Dev Diary: Christmas Event 2018

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Details about the upcoming Christmas Event 2018

Deer Settlers, Elves and Grinches,

With the festivities just around the corner, we're ready to show you what's in store for this holiday season! Santa needs your help spreading some Christmas cheer in a brand new quest chain - but keep your wits about you: there seems to be some mischief abound! If you've read the Sneak Peek we released a few weeks back, you'll already be familiar with the new Versed Geologist and Christmas Market. There's plenty more to find in your stockings this year, so read on to get to the bottom of it before you play with all the new toys.

Let the festivities begin!

EVENT SCHEDULE

Event Start: 10th of December, ~09:00 UTC
Start of removal phase: 31st of December, ~00:00 UTC ~09:00 UTC*
Complete deactivation: 7th of January, ~00:00 UTC ~09:00 UTC*
Event Widget: The small widget icon always shows you the remaining event time
Resource conversion: planned for one of the future game updates (January or February)
Minimum requirement: Level 16+

CHRISTMAS 2018 CHANGES

• A brand new quest chain involving Santa, the new Christmas Market building, and the Winter Wonderland venture
• A new achievement for finishing the aforementioned quest chain
• Changes and improvements to the Event Calendar
• Several new buildings: Christmas Market, Gingerbread Storage, Gift Christmas Tree and Improved Floating Residence
• Two new specialists: the Versed Geologist and Candid Explorer
• New Xmas themed skins for several residential buildings and your Mayor's House
• New recipes in the Rarity Provision House, transmutations at the Provision House, and Xmas decorations
  

QUICKLINKS TO FEATURE TOPICS

• Event basics
• Adventures
• Recipes
• Buildings
• Achievements
• Deactivation steps

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Stay cosy and enjoy!
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Event Basics

Presents
Presents represent the event resource. They can be used to acquire special items from the event shop.
Your presents are listed in the "Event" tab of your storehouses.
There are many opportunities to get event resources:

• Rewards for Christmas Scenarios (Buff Adventures)
• Two combat based Christmas Adventures (chance to get presents as an additional reward)
• Special Christmas Daily Quests and Event Quest chain rewards; including the new Quest Chain for 2018
• Explorer treasure searches (chance to get presents on top)
• Conversion of the Christmas collectables in the Mayor's House
• Event Calendar
• Trade with players
• Present packages in the Shop

Bells, Candy canes and Gingerbread. Did you miss them? These Christmas collectables will spawn on your island until the removal phase of the event. Nine collectables will spawn with every spawn cycle, randomly chosen between bells, candy canes and gingerbread. All of them reward exactly 2 resources when clicked. Please be aware that for the full number of collectables to spawn, the whole (main) island has to be claimed.

The Christmas collectable items can be converted into Presents in your Mayor's house until the removal phase of the event. Trading is possible until the removal phase of the event as well.

What makes Christmas Event so special? Why... the Event Calendar, of course! Isn't it nice to receive a gift each day, just by clicking on a door? To open the Event Calendar interface, simply access the Calendar icon next to your avatar.

4 DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOORS

You can open a door each day. In total, there are 21 of them.
The calendar will display the time left to open the current day's door.



Type: Regular door
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for gems afterwards
Requirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or not



Type: Buff Adventure door
Description: Can be opened anytime for free, once the respective date was reached
Requirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or not



Type: Special bonus door
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for gems afterwards
Requirement: All previous doors need to be open



Type: Celebration day door
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for gems afterwards
Requirement: All previous doors need to be open
Rewards: Very special rewards

SPECIAL CALENDAR REWARDS

This year, we've shuffled around the Event Calender Doors to make more sense thematically with Christmas itself. Therefore, the highly-rewarding "Celebration Day" doors will be on the 24th and 25th of December. While these special doors will remain a mystery until you get to open it, we'll give you a sneak peek through their keyholes and see what precious presents await on the other side!

Brand new this year is the Gift Christmas Tree, which you can not only buy from the in-game shop but also find it behind a special door this year; remember - rewards obtained from the Calendar do not contribute to the usual shop limits! Once placed on your island, you will be given a quest that demonstrates how it works: every 7 days you will be able to click on the tree to receive a free gift! This gift is drawn from a pool of prizes, including fill deposits, collectables, resources, buffs, adventures and mini-adventures. What's available to you will depend on your level range. Having additional trees means additional gifts every week!

