An all around amazing tame with a variety of uses. Hunt trilobites for oil. Carry armadillos for farming stone and clearing paths. Delicately plucking dinos off an elevator. Exploring. Farming gems from rats. The list goes on and on, just be creative. Its almost OP but it is hard to tame. Not only do you need a catapult but you also need to score only body shots and even then pray that its strong enough to survive the hits. It's tanky, uses surprisingly very little stamina, has a good attack even without the grab, well worth the trouble.

Actually taming it with a catapult is really tricky and most of the time your shots won't even count, from personal experience best thing is to net the Karl and place your catapult above and behind it then aim directly down and shoot

Once you tame the Karkinos anything that fits in its claws just hold them there and traq them

Handy trick, if you're playing on Fjordur and want a high level DO NOT go to the Aberration Cave. There is a second Aberration cave near the Vannaland (South) Southeast teleport. Go inside, and if you find a low level kill it and harvest the corpse. Then do a lap of the cave (make sure to fight stuff to slow you down as if you run too fast this doesn't work), and you should have another spawn. I used this trick and in 5 minutes I had already killed 7 Karkinos, and they were a mix of levels. This is also a great way to farm Organic Polymer. Hope this helped

They sometimes have babies following them but mostly only seen in blue or red zones (Asa only)

Alpha version can damage stone. Everything is lost.

Want an effective trap for the crab?

For about 300 stone and wood the youtuber Captain Fatdog will show you the cheapest and most effective trap

TRANQ ARROWS DON,T WORK you haft to shoot a cannonball shoot it in its head if you shoot it in the leg or it will die. Up if helpful

Hands down the best water cave runner. If you can transfer a karkinos to the island they can easily run both the cavern of lost hope and lost faith without aggroing many creatures. Mosasaurs, jellyfish, and eels all ignore the karkinos making those caves a cakewalk. Even better, the tusoteuthis cant grab the karkinos either.

Is Biggggg Crab, my pet tick is favourite food for mr crabbington

You can use explosive arrows on the tek bow to knock out

It is affected by a net, so to keep it from squirming in trap, net it

I don’t know if this was just a glitch or if anyone has experienced this, but when I took mine down to the ocean floor, the only creatures to actually aggro to me was the Europtryd. Plesiosaurs, electric eels, the giant squids, even an alpha Mosa didn’t try to attack me. Super slow, but this might be the best tame for trekking the ocean floor.

The Karkinos is considered a large predator and therefore does not aggro other predators when ridden (with the exception of other karkinos, rock drakes, etc.), making it a great mount for relatively safe traveling!

HOWEVER!!! Smaller predators WILL attack if your karkinos is holding a prey creature in its claws, so keep this in mind while transporting tames and wild creatures!

Killing these nets you chitin, organic polymer.

Build taming coral. Lead it in. Build pillers around it until it can't move at all. Build catapult and place up high to shoot down at karkinos. Hit top of body. The karkinos body will move downwards and rebound when hit correctly. Shoot carefully as they die easily. Good luck

You can tell if you shot the legs if it throws it’s arms up in the air when you shoot. If it doesn’t move at all when you shoot that means you shot it correctly, so make sure you don’t get it to throw its arms up when you’re nocking it out

Enable wondering on 2 of ur dinos and pick them up with the crab mating at an ease basically u can have ur dinos smash and pass ;)

Karkinos can perform a grab attack that will pull you off of almost any creature. However, they can only do this grab if they are standing in water. Even the slightest puddle of water will let them grab. For your own safety, don’t fight them while they are standing in water, unless you would like to be slammed into the floor repeatedly by a giant spider crab.

Guy best way to do it is with three people. 2 online 1 offline. One guy on the crab and 1 on a anky. The guy on the crab grapples the offline guy. Mine with the anky until the crab is heavy, then put all the metal in the offline guy. Rinse repeat until you cap out in metal on the offline guy. Head back to base and empty everything in the forges. Do this cycle for infinite metal on abberation. ( and if you want it to be faster. Have two anks instead of one. An a weight crab) best metal farming

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