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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Encountering Tips

How do I kill a karkinos? karkinos battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
I’d say I’m having pretty bad day. So, I just bought Abberation and I was so excited, so I went over to the water. I don’t know much about Abberation, so I thought the Karkinos was just a kind little crab. Oh boy was I wrong.. I went closer to the water, as I was thirsty. But the Karkinos comes running up to me, picks me up and shreds me to pieces. Let’s just say I took a little break from Abberation 1 minute after I bought it.
It's a Giant crab that can throw it's enemies far away
They spawn in Genesis in several caves in the Lunar biome
Make sure to carry around grappling hooks
If picked you can graple the crab and it will let go
In the wild crabs and spinos are buddies... they use the buddy system...
Available at floating island caves in Crystal Isles.
They're very rare in there so be patient
They can walk over spiked walls.
If you want to kill one use a Dino or a crossbow. Don't use guns because it Tales less damage from them! Thank me later!
Karkinos can perform a grab attack that will pull you off of almost any creature. However, they can only do this grab if they are standing in water. Even the slightest puddle of water will let them grab. For your own safety, don’t fight them while they are standing in water, unless you would like to be slammed into the floor repeatedly by a giant spider crab.
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
Alpha version can damage stone. Everything is lost.
If they are in water the can crab you, which leads to a certain death. Not so dangerous on land. (Pun intended)
When on a tame don't shoot at it otherwise it'll pick you instead.
Will rip you off tame I repeat TAKE YOU PFF YOUR TAME AND KILL YOU EASY
Has a slow reaction time and you can usually avoid it attacking you by running under its legs.This might change in later patches
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!
They drop Organic Polymer when you harvest their corpse
Giant crab jumps super high, almost has a heart attack, the spawn in Lunar caves!
This is a angry crab that you should not get near or it will rip your toes off and use your lungs as a doormat