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I'm not addicted to Forge of Empires. I can quit anytime. No really I can! Just not today.

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Halloween event live server Nov 4 to Nov 25th

 


There are a few changes from last year's event so we'll explain the changes as we go.  

Quests are at bottom of this page.

Mechanic of spinning wheel and throwing knives.


There is an easy to understand tutorial when you first enter the event.  You can also replay this tutorial at any time.


This is what it looks like after the tutorial.
First thing to do is click the "skip animation" box.  You are competing with everyone in your neighborhood for prizes and the spin animation just slows things down.
You use Halloween tickets to spin the wheel.  Everyone in your hood sees the same prizes.  When they spin the wheel that's like you spinning the wheel.  So you can wait until people in your hood take the bad prizes before you use your knives or you can throw quickly to try to get it first.  You can also throw multiple knives at once to increase your chances.  You can throw 1, 3 or 5 knives at once.  You earn a reward for every knife thrown and grand prize progress.
When you throw multiple knives at once you earn BONUS grand prize progress.

When testing an event there are no other players, guilds, hoodies or stuff like that so we asked what would happen if two players hit spin at the same time with only one prize on the wheel.
The player that spun first will get that prize, the wheel would refresh and the player that spun second will hit one of the prizes there.
That becomes more important when you consider there may be multiple people throwing five knives at the same time.  So every knife will hit a prize and no progress will be lost.

Prize types:
  • Green - Common - each prize has up to 4 charges
  • Silver - rare - each prize has up to 2 charges
  • Gold - very rare - only one prize
  • Special tokens - bat tokens and cat charms


Bat tokens - main currency to use in the event shop.  Get them from winning them on wheel and completing daily tasks.

Cat Charms - bonus currency.  Can only appear on the wheel.  There is no other way to earn this currency.  Use the cat charms in event prize shop.  Earning cat charms on the wheel give you bonus grand prize progress.


Event does have a prize lane with silver and gold as well.
This event does NOT have Rival Quests.  Instead it has daily tasks.  

There will be six daily tasks per day.
Tasks 1-3 earn normal bat tokens
Tasks 4-6 earn double bat tokens

Completing all six tasks per day will give you more event currency for the event shop but be prepared to purchase additional tickets to complete all six daily.


Rewards:
Master spreadsheet has been updated to include the buildings from this event (and the next event) and the spreadsheet now has tabs on the bottom so you can just view these buildings quickly to help you strategize.
Link to the master spreadsheet is here.


Main event prize - Boo'loon Grand Gala


Main prize is called Boo'loon Spectral Fair and has 9 levels.  The 9th level makes the silver upgrade to make it a "Boo'loon Masquerade Carnival".  The silver version makes the golden version which is pictured above which is the 11th level.

  • 11 levels
  • 5x5 requires road
  • houses Rare military room
  • 3,720 - 90,000 happiness
  • 238 - 280 % red attack and defense
  • 358 - 400 % red attack and defense GbG
  • 2,850 - 500,000 coin
  • 250 FP
  • 3 fragments of Boo Bites Duo Selection Kit
Random Production
  • 50% 35 light units
  • 35% 40 rogues
  • 15% 60 light units of the next age

Boo Bites Duo Selection Kit
choice of
  • Spooktastic Shakes
  • Beastly Burgers


Spooktastic Shakes
  • 2x2 no road required
  • 25% blue attack and defense GbG
  • 700 - 50,000 supplies
  • 10 goods of previous age
  • 15 guild goods
  • costs 240 - 8,000 population



Ascended Spooktastic Shakes
  • 2x2 no road required
  • decays after 30 days
  • 55% blue attack and defense GbG
  • 15% blue attack and defense QI
  • 2% coin boost QI
  • 1,050 - 75,000 supplies
  • 15 goods of previous age
  • 20 guild goods
  • costs 240 - 8,000 population


Beastly Burgers
  • 3x3 no road required
  • 50% blue attack and defense GE
  • 570 - 100,000 coins
  • 30 FP
  • 5 ranged units
  • costs 180 - 12,000 population




Ascended Beastly Burgers
  • 3x3 no road required
  • will decay after 30 days
  • 150% blue attack and defense GE
  • 25% red attack QI
  • 3% supply boost QI
  • 710 - 125,000 coins
  • 60 FP
  • 5 ranged units
  • costs 180 - 12,000 population




Nightshade Conservatory - Gold League reward
  • 5x4 no road required
  • 110% red and blue attack and defense
  • 125% red and blue attack and defense GbG
  • 20% red and blue attack and defense QI
  • 2% bonus guild goods
  • 200 FP
  • 20 fragments of Boo'loon Grand Gala Golden Selection Kit

Random Production
  • 40% 250 goods of previous era
  • 40% 250 goods of your era
  • 20% 250 goods of next era



