Crabby

CarnivoreKnockout tame

Immobilized by: Chain Bola, Large Bear Trap

Spawn command

State
Level

GMSummon spawns a creature already tamed to you at the chosen level.

Spawn class

Info

Crabby dossier

Base stats

Health
1200
Stamina
600
Oxygen
150
Food
5000
Weight
800
Melee Damage
100%
Movement Speed
100%
Torpidity
800

Wild base values at level 1. Stats not shown use the game default.

Taming calculator

Creature level
Taming speed

Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.

25Kibble (preferred)· 1h 2m
Effectiveness99.1%Bonus levels+74Tames to level224
Perfect tame
Torpor to knock out6,760Drain rate1.7/s · AverageStays under for1h 5m
Sedatives to keep it under for the full tame
FoodUse / MaxTimeEffectiveness
Kibble (preferred)85 food · 4.1% per item
/25
1h 2m
99.1%
+74 → Lv 224
Raw Mutton50 food · 1.9% per item
/52
1h 15m
96.3%
+72 → Lv 222
Raw Prime Meat50 food · 1.6% per item
/65
1h 34m
94.3%
+70 → Lv 220
Cooked Lamb Chop50 food · 1.0% per item
/96
2h 20m
88.3%
+66 → Lv 216
Spoiled Meat50 food · 1.0% per item
/97
2h 21m
88%
+66 → Lv 216
Cooked Prime Meat50 food · 0.8% per item
/129
3h 8m
80.6%
+60 → Lv 210
Raw Prime Fish Meat25 food · 0.6% per item
/162
1h 58m
72.6%
+54 → Lv 204
Raw Meat50 food · 0.5% per item
/194
4h 43m
64.8%
+48 → Lv 198
Cooked Prime Fish Meat25 food · 0.3% per item
/323
3h 55m
39.9%
+29 → Lv 179
Cooked Meat25 food · 0.3% per item
/387
4h 42m
31.6%
+23 → Lv 173
Raw Fish Meat25 food · 0.2% per item
/484
5h 53m
22.8%
+17 → Lv 167
Cooked Fish Meat25 food · 0.1% per item
/968
11h 46m
6.9%
+5 → Lv 155

Knockout tame. Edit the Use column to mix foods — the game eats the best food first, so the summary feeds your kibble/prime before filling the rest with meat. Sedatives shown keep it under for the whole tame; bring spares.

Minimum to knock out

Creature level
Torpor to knock out6,760
WeaponMin. hitsTorpor / hit
Tranq Arrow (Bow)7690
Tranq Arrow (Compound Bow)56121.5
Tranq Arrow (Crossbow)43157.5
Tranq Dart (Longneck Rifle)31221
Shocking Tranq Dart (Longneck)16442

Minimum hits to knock out a level 150 Crabby, using primitive (100%-quality) weapons. This is a floor — it ignores the torpor a creature regenerates between shots, so bring a few spare. Land hits on the head where possible for bonus damage, and watch torpor doesn't drain faster than you raise it.

Stat calculator

State
Taming effectiveness
%
Creature level1
Server max wild level150
StatWild levelDomesticated levelValue
Health
1,201
Stamina
600
Oxygen
150
Food
5,000
Weight
800
Melee Damage
210%
Movement Speed
100%
Torpidity
801

Forward calculator. Enter the wild points a creature rolled (and domesticated points you spend after taming) to get each stat's value. Uses official-server rates with no imprint bonus. Melee and movement speed are shown as a percentage; taming effectiveness only boosts stats with a taming bonus (such as melee).

Breeding calculator

Egg hatch speed
Baby mature speed

Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.

Matures in4d 19hLive birth
Gestation9h 55mHand-feed window11h 34mCuddles for 100%14 × 7%
BabyJuvenileAdolescent

Hand-feed (no trough) for the first 11h 34m — until Tomorrow 7:38 PM.

If the egg is fertilized now
  1. BirthToday 10:08 PM
    Gestation done+0s
  2. Hand-feed window endsTomorrow 7:38 PM
    Safe to use a trough+21h 29m
  3. Adolescent reachedMon 5:56 PM
    +2d 19h
  4. Adult reachedThu 3:48 AM
    +5d 5h
Imprint cuddle plan100% with all 14 cuddles, one every 8h
CuddleAfterClockTotal
#1+8hTomorrow 6:08 AM7%
#2+16hTomorrow 2:08 PM14%
#3+1dTomorrow 10:08 PM21%
#4+1d 8hSun 6:08 AM29%
#5+1d 16hSun 2:08 PM36%
Mating cooldown18h – 2d

Raising. The Baby phase (0–10%) is the dangerous window — the baby can't eat from a feeding trough and must be hand-fed until it reaches Juvenile. Imprint at each cuddle interval for the full bonus. Wall-clock times assume the egg is fertilized now and rescale with your server profile; mating cooldown is unaffected. Imprint counts assume the default imprint amount — tune that on the imprint calculator.

Where to find

Wild Crabby spawn zones across the catalogued maps. Each dot is a spawn cluster — open the full interactive map for exact GPS and a teleport command.

Combat & handling

Base melee damage
20
Claw Left damage
32
Claw Right damage
32
Claw Attack Double Smash damage
50
Claw Left Wild damage
15
Claw Right Wild damage
15
Drag weight
450
XP on kill (base)
6
Cloning cost (base)
1250 element shards

Crabby guide

The Crabby is a carnivore in ARK: Survival Ascended. It spawns wild on Aberration. This page covers its spawn commands, base stats, taming and breeding — with interactive calculators you can drive by level.

How to tame the Crabby

The Crabby is a knockout (violent) tame. Render it unconscious with tranquilizer arrows or darts, then feed it raw meat — with raw prime meat, cooked meat or its preferred kibble taming faster and keeping effectiveness higher. Keep its Torpor topped up with Narcotics or Narcoberries while it eats — use the taming calculator above to see exact food counts, taming time and the effectiveness you'll land at your target level.

Aim for the head where you can — most creatures take extra torpor from headshots — and don't let Torpor drain faster than you raise it. The knockout estimator above lists the minimum tranq arrows and darts for any level.

Crabby spawn command

To spawn a wild Crabby, open the console and run its Summon command. To spawn one already tamed at a chosen level, use GMSummon instead — both are copy-ready in the Spawn commands panel above, along with the raw spawn class (Crab_Character_BP_C) for use with commands like SpawnDino.