Dev Diary: Halloween 2019

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More information about the upcoming Halloween event

Dear scaredy-cats,

The waiting is over, a new event is making its way to The Settlers Online! Introducing the Halloween Event 2019, an eerie, ghastly and forbidding event which - contrary to its unwelcome nature - has been long-awaited by many of us! With this year's event, you will see some new features. The Ghost Lantern which calls the Ghostship on your island and some spooky new Specialists. Let's get a closer look at what this year's Halloween Event holds for our Community:

EVENT SCHEDULE

Event start: 21st of October 2019, at 11:00 EEST
Start of removal phase: 11th of November 2019, at 11:00 EET
Complete deactivation: 18th of November 2019, at 11:00 EET
Level requirement: 19+

HALLOWEEN 2019 CHANGES

• New General "Younger Gemini General"
• New Explorer "Bewitching Explorer"
• New Spooky Bronze Mine
• New Building Ghost Lantern & Ghost Ship
• New Seasonal Adventures
• New Halloween Calendar
• Golem Reward, Ancient Golem & Supreme Golem Rebalancing
• Pumpkin refiller Adventure Loot Rebalancing
• Pumpkin refiller added to Ventures
• New Halloween time-limited Bundle

Read more about...

• Pumpkins & Seasonal adventures
• Golems
• Calendar
• Adventure Refiller Rebalancing
• Merchant: specialists
• Merchant: buildings
• Merchant: buffs & items
• Misc. information
• Removal Phase & Deactivation

Have fun and creepy settling!
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Follow the Will'o'wisp in the feedback thread and share your ideas.

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• Availability: Only during the Halloween event
• Benefit: You can acquire special items for Pumpkins in the Halloween shop category
• Trade: The Pumpkins are tradable like regular resources
• Removal: Check removal phase details as event resources and Halloween items are available only for a limited time!

You can get the event resource by...

• Unlocking Halloween 2019 Achievements
• Sending Explorers on a Treasure search
• Collecting Pumpkins that spawn on your home island
• Winning rewards for defeating Golems
• Completing Halloween quests
• Producing them with Pumpkin Cemeteries
• Trading with other players
• Item gifts from friends
• Buying Pumpkin packages in the Shop

Field Type	Production Time
Small pumpkin cemetery	5 Hours 20 Minutes
Common pumpkin cemetery	2 Hours 40 Minutes
Noble pumpkin cemetery	40 Minutes

We've made a change according to your feedback and this year more adventures were added! The adventures below will drop twice the normal amount of resources, refills and twice the amount of experience points upon completion!

The list of seasonal adventures for Halloween 2019:

Adventure	Type	Pumpkins refillers min.	Pumpkins refillers max.	x2 seasonal max.
Buccaneer Roundup	Coop	4	8	16
Raiding the Raiders	Coop	10	16	32
Split City in Summer	Coop	18	36	72
Whirlwind	Coop	15	30	60
The Island of the Pirates	Mission	4	8	16
Stealing from the Rich	Mission	6	12	24
Gunpowder	Mission	7	12	24
Mother Love	Mission (Follow Up)	3	8	16
More Secluded Experiments	Mission (Follow Up)	8	14	28
Old Friends	Mission (Follow Up)	11	18	36
The Invasion of the Nords	Mission (Follow Up)	18	32	64
The Clever Little Tailor	Mission (Follow Up)	7	14	28
The Heroic Little Tailor	Mission (Follow Up)	7	14	28
Sindbad and the Sea Snake	Mission (Follow Up)	16	26	52
Ali Baba and the Treasure of Wisdom	Mission (Follow Up)	24	45	90
Pirate Life	Mini	12	19	38
The Sleeping Volcano	Mini	6	9	18
Arctic Explosion	Mini	16	23	46
The Dragon's Roost	Venture	3	8	16
El Chupacabra	Venture	9	14	28
Raid of the Nords	Venture	9	14	28
Red Riding Hood	Venture	12	24	48
Snow White	Venture	10	20	40
The Lost City	Venture	11	22	44
One Step Ahead	Venture	12	24	48
Unknown Regions	Venture	18	30	60
The People of the Mountain	Venture	30	50	100

 

This year's Halloween Event will also feature again the exciting Campaign Quest Chain: The Terrorized Town! These short adventures will all feature on the same island - this allows us to fine-tune the balancing for all level ranges; using the Black Knights adventure as a baseline point of reference.

