Ark Events

[WelshWolf]

Hey Everyone I am hoping for some guidance and some help if possible.

I rent my own private server for me and some friends via this website https://arkservers.io/ark

never had any issues from them. but we are now trying to do some of the events. Turkey Trial before winter wonderland event. however when we are enabling the events. we are getting the special coloured dinos however we are not getting anything else like the super turkey to get wishbones and stuff from for the rewards.

Is there something i am doing wrong or can we not host events anymore?

Thank you for any help

[jackwilliams5537]

im wondering the same thing too i want a easter dodo but just install some mods there are some mods that add certain events idk which ones but fear evolved for sure

[retsam1]

At the end of 2022, the devs stated that they were going to essentially reduce much of the previously done in years past event content with many different various events simply being reduced to colors only in some cases.

Of course now as well Snail Wildcard does essentially nothing more with Ark Evolved as they've (as they put it in Sept 2023) "left the game in the hands of the community".

Some people since then(and before even) attempted to make mods that would try to bring some of the event things back but not all with much success.

Dont feel bad, devs also neutered the same thing even -this- year with Ark Ascended ticking off people on the game they're now only supporting instead of this one.

[Alessio]

events beside winter wanderland are missing or broken simply because the configuration files are missing.

on our cluster we restored turkey trials on all maps except gen2 (that is special about PGD patching) writing a plugin: https://github.com/alessiot89/SuperTurkeysRestoration

please note that:
- this does not work with gen2, trying to use it on gen2 will crash the server or resulting in undefined behaviour (including save corruption)
- it requires ini config to add the spawn entries overrides (you can copy those exposed on the gitub page, they adds turkeys on any dodo/jerboa/aberrant dodo spawn location )
- it requires server api that officially supports only the windows server version of ark (on linux it may work with wine but I don't know)
- turkey trial event must be enabled in the server config/launch command line

We also have a custom plugin to restore Dodo Wyvern fights on Scorched Eearth for Fear Evolved: https://github.com/alessiot89/FearEvolvedForever It exposes different config settings too about spawn locations, difficulty, colors and extra colors of to the 4 extra zombies that will spawn along with the boss

please note that this second plugin:
- the code will not check if the location is "good" (ie it will not check for the presence of other bases) to spawn the boss (however, spawn location are coded in the config.json, in such way you customize it about your server needs)
- is intended only to work on Scorched Earth, using it on any other maps will result in undefined behaviour (including crashes, save corruption or having invisible boss rampaging through the map)
- it will not restore dodorex fight in the island
- it will not restore structure cosmetics of fear evolved (pumpings, headstones, scarecroves) and so fear evolved stuff crafting (you can always write your own custom crafting recipes overrides for them in the ini)
- it will not restore bone creatures
- it will not restore candy-corns loot drops