These creatures are honestly amazing tames, but can be hard to knock out especially considering there biome where they are found in.

STEPS:

You need tranq arrows (obvi) depends on the lvl anywhere from 1 - 50 usually takes 1-35 arrows, check dododex (for level and resources)

These guys tame well with normal raw meat but they prefer raw prime fish meat or raw fish meat it will save you 1 hour so kill fishes,

Next: you need to find them, sarco’s usually live in swamps which makes it harder to tame them, but if u wanna avoid killing every swamp animal and possible death, you can find them in south zone 1 or 2 easy on the beaches or shores near oceans, usually around the middle areas.

Narcotics: you need near to none, even narco berries would do, a level 45 sarco takes around 30 minutes to even lose a significant amount of torpidity, basically these guys are HUGE sleepers, when u knock these dudes out you can either get a mountain or ledge and shoot them, they can climb up some rocks, find a tricky to reach one.

Or you can just outrun them, sprint and shoot every now and then, they are slow, however DO NOT try to outrun it in water, it is a prehistoric crocodile and in water it will catch up to you and murder u with ease :)

After all these steps, starve it, it’s better, then put in meat feed, and you have a sarco, the saddle is in the 40’s I think lvl 45, make sure to check dododex for any needed help with food or saddle or narcotics, this is just tips

Thanks :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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