Don't underestimate this challenge: this small island is full of surprises! Not everything will be as it seems: the line between friends and foes will blur - you'll need to keep your wits about you if you wish to uncover the true sinister villains behind the town's woes. Will you heed the call for aid from this small and vulnerable town? Defend its citizens, find the source of these ghastly creatures and put a stop to them!

After all - your ethereal detective skills will be handsomely rewarded with one of our brand new buildings, but more on that further down .

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As we all know, it is customary to animate the tiny "Event Island" located in the centre of the map on certain special events: the 4 Golems are back, alive and kicking! But don't let them kick too much... it is up to you to defeat them once again, no matter if it's a Rock Golem, Greater Golem, Ancient or Supreme Golem. An adjustment of the production items for the holy water (Ancient Golem) and Glistening Water (Supreme Golem) was done in 2019, which allows players in that level range to obtain the needed items in a proper manner. Additionally, the Supreme Golem got an increase to become a greater challenge. A small spooky tip: It is now more valuable to defeat the reoccuring Golems! Don't get intimidated by these guys; we've heard they're allergic to certain water buffs you can create in the Provision or Rarity Provision House! Here's how you can defeat them:

Defeat the Rock Golem with Purified Water

If your level is within 19 - 25 range, you will have to defeat the Rock Golem, which will respawn five times, getting more powerful with each respawn. If you don't level-up to 26 in the meantime, the last Rock Golem will keep respawning. Use Purified Water in order to defeat it. The production of Purified Water in the Provision House / Rarity Provision House will cost you 20 Water and 20 Copper ore.

Defeat the Greater Golem with Enriched Water

If your level is within 26 - 40 range, you will have to defeat the Rock Golem five times - careful, they will again get more powerful with each respawn! Only after having defeated it for the fifth time will the next type of Golem show up: the Greater Golem, which also has 5 difficulty levels. If you don't level-up to 41, the Greater Golem will keep respawning. Use Enriched Water in order to defeat it. The production of Enriched Water in the Provision House / Rarity Provision House will cost you 40 Water and 20 Iron ore.

Defeat the Ancient Golem with Holy Water

If your level is within 41- 55 range, you will have to defeat the Rock Golem and the Greater Golem five times. It's getting more and more challenging! Only after having defeated the 5th Greater Golem will the Ancient Golem appear, with 5 difficulty levels. This Golem will keep respawning as well if you don't level-up to 56. Use Holy Water in order to defeat the Ancient Golem. The production of Holy Water in the Provision House / Rarity Provision House will cost you 60 Water and 20 Titanium ore 180 Water and 10 Titanium ore.

Defeat the Supreme Golem with Glistening Water

If your level is 56 or more, you will have to defeat all the previous Golems five times. The Supreme Golem will then make its majestic appearance and will keep respawning. Use Glistening Water in order to defeat it. The production of Glistening Water in the Provision House or the Rarity Provision House will cost you 100 Water and 25 Platinum ore 1000 Water and 250 Platinum ore.

Overwhelmed?

It takes 16 hours for each Golem to respawn and in the meantime, you can prepare the buffs in order to defeat it. This might get overwhelming, but don't fret, friends are here to help you out! Your friends who are above level 19 can produce any of these buffs and fight the Golem for you. When its HP reaches 0, a button for confirming the Golem's defeat will be enabled. Only you, as the island owner, can press that button and only after pressing it will the Golem disappear. You and your friends can also "over buff" the Golem with more buffs than it is required, with no further effect.

