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 creatures such as rock drakes. However, they're pretty slow without movement speed upgrades :/

Be careful when attacking them since then can grab you off of most mounts (including your own crab)

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

This thing is an absolute powerhouse early game, also if you are nervous of going in blue zone for anky’s use Mr. Krabs and 2 ravagers to gather metal.

Had more luck with the catapult but instead of spacing shots out just violently shot it with the boulders (body) until knocked out. Spacing it out resulted in dead Dino after 50 boulders. Spamming resulted in 16 boulders and knocked out.

Despite being a pain to ko and tame these are some of the best aberration tames(besides the rock drake)

They can pick up most dinos and can easily kill most powerful dinos.

They can jump and are super useful for carrying ally survivors and dinos to raid bases.

best krob

also their chibi is one of the only chibis that aren’t super ugly which is good

You need Exceptional Kibble since the new kibble system.

Unless I am missing something, the Quetzal CANNOT pick up the Karkinos with their feet.

Throwing a plant z grenade can cause a Karkinos to drop you or your dino. Essential when traveling on Ravenger back.

UPDATE: Ankys now auto-swing til half weight like Dodics. Gtab a dodic on the left, anky on the right, stone and metal for days

can be found along with ravagers and other creatures on Valguero. northeast of map, look for underground waterfall.

I talked to a dev he said I should try to tame it like a rock golem he suggested catapults

Make sure you know where your Larkin is is before you set up your trap. Do not lead them to your trap on foot. Kill EVERYTHING in the area before leading them over. Place down bed or sleeping bag. These tips will save you a lot of stress

Wilds are Great for organic polymer and Tamed are great for carrying and throwing stegos to tank during raids

Put catapult on paraser and have a friend run underneath it with a rock drake and the crap won't be able to walk

When using the catapult stick something on your screen where your crosshairs would normally be ( so dead centre of screen)

Will help tremendously when for aiming the thing

Karkinos is one of the most useful games on abberation due to its incredible mobility, its ability to carry creatures, and its usefulness in less extreme fights, so here’s a guide to get you one of these wonderful crabs!

1. Karkinos must be knocked out using a catapult or cannon tranq arrows and darts will not work. When deciding whether to use a cannon, know that it will tank the taming effectiveness of the Karkinos, at the benefit of knocking it out in one hit. This makes it easier to set up, but less rewarding overall. If you decide to use a catapult you will need somewhere around 20 boulders to knock out a 150, however I strongly recommend preparing extra, 30-40 to account for misses etc. you will also need a trap (unless you want to miss a lot, potentially die, and rage). I recommend looking one up on YouTube

2. Karkinos prefer exceptional kibble, and if you have access to it I would recommend using it, it will provide a perfect tame and be quickest. If not however, spoiled meat is also very effective, not giving a perfect tame, but near it. It will take a little longer but you shouldn’t need narcotics to keep the Karkinos unconscious.

3. For the catapult set up your trap and catapult and lure the Karkinos in. Begin shooting it directly on the body (it should have a special animation and do different dmg) which is the only place that will inflict torpor. Eventually it will fall unconcious and you can feed it (there is a small risk of death when using a catapult depending on the health stat so you can feed it a corpse to heal it). For the cannon, since it is a one hit ko, a trap is not needed but make sure you hit it directly on the body. If you miss try again, you will only have a few shots to hit it if you don’t build a trap before it reaches you and attacks.

4. Since karkinos will only aggro bailisks in the green zone they should almost always be safe to leave, if it’s in the blue zone there’s more danger to it being attacked and dying or ruining effectiveness. The Karkinos will usually not need narcotics to tame, so once you put food in you should be good to go

Happy taming!

Stryder cannon does not work for torpor. Does insta-boil the Karkinos though.

Use the net gun to trap one, place down a catapult turret, have boulders in you inventory, start shooting at it. If it runs towards you net it again because they can pull you off your catapult. Once it’s knocked out feed it spoiled meat

Killing these will give you alot of chitin and organic polymer if you ever wanna live on floating islands on crystal isles.