Winter Wonderland will be returning for the fourth time on Tuesday with all new presents for ARK survivors. The winter-themed holiday event begins tomorrow at 10am PST for PC, XBOX, and PS4 and will last until Tuesday, January 7th. All maps will receive Winter Wonderland and all its content including RaptorClaus and GachaClaus, however only The Island will have a visual winter theme.

One of our most notable helpers, RaptorClaus, will be back to drop off holiday gifts filled with loot, event items, mistletoe, and lumps of coal for all those naughty survivors. You'll be able to catch RaptorClaus flying across the skies at midnight (game time) on all maps.

GachaClaus is also returning to help RaptorClaus spread the holiday cheer! GachaClaus will be roaming all maps in holiday garb and 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 event items. weapons, armor and a brand new event item, Chibis!

While Winter Wonderland is active, you'll have a chance to collect over 50 ARK chibi pets. ARK chibi pets are cute miniaturized versions of the creatures you have become familiar with in your travels across the ARK universe. Chibi's pets can be leveled up by killing specific alpha creatures and in return, you'll be granted additional player levels . Some chibi pets may be harder to find so you'll have to visit GachaClaus and RaptorClaus to find all the chibi pets! Can you collect them all?

Winter Wonderland Event Notes

Initiation of Winter Wonderland: Can be manually activated with: -ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland launch parameter Increased rates to 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation) Increased rates to 2X Player XP Increased rates to 2X Harvesting Increased rated to 2X Taming Added Event-themed wild dino spawns The Island has been given a makeover with a winter landscape and foliage. Coal and Mistletoe can be obtained from Raptor Claus gift drops Raptor Claus: Will spawn at midnight and drop gifts across the island. Gifts some special items like holiday structures, some skins, color candies, and chibis. Gacha Claus: Spawns on all maps Placing coal/mistletoe in the inventory of a wild Gacha Claus will cause it to grow crystals. The crystals have higher quality loot and a chance for chibis Added new items: Bronto Ugly Sweater Carno Ugly Sweater Chibi Ugly Sweater Red-Ball winter hat Gray-ball Winter Hat Purple Ball Winter Hat Reindeer Antlers Hat Nutcracker Slingshot Christmas Bola Skin 2 sets of Event-themed underwear (tops and bottoms) Chibi pets Added new emotes: Happy Clap Emote Caroling Emote Nutcracker Dance Emote Added prior event skins: Reindeer costume for Megaloceros Dino Party Hat Party Hat Top Hat Dino Santa Hat Santa Hat Candy Club Added prior event creatures: Gacha Claus Added prior event items: Coal Mistletoe Christmas Tree Snowman Stocking Christmas Gift Wreath Holiday Lights Chibis: Over 50 chibi pets from various DLC - including Genesis Randomized coloring Can be 'leveled' to increase character player level Wild Event Colors: Red Green Light Grey Light Red Dark Green Dark Red Dino Light Red Dino Light Green Dino Medium Green Dino Albino NearWhite

We'll be looking forward to seeing you favorite chibi's and winter content from Winter Wonderland!

EVO Event

There will be no EVO event while Winter Wonderland is active

Until next time!

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