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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a karkinos? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a karkinos.
Saw on a youtubers channel him doing torpor damage with a direct body hit with a catapult.
You knock it out with the catapult and it eats carbonemeny kibble.
A catapult is the best way to knock them out.
Only takes 1 cannon ball to knock out a lvl 135
Only takes 1 cannon ball to knock out a lvl 135
Need more the 25 kib for a 150 lost a crab
Choose the soldier class, use your rocket launcher to rocket jump over it and shoot it in the back with the rocket launcher.
There kinda easy to knock but finding one is a different story
You can knock it out with a rocket launcher
For easy Rare Flowers to mass tame or keep hives fed, Megachelon will passively produce them. Toss one out for a while, then check its inventory later for far more than you’ll ever use at one time.
The thing with 2,000 eggs a day
People say don’t use a cannon but there are three workarounds that makes the cannon viable for taming efficiency.
1. Build a trap with ceilings across the top where the crabs back sticks thru. You can still hit the back and the ceilings block the splash damage that lowers TE.
2. Place the cannon on the ground in front of the crab and aim up. It will hit the crab in the face but the splash damage will go over the top.
3. Knock out the crab with a cannon then let the topor drain til it’s about to wake up. Pump it full of a bunch of Narcotics then immediately pump a bunch of stimulants to make it wake up. What will happen is stimulants pause the narcotic effect temporarily. So it will wake up resetting it’s taming efficiency to 100% and then eventually pass out again from all the narcotics that are still ticking. If you have the time this is the best way to get 100% efficiency on a crab if you don’t use a catapult which takes 10-20 shots, but cannon is ALWAYS a 1-shot KO.
I hit then with Cannonball
They die
If you don’t have exceptional kibble, and play on switch/mobile, then you can use turtle kibble, which is way easier to get, due to turtles being common.
Agro into pin and ko with catapult hitting backside of body. You’ll know you’ve done it right if crab sort of squats and flinches! Be very careful because these things are easy to kill if you hit anywhere else but backside of crab. Recommend having two catapults on each side since crab likes to spin around. Or place catapult on paracer platform saddle. Best of luck dudes and dudettes!
If it grabs you, crouch and stand, it will drop you
Trap it with stone gates and with any level, one cannon shot to the body and it's out cold.
Used a cannon and got a K/O on first shot to the face.. this has been consistent with all my karkinos, so I don’t understand why body shots are preached... FYI taming timer is off, my 140 is taking 2 hours to tame on 2x with spoiled meat, not 1.
To tame this set up a 3x3 four walls high and build a catapult, makes somewhere around 20 boulders. When knocking it out be sure to get body shots because if shot in the legs it gets no torpor, only takes damage. Use these with an anky for metal runs or with stegos to destroy your enemies...
Build a pillar trap approx 6 pillars high to trap it otherwise it'll jump out.