Rattlebones Raveyard lv1
  • 3x4 no road required
  • 50% red and blue attack and defense
  • 60% red and blue attack and defense GbG
  • 60% red and blue attack and defense GE
  • 65 FP
  • costs 600 - 40,000 population
Random Production
  • 40% 50 goods of previous era
  • 40% 50 goods of same era
  • 20% 25 goods of the next era

Can only be obtained in the event shop with the premium Cat Charms currency




Rattlebones Raveyard lv2
  • 3x4 no road required
  • 100% red and blue attack and defense
  • 185% red and blue attack and defense GbG
  • 185% red and blue attack and defense GE
  • 108 FP
  • 4 fragments of Obsidian Tower Upgrade kit
  • 4 fragments of Mad Scientist's Dominion Upgrade kit
  • costs 600 - 40,000 population
Random Production
  • 40% 150 goods of previous era
  • 40% 150 goods of same era
  • 20% 100 goods of the next era
Can only be obtained in the event shop with the premium Cat Charms currency





Mad Scientist Lab 
(
originally 2015 Halloween Event)



gets gold, platinum and ascended upgrade


Mad Scientist's Den Gold

  • lv2
  • 4x4 requires road
  • 5 min and 15 min productions are supplies so can be rushed with regular supply rush boosts for quests
  • 8hr is 30 FP
  • 1day is 50 goods
  • costs 2 population


Mad Scientist's Lair platinum

  • lv3
  • 4x4 no road required
  • 5min, 15min, 1hr, 4hr are all supply and can be rushed
  • 8hr 70 FP
  • 1day 150 goods



Mad Scientist's Dominion orange ascended

  • lv 4
  • 4x4 no road required
  • will decay after 90 days
  • 200 QA recharge
  • 5min, 15min, 1hr, 4hr are all supply and can be rushed
  • 8hr 100 FP
  • 1day 275 goods


Black Tower (originally 2017 Halloween event)


Gothic Tower gold upgrade

  • lv 2
  • 4x5 requires road
  • 150% red attack GE
  • 380 - 25,000 population
  • 1,710 - 300,000 coin
  • 220 - 20,000 medals
  • 40 FP
  • 50 goods
  • costs 1,030 - 25,000 happiness

Random Production

  • 50% 50 goods of previous age
  • 50% 50 goods of next age


Baroque Tower platinum upgrade

  • lv 3
  • 4x5 no road required
  • Rare military room
  • 100% red attack and defense GE
  • 100% red attack and defense GbG
  • 15% blue attack QI
  • 750 - 50,000 population
  • 2,280 - 400,000 coin
  • 330 - 30,000 medals
  • 40 FP
  • 100 goods
  • 20 heavy units
  • 10 heavy units of the next age
  • costs 2,070 - 50,000 happiness

Random Production

  • 50% 100 goods of previous age
  • 50% 100 goods of next age



Obsidian Tower ascended orange upgrade

  • lv 4
  • will decay after 90 days
  • 4x5 no road required
  • Rare military room
  • 410% red attack and defense GE
  • 410% red attack and defense GbG
  • 35% blue attack QI
  • 4000 QA capacity increase
  • 750 - 50,000 population
  • 2,280 - 500,000 coin
  • 550 - 50,000 medals
  • 150 FP
  • 300 goods
  • 30 heavy units
  • 20 heavy units of the next age
  • costs 2,070 - 50,000 happiness

Random Production

  • 50% 300 goods of previous age
  • 50% 300 goods of next age





Eternal Market - Lunar Horizon

  • lv 8
  • 6x6 no road required
  • 216% red and blue attack and defense
  • 252% red and blue attack and defense GbG and GE
  • 25% red and blue attack and defense
  • 4,810 - 320,320 population
  • 576 FP
  • 630 goods of your age
  • 630 goods of previous age


Historical Allies



Maharani Tarabai 

  • lv 1 rare
  • 25% blue defense
  • 25% blue attack GE
  • 25% blue attack and defense GbG



Peshwa Bajirao

  • lv 1 rare
  • 25% red attack
  • 25% red defense GbG
  • 25% red attack and defense GE


Avatars


Ok so about this event.  It's good and worth playing.  The previous two events featured main buildings that were already obsolete meaning advanced players would not place the main building in their cities.  That makes the gold league prize far less valuable as the fragments that make the main building have no value.

To top that off the event store was such garbage that the only thing sort of worth spending currency on was the fragments for allies.

This event has a good main event building.

A good gold league building because the fragments to make the main building have value.

You can get a terrific building in the event store and the lv2 of that building makes fragments for obsidian tower upgrades.

So what's the "best" strategy?  Well if you plan on doing the daily quests everyday then be prepared to buy a lot of extra tickets because it's kind of a trap.  The other issue is if you do the quests to do the quests then you'll be throwing knives regardless of what's on the wheel at the time.

