Alpha Karkinos

Alpha Karkinos

Creature

Groups

Alpha Creatures, Fantasy Creatures, Invertebrates

Diet

Omnivore

Temperament

Aggressive

Release Versions

275.0
Dec 12, 2017

768.0
Dec 12, 2017

518.0
Dec 12, 2017

605.0
Dec 13, 2022

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

DLCs

Aberration, Valguero

Variants

•  Karkinos
•  VR Karkinos

Spawn Command

cheat summon MegaCrab_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Aberration/Dinos/Crab/MegaCrab_Character_BP.MegaCrab_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

No

No

No

Torpor Immune

No

Data

XP for kill

3,400 XP

Loot

•  Alpha Karkinos Claw

Special Loot Chance

100%

Feces

None

Drag Weight

450

Immobilized By

•  Chain Bola
•  Large Bear Trap

Habitat

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Alpha Karkinos is one of the Alpha Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved's Aberration 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 colored red 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 entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Alpha Karkinos's "body main" magenta.

Region 0:
Body Main

13

14

22

24

31

33

34

35

37

39

42

52

56

Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 4:
Highlights

28

30

31

43

44

48

49

51

53

54

Region 5:
Underbody

14

21

24

32

33

37

39

42

43

47

48

Drops

•  Alpha Karkinos Claw
•  Chitin
•  Organic Polymer
•  Raw Meat

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

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed	Sprinting Speed
	Wild	Wild
Walking	600	1050
Swimming	600	?

• For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
• For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.
• ¹These are the base speeds of the tamed creature at 100% Movement Speed, i.e. without a possible taming bonus.
• ²These are the speeds of the creature once tamed including a possible taming bonus and no imprinting bonus.
• For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.

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

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Notes/Trivia

• The Alpha Karkinos Claw is the same colour as the Karkinos Claw on the dossier.
• There is a bug where if a forcetamed Alpha Karkinos picks up a Bulbdog, 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.