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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!

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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 6th

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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
    • Classic: 6x XP, 6x Harvesting, 6x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval

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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 *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


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


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


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    • 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

     


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    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!

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    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.

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    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!

     


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    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

     


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    Creator: Aaron Longstaff

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

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    Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays!
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    Wish primitive plus on ps4 would get event stuff. We don't even have dinos on island right now. Can't make glass or steel either.  Its awful playing a dinosaur game with no dinos.

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    Does is end Thursday the 6th or Tuesday the 4th?  If you read through it there is date discrepancies.  

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    16 minutes ago, Bubtastic703 said:

    Does is end Thursday the 6th or Tuesday the 4th?  If you read through it there is date discrepancies.  

    all i see is from Dec 14th to Jan 6th. I dont see anywhere mentioning 4th

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    It is trolling? Classic pvp is x5 rates. During the Winter Wonderland event rates is x4.5 :)

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    Před 43 minutami PhotekPlays řekl:

    Opravili jste misi přežití archy, která zhroutila server?

    Yes, they only fixed it for Official Servers. The unofficial ones have not fixed it and are 4 updates behind the Official servers.

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    6 hours ago, xxmrswinchester said:

    Wish primitive plus on ps4 would get event stuff. We don't even have dinos on island right now. Can't make glass or steel either.  Its awful playing a dinosaur game with no dinos.

    Primitive plus is a bad mod that has not worked since the release there, and there are no events based on it, so no one is playing it. Easy to go play ARK without Primitive Plus.

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    Thx official and map‘s maker! Merry Christmas

    So in new Lost Island sever also 3x event?

    (Will it be a bit fast-paced?)

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    2 hours ago, Sisi said:

    Yes, they only fixed it for Official Servers. The unofficial ones have not fixed it and are 4 updates behind the Official servers.

    They are 3 version behind not 4. But I hope when the next major version comes with Winter event and Lost Island that the unofficials will get those 3 versions with it or whether they will end up being skipped altogether.

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    I keep seeing people say that the WW event is not going to be on Lost Island but I must be blind because I don't see where the official word of that is. Any help?

     

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    In my opinion Lost Island needs to be

    - FREE of Evo rates
    - FREE of Winter Wonderland


    otherwise there will be no fun playing new map.

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    It was repeated three times that the event will take place on "all maps". Will this be true for Primitive+ maps as well?

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    18 hours ago, xxmrswinchester said:

    Wish primitive plus on ps4 would get event stuff. We don't even have dinos on island right now. Can't make glass or steel either.  Its awful playing a dinosaur game with no dinos.

    You can make steel and brick in industrial forges. On the official CrossArk4 cluster we placed unlocked industrial forges at each obelisk to try to alleviate this.

    Glass is currently impossible to make, which also makes us unable to make effective hazard suits.

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    I have to ask, what is the status of item and dino transfers going to be on the new map? Will it be similar to when Gen II dropped?  Will players have to spawn naked and afraid like usual?

     

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    1 hour ago, TribeOfManman said:

    It was repeated three times that the event will take place on "all maps". Will this be true for Primitive+ maps as well?

    Primitive + do not normally get events.

    When they say "all maps" they mean actual maps. Not "all modes".

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    7 hours ago, Zadira said:

    I keep seeing people say that the WW event is not going to be on Lost Island but I must be blind because I don't see where the official word of that is. Any help?

    From what I understand the only thing confirmed so far not to be on Lost Island is Gacha.

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