So the quests look like this

and the wheel can look like this


As you can see the only good things on the wheel are already gone.  And to be clear the only things anyone should be going for are the special currencies.  

So here's the recommended strategy.

Try to play during slow times.  The less people playing in your hood the better.

If there's a good prize on the wheel then don't try to game the system by letting a hoodie spin a few times then try to snipe the good prize.  Just go for it.

Be aware of the daily tasks.  If it tells you to throw 3 knives at once then cue that up.  If there's no good prize on the board just wait until a hoodie refreshes it.  When you see a good prize then throw those 3 knives and complete the task.

So don't waste currency refreshing the board.  Let your hood do that for you.

Complete daily tasks on your schedule and only when a good prize is up.  It helps to do this while collecting daily as about half the tasks are easily completed while collecting.

If you do not want to buy extra currency then understand you cannot complete all daily tasks everyday.  You will run out of currency.  The daily tasks that require you to throw 5 knives 2 times and stuff like that are designed to burn up your event currency.  If you let those tasks go then it's possible to complete all other daily tasks.

There is a luck element as well in regards to event currency gained in incidents.  If you're really lucky then it will be possible to complete all tasks.  Possible but not likely.

You get 2x the rewards for tasks 4-6 so focus on completing all as many times as you can.  Some of it is random chance so for example if you have to collect silver twice it may take you two throws or 20.  That's why it's impossible to say exactly how often you can go for 6/6 tasks so plan to do it every other day until you're about a week into the event and adjust up or down from there.  You should be able to complete two tasks everyday when collecting without throwing any knives.  Then once you complete one of the use event currency tasks you'll get another non-event currency task like complete 4hr productions 10 times.

So when the event starts just complete all the event tasks with your first city collection and get them out of the way.  You will then have a lot of tickets to use when you need them and there's no need to use them daily or every 8hrs or anything like that.  

When it comes to the event store obviously the good prize is Rattlebones Raveyard so focus on that.

The lv1 building costs 24 cat charms.  The selection kit to make it a lv2 costs 40.

This event mainly gave blue QI fighters good building but red QI fighters can get the phantom abandoned asylum from the store with bat tokens.  

You can also get ally fragments with bat tokens but when you see the cat tokens on the wheel do whatever you can to get them.

The most important thing to remember is to game the discount system in the shop.  Only spend that currency on discounted items unless the store is about to close for good and you have to spend or lose it.

Check the shop daily and use the refresh daily then have patience if the discount is not where you want it.

Quests from Beta Server

Rush Quests:

  1. pay coins
  2. spend FP AND gather supplies
  3. defeat very small army OR solve simple neg AND have enthusiastic pop
  4. construct cultural building of your age OR two the age below
  5. 1hr productions AND collect coins
  6. recruit 4 units your age OR 5 age below
  7. collect goods AND win 2 fights without lose OR 2 encounters GE by neg
  8. donate goods to treasury OR spend FP, AND gain population
  9. donate goods to treasury OR solve simple neg, AND 8hr productions
  10. build 7 decorations of any age AND collect coins
  11. defeat medium size army OR moderate neg
  12. spend FP
  13. conquer 2 sectors on map OR complete 24hr production.  If map is completed this will auto complete
  14. collect goods OR donate goods to treasury, AND collect coins
  15. defeat large army OR spend FP 
  16. visit 15 friends at tavern OR defeat X units, AND pay supplies
  17. 15min productions AND gain happiness
  18. build production your age OR 2 age below, AND pay supplies
  19. moderate neg OR win X fights without loss
  20. collect 5 incidents OR 15 productions of your age, AND pay coins
  21. two boosts in tavern OR defeat X units, AND 15min productions
  22. 4hr productions OR exchange 4 items in antique dealer, AND gather supplies
  23. 5 encounters GE OR moderate neg, AND pay supplies  If GE is completed this will auto complete
  24. build goods building of your age OR collect goods, AND spend FP
  25. defeat small army OR moderate neg, AND 15min production
  26. spend 400 at tavern OR infiltrate 4 sectors, will auto complete if map is done, AND motivate or polish 10 other player buildings.  
  27. defeat medium army OR moderate neg
  28. build 3 residential building your age OR gather supplies, AND pay coins
  29. visit 15 friend tavern OR polish/motivate 30 other player's buildings, AND collect goods
  30. donate goods to treasury OR spend FP, AND gain population
  31. 24hr productions AND build 3 production buildings your age OR 4 age below
  32. build 7 decorations, AND gain population OR happiness
  33. pay coins, AND win X fights without loss OR spend FP
  34. 24hr productions, AND gain population
  35. spend FP AND gather supplies
Daily Quests:
Nov 4, 2025 exchange 5 items in AD OR 24hr completions, AND spend FP
nov 5 win X battles OR donate to treasury, AND gain pop
nov 6 collect 1500 tavern OR complex neg
nov 7 defeat small army OR 5 encounters by neg, AND collect coins
nov 8 15 productions of  your age OR 18 age below
nov 9 4 decorations your age OR 6 age below
nov 10 spend 400 tavern OR 8hr productions, AND buy 5 FP
nov 11 solve lv 1 of GE OR defeat great army
nov 12 win X battles without loss OR gain happiness, AND motivate/polish 25
nov 13 build 3 residential buildings your age OR 4 age below, AND 5min productions
nov 14 collect 3 incidents OR visit 15, AND pay coins
nov 15 recruit 5 units your age OR collect goods, AND pay supplies
nov 16 build 1 production your age OR 2 age below, AND gather supplies
nov 17 2 boosts in tavern OR win X fights without loss, AND 4hr productions
nov 18 collect goods OR donate to treasury
nov 19 defeat med army OR moderate neg, AND spend FP
nov 20 visit 13 friends OR motivate polish 13, AND pay supplies
nov 21 defeat X units OR complex neg
nov 22 4 items AD OR collect goods, AND pay coins
nov 23 construct culture building of your age OR 2 age below, AND 8hr productions
nov 24 win X battles OR moderate neg, AND spend FP

