Chibi-Lovebird

A Valentine's chibi-pet

The Chibi-Lovebird is an equippable miniature pet in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The wiki ties it to Love Evolved 3 and says it has been available in every event since; the version that added it is 343.7. In ASE the item text is short: "Chibi-Pet Love Bird (Valentines)." In ASA it carries a line about earning XP from Alpha creature kills to raise its own level and the survivor's max level.

Extra levels for its owner

Beyond its looks, the bird can lift its owner's level cap. It levels up to five times, from kills of specific predators made while it is equipped. With each of its level-ups, the survivor equipping it at that moment gets 1 more maximum level for good, up to 5 extra. Qualifying kills include the Alpha Basilisk, the Alpha Mosasaur, the Alpha Fire Wyvern and the Enraged Corrupted Rex. Steam players of ASE can also count the Alpha Malleocephalus or the Alpha Tridacna, and ASA adds targets like the Alpha Palaeoctopus, the Astral Argentavis and the Enraged Lightning Rex.

Carrying it around

ASE players equip it in the off-hand slot, while ASA gives chibis their own slot. The bird then keeps to its owner's front-left and faces where they face; on a mount it rides in the survivor's lap, and beside a bed it settles close by. It counts as an ordinary item rather than an unlocked skin: a death drops it with the rest of the inventory, and it is lost for good if that death cache is never 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 list it on 14 maps, from The Island and Scorched Earth to Lost Island and Fjordur. It weighs 0 and has a stack size of 1.