Click on the spoiler below for a full view of what's in the loot table:

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"Gift Loot Table"

Here's how the prizes are determined: think of the Gift Christmas Tree as giving you a ticket to a tombola. Every individual prize has a certain number of tickets assigned to it, giving it a higher or lower likely hood of being the prize that's picked. As an example, say Prize A has 100 tickets, whereas Prize B has 50 tickets. This would mean there are 150 tickets total in the pool: Prize A would have a 66.6% chance at being picked, whereas Prize B would have a 33.3% chance (2:1 ratio).

Please note: Prizes (Item Amount) coloured in "grey" will be halfed before level 26.

Fill Deposit Grey: Level 1+ (see note)| White: Level 1+ | Yellow: Level 26+ | Red: Level 51+

Ticket Amount	Item Name	Item Amount
80	OmniSeed	200
30	OmniSeed	400
100	Fish	500
100	Meat	250
100	Coal	1000
100	Marble	1000
100	Stone	1000
100	IronOre	200
100	BronzeOre	300
50	Fish	1000
50	Meat	500
50	Coal	2000
50	Marble	2000
50	Stone	2000
50	IronOre	500
50	BronzeOre	600
100	GoldOre	300
100	Granite	100
50	GoldOre	500
50	Granite	200
100	TitaniumOre	100
100	Salpeter	100
50	TitaniumOre	200
50	Salpeter	200

Collectibles White: Level 1+ | Yellow: Level 26+ | Red: Level 51+

Ticket Amount	Item Name	Item Amount
30	Herbs	10
30	Scarecrow	10
30	FoodCart	10
30	Winebarrel	10
30	GrainSacks	5
30	Furs	15
30	Kettle	10
10	CollectibleBanner	5
5	CollectibleBronzeCauldron	6
5	CollectibleAdamantium	6

Resources White: Level 1+ | Yellow: Level 26+ | Red: Level 36+

Ticket Amount	Item Name	Item Amount
20	RealWood	500
20	Coal	500
20	Corn	400
20	Meat	400
20	Tool	300
20	GoldOre	250
20	IronOre	250
20	BronzeOre	300
10	RealWood	1000
10	Coal	1000
10	Corn	800
10	Meat	600
10	Tool	500
10	GoldOre	500
10	IronOre	500
10	BronzeOre	600
20	Marble	300
20	ExoticWood	300
20	Bread	200
10	Marble	700
10	ExoticWood	500
10	Bread	500
20	Granite	200
20	Coin	100
20	TitaniumOre	100
20	MagicBean	50
2	Codex	1
2	Manuscript	1
2	Tome	1
2	Grout	75
10	Granite	400
10	Coin	200
10	TitaniumOre	200
10	MagicBean	100
1	Codex	2
1	Manuscript	2
1	Tome	2
1	Grout	150

Buffs White: Level 1+ | Yellow: Level 26+ | Red: Level 36+

Ticket Amount	Item Name
30	Love Potion
30	Roasted Duck
30	Employee of the month badge
30	Piero's Bowl of Pasta
30	Potion of Endless Energy
30	Helpful Scarecrow
10	Hide Glue
10	iGor
10	Mr. Myers
30	Hot Lemon Tea
30	Gold Fever
10	Damascene Hammer
10	Exotic Fruit Basket
10	The Mother Tree Ritual
5	Red Flying Settler
5	Cookies
5	Rabbits Luck Charm
15	Whips & Carrots
10	The Headless Horseman
10	Harvest Ritual
5	The fermentation accelerator
5	Zombie
2	Stadium snacks
1	Elixir
1	Machine Oil
1	Grilled Steak
1	Magic Bean Soup
1	Chant of Focus
1	Bag of rainbow snow

Adventures White: Level 26+ | Yellow: Level 36+ | Red: Level 51+

20	TheIslandOfThePirates
20	Traitors
20	Horseback
20	WitchOfTheSwamp
20	TheDarkPriests
20	StealingFromTheRich
20	TheSiege
20	BuccaneerRoundup
10	BanditNest
10	Outlaws
10	MadHenry
10	SonsOfTheVeld
10	TheNords
10	SurpriseAttack
10	Gunpowder
10	VictorTheVicious
10	LakesideTreasure
100	RaidingTheRaiders
2	TheValiantLittleTailor
2	TombRaiders
2	Whirlwind

