Keratin

Keratin

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A firm, flexible material. Can be found in some animal horns, plates, shells, and ridges.

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Resource

Type

Resource

Rarity

Common

Renewable

Yes

Refineable

No

Combustible

No

Item

Weight

0.01

Stack size

100

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 213 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi Keratin 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_Keratin.PrimalItemResource_Keratin'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Used to craft

17 items

Hexagon Exchange

Exchange yields

25 pieces

Hexagons

60

Keratin is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is the main material of claws, hooves, horns, scales and the outer armor of reptiles. Keratin in most cases can be used as an alternative to Chitin.

Gathering

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

The most efficient way to harvest Keratin is by using a tamed  Sabertooth or  Direwolf with high melee damage. Another highly efficient tool for harvesting is the  Metal Hatchet, but it can be harvested with a  Stone Hatchet and  Picks as well. Other low level items will only occasionally harvest Keratin. A very good spot to harvest Keratin is on the surface of Abberation, and in the entrances to the Surface.

Keratin
Creature / Tool	Gain per action
Sabertooth	★★★★★
Therizinosaur	★★★★★
Direwolf	★★★★☆
Metal Hatchet	★★★★☆
Thylacoleo	★★★★☆
Argentavis	★★★☆☆
Carnotaurus	★★★☆☆
Giganotosaurus	★★★☆☆
Karkinos	★★★☆☆
Phoenix	★★★☆☆

Weight Reduction

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

Creature	Reduction
Equus	50%
Unicorn	50%

Keratin drops from the following creatures:

•  Allosaurus
•  Ankylosaurus
•  Carbonemys
•  Carnotaurus
•  Deathworm
•  Doedicurus
•  Kentrosaurus
•  Mammoth
•  Managarmr
•  Pachyrhinosaurus
•  Sabertooth
•  Stegosaurus
•  Therizinosaur
•  Thorny Dragon
•  Triceratops
•  Tusoteuthis
•  Woolly Rhino

Crafting

Keratin can be used to craft the following items:

•  Bonemeal Fertilizer 

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

•  Araneo Saddle
•  Argentavis Saddle
•  Blood Extraction Syringe
•  Carcharo Saddle
•  Cementing Paste
•  Gacha Saddle
•  Gasbags Saddle
•  Kaprosuchus Saddle
•  Lymantria Saddle
•  Managarmr Saddle
•  Pelagornis Saddle
•  Pteranodon Saddle
•  SCUBA Flippers
•  Silencer Attachment
•  Snow Owl Saddle
•  Velonasaur Saddle

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
252.8	Keratin can be placed in Feeding Troughs
329.27	Added Keratin to the Meat Plants in the Corrupt Cave