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.

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!

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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❗️This is important ❗️ these guys are super super underrated for soaking non-player only heavys. Even with a primitive saddle these things have got such a major damage reduction when it comes to projectiles of any sort. Not only that they can be used to throw highly utilized stegos, or Turtles into someone’s base. these are super easy to tame and are very useful in terms of farming, pvp on aberration, base defense, and believe it or not, SOAKING❗️

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.