Explorers! Who says Halloween ends on October 31st?!
Some of you have been asking when the Halloween Patch ends. Like all good things, our festivities end on November 15th, at 1 AM PT. We'll post the official patch notes the day before, but here's what to expect.
Halloween Patch Content that is staying:
Ancient Wyvern King
Ancient Wyvern King drops (including armor and the permanent Magic Broom)
Ancient Wyvern King Challenge Portal
Energy Cubes
Halloween Decor drops from Supply Beams (drop rate will be lowered)
Halloween Candy Grenade drops from Supply Beams (drop rate will be lowered)
Pumpkin Train
Bone Track
Any Halloween drops you received before November 15th
...and here's what won't be available after the patch:
Pumpkin Reaper along with their increased EXP gain.
Wild Creature's Jack O'Lanterns (any drops you received will stay)
Super Spooky Main Menu
The Supply Beam design will return to normal
The following items will no longer drop: Temporary Magic Broom, Clown Costume Blueprints, Pumpkin Seeds, Dino Pumpkin Hat.
We hope you all had a great Halloween and enjoyed our Month of Magic contests and events! We're looking forward to interacting more with the community in the coming months, so stay tuned and be sure to send us your love via comments, thoughts, and constructive criticisms.
Below are the winners of the Spooky Screenshot contest. They'll each receive an additional copy of PixARK (to share with whomever they please) and a Magic Broom for whichever official server they prefer. Please congratulate them!
It's our last contest for the Month of Magic, explorers: The PixARK Spooky Screenshot contest. Simply upload a screenshot on Steam and title it "Spooky Screenshot" by the October 31st cutoff for a chance to win another copy of PixARK and a Magic Broom! We'll comment on the winning screenshots. (Magic Broom can only be given to players on an Official Server)
How to take a screenshot and upload it: Press your hotkey (F12 by default) while in PixARK. After your game session closes, publish your screenshots to your Steam Community profile. Add the caption "Spooky Screenshot".
Don't forget, PixARK is 40% off until October 31st, to celebrate Steam's Halloween sale!
Halloween is just around the corner, and our next PixARK Halloween update is scheduled to go live around 12:00 am PDT on October 26. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.
First, letâs take a peek at the Halloween main menu screen.
New Dungeon/Challenge
To start the Ancient Wyvern King challenge, players will need to Summon an Ancient Wyvern King Challenge Gate and be teleported to where the Wyvern King resides.
The Challenge Gate can be summoned in the Inscription Book when you put in Dark Magic Stone, Water Magic Stone, Wind Magic Stone, Thunder Magic Stone, Fire Magic Stone, Light Magic Stone, and Earth Magic Stone. You have the chance to produce one of the three different Challenge Gates once the summoning is done. Each of the three Challenge Gate has its own color, size, and summoning rate. The numbers of players and tames allowed to be teleported through these Challenge Gates also vary.
Once the Challenge Gate is summoned, the dungeon challenge is not activated yet. Players will need to obtain Energy Stone, craftable in the Alchemy Stove, and place them on the Challenge Gate to initiate the portal to the Ancient Wyvern King. If you want to challenge the Ancient Wyvern King for another time, you will have to place Energy Stone to create the portal again.
Out of the three Ancient Gate, only one can be activated via the Teleportation Platform at a time. A cooldown of 24 hours will be attached to players who have taken on an Ancient Wyvern King challenge.
Challenge Gate (Blue): summoning rate is 70%; teleport up to 5 players and 5 tames
Challenge Gate (Green): summoning rate is 25%; teleport up to 10 players and 10 tames
Challenge Gate (Purple): summoning rate is 5%; teleport up to 15 players and 15 tames
New Boss - Ancient Wyvern King
The Ancient Wyvern drops Wyvern Armor (Wyvern Head Armor, Wyvern Claw Armor, Wyvern Body Armor, and Wyvern Wing Armor, equitable on Fire Wyvern, Lightning Wyvern, and Poison Wyvern.) It also drops Magic Broom.
