Carbonemys

See also:  Megachelon

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Carbonemys

Creature

Group

Reptiles

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Defensive

Release Versions

1.551
Jun 2, 2015

729.0
Dec 16, 2015

501.0
Dec 6, 2016

521.0
Nov 30, 2018

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

1.0
May 24, 2018

Variants

•  Aberrant Carbonemys
•  Eerie Carbonemys
•  R-Carbonemys

Spawn Command

cheat summon Turtle_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Turtle/Turtle_Character_BP.Turtle_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Aberrant Carbonemys

cheat summon Turtle_Character_BP_Aberrant_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Turtle/Turtle_Character_BP_Aberrant.Turtle_Character_BP_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Carbonemys (Escort)

cheat summon Turtle_Character_BP_Escort_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Escort/Ocean/Turtle_Character_BP_Escort.Turtle_Character_BP_Escort'" 500 0 0 35

Variant R-Carbonemys

cheat summon Turtle_Character_BP_Rockwell_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Turtle_Character_BP_Rockwell.Turtle_Character_BP_Rockwell'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Carbonemys (Gauntlet2)

cheat summon Turtle_Character_BP_STA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Turtle_Character_BP_STA.Turtle_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

 Knockout

Preferred Kibble

 Regular Kibble

Preferred Kibble

 Kibble (Pteranodon Egg)

Preferred Food

 Crops

Preferred Food

 Fresh Tea Leaves 

Equipment

 Carbonemys Saddle (Level 10)

Rider Weaponry

Yes

Data

XP for kill

8 XP

Feces Size

 Small

Drag Weight

250

Radiation Immune

No

Carryable By

•  Fire Wyvern
•  Forest Wyvern
•  Ice Wyvern
•  Karkinos
•  Lightning Wyvern
•  Poison Wyvern
•  Quetzal
•  Tek Quetzal
•  Tusoteuthis

Immobilized By

•  Chain Bola
•  Large Bear Trap
•  Plant Species Y Trap
•  Net Projectile

Can Damage

 Thatch
 Greenhouse

Reproduction

Egg

 Turtle Egg

Incubation Range

30 - 34 °C / 86 - 93 °F
 Egg Incubator: 32 °C / 90 °F

Incubation Time

1h 14m 59.64s

Baby Time

2h 18m 53.333s

Juvenile Time

9h 15m 33.331s

Adolescent Time

11h 34m 26.664s

Total Maturation Time

23h 8m 53.328s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Carbonemys (car-BON-eh-miss) often simply referred to as the Turtle, is a small, herbivorous reptile known for its defensive shell making it a good soaker against turrets, as well as its relatively fast speed when in water. It was first added in  ARK: Survival Evolved on its early release.

Basic Info

Dossier

This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.

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Species

Carbonemys obibimus

Time

Danian

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Defensive

Wild

Carbonemys obibimus is one of the least aggressive creatures on the Island. Were it not for the plethora of predators on the Island, I'm quite certain that it would spend its days basking in the sun, eating, or sleeping. Carbonemys leads a simple, solitary life. Nevertheless, it seems to be one of the most peaceful animals I have yet encountered. With its slow walking speed, the only things that keep it safe are its surprisingly fast swim speed, and its incredibly thick shell, which can absorb tremendous damage.

Domesticated

Carbonemys' swift swim rate, fairly high strength, superior shell defenses, and lack of real threat makes it an ideal armored mount for many survivors who shy away from violence. It can carry its rider to the ocean's resources at fairly high speed, and is not particularly dangerous to tame.

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~ Helena

Behavior

Carbonemys is a neutral creature, and will fight back only if attacked or you take one of their eggs. They will also defend their own kind. Upon being attacked, Carbonemys can deliver quite a punishing attack, but nothing too fatal. Their extremely low movement speed allows them to be easily kited and killed for meat early on, however they have a very large amount of health, and require quite an amount of time to kill.

Appearance

Carbonemys are large turtles that stand taller than a Human. They are protected by a thick, heavily spiked shell, and their heads and tails have similar protusions, also being covered in firm plates. The skin of their feet and tail is rougher and thicker, leaving only the lower neck area as relatively tender. Thick spikes jut above their eyes, which are pink, and have horizontal pupils.

