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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.
Yo if you tame a Karinos you basically shoot with a cannon or catapult, you knock it out, feed it, and it loves you forever, after you shoot it in the face with a giant metal ball or boulder 🥺
If you do too much damage when trying to KO. Use honey on last spot of hot bar and toss at its face for speedy hp recovery.
I just tamed mine with a Paracer with a catapult on it’s back
I recommend creating a trap using some dinosaur gates and a large bear trap. Because they are very hard to keep still!
Catapult its body to knock it out
Even though it's mainly a water dino, it can still pose a threat to you on land, so be careful!
What makes polymer on Aberration, Valguero, and Fjordur a walk in the park. There are other maps but I have yet to go there (as I decided to do all notes and bosses run). I have harvest setting set to 3.0 so some dinos yield more from the body of a karkinos than others. Moschops can harvest more with the secondary attack with bonuses based on organic polymer bonus by percentage in levels if that makes sense. Regardless of dino you will come home with probably a lot of organic polymer.
You can use a net and a cannon only at the main part of the body
All you have to do it net it, set down a catapult and go to town. Very easy yame once you get the hang of it. Just make sure you do it on flat ground!
Karkinos grab their prey if it is small enough and bash it prey up and down. Best way to get away from one is by running. Karkinos are slow and won't catch up in time you don't spot running!
HOW DOES IT ONLY TAKE 37 CANNON BALLS TO KNOCK OUT A LEVEL 9999????
Crab and anky is the best form of metal gathering as the crab can still move by dropping and picking back up while pushing forward. This enables you to black box an anky. In abberation you can do this in about 15min on normal server settings. Black box anky is 90k raw metal. 45k ingots after smelting. Dont pump any weight into anky. Only melee.
Tranq your mate and run for your life
Beware, usually found near spinosaurus and they don't attack each other.