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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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    • 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

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    Natesaurus

    We Get this but nothing on Ark 2 OR the Animated series? I mean come on Wildcard! We haven't seen anything but 2 cinematics and a small trailer and concept art for both. Give us something! The cartoon was supposed to be out this year, and according to you guys it isn't delayed. Where is the trailer saying it is coming out this month? Ark 2 needs to have actual game play to work, where's the showcase of that? At this point, you might as well just make another ark map and hold another creature vote.

    GIVE THE COMMUNITY SOMETHING

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    Cyberra

    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

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    TribeOfManman

    Will players on the Official Primitive+ servers be able to take part in this event?

    P.S. Please fix glass forging!

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    ladyteruki

    ...If this is the last event, and if no Chibis are added outside of events, this means that there will never be a Chalicotherium Chibi. 💔

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    BladeTurbo1973

    when Ark 2 is released, will you release the holiday patches as DLC so we can still play them? i plan to play both, i still love Ark.

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    Cyberra
    3 hours ago, ladyteruki said:

    ...If this is the last event, and if no Chibis are added outside of events, this means that there will never be a Chalicotherium Chibi. 💔

    Or the dragon or manticore either :(

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    StupidOtters

    The event is sweet, thank you! 

     

    Classic and Conquest player request are yet again ignored however. You are not listening to player feedback. There are heaps of comments on the previous community crunch post for requests on the removal of several dinos for this coming season of classic. 

     

    Please acknowledge us...it feels like an echo chamber over here...

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    Rex4646

    Każdy czeka na informacje o ARK 2. Dajcie nam w końcu gampley tej gry. To jest według mnie jedna z najbardziej wyczekiwanych gier 2023 roku. Proszę dajcie nam jakieś informacje 👍

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    loudplatipus

    I wonder if they are going to give us the gameplay later in the month like on christmas. if not then i fear it will be delayed again. Or it's like the gen 2 trailer and we get it real late Idk tho.

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    prosans
    On 12/10/2022 at 12:43 PM, Cyberra said:

    Or the dragon or manticore either :(

    noooooooooooooooooo i want to get the dragon chibi

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    pixel85

    no more events
    no time information about event start
    no information about ARK2
    and 12 new Chibis [Red & green variants of the 4 light pets in costume]
    and
    and

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    Anne

    Wow no answer on a time…come on wild card please get with it

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    prosans

    i want to try out the new severs i hope no one is spawn camping or i might turn on my skins again lol

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    Anne
    On 12/9/2022 at 10:16 PM, TribeOfManman said:

    Will players on the Official Primitive+ servers be able to take part in this event?

    P.S. Please fix glass forging!

    Good luck getting a answer out of them :(

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    Anne
    On 12/11/2022 at 12:33 PM, StupidOtters said:

    The event is sweet, thank you! 

     

    Classic and Conquest player request are yet again ignored however. You are not listening to player feedback. There are heaps of comments on the previous community crunch post for requests on the removal of several dinos for this coming season of classic. 

     

    Please acknowledge us...it feels like an echo chamber over here...

    They ignore everyone sadly :(

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    Seshter

    Congratulations Wild Card you screwed up again. Not only are Wild Queen Bees getting deleted EVERY single time I log out of Single Player, now Beavers are no longer spawning after a Dino Wipe. Boy you people can't do anything right without screwing over something else. Do you purposely hire brain dead coders? Or are you all really this terrible at making games? Suffice it to say, there's absolutely no way I'll be preordering or even buying ark 2 at this rate. I have 0 hopes that that game will be any better than this crap. How about you fix ARK 1 before making a new game. God you people are hopeless morons.

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    KaosLantern

    I half to say lots of the community wishes they would just fix ark 1 we don't care about ark 2 are your 3rd person view

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    Clarice
    5 hours ago, Anne said:

    What time does it actually start

    I was wondering that same thing

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    TribeOfManman

    The event has started!!!

    Event colour dinos are not spawning on Official Primitive+ servers, and event items are not showing up in the cooking pots. :(

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    Onimusha759

    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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