Dev Diary: Christmas Event 2023

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Details about the upcoming Christmas Event 2023

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 quest chain - but keep your wits about you: there seems to be some mischief abound! There's plenty 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: 18.12.2023, ~09:00 UTC
Start of removal phase: 08.01.2024 - 09:00 UTC
Complete deactivation: 15.01.2024 - 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 2023 CHANGES

• Overhauled Event Calendar
• New Building: Winter Garden
• New Building: Arctic Titanium Mine
• New Specialist: Sooty Geologist
• New Decorations
• New Building Skins
• New Bundles

QUICKLINKS TO FEATURE TOPICS

• Event basics
• Adventures
• Recipes
• Buildings
• Specialists
• Buffs & Items
• Achievements
• Deactivation steps

Take a ride in our feedback sleigh across our scenic forums.

Stay cosy and enjoy!
Your "The Settlers Online" Team

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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
• 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 collectibles will spawn on your island until the removal phase of the event. Nine collectibles 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 collectibles to spawn, the whole (main) island has to be claimed.

The Christmas collectible 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.

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 afterward
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 afterward
Requirement: All previous doors need to be open



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

Opening missed doors for gems will cost 100 gems for normal doors and 300 gems for special doors due to a very high value in the calendar. The "Celebration Day" and "Bonus" doors are both "special doors".

Don't forget to open the doors daily and also remind your friends to do so!

OVERHAULED CALENDAR REWARDS

Once again this year we've gone over the entire calendar and overhauled several doors changing up and improving their respective rewards, and doubled down on some more sought-after surprises! We have done another pass at the gifts behind each door, so we can confidentially say once again that this is our most rewarding Event Calendar yet! As long as you remember to log in each day to open your doors, you'll find your stockings full this Christmas holiday season!

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This year again features a 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 Bakery 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...

Above is the Christmas Bakery! What can it do and how does it work? You know for sure that the nice smell of cakes on your island comes from this beautiful new building. It can be placed anywhere on your island, where it can buff the output of all Mines, Food, and Weapon production buildings in an area around it. This means it's a special building that halves the input costs on top of boosting the output! It can be upgraded 2 times and every level provides one buff. 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. This culture building has a cooldown of 1 week which can be decreased with every further Christmas Bakery. Same as for the Christmas market, only one Christmas Bakery can be activated to apply one buff in its vicinity.

Level	Move costs	Upgrade costs
1	-	Presents 1500 Marble 1500
2	ExoticPlank 1000 Granite 1000	Presents 2500 Granite 2500
3	ExoticPlank 2000 Granite 2000	-

We purposefully removed the move-cost of the Christmas Bakery while it's at level one. We know many of you will want to maximize its efficiency, so this lets players try out and test different placements for the building before they begin to commit to upgrading it. It should be noted that the Christmas Bakery will lose any upgrades it possesses if it's demolished and returned 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	Buff Name	Area range	Buff cost	Description
Level 1	Cookies and Milk	32x32, squares 16x16	500 Bronze 1000 Water	Miners: Tripling their output while halving the input taken for 23hours
Level 2	Secret Santa	22x22, squares 11x11	500 SimplePaper 500 Tool	Food Productions: Tripling their output while halving the input taken for 23hours
Level 3	Christmas Songs	16x16, squares 8x8	500 IntermediatePaper 500 GoldOre	Weapon Producers: Tripling their output while halving the input taken for 23hours

Christmas Bakeries can be upgraded every year

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

For this year, every adventure will award 3x experience like before. The only exception to these Seasonal Adventures is the "Misty Cake" adventure, which will not be affected by the 3x experience bonus.

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 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 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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WINTER GARDEN

Description: In this beautiful garden, we are able to grow even the most delicate trees in the worst conditions. Produces Mahogany Wood from Soft Wood, Hardwood, and Exotic Wood with a 12-hour duration. This is a workyard building with a size of 2x2.

