Greetings Survivors!!

Next week, the community-favorite event, Winter Wonderland begins! Be sure to gather your tribes for the most festive ARK event!

The Winter Wonderland patch on December 14th will introduce brand new narrative content – featuring actors Maddy Madden (The Wheel of Time) and David Tennant (Doctor Who) reprising their respective roles as Helena Walker and Sir Edmund Rockwell. All of Helena’s and Rockwell’s Dossiers and Explorer Notes will also be voiced by the actors, as will survivors’ epic confrontation versus Rockwell on ARK Aberration.  The highly requested Scorched Earth ascension will also make its debut!

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 5th.

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 skins, costumes, weapons, armor, or 12 new Chibis!

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

December 14th to January 5th

*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

• RaptorClaus
• GachaClaus

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

• Full-body Santa Costume
• Animated TV Show Parasaur Skin
• 3 New Male & Female Christmas-themed Sweater Skins
• 4 New Christmas-themed Beanie Skins
• 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

• Andrewsarchus *NEW*
• Pachy *NEW*
• Fenrir *NEW*
• Diplodocus *NEW*
• Festival Lights *NEW*
  • Red & green variants of the 4 light pets in costume

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

• Lavender *NEW*
• Dino Light Purple *NEW*
• Dino Light Blue *NEW*
• DragonGreen0 *NEW*
• Jade
• PineGreen
• SpruceGreen
• DarkMagenta
• Glacial
• PowderBlue
• Teal
• DarkViolet
• Red
• Green
• Light Grey
• Light Red
• Yellow
• Dark Red
• Dino Light Red
• Dino Light Green
• Dino Medium Green
• Dino Albino
• NearWhite

Classic PvP Season 6 launches on Thursday, December 15th!  Find more information about Classic PvP Season 6 in the official Discord!

• Experience gain, taming, gathering have been quintupled compared to our standard Official Servers (5x)
• Breeding, hatching, and raising rates have been quadrupled compared to our standard Official Servers (4x)
• Tribes are set to 25 players max
• Tribe alliances are disabled, though informal alliances are allowed
• Servers have a maximum player count of 100
• These maps will be available: The Island, Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Lost Island, Valguero, and The Center
• Tek dinos (Tek Parasaur, Tek Quetzal, Tek Rex, Tek Raptor, Tek Stego), Paracer, Tapejara, and the Titanosaur are not available for taming on Classic PvP
• All Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, and Genesis Part 2 content is unavailable on Classic PvP
• Scaling of weapon damage has been reduced
• No TEK Engrams
• No cave building
• Cryopods enabled
• Tamed Stegosaurus Resistance reduced by 35%
• Tamed Quetzal Resistance reduced by 20%
• Tamed Wyvern Resistance reduced by 20%
• Tamed Wyvern Damage reduced by 20%
• Reaper Queen added to the Valguero Aberration Zone

Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event as part of Winter Wonderland! It will be active from Wednesday the 14th of Dec until  Thursday the 5th 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

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a surge in viewership across Twitch for ARK streams.  We were pleased to find out VAULTROOM x Crazy Raccoon held a PvP ARK event from 11/25 – 12/5 on Lost Island.  The series reached incredible viewership on twitch, reaching the top ranks with popular Twitch games

To find out more about the series and its participants click here.

Creator: NaturalCauzes

Surely 100 players can siege a castle, right?  Check out this amazing video by NaturalCauzes that includes a ton of well-known ARK creaors.

Creator: NeddyTheNoodle

Need a refresher on your ARK lore?  NeedyTheNoodle puts together an awesome intro to the ARK universe!

Serious Lady by ScutalTheLizard

A friend of mine running from a Giganotosaurus by Adryastic

Megamek by BaldisBasics201#4735

Updated Portrait of my ARK OC by @HallOfFlameSs1

Spinosaur [ Commission ] by Kanapkozaur

ARK Art Discord Server by LockeARK#3544

Run… by Umbra-Daiwrfol

tilou#0001

RedGear17#1277

Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays!
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