Chibi-Mantis
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
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-Mantis guides
How to get Chibi-Mantis
Chibi-Mantis 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-Mantis — Detailed Guide
Turkey Trial origins
The ARK Wiki ties the Chibi-Mantis to ARK: Turkey Trial 4 in ARK: Survival Evolved and says it has been available in every event since. Our database holds it for ARK: Survival Ascended as well. Owning the Scorched Earth DLC is required to equip it. The in-game description: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!"
Leveling the chibi
With the Chibi-Mantis equipped, kills of certain predators give it experience. It can level up five times, and every level permanently raises the max level of whichever survivor has it equipped at that point by 1, up to 5 extra levels in total. The wiki's list includes the 
Alpha Basilisk, 
Alpha Deathworm and 
Alpha Fire Wyvern; for the Steam version of ASE it adds creatures like the Alpha Water Wyvern, and for ASA it adds the 
Alpha Ossidon and 
Astral T-Rex, among others.
Where it sits and what happens on death
ASE puts the chibi in the off-hand slot and ASA in its own Chibi slot; either way it appears to the survivor's front-left and follows them around. Chibi-Pets count as items rather than unlocked skins: they drop with the inventory when the survivor dies and are lost unless the death cache is recovered. The Chibi-Mantis weighs 0 and has a stack size of 1.
Loot
Our records list 2 crate types that can contain it, Fishing Items (Valentine's) and Fishing Meat (Valentine's), and place it on Scorched Earth.