Level	Upgrade Cost	Input	Output
1	N/A	500 Wood 250 Hardwood 50 Exotic Wood	1 Mahogany Wood
2	100 Presents	1000 Wood 500 Hardwood 100 Exotic Wood	2 Mahogany Wood
3	200 Presents	2000 Wood 1000 Hardwood 200 Exotic Wood	4 Mahogany Wood

Limit/Price: 1x 3499 presents per Event | 3x 4549 gems per Event
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

ARCTIC TITANIUM MINE

Description: A Titanium mine built to operate at optimal capacity in cold weather. Works just fine in other weathers too. Outputs like a level 5 level Titanium Mine, doesn't use a building license. It needs to be placed on a free titanium deposit.
Star Menu: The building does not go back to the Star menu when demolished/depleted.
Limit/Price: 1x 395 Presents | 3x 519 Gems
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

PÅŒHUTUKAWA CHRISTMAS TREE

Description: A celebrative decoration from a different culture. Decoration item.
"Not all trees need to be conifers"
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 395 presents | 595 gems
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

YULE GOAT

Description: A celebrative decoration from a different culture. Decoration item.
"That's why it's the goat. THE GOAT!"
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 55 presents | 75 gems
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

ICE SCULPTURE

Description: An exquisite sculpture made of ice. A shame all that craftsmanship will go to waste as soon as the temperature rises. Decoration item.
"Oh so pretentious..."
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 55 presents | 75 gems
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS PROVISION HOUSE SKIN

Description: Theme your island with festive cheer and spread holiday joy with our enchanting line of Christmas-building skins!
Effect: Sets your Provision House to a "Christmas Look"
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 100 presents (15 days) | 375 presents / 1199 gems (permanent)
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS BARRACKS SKIN

Description: Theme your island with festive cheer and spread holiday joy with our enchanting line of Christmas-building skins!
Effect: Sets your Barracks to a "Christmas Look"
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 100 presents (15 days) | 375 presents / 1199 gems (permanent)
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS STORE HOUSE SKIN

Description: Theme your island with festive cheer and spread holiday joy with our enchanting line of Christmas-building skins!
Effect: Sets your Store House to a "Christmas Look"
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 100 presents (15 days) | 325 presents / 799 gems (permanent)
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

COZY CABIN

Description: A rustic hunting lodge, your latest kill roasting on the fire, and my little partner massaging your feet, while the little ones play on the floor with the dogs. "This is the day your dreams come true..." Offers +160 to the population limit and has a Size of 2x2.
Limit/Price: 1x 2750 presents per Event | 5x 3300 gems per Event
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

RIDICULOUSLY MASSIVE BARREL

Description: A warehouse made out of a gigantic barrel. Nobody has a clue of who or what made it, or what was once stored in it. A bit over-the-top if you ask me... "Smells a bit like a sailor's breath on the inside". It will store up to 40000 of each resource and has a size of 2x2.
Limit/Price: 1x 3499 presents per Event | 3x 4199 gems per Event
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

OUTDOORS CANTEEN

Description: Here your troops have the opportunity to fill their bellies with a delicious meal before setting out on adventures. You know that they say: "an army marches on its stomach". This is a public building with a size of 2x2.

Level	Name	Cost	Effect
1	Humble Meal	100 Coin 500 Meat 2000 Fish 2000 Water	Units get a +4% bonus health.
2	Decent Meal	250 Coin 1250 Meat 5000 Fish 2000 Beer 2000 Bread	Units get a +8% bonus health.
3	Serious Meal	625 Coin 3125 Meat 200 Barrel 50 Grain Sacks 50 Food Cart	Units get a +12% bonus health and +4% bonus attack damage.
4	Hearty Feast	1565 Coin 7815 Meat 400 Barrel 100 Grain Sacks 100 Food Cart	Units get a +16% bonus health and +8% bonus attack damage.
5	Guaranteed Food Coma Feast	3910 Coin 15000 Meat 600 Barrel 200 Grain Sacks 200 Food Cart	Units get a +20% bonus health and +12% bonus attack damage.

Limit/Price: 1x 9999 presents per Event | 3x 12999 gems per Event
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

Each buff lasts for 6h on your island, and indefinitely in adventures provided the adventure was started while the buff is active.

Please note: a unit will only see increases in values if they exceed absolute units of measurement: for example, a unit with 10 HP receiving a +4% HP buff would not see an increase as the resulting bonus value is below 1 (0.4 HP). However, a 12% bonus health to the same unit would provide it with an additional 1 HP as its value exceeds the absolute minimum (1.2 HP).

