This weekend, PixARK will be taking part in Steam’s biggest promotion of the year - 2021 Steam Summer Sale. The voxel sandbox game has tons of whimsical and charming content to explore. During the sale, it will not only be offered at the historically low price of $9.59 (after 76% off), but it will also include the ground-breaking 2021 Summer Sports Games Edition, which includes boxing, racing, other contests, unique player uniforms, etc. Players can create a completely personalized arena in this open-world sandbox game. PixARK is the game you should not miss this summer!


PixARK is a highly flexible and versatile voxel sandbox game. Players can tame all kinds of fierce and cute creatures in this magical world, create high-tech tools, and use resources and their own ingenuity to build a base of unlimited possibilities. The unique 2021 online sports games created by PixARK will improve continuously throughout the whole summer, for players to unleash their creativity.
Medals earned in the games can be used to redeem the latest sports uniform, which will make you the "hottest" girl or boy under the summer sun. There are also a variety of synthetic race tracks that can be combined. Use your imagination, create your own favorite track, and have your friends play together!


Start a friendly competition and see who is best among your friends! In this summer sports games edition, you’ll be able to use the Starter Stand, Race Clock, and Finish Line to automate starting, timing, ranking, etc of any race you create. Use the synthetic race tracks and other items to create difficult courses and challenges and have a showdown with your friends in the game!
After the contests, reward your participants with unique items and celebrations. With the summer edition exclusive Podium, there will be a small ceremony to award the participants with gold/silver/bronze medals, which can be worn proudly to highlight the glory of the champions.


The adventurers have their own sports games, and the creatures are eager for a match. These challengers can be found wearing gloves, ready to take on any boxer they encounter.

During this event, players will have to make boxing gloves to challenge creatures wearing gloves (Boxing Cyclops, Boxing Giant Claw Mole, Boxing Kairuku). If the players win, they can get corresponding medals the creatures drop, and redeem rewards in the Summer Sports Goblin Trading Center.

In addition, some creatures will be wearing the Summer Trophy Hat. Defeating them may drop the fashionable hat that can be worn by their tamed creatures.

What? OMG! Your friends haven’t joined the happy world of PixARK? Tell them not to miss out on the Steam Summer Sale! At $9.59 (after 76% off), PixARK is at it’s lowest price ever. It is the best time to buy! Hurry up and ask your friends to join this summer carnival together!

Dear Explorers!

The blazing summer is here! It's time we compete with blood, sweat, and tears in this energetic summer together!




Even the creatures are eager for a match during this blazing summer! Explorers can make Boxing Gloves through recipes (lv6) to challenge creatures wearing boxing gloves, which will drop different medals.
-Gold Medal Challenge: Boxling Cyclops
-Silver Medal Challenge: Boxing Giant Claw Mole
-Bronze Medal Challenge: Boxing Kairuku

Explorers can use the metals they obtain to exchange items at the Summer Sports Goblin Trading Center.




Explorers will have a chance obtaining a Summer Trophy Hat for their tamed creatures by defeating wild creatures wearing the hat.
- 20% chance of looting the hat, and 80% chance of looting a bronze medal.


Spawn Area：Doomlands，Black Rock Mountain，Frozen Land，Crystal Island
Upon defeating it with Boxing Gloves, players will have:
30% chance of obtaining 1 gold medal
70% chance of obtaining 2-5 silver medals

Spawn Area：Grassland，Woodland，Desert，Twilight Forest
Upon defeating it with Boxing Gloves, players will have:
30% chance of obtaining 2 silver medals
70% chance of obtaining 2-5 bronze medals

Spawn Area：Novice Grassland, Grassland, Dawn Island and Woodland.
Upon defeating it with Boxing Gloves, players will have:
100% chance of obtaining 1-3 bronze medals


-Can be obtained through looting goblins, the goblin king, or in supply drops.
- Can be used to convert medals and exchange items:
10 bronze medals to 1 silver medal;
12 silver medals to 1 gold medal;
1 gold medal to 8 silver medals;
1 silver medal to 6 bronze medals.
- Can be exchanged at Summer Sports Goblin Trading Center with silver medals:
Head/Hands: 2 silver medals
Top: 6 silver medals
Bottom/Shoes: 5 silver medals



- Use your imagination to create your very own race tracks! Hurry up! Call your friends and let’s race!
- Can be exchanged at Summer Sports Goblin Trading Center with medals
-Straight track (can switch into 3 different forms with “Q” button): 2 bronze medals
-Curve track (can switch into 5 different forms with “Q” button): 2 bronze medals
-Numbered track (can switch into 5 different forms with “Q” button): 1 silver medal




-Race clock will start when a player activates the Starter Stand within 50 meters.
-Race clock will stop when a player crosses the Finish Line.
-Race clock can show the top three players of a single game.
-Race clock can be set to 100/200/400/800 meter race types.
- For each type of race, you can record a best score, record the player name and race results
-Can be exchanged at Summer Sports Goblin Trading Center with gold medals:
-Starter Stand: 2 gold medals
-Race Clock: 4 gold medals
-Finish Line: 4 gold medals





-Upon using the item, it will display the medal in front of the character's chest for 2 hours.
-Can be exchanged at Summer Sports Goblin Trading Center with medals:
Gold medal(cosmetic): 2 gold medals
Silver medal (cosmetic): 1 gold medal
Bronze medal (cosmetic): 1 silver medal


-Can be exchanged at Summer Sports Goblin Trading Center with 2 gold medals.


