Basilisk Scale
This trophy proves your worth as a hunter.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Aberration
- Loot crates
- 2 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- DLC Variant (Non-Base)
Maps
Found on 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Basilisk Scale guides
How to get Basilisk Scale
Basilisk Scale is found in 2 loot crates.
Loot crates
2 crates
- BasiliskThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Basilisk GhostThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
Basilisk Scale — Detailed Guide
A trophy taken from Basilisks
The Basilisk Scale is a tribute item from the Aberration expansion, and it exists in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The game frames it as a hunting trophy: "This trophy proves your worth as a hunter." Besides Aberration, the ARK Wiki lists it on Genesis: Part 1, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 2 and Lost Island.
Getting the scale
Kill a 
Basilisk and open its inventory before you harvest the body; the scale is waiting there. If you harvest first, or another predator eats the corpse, the scale ends up in a bag on the ground instead, so check around the body before you leave. Our loot data links it to two sources, the Basilisk and the 
Basilisk Ghost.
Which boss fights need it
Basilisk Scales are spent as tribute to summon bosses. The ARK Wiki names 
Rockwell and the 
Dinopithecus King, and our records give the amounts:
- Aberration (Alpha) portal: 8 scales
- Aberration (Beta) portal: 4 scales
Dinopithecus King (Alpha) and (Beta) portals: 2 scales each, in our ARK: Survival Evolved records
Weight
Each scale weighs 0.5 and they stack to 100, so even a full stack weighs just 50. Collecting enough for several attempts costs little carrying capacity.