These alligator like animals span near my base I-knocked one out by shooting it white a crossbow on a raptor and I suggest taming it away from water so it can not swim away.

If a sarco is near your spawn you can respawn over and over again to knock it out and have some time to kill dinos and gather meat (you can sprint at it's tail and keep attacking it)

How to knock out a scaro in 4 simple steps

1. Build 2 or 3 clubs (2 or 3 because 1 or 2 will break)

2. Equip them in your hot bar

3. Attack the said scaro and make sure to stay away from its head stay as close as possible to its belly

4. As long as you stay close to it’s belly it can not hurt you because it turns to slow and is way too long

Hope you find this useful!

Sarcos can be easily outrunned by most things in ark, including players without boosted speed. Just don't go into the water....

I killed one with my fist all you need to do is get to its hind legs or tail and stay there since it’s so long it won’t reach you also a good way to knock one out when use it a club that’s how I killed and tamed my first Sarco

How to tame a sarco for beginners

Step one: find a place where they spawn in single amounts but uncommonly (I prefer the hidden lake and some bodies of water near the red obelisk since I don't go there very often, giving time for them to spawn, but they can spawn near the south island with the large arch)

Step two: make them waste their "stamina" (in reality its their food) in water

-There is a chance that if you stand still in the water, it will just circle around you and not be able to attack you

-Their health will start to drain if they are starved too much

Step three: knockout

-You can circle around the sarco if you have decent movement speed, going behind its back leg and repeatedly hitting it with a club

-This may take a couple of tries since they now have a lunge mechanic and you may run out of stamina

Step four: taming

-You can grab a few stacks of raw meat and watch as it gets tamed in under a minute

If you run in one of these jerks, try leading it to a carbonemy (giant spikey tortoise) those will kill it.

How to kill early game:

1.tame a dilo

2.level up to 45 or higher

3. Whistle attack

P.S, lvl 45 dilo can kill a level 20 sarco

Actually tamed a low level level 90 he became lest 122 after tamed he is. A monster with 2000 heath

Last it run after you on land (and I recommend you to use a crossbow)and then shoot it with tranq arrows . The best food in my opinion is raw prime meat and raw meat. Try that and see if it will work.

I got 4 Sarcos (one died, F for him) they're actually very easy to tame (in my opinion) you put them on a trap or simply attract them away from the water, then grab some narcotics as a precaution and use a rifle or a crossbow and grab some fish meat

For any new players don’t listen to people saying “make traps” just get a sling shot and if it’s to high level for that tranq arrows and your set

Surprisingly easy to tame or kill, just:

Run up to it with bat or whatever

And STAY between the back legs and tail while hitting it

(Beware it use almost all of a bats durability)

Then feed fish meat to tame

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Thanks

Everybody says that this guy isn’t good on land but if u do the death roll and lunge than u can collect hide so much easier. Arrow to the sky

1.) Get harpoon launcher and net.

2.) Find Sarco.

3.) Net the Sarco.

4.) Shoot it with tranqz & knock out.

5.) Feed it prime meat or fish.

6.) Enjoy your new best friend.

I have a question, can you shoot off these guys backs? If you answering pls put answer in utility ty :)

~ Crystaldragon

When i was going to take it I was shaking so much but it’s taking and I was so happy I was gonna. Cry I love ark

If you spawn at South if you head to the right (depending on where you spawn) You can find these guys among a few friendly Spinos

They have a small window at the base of their neck where the bite hitbox doesnt reach, but they have a "hitbox" so that raptors (and alpha raptors) cant attack attack you from the front

good for early game

Dealing with Sarcos to a brand new player can seem like a daunting task, but they have a noticable weakness that can make them easy to knock out for taming. If you can get to it's side, closer to the tail it can't hit you. You can use this fact and a wooden club to take them down and feed them fish. This is also a solid method for killing them outright.