Chibi Gigantopithecus Chieftan
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
- 2 crates
Video guides: search YouTube for Chibi Gigantopithecus Chieftan guides
How to get Chibi-Gigantopithecus Chieftan
Chibi-Gigantopithecus Chieftan is found in 2 loot crates.
Loot crates
2 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
Chibi Gigantopithecus Chieftan — Detailed Guide
A chibi pet with an unusual spelling
The Chibi Gigantopithecus Chieftan is one of the chibi pets in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki notes that the game spells the name this way, which is possibly a misspelling of Chieftain. The pet arrived with the Turkey Trial 5 event in ASE (version 340.3) and has returned in every event after that.
Earning extra levels with it
The in-game text sums up what it does: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!" Per the wiki, a chibi can be levelled five times by killing qualifying predators while it is equipped. Each of those levels lifts the maximum level of the survivor carrying it at the time by 1, so a fully levelled pet adds up to 5 levels. Qualifying kills include the 
Alpha Fire Wyvern, 
Alpha Deathworm, 
Alpha Leedsichthys, 
Alpha Tusoteuthis and Enraged Corrupted Triceratops. On ASE (Steam only) the list also has the Alpha Water Wyvern and Abyssal Alpha T-Rex, and on ASA the 
Astral Mammoth and 
Enraged Lightning Rex, among others.
Slot, behaviour and death
ASE players put the chibi in the off-hand slot, while ASA has a separate Chibi slot for it. The pet then stays at the survivor's front left. In a 
Tek Sleeping Pod it still follows the survivor's position but faces upward at their right side. Unlike an unlocked skin, a chibi is a normal item, so it falls with the inventory on death and is lost for good if the death cache is never picked up.
Crates and item data
Our records list 2 crate types that can contain it, Fishing Items (Valentine's) and Fishing Meat (Valentine's). It weighs 0 and a stack holds 1.