Chibi-Carcharodontosaurus

A pocket-sized Carcharodontosaurus

The Chibi Carcharodontosaurus, written Chibi-Carcharodontosaurus in ARK: Survival Evolved, is a rare chibi-pet that survivors can equip in ASE and in ARK: Survival Ascended. The wiki says it was added in version 352.6 at the same time as the Carcharodontosaurus itself. Its item text: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!"

Raising your level cap with it

A chibi is mostly about looks, yet it can also lift the survivor's level cap. The pet gains experience from kills of certain predators made while it is equipped, and it can level up five times. Each of those level-ups gives the survivor who has it equipped at that moment 1 extra maximum level for good, for up to 5 in total. Kills that count in both games include the Alpha Raptor, the Alpha T-Rex, the Alpha Megalodon and the Enraged Corrupted Rex. ASE on Steam also counts the Abyssal Alpha T-Rex and the Alpha Water Wyvern, while ASA adds Astral creatures such as the Astral Direwolf and the Astral Rock Drake.

Equipping it and keeping it

In ASE the pet takes the off-hand slot; ASA gives chibis a slot of their own. Once equipped it stays at its owner's front-left and turns as they turn, sits in their lap on a mount and waits close to the bed while they sleep. It is handled as a normal inventory item, not as an unlocked skin: dying drops it with everything else, and it is gone unless the death cache is recovered.

Crates and maps

Three crate types can contain it: Fishing Items (Valentine's), Fishing Meat (Valentine's) and the Raptor Claus Gift. Our records tie it to The Island, Extinction and Lost Colony. It weighs 0 and has a stack size of 1.