Stolen Headstone

A haunted find from Fear Evolved

The Stolen Headstone is a Halloween decoration in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its description: "A headstone stolen from a graveyard." The ARK Wiki ties it to the ARK: Fear Evolved event, the only time it appears. During the event it appears in a cloud of fog on the terrain in front of the player, and gathering it gives between 1 and 10 headstones. Picking one up from a graveyard also plays a ghostly whoo sound.

Decoration, text and paint

Placed, it serves as decoration. As with the craftable Basic Gravestone, it accepts dye and custom text, but unlike that gravestone it cannot be painted on. Region 1 colours the headstone and region 6 the sign text. Each headstone weighs 0.5 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 50.

Cooking Pot skins it goes into

The headstones are also an ingredient. Our records count 17 recipes in each game, all of them skins, which the wiki says are made in a Cooking Pot. Each one needs 10 headstones, except the Skeleton Costume, which takes 20. Examples include the Reaper-Print Shirt, the Vampire Dodo Swim Top and the Zombie Wyvern-Print Shirt; in ASE these names end in "Skin", such as Onyc Swim Bottom Skin. During the first Fear Evolved event, headstones could be used at the Obelisks to summon a Witch Hat Skin.

Demolishing, damage and sources

Demolishing a placed headstone returns 17 Stone plus 6 Chitin or Keratin; the wiki calls this a handy way to farm Chitin or Keratin early on. It counts as a stone structure: metal weapons, explosives, the Cannon and the Ballista Turret can damage it, as can creatures such as the Dunkleosteus, Magmasaur and Titanosaur. Our records list it on 14 maps, and 1 crate type can contain it: DodoRex and Dodo Wyvern.