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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Karkinos in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

Z fruit is useful might just be luck but every time I've been grabbed and tossed a fruit I was dropped immediately by the wild ones

You need more chitin and organic poly than you can use? Kill some and hit the bodies with a good chainsaw.

15 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

I killed one with just a bow and movement speed back up shoot turn around and run a little turn and shoot easy way to kill plus lots of chitin and organic polymer easy just bring enough ammo

Those guys are so good on aberration!! They make your life so much easier, gathering resources like stone, wood, metal and crystal is relly fast when combined with an Anky, roll rat...

They have pretty nice stats, with health, weight and stamina being really high!!

Due to the new AI Findpathing It's very hard to trap him, I tame it with a Yi Ling with sap, Slowing it down and trap it between stone gates.

with the new DLC and the net gun i’ve found that you can net a crab and that will give you time to place a catapult and trap for it. or you can place a catapult lure it infront then net it, it should give you enough time to KO it

I find it a little dumb that they can’t break stone their a big ass crab for crying out loud they can break the toughest animals shells with one pinch

13 points🔧 Utility5 years oldReport

Feed the babies spoiled meat... works great. Normally raw meat but these won't eat it, but spoiled meat did the trick for me

Do you have a bp you need crafted? and not enough polyemr to make it, take a rock drake a chain saw and good shotgun, and head to abberation youll be makeing that bp in no time.

14 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

Normal creatures require “light torpor” to knock out and tame. But with the karkinos, astrocetus, rock golem and titanosaur require “raid torpor.” Raid torpor is dealt by cannons or catapults.

- TheScugMaster

On PVE I noticed knocking out with cannon no longer effects the taming effectiveness, so if your are trying to tame make sure to use cannon

You can knock these out using catapults. HOWEVER, you have to make sure you hit their back, and not their legs, or you will only deal damage, without any torpor.

Trapping it in a simple trap made out of stone double door frames usually helps alot. It will enable you to shoot it with a catapult more easily :)

These things are a must have on Aberration. They'll help you get down to the radiation zone to allow you to get better…

Hey guys, Mana here, Syntac has a good Karkinos trap, here is what you need:

-triangle foundations 3x (metal works best)

-door frames 4x (metal again)

-large bear trap 1x

-signboard (yes, metal)

-catapult

-boulders (depends on the karki’s level)

OPTIONAL (but…