ICE PALACE

Description: A gorgeous palace made out of eternal enchanted ice. It has a lovely view too! "I hope the cold doesn't bother you." Offers +160 to the population limit and has a Size of 2x2.
Limit/Price: 1x 2750 presents per Event
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

TOY FACTORY

Description: With love and care all sorts of toys are made here. There is something for everyone. Have you been nice or naughty? "Here is where all the winter magic happens". This Provisioner creates 3 different buffs, with 3 updates, and has a size of 2x2. Base production time can be reduced by additional buildings of the same type.

Buff	Effect	Target	Duration	Base Production Time	Cost
Lead Soldiers	+300% Production Speed	Barracks, Combat Academy, Elite Barracks	24 hours	24 hours	Sausage 450, Gold 200
Surplus Prop Weapons	Turns Damascene Swords and Arquebuses into 10 Advanced Tools	Mayor's House	-	24 hours	100 Damascene Swords, 50 Arquebuses
Leftover Wrapping Paper	+300% Production Speed	Simple Papermill, Intermediate Papermill, Advanced Papermill	24 hours	24 hours	Exotic Wood 150, Oil 20

Star Menu: Will go back to the Star Menu after demolition, but will lose all building upgrades.
Limit/Price: 1x 3999 presents per Event
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

Level	Upgrade Costs
1	x
2	1500 Bronze + 1600 Presents
3	600 Gold + 2600 Presents

GIANT SNOWGLOBE

Description: This giant globe and its ever-swirling snow capture the Christmas spirit year long. Everyone that comes close to it is filled with a warm feeling of wonder and joy. "Winter joy 24-7, all year round". This is a public building with a size of 1x1.

Level	Name	Cost	Effect
1	Snow Globe Buff Level 1	400 Water 500 Plank	+300% output, input required +100%, 6x6 area. Duration: 4 hours
2	Snow Globe Buff Level 2	400 Beer 600 Fish	+400% output, input required +50%, 7x7 area. Duration: 5 hours
3	Snow Globe Buff Level 3	500 Flour 600 Coal	+500% output, no additional input required, 9x9 area. Duration: 6 hours

Limit/Price: 1x 2195 presents per Event
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

Level	Upgrade Costs
1	x
2	1500 Bronze + 1600 Presents
3	600 Gold + 2600 Presents

IGLOO

Description: A warehouse made in Inuit style. Very useful to store perishable goods as it keeps them fresh. Very fresh. "It is literally igloo-ed together". It will store up to 40000 of each resource and has a size of 2x2.
Limit/Price: 1x 3499 presents per Event
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

CONCERT HALL

Description: Grant yourself some high culture and build the wonderful Concert Hall. With this building, you will be able to change the background music and at the same time benefit from very powerful zone buffs. Right from the start, 5 different Christmas concerts are ready for your ears:

• "Jingle All The Way"
• "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
• "Silent Night"
• "Early Blossom"
• "Spring Party"

Buff: "Musical Boost" - +700% recruitment speed for your Barracks and Elite Barracks for 1 hour.
Cooldown: 24 hours, reduced by additional buildings of the same type

Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished.
Limit: 3x per Event
Price: 2795 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

WONDEROUS WINTER RESIDENCE

Description: A freezing bastion against the winter cold. Could someone please get a heating engineer? This beautiful and unique winter residence is a must under every Christmas Tree. Requires [S]1000[/S] 4500 presents to fully upgrade this beauty! Houses 140 Population at the start, up to 650 once fully upgraded.
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished. Loses upgrade levels when torn down as usual.
Limit: 3x per Event
Price: 2795 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

GIFT CHRISTMAS TREE

Description: Provides a free gift every 7 days. Supports up to 17 total Gift Christmas Trees for additional rewards!
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 2 per Event
Price: 1695 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

BRAZIER

Description: Decoration item
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: Unlimited
Price: 89 presents
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: Yes

CHRISTMAS BAKERY

Description: Buffs surrounding buildings in a certain area - it halves the input costs on top of boosting the output
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished. Loses upgrade levels when torn down as usual.
Limit: 3x per Event
Price: 2495 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

SMALL RIVERHOUSE

Description: Cute small riverhouse that can even be built in rivers. Grants space for 40 Population.
Limit: 3x per Event
Price: Available in the Freezing Chest bundle
Tradable: Yes
Giftable: No

OIL MILL

Description: Produces Oil from Oilseed gathered from adventures combined with other resources (Wheat, Stone, Herbs). One of 2 Main upgrade resources for level 7 building upgrades. Every further Oil Mill reduces the production time.
Limit: 1x per Event
Price: 1x 4495 presents | 1x 29950 Magic Beanstalks (Level 42) | 1x 24950 Obsidian Ore (Level 65) | Unlimited x9950 Gems
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

