Studio Wildcard has released a new server update for Ark Survival Evolved. With today’s patch the Happy New Year event begins. Below are all the details on this December 30th update.
The Ark Survival Evolved Server Update is now available. We explain to you how you can control the event on the server.
Ark Happy New Year Event Notes
Current Version: v551.15 – 12/29/2020
‘Happy New Year!’ event is now enabled on Official Servers. The event is set to go off at approximately Midnight EST and Noon EST on the 1st of January 2021. Servers running the event will be bombarded with raining gifts in a hail of fireworks to mark the end of 2020. These gifts will contain a collection of your favourite skins from past events that are currently unavailable and a chibi bonanza! And by bonanza, we mean, the drop rate of Rare, Very Rare and Legendary chibis will be dialled to over 9000!
Unofficial Servers can enable the event with the following commandline param: -NewYearEvent
To modify the times, the following commandline parameters can also be used:
- ?NewYear1UTC=1609477200
- ?NewYear2UTC=1609497200
You can use https://www.epochconverter.com/ to get your appropriate timestamp. Please keep in mind that this event cannot be run before Midnight EST on the 1st of January 2021, so if you wish to change your time it would have to be set after that.
Some additional notes:
This event can only be run ONCE on a savefile (with 2 triggers).
If a server is set to run the event at a time already passed, then on load the server will immediately trigger the gifts.
If a custom time isn’t set, then the event will run default at Midnight EST on the 1st and again at Noon.
Source: Survivetheark
