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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a karkinos? karkinos battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
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
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
It'll drop you if you log out.
Unless I am missing something, the Quetzal CANNOT pick up the Karkinos with their feet.
Be careful when attacking them since then can grab you off of most mounts (including your own crab)
Killing these will give you alot of chitin and organic polymer if you ever wanna live on floating islands on crystal isles.
Throwing a plant z grenade can cause a Karkinos to drop you or your dino. Essential when traveling on Ravenger back.
can be found along with ravagers and other creatures on Valguero. northeast of map, look for underground waterfall.
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.
On crystal isles,these are an easy find in the river that surrounds the biggest yellow crystal at the Eastern floating islands.
Easily at least 8 there at a time. Be sure to look at all the small lakes in the area you can find 2 in each of them at anytime.
They seem to have a bug where a Sarco just stands under them so the can’t attack them somehow. I lost 2 craps to a lvl 10 sarco because of that.....
They are slow but if your cornered or surrounded just pray for mercy😇
killed an alpha with my x-allo and only lost 1-2k health, compared to the allo’s over 20k health total. These things are pretty easy to kill if you have a good creature, and are an amazing source of polymer and chitin.
Don't follow into the water, don't use tranqs and don't hit its legs with a catapult
Beware of the front as they do a smash attack with their claws. They also have a pick up move which can pick up small dinos.
Then I told the police he grabbed me...
In the Crystal Isles, there's a large floating island with a massive river. There's at least six of them throughout that river. Get a couple high level aquatic or amphibious tames, I use a max level baryonix and Deinosuchus (modded), but a sarco might work. Don't just bring one creature, these things have no issues teaming up on their prey. Anyway, EXCELLENT resource for chitin and organic polymer, best I've found yet! Beware, though, you're not safe just because you're hovering over the water on a flyer, those things can JUMP!
Um just tell your dinosaurs to follow you and run if your an early player
if you want to shoot him use a crossbow rather than a firearm personally I fired a dozen bullets he hardly lost his life but with three crossbow arrows it was over
Drops organic polymer grabs you and smashes you on ground