Update 2.88 has arrived for ARK Survival Evolved, and here’s the full list of changes and fixes added with this patch. The game has a regular update schedule and gets new features and events. The latest version released today brings Turkey Trial 6 event alongside fixes. It’s recommended to install it for a better gameplay experience. Here’s everything new with the ARK Survival Evolved 2.88 update.

ARK Survival Evolved 2.88 Update Patch Notes

v354.4 – 11/22/2022 – Major Version for Servers and Clients

  • Smelting chibis requires the placement of a new refining forge
  • Crafting new chibis requires the placement of a new cooking pot
  • Wishbones are no longer able to be transferred.  Attempting to transfer wishbones will result in them being deleted
  • Fixed Carcha losing taming affinity on SP restart
  • Added FearEvovled cosmetics to Hexagon Exchange
  • Added purchasable random chibis at higher tiers in Hexagon Exchange
  • Fixed an exploit

Turkey Trial 6

From Tuesday, November 22nd through Wednesday, December 7th jump into a large-scale scavenger hunt and carve up rare “Super-Turkeys” that have been unleashed across the ARK for Turkey Trial 6!

By harvesting Super Turkey Wishbones from these ruthless, genetically-modified creatures, you can craft your very own fashionable Turkey Costume or Ugly Sweater skins or choose to summon the devastating DodoRex creature to do your bidding for a limited period of time.

Event Details

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

Rates

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

Event Creatures

  • Super Turkeys (Untamable creatures)
  • DodoRex (Craftable Temporary Tame)

ARK Survival Evolved 2.88 Update – Event Skins

  • Turkey Costume
  • 3 Ugly Sweater Skins
  • Bonnet Hat Skin
  • Chieftan Hat Skin
  • Dodo Pie Swim Bottom Skin
  • Dodo Pie Swim Top Skin
  • Dodorex Swim Bottom Skin
  • Dodorex Swim Top Skin
  • Dodorex-Print Shirt Skin
  • Meat Swim Bottom Skin
  • Meat Swim Top Skin
  • Murder Turkey Swim Bottom Skin
  • Murder Turkey Swim Top Skin
  • Murder-Turkey-Print Shirt Skin
  • Pilgrim Hat Skin
  • Pitchfork Skin
  • Turkey Hat Skin
  • Turkey Leg Skin
  • Turkey Swim Bottom Skin
  • Turkey Swim Top Skin
  • Ugly Cornucopia Sweater Skin
  • Ugly Trike Sweater Skin

Event Chibis

  • Lymantria NEW
  • Mosasaurus NEW
  • Fjordhawk NEW
  • Tek Stryder NEW
  • Stuffed Glowtail NEW

Event Items

  • Wishbones (acquired from killing Super Turkey’s)
  • Thanksgiving Dino Candy

ARK Survival Evolved 2.88 Update – Wild Creature Colors

  • Light Yellow NEW
  • DarkTurquoise NEW
  • LemonLime NEW
  • Teal NEW
  • Cyan NEW
  • Light Red NEW
  • Yellow NEW
  • Orange NEW
  • Dark Blue NEW
  • Black Sands
  • Midnight Blue
  • Vermillion
  • Dark Violet
  • Dark Magenta
  • Medium Autumn
  • Light Autumn
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Dino Darker Grey
  • Black
  • Red
  • Near Black
  • Dino Albino
  • Dino Dark Red
  • Dark Red
  • Brown

ARK: Survival Evolved is available on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, and Stadia (R.I.P) platforms. For more information regarding this patch, visit the official ARK Survival Evolved site.