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
Karkinos
The Karkinos is a massive crab-like creature in Ark: Aberration that can grab and smash creatures and players. It can also throw them at great lengths. Using its strong legs, the Karkinos can leap to impressive heights.

Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Karkinos in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
If they are in water the can crab you, which leads to a certain death. Not so dangerous on land. (Pun intended)
Has a slow reaction time and you can usually avoid it attacking you by running under its legs.This might change in later patches
I should have known u can’t tame Alpha Karkinos… my mistake😂😂😂 I spawned it with admin commands and it cooked me DID YOU KNOW IT CAN GRAB YOU??? Nah
It takes 17 boulders for a 150 if you don't miss any
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
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!
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.
These things are ur best friend on aberration and their jump is crazy high. Tame one right now!
Bring a snow owl during the taming and heal it if needed
Is Biggggg Crab, my pet tick is favourite food for mr crabbington
They drop Organic Polymer when you harvest their corpse
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…
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!
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
1 shot from a cannon and it's lights out Mr Crabs
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
Good for launching swamp fever dodos into enemy bases and watching them suffer. Or throw a load of tickle chickens. OP.
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…
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.
Up for noobs
The karkinos is immune to radation
Giant crab jumps super high, almost has a heart attack, the spawn in Lunar caves!