King Arthur's Return Event on Beta May 21 - June 22, 2026

 Happy surprise as this was embargoed until May 26 but since it's on Beta now it's publish time.

Hing Arthur's Return is a reskin of the usual Summer Event but let's give Inno some credit as there's a lot more to it than a simple reskin.  Well at least visually (thanks AI I guess?).  Also there are some minor tweaks from testing to beta.  

This event marks the beginning of hyper inflation where we get way more fight boosts, FP, goods etc. to make the pain of the GB update easier to tolerate.

I'm going to skip the storyline and all the fluff and just get into the event BUT you may want to have animations and sound turned on as they put a lot of work into that.

So let's get into it.

This is what it will look like when you first start the event.

Each board has 16 "villages/tiles".  It costs 10 royal favor to "visit a village/turn over a tile".

Picture the summer event dragon board/shuffle event when reading this and it will make it easier.

Merlin's seal - get three of these to unlock a super board

Camelot coin - store currency

Royal favor - main event currency to visit villages/flip tiles

When you spend 10 royal favor to visit a village you get grand prize progress and a random reward.

You can also get special rewards

• reveal two
• 2x reward
• or shuffle which is not considered special

Warning:  No not play the Piggy Bank mechanic.  It is predatory and misleading.  Friends don't let friends get scammed by this mechanic.  Ok here's what it is.

No wait that's not right it's this.

You can collect a Merlin's Grimoire on the board.

You will then get to choose your reward.  You have two options or you can spend diamonds to get both.  If you don't like either option you can spend diamonds to re-roll the two choices.

Once your piggy bank is full of all the free and purchased with diamond rewards you can claim all the items for free right?  Right?

No it's not yours yet even if you spent diamonds.  You then have to pay to get all the items in the piggy bank.

Super Boards:

Once you get three Merlin's seals your NEXT board will be a super board.

There's supposed to be some special animations but they didn't work in testing.

Super board will have increase rewards and more special tiles (x2 and reveal 2)

There is no shuffle on super board

Remember that all boards reset at server reset so don't start a super board unless you have time to finish it completely.

For non-super boards use the reset to your advantage.  

Boosters:

Merlin's all-seeing eye - reveal 2 tiles

Lady of the Lake Blessing - 2x reward

Mists of Avalon is new.  It hides the garbage filler rewards (and shuffle) so you only get the show two, double payout, Camelot coins, pendragon coins, dragonsteel ingots (calendar) or merlin's seals.

Just a note.  I believe "dragonsteel" will make it to beta spelled incorrectly so we will spell it incorrectly here as well.

You get boosters from the Pendragon Hoard Store (premium store) or Rival Challenges.

Calendar mechanic is a bit different so credit to Inno for trying.  To be honest I would rather those labor hours go into the GB change and releasing the new age can I get an Amen!

The calendar is a forge.  Each day has a furnace.  

Dragonsteel Ingots are the keys

Dragonsteel shards are the key fragments.  You need five to make one ingot.

There's supposed to be a graphic that shows progress in reforging a sword.

After completing the first ten forges you reach a milestone.  A new questline opens.  It was not working in testing so it will be new to us as well.

Once that milestone is reached the graphic change again.  Once the calendar/forge is completed you get the "True King's Excalibur" building.

Event store:

• Camelot Market
• Pendragon Hoard

Rewards

Master spreadsheet updated

On the master spreadsheet the event has it's own tab.  You can also go to the "New Value" tab and see how the buildings compare to every other building in the game.

Five of the buildings from the Arthur event are ranked in the top ten of all the buildings in the game.  Hyper inflation is here.

Main Event Building

Camelot lv 6 makes silver upgrade

Noble Camelot (silver) lv 7 makes golden upgrade

Royal Camelot (gold) lv 8 does NOT make platinum upgrade

Crown of Camelot (platinum) lv 9 does NOT make ascended upgrade

Pendragon's Throne of Camelot (ascended) lv 10

So we'll highlight the gold level and up as the base and silver will eventually get there.

Royal Camelot

• lv 8 Gold
• 6x6 requires road
• houses historical ally
• 59,400 population
• 89,100 happiness
• 160 % red and blue attack and defense
• 280 % red and blue attack and defense GbG
• 10 % coin boost (not QI)
• 576,000 coins
• 325 FP
• 455 goods
• 3 of 100 frags of Legends of Camelot Selection kit
• 10 of 30 fragments of mass self-aid kit

The mass self-aid kit fragments are a game changer.  Also don't overlook the pop/happiness as so many side buildings and ascended buildings demand one or the other.  The fight boosts are for GbG not GE.  Overall this is an outstanding building and the higher versions only get better.  Especially for blue QI fighters!