You get 300 Eternal Market fragments with that last daily prize.








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Monday, October 20, 2025

St Patrick's Day Event 2026 for Beta WIP

We started posting information about this event last October.  Here is the link if you want to see it or how things have changed from the WIP/Alpha testing to Beta.  There were not a lot of changes but every change was to decrease the rewards.

This event mechanic is now so well known that it hardly seems worth discussing so we won't and we'll go right to strategy.

Before the event starts you need to decide which strategy you will choose.  Do you want to open all the boxes when completing a town or festival or whatever they're calling it this time OR do you want to complete as many tasks as possible and go for gold league?

If you want to advance the prize line and go for gold league then be prepared to complete 23-28 festivals (I will probably call it towns a number of times and won't bother changing it.)

You should also be prepared to spend a lot of diamonds as this has historically been a high spending event.  So buy extra event currency, hire lv5 managers, set timers and sweat out the next three weeks going for gold.

We do not endorse this strategy at all Look at the rewards and decide for yourself what is good.  We have them ranked here and in the master spreadsheet.

In our view the rewards are.....fine.  Not good, not garbage just ok.  Anything under a 40 on the value table would be ok but next up to be replaced.  Even the gold league building is underwhelming and made worse by making fragments for a main building that's just OK and not worth chasing.

What do we recommend?  Well if your city population can handle it I'd say get one (and only one) ascended fortunate celtic goldsmith and three lv 2 McDough's Loaf House.  Play the event casually.  Don't spend any diamonds.  Don't set alarms.  Don't wake up in the middle of the night to complete your town to start the next.  Let other people sweat out the event.

This event should be a mix of open all boxes six times and picking your spots to advance the prize line so I'd suggest this.

Open all boxes after the tutorial town and the next four towns.  Just put your managers on lv1 and let it take 3 days to complete.  Then on day 13 you'll have five Loaf House and only need one more which you will get on the last day of the event.  Now you can play the last week of the event knowing you only need enough event currency for that last box.

Why aren't we high on the main event building?  For people that are hardcore GbG players they will like the main building and really like this event.  We value niche fight bonuses less than just general bonuses.  So giving someone red GE attack or blue GbG attack has less value than just a boost to red or blue attack that can be applied in every mechanic outside QI.

The druid temple upgrades with all due respect to the people who really need a tiny blue QI fight boost is just garbage.  Players will be far better-off getting the side building and ascending them.  Speaking of which the store is really where this event is worth playing even if only casually.  In the store you can get some side building upgrades and hero fragments if you need them.  You can also get some platinum upgrades of other buildings which are far better than the druid temple.  I'd be very surprised if the druid temples aren't given a boost before it goes to live server.



Rewards:
Let's start with the older buildings getting a makeover.
Druid temple goes to lv10
Forgotten Druid temple is the silver upgrade lv 11
Lost Druid Temple is the golden upgrade lv 12


Forgotten Druid Temple
  • lv 11
  • 5x4 requires road
  • 32,000 population
  • 45% red defense
  • 10% blue attack QI
  • 324,400 coins
  • 60 goods
Random Production
  • 40% 50 FP
  • 40% 30 goods
  • 15% 71,253 medals
  • 5% 1,020,625 supplies



Lost Druid Temple

  • lv 12
  • 5x4 requires road
  • houses military ally
  • 83,000 population
  • 120 % red defense
  • 30 % blue attack QI
  • 444,400 coin
  • 120 goods
Change from pre-Beta.  The following rewards are now random production.
  • 40% 150 FP
  • 40% 30 goods
  • 15% 142,506 medals
  • 5% 2,041,250 supplies

