ARK Summer Bash 2023 Guide: EVO Dates, Rates, Skins, and Colors

ARK Summer Bash returned in 2023 as a Summer EVO event, bringing boosted rates, bright creature colors, seasonal cosmetics, and the usual reminder that dinosaurs can absolutely wear summer fashion better than expected.

ARK Summer Bash 2023 Overview

ARK Summer Bash first appeared in 2019 with boosted XP, skins, and event-colored creature spawns. The 2020 event expanded the color pool and added more summer-themed items and Chibi-Pets.

In 2021, Studio Wildcard added more summer skins and extended the XP boosts to additional server types, including ARKpocalypse, Conquest, and Small Tribes. The 2022 Summer EVO event then brought back previous skins, emotes, Chibi-Pets, boosted rates, and more creature colors.

The 2023 version followed that same seasonal pattern. It focused on progression bonuses and returning summer content rather than a completely new event structure.

Release Date and Duration

According to the Summer Bash 2023 announcement, the event started on June 30 and ran for 24 days, ending on July 24.

That timing lined up closely with earlier ARK summer events:

• Summer Bash 2019: July 2, 2019, to July 19, 2019
• Summer Bash 2020: June 25, 2020, to July 21, 2020
• Summer Bash 2021: June 30, 2021, to July 21, 2021
• Summer Bash 2022: June 1, 2022, to July 26, 2022

Event Content

Summer EVO 2023 included boosted rates, event colors, skins, emotes, Chibi-Pets, and one listed event item.

XP Boosts

• Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding, including imprint, maturation, hatch, and gestation, plus 0.5x Mating Interval and 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Small Tribes Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, and Taming, 4x Breeding, including imprint, maturation, hatch, and gestation, plus 0.5x Mating Interval and 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

Items

• Summer Swirl Taffy

Event-Colored Creature Spawns

• Dino Dark Blue
• Red
• White
• Dino Light Blue
• Dark Red
• Blue
• Light Grey
• Cream
• Cammo
• Orange
• MediumTeal
• DarkBlue
• LemonLime
• Peach
• Coral

Skins

• Alpha Raptor Swim Bottom Skin
• Alpha Raptor Swin Top Skin
• Angler Hat Skin
• Bulbdog-Print Shirt Skin
• Cool Noglin-Print Shirt Skin
• Crab Fest Swim Bottom Skin
• Crab Fest Swim Top Skin
• Dino Uncle Sam Hat Skin
• Eel Swim Bottom Skin
• Eel Swim Top Skin
• Fireworks Flaregun Skin
• Fireworks Rocket Launcher Skin
• Fish Bite Swim Bottom Skim
• Fish Bite Swim Top Skin
• Floaty Swim Bottom Skin
• Floaty Swim Top Skin
• Floppy Straw Summer Hat Skin
• Floral Swim Bottom Skin
• Floral Swim Top Skin
• Flying Disc Skin
• Gasbags-Print Shirt Skin
• Giga Poop Swim Bottom Skin
• Giga Poop Swim Top Skin
• Grilling Spatula Skin
• Hoversail-Print Shirt Skin
• Ice Pop-Print Shirt Skin
• Ichthy Isles Swim Bottom Skin
• Ichthy Isles Swim Top Skin
• Inflatable Rex Costume Skin
• Jellyfish Swim Bottom Skin
• Jellyfish Swim Top Skin
• Retro Sunglasses Skin
• Sea Life-Print Shirt Skin
• Shadowmane Fishing-Print Shirt Skin
• Sunglasses Skin
• T-Rex Swim Bottom Skin
• T-Rex Swim Top Skin
• Torch Sparkler Skin
• Uncle Sam Hat Skin
• Water Soaker Skin

Emotes

• Air Drums Emote
• Air Guitar Emote
• Archer Flex Emote
• Backflip Emote
• Bicep Smooch Emote
• Hula Dance Emote
• Mosh Pit Emote

Chibi-Pets

• Chibi-Deal With It Dodo
• Chibi-Straw Hat Otter

How to Enable Summer Bash on an ARK Server

Unofficial server owners can manually activate the ARK Summer Bash event with this console parameter: -activeevent=Summer.

Manual activation may not perfectly match the official server event. Some bonuses, items, or event behavior can differ when the event is triggered outside its normal live window.