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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a sarco? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a sarco.
I don’t know what to say but They’re one of the BEST tames! I know this is useless but hopefully it helped<3
The best thing to do when taming these things is to do hunt dilo pursuit. Get the ascendant bow and some tranq arrows. Then kill salmon and harvest with a sickle. Finally shoot the sarco with tranq arrows and feed it prime fish meat.
Tranq it and run, they are fast so try not going near water make sure you have meat or fish that can help tame a sarco, they spawn mostly in swamps but they can spawn at beaches, be careful of there death roll you could get stuck you could also just bring some dilo’s to take it on and shoot or hit it but just stay far away.
Hi I guess it’s time to post this. I’m Ember, AKA, the Sarco Master 🐊. I have been posting sense 2019. You will probably know me from my many posts on this and the Dragon page. I made the “All You Need To Know” series as well. IFF U KILLL A SARCO I SHALL KILL U!!!! Anyway reptiles are my fav especially aerials and semi aquatics. My fav tames are the iggy, spino, wyvern, and ofc the SARCO!!! I… umm.. tend to find a creature I like then tame 80000 of them…. Like the deinonychus incident…. So ya! Thx for reading as I take my place with the Otter god, Jerboa king, Archy Lord, and the Defender of Bulldogs!
-Ember (aka Sarco Master 🐊)
Have a Dino for bate and put it on passive (make shur it has like 20 points in heth so it dose not die ) and knock it out and feed it
Good to tame it’s torpor drop is low so when taming one you can go off and find some explorer notes yea yea yea!!!
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to help the bobs
People say these need so much tranqs and meat and time, they don’t
I knocked one out with my friend using a club then we just killed to coelacanth we fed it fish meat and we just waited for 3-5 minutes for a level 29
Best way get a second player have him run through the swamp and find one get it to chase him and lead it back to you and just pelt it with tranq arrows and trust me if you have a high level Sarco and live near the beach it is a must
If you don’t wanna use tranquilizer arrows or don’t have any just go super close to the middle of its body to the point where your touching it and punch it to knock it out. When your in the middle of its body it spins around so you have to spin with it as well so it can’t hit you. That’s how I got my first one(he’s dead now😢😢) and every other one I’ve caught. Now you have one.
2/3 blue kibble is all I'm saying !
If you want to tame this thing just get some tranq arrows stay back spam it. If its chasing you just run down the beach line or something. DO NOT GO IN WATER YOU WILL DIE
This is a great tame from early game to mid game it’s easy to knock out I recommend for you to atleast get hide armor and I also recommend tranq arrows but if your desperate like me use a sling shot to the head they will still be knocked out if you get a pair you can breed them and they will be a good tame!
Some people are saying "Trap Sarcos", but I have a quicker and easier technique (MOBILE). 1. Find a sarco. 2. Lead it to a dino that wont attack it. 3. Make sure NO dilos are around. 4. Go to the sarcos legs by its tail. 5. Make sure your bat is equipped. 6. Hit the sarco repeatedly. 7. If the sarco is knocked out, on whatever taming food you are using to tame it, click "All Stacks" if you have alot, so more level can be put into the sarco, and it will tame a bit quicker, and the taming effectiveness will be a bit high. No matter how much fish you put in after the first batch of taming food or fish, effectiveness will not go up, so thats why I included No7. In this tip. You will also want to go for high sarcos, even though they require a bunch of meat. In that occasion, always bring 15-30 Bio Toxin with you. You might need it. Also, bring cooked meat of whatever kind in case you are hungry. And 1 more thing. Its important! Always make sure your sarco is NOT INJURED, or health has been stripped away from some aggro dino. If that has happened, make sure you RUN away from it, so it can heal. If you bat it or hit it after it has had hp stripped away, you will kill it. UP this if it is helpful. I managed to tame 3 sarcos with this mechanism. But one died to a stupid manta. R.I.P Princess Sarcos.
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 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
In my case these guys have a pretty calm taming process.
Bring Tranq darts (Accessible with a longneck rifle)because they are the most efficient. Next find a Sarco and land a safe distance away from it to shoot at it, And if it comes close to you, just get a small distance away and keep shooting. Or you can just build a trap, whatever floats your boat. And once it’s knocked out… well, you know what to do from there.
These guys are definitely the top 3 best tames for water. Don't waste your time with Megalodons, Kapros aren't nearly as fast (only unique factor is their ability to dismount enemies). I'd say aside from this absolute beast, Baryonyx is a good alternative. They're fast on land, have a combat buff of stunning and blinding (to my knowledge at least) and are good for cave exploration. But for real, Sarcos are the little kings of the water.
Use a couple of tranq arrows and it should be down
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!
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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