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Dec 30, 2019
New Year Child's Play Streaming Fundraiser Marathon
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Hi explorers!

We hope you're enjoying your NYE content in-game and IRL. We're glad to announce another charity marathon for the nonprofit Child's Play, for this Friday, January 3rd from 1pm - 7pm PT!

Since 2003, Child's Play, a game industry charity has dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in their network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Your donations will go towards this mission.

For every $25 donated, we'll select someone random in Twitch chat to receive a copy of PixARK so make sure you're there for the fun!

Make sure to follow these awesome streamers to get notified! You'll be able to donate here starting Friday.

❤️ twitch.tv/chaoticavacado
🧡 twitch.tv/thesevenseas
💛 twitch.tv/theancientlotus
💚 twitch.tv/bucketofsunshine
Dec 26, 2019
New Years Countdown Update!
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Greetings, Explorers!

We hope you all had a wonderful year, and look forward to an even greater 2020! The next PixARK update is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PDT on December 27th. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.

Update: the patch is delayed to go live at 9:00 am PDT on December 27th.

New Year Countdown
In celebration of the upcoming new year, we are adding a noticeable New Year Countdown Timer in the sky at the center of the map. From any biome in both the PixARK map or the Skyward map, when you look up, you can see the timer counting and when it reaches 2020/01/01 00: 00: 00 (server/local time), all explorers will be treated to a fireworks show NEARBY the timer! (Note: fireworks visuals won't be rendered if the players are too far away from the giant clock.)


New Items
  • Countdown Clock: needs to be powered; players can input the time they want to count down from, and when it counts down to zero, the Trigger will send an activation signal to switch all the electricity-powered devices to “on”. The Countdown Clock engram can be unlocked at level 55, and craftable in the Fabricator.
  • Fireworks Launcher: needs to be powered; players can place Fireworks Bullets inside its inventory, and turn on the switch to automatically shoot the fireworks in the sky; when aiming at the Fireworks Launcher, you can also hold E to select how high you want the fireworks to be fired. The Fireworks Launcher engram can be unlocked at level 55, and craftable in the Fabricator.

Fireworks Drops
Fireworks can be obtained at a higher drop rate from the Supply Beam which will also spawn at a higher rate.

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the Cobaltenergy Golem did not show the correct required time for a mutation in the Radiation Mutation Platform.

Be sure to report bugs

here.
Dec 23, 2019
PixARK Holiday Giveaway
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Happy Holidays, Explorers! ☃️

'Tis the season of giving! Join the PixARK Holiday Giveaway for a chance to win a copy of PIxARK for you or a friend!

Click here for more information and to enter~
Dec 19, 2019
PixARK Patch 1.82
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Greetings, Explorers!

The next PixARK update is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PDT on December 20th. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.

New Creatures
Added Christmmas Treant Baby, which might spawn when a Treant is killed. Tamed Christmas Treant Baby will dance.



Changes
  • Added log in Tribe’s log for taking out and putting in items into tribe-owned storage container
  • Christmas Blizzard Cube can now be used from the hotbar.

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where bone dinos will not automatically replenish Void Energy from its inventory when sprinting.



Be sure to report bugs

here.


Dec 16, 2019
PixARK Christmas Patch
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Greeting Explorers!

Merry Christmas & happy holidays! Our Christmas Patch is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PDT on December 17th. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.
New Creatures
  • Cobalt Kairuku and Cobalt Griffin.



New Gameplay
  • The Blessing Christmas Tree - Decorate the Christmas Tree with various decor, and activate the Christmas Blessing buff. The Christmas Tree can be exchanged for Christmas Token at the Christmas Goblin Trade Center. Decorate the tree with Christmas Dolls in five unique colors, and you will be gifted with the Christmas Blessing Buff and Christmas Gift Box, which may contain one or more of the below gifts: Rocking Reindeer, Christmas Painting, and Christmas Curtain.

Note:
-Christmas Dolls drop from Snowman kill.
-Christmas Goblin Trade Center will drop from Red-Hat Goblin kill and the Christmas Santa Supply.
-Christmas Token can be harvested from digging Christmas Blizzard Snow Cube.


