ARK Update 2.89 Patch Notes (Winter Wonderland 7)

Ark update 2.89 is rolling out on PS4(710.7), PC(355.3) and Xbox One(955.9). According to the official ARK 2.89 patch notes, the latest Ark Survival Evolved update added Winter Wonderland 7 event to the game. Apart from this, today’s Ark version 2.89 also includes various tweaks and fixes.

Previously, a big Ark update 2.87 added a free Lost Island expansion pack and Winter Wonderland event to the game Unfortunately, since the last patch, players are experiencing several issues with the game.

Today’s ARK patch 2.89 has addressed a few of these errors.

ARK Version 2.89 Patch Notes – December 14, 2022

New

The Winter Wonderland introduces a brand new narrative content – featuring actors Maddy Madden (The Wheel of Time) and David Tennant (Doctor Who) reprising their respective roles as Helena Walker and Sir Edmund Rockwell. All of Helena’s and Rockwell’s Dossiers and Explorer Notes will also be voiced by the actors, as will survivors’ epic confrontation versus Rockwell on ARK Aberration.

Event Details

This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland

Rates

Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game’s standard 1x rates.

• Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

Event Creatures

Event Emotes

• Santa Laugh Emote
• Caroling Emote
• Happy Clap Emote
• Nutcracker Dance Emote

Event Skins

• Full-body Santa Costume
• Animated TV Show Parasaur Skin
• 3 New Male & Female Christmas-themed Sweater Skins
• 4 New Christmas-themed Beanie Skins
• Rex Sweater Skin
• Carolers Sweater Skin
• Bulbdog Sweater Skin
• Blue Winter Beanie
• Purple Winter Beanie
• Green Winter Beanie
• Male and Female Noglin Swimsuit Skin
• Male and Female Yeti Swimsuit Skin
• Candy Cane Club Skin
•  Christmas Bola Skin
•  Nutcracker Slingshot Skin
•  Dino Ornament Swim Bottom Skin
•  Dino Ornament Swim Top Skin
•  Jerboa Wreath Swim Bottom Skin
•  Jerboa Wreath Swim Top Skin
•  Ugly Bronto Sweater Skin
•  Ugly Carno Sweater Skin
•  Ugly Chibi Sweater Skin
•  Gray Winter Beanie Skin
•  Purple Winter Beanie Skin
•  Red Winter Beanie Skin
•  Felt Reindeer Antlers Skin
•  Santa Hat Skin

Event Chibis

• Andrewsarchus *NEW*
• Pachy *NEW*
• Fenrir *NEW*
• Diplodocus *NEW*
• Festival Lights *NEW*
  • Red & green variants of the 4 light pets in costume

Event Items

• Festive Dino Candy
•  Holiday Lights
•  Holiday Stocking
•  Holiday Tree
•  Gift Box
•  Snowman
•  Wreath

Wild Creature Colores

All of the base game dino colors will  be disabled so that only the colours above plus the legacy Winter Wonderland colors will be available for spawns

• DinoAlbino *NEW*
• DarkViolet *NEW*
•  Lavender *NEW*
•  LightGrey *NEW*
• DinoLightPurple *NEW*
• Glacial *NEW*
• PowderBlue *NEW*
• DinoLightBlue *NEW*
• DragonGreen0 *NEW*
• DarkRed *NEW*
• Actual Black *NEW*
• Cyan *NEW*
• DeepPink *NEW*
• DarkPurple *NEW*
• Mint *NEW*
• Lavender *NEW*
• Dino Light Purple *NEW*
• Dino Light Blue *NEW*
• DragonGreen0 *NEW*
• Jade
• PineGreen
• SpruceGreen
• DarkMagenta
• Glacial
• PowderBlue
• Teal
• DarkViolet
• Red
• Green
• Light Grey
• Light Red
• Yellow
• Dark Red
• Dino Light Red
• Dino Light Green
• Dino Medium Green
• Dino Albino
• NearWhite

Classic PVP Season 6

• Experience gain, taming, gathering have been quintupled compared to our standard Official Servers (5x)
• Breeding, hatching, and raising rates have been quadrupled compared to our standard Official Servers (4x)
• Tribes are set to 25 players max
• Tribe alliances are disabled, though informal alliances are allowed
• Servers have a maximum player count of 100
• These maps will be available: The Island, Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Lost Island, Valguero, and The Center
• Tek dinos (Tek Parasaur, Tek Quetzal, Tek Rex, Tek Raptor, Tek Stego), Paracer, Tapejara, and the Titanosaur are not available for taming on Classic PvP
• All Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, and Genesis Part 2 content is unavailable on Classic PvP
• Scaling of weapon damage has been reduced
• No TEK Engrams
• No cave building
• Cryopods enabled
• Tamed Stegosaurus Resistance reduced by 35%
• Tamed Quetzal Resistance reduced by 20%
• Tamed Wyvern Resistance reduced by 20%
• Tamed Wyvern Damage reduced by 20%
• Reaper Queen added to the Valguero Aberration Zone

Bug Fixes

• Added Scorched Earth ascension
• Added prologues and epilogues to all story maps
• Added Helena and Rockwell Explorer Note VO
• Added Aberration Rockwell boss VO
• Added launch config ?EventColorsChanceOverride= (Takes a value between 0 and 1.      1 = 100% chance for color override)
• Fixed an exploit

Download free ARK patch 2.89 on PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One.