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New Creature Incoming & Community Creature Contest!



Dear Explorers,

We've heard how much you want new creatures and can feel your excitement! So, we’re thrilled to share two pieces of good news with you.

First, we have a surprise—a brand-new creature will join our game during the upcoming Steam Summer Sale extravaganza! Stay tuned for the official announcement.

Second, we’re launching the "Community Creature Contest," and we want you to help create new creatures. What kind of creature do you want to see? Or what’s your dream creature like? What characteristics and abilities should it have? Now is your chance to make your mark in-game!

[h3]How to Participate:[/h3]
● Leave a comment below this announcement, telling us about the creature you have in mind!
● We will evaluate all submitted ideas and select a list of candidates.
● Then, it’s time to vote! Let everyone decide which creatures will become the new residents of Pixark.

[h3]Event Timeline:[/h3]
1. Submission Period: One month of brainstorming, let your creativity soar.
2. Voting Period: Followed by a one-month voting phase where everyone votes for the most popular creatures.
3. Production Period: We will then create the winning creature and introduce it to everyone as soon as possible!

[h3]If you like these types of events please make sure to like and comment on this announcement so we know to have more![/h3]

Sincerely,

Pixark Development Team


PixARK Patch 1.197 Children’s Day Event

Dear Explorers!

In honor of International Children’s Day and the spirit of play, we’re bringing back our Children’s Day In-Game Event! With new items and familiar favorites, we’re excited to see you play in our sandbox of a voxel block game!


[h2]New Items[/h2]
  • Cupcake Staff
  • Children’s Day Exchange Coupon - can be obtained from balloon-shooting event.
  • Children’s Day gift box - can be exchanged at Children’s day goblin trading center with 25 exchange coupons. You will have a chance obtaining Cupcake Staff


[h2]Events Are Back![/h2]
  • 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
  • 5 Children’s Day Exchange coupons


[h2]Your Favorite Items Are BACK as well![/h2]

[h3] Children's Day Costumes! [/h3]

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.


Building Dyes: 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 the 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

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

Enabling double harvest rates

We also wanted to acknowledge that we have been taking note of the bug reports and feedback that we have been receiving from the newly revamped PixARK Discord. Thank you for all your continued support. We are working towards something now and look forward to announcing more soon.

In the meantime please continue to use the Discord Server, Bug Report Form, and/or Customer Service links. By reporting to these resources directly we can better keep track of and log your concerns and technical issues.

Play on PixARKers, the world is yours to explore! And Happy Children’s Day, to the youthful spirit that resides in your heart.
-The PixARK Dev Team

[h2]Helpful Links[/h2]

Run into issues? http://bit.ly/2YMJQ3x

Need assistance? https://pixark.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

Eager to share? https://discord.com/invite/DVMSyQH4M4

Full Bloom Winners Announced



[h2] Congratulations Full Bloom Winners
[/h2]

Congratulations to this month's Community Event Winners! We loved seeing your bases in full bloom for the Summer Season.


[h3]Winner: Purple Rat[/h3]


[h3]Winner: ikhoudvanjou[/h3]



[h3]Rewards:[/h3]
  • A feature on our next announcement post and a shout out on Social Media
  • One PixARK DLC key of their choice from the following: Jade Elegance, Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic, A Sweet Pack for the Sweetest, A Jingle-Jangle Christmas Pack.
Congratulations! Please note you have 30 days to respond to the sg_somi account to receive your keys!

As we're sure you've seen there have been some small changes being made in the Forums/on Discord as we prep something big! So bear with us as we collect your bug reports and feedback. Thank you for your patience as we navigate what continued development of the PixARK looks like. We're looking forward to engaging more with the community and sharing our plans for the future with very soon.

That being said, we are going to take more care to moderate the responses to our non-in-game Community Events like this one more diligently. Off topic requests, bug reports, or in-game related feedback will be deleted. We request that you post the aforementioned topics in the Discussions Forums or refer to our Bug Reports Form or Discord for those specific comments/requests. This is so we can better keep track of and properly log feedback/bug reports for our developers.

- The PixARK Community Team

[h3]Helpful Links[/h3]

Bug Reports Form

Customer Support

Discord

Community Event: Full Bloom




April showers bring May Flowers, and finally everything is in full bloom!


Show us a screenshot of your in-game garden in PixARK, and if you don’t have one, plant one! We want to see your bases in full bloom for the Summer Season, so whether that’s flower decorations inside your happy tribe home or the garden you’ve cultivated to perfection, we want to see it!

Post a screenshot of the flowers around your home base in the Screenshots section of the Steam Forum. 3 randomly chosen winners will win one PixARK DLC key of their choice from the following: Jade Elegance, Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic, A Sweet Pack for the Sweetest, A Jingle-Jangle Christmas Pack. Use #PixARKFullBloom in your submission to be considered. 1 COMMUNITY VOTED WINNER will win all 4 keys to our DLC!

[h3]Submission Rules:[/h3]
  • Submit a screenshot of flowers in and/or around your home base to the PixARK Screenshot section of the Community Hub
  • Must include the following tag in submission to be considered #PixARKFullBloom
  • Thumbs up to vote for your favorite submission
  • One entry per user
  • Once winners are announced they have 30 days to respond to the sg_somi account to receive their keys

[h3]Submission Details: [/h3]
  • You can upload screenshots using the screenshot uploader tool. By default this button is bound to "F12", and can be edited within the Steam settings.
  • Open the Steam client and click on "View" and then "Screenshots" at the top to access the screenshot uploader.

If you need more assistance with how to upload a screenshot to Steam Community, please check here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=181142704

[h3]Rewards:[/h3]
  • A feature on our next announcement post and a shout out on Social Media
  • 3 winners will receive one PixARK DLC key of their choice from the following: Jade Elegance, Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic, A Sweet Pack for the Sweetest, A Jingle-Jangle Christmas Pack.
  • 1 Community Voted Winner will win 1 key each to all 4 of our DLC packs


We will be closing submissions May 29th, so be sure to get all of your submissions and votes in before the deadline!

Again, if you have any suggestions for Community Events that we can host on the steam forum let us know! We want to make sure these community events are as engaging as possible for our player base. Hopefully we can announce some upcoming developments soon, but until then we hope you’ll appreciate these events we have curated with you in mind.

[h2]Join Our Discord![/h2]

We also wanted to share with you that we have revamped the Official PixARK Discord. This is where we will be chat about the game, directly collect feedback/bugs (besides the official bug reports form which you can find here), and more! Feel free to join us.

- The PixARK Community Team

PixARK Patch 1.196 Update

[h2]Close Event[/h2]
  • 6th anniversary skins can no longer be crafted at Decoration Hut.
  • The bone essence no longer drops.