Mini-Adventures White: Level 26+ | Yellow: Level 36+ | Red: Level 51+

Ticket Amount	Item Name
20	The Lost Skull
20	Tropical Sun
20	The Sleeping Volcano
20	Sleepy Reef
20	Grain Confilct
20	Twins
10	Pirate Life
10	Bastille Island
5	Arctic Explosion

But that's not all: the Gingerbread Storage is also part of the Calendar - this is a 3x3 size building, but don't let its small stature fool you: it has a capacity of 18,000! While it can't be upgraded, it does make it a perfect candidate for a storehouse you can move around very easily!

Gift Christmass Tree

• Description: Provides a free gift every 7 days.
• Upgrades: Cannot be upgraded.
• Recurring: Tearing it down will return it to your Star Menu.

2 x Gingerbread Storage

• Description: A small but highly efficient storehouse for resources.
• Upgrades: Cannot be upgraded.
• Recurring: Tearing it down will return it to your Star Menu.

This year's Merchant brings along two new specialists to our islands: the Versed Geologist and Candid Explorer! The Versed Geologist is a "jack of all trades" geologist when it comes to finding bigger deposits of any kind, while doing it in half the normal time. He also has a chance at finding an additional deposit to boot! Meanwhile, the Candid Explorer brings back four times as many rewards when sent on any treasure search. Jackpot!

Name: Versed Geologist (Limit: 1)
Description: A versatile geologist on all different types of deposits
He finds 50% bigger deposits in half the normal time, and has a 50% chance at finding an additional deposit. Works on all deposits!
Price: 945 Presents

Name: Candid Explorer (Limit: 1)
Description: Experienced in finding big stashes of treasure
He doesn't have any bonus to speed, but finds 4x as many rewards from any kind of treasure search!
Price: 1195 Presents

Name: Mary Christmas (Limit: 1 per Event)
Description: Santa's wife as a general
Her special trait increases the XP gained from enemy units defeated by her army by 100%.
Price: 995 Presents

Specialist: Quartermaster Claus

Type: Transporter General - cannot fight, but transports up to 1000 units
Travel time: Reaches adventures in 2 minutes. Takes 90 minutes to return home.
Price: 695 Presents
Limit: 1*

The Event category at the merchant offers a broad variety of special items: the buildings available for presents are listed here, and the recipes are posted here. All event shop offers are available until the final event deactivation.

Name: Paper Recycling
Type: Recipe for the Rarity Provision house
Cost: 180 Presents
Effect: Converts 250 Intermediate Paper into 50 Advanced Paper.

Name: Smelter Calendar
Type: Recipe for the Rarity Provision house
Cost: 180 Presents
Effect: Buff area Effect: +100% output on Smelters and Epic Smelters for 8 hours on a 2 squares radius

Name: Platinum Horseshoes Recipe
Type: Recipe for the Rarity Provision house
Cost: 325 Presents
Effect: Increases movement speed of generals in the zone by 20%.

Name: Efficient traps
Type: Recipe for the Rarity Provision house
Cost: 225 Presents
Description: Buff area Effect: +200% output on the Hunter, Deerstalker Hut, Improved Deerstalker Hut
for 12 hours on a 2 squares radius

Name: Krampus
Effect: Use on a workyard producing coal (not epic one) to increase the output to 400%
Duration: 12 hours
Price: 40 Presents

Name: Grout (200)
Effect: Resource that is needed to upgrade buildings to level 6
Characteristics: Acquisition is not limited, item is not tradable, but the resource is tradable as usual
Price: 200 Presents

Name: Christmas feast
Effect: Speeds up the process of getting new settlers into your village to 600%
Duration: 2 hours
Price: 50 Presents

Name: Cookies
Effect: Boosts the production of a workyard up to 300%
Duration: 32 hours
Price: 80 Presents

Name: The fermentation accelerator
Effect: Boosts the production of a brewery up to 400%
Duration:24 hours
Price: 60 Presents

Name: Hot Lemon Tea
Effect: Boosts the speed of a village school up to 300%
Duration: 24 hours
Price: 60 Presents