  • Snowman Fight - Snowmen will spawn in Noviceland, Grassland, Dawnisland, and Woodland. Players will need to craft Snowballs to attack the Snowmen, to receive their drops: Christmas Candy, Christmas Dolls (50% drop rate), Snowman Model, Snowman Clothing Skins, and Christmas Token.

  • Red Hat Creatures - Some dinos will be wearing Christmas Red Hats. Killing them could drop Red Hat (wearable on tames), and Christmas Token.

  • Christmas Santa Supply - Santa will be riding his Reindeer Sleigh to give away Santa Supply, which might contain Christmas Paintings, Christmas Candy, Christmas Fireworks, and more.

  • Christmas Snowy Biomes - The majority of the biomes will be enjoying snowy views. During snowy seasons, some biomes might be blessed with specific “Christmas Blizzard”. Explorers digging blizzard snow cubes in Christmas Snowy biomes will have the chance of getting Christmas Tokens, Christmas Blizzard Snow Cube and Christmas Candy.
  • Double Harvest Rate and Snowman Kill Exp - Explorers will enjoy double ore-harvest rate and higher exp from Snowman kills.
New Items
  • Christmas Goblin Trade Center - Drops from Red-Hat Goblins or the Santa Supply.

  • Christmas Reindeer Costume - Exchangeable at the Christmas Goblin Trade Center for 500 Christmas Tokens.


  • Christmas Treant Costume - Exchangeable at the Christmas Goblin Trade Center for 500 Christmas Tokens.

  • Reindeer Sled Saddle - Equipping it on the Reindeer allows one player to ride on it and fly across PixARK and Skyward. With a Reindeer Christmas Platform Saddle, players can place a max of 50 structure pieces. The Reindeer Sleigh can be exchanged at the Christmas Goblin Trade Center for 2000 Christmas Tokens.

  • Christmas Hat (2019) Skin - A new Character-wearable Christmas Hat skin dedicated to celebrating Christmas 2019. It can be exchanged at the Christmas Goblin Trade Center for 200 Christmas Tokens.
  • Rocking Reindeer - Has a drop rate of 10% from Christmas Tree Gift Boxes.
  • Christmas Paintings - Has a drop rate of 40% from Christmas Tree Gift Boxes.
  • Christmas Curtain - Has a drop rate of 30% from Christmas Tree Gift Boxes and Santa Supply.

  • White Creature Dye and Dark Green Creature Dye -Craftable at the Dye Workbench.
Optimization
  • Added a Get Free option at the pause menu, so that when players get stuck at certain locations, they can get unstuck by being teleported to a random spawn point. The Get Free option has a cooldown of 30 minutes, and it can not be used when your characters are engaged in a fight.
Changes
Breeding
  • Imprint Stats: imprint Health Points will be buffed from 20% to 40%, and imprint Stamina will be buffed by 20%.
  • Mutation levels: offspring will have their max mutation level raised by 30

