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Chitin

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This firm, flexible material makes up exoskeletons. Hacked primarily from dead insects.

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Resource Type Resource Rarity Common Renewable Yes Refineable No Combustible No Item Weight 0.01 Stack size 100 / 5000 Spawn Commandcheat giveitemnum 11 1 0 0orcheat gfi Chitin 1 0 0orcheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_Chitin.PrimalItemResource_Chitin'" 1 0 0 Crafting Crafting XP 16 XP Crafting time 0.2s Used to craft 20 items Crafted in

• Industrial Grinder

Ingredients 1 × Shell Fragment Hexagon Exchange Exchange yields 25 pieces Hexagons 60

Chitin (Ky-tin) is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved. It's a polymer and characteristic component of exoskeletons, radulae, beaks, shells and various other physical structures in organisms throughout history.

Contents

• 1 Gathering
  • 1.1 Weight Reduction
  • 1.2 Dropped by
• 2 Crafting
• 3 Video
• 4 Notes/Trivia
• 5 Changelog

Gathering[]

Chitin can be acquired by harvesting corpses with most tools and dinosaurs.

Chitin
Creature / Tool	Gain per action
Megatherium	★★★★★
Sabertooth	★★★★★
Therizinosaur	★★★★★
Beelzebufo	★★★★☆
Direwolf	★★★★☆
Metal Hatchet	★★★★☆
Thylacoleo	★★★★☆
Argentavis	★★★☆☆
Carnotaurus	★★★☆☆
Karkinos	★★★☆☆

The most efficient way to harvest Chitin is by using a tamed  Megatherium,  Direwolf,  Sabertooth or  Therizinosaur (headbutt with delicate collection leveled up) with high melee damage. A tamed  Diplocaulus can also be used to gather Chitin by killing  Trilobites. Another highly efficient tool for harvesting it is the  Metal Hatchet with the metal pike yielding similar efficiency. The pike holds the advantage of more precise hits against small chitin-droppers like  Meganeuras. Chitin can be harvested with a  Stone Hatchet and  Picks as well; other low level items will only occasionally harvest Chitin.

Another efficient way to farm Chitin seems to be killing scorpions and spiders in caves with a  Direwolf skilled on melee damage. A  Sabertooth will gather just as efficiently but has lower base damage. This method can grant up to 500 Chitin in 10 minutes. Another good way to farm Chitin is to kill  Trilobites,  Meganeuras or  Titanomyrmas at the beach and surrounding areas, harvesting them with a  Hatchet or a  Sabertooth. If you are in a forest or swamp, you can also kill a random dinosaur and leave the corpse. Often a swarm of  Meganeura will come to the corpse, and you can kill them all at once to gather chitin. Farming  Karkinos on Valguero or Aberration can be an effective way of gathering large amounts of Chitin, so long as you have a strong enough tame.

Another way to farm Chitin is to kill a creature, and let the corpse rot without harvesting it. In some regions, this will attract insects. Using a  Beelzebufo to kill/harvest the insects will not only result in a much more Chitin, but your frog will also directly produce a sizable amount of cementing paste as well.

Additionally, in Crystal Isles, Chitin can be harvested from Anthills in large quantities, as well as from the  Titanomyrma and  Dung Beetles that spawn around them.

Weight Reduction[]

The following creatures reduce the weight of Chitin by the listed amount while it is in their inventory:

Creature	Reduction
Equus	50%
Unicorn	50%

Dropped by[]

Chitin drops from the following creatures:

• Achatina
• Araneo
• Arthropluera
• Beacon
• Bloodstalker
• Diseased Leech
• Dung Beetle
• Dunkleosteus
• Eurypterid
• Glowbug
• Insect Swarm
• Karkinos
• Leech
• Lymantria
• Mantis
• Meganeura
• Oil Jug Bug
• Pulmonoscorpius
• Titanomyrma
• Trilobite
• Water Jug Bug

Crafting[]

Chitin can be used to craft the following items:

• Aerial Symbiote
• Chitin Boots
• Chitin Chestpiece
• Chitin Gauntlets
• Chitin Helmet
• Chitin Leggings

Chitin can also be used as an alternative to  Keratin to craft the following items:

• Araneo Saddle
• Argentavis Saddle
• Blood Extraction Syringe
• Carcharodontosaurus Saddle
• Cementing Paste
• Pteranodon Saddle

Video[]

Notes/Trivia[]

• Chitin is a polysaccharide of N-acetylglucosamine, a derivative of glucose (a common sugar).
• Normally Chitin is colorless. The known browning (as well as the strength) of the shells of insects is caused by sclerotin, a structural protein.
• The shells of crustaceans and mollusks are formed of a composite of chitin and calcium carbonate.
• Chitin is also used as food to tame the Archaeopteryx

Changelog[]

