Ark Valguero Karkinos Location and Taming

Karkinos is a giant crab-like creature found on the Ark Valguero map. These creatures provide a unique in-game utility of picking and carrying animals to a taming pen and are also very useful in combat.

Considering their usefulness, Karkinos are highly sought-after tame, so the following guide will help you acquire your own Karkinos. The guide will discuss the locations to find Karkinos and the most effective taming strategies in Ark Valguero.

How to Tame Karkinos?

To tame Karkinos, lure them out of the water to a higher ground area, place a cannon, and catapult behind a pillar to knock it out. Once in position, fire the cannon or catapult toward their head.

Remember to avoid shooting any other part of their body, or else the damage dealt will eventually be high enough to kill them.

Once you knock them out, wait for their food stats to drop. You can trap them in a confined structure and wait for them to starve. You can tame Karkinos by feeding them spoiled meat or Exceptional Kibble.

Karkinos Saddle

You must be at level 65 and have 28 Engram Points to unlock Karkinos Saddle. The following materials are required to craft the saddle:

• 170x Hide
• 225x Fiber
• 200x Fungal Wood
• 80x Blue Gem or Blue Crystallized Sap

Ark Valguero Karkinos Location

Karkinos can be found in the aberration cave near river areas in the Boreal Forest region. The map image above shows its expected spawn location in Ark Valguero.

Karkinos Stats

Karkinos possesses the following stats in Ark Valguero:

How to Breed Karkinos?

Karkinos cannot be bred in Ark Valguero.

Karkinos Spawn Command

If you’re finding it hard to locate Karkinos on Ark Valguero, open up the console command box by pressing TAB on your keyboard, but if you’re playing on PlayStation, you’ll need to hold down L1, R1, Square, and Triangle at once, and similarly, on Xbox, hold down, LB, RB, X, and Y at once. After the console opens, type “admincheat Summon Crab_Character_BP_C” and press enter.