The other older building getting an upgrade is the Celtic Goldsmith.
Celtic Goldsmith has 9 base levels.  Lv 9 makes the silver upgrade
Lucky Celtic Goldsmith Silver lv 10.  Which then makes the golden upgrade
Fabled Celtic Goldsmith Golden lv 11

New


Fortunate Celtic Goldsmith
  • lv 12
  • 4x5 no road required
  • houses military ally
  • 66,170 population
  • 72,810 happiness
  • 150% red defense
  • 100% red attack and defense GbG
  • 105% blue attack and defense
  • 620,810 coins
  • 3 fragments of whispering fields selection kit
Random Production
  • 70% 142 FP
  • 25% 164 FP
  • 5% 252 FP



Ascended Fortunate Celtic Goldsmith

  • lv 13
  • 4x5 does not require road
  • 90 days
  • houses military ally
  • 66,170 population
  • 75,160 happiness
  • 365 % red defense
  • 300 % red attack and defense GbG
  • 315 % blue attack and defense
  • 200 QA per hour
  • 8,000 Quantum storage
  • 632,750 coin
  • 3 fragments of whispering fields selection kit (need 100)

Random production

  • 70 % 174 FP
  • 25 % 196 FP
  • 5 % 284 FP

In order to keep this building ascended you need end of town/festival reward chests which you get by opening all boxes.


Main event prize:

Lochan Lune lv 8 gives fragments for silver upgrade

Mystic Lochan Lune lv9 is the silver which makes fragments for the gold upgrade




Fabled Lochan Lune

  • lv 10
  • 5x5 requires road
  • houses military ally
  • 50,000 population
  • 260 % red attack GbG
  • 390 % blue attack GbG
  • 440,000 supplies
  • 220 FP
  • 280 Goods
  • 230 Goods previous age
  • 3 fragments of monumental crafts selection kit (need 100)


Monumental Crafts selection kit gives option

  • Moorehead's Hatsmith (spelling errors have made it to Beta)
  • Ogham Stones

Moorehead's Hatsmith

  • lv 1
  • 2x3 no road required
  • costs 30,000 population
  • 50% red attack and defense GbG
  • 75% red attack and defense GE
  • 120,000 coin
  • 50 goods
  • 40 next age goods




Ascended Moorehead's Hatsmith (spelling errors will probably make it to live server)

  • lv 2 ascended
  • 2x3 no road required
  • 30 days
  • costs -30,000 population
  • 24 % red attack QI
  • 100 % red attack and defense GbG
  • 150 % red attack and defense GE
  • 3 % coin boost QI
  • 4 % supply boost QI
  • 5 units QI
  • 240,000 coins
  • 85 goods
  • 65 goods of prev age


Ogham Stones

  • lv 1
  • 2x2 no road required
  • costs 20,000 population
  • 25% red attack
  • 60% red defense GbG
  • 83,000 coins
  • 40 FP
  • 40 prev age goods





Ascended Ogham Stones

  • 2x2 no road required
  • lv 2 ascended 30 days
  • -20,000 population
  • 50 % red attack
  • 120 % red defense GbG
  • 20 % blue attack QI
  • 10,500 coins QI at start
  • 20,000 supplies QI at start
  • 5 goods QI at start
  • 100,000 coins
  • 60 FP
  • 60 goods of prev age


Gold League building



McBrew's Alework

  • 2x4 does not require road
  • 75 % red attack
  • 72 % red and blue attack and defense
  • 20 % red and blue attack and defense QI
  • 114 FP
  • 20 fragments Fabled Lochan Lune Golden Selection Kit (needs 150)


Open all boxes building

McDough's Loaf House
  • lv 1
  • 3x3 no road required
  • costs 45,000 population
  • 61% red and blue attack and defense
  • 75 FP
  • 2 fragments of finish special production





McDough's Loaf House 

  • lv 2
  • 3x3 no road required
  • -45,000 population
  • 60 % red defense
  • 74 % red and blue attack and defense
  • 105 % FP

Random Production

  • 70 % 8 fragments of finish special production (need 30)
  • 30 % 10 fragments of Ascended Fortunate Celtic Goldsmith upgrade kit (need 1000)

This building averages 3 fragments a day.

You need 11.11111 per day to have an ascended fortunate goldmith perpetually.

So in order to have one perpetually you will need three level 2 McDough's Loaf Houses and hit it with BG a few times or get four of them which seems the most logical as you probably have better things to use BG charges on.

Also the population cost may prevent players from placing it at all.



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Wildlife Event 2026 for Beta Server WIP estimated release Dec 8 on Beta, January 2026 on live server

 We're about three months away and we'll honor the embargo but......

