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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.
You must knock out with either cannon or a catapult. Hit it in the body/ head.bdont hit legs or arms. Cannon will kill low level krabbs. I suggest catapult
From what I’ve seen people have been using catapults since darts don’t work
To knock out a Karkinos you will need to target it’s body with catapults and cannon balls. That is the ONLY way to inflict torpor.
You need to have a Cannon or a catapult for knocking it out.
Use a catapult hit only the body to make HIS torpidity Go high
Use Cannons or catapults. Similar to knocking out a rock elemental.
Need a catapult to knock out. Put a catapult on a paracer platform saddle for easy KO.
Knock-out down wita a catapult on the body
Use a catapult and design a large trap to knock it out. Then, name it Mr.Krabs.
Must be knocked out with a cannon or catapult, similar to the rock elemental. Do not hit the legs, you must hit the body or head.
They can be out ran on foot but have some speed upgrades
DODODEX it drops organic polymer too
Very slow, but can see you from far away and grab u he's hella spoopy
Like a Rock Golem but more squishy!! Man your catapults!!
You can stun it with normal bola and you can tame it with a club
Bok Bok
Im a Giant Ahh Crab that eats chicken book bok kfc for brekee ,
ALERT: Karkino DO NOT spawn on ASE Ragnarok! I found this out the hard way after looking for one for over 5 hours in its supposed spawn nodes, just to find out they dont.
Alright, first time ever taming one of these things, after all the 2500 hours playing this game. Here’s how it went solo on aberration. Here’s my full experience. If you need help, I’m sure this will help.
To start, I crafted a catapult (not a cannon), 6 stone gates, a foundation and 3 walls, 4 ceilings, 5 ladders, and 2 large bear traps. I set off and searched the bioluminescent zone with a rock drake, because I found none in the green zone.
When I found one, it was a 125 and in the lake, quite deep. I shot it with a rifle, and they take reduced damage from bullets. Lured it to the shoreline where I had cleared out creatures with my rock drake and placed 3 stone gates and 2 bear traps. Once it was trapped, I quickly got around it and placed my other gates to trap it.
Now, the awkward bit. Directly facing one gateway, head on, I placed the foundation. Out of reach from any of its attacks, maybe 2-3 foundations away from the gate. I placed 3 walls, on the furthest side of the foundation, and the ceilings above. The catapult went on top, and ladders went up to the ceilings so I could access the catapult and shoot down onto the karkinos.
Then, I noticed the gate top blocked the catapult’s angle. So I had the idea to build 2 stone gateways and placing them facing outwards, basically using each sides of the gates to keep the gap small, but removing the barrier that was the top of the original gateway. 3 pillars either side would likely do the same thing. Destroying that original gate was a bit awkward, and it grabbed me once, but I think it hit me into my gate and dropped me.
The boulder is crafted inside the catapult, and costs 3 metal ingots and 30 stone. I harvested up 3 forges and a smithy on the foundation for the metal, and I tried bear traps but ended up not really needing them. I was not at all prepared. Fortunately I could get plenty of resources in the blue zone.
When shooting the crab, hitting it was awkward. I had fired maybe 7 boulders at its core and only one did torpor. I used a glowbug and dimetrodon body to drag to it and feed it. Was a little awkward but it worked out eventually.
Then I used my magnifying glass after each shot. Very carefully, as I didn’t want to risk being picked up. In the future I would place a bed or sleeping bags, just in case. But I kept trying to find the right spot, and I learnt that hitting it right on the forehead seemed to work best. Not its face, but not right on top of its shell either. Though, I found some success hitting it right on top too. It was awkward, but when it faced me while aggro, and just stayed there, I spammed a good 5-6 shots into it, which really helped. Dropped it shortly after when it started moving. Fed spoiled meat and went to grab resources for a saddle nearby.
Cryod it and went home with my rock drake. Left my trap there in case I ever want to try getting another crab and it’s nearby. Though it’s a nice amount of resources to get back if you want to demolish it after. Just make sure you demolish from the top down. Doesn’t really matter on ascended though.
That’s my full first experience with the crab, no tutorial watched. If you want to, it’s probably smart to. But I wanted to give it my best shot on my own, and I think I did okay. If you want to let me know how I did, you know how to tell me. Hope my experience helped you with your own karkinos taming.
Was on a ravager and then a karkinose took me off my mount
To ko use catapult shoot in back it will do a little shake animation if you hit in right spot keep hitting there with catapult boulders until it gets knocked out then use extrodinary kibble you do not need a trap just use harpoon gun with net projectile