Chibi-Megatherium

Chibi-Megatherium and Winter Wonderland 4

The Chibi-Megatherium is a chibi-pet in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The wiki ties it to ARK: Winter Wonderland 4, says it has been available in every event since, and gives 304.1 as the version that added it. Loot is one way to find it: our records show 3 crate types that can contain it, the two Valentine's fishing crates (Fishing Items and Fishing Meat) and the Raptor Claus Gift.

What equipping it does

The game's description: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!" Chibi-pets are mainly cosmetic, but they also raise the level cap. This one can gain up to five levels, and each one permanently adds 1 to the maximum level of whoever has it equipped at that time, 5 extra levels in all. Kills that feed it XP in both games include the Alpha Basilisk, Alpha Karkinos, Alpha Leedsichthys and Alpha Skeletal Rex. Creatures like the Alpha Chrysaora and Alpha Malleocephalus count only in ASE on Steam, and the Alpha Hulking Revenant and Astral Mammoth only in ASA.

Slots, weight and losing it

ASE players put it in the off-hand slot, ASA players in the dedicated Chibi slot. It weighs 0 and stacks to 1. As an item rather than an unlocked skin, it drops with the rest of the inventory when the survivor dies and has to be recovered from there. The wiki names one exception to that rule: the Chibi-Noglin from the Genesis Season Pass, which shows up new and unleveled in the inventory after respawn.