Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for karkinos? Tips and strategies for karkinos in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Use rare flowers while Usingen the catapult so it will focus you and ITS easy to Hit His Back
Agro it and lead it into bear trap, then shoot it in the back with catapults
To knock out a lvl 150,you need 17 boulders +/-. The maths are simple: boulder give 400 torpor to karkinos each good shot.
(torpor to lvl)/400 = number of boulder (round up)
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Can you add what kibble it takes on both the animal profile and the kibble chart.
Don’t use old kibble on this it only goes up by .1% per kibble.
When trying to KO the krab and if you do too much damage from hitting the legs accidentally like me lol..put honey on the last spot of your hot bar and toss it at him for fast health recovery, faster than dragging corpse to it.. use a ballista , took about 12 boulders for me to Ko a 145 ( approx as I missed a few)
Having a crab already makes getting more crabs easy. Make a trap, lure a crab into the trap with a parasaur. (Aggroing it on you will work, but it's not 100%, better to grab a parasaur or something like that) then get the wild crab stuck in one section of the trap so it can't move. (Body block with your own crab, it most likely won't even attack your crab)
Bam. Easy lure, easy body shots.
In my opinion I think they should buff this creature it’s a amazing creature but I would love if you could make it
So where you can breed them and make it to be able to carry more creatures for example it can carry a stegosaurus but Can’t carry Argentavis. It’s probably because of the hit boxes but still doesn’t make much sense. It’s an amazing creature but I feel like (Wild card The developer of ark by the way) should give this creature The attention it needs.
YEAT YEAT YEAT is what this is called
If you mess up any boulder shots and it looks like it’s gonna die, use a snow owl to heal it then carry on, killed about 4 before I realised I could do that lol
This was super easy to tame on the back of a paracer platform with a friend and a catapult. Our settings are slightly modified but it only took approx. 10 boulders per tamed crab, with imperfect throws, and lots of dead crabs.
Hitting it in the body and head will do torpor damage in the claws and legs it wont do torpor damage
Keep an eye on health when trying to knock out with catapult. If it gets low, throw herbivores in trap to boost health and keep from dying. Works great!
Get on top of a platform saddle put a catapult turret on it and you are good to go.
Having your catapult at ground level is much easier than aiming from above. The boulder will land a little bit above where the counterweight rock at the end of the catapult.
It can grab a Carno. :( Also, Stegos.
I recommend building a trap and using a catapult because if you hit the crab on its pinchers or legs... bye bye karkinos!
Make four stone Dino gates and get a friend to lead it in to the trap then you go behind it and place the 4th Dino gate to trap it. Then get your other friend to agro it so he can shoot the catapult at its back. Put catapult 3 pillars high