More information about upcoming event: Christmas 2014! More details can be found below.
CHRISTMAS EVENT 2014
Dear Settlers,
The cold season of the year is coming closer and closer, did you manage to spot first signs of the upcoming winter?
All settlers started to prepare for the special Christmas event! The summary of the event is available below.
The Christmas 2014 event will start at the same time world wide and be ended with 2 removal phases.
- Start: December 11th, 2014
- Removal phase I: On January 8th, 2015
- Removal phase II: Postponed to January 16th, 2015.
Several graphics will be modified to fit the Christmas mood, for example the logo and the loading screen.
Information about the removal phases can be found in post #4.
During the Christmas event, all players will have the possibility to gather a special event resource: Presents.
Presents (Event resource)
Presents are displayed in the "Event" tab in warehouses.
The event resource can be traded. If you still have Presents from last years, you can use them during the event this year.
The game will offer a huge variety of possibilities to collect many gifts, including Presents!
- Advent Calendar: The event calendar is back, improved! Open one door every day and get gifts
- Buff Adventures: New special non combat buff adventures that provide useful rewards. Available through Christmas Surprise special doors
- Adventures: Two combat adventures with a Croaker Christmas story are available
- Collections: Special collectible items will start to spawn on home islands - you will be able to transform them into Presents
- Daily Quests: Special Christmas Daily Quests will be running during the whole event
- Event Quest Chain: A Christmas Quest Chain will guide you through the event
- Explorers: Each standard treasure search will have a chance to bring you some Presents (in addition to a standard search reward)
- Shop: There will be 2 packages with Presents available in the Shop
With the start of the Christmas 2014 event, the Advent Calendar will be available again!
It provides many useful gifts, including buildings.
After the Christmas 2014 event activation, each day one of the 28 doors in the Advent Calendar can be opened.
The Advent Calendar interface will feature 4 different types of doors:
Type: Regular door
Description: Can be opened on the specific date that is displayed on the door
Rewards: Opening a regular door provides rewards that are chosen randomly
Type: Buff Adventure door
Description: Can be opened on or after the date that is displayed on the door, regardless of previously opened doors
Rewards: These doors offer special Christmas buff adventures
Type: Special door
Description: Can be opened
only if all previous doors have been opened.
Rewards: When it's time to open this door, one reward must be chosen
Type: 28th window
Description: Can be opened on 28th day of the event
only if all previous doors have been opened
Rewards: When it's time to open this door, one reward must be chosen
There is also a very special reward waiting for players who will open all calendar doors:
It is a bundle including an Arctic Iron Mine and a Frozen Manor this year!
Opening the Advent Calender interface is simple! Just click on the icon of a star that's floating next to your avatar:
Only available through the Advent Calendar, new buff adventures are introduced with this year's event. The "Buff Adventures" are a series of adventures which ask to "deliver" gifts to houses on multiple islands.
Find all details about these new adventures, buffs and units in post #2.
Additional item productions can be unlocked in Rarity Provision House with Recipes.
A Recipe must only be acquired and applied once, the new production item is permanent.
Recipes can be obtained with Presents during the event.
Read all about the Details in post #3.
Two special Christmas themed combat adventures will be available in the shop. Details can be found below.
Name: Save the Christmas feast
Required level: 26
Description: The Croaker has stolen all presents. Defeat the Croaker and retrieve stolen presents.
Price: 95 Gems
Name: The stolen Sleigh
Required level: 36
Description: The Christmas Feast is in danger. The Croaker has stolen Santa’s sleigh. It is up to you to get it back.
Price: 95 Gems
The whole time the event lasts, you will be able to find special collectible items on your home island. As usually, after you spot a collectible item, you need to click on it to collect it and transfer it to your storehouse. After you have collected a certain amount of these event collectibles, they can be converted into Presents (event resource) in your Mayor's house!
While the event lasts, it will be possible to acquire buffs shown below.
Name: Christmas feast
Effect: Speeds up the process of getting new settlers in your village up to 600%.
Duration: The effect lasts for 2 hours.
Price: 50 Presents
Name: Cookies
Effect: Boosts the production of a work yard up to 300%.
Duration: The effect lasts for 32 hours.
Price: 80 Presents
Name: The fermentation accelerator
Effect: Boosts the production of a brewery up to 400%.
Duration:The effect lasts for 24 hours.
Price: 60 Presents
Name: Hot Lemon Tea
Effect: Boosts the speed of a village school up to 300%.
Duration: The effect lasts for 24 hours.
Price: 50 Presents
During the event you will have a chance to acquire a special buff that changes the weather on your home island and bring some snow! In case you change your mind and want to remove the snow from the home island, there will be another buff allowing you to do so.
Name: A Thousand Snowflakes
Effect: After you activate the buff on your Tavern, it will bring snow to your home island.
Duration: The effect lasts for 7 days.
Price: 40 Presents
Name: Solar Flare
Effect: It removes the snow from your home island.
Duration: Not applicable
Price: 1 Fish
There will be also a possibility to get more Granite: If you give some Presents and Marble to the elves, they will be able to provide you some Granite! This option will be waiting for you in your Provision house only for a limited time (duration of the event).
Name: Granite transformation
Effect: Converts Presents and Marble into Granite.
Required level: 7
Available in: Provision house
During the event, Grout can be obtained. This special resource allows you to upgrade certain buildings from level 5 to 6!
Two additional buildings can be upgraded to level 6: The Silo and the Improved Silo.
Name:
Christmas Tree (Small) (not limited)
A very nice Christmas tree which can be used to decorate your settlement!
Name:
Christmas Tree (not limited)
If you would like to decorate your city a little bit more, you can use this animated Christmas tree!
Name:
Snowman (not limited)
Even if there is not enough snow outside, you will have a possibility to get a Snowman!
Name:
Deerstalker Hut (2 per player)
Produces unlimited meat without consuming any resources or deposits.
This year each player will be able to purchase 2 buildings of this type.
It doesn't matter if you already acquired a building like this in the past.
Name:
Recycling Manufactory (2 per player)
Produces unlimited coal without consuming any resources or deposits.
This year each player will be able to purchase 2 buildings of this type.
It doesn't matter if you already acquired a building like this in the past.
Name:
Arctic Iron Mine (not limited)
Works like 5th level Iron Mine and does not require a building license.
It needs to be placed on a free iron deposit (already discovered and not occupied).
The building does not go back to the Star menu after demolition/being depleted.
Name:
Rarity Provision House (Total limit: 1 per player)
A new Provision House that allows you to produce improved deposit re-fillers (Fish and Meat), new productivity buff that triples the output of a work yard and also Map Fragments. It's limited to 1 per player in total (if you already own one, you cannot buy another one).
Last but not least: Have a look on the center of your island... Where a few Golems once were defeated, a surprise can be found now...
Happy settling!
BB_Endesmor