Metal Sickle

Metal Sickle

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A curved tool ideal for harvesting fiber from seed plants. Also useful for delicately shearing off slices of Prime Fish!

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Weapon

Type

Melee

Melee damage

50.0

Item

Weight

2.0

Durability

40.0

Single use

No

Added in

v191.0

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 376 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi Sickle 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Weapons/PrimalItem_WeaponSickle.PrimalItem_WeaponSickle'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 30

Engram points

12 EP

Crafting XP

5.6 XP

Prerequisites

•  Metal Hatchet
•  Metal Pick

Crafted in

•  Smithy
•  Argentavis Saddle
•  Castoroides Saddle
•  Thorny Dragon Saddle
•  Tek Replicator
•  Exo-Mek

Required stations

Refining Forge

Ingredients

18 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

4 × Wood or Fungal Wood

16 × Hide

The Metal Sickle, often shortened to just the Sickle, is one of the Tools in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is unlocked at Level 30 for 12 Engram Points.

The Metal Sickle's main function is to harvest large amounts of  Fiber from Plants, able to gather hundreds of it with only a few swings. It is also one of the best tools for harvesting large amounts of  Raw Prime Fish Meat, as it is able to scrape it off of a Leedsichthys without making it aggressive.

The Metal Sickle has 40 Durability.

Harvesting

Renewable Resource	Harvests	Notes
Plants	Fiber
Rare flower patches	Rare Flowers
Marine carcasses	Raw Prime Fish Meat,  Raw Fish Meat
Small cacti	Cactus Sap,  Berries	Scorched Earth
Desert silk plants	Silk,  Fiber	Scorched Earth
Small beige mushroom patches	Fiber	Aberration
Small red-capped mushroom patches	Auric Mushroom,  Aquatic Mushroom,  Ascerbic Mushroom,  Aggeravic Mushroom	Aberration

Gathering

Resource	Efficiency
Fiber	★★★★★
Raw Prime Fish Meat	★★★★☆
Silk	★★★☆☆

Notes

• For survivors looking for an alternative to the Metal Sickle, a wandering tamed Gigantopithecus can be used to autonomously gather Fiber, and other creatures can manually harvest at greater efficiency than the Metal Sickle.

Quality

Items which use stats, namely Melee Damage, Durability, Armor, Hypothermic Insulation and Hyperthermic Insulation, have Item Quality, with higher quality items having better overall stats (though lower quality items may be randomly superior in an individual stat). Items with improved quality can be obtained from beacons, loot crates, and other forms of loot drops (such as from killing predators), while blueprints of higher quality items are obtainable only from beacons and loot crates. Items with higher quality can cost substantially more than primitive versions.

Items that are affected by quality:

• Weapons
• Tools
• Armor
• Shields
• Saddles

There are currently six levels of quality, defined as follows.

	Primitive	Ramshackle	Apprentice	Journeyman	Mastercraft	Ascendant
Random Multiplier Threshold	1	1.25	2.5	4.5	7	10
Crafting XP Multiplier	1	2	3	4	5	6
Repairing XP Multiplier	1	2	3	4	5	6
Crafting Resources Requirements Multiplier	1	1.33	1.67	2	2.5	3.5

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
191.0	Metal Sickle is added to the game.
192.0	Sickle now yields 3x the amount of  Fiber it was previously harvesting per stroke.
240.1	Fixed harvesting Salmon with Sickle.
246.3	Sickle now harvests from seed cactus.