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: 2 per Event
Price: 1995 presents
Tradable: No
Giftable: No

GINGERBREAD STORAGE

Description: A small 2x2 storage building with a mighty 18,000 capacity - cannot be upgraded
Star Menu: Goes back to your Star Menu when demolished
Limit: 6 per Event
Price: 895 presents & available in the Freezing Bag bundle
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 Event
Price: Available in the Freezing Chest bundle
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 (15 days) | 345 presents / 799 gems (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 (15 days) | 575 presents / 1199 gems (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 (15 days) | 295 presents / 799 gems (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 (15 days) | 325 presents / 799 gems (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 (15 days) | 345 presents / 799 gems (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 Event
Price: Available in the Freezing Bag bundle
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 Event
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: 3 per Event
Price: Available in the Freezing Chest bundle
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: 3 per Event
Price: Available in the Freezing Bag bundle
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

Buildings obtained from the Event Calendar or Quests do not count towards normal limits.

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Name: Sooty Geologist (Limit: 4 per Event)
Description: He has a very peculiar relationship with deep-earth minerals. This fellow is able to tell the composition of dirty by just tasting it.
Coal deposits found are x3 the normal size, can be mined x3 faster, and there is a 75% chance of replenishing 200 Coal to a Coal mine after finding a Coal deposit.
"He’s licking rocks again, isn't he?"
Price: 1429 Gems (Limit 3 per Event) + 1099 Presents (Limit 1 per Event)

Name: Nutcracker General (Limit: 1 per Event)
Description: Has 3.000HP, 70% Accuracy, 500-2000 Damage, and leads 200 Units.
Attacks the weakest target.
Tough as wood: +30% Unit HP - Recovers 20% of lost units after every battle.
Price: 3599 Presents (Limit 1 per Event)

Name: Gingerbread Geologist (Limit: 1 per Event)
Description: Don't eat his gumdrop buttons!
Finds 50% larger deposits, and has a chance to find items, but takes 3x longer.
Price: 1349 Presents (Limit 1 per Event)

Spoiler

The extra treasure can be:
Mining Guide x1
Rock Mining Guide x1
Zombie x1
Stadium snacks x1
Bag of rainbow snow x1
Elixir x1
Machine Oil x1
Gold Fever x1
Viscous Drinking Chocolate x1
Chocolate Rabbit x1
Barazek x1
Bookbinder Hide Glue x1
Bookbinder Wilderwood Resin x1
Bookbinder Sugar Glue x1
Bookbinder Hide Glue x1
Bookbinder Wilderwood Resin x1
Bookbinder Sugar Glue x1
Rain of Arrows x1
Rain of Flaming Arrows x1
Chocolate Arrows x1
Weak Point Potion x1
Ranged Support x1
Ballista x1
Ranged Support x1
Big catapult x1
Codex x1
Manuscript x1
Tome x1
Oil x20
Advanced Tools x20
Adventure Tale x20
Token x2
Star Coin x20
Magic Bean x20
Magic Beanstalk x20
Gems x2
Crystal x2
Grout x20
Obsidian Ore x20

Name: Frosty General (Limit: 6 per Event)
Description: Has 2.412HP, 24% Accuracy, 2412-2612 Damage, splash damage and leads 190 Units.
Travels twice as fast to adventures and recovers 2x as quickly from defeats.
Cold as Ice: Your defensive units gain Splash damage and + 30% attack damage.
Price: Available in the Freezing Box and Freezing Chest bundle

Name: Snowy Explorer (Limit: 3 per Event)
Description: +100% task speed
+100% rewards on treasure searches (including rarity and artifact searches)
+300% rewards for event resources
Price: 929 Presents (Limit 3 per Event)

Name: Steadfast General (Limit: 2 per Event)
Description: Has 10.000HP, 70% Accuracy, 200 Damage (100 miss damage), flanking, splash damage, and leads 220 Units.
Supple: Swift Units gain Flanking and Splash Damage, while their Accuracy and Damage are increased by 20%.
Price: 1995 Presents

Name: Humble Explorer (Limit: 2 per Event)
Description: He is really humble and satisfied with nearby searches.
Brings back 6 times the usual reward from short and medium treasure searches
Price: 1295 Presents