Serene animal crossing and Flamingo habitat are getting upgrades

The rest seems cut and paste from previous wildlife events.  We'll fill this page out when the placeholder images are replaced with the real images and the stats are confirmed.

Embargo below this line until Dec 7, 2025

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Sunday, October 19, 2025

Winter Event 2025 (Oct 20-Nov 21 on Beta Server)

Shuffle board mechanic is back.  This year there will be 16 items instead of 14 items on the board.  For people wanting to complete the calendar this is bad as you will need more currency to get through a board.

Currency is Wooden Bells.  Acquired by completing event quests and incidents.  It costs 10 wooden bells to visit a house on the board.  Each house earns you 1-2 event pass points.

Winter Memories is the bullshit predatory diamond mechanic.  Avoid it at all costs.
 

Collect three snowman parts to unlock a super board.


Super Boards do not have a shuffle so you need to complete it before the next reset.  They will have special items

  • two show two
  • two double payout
  • grand prize boosts.  Each house visit gives 2-4 grand prize progress

Winter Booster items can be won in rival quests.

  • Snowball blast - can clear filler rewards and shuffle.  Show two, double payout, lantern coins, starlight coins and snowman parts cannot be blasted away.
  • Toy Radar - reveals all special rewards on the board.  (Shuffle, show two and double payout)
  • Sleigh Combo - visit one house for free, gain double rewards and reveals two more prizes

Calendar Mechanic is back


You need keys to open the door.  You will also need a lot of diamonds to open all the doors.  You get one key per day and then key parts after that.  You need five key parts to make one key or pay 500 diamonds to open one door.  There are 32 doors.  If you open all 32 doors you get the Calendar Chest.

Not all boards will have a key so you will need to burn a lot of currency to get to the next one if the board you're on doesn't have a key reward.  It will be impossible to predict how much you will have to spend because of the randomness of the board rewards and the nature of the shuffle boards.


Instead of daily prizes you have the Item Store.  There are two currencies you can use in the item store.

  • Lantern Tokens - acquired in all boards 
  • Starlight Coins - from super boards and Winter Memories bullshit predatory diamond scam
Item Stores:
  • Lantern Stall - refreshes daily, one free refresh daily, discount roulette.  Only spend currency on discounted items unless you're just a few days from the store closing after the event is over.

  • Starlight lounge - refreshes weekly, no manual refresh, no discount roulette.  Players get one free item weekly.


Winter Memories - Piggy Bank Mechanic

This is a bullshit predatory mechanic.  Do not play this at all.


You can select a prize for free or pay diamonds to select both.  You can spend diamonds to re-roll the available prizes.  Once the bank is full you then have to pay diamonds to get the prizes in the piggy bank.

Just to make this super clear.  YOU DON'T GET ANY OF THE PRIZES UNTIL YOU SPEND THE DIAMONDS.  Nothing is free.  It's a scam.  Avoid it.

50 diamonds adds both prizes

20 diamonds to shuffle and I believe that price goes up every time you use it

2995 diamonds to claim the items you "won"

It's a scam.  You were warned.


Rewards:

Buildinglevelsroadssizetotal tiles/rred attackGEGBGQIred defGEGBGQIblue attGEGBGQIblue defGEGBGQI%#VALUE!FP%#VALUE!goodstroopsVALUE ATTACK+FP+QI/ROADS
Eternal Market - Galactic Horizon (ascended)11no6x636324432432100324432432100324432432100324432432100307500003045000033,458.38
Ascended Snowdrop Garden2no3x39108271082710827108270270086.00
Ascended Starlight Boulevard Kiosk2no1x11123123123123030086.00
Northwind Courrier13x279898989809808081.43
Penelope's Northstar Nursery1no5x525110240251102402511024025110240250495079.80
Toymaker's Atelier of Little Wonders13x310.584258425842584250105051.52
Sleighride Limited Express107x322.51002001002000135036050.00
Evergreen Limited Express107x322.51002001002000225021547.56
Charcoal Limited Express107x322.51401401401400180029047.11
Royal Midnight Clock Tower94x41660180601800180030.30
Snowdrop Garden1no3x3954545454090030.00
Starlight Boulevard Kiosk1no1x116666010030.00
Yukitomo Imperial Sky Residence - ascended14no4x416821515821515021802629.31
Yukitomo Imperial - platinum upgrade13no4x41682151582010902220.61
Freight Car22x36005510.28
Parlor Car22x362323008.78
Dining Car22x361818007.11
Sleeping Car22x3603506.94

We posted the rewards here about a week ago.

So we'll copy/paste it and add the pictures.