Color Scheme and Regions

This section displays the Carbonemys's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Carbonemys. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Carbonemys 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 Carbonemys's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Carbonemys's "body" magenta.

Region 0:
Body

13

14

20

22

24

26

27

33

34

35

Region 1:
Shell Base

8

14

19

21

23

28

30

32

33

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 4:
Shell, Plates and Claws

13

14

20

22

24

29

31

33

34

35

Region 5:
Body Accent

8

14

21

23

25

26

32

33

This section displays the Carbonemys's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Carbonemys. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Carbonemys 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 Carbonemys's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Carbonemys's "main color" magenta.

Region 0:
Main color

14

21

28

29

42

43

45

47

48

49

50

51

52

53

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57

58

60

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92

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99

Region 1:
Accent color

10

11

23

25

28

30

32

39

40

42

43

44

45

47

48

49

50

51

52

53

54

55

66

67

69

70

74

75

76

77

84

85

91

94

95

100

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 4:
Secondary color

14

21

28

29

42

43

45

47

48

49

50

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81

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92

93

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99

Region 5:
Tertiary color

14

21

28

29

42

43

45

47

48

49

50

51

52

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56

57

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62

63

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77

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81

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92

93

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98

99

Variants

Aberrant Carbonemys

 Aberrant Carbonemys is the Aberrant variant of Carbonemys found in Aberration. It is identical to the normal specie except for its glowing robe. It is tameable and is not  Radiation immune.

R-Carbonemys

 R-Carbonemys is a tameable R variant found in Genesis: Part 2's Garden. It sports a different colour pattern, and has a 5% ×  Melee Damage increase at the exchange of 3% ×  Health reduction. On official servers its level cap is 500.

Drops

•  Hide
•  Keratin
•  Raw Meat

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	700	+140	+5.4%	0.07	(TBHM: 90%)
Stamina	200	+20	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	N/A
Food	3000	+300	+10%
Weight	270	+5.4	+4%
Melee Damage	13	+0.65	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+1%	70%
Torpidity	275	+16.5	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2
Walking	100	?	?	220	220	374	5
Swimming	265	?	?	?	?	?	?

• 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.

Wild Stats Level-up

Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.

Carbonemys

The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps

Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.

Abilities

Active

Bite 5	The Carbonemys bites the target for 13 damage. Can be used every 0.75s by both a rider and the AI.

Passive

Damage Reduction

The Carbonemys' shell and tail reduces the incoming damage that it receives from projectiles by 80% and by 50% respectively. On  ARK: Survival Ascended the body damage multipliers also apply for melee attacks.

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

It is not recommended that you get into a punching match with this spiky and very well-armored beast, you'll probably lose that fight. Instead you should look to a few other methods of knocking one out. The best method would be using a  Pulmonoscorpius and/or  Tranquilizer Arrows, but if neither are available to you, then a simple  Slingshot will do the trick. Aim at the head for best results and avoid hitting the shell as it has very little effect. Note: Weapons register hits from very slightly farther away than the creature will 'react' to. (i.e. it doesn't flinch or make a noise but the hit still deals damage). If you don't have much health you can jump on its shell and whack it with a  Wooden Club.

Taming Food

Level 1					Time
Regular Kibble	2	0	0	0	0:01:36
Fresh Barley	20	0	0	0	0:12:01
Fresh Wheat	20	0	0	0	0:12:01
Soybean	20	0	0	0	0:12:01
Dried Wheat	20	19	4	2	0:24:01
Mejoberry	27	0	0	0	0:12:10
Berries	40	0	0	0	0:12:01
KO: × 28; × 12; × 4; × 2; × 2; × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:15:16

Level 30					Time
Regular Kibble	5	0	0	0	0:04:00
Fresh Barley	47	11	3	2	0:28:13
Fresh Wheat	47	11	3	2	0:28:13
Soybean	47	11	3	2	0:28:13
Dried Wheat	47	104	22	11	0:56:25
Mejoberry	63	11	3	2	0:28:22
Berries	94	11	3	2	0:28:13
KO: × 76; × 31; × 9; × 5; × 4; × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:25:11