-Can be exchanged at Summer Sports Goblin Trading Center with 1 gold medal.





Some dodos who know how to treat themselves well have already put on their holiday beachwear! They are spotted at Novice Grassland/Grassland/Dawn Island/Woodland.

Upon defeating these Holiday Dodos, they will have a 10% rate dropping:


They will also have a low chance dropping:

Dear Explorers!

Tonight we'll be pushing a small patch to bring to a close the Children's Day celebration. We hope you had an amazing time during the event and hope to see you for the next!


Event Changes:
- Closing Children’s Day events.

Dear Explorers!

Tonight we'll be pushing a small patch to make some small adjustments and fix a few minor bugs. Check out the details below.

1. You can now check points already distributed to creature stats in the UI.
   
2. Upon taming/claiming, the maximum points allowed to distribute to a single stat of the creature are now 300 instead of 255.

1. Fixed a bug where the demolish timer does not show correctly.
   
2. Fixed a bug where the central computer does not display the workbenches it manages when powered by a Tek generator.

Dear Explorers!

We bring you our Children’s Day Event! Hopefully you will enjoy it! The patch is scheduled to go live tonight at 12 am Pacific Time.






Paperbox Head
- can be exchanged at Children’s Day Goblin Trading Center with 400 game coins.



Little Yellow Duckling Head
- can be exchanged at Children’s Day Goblin Trading Center with 400 game coins.

Rain boots
- can be exchanged at Children’s Day Goblin Trading Center with 400 game coins.


Fun Swing
- Needs both Swing frame and Swing itself, which can be exchanged with 500 games coins each.


Pirate Ship
- Needs both Pirate Ship frame and Pirate Ship itself, which can be exchanged with 1200 game coins each.
- Allows up to 4 players to board at the same time.
- Electricity is required to power it up.



Shamrock/Parakeet/Seafoam/Mint/Pistachio

Seafoam and Pistachio will need to be exchanged with 50 game coins at the Children’s Day Goblin Trading Center.




Children’s Day Goblin Trading Center
- Can be obtained by defeating Goblins or Goblin Kings.
- Can also be obtained through Holiday supply drops.
- Used to exchange for Children’s Day event items.


Children’s Day Costumes
- Hat: Can be obtained by hitting balloons during event.
- Top, Leg, Boot, Gloves：Can be exchanged through Children’s Day Goblin Trading Center for 200 game coins each.


Children’s Day Pickaxe/Sickle/Axe
- Has the same harvest rate as an Iron tool.
- Can be crafted using resources and dyes in Tailor’s Workbench.


Carousel
- Can be exchanged at the Children’s Daily Goblin trading center with 2000 game coins.
- A maximum of 4 players can ride together at a time.
- Needs electricity to function.



Paintball gun
- Equip dyes to create graffiti art on floors/structures (not including creatures).
- Can be exchanged at the Children’s Daily Goblin trading center with 500 game coins.
- Graffiti lasts 30 minutes.


Candy Bomb
- Throw different types of candy towards players to transform them into different characters.
- Can be obtained through Children’s Day Goblin Trading Center with 50 game coins.
- Transformation lasts 10 minutes.


Candy Arrow
- New level 15 recipe
- Used to shoot balloons.
- Crafting materials: Flint, Wood, and Tintoberry


Balloon shooting
-Balloons will Spawn in Novice Grassland/Grassland/Dawn Island/Woodland.
- Must be shot down by Bows with Candy Arrows.
Drops:
- Balloon Backpack (20% drop rate, lasts 30 minutes)
- Children’s Day Hat Costume (10% drop rate)
- 4-6 Game coins


Candy Supply Drops
- Supply Drops have a new look with Children’s Day items inside!
Drops:
- Candy Bomb
- Children’s Day Goblin Trading Center

Tiny Yellow Hat
Some of the wild creatures found in PixARK are wearing tiny yellow hats. Defeat them for a chance to grab a Tiny Yellow Hat for your own tames and 2-4 Game Coins.


- 2x harvesting rate boost on minerals.

Dear Explorers:

We have a small update going out tonight to adjust a few decay timers and other small fixes.

• Skeleton dinos will no longer drop skeleton essence.

• Baby Treant’s passive skill, Nature’s blessing, will now show its effective area. Nature’s Blessing can accelerate plants growth within a certain area.

• Fixed an issue where central computer cannot manage all automatic machines run by the same tek generator.

• If no tribe member is online within 30 days, all creatures will decay automatically.
  
• If no tribe member is online within 30 days, all automatic miner will decay automatically.

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We will apply this adjustments soon, if you have any suggestion, please leave a comment below.

