Chibi-Karkinos
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 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Chibi-Karkinos guides
How to get Chibi-Karkinos
Chibi-Karkinos 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-Karkinos — Detailed Guide
A pocket Karkinos for your survivor
Chibi-Karkinos is a chibi-pet shared by ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki links it to ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 5 in ASE and says it has been available in every event since. The description sums up its use: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!"
How the extra levels work
A chibi-pet can gain up to five levels from kills of certain predators made while it is equipped. Each level-up adds 1 to the max level of whoever wears it at that time, permanently, for at most 5 bonus levels. The qualifying list includes the 
Alpha Basilisk, 
Alpha Karkinos, 
Alpha Fire Wyvern and 
Alpha Tusoteuthis. ASE on Steam adds the likes of the 
Alpha Tridacna, while ASA adds Astral creatures such as the 
Astral Direwolf, 
Astral T-Rex and 
Astral Rock Drake.
Slot, position and death
ASE puts it in the off-hand slot, ASA in its own Chibi slot. It stands at the survivor's front-left and follows their movement. The wiki has a note specific to this one: on a mount it shows above the rider's head rather than in their lap. As an ordinary item and not an unlocked skin, it falls with the inventory when the survivor dies and is lost with a death cache that is not retrieved.
Sources and storage
Our records list 3 sources that can contain it: the Raptor Claus Gift plus Fishing Items (Valentine's) and Fishing Meat (Valentine's). It weighs 0 and has a stack size of 1.