Level 60					Time
Regular Kibble	8	0	0	0	0:06:24
Fresh Barley	75	54	12	6	0:45:01
Fresh Wheat	75	54	12	6	0:45:01
Soybean	75	54	12	6	0:45:01
Dried Wheat	75	240	51	26	1:30:01
Mejoberry	100	54	12	6	0:45:01
Berries	150	54	12	6	0:45:01
KO: × 125; × 51; × 14; × 8; × 6; × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:32:00

Level 90					Time
Regular Kibble	11	0	0	0	0:08:48
Fresh Barley	104	123	26	13	1:02:25
Fresh Wheat	104	123	26	13	1:02:25
Soybean	104	123	26	13	1:02:25
Dried Wheat	104	421	90	45	2:04:49
Mejoberry	138	121	26	13	1:02:07
Berries	207	121	26	13	1:02:07
KO: × 175; × 72; × 20; × 12; × 8; × 4
Torpidity-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:36:56

Level 120					Time
Regular Kibble	14	0	0	0	0:11:12
Fresh Barley	132	206	45	23	1:19:13
Fresh Wheat	132	206	45	23	1:19:13
Soybean	132	206	45	23	1:19:13
Dried Wheat	132	630	137	69	2:38:25
Mejoberry	175	204	45	23	1:18:46
Berries	263	205	45	23	1:18:55
KO: × 224; × 92; × 25; × 15; × 11; × 6
Torpidity-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:40:48

Level 150					Time
Regular Kibble	16	0	0	0	0:12:48
Fresh Barley	160	305	67	34	1:36:01
Fresh Wheat	160	305	67	34	1:36:01
Soybean	160	305	67	34	1:36:01
Dried Wheat	160	867	191	96	3:12:01
Mejoberry	213	304	67	34	1:35:52
Berries	319	303	67	34	1:35:43
KO: × 274; × 112; × 31; × 18; × 13; × 7
Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:44:00

Note that the values are for optimal cases, always bring extra supplies!
For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator. Ingredients for  Regular Kibble: 1 ×  Cooked Meat Jerky, 1 ×  Medium Egg, 5 ×  Fiber, 2 ×  Longrass, 2 ×  Savoroot, 1 ×  Water

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Carbonemys.

General

The shell of the Carbonemys reduces incoming damage by 80%, the legs and tail by 50%, and the head only takes base damage (no headshot multiplier). The Carbonemys should not be attacked anywhere but the head due to the low damage on all other parts of its body.

Strategy

The Carbonemys is fairly easily killed with a  Pike,  Spear, or Ranged Weapons. Even though the Carbonemys can dish out sizable amounts of damage to anyone with lower than  Chitin Armor, this is easily avoided by backing away slowly and either stabbing or shooting the head of the animal. It is not recommended to use any close range weapons, such as a  Metal Sword, due to the lack of distance between the player and the Carbonemys. If stuck in a tree or rock, one could easily lance hits into its face while maintaining a safe distance. Even if free from a stuck position, it is easy to kite/train(a gaming term that means to lead an enemy around in your control) to your advantage due to the horrendously slow movement speed.

Weaponry

Any weapon with a longer range than a  Metal Sword should do the trick, as the distance between the player and the Carbonemys will be large enough to avoid much damage. For lower levels, a  Bow,  Slingshot, or  Spear should do the trick, and the same for those weapons' higher-level counterparts.

Dangers

New players should be aware that the Carbonemys is not simply a defenseless, lumbering turtle, but has a large pool of health and feasible damage output. The creature can drag a fight out for a long time, exhausting any player that did not prepare themselves. Players with low melee damage and health may have a more difficult time taking on the Carbonemys. The Turtle's powerful jaws can deliver a devastating blow to low level players.

Weakness

The Carbonemys is slow enough that you can easily outpace it even while walking backward, making spears a very effective weapon against it, you just have to prepare a lot or you might just run away from it temporarily.

