Holiday Event

Holiday Event was an ARK: Survival Evolved end-of-the-year Christmas/New Year's event. It ran from 12pm EST 23 December and ended 12pm EST 1st of January, 2018 on all platforms. It is the sequel to the ARK: Winter Wonderland 2 event that took place in 2016. This event has no official name.

Gameplay Changes

 * One-time Wild Dino respawn
 * 5% chance of new wild creatures being Xmas coloured
 * 50% chance of white-coloured Dire Bears
 * All hat-wearing wild dinos are wearing Santa hats and Megaloceros have been replaced with Reindeer
 * 12 AM through to 5 AM provides a temporary buff to live connected players which boosts loot crate quality by 40% (over base values, 15% over LioMagic values), drops more loot, and adds more cosmetics to loot crate drops.

Unofficial Servers
Unofficials can enable the event by updating to the  branch.