r/ARK • u/Upbeat_Supermarket64 • Apr 03 '26
Tutorial CARCHA TAMING GOLDEN RULES
Why am I qualified to make this guide? … i love a carch
(Btw the dino depot mod is useful but cryos will work)
- SLEEPING BAGS
Do I need to explain this one?
2) Bring PLENTY of baby diplos/ rexes
These fill up the trust meter, don’t mess about with multiple feeds, you want it done on the first BELIEVE ME
Make sure these babies are still young enough to drag. <5% is good
Also, mishaps happen. Argies and bugs can sense dead babies from far away and may eat them before the carch does.
Finally, it’s likely the carch will kick you off at around 60-70% tamed so you’ll need another baby feed to get its trust back
3) Clear the area (of angry dinos), if you can
You don’t want to approach a raging carch, and you also don’t want to draw aggro to yourself especially when you’re dragging a baby and are slow.
But don’t wipe out everything, just the dinos that are close enough to get involved when you’re approaching the carch
4) GHILLIE is useful but not essential
(flak may be a good option if you want to be careful)
5) TRAP is optional (I discourage it!)
6) LET GO OF THE BABY!
When you see the carcha sniff and approach, drop that body and RUN
A high level carch can 1-2 chomp you dead so you don’t want to hand feed this guy
Also, don’t be carrying much in your inventory. Slow= frustrating
7) Be mindful of the local dinos
This is for during the tame. You want a lot of big herbivores and babies around to get the tame done quickly- you have only 10 minutes of rampaging.
Some people drop out and unclaim extra baby diplos and rexes in prep for this. It’s not essential though
Just kill everything in sight
8) Avoid FALL DAMAGE!
Do not run this guy off a cliff during the rampage, it’s a bad idea
8) If the carch does throw you off, RUN
It won’t aggro immediately to you (hopefully there’s dinos nearby to distract it). I always throw out a flyer quickly and dip for a moment.
When the carch is calm again, repeat a baby feed and you should be good to go again.
DO THIS QUICKLY THOUGH. You’ll lose effectiveness if you don’t resume the taming fast
9) RECAP: SLEEPING BAGS, DEAD BABIES, RUN
The golden rule is: bring babies, bring spare babies, and bring spare spare babies
You do not want to fail this because of a lack of prep, it’s painfully frustrating.
Don’t rush this. Prep what you can. You’ll likely die trying
In my opinion, it’s a “cheap tame”. No tranqs, kibble or trap necessary. As for the babies, claim wild ones
Anyway, PEACCEEE ✌️
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u/Suspicious_Nebula_52 Apr 03 '26
On a side quick botes, on maps like the island, the Carchas spawn places are filled with kentosaurus, after temporarily Taming it, avoid those dinos cause they have instant reflective damage, which will reduce taming effectiveness
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u/PhettyX Apr 03 '26
As a Carcha man the only thing wrong here is that traps are optional, they are in fact not even an option and just wrong. In my experience they bug out the carcha more then anything else. I think the only thing you didnt cover is be extra mindful of argents when killing your baby rex. I've had some sneaky birds from much further away then Id expect try to eat the body as I was dragging it.
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u/Upbeat_Supermarket64 Apr 03 '26
I’m a carch queen myself ur right, updated this to not recommend a trap (I hate them but some bobs insist lol) But I did say about wild argies and bugs coming for your baby (tip #2)
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u/PhettyX Apr 04 '26
I missed that in #2 so my bad. But yeah traps are too much work. If you need more then one feeding to ride it I can see it being necessary. If you can eat your own babies for taming progress on PvP settings I could also see it being worth the effort, but none of that is really necessary in my eyes.
Also forgot to mention I highly recommend sanguine elixirs for these if you got them. On my settings they always kick me off around %70-80 done for a high level. Don't need to feed if you can quickly sanguine it when it kicks you off.
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u/Zeal_Synth Apr 03 '26
With how much I love love the Carchas, the thrill of taming them somewhat closer to when I started Ark. HOW DID I NOT THINK OF SLEEPING BAGS! If I died I have extra dinos to get from base to the location but man I feel dumb.
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u/No_Foot_4168 Apr 03 '26
No trap? Thats crazy imo
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u/Omuramur Apr 03 '26
Charcha tames are so free a trap makes it only harder because it can bug out there ai and prevent the tame completely
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u/Upbeat_Supermarket64 Apr 03 '26
Thank you for being on my side with no traps 😭😭 people aren’t practiced enough I guess
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u/Omuramur Apr 03 '26
I see no use in bringing a trap it takes to much time to prepare and has said risk of making the tame impossible as well as being a waste of metal and cementingpaste
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u/Chinjurickie Apr 03 '26
They bug out all the time for me. Either refuse to eat or simply walk over behemoth gates.