Below level 19?

Dear TSO novices, here's what you need to do. In order to witness the appearance of the Rock Golem, make sure the middle area of your home island is revealed; put that explorer to work! Remember, you can only see the Rock Golem if you are below level 19, but you cannot fight it, nor can you produce water buffs. We don't want you to miss out on all the fun, so get the game rolling and reach level 19!

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A quest chain will guide you through the mechanics of the event, regarding how to kill golems, the gathering of refillers and the specific missions you have to solve. Additionally, a Calendar is present in which you should open the doors daily!

To access the Calendar, just click on the icon next to your avatar.

2 DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOORS

There is a total of 21 doors. You can open one door each day. 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.

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

Type: Regular door
Amount: 18
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 100 gems afterwards
Requirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or not
Rewards: Provides basic rewards (such as resources), sometimes chosen randomly

Type: Special door
Amount: 3
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 300 gems afterward.
Requirement: All previous doors need to be open
Rewards: Most special doors offer a choice between several rewards when opened

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In the following table you can see the Adventures that reward pumpkin refillers during the event with the rebalanced outputs.
According to the feedback you presented over the years, we decided on a new and better balancing. This change includes an increase of the outputs and addition of more Adventures.

"Check out this table for the changes!"

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Adventure	Epic Amount NEW	Normal Amount NEW
Tomb Raiders	19	13
Split City	36	18
Horseback	16	8
The Lost Skull	9	6
Witch of the Swamp	11	7
The Dark Priests	8	3
Island of the pirates	8	4
Sleeping Volcano	9	6
The Siege	18	12
Buccaneer Roundup	8	4
Traitors	21	13
Outlaws	23	16
Stealing from the rich	12	6
Old Friends	18	11
Tropical Sun	9	6
Sleepy Reef	14	7
Lakeside Treasure	19	13
Bandit Nest	23	16
Gunpowder	12	7
Tikki Island	9	6
New Bandit's nest	16	8
Raiding the Raiders	16	10
Sons of the Veld	17	9
The Nords	13	7
Surprise Attack	14	8
The Nords 2	32	18
Pirate Life	19	12
Bastille Island	22	14
Mad Henry	32	18
Mother Love	8	3
Artic Explosion	23	16
More Secluded Experiments	14	8
Whirlwind	30	15
Victor the Vicious	11	6
Dark Brotherhood	12	7
Black Knights	8	4
Secluded Experiments	14	7
Roaring Bull	8	6
The Valiant Little Tailor	14	7
The Clever Little Tailor	14	7
Sons of the Little Tailor	14	7
Heroic Little Tailor	14	7
Betrayed Little Tailor	14	7
Storm Recovery	34	21
Ali Baba the woodcutter	34	21
Ali Baba first thief	34	21
Ali Baba second thief	21	12
Ali Baba third thief	34	21
Ali Baba treasure knowledge	26	16
Ali Baba treasure wisdom	45	24
Sindbad Besieged City	26	16
Sindbad Sea Snake	26	16
Aladdin Oil lamp	24	12
Aladdin Beautiful princess	45	24
The Dragon's Roost	8	3
El Chupacabra	14	9
Raid Of The Nords	14	9
Red Riding Hood	24	12
Snow White	20	10
The Lost City	22	11
One Step Ahead	24	12
Unknown Regions	30	18
The People of the Mountain	50	30
Of Songs and Curses	8	4
Valuable Intel	8	3
The Fisherman and his Wife	22	12
Hansel and Gretel	22	12
The Pied Piper of Hamelin	16	8
At the Foot of the Mountain	25	15
Mountain Labyrinth	40	20
A Giant Battle	55	35

