The Witches Curse

The Witches Curse was an ARK: Survival Evolved Halloween event. It ran from 12pm EST 30 October and ended 12pm EST 1st of November, 2017 on all platforms. It is the sequel to the ARK: Fear Evolved 2 event that took place in 2016.

Gameplay Changes

 * Black and orange spiders now spawn on the beaches
 * Megalania, Titanoboa, Pulmonoscorpius, Megalosaurus, Onyc, Arthropluera, and Araneo spawn points changed to various surface points around the map. The creepy crawlies are out to spook!
 * Skins can now randomly spawn in level 3 supply drops.
 * Quality of drops increased.
 * Colder, longer nights and shorter days, brrr!

Unofficial Servers
Unofficials can enable the event by updating to the  branch and the following ini settings:

a NEW Game.ini ShooterGameMode setting (which makes it colder):

and running once with: