Sarcos are really useful in singleplayer! when you buff up their health and damage they shred. I have a lvl 51 and it really helps. Also they can kill megalodons easily and escape from things. They dont take much tranq arrows and you just need some meat. Or if you have a friend you could get one early by knocking them out with slingshots.

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!

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!

For beginners to tame it.spot it on low level at least below 15.

Make your movement speed 115 or+.

Get craft a slingshot and 50stones

Go and make him to spot you and run.

Make it come to land,go some distance from water.

And run and shoot. continue this.

If there is a pachy make the sarco to fight with pachy pachy and use slingshot to shoot. some times later it get torpur run and get down.(some times on your way there is some small dino like lystro of dodo cause of some glitch the little dino will not die that's your change)

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

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

Easiest and safest way to tame a sarco:

Tame a paracer(the weird giraffe things) and equip it with a platform saddle. Get everything you need to tame the sarco. I recommend finding the one you want to tame before you go in. Once you spot the sarco kill everything hostile in the area including kapros,titanaboas, and raptors, but NOT OTHER SARCOS. Once it’s safe turn your paracer around so that it’s facing back you way you came out of the swamp. Then dismount and run to the back of the platform to make sure the sarco is aggroed on you. Then remount the paracer and run out of the swamp. Once you’re think you’ve gone far enough turn the paracer so that the sarco is now charging towards its side. Run to the edge of the platform and shoot tranquilizers at it. The sarco is aggroed to you and not your paracer so there is no danger for your paracer. Since it’s turn radius is horrible it won’t be able to escape once it starts to torpor run. Now you can safely hop down and begin taming it.