantly! So for high tame level, always use boulders. Please let other people know! :)
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
We killed the parent and imprinted on the baby, make sure to tell the others hahaha
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.
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.
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)
To the guy who said "rare on floaty islands on crystal" that is a load of crap found 20 on 1 ISLAND!!!
Using a cannon will ko any level crab in one hit, but will SEVERELY drop taming effeciency. If you want one quick, use cannon. If you want a high level use a catapult (the inferior siege weapon).
Knock out with catapult. Make sure to hit body to do torpor. Hitting legs damages it and doesnt knock it out. Shove rotten meat in it.