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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for sarco? Tips and strategies for sarco in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Idk what’s going on but I’m feeding this sarco narcs and torpor won’t go up
If you wana kill it this is what u can do.
1. Grab arrows and a bow and shoot it
That’s all
:p
Ok so what do you do when a sarco chases me? Answer: keep to their tail. They can’t bite you if they can’t reach you. Get your strongest weapon and hit it in the tail and belly. When it turns, turn with it. Don’t try to hop on it’s back. Unless your a god or hacker at this game you have 98% of dying trying to do it. Sarcos are fast even on land and they won’t get board of trying to eat you so don’t even think about running. Btw they drop ALOT of good loot. 🐊🦖
There’s a small island thing just to the east of the spawn location South Zone 2. I call that island Sarco Isle. Why do I call it Sarco Isle? Well, within the first 15 days of living there, I had 4 encounters with Sarcos. If you are a noob, stay away from Sarco Isle!
Sarcos are big and slow as long as on land a trap is not necessary to tame one but if you want to build a trap I recommend three stone foundations all placed vertically stone walls placed around the all sides except the very front where you will place a doorframe(don't worry they cannot fit through one) lastly two stairs, you will want to place one on the top of the back most wall then place a second stair on the on the other stair not on the sides on the bottom. If it makes you feel better you can add a third stair but on is not necessary and you may need a fourth foundation. Tranq that baby out feed it some meat 🍖 wait then you got yourself a Sarco🐊. You will need three foundations, 8 walls, one doorframe and two stairs.
If one crawls right up on you, just reach around start stabbing its head with a pike. Works very well for low level players and prevents them from doing much damage to your base.
Today I am very happy I saved a parasaur from a Sarco and i tamed that para and guess what!? It was a tek para
I find sarcos rlly useful if you have a raft base and u want a under water tame, cuz you can just place them on it while other under water tames you always have to put them follow u when you move the raft and sometimes i forget or it dies bc something is attacking it. (I play on pvx srvr with changing zone thats why i don t have a land base)
Sarcos will randomly die when you exit the water when swimming with them. I have no idea if this is anti-mesh or fall damage but there is a chance it will instantly die or take massive amounts of damage when leaving the water. This glitch has been around for 3 years now and still hasn’t been patched. :/
Like a lot of people have said before, Sarco’s are one of the easier tames that even lower levels can obtain. I am only a lvl 24 so far and the Sarco I just tamed not even 15 mins ago is a lvl 14+ taming lvl buff. I suggest that you use fish raw/prime to tame because she took 20:00+ mins to tame and it was excruciatingly boring to do nothing (no narcotics or more than 40 fish meat needed).
I learned the spinning technique all my myself when I'm trying to knock/kill a sarco u just go to its thighs and hit it while it's spinning around at u till u knock/kill it.
Most beginners hate these but there pretty easy to tame you can do lots of things to tame these Bois but all you need is a pachy and keep at the back of it and keep attacking pretty soon it will take a nap then feed it some fish and you have big boi
Don’t use a bat I used it it did not go well it will just run and go in water so use bow or crossbow with tranq darts or arrows
Me as a start: NUUUUU I CANT KILL WITHOUT TWO PARA
Me now: I hunt for prime meat to tame a spino
These guys are so easy to knock out and need not a lot of meat and narcotics so if you see one you can take it out with a slingshot pretty easily and insanely easy with tranq arrows. They are a great mount for people who would rather focus on building early game and get mounts later on since once you can learn the saddle I prefer it over a raptor for a scout/hunter since you can go underwater and farm chiton easily and not be afraid of water dinos.
If you find make a slingshot have like 20 fish meat stand a tall rock then shoot it till he gets KOed