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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a sarco used for? sarco utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Probably the best mount for survivors below lvl 50. Super easy to tame, it's saddle is only at lvl 35 and just like turtles it's body is low enough that you can "ride" it without a saddle. Decent speed on land, best turn of any dino, relatively strong, extremely fast in water. Just beware Raptors can dismount you off a sarco (the largest creature Raptors can dismount you off of is the rock drake) and baryonyx will aggro and can stun lock when in water. Right click (or left trigger on console) is a death roll which is basically as useful as the therizinos peck, C (right stick on console) makes your 40 foot gharial lunge in the direction of which it last sspinned, attacking while looking behind you will make it spin around giving it the best turn in the game, lunge doesn't work in water, beware wild sarcos can grab you for several seconds and dismount you off some small dinos.
If you live by the coast, these are excellent for travel but if you live deep into the island, don’t consider them. One way I use them is I ride down to the ocean and mine oil rocks and it’s a really easy way to get oil.
WARNING: 1. Make your trips short and quick down there because Sarcos don’t rise and lower in the ocean all to quick and oil rocks are typically down low, and because of oxygen
2. The ocean is dangerous so before you go down there make 100% sure you are safe
3. If there are jellyfish near an oil rock or even far away in the distance, go down there alone with a crossbow and shoot them down they will put your sarco to sleep leaving it defenseless.
To kill one with melee weapons, simply lure it towards another creature, make it attack the creature then you just hit its tail and run when it starts targetting you. If you tame one, here's some combat tips: spam the lunge attack. Don't just do normal bites as they are slow and dosent deal much damage. You can also do a quick turn by looking at the direction you wanna turn towards and perform a normal bite. They can take on rexes and spinos with ease. Even bronto.
When attcking, you should spam the abilities of this creature, mainly the lunge and if you lunged too far ahead of your target, just look back and do a normal attack to quickly turn around then you can spam lunge once again. You still can get dismounted by raptors and kapros due to sarcos not being tall enough so be sure to spam lunge to dodge their dismounting attacks or just avoid the creatures.
There is a glitch where when you are on a raft with a sarco and you box it in and you get on and off with either a monkey or compy on your shoulder and you glitch inside the sarco and you open up your map it will show the entire map for you whether you’ve explored there or not.
I love dinos for four years, I loved the crap out of of the Spino. And then... I found this beautiful creature. I don’t know if I’ve just been lucky of what, but I have tamed up a bunch of speed demons. I have a herd of them. I’m growing the herd. Nothing goes near my base because it’s immediately caught in the circle of death. I watched a level 20 bronco get shredded by these guys in about 4 seconds. If you seem to lack a good meat-eater, a couple of these guys do the trick. Seriously amazing.