Name: Winter Paint
Effect: Covers your island with a light coat of frost
Duration: 7 days
Price: 25 Presents

Name: A Thousand Snowflakes
Effect: Covers your island with snow
Duration: 7 days
Price: 50 Presents

Name: Granite transformation
Effect: Converts Presents and Marble into Granite
Minimum requirement: Level 7 (for Provision house)
Available in: Provision house(s)

Name: Grout transformation
Effect: Converts Presents and Granite into Grout
Minimum requirement: Level 7 (for Provision house)
Available in: Provision house(s)

Name: Mahogany Wood transformation
Effect: Converts Presents and Exotic Wood into Mahogany Wood
Minimum requirement: Level 7 (for Provision house)
Available in: Provision house(s)

Name: Presents
Description: Contains 30 presents
Tradable: yes
Price: 90 gems

Name: Large Presents
Description: Contains 100 presents
Tradable: yes
Price: 300 gems

Name: Christmas Surprise Package
Description: A mysterious box providing randomly chosen buildings
Tradable: no
Price: 350 gems

Name: "Improved" Christmas Surprise
Description: A mysterious box providing randomly chosen improved buildings
Tradable: no
Price: 1,399 gems

You'll also be pleased to hear that we've updated our "Improved" Christmas Surprise to include the brand new Improved Floating Residence!

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Adventures & Quests

This year features a new quest chain that will see you helping Santa build something truly special for your settlers and their holiday cheer!

2 CHRISTMAS QUEST CHAINS

Name: Xmas Market
Minimum requirement: Level 26
Description: Help Santa bring some festive fun to your settlers and be rewarded with your very own Christmas Market building, once you have also completed its companion chain "Winter Wonderland".

Name: Winter Wonderland
Minimum requirement: Level 26
Description: Santa wants your aid in building up his new "Winter Wonderland" island, but not everything is as it seems...

So what is this Christmas Market, and how does it work? It can be placed anywhere on your island, where it can buff the output of all workyards in an area around it. The bonus it provides, as well as the area to which it covers, can be increased by upgrading & unlocking further buffs for the building. If placed correctly, the potential benefits are extremely lucrative! You also don't need to fret about fully upgrading it this year, as you'll be able to continue doing so in every future Christmas Event. Here's how much each upgrade costs:

Upgrade Level	Move Costs	Upgrade Costs
Level 1	FREE	2,000 Presents / 1,500 Marble
Level 2	1,000 Real Plank / 1,000 Marble	3,000 Presents / 1,000 Exotic Planks
Level 3	1,000 Exotic Plank / 1,000 Granite	4,000 Presents / 2,500 Granite
Level 4	2,000 Exotic Planks / 2,000 Granite	N/A

We purposefully removed the move-cost of the Christmas Market while it's at level one. We know many of you will want to maximise its efficiency, so this lets players try out and test different placements for the building before they beginning to commit to upgrading it. It should be noted that the Christmas Market will lose any upgrades it possesses if it's demolished and returned back to the Star Menu; we've added an additional confirmation box to prevent any unfortunate mishaps!

What's also noteworthy is the cost of the buffs themselves: they're quite cheap for the powerful output bonuses they provide:

Upgrade Level	Effect	Costs
Level 1	+100% / 5x5 area / 12h Duration	500 Planks / 500 Coal
Level 2	+100% / 9x9 area / 12h Duration	500 Meat / 500 Tools
Level 3	+200% / 9x9 area / 12h Duration	500 Intermediate Paper / 500 Sausages
Level 4	+300% /11x11 area / 12h Duration	500 Exotic Planks / 500 Gold

We're also going to be adding a new skin to the game sometime after the event has ended, which transforms your Christmas Market into a more traditional market look. This gives you the option to keep the theme of your island to your liking: festive or not!

Presents: While the buff adventures will provide you with Presents during the event until deactivation, the two Combat Christmas Specific Adventures will only have a chance of providing you with Presents.
If you play them after the final event deactivation (see deactivation steps) they won't provide Presents anymore.

