Carbonemys

The Carbonemys (car-BON-eh-miss,) often simply referred to as Turtle, is a creature in ARK: Survival Evolved. They were a large prehistoric genus of turtle that lived during the Paleocene epoch in foggy swamps of Colombia, South America just a few million years after the Cretaceous Extinction. They also coexisted with Titanoboa and are portrayed as herbivores in the game in contrast to their piscivorous diet.

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 often stand taller than a Human. Slow and usually placid, they are protected by one of the toughest shells on the island, in which they can draw back almost completely. The shell is armed with spiny scales. The skin of feet and tail is enhanced by firmer dander. Only the lower neck area is relatively tender. Their pine strips can be used as a cutting tool. They have small but alert and often piercing eyes, most commonly red.

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 Scorpion and/or s, but if neither are available to you, then a simple 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 bat

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.

Roles

 * Tank: Excellent tank due to its high HP and natural defenses. (Level up )
 * 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 )
 * 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.

Notes/Trivia

 * Carbonemys is Greek for "Coal Turtle".
 * On valguero there are some dead aberrant Carbonemys near the shores, they can be harvested for, and.
 * 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.
 * 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 can.
 * Real life Carbonemys might have just a normal smooth giant shell just like other turtles and not kinda spiky like on Ark.