Cannons do not lower efficiency, one hit knock out, catapults are broken on ASA.
Karkinos
The Karkinos is a massive crab-like creature in Ark: Aberration that can grab and smash creatures and players. It can also throw them at great lengths. Using its strong legs, the Karkinos can leap to impressive heights.
How ARK players tame and knock out the Karkinos: what to feed it, what to knock it out with, and how to keep it safe.
DO NOT USE A CANNON!! If you use a cannon the taming efficiency will drop all the way down to 58%. Use a catapult and shoot its back, don't waste resources on cannon or cannonballs
ASA: Catapult dont works in offical Servers. User a Canon and shoot at the Back. Build a Trap and good luck.
People were commenting boulders are better than cannons for taming these so I just assumed they meant rock golems. Kind of went out of my way to tame one. Doesn't seem to work for this but eh, I got a golem now. Lol
Knock theme out by firing boulders at their body. Each successful hit adds 250 torpor.
Handy trick, if you're playing on Fjordur and want a high level DO NOT go to the Aberration Cave. There is a second Aberration cave near the Vannaland (South) Southeast teleport. Go inside, and if you find a low level kill it and harvest the corpse. Then do a lap of the…
Handy trick, if you're playing on Fjordur and want a high level DO NOT go to the Aberration Cave. There is a second Aberration cave near the Vannaland (South) Southeast teleport. Go inside, and if you find a low level kill it and harvest the corpse. Then do a lap of the cave (make sure to fight stuff to slow you down as if you run too fast this doesn't work), and you should have another spawn. I used this trick and in 5 minutes I had already killed 7 Karkinos, and they were a mix of levels. This is also a great way to farm Organic Polymer. Hope this helped
Want an effective trap for the crab?
For about 300 stone and wood the youtuber Captain Fatdog will show you the cheapest and most effective trap
They sometimes have babies following them but mostly only seen in blue or red zones (Asa only)
Actually taming it with a catapult is really tricky and most of the time your shots won't even count, from personal experience best thing is to net the Karl and place your catapult above and behind it then aim directly down and shoot
TRANQ ARROWS DON,T WORK you haft to shoot a cannonball shoot it in its head if you shoot it in the leg or it will die. Up if helpful
YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE A CATAPULT.
I knocked a 145 in the cave on Ragnarok. It takes only 1 cannon ball and it has to be a shot from behind. No Limbs. Writing as of
8/2/25.
You can use explosive arrows on the tek bow to knock out
It is affected by a net, so to keep it from squirming in trap, net it
Build taming coral. Lead it in. Build pillers around it until it can't move at all. Build catapult and place up high to shoot down at karkinos. Hit top of body. The karkinos body will move downwards and rebound when hit correctly. Shoot carefully as they die easily. Good luck
You can tell if you shot the legs if it throws it’s arms up in the air when you shoot. If it doesn’t move at all when you shoot that means you shot it correctly, so make sure you don’t get it to throw its arms up when you’re nocking it out
If it's getting low on health almost die while taming, don't worry just use owl to heal it up so u can continue to knock him out. Up this please so people can know small tip from me.
They can be outran on foot with a bit of speed upgrades, however make sure you dont cut it close or else OH YEA MR KRABS
It takes 17 boulders for a 150 if you don't miss any
I just figured out that rocket launchers deal torpor to the karkinos, much like the rock golems, but they die a bit more quicker since they don't have much health and rocket launchers deal a lot of damage.
Bring a snow owl during the taming and heal it if needed