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!

To the guy who said that he placed turrets to kill a karkinos. Karkinoses take 10% projectile damage so a turret bullet will only deal 10 damage to it so sort of a waste. The best way to kill one is to use another one thats around the same level or higher even a lower one will work but not as well and belive me your going to be wanting to kill lots of these as each on gives you like 10 to 50 organic polmer and lots of chitin when harvested with another karkinos.

I'd call these guys a must tame for abby. Might not look like it but these guys are probably the most mobile or atleast have the most verticality (can jump very high) in abberation excluding rock drakes. Also, good carry weight, can carry 2 ankys at a time making metal runs extremly easy (ankys auto-harvest metal if you have them on wandering, so put them on wandering, pick them up with the crab and go near metal nodes. He can throw them, go to them, pick them up, throw them up again over and over if its too much weight and you want to head home.) But do be wary, they can pick you up and they will kill you if they do and you dont have some sort of security measure like a tamed spino nearby to target the crab if something goes wrong with trapping it.