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 of finding an additional deposit. Works on all deposits!
Price: 945 Presents

Name: Candid Explorer (Limit: 6)
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: Available in the Freezing Box and Freezing Chest bundle

Name: Mary Christmas (Limit: 6 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: Available in the Freezing Box & Freezing Chest bundles

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: Available in the Freezing Box & Freezing Chest bundles
Limit: 6 per Event

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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: Freezing Bag (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 1499 Presents (Limit: 1 per Event) | 2299 Gems (Limit: 2 per Event) | Only available during Christmas.
Description: A cool small-sized bundle to satisfy every seasonal need you could possibly have:

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• 1x Gingerbread House
• 1x Gingerbread Storage
• 1x Recycling Manufactory
• 1x 1 Premium day
• 2x 3 Premium days
• 5x The Fermentation Accelerator
• 5x Krampus
• 5x Christmas Feast
• 5x Hot Lemon Tea
• 5x Cookies
• 1x Winter Paint

Name: Freezing Box (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 3299 Presents (Limit: 1 per Event) | 4659 Gems (Limit: 2 per Event) | Only available during Christmas.
Description: A cool medium-sized bundle to satisfy every seasonal need you could possibly have:

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• 1x Candid explorer
• 1x Frosty General
• 1x Mary Christmas
• 1x Quartermaster Claus
• 1x 1 Premium day
• 2x 3 Premium days
• 5x The Fermentation Accelerator
• 5x Krampus
• 5x Christmas Feast
• 5x Hot Lemon Tea
• 5x Cookies
• 1x Reindeer Bait

Name: Freezing Chest (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 4999 Presents (Limit: 1 per Event) | 6999 Gems (Limit: 2 per Event) | Only available during Christmas.
Description: A cool large-sized bundle to satisfy every seasonal need you could possibly have:

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• 1x Candid explorer
• 1x Frosty General
• 1x Mary Christmas
• 1x Quartermaster Claus
• 1x Small Riverhouse
• 1x Improved Floating Residence
• 1x Deerstalker Hut
• 3x 1 Premium day
• 2x 3 Premium days
• 3x 7 Premium days
• 5x The Fermentation Accelerator
• 5x Krampus
• 5x Christmas Feast
• 5x Hot Lemon Tea
• 5x Cookies
• 1x Thousand Snowflakes

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 square 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, the 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: Mystery Christmas Decoration Box
Description: A box containing a mystery Christmas-themed decoration.
Tradable: no
Price: 195 Presents | 350 gems

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Possible rewards:
• 2x Improved Floating Residence Winter Skin (Temp)
• 1x Change Skin: Christmas Mayor´s House (Temp)
• 2x Change Skin: Small Christmas Residence (Temp)
• 2x Change Skin: Medium Christmas Residence (Temp)
• 2x Change Skin: Big Christmas Residence (Temp)
• 1x Christmas Tree (Small)
• 1x Christmas Tree
• 1x Snowman
• 2x Christmas Bench
• 1x Christmas Hut
• 2x Pile of Gifts
• 1x Christmas Pyramid
• 2x Candy Cane Lantern
• 1x Nutcracker Memorial

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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

This Event also features 2 Achievements in connection to the Concert Hall. Check out the information below to see where you can find the achievements and what tasks you have to solve in order to obtain them.

		Concert Hall Build a Concert Hall

Reward: Rain of Flaming Arrows

		Christmas Concerts Play all 3 available CHristmas tunes in your Concert Hall

Reward: 30

You will find the Concert Hall Achievement in the Achievement Category: Economy/buildings. The Achievement "Christmas Concerts" is event-bound and will be visible at the Christmas Event 2022 Category.

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WHAT HAPPENS AT THE START OF THE REMOVAL PHASE?
(08.01.2024 ~ 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 canceled and cannot be started.
  Event scenario buffs cannot be produced anymore and can be reimbursed at the Mayor's house.
  You can still play the two shop Christmas adventures.
  If you finish an adventure before the event gets completely deactivated,
  and 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 collectables 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)
  Explorers only sent and returned during the Christmas Event will bring back Christmas Resources:
  In very rare cases, Explorers may find Christmas Resources on arrival shortly after the start of the Event & shutdown phase
• 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?
(15.01.2024 ~ 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 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.