Patch	Changes
309.4	Insect swarms now give chitin instead of hide
329.27	Added  Keratin & Chitin to the Meat Plants in the Corrupt Cave

v · d · eResources  Creatures Achatina Paste  •  Ammonite Bile  •  AnglerGel  •  Bio Toxin  •  Chitin  •  Corrupted Nodule  •  Deathworm Horn  •  Dermis  •  Gacha Crystal  •  Giant Bee Honey  •  Hide  •  Human Hair  •  Keratin  •  Leech Blood  •  Organic Polymer  •  Pelt  •  Shell Fragment  •  Wool  •  Woolly Rhino Horn  Plants Charcoal  •  Fiber  •  High Quality Pollen  •  Mushroom (Aggeravic, Aquatic, Ascerbic, Auric)  •  Rare Flower  •  Rare Mushroom  •  Sap (Cactus)  •  Silk  •  Thatch  •  Wood (Fungal, Corrupted)  Ores Ambergris  •  Black Pearl  •  Condensed Gas  •  Congealed Gas Ball  •  Crystal  •  Crystalized Sap (Red, Blue)  •  Element  •  Element Dust  •  Element Ore  •  Element Shard  •  Flint  •  Fragmented Green Gem  •  Gem (Red, Green, Blue)  •  Golden Nugget  •  Metal  •  Mutagel  •  Obsidian  •  Oil  •  Primal Crystal  •  Raw Salt  •  Sand  •  Scrap Metal  •  Silica Pearls  •  Silicate  •  Stone  •  Sulfur  Refined Absorbent Substrate  •  Cementing Paste  •  Charge Battery  •  Clay  •  Crafted Element Dust  •  Electronics  •  Gasoline (Gas-Crafted)  •  Gunpowder  •  Metal Ingot  •  Mutagen  •  Polymer  •  Preserving Salt  •  Propellant  •  Scrap Metal Ingot  •  Sparkpowder  •  Unstable Element  •  Unstable Element Shard  Event-Only ARK Anniversary Cake Slice  •  Birthday Cake  •  Birthday Candle  •  Box o' Chocolates  •  Bunny Egg  •  Cake Slice  •  Coal  •  Dinosaur Bone  •  Mistletoe  •  Valentine's Cake  •  Wishbone

v · d · eTaming Plants Amarberry  •  Azulberry  •  Citronal  •  Longrass  •  Mejoberry  •  Narcoberry  •  Rockarrot  •  Savoroot  •  Stimberry  •  Tintoberry Meat Meat (Raw, Cooked, Jerky)  •  Prime Meat (Raw, Cooked, Jerky)  •  Fish Meat (Raw, Cooked)  •  Prime Fish Meat (Raw, Cooked)  •  Raw Mutton  •  Cooked Lamb Chop  •  Spoiled Meat  Kibble Base Basic  •  Simple  •  Regular  •  Superior  •  Exceptional  •  Extraordinary Augmented Basic  •  Simple  •  Regular  •  Superior  •  Exceptional  •  Extraordinary Egg-based Allosaurus  •  Ankylo  •  Araneo  •  Archaeopteryx  •  Argentavis  •  Baryonyx  •  Bronto  •  Camelsaurus  •  Carbonemys  •  Carno  •  Compy  •  Dilo  •  Dimetrodon  •  Dimorph  •  Diplo  •  Dodo  •  Featherlight  •  Gallimimus  •  Glowtail  •  Ichthyornis  •  Iguanodon  •  Kairuku  •  Kaprosuchus  •  Kentrosaurus  •  Lystrosaurus  •  Mantis  •  Megalania  •  Megalosaurus  •  Microraptor  •  Moth  •  Moschops  •  Oviraptor  •  Pachy  •  Pachyrhino  •  Parasaur  •  Pegomastax  •  Pelagornis  •  Pteranodon  •  Pulmonoscorpius  •  Raptor  •  Rock Drake  •  Quetzal  •  Rex  •  Sarco  •  Spino  •  Stego  •  Tapejara  •  Terror Bird  •  Therizinosaurus  •  Thorny Dragon  •  Titanoboa  •  Trike  •  Troodon  •  Vulture Tools Weapons Slingshot  •  Wooden Club  •  Bow → Crossbow → Compound Bow (Tranq, Flame)  •  Longneck Rifle (Tranq, Shocking)  •  Harpoon Launcher (Tranq)  •  Electric Prod  •  Flamethrower (Ammo)  •  Rocket Launcher (RPG, Homing Missile)  •  Catapult Turret (Boulder)  •  Cannon (Cannon Ball) Armor Ghillie Armor (Mask, Chestpiece, Gauntlets, Leggings, Boots) Other Taming Food AnglerGel  •  Beer Jar  •  Black Pearl  •  Broth of Enlightenment  •  Clay  •  Feces  •  Deathworm Horn  •  Eggs  •  Giant Bee Honey  •  Golden Hesperornis Egg  •  Leech Blood  •  Mushroom (Aggeravic, Aquatic, Ascerbic, Auric)  •  Nameless Venom  •  Organic Polymer  •  Plant Species R Seed  •  Plant Species X Seed  •  Plant Species Y Seed  •  Plant Species Z Seed  •  Rare Flower  •  Rare Mushroom  •  Reaper Pheromone Gland  •  Snow Owl Pellet  •  Stone  •  Sulfur  •  Sweet Vegetable Cake  •  Wyvern Milk Narcotics Bio Toxin  •  Narcotic Taming Ingredients Ammonite Bile  •  Chitin  •  Oil  •  Obsidian  •  Sap  •  Sparkpowder Other Bug Repellant