Just wanted to say thank you all I tamed my first sarco lol 34 named Rogue lol I got very lucky we will just say tht I screamed an dropped my controller 2 times thanks guys great community

The Dino Study

I first encountered these things on a beach. Extremely dangerous when approached, easy to run away from. Do not escape by water, they will just swim after you.

The sarcos like to be where ever water is, and will hunt any thing they can bite into.

If your unlucky, you’ll spawn in one of their nesting sites (that’s a thing!) where over five sarcos are grouped together for a matter of time. They are extremely grumpy if encountered by a nest intruder, sp make sure you run and run and run (and run and run and RUN!).

Sarcos are easy to kill with spears or arrows since they don’t have the strongest melee.

Taming requires over five tranq arrows! Ver loyal when befriended!

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.

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.

If you desire to find these big crocs go to the swamp or you can find them near shallow waters or on beaches

If you find a lvl 1-10 you can just close up fight them it’s quite easy

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.

It's pretty easy to tame if you have a long range weapon that deal torpor, just remember to stand at a high place while knocking it out, and always check for any dino that might interfere with you. After knocking it out feed it raw fish meat or prime meat, then wait and you have yourself a sarco

I found one at a river area there were two before but three trikes killed one but the river area was pretty far from my base and I also died to a raptor that I wanted to tame but when I came back the raptor was gone sadly I had tranq arrows but didn't have crossbows bc I was still lv24 ;-;so I had to wait till I got the crossbow then it was shooting time for the sarco but I hope it doesn't die to the trikes that killed the other one

Sarcos spawn around my base (Stonehedge) so I tame or kill them

SUPER GOOD! Okay I just want to say, this thing definitely isn’t as good as a spino, but it’s really easy to tame, 3 or 4 shots with a tranq arrow and you have it. It goes SUPER fast underwater and pretty fast on land and it does a lot of damage! My level 13 killed megalodons EASY! I lost my stuff at the bottom of the ocean and the sarco literally got me all the way down to get it back and got me all the way up again. It’s so good and definitely worth taming!

So…one day I has y’know gettin water and stuff then this sarco comes outta no where and hits me and then perfect reaction times my dodo comes over and attacks it and I had my 2 paras on passive so they didn’t attack and I ran to my house and see a very injured para (chad jr) and a massive tail then I see at the bottom the most tragic thing “dodo lvl 25 died to a sarco” then the sarco exploded and died (not really just launched in the air) and my lil lvl 2 dodo avenged her mother and she killed the sarco I picked up my deceased dodo and throw her in the ocean outside my base then I gather what’s left of the sarco and we’ll I just feed my para WHOS ON 27 HP BY THE WAY and sadly check the other dodo and para and feed them I put my paras beside a mountain outside my base and my dodo behind a big rock and there you have it my tragic story of how my dodo died to this BEAST OF A CREATURE and to be honest I’m scared of these things ark just makes them so realistic! R.I.P to dodo

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

This damn boy is a machine in early game to mid might be hard to find a sarco with an ho under 1k if your a beginner but it is what it is if your lazy to make a trap get your tranqs ready go to a swamp and get it's attention shoot it and run shoot it and run it fells like your fighting Micheal Myers if he ever was a reptile keep going untill he's knocked out the sarco has a long cooldown to feed it again if your at the stage where you unlocked a sword go on a massacre killing diplo and other sarcos and paraar to get prime meat if your scared to go killing then from the start have a ton of narcotics with you when you tame a sarco put the skill points on stamina or health it's damage is already good but if you want go damage and HP if you get a pack of these bad boys your gonna start slaying megalodons easily (if you have a baryonx with you so he can stun)

Hope this helps

If in great numbers they can overcome all creatures including the spino

It’s always good hunting etiquette, in my opinion, to take a Sarco with you whenever you have to go hunting in the swamps. These little dudes are great for fending off Kaprosuchus and Titanoboas!

Good for keeping piranhas from terrorising your local river

I would suggest taming an itchy first because you can attack sharks with them and they won’t harm you and you get lots of fish meat. You can tame a sarcophagus with normal meat but they prefer fish meat and will tame faster with fish meat.

Early game I had trouble with getting hide. But not after I tamed one of these guys.

After I tamed a lvl 260 sarco and learned saddle and slapped the saddle on it, i rode it and IT KILLED A LVL 100 ALPHA CARNO EASILY LIKE A CHICKEN WITHOUT TAKING 500+ DAMAGE