Community Crunch 500: Springing Into Eggcellent Adventures!

Spring’s in the air on the ARK, and Eggcellent Adventure is about to bloom once again. Whether you’ve got a green thumb or just like collecting what you find along the way, there’s something new waiting for you this time around.

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Eggcellent Adventure

returns next week! Follow the trails of wild Bunny Dodos and Bunny Oviraptors to collect Bunny Eggs scattered across the ARK. These festive finds can be painted for fun or used to craft special holiday-themed cosmetics, including seasonal costumes and chibis.

Get ready to hop into the celebration and make your ARK a little more eggstra!

• Start Date:

  Tuesday, March 31, 2026

• End Date:

  Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• PVP/PVE:

  2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding

• Small Tribes:

  4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding

• ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

• Flovis

  *new*

• Bunny Dodo

• Bunny Oviraptor

• Bunny

• Easter Chick

• Jerbunny

• Spring Shinehorn

• Flower Wreath

  *new*

• Bunny Egg

• Festive Dino Candy (Eggcellent Adventure)

• Armor: Garden Pants Skin

  *new*

• Armor: Garden Shirt Skin

  *new*

• Armor: Straw Hat Skin

  *new*

• Weapon: Trowel Skin (Axe)

  *new*

• Weapon: Hand Rake Skin (Sickle)

  *new*

• Weapon: Hand Hoe (Pickaxe)

  *new*

• Weapon: Rake (Pike)

  *new*

• Garden Box - Small Storage Box Skin

  *new*

• Garden storage - Large Storage Box Skin

  *new*

• Garden Shelf - Bookshelf Skin

  *new*

• Egg Painting bench - Smithy Skin

  *new*

• Garden Shed - Vault Skin

  *new*

• Garden Pallet Bench - Wooden Bench Skin

  *new*

• Garden Pallet Chair - Wooden Chair Skin

  *new*

• Garden Pallet Bed - Single Bed Skin

  *new*

• Crop Box - Small Decor Box Skin

  *new*

• Garden Compost Bin - Compost Bin Skin

  *new*

• Garden Fridge - Refrigerator Skin

  *new*

• Garden Bin - Preserving Bin Skin

  *new*

• Fenced up plot - Crop Plot Small Skin

  *new*

• Fenced up plot - Crop Plot Medium Skin

  *new*

• Fenced up plot - Crop Plot Large Skin

  *new*

• Crackable eggs - Small Decor Box Skin

  *new*

• Shepherd’s Crook Spear Skin (Spear)

  *new*

• Egg Grenades Skin (Grenades)

• Lamb Costume Skin (Costume)

• Spring Tiara Skin (Headgear)

• Round Sunglasses Skin (Headgear)

• Dino Round Sunglasses Skin (Headgear)

• Flower Feeding Trough Skin (Feeding Trough)

• Flower Vase Skin (Small Decor Boxes)

• Chocolate Rabbit Club Skin (Club)

• E4 Remote Eggsplosives Skin (C4)

• Sweet Spear Carrot Skin (Spear)

• Bunny Costume

• Bunny Ears Skin (Headgear)

• Bunny Tail Skin (Leggings)

• Easter Chick Hat Skin (Headgear)

• Easter Egg Hat Skin (Headgear)

• Easter Egghead Skin (Headgear)

• Marshmallow Hat Skin (Headgear)

• Dino Easter Egg Hat Skin (Headgear)

• Dino Bunny Ears Skin (Creature Hat)

• Dino Easter Chick Hat Skin (Creature Hat)

• Procoptodon Bunny Costume (Procoptodon)

• Sunbathing Emote

  *new*

• Watering Can Emote

  *new*

• Flower Toss Emote

• Bunny Hop Dance Tail

• Magenta

• Light Green

• Light Yellow

• Light Orange

• Light Red

• Dino Light Brown

• Yellow

• Cyan

• Green

• Dino Medium Blue

• Turquoise

• LightPink

• DeepPink

• Peach

• Mint

• Teal

• PowderBlue

• Cream

• From the Main Menu, select the mod tab.

