Artifact of the Devourer

An artifact behind many portals

The Artifact of the Devourer is one of the artifacts of ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its in-game text reads: "To consume is to become, and to become is to evolve." The same text warns that an organism can carry only one of them at a time. On The Island, the ARK Wiki notes, it is used to summon the Megapithecus.

Where it is found

Our records class it as an artifact that drops in a cave. The one loot entry that holds it is the Island Artifact Devourer, listed for The Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok and Valguero. The wiki cautions that artifacts are not always there to take, and single player games in particular put a cooldown on their respawn.

Tributes that need it

Each of these recipes takes a single artifact. Our data counts 15 of them in ASA and 14 in ASE.

• Both games: the Megapithecus portals (normal, Alpha, Beta and Gamma), the Dragon portal and the Easy, Medium and Hard portals of The Center.
• ASA: the Alpha, Beta and Gamma portals for Nunatak and for Thodes the Widowmaker, plus the Gamma portal for Grendel.
• ASE: the Easy, Medium and Hard portals of Ragnarok, the Beta portal for the Crystal Wyvern Queen, the Alpha portal for the Dinopithecus King and the Portal to the Guardian's Sanctuary (Gamma).

Carrying it

The artifact weighs 5 and has a stack size of 1.