Box o' Chocolates

A Valentine's treat from mating creatures

Valentine's events are where Box o' Chocolates comes from, in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended alike. The ARK Wiki says tamed creatures dropped it at random when they mated during those events, among them ARK: Valentine's Day in 2015, ARK: Love Evolved in 2020, the Valentine's EVO Event in 2023 and ARK: Love Ascended 2024. The wiki gives its in-game text as "This chocolate, despite its origins, is delicious. The creatures on the island seem to LOVE it."

Healing and taming

Eating a box restores full health instantly, and a 3-hour cooldown follows. Force-fed to a creature during knockout taming, it advances the taming: the usage section of the wiki says it knocks 50% off the taming bar, while its notes say 50% applied in Valentine's Day 1 and 40% from Valentine's Day 2 onward. During Valentine's Day 4, mating tamed creatures had a 25% chance to drop either this box or Valentines Dino Candy; in Love Evolved 2 the chance was 12.5%.

Spoilage and transfers

A box weighs 2.14, a figure the wiki ties to Valentine's Day on February 14, and it does not stack. It spoils after 6 hours (21600 seconds). Like other event items it is removed from the game once its event ends, and on Official servers it cannot be transferred to another server, so it has to be dropped before a transfer. Our records also list one crate, Fishing Meat (Valentine's), that can contain it.

Emotes and skins made with chocolate

Our records count 26 recipes that use it in ASA and 14 in ASE, and the ones we list are all emotes and skins. ASA examples include the Cuddle Rex Sweater and Heart Spring Headband (5 boxes each), the Pajama Shirt and Pillow Club (3 each) and the Flirty Emote (2); in ASE, the Teddy Bear Grenades Skin and the Self Hug Emote take 2 each and the Love Shackles Skin takes 1. The wiki adds that 5 boxes go into a Cooking Pot with the blueprint for the Heart Emote and the Romantic hairstyles.