You can knock it out with a rocket launch

When you are raising the juvenile forms of these, they only eat RAW meat. They will starve if you try to feed them cooked meat from feeding troughs.

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 :)

A catapult turret is the way to go with this Crab! Get it up close and blast its body with rocks! Be careful of where you aim, because if you hit it legs, it will take massive damage! You might want to lay down a trap so it doesn't scuttle away.

Unbelievable but u can actually knock them out with a slingshot, it does roughly 10 torpor so it'd take like 500 shots and it does 20 damage per hit, early game tame technically

Cannons work better for the high level tames. I used 1 cannon ball to knock out a lvl 135 and it barely had any health left. Wasn't too difficult of a tame after that.

Catapults don’t work atm on Asc. 1 shot with a canon drops high level.

Only took my whole hot bar filled with slingshots and about 1200 stone but that lvl 6 is out cold now!

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

The boulders in ark have very bad hit tracking. You can still tame the karkinos with it however you just have be very patient and have a lot of them. A snow owl is also highly recommended so you can heal your crab when it inevitably gets super low. A magnifying glass is also essential to see if your hits are even doing torpor.

Always check its health because it can be surprisingly easy to kill them on accident. Let the death of my AMAZING crab learnt from.

I just got mine so basically make a stone dino gate way with door open and a large bear trap and lead into it and it will get stuck then place one stone dino gateway on its side then another one behind it make them close as possible and then make sure they all have reinforced doors then in between the gaps make a stone foundation and place a catapult and have your friend leading it in circles and hit it in its butt and eventually It will get bloody so make your friends or dino get eaten for karkinos to heal and then fire a boulder and it should get knocked out they like spoiled meat and their torpor takes while to drain

Note if the if it’s too low of a level knocking it out probably will kill it if it’s any lower than level 20 there’s a good chance you’re gonna kill it.

Best method to knock it out but a little bit expensive for low level players is too Have 2 parasaurtheriums one with a ballista turret equipped with chain bolas and one with a trebuchet bring sweet vegetable cake in case of emergency. Get on one chain Bola the karkinos get on the other move to the front of the karkinos with the trebuchet facing the front of the ,arkinos and fire you may have to bola it more then once if its a higher level good luck survivers!

Made a raft with crab trap and a catapult at the end. Tamed max level like that. Sometimes u can just drive over them to trap them. Super easy and mobile. Amount for the body. Anything else will kill it. U know your doing it right when they do a “cartoonish” pop you on the head animation

If you are playing on valguero and happen to have a snow owl from a transfer or mod that allows snow owls. You can tame them the normal way but not have to hit the back every time. You can heal them with snow owls so they don’t die.

If you've already got a crab, get your to-be-tamed crab in a taming pen and use your tamed one to get it stuck in a corner, makes all future crabs a piece of cake!

If u want to tame just build a 3×3 stone foundation ang put stone doordrame aroint the foundations exept for the entrace in whick the karkinos will come in and just put a large bear trao ang lure it in and after it will get caught in the vear trap and run around to out a stone dino gat ang badabing bada boom karki os traopes and the rest wll u know what to do catapalut recommended noc cannon

It's knocked out with cannon or catapult, DONT waste the arrows like I did..