Artifact of the Hunter

An artifact for portal tributes

In ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, the Artifact of the Hunter goes into tribute recipes that generate portals. Its description speaks of a hunter that keeps going until its prey is caught, and closes with a rule: "Only one of these may be carried at a time by an organism."

Recipes that take it

On The Island, the ARK Wiki says, the artifact is used to summon Broodmother Lysrix. Our records count 15 recipes in ASA and 16 in ASE that need it, every one of them a tribute taking a single artifact. These appear in both games:

• Generate Broodmother Portal, plus its Alpha, Beta and Gamma versions
• Generate Center (Easy), (Medium) and (Hard) Portal
• Generate Dragon Portal
• Generate Megapithecus Portal

ASA adds the Alpha, Beta and Gamma portals for Natrix The Devious and for Nunatak. ASE adds the Easy, Medium and Hard Ragnarok portals, Generate Crystal Wyvern Queen (Beta) Portal and three Dinopithecus King portals (Alpha, Beta and Gamma).

Finding the artifact

Our records list one crate that can contain it, the Island Artifact Hunter crate, which appears on The Island, The Center, Astraeos and Ragnarok. The wiki warns that artifacts are not always there to pick up, and that in Single Player they have a cooldown once they respawn. The artifact weighs 5 and does not stack, as its stack size is 1.