Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved Taming Calculator

Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved Taming Calculator
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What is a karkinos used for? karkinos battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Guide to using Stego(s) as Swords:
1. Put Stego(s) on aggressive.
2. Pick them up using the Crab
3. Walk near target.
4.Enjoy
1. Put Stego(s) on aggressive.
2. Pick them up using the Crab
3. Walk near target.
4.Enjoy
If you're carrying a tamed Doedicurus in your claw the Doedic will automatically start harvesting any stones you hover him over. Just start pumping points into your Doedic's weight because it will stop at about half of its own carry weight. I've yet to discover another tame it will work with though...
Don't listen to the guys who said easy kill with a bow as these take 1/10 damage from bullets and arrows not sure if that includes compound bows but that mean they take 10 from each auto turret bullet!
Guy best way to do it is with three people. 2 online 1 offline. One guy on the crab and 1 on a anky. The guy on the crab grapples the offline guy. Mine with the anky until the crab is heavy, then put all the metal in the offline guy. Rinse repeat until you cap out in metal on the offline guy. Head back to base and empty everything in the forges. Do this cycle for infinite metal on abberation. ( and if you want it to be faster. Have two anks instead of one. An a weight crab) best metal farming
BOOM
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Be careful when carrying a Dino that has a tribe mate mounted on it. I was walking up a hill carrying my anky with a tribe mate on it and they went under the map and died. RIP ANKY AND SHINEHORN. Tribemate was eh anyway.
No one seems to have mentioned that karkinos can use tools, they just need a special type of tool: doedicurus, use a karkinos to pick up a tamed armadillo and walk around to rocks and the armadillo hits the rocks and keeps them stored, argies and quetz can do it to but they can only hold one and they don't spawn on abberation, not sure but if you transfer a beaver to abberation you might be able to use it and an armadillo at the same time to gather both rock and wood
To the guy who said that he placed turrets to kill a karkinos. Karkinoses take 10% projectile damage so a turret bullet will only deal 10 damage to it so sort of a waste. The best way to kill one is to use another one thats around the same level or higher even a lower one will work but not as well and belive me your going to be wanting to kill lots of these as each on gives you like 10 to 50 organic polmer and lots of chitin when harvested with another karkinos.
You can use Kark to pick up your tamed Castoroide and use it as a hatchet, that way you get half weight on the wood going into your Castoroide.
For metal get a anky ride one fill the Wight and pick up with a crab 1 got about 10 stacks of metal
You need more chitin and organic poly than you can use? Kill some and hit the bodies with a good chainsaw.
Basically the new quetz. Super weight and can carry tames to harvest resources and then throw them back into the base ;)
You can fire weapons while riding it. Hold a creature you'd like to tame, then tranq it while your crab holds it in a claw - makes solo taming easy!
Do you have a bp you need crafted? and not enough polyemr to make it, take a rock drake a chain saw and good shotgun, and head to abberation youll be makeing that bp in no time.
Best raider ever, a catapult a rex a prison and a parachute/glider launcher all in one
Brilliant stone farm. Pick up a doedicurus in both of its hands and then walk near rocks. The doedicurus break the rocks and you get stone. Lots of stone.
Best source of organic and chitin on abberation. Kill them with a 100+ spino or drake
They are immune to radiation and are great for leaping past danger when trying to get a rock Drake egg.