Holiday Lights

Lights for the Winter Wonderland event

Holiday Lights are a string of festive lights from the ARK: Winter Wonderland event, recorded for both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. They go on walls, as the in-game text notes: "Requires attaching to a wall." The wiki adds that a Railing works too, and that the lights need no power source.

Placing a string

Each string is straight and roughly half a foundation long, and strings snap onto one another only in straight lines. The wiki treats them as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks that do not explode cannot damage them. It also lists aggressive creatures that cannot harm them, for example the Kaprosuchus, Thylacoleo, Direwolf, Pulmonoscorpius and Raptor.

Recipe and storage

One craft takes 5 seconds, yields a single string and gives 3 XP. The ingredients:

• 1 Mistletoe
• 3 Fiber
• 1 Crystal (Primal Crystal also works, according to the wiki)

The wiki's infobox names the Cooking Pot as the crafting station, while its main text speaks of crafting them at a smithy from a free blueprint. A string weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records also give the item a spoil time of 1814400 seconds, which is 504 hours or 21 days.

Grinding them down

Holiday Lights put through an Industrial Grinder give back Mistletoe and Coal. The wiki adds that both can go to a Gacha Claus, which then drops a special Gacha Crystal.