All the buildings have also been added to the MASTER SPREADSHEET

Main Building

lv 7 Midnight Clock Tower makes the silver upgrade

lv8 Grand Midnight Clock Tower makes the golden upgrade



Royal Midnight Clock Tower

  • lv 9
  • 4x4 requires road
  • houses rare ally
  • 39 - 60 % blue attack and defense
  • 96 - 180 % blue attack and defense GbG
  • 2980 - 7200 happiness
  • 2520 - 180,000 supplies
  • 180 FP

Random Production:

  • 50% 6 fragments Starlight Garden selection kit (100 frag required)
  • 25% 12 (of 30) one up kits fragments
  • 25% 6 (of 15) store building fragments


Secondary Buildings:



Snowdrop Garden

  • 3x3 no road required
  • 33 - 54 % red and blue attack and defense
  • 1,020 - 180,000 coin
  • 90 FP
  • costs 810 - 54,000 population



Ascended Snowdrop Garden

  • 3x3 no road required
  • 87 - 108 % red and blue attack and defense
  • 27 % red and blue attack and defense QI
  • 24,750 QI coin and supplies
  • 2,050 - 360,000 coin
  • 270 FP
  • costs 810 - 54,000 population

Starlight Boulevard Kiosk
  • 1x1 no road required
  • 3 - 6 % red and blue attack and defense
  • 110 - 20,000 coins
  • 10 FP
  • costs 90 - 6,000 population



Ascended Starlight Boulevard Kiosk
  • 1x1 no road required
  • 7 - 12 % red and blue attack and defense
  • 3 % red and blue attack and defense QI
  • 2,750 QI coin and supplies
  • 230 - 40,000 coins
  • 30 FP
  • costs 90 - 6,000 population


Gold League Building


Toymaker's Atelier of Little Wonders 
  • 3x3 road required (for now expect this to change) it's coming to beta requiring a road
  • 84% red and blue attack and defense
  • 25% red and blue attack and defense QI
  • 25% medals boost
  • 105 FP
  • 20 (of 150) Midnight Clock Tower Golden selection kits

Calendar Mechanic


Penelope's Northstar Nursery 
(the spelling mistake is in the game not on me)

  • 5x5 no road required
  • 110% red and blue attack and defense
  • 240% red and blue attack and defense GbG
  • 25% red and blue attack and defense QI
  • 495 FP
  • 12 (of 1,000) Yukitomo Imperial Sky upgrade kit


Northwind Courrier 
(the spelling mistake is in the game not on me)
  • 3x2 requires road
  • 98% red and blue attack GbG
  • 98 FP
  • 80 goods
Random Production
  • 10% 51 frag of finish special productions
  • 10% 5 (of 150) frag of Winter Train Golden selection kit
  • 80% 3 (of 100) frag of Winter Train Carriage Series II (these are the train cars)

Upgraded Older Buildings

Base Yukitomo Tower is 10 levels and does NOT make the upgrades
Silver Yukitomo Plaza is lv 11 and does NOT make gold upgrade
Gold Yukitomo Empire is lv 12 and does NOT make platinum upgrade


Yukitomo Imperial
  • platinum upgrade
  • lv 13
  • 4x4 no road required
  • houses ANY ally
  • 61 - 82 % red and blue attack
  • 15% red attack and defense QI
  • 200 QA per recharge
  • 580 - 38,440 population
  • 540 - 49,660 medals
  • 88 - 109 FP
  • 22 rogues
  • 3 (of 100) frag of puppy hauler selection kit
  • 3 (of 100) frag of sleigh builder selection kit
Random production:
  • 20% 10 self-aid kits
  • 80% 1 self-aid kit


Yukitomo Imperial Sky Residence
Ascended 90 days

  • lv 14
  • 4x4 no road required
  • houses ANY ally
  • 141 - 162 % red and blue attack changed to 82 % red and blue attack
  • 30 % red attack and defense QI changed to 15 % red and blue attack and defense
  • 200 QA per recharge
  • 4,000 QA capacity increase
  • 580 - 38,440 population
  • 540 - 49,660 medals
  • 171 - 192 FP changed to 218 FP
  • 26 rogues
  • 3 (of 100) frag of puppy hauler selection kit
  • 3 (of 100) frag of sleigh builder selection kit
Random production:
  • 20% 10 self-aid kits
  • 80% 1 self-aid kit

Winter Train base is lv 8
lv 9 is choice of Charcoal Express, Evergreen Express and Sleighride Express
each have their own upgrade. 


