Argentavis Talon

Taking a talon from an Argentavis

The Argentavis Talon is a trophy item in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and its description keeps it short: "This trophy proves your worth as a hunter." It comes from the Argentavis. After a kill, open the body's inventory before you harvest the carcass for its Raw Meat and Hide. If the carcass was harvested before anyone looked inside, or another predator has eaten it, the talon ends up in a bag lying on the ground instead.

Its use as a boss tribute

The ARK Wiki states that the talon's only purpose at present is serving as a tribute for entering the Boss Arenas. Our records count 14 recipes that take it in ASA and 13 in ASE. Among those found in both games:

• Generate Broodmother Portal: 4, with 5 for the Beta and 10 for the Alpha version
• Generate Megapithecus Portal: 4
• Generate Dragon Portal: 4
• Generate Center (Medium) Portal: 10, and 25 for the Hard version

In ASA the list also holds the Grendel portals (5 for Gamma, 8 for Beta, 15 for Alpha), the Natrix The Devious portals (5 for Beta, 10 for Alpha) and the Nunatak portals (10 for Beta, 25 for Alpha). In ASE it has the Ragnarok portals (10 for Medium, 25 for Hard), the Generate Dinopithecus King (Gamma) Portal (5) and the three Portal to the Guardian's Sanctuary tributes (5 for Gamma, 8 for Beta, 15 for Alpha).

Weight and where it turns up

Each talon weighs 2 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 200. Our records list it on 8 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Extinction and Astraeos. Our loot data has a single entry for it, named after the Argentavis.