Winter Wonderland 7, Narrative Content, and More!

10.12.2022

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!

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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 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!

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

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December 14th to January 5th

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*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

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RaptorClaus
GachaClaus

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

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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

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

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

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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, and 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 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

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.

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