Utility

Roles

• Tank: Excellent tank due to its high HP and natural defenses. (Level up  Health)
• Transport: While slow, the carbonemys has a very good base carrying capacity. Notably faster in water, making it good for local/water transport. (Level up  Weight)
• Egg Farming: Carbonemys eggs are medium sized, making them big enough to make  Regular Kibble with, making it one of the easiest animals to get a ton of medium eggs for regular kibble, because of how abundant and easy to tame they are.
• PvP Turret Soaker: Walking backwards towards a turret will cause it to take greatly reduced damage from turrets, combined with its high HP this makes it a very good tame to exhaust auto turret ammo. It would be best to set it on passive and leash it to a friendly tame out of sight so if you get sniped off of your mount the tortoise will run to safety.
• Tame Assistant: The Carbonemys, due to its high health and easy tame in case it dies, makes it an ideal distraction mount when trying to tame  Tusoteuthis. Of course, due to the fact that by the time you'll be attempting to tame a  Tusoteuthis you'll have more tanky mounts, such as the mosasaur, but the Carbonemys is much more expendable if you underestimate the  Tusoteuthis's power and get your distraction killed.

Collectibles

Resource	Efficiency
Berries	★★★☆☆
Thatch	★★★☆☆
Wood	★★☆☆☆

Notes/Trivia

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Carbonemys, see the relevant Wikipedia article.

• Carbonemys is Greek for "Coal Turtle".
• On Valguero there are some dead aberrant Carbonemys near the shores, they can be harvested for  Spoiled Meat,  Hide and  Keratin.
• If you want to kill Carbonemys in the early levels (because they grant great amounts of Exp), prepare some  Spears, and hit it while you're moving backward, as wild Carbonemys's sprint is even slower than you moving backward, so stabbing it repeatedly till it die, also work on medium and high leveled Carbonemys as well.
• The real Carbonemys and  Titanoboa were contemporaries. They both lived in the jungle rivers of what is now Colombia 60 million years ago in swamp environments. A more realistic depiction of Carbonemys would be to see them in the Writhing Swamps in large numbers. They're not the strongest herbivores but it would still result in great conflict with the swamp's predators.
• Carbonemys is one of the original creatures that were in the game when it released in Alpha in 2015
• When mounted the player model grows to a VERY large size to "fit" the turtle's saddle, depending on the original player model, a player could double its size while mounted.
• The real Carbonemys was actually a giant species of side-neck turtle reaching the size of a small car. They were also believed to be carnivorous by scientists, using their beaks to crush bones, shells, and armour from small creatures.
• In earlier versions of the game, it was possible to stand on a wild Carbonemys that was crossing a river to avoid getting bitten to death by  Megapiranhas, as a bug caused Carbonemys to go unnoticed by them.
• Carbonemys are one of the few wild dinos that can be "ridden" by jumping on their backs.
  • However, players will slide down if it is a wild Carbonemys and goes in combat. Occasionally, players can get stuck inside its body.
• Real turtles breathe air and hold their breath underwater, however Ark's Carbonemys doesn't need oxygen, thus it can stay underwater forever.
• Real turtles are social animals that live in a group called a bale, Ark's Carbonemys is mostly seen on it's own but can be seen with other Carbonemys.
• Real turtles have webbed feet, Carbonemys have clawed feet like a land dwelling tortoise.
• Despite being a turtle it's incapable of retracting its limbs into its shell like the  Doedicurus can.
• Real life Carbonemys might have just a normal smooth giant shell just like other turtles and not kinda spiky like on Ark.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
173.0	Amphibious creatures like the Carbonemys now regain  Stamina much more quickly in water.
178.0	Now dives and rises in the water at regular speeds, akin to the speed of swimming straight. Regenerates  Stamina in water properly now.
179.0	Fixed a bug where players would grow very large when riding on a Carbonemys and then falling off from being unconscious.
181.1	Fixed a bug where Carbonemys was losing  Stamina in the water.
252.8	Carbonemys no longer receives herbivore healing from  Sweet Vegetable Cakes.
254.86	Reduced armor rating effectiveness by 50%.
259.0	Fixed issue where riding on a Carbonemys caused the player's size to increase 2x their normal size.
264.5	Slight decrease to saddle armor value for the Carbonemys.
275.0	Aberrant Carbonemys is added to the game.
293.100	Carbonemys now prefers  Regular Kibble.
312.65	Increased resistance to  Tek Turrets by 10%.
329.3	R-Carbonemys is added to the game.

Gallery

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  Carbonemys family takes a break on the south coast

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  Aberrant variants have glowing stripes.