• Search for Eggcellent Adventure in the ARK Mod list and Install it. Mod ID: 877745

• After it's installed, go back to your game setup screen and select 'Mod Settings'

• You will see Eggcellent Adventure and any other mods you've downloaded in 'Available Mods'

• Select Eggcellent Adventure and activate it.

• If you would like to enable Eggcellent Adventure on your private servers, please add the mod ID to your server command-line launch arguments (-mods=modID). No other changes should be necessary to activate the event. Mod ID: 877745

Get ready! We hid 10 Golden Dodos across the Crunch and it is your job to find them all! This one does not count. This golden boy is an example.

• Hunt down all

  10 golden Dodos

  hidden throughout the 500th Crunch.

• For each Dodo, take a screenshot of clearly showing the Golden Dodo's location.

• Once you’ve found them all, submit your 10 screenshots as proof in a private thread in the dedicated channels on the Official ARK Discord.

The first 10 Survivors to successfully find and submit proof of all 10 Golden Dodos will receive

a key of their choice for an already existing product or the next Fantastic Tame

!

• Players can't collaborate.

• Thread must be private (and stay private).

Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

This video features:

• Tribal by Elemental Legion

• Military Vehicle Skins by SurviveDeimos

• Cool Skinny Raptor by MinyYamori

• Kocielapki’s Cat Transmitter Skin by Kocielapki

• AddedXyphia’s CreaturesMeiolania (Content update: new saddle!) by Xyphias

• Gingerpithecus by Kviden

This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, March 30.

• PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding

• Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding

• ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

500 Weeks of You!

Across every map, every update, every new beginning, there’s been one constant: the ARK community. Five hundred Community Crunches later, that still hasn’t changed. This space has always belonged as much to you as it has to us.

Over the years, this space has become a weekly snapshot of your creativity, your stories, and the moments that make ARK what it is.

To celebrate Community Crunch #500, we’ve pulled together some of our favourite community art and creations from across the years. A small reflection of the passion, talent, and chaos that’s defined this community since the beginning.

Because while we’ve been the ones hitting publish each week, the best parts have always come from you.

Cheers, Survivors, and here’s to 500 more!

Creator

: Gamology With his extensive knowledge and passion for prehistoric life, James analyzes the diverse array of creatures that inhabit ARK's world.

Creator

: Lionmight Lionmight reacts to the incredible work of Gareth Coker on Ark Survival Evolved Soundtrack.

Among gods and beasts, skies still remain ruled by them by @WolfTek7

Snow owl by @k3zk_627

The Island by @falco_luna

Poison Wyvern by @ScutalTheLizard

Trespassers by tekark_01

6 minutes into Aberration be like by @alkonavi

Unbothered by @SirDripstein

Arwenn on a Fishing trip by Umbra-Daiwrfol

Peaceful by @Riinartist

The Wyvern King by @AquarielleArt

The concept of a fiery place by @VELUKO1

Gift | Flamess by @NalakBel

In the Forest by 666K

Golden Dodo by Aenira_Blue

ARK Fan Art by 菊艳 祝

Leedsichthys Encounter by Lonely-Long-9925

Shadowmane by Nachara

Morning Hunting by xiaofei-syrup

Paleo Giga and Savage Acro by 最高の栄光

Argentavis by kawarayane

ARK - Ride by IsisMasshiro

Babies of Ark! by Roadkill Caribou

Deinosuchus Dolls by sayvaris

Maewing Twins by @lunabrew

Desert Survivor by Chaosthief

Parasaur and Nest by GrimmThistle

The Bulbdog by wisa

Jerboa by FeralMoonTV

ARK - Raptor Rider by Eemeli Loukola

Ark Tattoo by Big-hairy-axe-boy

Ark Size Comparison by Krakenslayer107

Zombie Dodos by andrewsmithtattoo

Big Dodo by つくもの お壱

Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard

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