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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for karkinos? Tips and strategies for karkinos in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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❗️
If it's getting low on health almost die while taming, don't worry just use owl to heal it up so u can continue to knock him out. Up this please so people can know small tip from me.
If they are in water the can crab you, which leads to a certain death. Not so dangerous on land. (Pun intended)
Will rip you off tame I repeat TAKE YOU PFF YOUR TAME AND KILL YOU EASY
They can be outran on foot with a bit of speed upgrades, however make sure you dont cut it close or else OH YEA MR KRABS
Has a slow reaction time and you can usually avoid it attacking you by running under its legs.This might change in later patches
Kill and use chainsaw for organic polymer or even better use a moschops spec’d into organic farm to really increase that organic poly farm easily
It takes 17 boulders for a 150 if you don't miss any
I just figured out that rocket launchers deal torpor to the karkinos, much like the rock golems, but they die a bit more quicker since they don't have much health and rocket launchers deal a lot of damage.
They often spawn near the lake by the portal in aberration so if your looking for one be careful and don’t swim to deep!
On ASA only use catupolts, cannons no matter if you hit the head it will decrease the taming effectively, and cannons are super hard to aim you have to press buttons in more options to aim it, catupolts are a lot more easy. Up to let people know
If you manage to tame one of these than go and grab stuff and KIl IT :)
They can jump real far and there so strong I recommend it if you want to destroy things
Your crab is out of HP, and there is no annimal corpses to bring? Just put 10+ sleeping bags not far from the trap and let Karkinos kill you enough times to regain HP (as I calculated - 300 HP per death)
This works only when Kark is not fleeing. Otherwise you need to wait until torpor goes down and crab starts to attack. But this worth it. You won't lose the crab you want!
They drop Organic Polymer when you harvest their corpse
Watch YouTube video from captain fatdog karkinos trap and use this to tame them. I struggled so many times and then I realised you can't do it going up a hill. Flat surface and hitting it in the head are the two main problems but as soon as I had got it right it was so easy.
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