Chibi-Ankylosaurus

A pocket-sized Ankylosaurus

The Chibi-Ankylosaur, named Chibi-Ankylosaurus in ARK: Survival Evolved, is a chibi-pet that our records also list for ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki traces it to ARK: Winter Wonderland 4, an ASE event, and says it has appeared in every event since. In ASA its description simply calls it a Chibi-Pet Ankylosaurus, while the ASE text explains the point: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!"

Raising the level cap

When you kill certain predators with the chibi equipped, it earns experience and can level up, five times at most. Every level-up permanently gives 1 more maximum level to the survivor who has it equipped at that moment, for up to 5 extra. The wiki's general list includes the Alpha Fire Wyvern, Alpha Basilisk, Alpha Karkinos, Alpha Skeletal Rex and Enraged Corrupted Rex. The Steam version of ASE also counts kills such as the Alpha Dakosaurus and Alpha Tridacna, and ASA adds the Alpha Hulking Revenant, Alpha Palaeoctopus and Astral creatures like the Astral Carnotaurus.

Wearing it and keeping it

The slot depends on the game: the off-hand slot in ASE, a dedicated Chibi slot in ASA. The little Ankylosaurus then stays at your front-left, follows the way you move and face, sits in your lap on a mount and rests near you while you sleep in a bed. Chibis count as items, not as unlockable skins. On death it drops with your inventory, and it is gone unless you get the death cache back.

Finding one

It weighs 0 and stacks to 1. Our records list 2 crate types that can contain it, Fishing Items (Valentine's) and Fishing Meat (Valentine's), and place it on 5 maps: The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction and Lost Colony. The wiki dates it to patch 304.1.