Charcoal Limited Express
  • lv 10
  • 7x3 requires road
  • houses rare ally
  • 108 - 140 red and blue attack and defense
  • 300 - 20,000 population
  • 1,030 - 25,000 happiness
  • 1,710 - 300,000 coin
  • 3,500 - 250,000 supplies
  • 220 - 20,000 medals
  • 180 FP
  • 290 goods



Evergreen Limited Express
  • lv 10
  • 7x3 requires road
  • houses rare ally
  • 68 - 100 % blue attack and defense
  • 68 - 100 % blue attack and defense GbG changed to 168 - 200 % blue attack and defense GbG
  • 24 % coin boost
  • 300 - 20,000 population
  • 1,030 - 25,000 happiness
  • 1,710 - 300,000 coin
  • 3,500 - 250,000 supplies
  • 220 - 20,000 medals
  • 225 FP
  • 215 goods


Sleighride Limited Express
  • lv 10
  • 7x3 requires road
  • houses rare ally
  • 68 - 100 % red attack and defense
  • 168 - 200 % red attack and defense GbG
  • 24 % supply boost
  • 300 - 20,000 population
  • 1,030 - 25,000 happiness
  • 1,710 - 300,000 coin
  • 3,500 - 250,000 supplies
  • 220 - 20,000 medals
  • 135 FP
  • 360 goods

Car attachments for train


Dining Car Series II
  • 2x3 no road required
  • 410 - 10,000 happiness
  • 18% red attack changed to 18 % red and blue attack
  • 1 (of 30) mass self-aid frag


Sleeping Car Series II
  • 2x3 no road required
  • 410 - 10,000 happiness
  • 35 FP
  • 1 (of 30) mass self-aid frag


Freight Car Series II
  • 2x3 no road required
  • 410 - 10,000 happiness
  • 55 goods
  • 1 (of 30) mass self-aid frag


Parlor Car Series II
  • 2x3 no road required
  • 410 - 10,000 happiness
  • 23% red defense changed to 23 % red and blue defense
  • 1 (of 30) mass self-aid frag

Eternal Market - Galactic Horizon (Ascended level)
  • 6x6 no road required
  • will decay into Lunar Horizon in 30d
  • when you collect you get three charges to give 100% boost of other buildings (works like a BG charge but with 100% boost and in testing it stacked.)
  • 324% red and blue attack and defense
  • 432 %red and blue attack and defense GbG and GE
  • 100 % red and blue attack and defense QI
  • 400 QA per recharge
  • 8000 QA capacity boost
  • 30% FP boost
  • 30% goods boost
  • 4,810 - 320,320 population
  • 90 of each special good up to the player's current age
  • 7,200 guild goods

Historical Allies


Nebuchadnezzar II rare

  • 75% red attack and defense GbG


Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem rare

  • 75% blue attack and defense GbG


Strategy

Before you play this event you should decide what strategy you intend to use and then stick to that strategy.

1) Go for main event building

2) Go for gold league so you can make lots of main buildings

3) complete calendar

4) maximize item shop currency to get the equivalent of daily prizes in the item shop

Strategy 1:

Play the event casually.  Complete the rush quests and do the rivals.  Play for free (don't spend diamonds) and save all your boosters for the super boards.  You need to push the prize line a little to get enough to make a lv7 of the main prize so you can then make silver and then gold levels.  Just casually play the event and pick up whatever you can.

Strategy 2:

Going for the gold league and minimizing the amount of diamonds you have to spend means a very specific strategy of going for snowman parts and not keys.  You want to do as many super boards as possible.  That means on boards that have a key and not a snowman part you want to find the shuffle ASAP.  Every turn cost currency and you will be buying currency to get into gold league but now it's a matter of how much.  Use all your boosters when in super board as it gives the most advance on the prize line.  You will be using your diamonds on currency to play more boards.

Strategy 3:

Completing the calendar will cost you diamonds but the question is how to bring that cost down.  You use the opposite strategy of strategy 2.  When you play boards you are looking for a key.  Once you have a key for that day you stop.  You do not finish the board you are on.  You are not looking for snowman parts and if the board you are playing has that then you are looking for the shuffle ASAP.  You are not buying currency trying to get keys.  You get as many as you can and then pay diamonds to open the rest of the doors you did not have a key for.

Strategy 4:

You are not going for gold league or intend to complete calendar.  Instead you want to maximize purchase ability in the item shop.  You want to play as many super boards as possible so you are not looking for keys you are looking for snowman parts.  However you want to play on days that have a good calendar prize.  That will maximize the rewards of the calendar by earning keys on those days and just use the key fragments at the end on the specific doors you want.  Use all your boosters on the super board on starlight coins.

For new players we'd suggest strategy 1.  Events are a great way to get good fast.

For established players this is another stinky event.  The main prize isn't good enough to place in advanced cities.  That means the gold league prize that makes more main prizes isn't worth chasing.

The calendar chest is pretty good but not great.  If you're close to having all doors open then it may be worthwhile to spend some diamonds to open the rest of them.

Of the five of us that contribute to this site one is going for the calendar chest and the rest of us are playing strategy 4.  We're going to just target the eternal market fragments in the calendar and then maximize the shop while playing casually.

Diamond City Players

For people who play this event in diamond cities we have some very bad news for you.  Inno has removed the wishing wells, wishing well shrink kits and little wishing wells from this event.

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