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Chitin

Item

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

Resource

Weight: 0.01
Stack: 100
Crafting XP: 4

Crafting calculator

Chitin is a resource in ARK: Survival Ascended.

Crafting recipe

×1Shell Fragment

×1Chitin

Craft

1 Shell Fragment
4 Craft XP
0.2 s Craft time

To craft Chitin, you need 1x Shell Fragment. Use the calculator below to figure out exact quantities for multiple crafts.

Crafting

Crafting calculator

Quantity

Shell Fragment1

Crafting XP: 4Craft time: 0.2 s

Best harvesters

Harvesting

Chitin harvest yields

1× harvest rate · 55 wild melee levels · 88 harvest levels

Full harvest comparison →

Ways to harvest

Top 5 of 24

Open Chainsaw1
Chainsaw
Corpse · Dunkleosteus
544per corpse
Open Megachelon2
Megachelon
Corpse · Dunkleosteus
288per corpse
Open Moschops3
Moschops
Corpse · Dunkleosteus
237per corpse
Open Metal Hatchet4
Metal Hatchet
Corpse · Dunkleosteus
164per corpse
Open Stone Hatchet5
Stone Hatchet
Corpse · Dunkleosteus
164per corpse

Corpse sources

Best recorded hand tool for each corpse

Open Dunkleosteus1
Dunkleosteus
With Chainsaw
544per corpse
Open Karkinos2
Karkinos
With Chainsaw
498per corpse
Open Alpha Palaeoctopus3
Alpha Palaeoctopus
With Metal Sickle
267per corpse
Open Rhyniognatha4
Rhyniognatha
With Chainsaw
224per corpse
Open Arthropluera5
Arthropluera
With Chainsaw
97per corpse

Found on maps

Item locations

Found on maps

27 maps with recorded nodes or creature drops

Map

Dropped byCave locations

0 spawn records in 0 shared areas

Used to craft

6 entries

Loot crates

Acquisition

Found in loot crates

190 crate sources across 27 maps · 1 other crate source

Best chanceBase HordeEasy×5-20Astraeos +2 maps39%Level 1+Up to Apprentice Best qualityKrakenAlpha×10-40Genesis +1 map3.2%Level 1+Up to Ascendant

Map

Astraeos9 crate sourcesView map

Supply drops8

Supply Crate Lv.25Double×20-100Level 25+Up to Mastercraft6.5-8.6x quality12%Supply Crate Lv.25×20-100Level 25+Up to Apprentice9.4%Supply Crate Lv.35Double×20-100Level 35+Up to Mastercraft6.5-8.6x quality3.8%Supply Crate Lv.45Scorched EarthDouble×20-100Level 45+Up to Ascendant4.3-13.0x quality3.3%Supply Crate Lv.35×20-100Level 35+Up to Apprentice2.9%

Hordes1

Base HordeEasy×5-20Level 1+Up to Apprentice39%

Other loot sources1 crate source

Primitive Treasure×20-100Level 1+Up to Apprentice1.9%