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Deck the halls with boughs of holly! Winter Wonderland will be making a triumphant return with new presents and goodies for ARK survivors. The epic winter-themed holiday event begins on December 14th and will last until Thursday, January 6th. All maps will receive Winter Wonderland and all its content.

RaptorClaus will be sailing across the star-filled night sky in his sleigh, dropping off presents filled with high-end loot as well as Mistletoe, and Coal for those naughty Survivors.  You’ll be able to catch RaptorClaus flying across the skies at midnight (game time) on all maps.

GachaClaus is also making a triumphant return to help RaptorClaus spread the holiday cheer! GachaClaus will be roaming all maps looking for eager recipients while sporting holiday-themed colors. He will be accepting your coal and in exchange will gift you holiday-themed items, or you can trade-in your mistletoe and coal for a chance at an animated TV Show Parasaur skin, a full-body Santa costume, new skins, weapons, armor, or 5 new Chibis!

This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland

December 14th to January 6th

*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game’s standard 1x rates. 

• Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Classic: 6x XP, 6x Harvesting, 6x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval

• RaptorClaus
• GachaClaus

• Santa Laugh Emote *NEW*
• Caroling Emote
• Happy Clap Emote
• Nutcracker Dance Emote

• Full-body Santa Costume *NEW*
• Animated TV Show Parasaur Skin *NEW*
• 3 New Male & Female Christmas-themed Sweater Skins *NEW*
• 4 New Christmas-themed Beanie Skins *NEW*
• Rex Sweater Skin
• Carolers Sweater Skin
• Bulbdog Sweater Skin
• Blue Winter Beanie
• Purple Winter Beanie
• Green Winter Beanie
• Male and Female Noglin Swimsuit Skin
• Male and Female Yeti Swimsuit Skin
• Candy Cane Club Skin
•  Christmas Bola Skin
•  Nutcracker Slingshot Skin
•  Dino Ornament Swim Bottom Skin
•  Dino Ornament Swim Top Skin
•  Jerboa Wreath Swim Bottom Skin
•  Jerboa Wreath Swim Top Skin
•  Ugly Bronto Sweater Skin
•  Ugly Carno Sweater Skin
•  Ugly Chibi Sweater Skin
•  Gray Winter Beanie Skin
•  Purple Winter Beanie Skin
•  Red Winter Beanie Skin
•  Felt Reindeer Antlers Skin
•  Santa Hat Skin

• Animated TV Show Raptor Chibi *NEW*
• Sinomacrops Chibi *NEW*
• Dinopithecus Chibi *NEW*
• Amargasaurus Chibi *NEW*
• Festive Noglin Chibi *NEW*

•  Festive Dino Candy
•  Holiday Lights
•  Holiday Stocking
•  Holiday Tree
•  Gift Box
•  Snowman
•  Wreath

• Yellow *NEW*
• Jade
• PineGreen
• SpruceGreen
• DarkMagenta
• Glacial
• PowderBlue
• Teal
• DarkViolet
• Red
• Green
• Light Grey
• Light Red
• Dark Red
• Dino Light Red
• Dino Light Green
• Dino Medium Green
• Dino Albino
• NearWhite

The Lost Island rollout begins with PC first then consoles later in the day on Tuesday, December 14th!

Explore the soaring heights and hidden depths of ARK’s newest official community map, featuring three new creatures for you to tame! Lost Island boasts 150 square kilometers of new biomes, new challenges, and mysterious ruins. Discover jungle valleys fed by giant waterfalls, build a treehouse high in the forest canopies, get down and dirty in vast mangrove swamps, dive deep underwater, brave treacherous snowy peaks, or spelunk uncharted cave systems in search of treasure… There’s something here for everyone!

Lost Island is the first community map released with three new creatures, and the first to include a creature chosen by the ARK community. Unleash thermal hell from atop your Amargasaurus, glide into battle with Sinomacrops at your back, or treat your enemies to a shower of Tek-disabling Dinopithecus dung!

Stay tuned to our official accounts for more details on the launch timing!

We’re in the giving spirit and we’ve stashed away some ARK loot for the holiday season! If you missed out on an opportunity to score a Dodo plushie, Noglin plushie, or Noglin hat, this holiday season will provide ample opportunity.

There are various ways to enter the draw for some sweet (and cute) loot: 

• Contribute a donation of 5$ or greater to ExtraLife children’s charity to go in the draw
• A picture submission on Twitter using the hashtag #ARKHolidayLoot
• A picture submission in this Community Crunch thread

We want to see pictures of your Lost Island tames, your event-colored dino’s, your fan art, your ARK holiday decorations, or videos of your ARK holiday experience!  get creative! The rules are simple, make it ARK and make it epic!  Each winner will receive 1 Dodo plushie, 1 Noglin plushie, and 1 Noglin hat.

You have until the end of the Winter Wonderland event (Thursday, 1/6) to get your submissions in or make donations to the Studio Wildcard ExtraLife page!

Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event as part of Winter Wonderland! It will be active from Tuesday the 14th of Dec until  Thursday the 6th of Jan. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game’s standard 1x rates. 

• Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

Creator: Aaron Longstaff

Looking for some new build ideas for the new year?  Check out Aaron Longstaff’s latest video!

Rockwell by KingKillianNight

It finally snowed by @VELUKO1

Untitled by The Collector#7703

Bulbdog and Element by naeriie#2439

TEK-Goat by ✞M1mple✞ʳᶤᵖ

Fur and fang cryo attacks by Umbradaiwrfol

@EgoSilentium

@TheEarrion

Theziren Smeltback#0900

Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays!
Studio Wildcard

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