Chibi-Ammonite

The Chibi-Ammonite and your level cap

The Chibi-Ammonite is a chibi-pet, a miniature companion that is mostly cosmetic but can also lift a survivor's maximum level. It exists in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki traces it back to the ARK: Summer Bash 2020 event in ASE (version 312.9) and says it has returned in every event since. Its item text reads: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!"

Levelling the pet

With the Chibi-Ammonite equipped, kills of certain predators feed it experience. It can level up five times, and each level permanently adds 1 to the maximum level of the survivor wearing it at that moment, up to 5 extra levels in all.

The wiki's list of creatures that count includes the Alpha Raptor, Alpha T-Rex, Alpha Megalodon and Enraged Corrupted Rex. For ASE on Steam it adds the Alpha Water Wyvern and the Abyssal Alpha T-Rex, and for ASA creatures such as the Astral Raptor, Alpha Ossidon and Enraged Lightning Rex.

Wearing it and losing it

In ASE the pet goes in the off-hand slot, while ASA gives it a dedicated Chibi slot. Once equipped it stays in front of the survivor, on the left, and follows where they move and look. Chibi-pets are ordinary items rather than unlockable skins: they drop with the rest of your inventory when you die and are gone if nobody recovers the death cache.

Where it turns up

Our records list 2 crate types that can contain it, Fishing Items (Valentine's) and Fishing Meat (Valentine's), and tie it to The Island. It weighs 0 and has a stack size of 1.