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ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake
StructureASE + ASA

ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake

HAPPY 5th ARK Anniversary! Place it, write a custom message & hop inside, then jump out to surprise your friends! Or just use it to hide from danger...

Weight4
Stack100
CraftableYes

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Category
Structure
Games
ASE + ASA
Expansion
Base

How to craft ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake

ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 0.1 XP.

Ingredients

For one craft

Crafted inCooking Pot

Raw materials

If you craft every ingredient yourself

Crafted along the way: Sparkpowder ×10.

ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake — Detailed Guide

A party structure from the 5th Anniversary

The ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake is a placeable structure tied to the ARK: 5th Anniversary event, and our database lists it in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki dates it to patch 311.74. Its description sums it up: "HAPPY 5th ARK Anniversary! Place it, write a custom message & hop inside, then jump out to surprise your friends! Or just use it to hide from danger..."

What goes into the cake

It is made in a Cooking Pot. One cake needs:

The craft takes 5 seconds and gives 0.1 XP.

Placing and carrying it

Once placed, the cake can carry a custom message, and a player can climb inside and later burst out, either as a surprise for friends or as a hiding spot when danger comes near. Each cake weighs 4 and up to 100 fit in a stack, which gives a full stack a weight of 400.

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