Chibi-Equus

A Chibi-Pet with level rewards

The Chibi-Equus is a Chibi-Pet found in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki says it first appeared in the ASE event ARK: Winter Wonderland 4 and has been part of every event after that. Its description: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!"

How it raises the level cap

Besides its looks, the pet can level up five times. It earns experience whenever the survivor who has it equipped kills certain creatures, and each level it gains permanently raises that survivor's maximum level by 1, to a limit of 5 extra levels. Creatures that count include the Alpha Raptor, Alpha Carnotaurus, Alpha T-Rex, Alpha Megalodon and Alpha Mosasaur, as well as the Enraged Corrupted Rex. Some count in one game only: the Abyssal Alpha T-Rex and Alpha Water Wyvern in ASE on Steam, and entries such as the Astral Raptor, Astral Direwolf and Alpha Ossidon in ASA.

Equipping and losing it

In ASE the pet goes into the off-hand slot; ASA gives chibis a slot of their own. Once equipped it walks at the survivor's front left and turns where they face, sits in their lap while they ride and stays close by when they sleep in a bed. Chibi-Pets count as normal items, not unlocked skins: they drop with the rest of the inventory on death and are gone if the death cache is never recovered.

Drops and crates

Our records list the Equus as a creature that drops it, and 2 crate types can contain it: the Fishing Items (Valentine's) and Fishing Meat (Valentine's) crates. It weighs 0 and does not stack. Our data lists it on 5 maps: The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction and Lost Colony.