Dear explorers:
We have received feedback that the tribe merge function caused some unexpected problem, we have discussed to unable the function temporary, we apologize for any convince causes, we will enable the function again when the bug is fixed.

Fix:
1. Unable tribe merge function.

Hey Explorers!

We have a small update tonight, 4/23 at 12:00 AM PT! Thanks for joining us in the Easter Event, we hope you had fun!

Event Adjustments:

• Closing Easter Event
  
• You can still obtain Skeleton Essence and exchange Skeleton skins at the Tailor’s workbench

Other Changes

• Central computer can now manage all automatic machines run by the same tek generator.
  
• Industrial Forge can now produce Charcoal from burning wood.
  
• Dino whistle wheel now shows a variety of hotkeys of different whistles.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where CD notification doesn’t show up when creatures fail to turn into pixblocks.

It’s that time of the year again! PixARK’s 3rd Anniversary is HERE!

We would like to thank you again for your continuing support, and hope you enjoy Pixark’s 3rd Anniversary celebration! Servers will come down tonight at 1:30 am Pacific time.

New Items
1. Third Anniversary Avatar Set
Hat（Cake Hat）：Can be exchanged at Easter Goblin Trading Center with 3 Gold Egg Tokens
Top：Can be exchanged at Easter Goblin Trading Center with 2 Gold Egg Tokens
Hand：Can be exchanged at Easter Goblin Trading Center with 100 Silver Egg Tokens
Leg：Can be exchanged at Easter Goblin Trading Center with 100 Silver Egg Tokens
Shoes：Can be exchanged at Easter Goblin Trading Center with 100 Silver Egg Tokens


Old Items are back!
You can now exchange Skeleton skin of following creatures at Tailor’s Workbench with Skeleton Essence!
Rex : 70 Skeleton Essence
Megarock Dragon: 70 Skeleton Essence
Carnotaurus: 30 Skeleton Essence
Triceratops : 30 Skeleton Essence
Gryphon: 50 Skeleton Essence
Ghost dragon : 50 Skeleton Essence

Skeleton Essence Drop Rate:
1. 50% upon looting Skeleton Rex/Megarock Dragons
2. 30% upon looting other Skeleton creatures



Other Changes：
You can now exchange 1 Gold Egg Token with 25 Silver Egg Tokens at Easter Goblin Trading Center
BUG Fixes and Optimization:
Optimization:
1. Optimizing some descriptions about items related to the train system.
2. Changing icon of the spear
3. Adding a hotkey “O” when you want to drop a single item.
4. Organic cobalt can be placed into the hotbar now.

BUG Fix：
1. Fixed a bug involving Nian Beast when players scan them.
2. Fixed a bug involving Easter Goblin Trading Center where the item is not given correctly.

Hi Explorers!

We have a familiar friend hopping into Pixark this weekend. Be sure to search high and low and maybe you'll find some tasty rewards!

The patch is scheduled to go live tonight, April 2th at 1:30 am Pacific Time.

Servers will be down for a few hours to implement the following changes:

• Easter Bunny will show its presence at Novice Grassland, Grassland, Dawn Island and Woodland.
  
• Looting the Easter Bunny will grant you 2-5 Silver Egg Tokens and maybe even a Gold Egg Token at a 10% chance.
  • These tokens can be exchanged for rewards at the Easter Goblin Trading Center.
• Using a Carrot Club will deal additional damage to the Easter Bunny

Carrot Club

• Can be exchanged for at Easter Goblin Trading Center with 10 Carrots.
  
• Deals additional damage to the Easter Bunny.
  
• Parasaurus and Triceratops can harvest carrot seeds, which can be planted near the water to obtain carrots.

Bunny Ears

• Can be exchanged at the Easter Goblin Trading center with 1 Gold Egg Token and 20 Silver Egg Tokens.
  
• You can dye the Bunny Ear as well!

Easter Eggs

• Can be exchanged for at the Easter Goblin Trading Center with 20 Silver Egg Tokens.
  
• You can dye these Easter Eggs and change their patterns by hitting “Q” button upon placing them in your house.

Procoptodon

• Can be exchanged for at the Easter Goblin Trading Center with 3 Gold Egg Tokens and 100 Silver Egg Tokens.

• Adding 2 new colors, cyan and purple, for a total of 10 building color dyes
  
• Two of these dyes(Flower Green and Violet Purple) will need to be exchanged at the Easter Goblin Trading Center with 10 Silver Egg Tokens.

• Can be obtained through looting goblins, the goblin king, or in supply drops.

• Doubling the harvest rate when harvesting ores.

• Optimized the leveling notification UI, informing players to use “I” button to open inventory and distribute points.
  
• Removed harvesting exp bar under the engram UI.
  
• Added engram (hotkey: G) and Encyclopedia (hotkey: N)
  
• Added "Caution: Falling Danger" at the Museum.

• Fixed a text issue in the creature inventory UI.
  
• Fixed a bug with Nature Shield Magic Statue not consuming Fire Magic stone correctly.