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  • Community Crunch 342: Winter Wonderland 7, Narrative Content, and More!

    Greetings Survivors!!

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

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    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
    • 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 *NEW*
      • Red & green variants of the 4 light pets in costume


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


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    All of the base game dino colors will  be disabled so that only the colours above plus the legacy Winter Wonderland colors will be available for spawns

    • DinoAlbino *NEW*
    • DarkViolet *NEW*
    •  Lavender *NEW*
    •  LightGrey *NEW*
    • DinoLightPurple *NEW*
    • Glacial *NEW*
    • PowderBlue *NEW*
    • DinoLightBlue *NEW*
    • DragonGreen0 *NEW*
    • DarkRed *NEW*
    • Actual Black *NEW*
    • Cyan *NEW*
    • DeepPink *NEW*
    • DarkPurple *NEW*
    • Mint *NEW*
    • 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

     


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

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    • 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

     


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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 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

     


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    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

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

     

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    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!

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    Serious Lady by ScutalTheLizard

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    A friend of mine running from a Giganotosaurus by Adryastic

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    Megamek by BaldisBasics201#4735

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    Updated Portrait of my ARK OC by @HallOfFlameSs1

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    Spinosaur [ Commission ] by Kanapkozaur

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    ARK Art Discord Server by LockeARK#3544

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    Run... by Umbra-Daiwrfol

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    Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays!
    Studio Wildcard

    Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark
    Discord: discord.com/invite/playark
    Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark
    Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark
    Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark
    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark
    Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark

     


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    10 minutes ago, Onimusha759 said:

    12 new chibis?  5+4Costumed charge pets=9...Or 5+8=13...Either way the info is wrong and leads me to think there might be 3 missing chibis on the list.

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    'Festival Lights' are not a chibis.

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    37 minutes ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    4 + 2(4).

    'Festival Lights' are not a chibis.

    Whoops, my bad.  Thx joe.  I was just coming back to double check if i misread something. xD

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    Anyone else crashing every time raptor clause flies? This is getting annoying, it's like groundhogs day for Christmas! 

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    On 12/9/2022 at 10:33 PM, Cyberra said:

    Can we still have the option to craft rare or higher chibis in the cooking pot? There are so many chibis now and the drop rates for the higher tiers are so low, even if we spend hours grinding GachaClaus chances of getting any of the higher tier new chibis are extremely low unless you guys raise the drop chance. Last year I ended the event with half a storage box still full of mistletoe and coal; we didn't have time to process it all to GachaClaus between the taming, raising, and other stuff going on. Also, GachaClaus gets attacked by every hostile dino in existence which means trading mistletoe and coal to them is frequently interrupted by attacks and often the GachaClaus is killed. So please, please, PLEASE let us craft chibis through the cooking pot as well

    What?,the last events have easy way to craft chibis(prime meat jerky and wishbones).

    Just put some gacha claus in a close area and feed him,is easy.I play solo in official and just need 4 chibis and the new 12

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    Cyan(5)
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    DarkPurple()DarkPurple = Dino Dark Purple?
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    Is anyone else having the event decorations like the tree and pressies disappear soon after placing them? (PS5)

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    What's the point of putting an event that lasts what lasts, what's the point of growing even more dino, what's the point of playing again if you close everything.  do you want to delete 7 years of ark, congrats i hope ark2 is just history,it doesn't deserve success,after ark1 closed.

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    Congratulations Wildcard. Bwahahaha! You people can't even get voice acting right on your game! And for some stupid reason you made the voice acting sound as part of the sound fx volume! I can't even hear what Helena is saying because the voice volume is too low and is drowned out by the FX! Wow, and I can guarantee this will never get fixed anytime soon.  You people are the laughing stock of the gaming community, a completely incompetent company. Your investors must be pleased. 🤣

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    Please don't put Events on official servers. Your official servers are unstable and are "offline" longer than online for the duration of the event. 😑

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    Last event means dead game will u offer to clone bases on host servers at least cause I'm just feeling disappointed in the lack of response to the toxic players flood and the fact rules of conduct are no longer enforced or acknowledged. Without contact with the fan base or taking us into consideration it's dieing a little more each time. Mega bases seen just given away or decaying it's so sad. Do something or die off already not this middle ground where unofficial servers are managing their rules better then official.

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    guys??? I think you forgot to increase the rate of rare chibis in the drops! that's the same of raptor claus...

    can you please repeat the event one more time? besides noon? that's the best thing all the year around, and many of us anxyously wait for it, that was a big turn off... :/

    got like 15 presents, all green chibis

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    never disappointing :) thank you guys, for giving us another time of it!

    for those who need, here is the info:

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    I wish they would bring back the winter wonderland colours. Not just for Christmas 

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    Winter Wonderland es la cosa más hermosa que puede suceder ... mezclar dinosaurios con tiempo de fiestas es una delicia!!!

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