Metal Sickle

A tool for Fiber and Prime Fish

Often called simply the Sickle, the Metal Sickle is a curved harvesting tool in ARK: Survival Evolved. Its description: "A curved tool ideal for harvesting fiber from seed plants. Also useful for delicately shearing off slices of Prime Fish!" The ARK Wiki says its main job is collecting Fiber from plants in bulk, with a few swings bringing in hundreds. It also counts the sickle among the best tools for gathering Raw Prime Fish Meat: it can scrape the meat off a Leedsichthys without the fish turning aggressive.

Unlocking and crafting

The engram costs 12 engram points and becomes available at level 30. The wiki's infobox names the Smithy and the Argentavis Saddle as places to craft it, and the recipe is:

• 18 Metal Ingot (Scrap Metal Ingot also works)
• 16 Hide
• 4 Wood (or Fungal Wood)

A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 1.4 XP. Repairs cost 9 Metal Ingot, 8 Hide and 2 Wood.

Durability, weight and loot

The sickle has 40 durability, weighs 2 and has a stack size of 1. Our records list it on 12 maps, including The Island, Aberration, Genesis Part 1, Crystal Isles and Fjordur. It also turns up in loot: 333 crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Blue and the Aberration Dungeon crates in blue, purple, red and yellow.

Quality and alternatives

Like other tools, the sickle has item quality. The wiki describes six quality levels: better versions come from beacons, loot crates and other loot such as killed predators, while higher-quality blueprints come only from beacons and loot crates. If you would rather not swing a sickle at all, the wiki suggests a tamed Gigantopithecus left to wander, which gathers Fiber on its own, and notes that some other creatures, harvesting manually, beat the sickle's efficiency.