Chibi-Paraceratherium

The Paraceratherium as a chibi pet

Equipped, the Chibi-Paraceratherium can lift your survivor's maximum level in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The pet first appeared in the ARK: Winter Wonderland 4 event, and the ARK Wiki notes it has turned up in every event since then. In-game it is described like this: "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

• Experience: the chibi earns experience when you kill certain predators with it equipped, for example the Alpha Carnotaurus, Alpha Mosasaur, Alpha Tusoteuthis or Enraged Corrupted Triceratops.
• Levels: it can level up five times, and each level-up adds 1 to the maximum level of whoever has it equipped at that moment, for up to 5 extra levels.
• Game-specific targets: ASE on Steam adds creatures such as the Alpha Chrysaora and Alpha Dakosaurus; ASA adds the Alpha Ossidon, the Alpha Palaeoctopus and Astral creatures like the Astral Mammoth.

Slots, behavior and death

ASE puts the chibi in the off-hand slot, while ASA has a dedicated Chibi slot for it. The pet appears at the survivor's front left; on a mount it rests in the survivor's lap, and while the survivor is in bed it sits close by. Chibi pets count as items rather than unlocked skins, so death leaves this one in your death cache with the rest of your inventory, and it is gone if that cache is not recovered.

Sources and item data

Three loot sources in our records can contain it: Fishing Items (Valentine's), Fishing Meat (Valentine's) and the Raptor Claus Gift. Our records link it to 5 maps, The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction and Lost Colony. It weighs 0, and the stack size is 1.