ARK: ARKaeology

ARK: ARKaeology
Event
Organizer	Studio Wildcard
Start Date	June 15th, 2018
End Date	July 17th, 2018
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ARK: ARKaeology was a time-limited event. It ran from June 15th, 2018 until July 17th, 2018.

This Event can be manually activated with the server console parameter: -activeevent=ARKaeology.

Gameplay Changes

ARK: ARKaeology adds in some gameplay aspects of the game, as well as adding the Tek Rex, the Corrupted Helmet Skin, as well as some event-only skins.

General

• Every map contains a Fossil Pile, each possessing Dinosaur Bone. These are used to craft skins.
  • Certain Fossil Piles contains special items.
• During this event all wild dinos have a chance to spawn with special colors: White, Yellow, Grey, and Black!

Skins

• Dilo Mask Skin
• Brachiosaurus Costume
• Stygimoloch Costume
• Styracosaurus Costume
• Rex Bone Helmet Skin
• Trike Bone Helmet Skin
• Bronto Bone Costume
• Carno Bone Costume
• Giganotosaurus Bone Costume
• Jerboa Bone Costume
• Quetzalcoatlus Bone Costume
• Raptor Bone Costume
• Rex Bone Costume
• Stego Bone Costume
• Trike Bone Costume
• Wyvern Bone Costume

Calendar

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Happy New Year!	January 1st, 2021	January 1st, 2021

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Love Evolved	February 11th, 2020	February 18th, 2020
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 5	April 7th, 2020	April 21st, 2020
	ARK: 5th Anniversary	June 11th, 2020	June 24th, 2020
	ARK: Summer Bash 2020	June 25th, 2020	July 21st, 2020
	ARK: Fear Evolved 4	October 22nd, 2020	November 6th, 2020
	Genesis 2 Chronicles	November 7th, 2020	March 2021
	ARK: Turkey Trial 4	November 24th, 2020	December 8th, 2020
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 5	December 17th, 2020	January 7th, 2021

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day 4	February 12th, 2019	February 18th, 2019
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 4	April 16th, 2019	April 30th, 2019
	ARK: Summer Bash 2019	July 2nd, 2019	July 19th, 2019
	Genesis Chronicles	October 10th, 2019	February 25th, 2020
	ARK: Fear Evolved 3	October 22nd, 2019	November 5th, 2019
	ARK: Turkey Trial 3	November 19th, 2019	December 6th, 2019
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 4	December 18th, 2019	January 7th, 2020

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day 3	February 13th, 2018	February 16th, 2018
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 3	March 29th, 2018	April 10th, 2018
	ARK: ARKaeology	June 15th, 2018	July 17th, 2018
	Extinction Chronicles	June 19th, 2018	November 6th, 2018
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 3	December 18th, 2018	January 7th, 2019

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day 2	February 12th, 2017	February 20th, 2017
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 2	April 15th, 2017 for PC April 26th, 2017 for Xbox & PS4	April 22nd, 2017 for PC March 3rd, 2017 for Xbox & PS4
	ARKs Two Year Anniversary	June 2nd, 2017	June 5th, 2017
	The Witches Curse	October 30th, 2017	November 1st, 2017
	Holiday Event	December 23rd, 2017	January 1st, 2018

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day	February 14th, 2016	February 22nd, 2016
	ARK: Eggcellent Adventure	March 25th, 2016	March 31st, 2016
	ARK: Survival Devolved	April 1st, 2016	April 2nd, 2016
	ARK: Awesome Anniversary	June 2nd, 2016	June 13th, 2016
	ARKdependence Day	July 3rd, 2016	?
	ARK: Fear Evolved 2	October 28th, 2016	November 6th, 2016
	ARK: Turkey Trial 2	November 15th, 2016 for Xbox November 24th, 2016 for PC	December 1st, 2016
	ARK: Winter Wonderland 2	December 23th, 2016	December 30th, 2016
	New Year's on ARK	December 31st, 2016	January 1st, 2017

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Fear Evolved	October 28th, 2015	November 5th, 2015
	ARK: Turkey Trial	November 25th, 2015	December 1st, 2015
	ARK: Winter Wonderland	December 22, 2015	January 5th, 2016
	ARK: Happy First (Half) Year!	December 31st, 2015	January 1st, 2016

Gallery

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  Fossil Pile.

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  Brachiosaurus Costume.

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  Stygimoloch Costume.

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  Styracosaurus Costume

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  Dilo Mask.

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  Tek Rex.

Notes/Trivia

• The ARK: ARKaeology Event was launched around the same time as the release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which featured new dinosaurs, such as the Brachiosaurus, Stygimoloch, and Sinoceratops (not Styracosaurus).