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

Karkinos is one of the most useful games on abberation due to its incredible mobility, its ability to carry creatures, and its usefulness in less extreme fights, so here’s a guide to get you one of these wonderful crabs!

1. Karkinos must be knocked out using a catapult or cannon tranq arrows and darts will not work. When deciding whether to use a cannon, know that it will tank the taming effectiveness of the Karkinos, at the benefit of knocking it out in one hit. This makes it easier to set up, but less rewarding overall. If you decide to use a catapult you will need somewhere around 20 boulders to knock out a 150, however I strongly recommend preparing extra, 30-40 to account for misses etc. you will also need a trap (unless you want to miss a lot, potentially die, and rage). I recommend looking one up on YouTube

2. Karkinos prefer exceptional kibble, and if you have access to it I would recommend using it, it will provide a perfect tame and be quickest. If not however, spoiled meat is also very effective, not giving a perfect tame, but near it. It will take a little longer but you shouldn’t need narcotics to keep the Karkinos unconscious.

3. For the catapult set up your trap and catapult and lure the Karkinos in. Begin shooting it directly on the body (it should have a special animation and do different dmg) which is the only place that will inflict torpor. Eventually it will fall unconcious and you can feed it (there is a small risk of death when using a catapult depending on the health stat so you can feed it a corpse to heal it). For the cannon, since it is a one hit ko, a trap is not needed but make sure you hit it directly on the body. If you miss try again, you will only have a few shots to hit it if you don’t build a trap before it reaches you and attacks.

4. Since karkinos will only aggro bailisks in the green zone they should almost always be safe to leave, if it’s in the blue zone there’s more danger to it being attacked and dying or ruining effectiveness. The Karkinos will usually not need narcotics to tame, so once you put food in you should be good to go

Happy taming!

Stryder cannon does not work for torpor. Does insta-boil the Karkinos though.

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

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...

You can net them. Trap isn't needed ;)

Hard knock out tame! Best food extraordinary kibble or spoiled meat. Shot it at the body not legs.

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!

If you don’t really need him for fighting and just want him to carry your anky to farm metal then just claim a wild baby and farm metal with that then you can get a higher level later because you will have plenty of spare metal for a cannon or catapult

So I do use the net gun mod on ASA, however if you net them and place 3 foundations underneath with 2 ramps in a “<“ shape it will absorb the splash from a cannon.

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.

Don’t make my mistake, make a catapult not a cannon to tame it.

If you want to knock it out with out trapping it have a parcer with a platform saddle it must have at least 2000 health to be safe place the cattpult at the back faceing the back also bring like 15 boulders to be safe and something that you could use to kill one if things get out of control. Lastly you need to make sure there are no alphas nearby in the water because I have encountered a couple before.aim for the abdomen and good luck!

It prefers Exceptional kibble, let everyone know till dododex updates

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“

If you dont wanna put up with this guy running make a trap it's in YouTube I looked up how to trap a karkinos in ark go to the one that looks like an explorer note it worked for me

Don’t forget to take a break off the hame once in a while and eat healthy and drink water just a friendly reminder 😃

If you stand under it, it can't Beat you

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.