Chitin/Keratin
A firm, flexible material. Primarily found on creatures with hard organic materials.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Item ID
- 212
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Resource (Not an Engram)
Maps
Found on 14 maps
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Chitin/Keratin — Detailed Guide
Chitin/Keratin as a crafting material
Chitin/Keratin is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that shows up in a number of recipes, many of them saddles. Its description reads: "A firm, flexible material. Primarily found on creatures with hard organic materials." It has no engram to unlock, and our records list it on 14 maps, among them The Island, Aberration, Lost Colony, Astraeos and Fjordur.
Recipes in both games
Our ASA data counts 16 recipes that use it and our ASE data 20. These uses appear in both lists:
- Saddles:
Argentavis Saddle, 
Desert Titan Saddle, 
Forest Titan Saddle and 
Ice Titan Saddle (150 each), 
Araneo Saddle (100), 
Pelagornis Saddle and 
Pteranodon Saddle (75 each), 
Kaprosuchus Saddle (65) and 
Carcharo Saddle (20). - Gear:
Silencer Attachment (20), 
SCUBA Flippers (12) and 
Blood Extraction Syringe (1). - Pastes:
Cementing Paste and 
Achatina Paste (4 each).
Extra entries in each game's list
The ASE list adds the 
Gacha Saddle, 
Gasbags Saddle, 
Managarmr Saddle, 
Snow Owl Saddle and 
Velonasaur Saddle at 150 each, and the 
Lymantria Saddle at 95. The ASA list adds the 
Malwyn Saddle (60) and the 
Saloon Piano (20).
Weight and stacking
One unit weighs 0.01 and it stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 1.