Crown of Camelot

• lv 9 Platinum Level
• 6x6 no road required
• houses ally
• 63,000 population
• 94,500 happiness
• 200 % red and blue attack and defense
• 320 % red and blue attack and defense GbG
• 20% coin boost (not QI)
• 15 % blue attack and defense QI
• 648,000 coins
• 350 FP
• 490 goods
• 4 of 100 fragments of Legends of Camelot selection kit
• 10 of 30 Mass self-aid fragments

Pendragon's Throne of Camelot

• lv 10 ascended 90 days
• 6x6 no road required
• houses ally
• 63,000 population
• 94,500 happiness
• 240 % red and blue attack and defense
• 360 % red and blue attack and defense GbG
• 40 % coin boost (not QI)
• 30 % blue attack and defense QI
• 4 % FP boost
• 2 % goods boost
• 200 QA
• 8,000 Q storage
• 400 FP
• 560 goods
• 5 of 100 fragments of Legends of Camelot selection kit
• 10 of 30 Mass self-aid fragments

It's been a long time since there was a main building in this game worth chasing.  You can maintain two of these perpetually using BG charges on the calendar reward building "The True King's Excalibur".

Legends of Camelot selection kit gives a choice of 

• Knight's Round Table
• Sword in the Lake

Knight's Round Table

• lv 1
• 3x3 no road required
• costs 90,000 population
• 80 % red attack and defense
• 120 % red attack and defense GbG
• 270,000 supplies
• 120 FP
• 64 goods

Ascended Knight's Round Table

• lv 2
• 30 days
• 3x3 no road required
• costs 90,000 population
• 180 % red attack and defense
• 270 % red attack and defense GbG
• 360,000 supplies
• 45 % red attack and defense QI
• 25,000 Q coins at incursion start
• 5 Q units at incursion start
• 1 % FP boost
• 270 FP
• 144 goods

Sword in the Lake

• lv 1
• 3x3 no road required
• costs 90,000 population
• 80 % blue attack and defense
• 120 % blue attack and defense GbG
• 270,000 supplies
• 40 FP
• 200 goods

Ascended Sword in the Lake

• lv  2  30 days
• 3x3 no road required
• costs 90,000 population
• 180 % blue attack and defense
• 270 % blue attack and defense GbG
• 45 % blue attack and defense QI
• 25,000 Q supplies at incursion start
• 10 Q goods at incursion start
• 1 % goods boost
• 360,000 supplies
• 90 FP
• 450 goods

Gold League reward

The Wrath of Morgan le Fay

There's supposed to be a dragon animation and sound when you collect.  It was not working a few weeks ago so we'll see.

• 6x6 requires road
• houses ally
• 400 % red and blue attack and defense
• 600 % red and blue attack and defense GbG
• 25 % red and blue attack and defense QI
• 5 % FP boost
• 5 % goods boost
• 225 FP
• 400 goods
• 20 of 150 Fragments of Royal Camelot Golden Selection Kit

I have to imagine that there will be a lot of diamonds spent trying to get into gold league.

Calendar Reward

The True King's Excalibur

• 6x6 requires road
• houses ally
• 195,000 population
• 250 % red and blue attack and defense
• 375 % red and blue attack and defense GbG
• 25 % red and blue attack and defense QI
• 850 Goods
• 500 FP

Random Production:

• 25 % 4,200 goods
• 25 % 1,800 FP
• 50 % to get 24 of 1000 fragments of Pendragon's Throne of Camelot upgrade kit

it will take 83.3 days to get an ascension kit so if you're lucky with BG charges you can have two perpetually

Piggy Bank (do not play this predatory mechanic)

Merlin's Counsel

• 4x4 road required
• costs 180,000 population
• 225 % red and blue attack and defense
• 72,000 medals
• 180 FP
• 270 prev age goods

Random production:

• 25% 52 of 30 fragments of finish special production
• 50% 10 of 15 fragments finish all supply productions
• 25% 24 of 30 fragments reno kit

Eternal Market fragments

• 800 grand prize lane
• 100 bronze league and above
• 100 Excalibur (last milestone)
• 100 Pendragon Hoard Store 
• 100 Main quest line
• That's a total of 1200 instead of the usual 1100

Historical Allies

King Arthur

• common 5% blue defense
• uncommon 10% blue attack
• rare six heavy units of next age
• epic 15% blue attack and defense GbG
• legendary next 200 heavy units in GbG have a 42% chance of gaining contact skill
• sounds cool but of the three new allies this is the least desirable

Merlin

• common 5% blue attack and defense GbG
• uncommon 10% red attack and defense GbG
• rare six range units of next age
• epic 15% red and blue attack and defense GbG
• legendary next 200 range units in GbG have 42% chance of gaining flying skill 
• keep in mind some ages allow artillery to hit flying units

This one is good but the next one is awesome

Morgan le Fay

• common 5% red attack
• uncommon 10% red defense
• rare six artillery units of next age
• epic 15% red attack and defense GbG
• legendary next 200 artillery units in GbG have a 17% chance of gaining MIRV skill

MIRV (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle) ability allows artillery unit to hit it's primary selected target plus an additional 1-3 enemy units in range.  It can damage four total units with one strike.

