Alpha Karkinos
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Aberration/Dinos/Crab/MegaCrab_Character_BP.MegaCrab_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Common Rare
Untameable Cave
TheAlpha Karkinos is one of theAlpha Creatures inARK: Survival Evolved'sAberration expansion.
Basic Info[]
Behavior[]
Much like its smaller counterpart, the Alpha Karkinos resides in the rivers of artifact caves, attacking any land-based creatures and large predators on sight.
Appearance[]
Alpha Karkinos resembles a normal Karkinos except that it is much larger, and is covered with a glowing red-orange cloud.
Color Scheme and Regions[]
This section displays the Alpha Karkinos's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are coloredred over an albino Alpha Karkinos. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Alpha Karkinos will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.
This information can be used to alter the Alpha Karkinos's regions by enteringcheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion><ColorID> in thecheat console. For instance,cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Alpha Karkinos's "body main"magenta.
Body Main
Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.
Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.
Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.
Highlights
Underbody
Drops[]
Base Stats and Growth[]
| Attribute | Base Value | Level Increase |
|---|---|---|
| Wild | ||
 Health | 20400 | +4080 |
 Stamina | 600 | +60 |
 Oxygen | N/A | N/A |
 Food | 5000 | +500 |
 Weight | 800 | +16 |
 Melee Damage | 160 / 185 | +8 / +9.25 |
 Movement Speed | 100% | N/A |
 Torpidity | 800 | +40 |
- For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, seeBase Creature Statistics.
- For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, seeCreature Stats Calculation.
| Movement [u/s] | Base Speed | Sprinting Speed |
|---|---|---|
| Wild | Wild | |
| Walking | 600 | 1050 |
| Swimming | 600 | ? |
- 1These are the base speeds of the creature at 100%Movement Speed.
- 2These are the speeds of the creature tamed and non-imprinted.
- For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, seeBase Creature Speeds.
| Stamina Cost | Attack Range | Description | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | Minimum | Activation | |||||||||||
| Attack Type | Damage | Projectile Values | Torpor Values | Status Effect: Stamina | Status Effect: Torpidity | ||||||||
| Life | Impulse | Radius | Base | Mult | Duration | Damage Mult | Amount | Duration | Damage Mult | Amount | |||
| Melee | |||||||||||||
| Projectile | Impact | ||||||||||||
| Explosion | |||||||||||||
Combat[]
General[]
The Karkinos will attempt to grapple you and repeatedly slam you into the ground.
Strategy[]
A Spino can knock back the crab hard enough to negate nearly all damage, the Karkinos is not able to pick the Survivor off the Spino either, unless the Survivor gains the aggro of the Karkinos while not mounted. Example: Dismounting to fire a crossbow bolt at the Alpha Karkinos to get its aggro. It will then aggro to the Survivor itself, and it will be able to pick you off of nearly any mount, even ones it cannot carry including Rock Drakes, Megalosaurus, and even the Spino.
Weaponry[]
its claws can be used to slam the player into the ground if it gets close enough, it will also grab the player off small to medium-sized dinos.
Dangers[]
They often roam the water, and can make fishing a dangerous task. In addition to this, their attacks can hold you underwater and cause you to drown.
Because of their sheer size, unlike regular
Karkinos, even a large rock or hill will not prevent them from reaching towards the player aggravated towards them.
Weakness[]
Spino's are the go to in this case. With the high attack speed and decent knock back, it can easily kill almost all wild creatures, including Alpha Karkinos. Please note that low level spino's have low stamina and will eventually gain torpor or not attack fast enough to outkite it, so it is recommended to use higher level spino's. In addition, they are also prone to attempting to consume corpses, but like all alphas are unable to do so, and will continue to attack the corpse regardless of damage taken, making for an easy kill if this occurs.
Gallery[]
Notes/Trivia[]
- TheAlpha Karkinos Claw (Aberration) is the same colour as the Karkinos Claw on the dossier.
- There is a bug where if a forcetamed Alpha Karkinos picks up aBulbdog, let it go, and repeat picking it up, the Bulbdog's model will increase in size. This can cause the Bulbdog to become so large that it could crash your game.
- Tek Hover Skiff can carry Alpha Karkinos for some reason.
