Experience
Survivors gain experience for a number of actions, including but not limited to crafting, harvesting, and killing creatures.
If being a part of a Tribe, Tribal Experience is obtained within 100 meters of another tribe member that is earning experience (as verified by tracker). The Tribal Experience amount is 50% of the amount earned by the originator.
For example: if one tribe member crafts a widget that earns 100 XP, nearby tribe members will earn 50 XP.
Tamed dinosaurs also get a "drip" of 0.66 XP per minute (1 XP per 90 seconds), when a human is logged in and within range. However, tamed creatures do not receive any Tribal Experience from crafting as a fellow tribe member would, unless that tribe member is sitting on a rideable tame when it is crafting items.
Tames earn passive XP while being in 
Cryopod too. This is determined by game time since time being frozen, multiplied by their idle XP rates, multiplied by a final 1.05 return. Creatures at maximum level or Mek will not gain any passive XP. Generally, any creature inside a Cryopod will gain 5% more passive experience, compared to the same creature not Cryopodded. However, transferring the Cryopod to another ARK resets this timer, causing it to lose all pending experience points earned since podding it. The workaround is to deploy (unpod) the creature for it to obtain the experience points before transferring it.
XP is used to level your character or creatures, which makes them stronger. Tips on how to level fast can be found on Leveling.
Experience for Item Crafting
XP for Harvesting Resources
Wood and 
Stone (with 
Stone Hatchet) = 0.3 per hit- Wood and Stone (with
Stone Pick) = 0.2 per hit 
Fiber and 
Berries (by Hand) = 0.2 per action
XP for Killing Dinosaurs
This XP chart is for all dinos at level 1. XP gain increases by 10% of this base value for each extra level. So the formula is: BaseXP + BaseXP x 0.1 x (Level - 1)
A general XP multiplier can be found by the following formula: BaseXP × (1 + 0.1 × (Level - 1))
Example of a few levels would be:
| XP Multiplier | Level |
|---|---|
| BaseXP × 1.0 | 1 |
| BaseXP × 1.4 | 5 |
| BaseXP × 3.0 | 21 |
| BaseXP × 6.0 | 51 |
| BaseXP × 11.0 | 101 |
| BaseXP × 16.0 | 151 |
E.g. Base value is 4, so 10% is 0.4; XP for Level 1 is 4; for Level 2 is 4 + 0.4 = 4.4; for Level 3 is 4 + 0.8 = 4.8
- Size modifiers on the Coelacanths and Sabertooth Salmons do not affect the amount of XP they give.
Changelog
| Patch |  ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
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| 171.6 | XP glitch that resets your Survivor XP to your Mounts' XP is now fixed, however will require that servers are updated to 171.6 to get this. To avoid this until your server is updated, be sure to Earn some/any XP on your Survivor after disembarking your mount. |
| 172.3 | You now also earn 50% of the XP on your human character that your mount earns (when riding it). |
| 313.5 | Doubled harvesting, taming, and XP rates in the core game |
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