2 CHRISTMAS ADVENTURES (COMBAT)

Name: Save the Christmas feast
Minimum requirement: Level 26
Description: The Croaker has stolen all the presents. Defeat the Croaker and retrieve the missing presents.
Price: 95 Gems

Name: The stolen Sleigh
Minimum requirement: 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

It's now custom for Christmas buff adventures to be hidden behind certain Event Calendar doors. Before you redeem them, make sure you're in good holiday spirits; you'll be helping Santa out by delivering gifts to houses on multiple islands!

The buff adventures are balanced for the following level groups which are checked once you open a door: 16-25, 26-35, 36+. There are 6 special adventure doors in the calendar and you needn't use a General, for this Christmas buff adventures require certain types of buffs instead of troops.

UNIT TYPES
Special buffs are needed to spread joy which turns sad people into happy ones.

Unit name	Buff alternative 1	Buff alternative 2	Adventure level	Icon
Sad child	Simple toys	Simple decorations	16-25
Worried adult	Christmas sweets	Simple decorations	16-25
Upset child	Sophisticated toys	Special decorations	26-35
Grumpy adult	Gift wrapped beverage	Special decorations	26-35
Impatient child	Pony ride	Expensive toys	36+
Bitter adult	Art gift	Jewelry	36+

BUFF TYPES
You can produce the buffs needed in your Provision House(s).

Buff name	Resource 1	Resource 2	Icon
Simple toys	30 x Pinewood	20 x Stone
Christmas sweets	14 x Wheat	24 x Water
Simple decorations	10 x Marble	20 x Hardwood
Sophisticated toys	10 x Bronze	15 x Marble
Gift wrapped beverage	25 x Brew	20 x Simple paper
Special decorations	5 x Nib	2 x Gold ore
Pony ride	5 x Exotic wood	20 x Tools
Expensive toys	12 x Gold ore
Art gift	10 x Iron Ore	4 x Intermediate paper
Jewelry	12 x Gold ore

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Recipes unlock new permanent production options for your Rarity Provision House. Each recipe can only be acquired once.
During the event, all Recipes can be obtained with Presents. You simply need to apply a Recipe on your Rarity Provision House to unlock the new permanent production option.

Recipe name	Recipe description	Shop price	Blueprint	Production cost	Buff
Paper Recycling	Converts 250 Intermediate Paper into 50 Advanced Paper	180 Presents		250 Intermediate Paper
Smelter Calendar	Area buff with a 2-square radius. Buffs Smelters and Epic Smelters in the vicinity by 100% for 8 hours	180 Presents		31 Intermediate Paper 150 Nibs 300 Water
Platinum Horseshoes	Increases movement speed of generals in the zone by 20%.	325 Presents		400 Platinum 1,200 Coal
Efficient traps	Area buff with a 2-square radius. Buffs hunters, deerstalkers and improved deerstalkers in the vicinity by 200% for 12 hours	225 Presents		50 Iron 150 Bronze 300 Fish
Kitty lure	Area buff (4x4) for up to 4 (Impr.) Farms, (Impr.) Silos and Mills Production +100% for 24 hours	180 Presents		450 Fish 600 Meat 50 Wool
Forest Offerings	Area buff (4x4) for up to any 4 Woodcutters, Foresters and Sawmills Production +100% for 12 hours	90 Presents		200 Fish 150 Bread 75 Sausage
Grilled Steak	Production +100% for 48 hours	300 Presents		500 Meat
Aunt Irma's feast	Production +100% for 24 hours	60 Presents		150 Fish 100 Bread 50 Sausage
Enrollment campaign	Buff for the Combat Academy Production +100% for 6 hours	300 Presents		50 Coins 10 Banner
Double-time	Buff for the Combat Armoury Production +100% for 6 hours	300 Presents		50 Coins 10 Kettle
Marble mountain (Marble refill buff)	Adds 50 to a non-depleted marble deposit	180 Presents		20 Herbs 20 Scarecrow
Paper mill	Convert: 250 simple paper to 50 intermediate paper	180 Presents		250 simple paper
Small glue	Speeds up the production of the bookbinder by 20%	90 Presents		5 Bronze Cauldron 100 Water 50 Flour
A trader's gift (Stone refill buff)	Adds 100 to a non-depleted stone deposit	120 Presents		5 Barrel
Stop Buff	Removes the current buff	120 Presents		100 Simple paper 100 Water