Outstanding!  I can see using this when out of attrition and placing it only when needed and manual fighting.

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Arthur event on Beta delayed again

 The embargo ends May 26, 2026 and there's still a chance it gets released that day but I here there are problems.  Plural so we'll see.

Events, new age, GB's etc. etc.  You can't cut staff to the point where everyone's "helping out" in areas they are not fully trained for and still expect it to run smoothly.  

I did see a 200% bonus diamond offer so clearly the cash shop is getting full attention still.

Also, we owe Inno Games an apology so we'll put it here.

Whenever we work on a bigger post it's a collaborative effort.  A few days ago we made the draft page for the new era.  That page went from draft to publish by accident.  It had slightly less than 1k views before we were notified it was live and we removed it.

There wasn't anything Earth shattering on there but there was the dialogue of the contributors here talking candidly about the new age with the internal working name and some of the features like the troops and buildings.  

We now have a system in place where this error cannot be repeated and apologize for spoiling some bits of the new era for people.

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Master Spreadsheet updated May 13, 2026

 

Major changes to the value tab.

QI fight boosts and base fight boosts are still treated the same full point per tile.

GbG fight boosts are 50% value

GE fight boosts are 25% value.

When GE increases trial levels AND makes doing higher trial worth it we will revisit this.  For now that seems fair.  Base value is king, GbG is worth more than GE.

We also added the new QI buildings, the buildings from the Viking event and the WIP buildings from the new Arthur event.  WIP means it may change.

You should know that the Arthur event was supposed to be the beginning of the justification for the higher GB costs.  What that means is you will see a steep rise in the outputs of this event and all events moving forward.

CLICK HERE FOR FULL MASTER SPREADSHEET

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I owe mobile players an apology

 

Because of work I've had to play QI this season mostly on mobile.  It's been years since I've even used the mobile version of the game and I forgot how awful it was compared to the PC version of the game.

Every aspect of this game is worse on mobile and I'm not just talking about FoE helper which you can use on mobile by the way provided you don't use the app and just use the desktop version while on mobile.

So GbG is no longer left mouse click and hold down R button to refresh troops.  No in two wave fights the heal button is in the same location as the fight button and I cannot tell you how many times I entered manual fight mode just because of the bad button placement.

Ads on mobile.  Enough said.

But the biggest issue I had was in QI.  I tried rotating the crops and found it impossible on mobile.  For all the people who complained about the crop rotations and I dismissed your complaints I apologize.  

For all the people who don't take spots on 1.9's because you're on mobile you are forgiven.

Frankly if this game was mobile only I would find it unplayable.

I still remember back in the day when FoE was a flash game only available on PC and the young mobile programmers took over saying it was the future well they were right.  Mobile gamming is the future but I can't say I like that future.  They looked at us old heads converting a flash game into HTML 5 as dinosaurs.  Us dinosaurs looked at the young crop of mobile programmers as arrogant and we were both right.

But still get off my lawn.  The PC experience is far superior to the mobile experience.

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Quiet lately but for a good reason

 We haven't posted a bunch so here's just a quick what's happening post.

Viking event came to live server.  We didn't make a new post for it as the beta post covered it.

On Beta the May Madness cash shop happened and we didn't want to promote it.  It's just whale bait.  $200 plus dollars for event buildings that will be obsolete in 6-18 months for a free to play game.  This was part of the roadmap that had us dejected and we'll see it multiple times a year now.

Event on beta delayed seems the Arthur and summer event language was mixed and the artwork well was just bad.  I'm sure the AI will make it perfect the second time around.

Next age is starting to be injected into the came code.  This is a weird one for us as the original embargo expired.  Then they placed another embargo for an additional 6 months shortly thereafter and that expired on May 2, 2026.  As of now we have not receive another embargo so I think legally we can talk about the new age without getting in trouble but I know for sure 100% people would be grumpy if we did so we'll wait a bit.  If there was critical information you needed to prepare for it then we'd just spill the beans but there isn't.  Last we saw it was in a playable state but all placeholder assets so I'm guessing two months or so away.

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