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Steam PixARK Patch 1.88

Hello Explorers, thank you for celebrating the Lunar New Year with us! Tonight (12 am PT 2/21/2020) we’ll be bringing down the servers for a few hours to make the following changes.

Ending Chinese New Year Event:

The login screen will be returning to normal.

Creature Related Updates:
  • Death Lord Alter in PixARK map will no longer spawn Flame Demon.
  • Burial Ground Alter in Skyward map will no longer spawn Flame Demon.
  • Nian Beast will no longer spawn in Novice Grassland, Grassland, Dawn Island and Woodland.
  • Creatures will no longer be wearing the Chinese God of Wealth Hat.


Event-related Updates:
  • Supply Beacon will change its shape back to normal, and so will the contents.
  • Removing Lunar New Year Reunion Party event.
  • Disabling Double harvest rate.


If you find any bugs, please report them here

Steam PixARK Patch 1.87 Valentine’s Day Update



Happy Valentine’s Day, Explorers!

We hope you'll enjoy playing PIxARK with your loved ones on the most romantic day of the year!

The Valentine’s Day patch is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PST on February 14th.

[h2]New Creature:[/h2]
  • Pink Slime - can be found in beginner areas. They can also be picked up and carried on top of your head!


[h2]New Items:[/h2]
  • Valentine’s Day Costume - each part of the set has a 10% chance to drop from Pink Slime

01/15 Lunar New Year Update

Happy Lunar New Year, Explorers!

Lunar New Year Festivities enter the PixARK world! Our Lunar New Year patch is scheduled to go live at 12:00 am PDT on January 15th. Official Servers will be offline for a few hours.



New Creatures
  • Cobaltstar Hunter (mutated) - added Cobaltstar Hunter mutant to the Radiation Mutation Platform
  • Cobalt Energy Master (mutated) - added Cobalt Energy Master mutant to the Radiation Mutation Platform
  • Cobaltstar Mouse - LMB to launch melee attack, and RMB to launch the laser. mountable on land, in the air and under the water. Cobaltstar Mouse requires a Cobaltstar Mouse Control Module to ride.




Boss - Flame Demon
  • Spawn rate is 50% at the Death Lord Altar in PixARK map, and 50% at the Burial Ground Altar in Skyward map.
  • Flame Demon drop: 5% drop rate to obtain Gargoyle Skin.






New Engrams and Items
Cobaltstar Mouse Control Module Engram - craftable at your character inventory

Year of the Rat Costume- Year of the Rat Shirt, Year of the Rat Hat, Year of the Rat Pants, Year of the Rat Boots, Year of the Rat Gloves.
  • Dropped by Nian Beast spawns in Noviceland, Grassland, Dawn Island and Woodland.




Lunar New Year Event

[h3]Lunar New Year Supply Beacon[/h3]
  • Supply Beacon will change its shape to a Chinese Lucky Bag, containing our Lunar New Year gift for explorers.
  • Rewards: Spring Festival dishes (restores Food and HP), and Spring Festival Fireworks.

[h3]Lunar New Year Reunion Party[/h3]
  • Place Lunar New Year dishes (drop from the Lunar New Year Lucky Bag) to enjoy the Lunar New Year buff and our best wishes.



[h3]God of Wealth Hat[/h3]
  • Some creatures will be wearing Chinese God of Wealth Hat, and players could be rewarded with Chinese God of Wealth Hat (Dino) from killing these creatures.
  • Rewards: Chinese God of Wealth Hat (Dino)

[h3]Nian Beast Kill[/h3]
  • Nian Beast will spawn in Novice Grassland, Grassland, Dawn Island and Woodland.They can only be killed by the Firecrackers players crafted.
  • Nian Beast drop: Lunar New Year dishes; Spring Festival decors, and blueprints for Spring Festival decors; Year of the Rat costume.


[h3]Double Harvest Rate[/h3]
Double Harvest rate will be active for the duration of the Lunar New Year event! :)

01/14/2020 PixARK Dev Kit update is here!



Explorers, Rejoice!

It's finally here! The PixARK Dev Kit is expected to have an update around midnight on January 14th.

The update will include full release content, Skyward DLC content, and subsequent patches all the way up to client version 1.75.

Modders will be able to update the Dev Kit to the latest version via Epic Launcher.

Don't forget to join us at our OFFICIAL Discord here: https://discord.gg/zX5Nnnz

We can't wait to see what you guys will come up with!

Thanks for your support!

Surprise! 2X Harvest Rates!

Surprise, Explorers!


We will be taking down servers tonight, 1/10 at 12am PT to activate 2x Harvest Rates on all PC Official Servers until 1/13, 12am PT! Get your grind on, it’s double the resources for half of the work! You may be wondering, “Why is PixARK adding 2X Harvest Rates randomly?” It’s simple! To celebrate that we’ve reached 1,000 likes on Facebook! As the development team continues to fix critical bugs on all platforms, test for balancing, further develop the mod kit, and more - the community team will also be expanding our social reach, so expect lots more fun surprises!

[h3]AND if you haven’t already...[/h3]
Please like us on Facebook and join our Official Facebook Group.

Be sure to invite your friends to like our Facebook page too! You never know what might happen the next few thousand likes!

Thank you for all your support!

-The PixARK Community Team