Chibi-Direbear
Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!
Details
- Category
- Chibi Pet
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Loot crates
- 3 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Cosmetic / Skin / Trophy
Maps
Found on 3 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Chibi-Direbear guides
How to get Chibi-Direbear
Chibi-Direbear is found in 3 loot crates.
Loot crates
3 crates
- Fishing Items (Valentine's)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Meat (Valentine's)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Raptor Claus GiftThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
Chibi-Direbear — Detailed Guide
A Dire Bear chibi that adds levels
ARK: Survival Ascended lists this miniature pet as the Chibi-Dire Bear, and ARK: Survival Evolved as the 
Chibi-Direbear. The ARK Wiki says it was introduced in ARK: Love Evolved, an ASE event, and has been available in every event since. Chibi-pets are mostly cosmetic, but they carry one lasting benefit, spelled out in the ASE item text: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!" The ASA description simply calls it a Chibi-Pet Dire Bear.
Leveling the chibi
Killing certain predators while the chibi is equipped gives it experience, and it can level up five times. Each level-up permanently raises by 1 the maximum level of the survivor who has it equipped at that moment, up to 5 extra levels. The wiki's general list of qualifying kills includes the 
Alpha Raptor, 
Alpha Megalodon, 
Alpha Surface Reaper King, 
Alpha Blood Crystal Wyvern and 
Enraged Corrupted Rex. In the Steam version of ASE, kills such as the Alpha Water Wyvern or 
Alpha Malleocephalus also count, and ASA adds creatures like the 
Astral Rock Drake, 
Astral Direwolf and 
Enraged Lightning Rex.
Where it sits and what happens on death
In ASE the chibi goes in the off-hand slot; ASA gives it a dedicated Chibi slot. Once equipped it appears at the survivor's front-left and follows their movement and facing. On a mount it rides in the survivor's lap, and while they sleep in a bed it sits close by; in a 
Tek Sleeping Pod it still follows their position but faces upward at their right, because in the pods survivors lie on their backs. Chibis count as items, not unlockable skins: on death one drops with the rest of the inventory and is lost unless the death cache is recovered. The one exception the wiki names is the 
Chibi-Noglin, exclusive to the Genesis Season Pass, which returns as a new, unleveled copy in the inventory after respawn.
Finding one
The chibi weighs 0 and stacks to 1. Our records count 3 loot entries that can contain it: Fishing Items (Valentine's), Fishing Meat (Valentine's) and the Raptor Claus Gift. They list it on 4 maps, The Island, Aberration, Extinction and Lost Colony. The wiki dates it to patch 305.12 and notes that, unlike the 
Chibi-Direwolf, the Chibi-Direbear has kept its old model.