Wyvern Head Armor: reduces damage by 15%; drop rate is 10%
Wyvern Claw Armor: reduces damage by 10%; drop rate is 25%
Wyvern Body Armor: reduces damage by 15%; drop rate is 40%
Wyvern Wing Armor: reduces damage by 10%; drop rate is 20%
Magic Broom: drop rate is 5%
New Halloween Creature - Pumpkin Soul Reaper
Pumpkin Soul Reaper can be found in these biomes: PixARK - Novice Grassland and Grassland; SkyARK - Dawn Island, Woodland, and Void.
They drop Pumpkin Seed, Limited-Time Magic Broom (spoils in 7 days), and Clown Costume Blueprint.
New Engram and Items
Limited-Time Magic Broom (Halloween-only): drops from Pumpkin Soul Reaper; includes a spoil timer and disappears once the timer is up.
Magic Broom: drops from Ancient Wyvern King.
Halloween Decor: Halloween Trees, Halloween Gravestone, Pumpkin Candle, and Halloween Wall Decor: obtainable from Clown Supply Beam.
Halloween Clown Costume: Craftable at the Tailorâs Workbench, but first players will need to obtain Clown Costume blueprints from the Pumpkin Soul Reaper. They will need to obtain Pumpkin Seed from Pumpkin Soul Reaper to grow Pumpkin, which is used as a crafting material for Halloween Costume.
Halloween Candy Grenade: Throw various Halloween Candy Grenade at other players to turn them into characters wearing various Halloween Masks for ten minutes. Halloween Candy Grenade can be obtained from the Clown Supply Beam.
Pumpkin Mini Train and Bone Track: create the rail in Halloween style and enjoy a spooky ride.
Halloween In-game Event
Clown Supply Beam: the current Supply Beam has been changed to Clown Supply Beam, and drops Halloween decor and Halloween Candy Grenades.
Pumpkin Hat: Some creatures will be wearing Pumpkin Hats. There is a chance they can drop the Pumpkin Hat to equip on your tamed creatures.
Double Harvest Rate: Players will be able to receive double Harvest Rates for Ore during the Halloween Event.
Higher EXP gain from Pumpkin Soul Reaper: Players will receive more EXP compared to the normal Soul Reaper after players defeat them.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where Cobalt Minotaur could not be tamed by Magic Sleepy Arrow. Fixed an issue where Cobalt Minotaur could not consume Cobalt Organics as feed. Fixed an issue where steel structures and other structures above steel-tier could be damaged by Tek Saddle laser and Tek Rifle.
New Servers
We are also launching a total of eight official servers, all of which are server-transferrable:
Hello Explorers! We're running a contest on our Facebook page to celebrate the Month of Magic!
Add a PixARK Facebook Frame to your profile picture, and tag a friend on our Facebook post before October 24th for a chance to win a copy of PixARK for PC! Enter here!
Instructions: Go to your profile on the Facebook app and tap "Edit" on your profile picture. Then tap "Add Frame".
The next PixARK update is scheduled to go live at 2:00 am PDT on October 11. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.
New Items
Added Alien Research Platform, unlockable at level 90. Place tamed Smallpatrol along with Cobalt battery inside to activate the research platform and choose either Alien Equipment Cube or Alien Building Cube as your output. The max output per day is 800 cubes.
Optimized the laser shot coming from tamed Cobaltstar Golem, Cobaltstar Master, Cobaltstar Giantwing, and Cobaltstar Pterosaur to ensure it is more accurately hitting the aimed target.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where the structure count limit was not effective in a certain area where an Auto Turret was placed inside.
Fixed an issue where Megalania did not have sound effects.
Fixed an issue where Auto Turret might shoot through structures.
Fixed an issue where when the character died, his or her equipment and hotbar items might be picked up by other characters
Note: Clarification of the changes to the Obelisk Chamber/Cobalt UFO dungeon introduced in 1.69. All Dungeon challenges, Obelisk Chamber and Cobalt Airship, had their cooldown timer changed to 24 hours in 1.69. On each individual player, four cooldown timer exists independently, meaning while the player is on cooldown for easy Obelisk chamber dungeon, he or she is able to activate the other two Obelisk Chamber dungeon or the Cobalt UFO dungeon.