Artifact of the Massive

A tribute for summoning portals

Found in a cave, the Artifact of the Massive is offered as a tribute to open summoning portals in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The wiki notes that on The Island it serves to summon Broodmother Lysrix. The artifact's own text: "Size alone can sometimes mean the difference between survival and oblivion. Only one of these may be carried at a time by an organism."

As that warning says, an organism can carry only one at a time. The artifact weighs 5 and has a stack size of 1.

The cave and respawns

The wiki warns about the cave as well: its chambers are full of enemies, with lava pits and dangerous cliff edges along the way. Artifacts are not always there either, and in single player especially they need a cooldown before they respawn. Our loot data lists this one in the Island Artifact Massive drop, which covers The Island, The Center, Astraeos and Ragnarok.

Portals that take it

Our records count 15 tribute recipes in ASA and 14 in ASE, each needing 1 artifact. In both games it goes into the Broodmother portals (plain, Alpha, Beta and Gamma), the Center portals (Easy, Medium and Hard), and the Dragon and Megapithecus portals. ASA adds Natrix The Devious and Nunatak portals at Alpha, Beta and Gamma. In ASE the list also has the Ragnarok portals (Easy, Medium and Hard), Crystal Wyvern Queen (Gamma) and Dinopithecus King (Alpha).