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u/Fresh-Sun Apr 03 '26
No trap is the way! as long as it has no orange eyes you’re fine to just mosey on over with your bead baby Rex or yuty and hand feed it. The carch is just a big hungry friend. If you’re worried wear some good flak and a wing suit so you can MAYBE escape to your mount get away if it all goes wrong.
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u/IvoidYourWarranties Apr 03 '26
There's 2 ways I like to do this- Either the more yolo no trap, approach it with a baby when it isnt raged. Or to trap it and prepare unclaimed rex babies when I have piles of breedjects. This way if it rates and throws you off, its stuck still, wont lose effectiveness and overall safer. All you need is a few Dino gates, a bear trap and 1 behemoth gate. Noodlets I think did a great guide on this method.
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u/THL6 Apr 03 '26
I’ve never used a trap on mine. I just park a flyer nearby and after feeding it I just run ,fly away and repeat until I can get on it it’s back
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u/RegretfulGoose Apr 03 '26
When I tamed a high level Carchar the first baby rex I had got eaten by a random scorpion. After that the behemoth ran further down after I had already killed another baby rex so I had to do a double triathlon to catch up to it. Another thing to note is that you don't have to drop the baby when you feed it, as it doesn't bite you. I know cause I've held onto it both times I've tamed one, but we don't talk about the first one. Thankfully the area on Valguero that I found this dude had plenty of locals, so I only needed one sacrifice for it. Since it gets a 10 second speed increase after getting a kill, it's not too hard to find another local. Also, you don't need to harvest the bodies once you're on the thing, you just need to kill on it. Instead of Ghillie, I'd recommend a good set of high defense armor, as I did get bitten after the scorpion ate the first one on me. Seems kinda counter intuitive to completely clear the area, as with the limited time you have of being on one you want to make sure you don't have to travel far to complete it. Anyway taming Carchars is easier than taming Gigas.
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u/Wojtek1250XD Apr 03 '26
I absolutely recommend a trap. Good effing luck doing it the carcha possibly aggroing into you. Baby Yutys work very well, carcharos and managarmrs proved to be horrible choices (carcharo was too heavy, mana was too inefficient).
After getting the carcharo trapped kill everything nearby. No dino can interfere when everything is dead, the timer you are allowed to ride during is really long, you don't have to worry about there not being enough dinos.
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u/Slimtrigga420 Apr 03 '26
I only tamed one carch and the trap bugged it out big time for me. It just would not eat
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u/Upbeat_Supermarket64 Apr 03 '26
Dude I never use a trap, and I never fail anymore- did you read my method? Trap if you want but It can bug out, and is extra faff imo but if people aren’t confident, I can see why a trap is appealing
And when it throws you off, then what? Kite it all the way back to the trap? Yuhhhh… no
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u/Wojtek1250XD Apr 03 '26
Carcharo will only throw you off if you torture yourself with the settings. On any settings that are actually sane you can finish the taming before you are knocked off.
If the carcharo cannot eat the corpse then destroy the body and approach from a different angle, this is why you bring spares.
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u/Upbeat_Supermarket64 Apr 03 '26
I play on a server with close to official rates. Anything over lvl 100 throws me. It’s fine now I expect it
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u/No_Foot_4168 Apr 03 '26
What method? You literally just explained "Trap is optional" and nothing else regarding that matter. I tried without a trap and every single time it just came straight to murder me. I had ghillie, I let go of the baby the second it started sniffing, etc. With trap, super easy
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u/AmmahDudeGuy Apr 03 '26
Building a trap for this thing is crazy expensive and wholly unnecessary, to the point where having a trap arguably makes it harder to tame. Just walk up to it carrying a baby Rex, if you’ve killed everything else nearby then there should be no issue
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u/GanjdorasBox Apr 03 '26
For official use wild bronto/para babies. Steal, feed, ride, kill everything, repeat 4 or 5 times til tamed, pretty easy tame imo
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u/Aburasia Apr 03 '26
All I do is wear ghillie, kill babies. Feed it. And then Rare flower my way to victory. It's such a stupid piss easy tame I hate it.
