Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Lookin to tame one of these giant crabs here’s how so what you’ll need is a canon or catapult, cannon works better for higher level you’ll also need a high ledge or trap I recommend using nooblets Karkinos trap, a fast tamed mount (the mount is optional if things go wrong)
shoot it’s abdomen (behind head) with either cannon or catapult once it’s knocked out feed it what the dododex says and you got yourself a crab boi hope this helped!
More Karkinos Taming & KO Tips
When you are raising the juvenile forms of these, they only eat RAW meat. They will starve if you try to feed them cooked meat from feeding troughs.
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! :)
Whoever said these things breed lied.
THEY CAN BREED NOW GOOD LUCK ON MUTATIONS 👍
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
Due to the new AI Findpathing It's very hard to trap him, I tame it with a Yi Ling with sap, Slowing it down and trap it between stone gates.
ASA: Catapult dont works in offical Servers. User a Canon and shoot at the Back. Build a Trap and good luck.
Cannons do not lower efficiency, one hit knock out, catapults are broken on ASA.
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.