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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.
Easy Tame. Used catapult and stone gates, though I had to use an owl a couple times. Very cheap like 320 metal for the whole thing.
You can use a net and a cannon only at the main part of the body
Hello survivor, if you are reading this that means you want to learn more about the karkinos and how to tame it! Welcome to the ARK taming and egg stealing guide for all ark creatures!
What you will need:
ok so this is kind of complicated because I don’t know the trap by heart just go to a captain fatdog tutorial on YT and you should get the trap, otherwise don’t bring tranqs bring a catapult and boulders, a 150 take about sixteen of them
How to tame:
The karkinos is kind like of like a rock elemental except you want to hit it in the back right on top of its shell because if you don’t it will take damage and not torpor. Once knocked out feed exceptional kibble or spoiled meat are the two best
Good job you now have your very own karkinos!!
Hope this was helpful
Good luck in your adventures
-lunar
Stryder cannon does not work for torpor. Does insta-boil the Karkinos though.
Put catapult on paraser and have a friend run underneath it with a rock drake and the crap won't be able to walk
Use the net gun to trap one, place down a catapult turret, have boulders in you inventory, start shooting at it. If it runs towards you net it again because they can pull you off your catapult. Once it’s knocked out feed it spoiled meat
so these things are easy to tame. It’s easiest to do in multiplayer but also is pretty easy in single player just requires more work. So in multiplayer how did it (in aberration) got my friend to agro onto him, so i could catapult it in the back of the shell (⚠️DONT DO IT ANYWHERE ELSE BUT THE BACK OF THE SHELL⚠️) and it knocked out fed it and boom. Now onto single player, So how i did it was get something that can tank A LOT of hits such as a carbonemys and place the catapult behind the karkinos and shoot it until it knocks out. and that’s about it!
Hard knock out tame! Best food extraordinary kibble or spoiled meat. Shot it at the body not legs.
You need Exceptional Kibble since the new kibble system.
Use a trap, catapult and net gun. Net gun them to where their butt is facing you and aim for body. That's one of the easiest ways I know
Cannon balls should only take one regardless of level, but has a chance of killing if the creature is lower level.
When the crab gets low and another boulder might kill it, just hop back to your base and fetch some crappy babys or any other crappy dinos you might want to get rid of and chug them right in his face. Due to cryo sickness the crab will kill them quickly and it restores a ton of health! I fed 10 to 15 bad megalosaurus babys to a 150 crab and healed it from under 1k to full 6k health in 1 minute. Just take off with a flyer so the crab actually aggros to the „food“
When using the catapult stick something on your screen where your crosshairs would normally be ( so dead centre of screen)
Will help tremendously when for aiming the thing
Hey guys just realized that you can tame with a sling shot. But it takes a crap ton of rocks and you have to land every shot every time. But that’s how you get Heath crabs
The tek stryders cannon can knock it out in one hit, very hard to hit it right and messes up the effectiveness but by far the cheapest way to do it imo
Don’t make my mistake, make a catapult not a cannon to tame it.
On gen 2 you can use the tek punch to knock it out
You can trap them with the Netgun! Just place the catapult and lure the Karkinos in front of it. Then hit it with the Netgun and now you can knock him out very easy with the catapult or cannon :)
Fire cannonballs at its head. It's immune to radiation, gives polymer when killed and harvested. Throws dinos and can jump high. Pretty good tame
I have knocked out a 150 with 10 catapults but I have tamed over 100 so have at least 18 ready cause not all topor is the same...