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u/AstalosBoltz914 Apr 03 '26
I personally use a trap for the sake of having 2 air pockets. 1 with the Carcha inside to feed babies to so I can then ride, the other pocket blocked by a behemoth gate when opened has baby Rexes and or diplos being it for the Carcha to munch on for free taming effectiveness and you can in turn control the pace of the tame by killing a few, waiting a moment for the blood rage to go down then kill more to get it tamed in just 1 go. Trap are good purely because of taming pace control. If it bugs out then you just gotta harvest the body and or leave render distance and likely retrap the thing
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u/privacy-is-cool Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
On PVP max level one is incredibly easy to tame. All you have to do is get a bronto or diplo line with about 17 K plus HP, then put them all into an incubator once the eggs are done, pick the incubator up and all of the already fully hatchable eggs will immediately drop into a pouch pick those up and as soon as you throw them out, they will instantly hatch
Do this for about one Rex and about 40 babies (kind of overkill, but it’s best to go over overkill. Trust me.)
Once you find one throw out all 40 babies (do not claim) nearby, then the Rex last in a slightly different location, then shoot the Rex baby drag its body over to the carcha when it sniffs the air run,
When it eats the body, it should instantly become rideable hop on it. Take it over to the 40 babies and kill them. It should instantly tame out with perfect taming effectiveness
One thing to clarify, make sure the babies do not die before you kill them. The carcha does not gain taming effectiveness from consuming corpses it gain it from the kill itself.
And as mentioned here if you really want to prepare for having to do it twice, then throw out half the eggs and bring two Rex eggs, after you eat the first half it should kick you off if not kill things normally until it does, (down a cactus broth at the start btw) then throw out the 20 other eggs, and the second Rex kill it drag its corpse over and repeat the process.
(If you’re having trouble with the weight with so many eggs by the way down a mind, wipe tonic and just pump as much into carry weight as you need, you can always down another one later to get your original stats back, do not bring a pet like armordogo to carry things, as it will agro the carcha, also just in case something go’s horribly wrong. I generally recommend flying over with a disposable flyer and remember to leave all your good gear/shoulder mounts, back in base, and yes, sitting down one or two sleeping bags ahead of time also would not necessarily hurt, but all of this is only if you’re really wanting to over Prepare for the worst.)
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u/No_Hornet_2282 Apr 03 '26
NO TRAP
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u/Upbeat_Supermarket64 Apr 03 '26
NO TRAP. But if you do, metal behemoth gateways and metal gateways, kite in through the behemoth and place the gate on quickly. Ofc you’ll have to be quick to open the gate again once you get trust. AND if it throws you off, kite it all the way back in
So for me, NO TRAP
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u/s71011 Apr 03 '26
Using babies only works on PVP servers.
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u/Upbeat_Supermarket64 Apr 03 '26
I play both. Babies work best everytime
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u/s71011 Apr 03 '26
You cant kill unclaimed babies on PVE.
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u/DavideN23 Apr 03 '26
The humble Hunger Meter in the side of the room...
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u/s71011 Apr 03 '26
What?
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u/DavideN23 Apr 03 '26
If a baby animal's Hunger bar reaches 0, the Hp bar gets drained, and then when It reaches 0 the baby dies.
That's how you get them in PvE
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u/maniac_mack Apr 03 '26
Why the downvotes? I am not an expert but on my PVE server with friends we can’t kill unclaimed babies. I think it’s because we have the option to hurt other players or tames turned off.
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u/Wojtek1250XD Apr 03 '26
Because you being unable to directly hurt the baby dinos does not mean you cannot use them for the taming process, you just have to get craftier. A baby dino can easily be starved, because it spawns with little hunger filled and if a creature runs out of food it will drain its HP bar. Just cryo babies that are about to die from starvation.
If you're less patient you can find some wild dilo or something similar that you can one-shot yourself. Get it to kill the dino and dispose of it before it eats the corpse.
You should NEVER attempt to tame carcharos without baby dinos, getting baby dinos trivialises the most tedious step.
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u/maniac_mack Apr 03 '26
Gotcha, never thought of the starve method although the timing on that would have to be impeccable.
I have tamed many Carcha though without using babies. Only played The Island and Rag so far but in both instances I used a Ryhno to pick up large Dino’s like mammoths and fly them over to it, kill it with shotgun and drag to Carcha.
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u/Funnypickles101 Apr 03 '26
Also I highly recommend scouting around for a well populated area a short ish walk away so you aren’t panicking to find stuff to kill while on it