Chibi-Straw Hat Otter
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
Video guides: search YouTube for Chibi-Straw Hat Otter guides
How to get Chibi-Straw Hat Otter
Chibi-Straw Hat Otter 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-Straw Hat Otter — Detailed Guide
A rare Summer Bash chibi
The Chibi-Straw Hat Otter is a rare miniature pet in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki ties it to ARK: Summer Bash 2021 and says it has been available in every event since; 332.1 is the version that added it. Beyond its looks it can raise the owner's level cap, as its in-game text explains: "Earn XP from Alpha creature kills when equipped, to increase its level and earn additional max-levels for your Survivor!"
Levelling up the otter
While equipped, the pet earns experience when its owner kills one of certain predators. It has five level-ups, and each permanently raises by 1 the maximum level of the survivor carrying it at the time, capped at 5 extra levels. The wiki names creatures such as the Alpha Skeletal Raptor, Alpha Skeletal Carnotaurus, 
Alpha Blood Crystal Wyvern and 
Enraged Corrupted Rex. ASE players on Steam can also use the 
Alpha Chrysaora or 
Alpha Malleocephalus, and ASA adds creatures like the 
Astral Mosasaur and 
Astral Rock Drake.
Carrying it around
In ASA the chibi has its own Chibi slot, while in ASE it goes in the off-hand slot. On a mount it rides in the survivor's lap; when the survivor sleeps in a bed it stays close. Chibis are items rather than unlockable skins: this one drops on death with the rest of the inventory and is lost if that cache is not picked back up.
Loot crates
It weighs 0 and stacks to 1. Our records list 3 crate types that can contain it: Raptor Claus Gift, Fishing Items (Valentine's) and Fishing Meat (Valentine's).