The Witches Curse

The Witches Curse
Event
Organizer	Studio Wildcard
Start Date	October 30th, 2017
Start Time	12:00pm EST
End Date	November 1st, 2017
End Time	12:00pm EST
Links	Announcement

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 -beta halloween branch and the following ini settings:

NightTimeSpeedScale=0.25 DayTimeSpeedScale=4.0

a NEW Game.ini ShooterGameMode setting (which makes it colder): BaseTemperatureMultiplier = 0.475

and running once with: -ForceRespawnDinos

Notes

• In comparison to the halloween events in the last two years, this event features less content due to the development team focusing mainly on Aberration.

Calendar

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Happy New Year!	January 1st, 2021	January 1st, 2021
	ARK: Love Evolved 2	February 11th, 2021	February 18th, 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