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CHRISTMAS MARKET

Description: Buffs surrounding buildings in a certain area - upgradable to increase both area of effect and buff output
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 1 per player**
Price: 1995 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

GIFT CHRISTMAS TREE

Description: Provides a free gift every 7 days
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 1 per player**
Price: 1695 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

GINGERBREAD STORAGE

Description: A small 3x3 storage building with a mighty 18,000 capacity - cannot be upgraded
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 3 per player**
Price: 895 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: No

IMPROVED FLOATING RESIDENCE

Description: An improved version of the Floating Residence - grants space for 140 population
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 3 per player**
Price: 1495 presents
Tradable: [S]Yes[/S] No*
Giftable: No

ENDLESS COAL MINE

Description: Produces an endless amount of coal as fast as the Epic Woodyard. Also has the production capacity of an Industrial Coal Mine when it's fully upgraded (Level 6).
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 3 per player
Price: 12,500 gems
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

IMPROVED FLOATING RESIDENCE WINTER SKIN

Description: Building Skin
Effect: Sets your Improved Floating Residence to a more "Frozen Over" look
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 60 presents (14 days) / 345 presents (permanent)
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS MAYOR'S HOUSE SKIN

Description: Building Skin
Effect: Sets your Mayor's House to a "Christmas" look
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 60 presents (14 days) / 575 presents (permanent)
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

SMALL CHRISTMAS RESIDENCE SKIN

Description: Building Skin
Effect: Sets your Residence/Noble Residence to a "Christmas Look"
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 50 presents (14 days) / 295 presents (permanent)
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

MEDIUM CHRISTMAS RESIDENCE SKIN

Description: Building Skin
Effect: Sets your Residence/Noble Residence to a "Christmas Look"
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 55 presents (14 days) / 325 presents (permanent)
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

BIG CHRISTMAS RESIDENCE SKIN

Description: Building Skin
Effect: Sets your Residence/Noble Residence to a "Christmas Look"
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 60 presents (14 days) / 345 presents (permanent)
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS BENCH

Description: Decoration item
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 55 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS HUT

Description: Decoration item
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 195 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

PILE OF GIFTS

Description: Decoration item
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 40 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS PYRAMID

Description: Decoration item
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 395 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CANDY CANE LANTERN

Description: Decoration item
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 45 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

NUTCRACKER MEMORIAL

Description: Decoration item
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 265 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

GINGERBREAD HOUSE

Description: Residence for 40 settlers.
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished and loses upgraded levels.
Limit: 3 per player*
Price: 1195 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: No

IMPROVED WATERMILL

Description: Generates water three times as fast as a normal watermill
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 3 per player*
Price: 595 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: No

CHRISTMAS TREE (SMALL)

Description: A very nice Christmas tree that can be used to decorate your island!
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 40 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS TREE (ANIMATED)

Description: If you would like to decorate your city a little bit more, you can use this animated Christmas tree!
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 60 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

SNOWMAN

Description: Decoration item
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 40 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

DEERSTALKER HUT

Description: Produces unlimited meat without consuming any resources or deposits.
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 2 per player (new limit)*
Price: 495 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: No

RECYCLING MANUFACTORY

Description: Produces unlimited coal without consuming any resources or deposits.
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 2 per player (new limit)*
Price: 295 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

ARCTIC IRON MINE

Description: Output like a level 5 level Iron Mine, doesn't use a building license. It needs to be placed on a free iron deposit.
Star Menu: The building does not go back to the Star menu when demolished/depleted.
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 295 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

RARITY PROVISION HOUSE

Description: A second Provision House that allows you to produce special re-fillers and more.
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 1 per player in total (if you already own one, you cannot buy another one)
Price: 995 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

*New limit 2018: if you gathered this item last year, you can grab another one this year.
**Buildings obtained from the Event Calendar or Quests do not count towards normal limits.

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Achievements

The Christmas Achievements are here once more to offer you an extra source of presents. You can unlock them during this event only.
Presents are rewarded for successfully completing achievements; the amount depends on the achievement's difficulty.



The Achievements deal with many aspects of the event:

• Finding presents during Explorer searches
• Succeeding in Christmas quests
• Crafting in your Mayorhouse
• Helping friends with buffs
• Opening Calendar doors
  
• Completing the "Xmas Market" & "Winter Wonderland" Quest Chain

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WHAT HAPPENS AT THE START OF THE REMOVAL PHASE?
(31st of December ~00:00 UTC ~09:00 UTC*)

The core mechanisms of the Event are turned off at the start of the removal phase.

