Megalodon Tooth

A hunter's trophy from the Megalodon

The Megalodon Tooth is a trophy item in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and its description makes the point: "This trophy proves your worth as a hunter." The ARK Wiki states that its only current purpose is as a requirement for getting into the Boss Arenas. Every recipe in our data that takes the tooth is a tribute.

Collecting teeth

Look in the inventory of a dead Megalodon before harvesting its meat: according to the wiki, the teeth are there in a stack of 4. The Liopleurodon drops them as well. Our records also have one loot entry, listed under the Megalodon, that can contain the tooth, and they place the item on 5 maps: The Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero and Astraeos.

Tributes that take the tooth

Our ASA data counts 12 tribute recipes with the tooth, the ASE data 11. Several appear in both games:

• Generate Broodmother Portal, Generate Dragon Portal and Generate Megapithecus Portal: 8 teeth each
• Generate Megapithecus (Beta) Portal: 5, and Generate Megapithecus (Alpha) Portal: 10
• Generate Center (Medium) Portal: 10, and Generate Center (Hard) Portal: 25

The ASA list continues with the Nunatak portals (10 for Beta, 25 for Alpha), the Thodes the Widowmaker portals (5 for Beta, 10 for Alpha) and Summon Minotarchos (25). The ASE list also has the Dinopithecus King portals (5 for Beta, 10 for Alpha) and the Ragnarok portals (10 for Medium, 25 for Hard).

Weight and server transfers

A tooth weighs 8, and at 100 per stack a full stack weighs 800. The wiki adds that teeth currently cannot be moved to another server; trying it brings up an error message.