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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

Easiest tame on Abberration for knockouts. Use a catapult and small trap(stops them from walking, they just spin around). Hit them in the back for good torpor. Once they start to flee(not fighting), wait til they pause to hit them one more time in the back for the win.
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.
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Cannon balls discrease taming effeciency significantly! So for high tame level, always use boulders. Please let other people know! :)
So I do use the net gun mod on ASA, however if you net them and place 3 foundations underneath with 2 ramps in a “<“ shape it will absorb the splash from a cannon.
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
THEY CAN BREED NOW GOOD LUCK ON MUTATIONS 👍
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.
To the guy who said "rare on floaty islands on crystal" that is a load of crap found 20 on 1 ISLAND!!!
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)