• Info Widget/Countdown
  The event countdown gets replaced by a new countdown.
  The new one indicates the remaining time of the removal phase until the event gets completely deactivated.
• Christmas adventures
  Event scenarios from the calendar are cancelled and cannot be started.
  Event scenario buffs cannot be produced anymore and can be reimbursed on the Mayor house.
  You can still play the two shop Christmas adventures.
  If you finish an adventure before the event gets completely deactivated,
  special event related items like Presents are still rewarded.
• Quests & Achievements
  The event Quest chains and Achievements will be deactivated.
  New Christmas event-related tasks will no longer be triggered.
  Only completed Christmas event achievements remain visible.
• Collectibles
  All event related collectibles stop spawning.
  Christmas collectibles spawned before the start of the removal phase can be collected.
  The respective resources (Bells, Candy and Gingerbread) will be hidden from the storage and trade
  The resources get converted to gold coins later (see event resource conversion).
  The related Mayor house collection (Basket of Presents) will also be removed
• Treasure Search (Explorers)
  All treasure searches started before the start of the removal phase and returning before the deactivation have the chance to reward event currency. All treasure searches started during or after the start of the removal phase will not reward event currency anymore.
• Misc
  The option to convert Marble and Presents to Granite inside the Mayor's house is no longer available.
  The event shop remains active and Presents can be used to get special items until complete event deactivation.
  The event calendar will no longer be accessible.
  Event-related loading screen, Reindeer, UI skins, the giant Christmas tree and music will be removed/set to default.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE DEACTIVATION?
(7th of January, ~00:00 UTC ~09:00 UTC*)

• Trade
  New trade offers containing event currency can't be set up anymore.
  Active trade offers containing event currency are set to invisible.
• Shop/Event currency
  The Event shop category is not available anymore.
  Event currency is not visible in the Mayor's house anymore and will be converted into Coins later.
• Christmas Adventures & event buffs
  Event currency rewards from adventures are deactivated.
  • This applies to Christmas adventures from the shop. During the event, these adventures drop either buffs or Presents (on top of other loot). With complete deactivation, the chance to get Presents is removed from loot tables. As a result, buffs will always be chosen.
  • Christmas buff adventures from the Event Calendar are changed, too. They reward gold coins instead of Presents. With event resource conversion, the Christmas buff adventures will be deleted, because you cannot finish them anymore.
  • Buffs needed for Christmas buff adventures can no longer be produced.
    Remaining buffs can be applied on your Mayor's house for a full refund of production resources.

EVENT RESOURCE CONVERSION
(planned for one of the future game updates: January or February)

As usual, all event-related resources will be converted into gold coins.
No event resources are supposed to remain in the game.

A script will run during the game update downtime to replace all event resources (especially Presents) with gold coins.
The conversion applies to all items of that type, such as

• items in your warehouses and in your Star Menu
• items included in public trades and friend trades
• items attached to in-game mails like loot from adventures or explorer searches

Conversion rates: The final amount will be rounded up.
1 Present = 0.4 gold coins
1 event collectible = 0.04 gold coins


There is no action needed from your side, you will receive an in-game message with the corresponding amount of gold coins.
The Christmas Scenarios from the calendar will be deleted during the conversion.

[BB_Sious]

Dear settlers,

We have an update in regards to the Dev Diary for the Christmas Event 2018.

• The "Improved Floating Residence" was mistakenly marked as being tradable. This has since been corrected. We're sorry for any inconvenience caused.
• The Gingerbread Storage size was not changed from the Test Server. Internally, we measure it as a 3x3 building, but we understand players perceive it different e.g. 2x2 (the size of a standard storehouse).

Happy Settling,
BB_Sious

[BB_Sious]

Dear settlers,

We have an update in regards to the Dev Diary for the Christmas Event 2018

• The Removal Phase and Deactivation times stated previously was incorrect. Here are the correct times:
• Removal Phase: 09:00 UTC on December 31st.
• Deactivation Phase: 09:00 UTC on January 7th.

Happy Settling,
BB_Sious