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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.
I have knocked out a 150 with 10 catapults but I have tamed over 100 so have at least 18 ready cause not all topor is the same...
You can net them. Trap isn't needed ;)
Hard knock out tame! Best food extraordinary kibble or spoiled meat. Shot it at the body not legs.
Can be used to tame aggres-passive dinos (e.g arthropluera) more easily by grabbing them since it doesn't drop them when you dismount like argentavis.
so these things are easy to tame. It’s easiest to do in multiplayer but also is pretty easy in single player just requires more work. So in multiplayer how did it (in aberration) got my friend to agro onto him, so i could catapult it in the back of the shell (⚠️DONT DO IT ANYWHERE ELSE BUT THE BACK OF THE SHELL⚠️) and it knocked out fed it and boom. Now onto single player, So how i did it was get something that can tank A LOT of hits such as a carbonemys and place the catapult behind the karkinos and shoot it until it knocks out. and that’s about it!
If you intend on fighting a Karkinos with a creature that can not be picked up, make sure to never attack the Karkinos from the back of your mount. Ex, crossbow, rifle, etc. If you do the Karkinos will agro onto the player at witch point it can pluck you right off your mount.
Walking Turret:
1. Grab dino
You can use different Dinos for this:
- Dilo (Low DPS) (slower Speed and Bad Vision)(Low damage)
- Velona (High DPS) (Medium damage)
- arthropluera (Low DPS) (opponent Armor destruction) (Medium/High damage)
2. Put the Dino on turrets Mode and agressive
3. Enjoy you Walking turrets
If you don’t really need him for fighting and just want him to carry your anky to farm metal then just claim a wild baby and farm metal with that then you can get a higher level later because you will have plenty of spare metal for a cannon or catapult
So I do use the net gun mod on ASA, however if you net them and place 3 foundations underneath with 2 ramps in a “<“ shape it will absorb the splash from a cannon.
Easy Tame. Used catapult and stone gates, though I had to use an owl a couple times. Very cheap like 320 metal for the whole thing.
Don’t make my mistake, make a catapult not a cannon to tame it.
If you want to knock it out with out trapping it have a parcer with a platform saddle it must have at least 2000 health to be safe place the cattpult at the back faceing the back also bring like 15 boulders to be safe and something that you could use to kill one if things get out of control. Lastly you need to make sure there are no alphas nearby in the water because I have encountered a couple before.aim for the abdomen and good luck!
It prefers Exceptional kibble, let everyone know till dododex updates
When the crab gets low and another boulder might kill it, just hop back to your base and fetch some crappy babys or any other crappy dinos you might want to get rid of and chug them right in his face. Due to cryo sickness the crab will kill them quickly and it restores a ton of health! I fed 10 to 15 bad megalosaurus babys to a 150 crab and healed it from under 1k to full 6k health in 1 minute. Just take off with a flyer so the crab actually aggros to the „food“