Sauropod Vertebra
This trophy proves your worth as a hunter.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Loot crates
- 2 crates
- Item ID
- 158
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Resource (Not an Engram)
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Sauropod Vertebra guides
How to get Sauropod Vertebra
Sauropod Vertebra is found in 2 loot crates.
Loot crates
2 crates
- Diplo, Bronto, Titanosaur, and AmargasaurThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Skeletal BrontoThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
Sauropod Vertebra — Detailed Guide
A trophy that opens boss arenas
The Sauropod Vertebra is a trophy resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, with a short in-game line: "This trophy proves your worth as a hunter." Its only use is paying the tributes that give access to boss arenas, so collecting them is part of preparing for a boss fight.
Where it drops
The vertebra comes from large sauropods: a dead 
Amargasaurus, 
Brontosaurus, 
Diplodocus or 
Titanosaur. Look in the carcass's inventory before you carve it up for meat and hide. If the body is harvested first, or a predator eats it, the vertebra lands in a bag on the ground instead. Our records tie it to two drop tables, one shared by the Diplo, Bronto, Titanosaur and Amargasaur and one belonging to the 
Skeletal Bronto.
Tributes that use it
Our records list 14 tribute recipes in ASA and 13 in ASE, with amounts that vary by portal and difficulty:
- In both games: 2 for the Broodmother,
Megapithecus and 
Dragon portals, 5 for Broodmother (Beta), 10 for Broodmother (Alpha), 10 for Center (Medium), 25 for Center (Hard) and 10 for 
Summon Forest Titan. - Listed for ASA:
Grendel (Beta) 8 and Grendel (Gamma) 5, Natrix The Devious 5 at Beta and 10 at Alpha, and 
Nunatak 10 at Beta and 25 at Alpha. - Listed for ASE:
Dinopithecus King (Beta) 5, Ragnarok 10 at Medium and 25 at Hard, and the Guardian's Sanctuary portal at 8 for Beta and 5 for Gamma.
Carrying and stockpiling
Each vertebra weighs 4, and a stack of 100 weighs 400. The most demanding portals on the list ask for 25 of them, so it pays to keep every vertebra from sauropod hunts rather than gathering them all at once.