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What ARK players use the Karkinos for, and how to get the most out of it in ARK: Survival Ascended & 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

755 points6 years oldReport

Jumps super high and can launch stegos ... two at a time RIP turrets lol

878 points8 years oldReport

THEY CANT BREED ON MOBILE!!!!

I spent 4 hours taming a high level pair just for them to NOT BREED. This seriously pisses me off, please let others know about this.

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.

500 points8 years oldReport

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…

492 points8 years oldReport

Literally the most useful creature ever ,

Need stone/metal/flint it can carry both anky and doed at the same time while benefiting from their weight reduction

Need wood? Can carry the bevear guys plus it got a huuuuge weight so it can carry anything

Need DMG? It has lots…

Basically the new quetz. Super weight and can carry tames to harvest resources and then throw them back into the base ;)

145 points8 years oldReport

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!

131 points8 years oldReport

Alright not exactly my tip, but heard this from the YouTuber pterafier. He said that using a Crab with a Turtle with C4 strapped on it is a good seige device. Put C4 on Turtle, then use Crab to throw the Turtle at a base. Detonate the C4, blowing up the base where the Turtle is…

69 points5 years oldReport

Grab two velonasaors on turret mode and then run around. It looks like it is holding two pistols

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…

57 points6 years oldReport

They are immune to radiation and are great for leaping past danger when trying to get a rock Drake egg.

80 points8 years oldReport

For cave raids put c4 on a turtle then use mr.crabs to yet the turtle to destroy bases

44 points5 years oldReport

Beaver in one claw

Doed in the other

Farm some stone structures

50 points6 years oldReport

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.

52 points6 years oldReport

An all around amazing tame with a variety of uses. Hunt trilobites for oil. Carry armadillos for farming stone and clearing paths. Delicately plucking dinos off an elevator. Exploring. Farming gems from rats. The list goes on and on, just be creative. Its almost OP but it is…

65 points8 years oldReport

(Pest cleaning): Grabbed wild/enemy creatures , as far i have seen,will take damage 2 two times (the second a bit weaker) so, It is actually very good at pest control, and i say the big ones, raptors, thylas, sabers and more, and you can even throw them away, works well with…

Once you tame the Karkinos anything that fits in its claws just hold them there and traq them