Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a sarco? sarco battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
You cannot outswim a Sarco. Period.
HOWEVER, you don't need to outswim a Sarco.
They swim too fast and are almost never able to position themselves correctly for a bite. So when swimming, just swim near the belly of the Sarco to escape with your life.
Saw one attack and kill a trike, shot the sarco with a crossbow, it launched into the air with the dead trike… one of the best corpse launches ever.
On land they are relatively easy to defeat if you have a Bow. When you can use Pikes, Swords, and other stuff, you can defeat a Sarco using melee.
In the water, they will circle around you and make things difficult. Confront on land ONLY (if possible).
Standing on rocks usually does not help, as a Sarco can just lung at you and knock you off you little perch. Shoot the creature with Arrows and keep backing up. You may need to turn around and sprint a bit to stay ahead of it. You CAN outrun a Sarco on land.
If you kill one, make sure you harvest all the useful hide, meat, and Sarco Skin (a trophy).
At level 21 I had over 5 Sarco Skins, many from Sarcos with 10+ levels.
Fun Fact: Piranhas are afraid of Sarcos! They won’t attempt to come near you most of the time if you have a Sarco by your side.
Died to one in a lagoon in the the southern isles. Jumped onto my raft and bit of my head.
If you desire to find these big crocs go to the swamp or you can find them near shallow waters or on beaches
These dudes moves slowly when walking but is a beast when running and swimming, the only problem with these guys is they can't target and attack well enough small creatures like piranhas, titanboas, raptors, etc.
When you are dying of hypothermia in the winter, you have 12 health left, and you hear heavy breathing and stomping behind you...
Just killed spin-off with Sam sarco (kill spinos in water Having infinite stamina is a boon
As long as you manage to get on their backs and they don’t show off their gymnastics moves (barrel roll) you are good and keep stabbing it with your sword until it is dead. But I recommend having something to distract it too. My Parasaur (Yoo) and I were returning home from a failure trip trying to farm chitin for some armor. And we were passing by a swamp when I saw a lvl 40 sarco and I was like Huaaaaaaa, there is a noob here. And Yoo attacked it while the sarco was focused on killing Yoo I jumped on its back and managed to balance on it and killed it with my sword. Yoo didn’t die and I wasn’t even injured.
For low-level people RUN!
It is fight or die.
If you’ve got one of these after you DO NOT go into a water source, learnt that the hard way
Only go near one its out of the water. Try to avoid them if you are a beginner. If one charges stay away from the water. It may seem slow, but it can lunge with shocking speed. Do not climb on a rock, it can lunge and bite you. Run away and stay on land. Sprinting helps.
Just put a dodo on a rock in the middle of a lake, they stand there trying to get it for hours, it’s a good farming/harvesting idea and it’s really funny to watch
A good way to attack them is to jump over their snout
You are welcome
Pro tip(silly to)
It’s a trampoline when it’s taking also give fish meat for faster taming no sothing balm needed im taming a lvl 29 in my easy mode mobile game (I would set it higher if could save my progress to ) highest lvl I’ve found so far
So I haven’t yet seen one in aberration but on the island there are easy tames. If you have a slingshot with enough rocks to knock it out your set. It’s slow on land so if you lead it out then your good. The players default speed is faster than it I’m pretty sure so I’ve actually tamed a couple with a slingshot on the island.
If you want to kill a sarco, I have a great tip for it! (It will take a while but worth it in the end)
Step 1: tame at least 2-3 mid level Dilophosaurus’s
Step 2: tame 1 low-mid level Carbonemys
Step 3: shoot it with an arrow and have your tames attack it and shoot/stab it with a spear or bow.
After around 20-30 seconds it should be dead!
Happy hunting! <3
(P.S this works best on easiest mobile mode)
Whatever you do DO NOT GO IN WATER. This thing can swim fater than you. Try to lure it to land. It usually moves faster than your walking speed but slower than your running speed. But if you place it right a level 1 dodo can take it out due to its AI
Keep your distance when you see him and don’t go anywhere in the water remotely near to him! They are quick