Bone Creatures
  • Bone creatures will now consume Void Energy in order to sprint.
  • Bone Griffin and Bone Ghost Dragon now have faster-flying speed.
  • Bone Carno may fly using Void Energy
  • Bone Trike’s RMB skill now depends on melee damage and can be used when its Fury is zero.
  • Bone creatures now receive 1.5x damage from Cobaltenergy Golem.
  • Each server will now spawn 10 Bone creatures at the Summoning Altar.
  • The cost for reviving bone creatures will now depend on the type of bone creature & their level (see below). A success rate is added to the summoning process. If the summoning fails, the material will be used, but the bone creature cube will be kept intact.
~~~Bone Trike: summoning time is 2 minutes -Level 1-60 will require 6 Spine Fossil and 9 Thighbone Fossil -Level 61-90 will require 12 Spine Fossil and 18 Thighbone Fossil -Level 91-120 will require 18 Spine Fossil and 27 Thighbone Fossil -Level 121-150 will require 24 Spine Fossil and 36 Thighbone Fossil -Level 151-185 will require 30 Spine Fossil, 45 Thighbone Fossil, & 1 Triceraptorskull Fossil ~~~Bone Carno: summoning time is 5 minutes -Level 1-60 will require 9 Spine Fossil and 12 Thighbone Fossil -Level 61-90 will require 18 Spine Fossil and 24 Thighbone Fossil -Level 91-120 will require 27 Spine Fossil and 36 Thighbone Fossil -Level 121-150 will require 36 Spine Fossil and 48 Thighbone Fossil -Level 151-185 will require 45 Spine Fossil, 60 Thighbone Fossil & 1 Carnotaurus Skull Fossil ~~~Bone Griffin: summoning time is 10 minutes -Level 1-60 will require 8 Spine Fossil and 12 Thighbone Fossil -Level 61-90 will require 16 Spine Fossil and 24 Thighbone Fossil -Level 91-120 will require 24 Spine Fossil and 36 Thighbone Fossil -Level 121-150 will require 32 Spine Fossil and 48 Thighbone Fossil -Level 151-185 will require 40 Spine Fossil, 60 Thighbone Fossil, & 1 Griffin Skull Fossil ~~~Bone Ghost Dragon: summoning time is 15 minutes -Level 1-60 will require 10 Spine Fossil and 14 Thighbone Fossil -Level 61-90 will require 20 Spine Fossil and 28 Thighbone Fossil -Level 91-120 will require 30 Spine Fossil and 42 Thighbone Fossil -Level 121-150 will require 40 Spine Fossil and 56 Thighbone Fossil -Level 151-185 will require 50 Spine Fossil, 70 Thighbone Fossil, & 1 Ghost Dragon Skull Fossil ~~~Bone Megarock Dragon: summoning time is 30 minutes -Level 1-60 will require 12 Spine Fossil and 16 Thighbone Fossil -Level 61-90 will require 24 Spine Fossil and 32 Thighbone Fossil -Level 91-120 will require 36 Spine Fossil and 48 Thighbone Fossil -Level 121-150 will require 48 Spine Fossil and 64 Thighbone Fossil -Level 151-185 will require 60 Spine Fossil, 90 Thighbone Fossil, & 1 Megarock Dragon Skull Fossil ~~~Bone T-rex: summoning time is 30 minutes -Level 1-60 will require 12 Spine Fossil and 16 Thighbone Fossil -Level 61-90 will require 24 Spine Fossil and 32 Thighbone Fossil -Level 91-120 will require 36 Spine Fossil and 48 Thighbone Fossil -Level 121-150 will require 48 Spine Fossil and 64 Thighbone Fossil -Level 151-185 will require 60 Spine Fossil, 90 Thighbone Fossil, &1 Rex Skull Fossil
New Servers
  • Asia-Chaos-skyward-5
  • Asia-Pioneering-skyward-5
  • EU-Chaos-skyward-5
  • EU-Pioneering-skyward-5
  • NA-Chaos-skyward-5
  • NA-Pioneering-skyward-5
Dec 12, 2019
PixARK Patch 1.80
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Greetings, Explorers!

The next PixARK update is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PDT on December 13th. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.
Ending Thanksgiving Content
  • Pardoned Turkeys will no longer be kept in the cages in the Noviceland biome. They will spawn in replacement of the usual Turkey.
  • Thanksgiving decor, Thanksgiving dishes, and Thanksgiving Equipment costumes will no longer drop from the Supply Beam and the Turkey Egg rewards from the Pardoned Turkey Event.
  • Double Drop Rate will end.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the Alien Research Platform would not continue to produce alien cubes after server restarts.
Be sure to report bugs
here.
Dec 4, 2019
PixARK Patch 1.79
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Greetings, Explorers!

The next PixARK update is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PDT on December 5th. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.

Changes
  • The Magic Month Main Menu theme will be reverted.
  • The Magic Month themed trees across the biomes will be reverted.

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where Tek Turret will be counted towards the limit of placing structures in areas mined by Auto Miner.

Be sure to report bugs here.
Nov 29, 2019
PixARK Patch 1.78
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Greetings, Explorers!

The next PixARK update is scheduled to go live at 3:30 am PDT on November 29th. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.

Balancing and Changes
  • Tek Equipment abilities will temporarily be disabled right after your character revived and landed with a parachute.
  • The Cobaltenergy Golem Fist has been adjusted to spawn as the third BOSS in the Cobaltstar UFO challenge. Its skill attack will now deal a percentage of damage based on the dinos' current Health instead of their maximum Health.


Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the client might crash when you were hovering over certain building to check on the required material for repairing.


Be sure to report bugs

here.
Nov 27, 2019
PixARK Patch 1.77
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Greetings, Explorers!

The next PixARK update is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PDT on November 28th. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.

Balancing and Changes
  • Increased the amount of Cobalt Berry produced from the Alien Berry Plot to one per 180 seconds, cumulating at a max of 300 inside the Plot inventory.
  • Reduced the volume of Tek gear and equipment.
  • Allowed Thanksgiving Chair to be toggled by pressing Q.
  • Optimized localization pertaining to the Thanksgiving Update.
  • Optimized the UI for third-person point of view when players glide with the Pardoned Turkey.

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where cobalt tames were showing incorrect information in the Handbook.
  • Fixed an issue where the reviving bar for the Bone Dinos might be stuck near the completion of the progression
  • Fixed an issue where the Thanksgiving wall decor was not toggling to the correct model preview when pressing Q.
  • Fixed an issue where the Thanksgiving Balloon could not be picked up.



Be sure to report bugs

here.
Nov 21, 2019
Thanksgiving Update!
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Greetings, Explorers!

We would like to extend our gratitude to your love and support for PixARK. We will continue our work on PixARK and bring to you an even better game. Happy Thanksgiving!

The Thanksgiving update is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PDT on November 22nd. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.



New Gameplay

Since the discovery of Cobalt Ore in Skyward, resulting mutations from the emitting radiation has been observed. Don’t worry, this is something explorers can utilize!

  • Added Radiation Mutation Platform. Craftable at level 90. Players can place Pixblocked tames into the Platform. Place the required materials to trigger the mutation. The result will be the creature’s mutated counterpart.
  • Added Cobalenergy Golem. Currently the only mutable tame. We’re looking into expanding the list of mutable tames in later patches.



Thanksgiving Gameplay
  • Thanksgiving Banquet. Place six different Thanksgiving dishes on the Thanksgiving Dining Table, and then press E to enjoy the treat and be rewarded with the Thanksgiving Buff. Placing Roasted Turkey right at the center of the Thanksgiving Dining Table will bring something special to Explorers.
  • Pardoned Turkey Event. In the Noviceland biome, Explorers may find wild Turkeys locked in cages. Players will need to break the cage to free the Turkeys. Once they are freed, Turkeys will drop Turkey eggs that provide rewards. While freeing the caged Turkeys, explorers have a 10% chance of running into special Pardoned Turkey, which can take players up in the sky once tamed.



Thanksgiving Creatures
  • Pardoned Turkey. While freeing the caged Turkeys, explorers have a 10% chance of running into special Pardoned Turkey, which can take players up in the sky once tamed.



New Items
  • Thanksgiving Decor: Thanksgiving Dining Table, Thanksgiving Chair, Thanksgiving Recliner, Thanksgiving Curtain, Thanksgiving Decor Balloon, and Thanksgiving Wall Decor. All of which may drop from the Supply Beam and the Turkey Egg rewards from Pardoned Turkey Event.
  • Thanksgiving Dishes: Roasted Turkey, Pumpkin Pie, Beef Wellington, Salad, Brownie, Sweet Potato. All of which may drop from the Supply Beam and the Turkey Egg rewards from Pardoned Turkey Event.
  • Thanksgiving Equipment Skin: Turkey Hat. Drop from the Supply Beam and the Turkey Egg rewards from Pardoned Turkey Event.
Functional structures
  • Alien Crop Plot: craftable at level 90 in the Industrial Skill Engram. It is used to plant Cobalt Berries. Cobalt Berry Seed can only be harvested with Cobaltstar Beetle from bushes in Cobalt biomes.



Balancing and Changes
  • The Ancient Wyvern King and the Poison Wyvern will do 50% of their poisoning effect on Cobaltstar robotic creatures.
  • Cobaltenergy Golem: Iron Fist skill attack will have longer cast animation and effect area indication. Once cast, the first round of damage will be effective immediately. The second round of damage will be effective 5 seconds later if it is not interrupted by Light magic.
  • Optimized how tames are released from tame Pixblocks to reduce tame loss.

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where Tek Cloning Chamber incorrectly cloned tames’ stats.
  • Fixed an issue where in some cases, the Cobaltstar Spaceship Challenge can be taken unlimited times.
  • Fixed an issue where blueprints placed in the Hotbar might get lost upon character death.
  • Fixed an issue where in some cases dropped items could not be retrieved.



Be sure to report bugs
here.
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