ARK Turkey Trial 7 Guide: Thanksgiving Event Dates, Rewards, and Server Setup

Thanksgiving in ARK usually means boosted rates, themed cosmetics, dangerous turkeys, and at least one survivor learning that poultry can be a boss fight. ARK: Turkey Trial 7 was expected to continue that seasonal pattern for ARK: Survival Evolved.

ARK Turkey Trial 7 Overview

Like ARK's Easter and summer events, Turkey Trial adds temporary seasonal content to the game. Players can expect Thanksgiving-themed creatures, items, event colors, cosmetics, and boosted server rates while the event is active.

Expected Start Date and Duration

At the time of writing, Studio Wildcard had not announced the official ARK: Turkey Trial 7 dates. The best estimate came from earlier Turkey Trial schedules.

Previous event windows were:

• ARK: Turkey Trial 1: November 25, 2015, to December 1, 2015
• ARK: Turkey Trial 2: November 24, 2016, to December 1, 2016
• ARK: Turkey Trial 3: December 18, 2019, to January 7, 2020
• ARK: Turkey Trial 4: November 24, 2020, to December 8, 2020
• ARK: Turkey Trial 5: November 23, 2021, to December 7, 2021
• ARK: Turkey Trial 6: November 22, 2022, to December 7, 2022

Except for Turkey Trial 3, most Thanksgiving events began during the third week of November and lasted around one to two weeks. Based on that history, Turkey Trial 7 was likely to start between November 20 and November 24, then end during the first week of December. Those dates remained speculative until an official Studio Wildcard announcement.

Expected Event Content

The next Turkey Trial was expected to bring back content from earlier events. The previous event lineup gives a strong idea of what players could watch for.

XP Boosts

• Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, Breeding, and 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, 4x Breeding, and 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, Breeding, and 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Conquest: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, 4x Breeding, and 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

Items

• Summon DodoRex
• Thanksgiving Candy
• Wishbone

Event-Colored Creature Spawns

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

Creatures

• DodoRex
• Super Turkey

Skins

• Bonnet Hat Skin
• Chieftan Hat Skin
• Dodo Pie Swimsuit Skins
• Dodorex Swimsuit Skins
• Dodorex-Print Shirt Skin
• Meat Swimsuit Skins
• Murder Turkey Swimsuit Skins
• Murder-Turkey-Print Shirt Skin
• Pilgrim Hat Skin
• Pitchfork Skin
• Turkey Costume Skin
• Turkey Hat Skin
• Turkey Leg Skin
• Turkey Swimsuit Skins
• Ugly Dodo's Revenge Sweater Skin
• Ugly Cornucopia Sweater Skin
• Ugly Foliage Friends Sweater Skin
• Ugly Turkey Target Sweater Skin
• Ugly Trike Sweater Skin

Chibi-Pets

• Chibi-Fjordhawk
• Chibi-Lymantria
• Chibi-Mosasaurus
• Chibi-Stuffed Glowtail
• Chibi-Tek Stryder

Note: Players can still buy Thanksgiving-exclusive items through the Hexagon Exchange even when the event is not active.

How to Activate Turkey Trial on a Server

Players running single-player or self-hosted ARK: Survival Evolved servers can enable Turkey Trial manually with this server parameter: -activeevent=TurkeyTrial.

Some event bonuses and items may not appear exactly as they did during official live event windows, especially when activating older seasonal content manually.