Pekora Busts at a Minecraft Racetrack, Then Beats ARK’s Alpha Boss on the Server’s Last Day

HOLOLIVE — Usada Pekora closed out her run on the Hololive ARK server on Sunday by defeating the Alpha boss on the Ragnarok map. She took it on with two other server members, Noel and Vivi, riding a three-headed Cerberus mount and backed by her tamed dinosaurs, and by her account no one on their side died.

The day began in Minecraft at Holo 1 Grand Prix, which she described as Hololive’s first big horse-racing event. With help from Dozle, the organizers built a racetrack with a paddock, a betting counter and a racing newspaper. Each participant received 100,000 in-game yen per race, and a professional racing announcer called the four races, two on turf and two on dirt. Pekora took the first race on a set of combined bets and held 223,500 yen after it, then bet nearly everything on the next race without covering the horse that won and lost it. She put what she had rebuilt into a single trifecta on the last race and finished with about 50 yen. A carrot-catching minigame between races raised everyone’s bankroll, and the overall title went to another participant who said the method was buying six place tickets a race.

“I won’t forget the ones named for flowers. Pekora won’t forget that they were on this server.” — Usada Pekora, after her dinosaur squad was wiped out

The ARK stream began with the server’s final-day schedule. Pekora said the operators had extended the deadline to noon the next day after she asked for midnight. She then ran a test of her Zombie Dodo Squad (the *Zombie Dōdō-tai*), twelve units of tamed dinosaurs she had named for flowers by birth month. The squad beat a Triceratops, an Allosaurus, a Therizinosaurus, a Tyrannosaurus and a Deinosuchus without losing a member. It then met a level 15 Carcharodontosaurus with 80,000 health, which healed by feeding on the fallen, and the squad was wiped out. Pekora said she had briefly believed the squad could win.

She then turned to the Alpha, preparing saddles and supplies and teaching Noel and Vivi how to work the three heads of the Cerberus: one rider buffed the team, while the others stacked debuffs and set off poison and fire explosions. With her dinosaurs attacking alongside, the group brought the boss down, gave out Element as thanks and said they were glad to finish the server that way.

Afterward Pekora lined up her dinosaurs for a commemorative photo, set up hunting trophies and signed off after a month on the server, thanking the operators and her fellow members. She said she had played ARK to her heart’s content.