Gift Box

A present for a tribemate

Built for the ARK: Winter Wonderland event, the Gift Box is a holiday container in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The description explains the idea: "Put items in this and inscribe a Tribemember's name, and only they will be able to open it, with a bang!"

Wrapping and opening a gift

Once the box is placed, it takes up to three items. To set the recipient, rename it: hold E and choose the rename option. When the named player opens it, the box bursts in a little puff of confetti and everything inside pops out. Items can fly quite far, so the ARK Wiki suggests opening presents indoors.

Making one

The ARK Wiki gives the recipe as 8 Mistletoe, 20 Thatch and 20 Fiber. Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 9 experience.

Weight and toughness

An unplaced box weighs 4 and up to 100 fit in one stack, for 400 in total. Our data gives the item a spoil timer of 21 days (504 hours), so unused boxes do not keep indefinitely. A placed box counts as a wooden structure: fists, stone weapons and ranged attacks without explosives cannot damage it, and neither can many small aggressive creatures, such as the Compy, Dilophosaur, Raptor or Direwolf.