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This year's horrific headliners will be the brand new Younger Gemini General and the Bewitching Explorer. The Younger Gemini General, who was always not taken seriously as he was just the "little Baby". Turning his back on his family and therefore missing their values for a long time. He now returns with some evil-ish looking appearance. Apparently, he had found a new mentor, but who could that have been? Additionally, another Specialist will step out of the Darkness. The Bewitching Explorer was once so lovely, but something bad happened to her! Can you guess what horrors she has experienced? The well-known Halloween specialists Grim Reaper and Lord Dracul are also available yet again at the in-game merchant shop and scaring the Settlers. Lord Dracul, a malicious general thirsty for... battle, the Conscientious, tireless Geologist and the sinister Grim Reaper General - don't sell your soul for any of these specialists! Instead, simply purchase them for Pumpkins at the merchant:

Name: Younger Gemini General
Description: He travels twice as quickly to adventures and has increased Health, Accuracy and huge Damage. The traits Splash Damage & Flanking make him an already dangerous opponent, but his special trait makes him really tough. Rogue Wardens: Defense units gain flanking and 10% increased Accuracy.
Cost: 6.999 Pumpkins
Limit: 2 per Event

Name: Bewitching Explorer
Description: +100% Task Speed with the special trait: Bewitching - Brings back twice the loot from treasure search tasks, always with the highest possible resource amount.
Cost: 4313 Pumpkins
Limit: 2 per Event (+1 from Calendar)

Name: Lord Dracul
Description: A General who recovers twice as quickly from defeat and travels twice as quickly to adventures.
He attacks enemies in combats via first strike and deals area of effect damage.
Cost: 2,450 Pumpkins
Limit: 1 (former acquisitions don't count)


Name: Grim Reaper General
Description: This is a specialist with the same values as the Battle Hardened General, but a different appearance.
Cost: 1,560 Pumpkins
Limit: 1 (former acquisitions don't count)


Name: Mad Scientist
Description: A General who is "Crazy for Explosions" and gives the Demolition ability to your units, as well as increasing the damage of heavy units.
Cost: 4,999 Pumpkins
Limit: 2 (former acquisitions don't count)


Name: Conscientious Geologist (not tradable, but not giftable)
Type: Specialist
Cost: 375 pumpkins
Effect: Finds an additional deposit whenever possible.
Limit: 1

The way we described in the past how different damage modifiers are applied is different than it actually works in the game for this general. To avoid changing the current mechanic and therefore potentially rendering tactical maps, battle calculators, etc. wrong under most circumstances, we decided to leave the mechanic untouched and instead explain how it actually works.

In the past, we said that all absolute bonuses are applied before the relative ones. Then the relative bonuses are summed and applied at once instead of one after another. This order is changed. First, the relative bonuses are applied to the base value, and then the absolute bonuses are applied. This leads to a small difference if both absolute and relative modifiers are active. As an example with a 120 damage unit, an absolute +10 damage bonus and two separate 10% damage modifiers:

How it was described:

• (120 + 10) * (1 + 0.1 + 0.1) = 156

How it works now:

• 120 + 10 + (120 * (0.1 + 0.1)) = 154

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Only the Lantern can be bought. It has the size of a decoration lantern.

The Ghost Ship is called once a week by placing at least 1 ghost lantern on the island.

Works similar to the Gift Christmas Tree. Placing several ghost lanterns on the island increases the loot the ghosts bring home.

A Quest shows the countdown until the ship reappears. The Ship gets spawned on the western side of sector 1, below the weekly challenge ship.

Every week also 1 side quest is started giving an additional small reward. The quest stays until solved. Only if the quest is completed another one is started the next time the Ghost ship reappears.

The quest is randomly chosen out of 26 different side quests and reward either 10 or 20 gems, 10 Crystals or 1 or 2 or 3 Tokens. The Box contains the following Items:

Item	Chance
Rain of Arrows	5 Tickets
Rain of Flaming Arrows	5 Tickets
iGor	5 Tickets
Mr. Myers	5 Tickets
Rabbits Luck Charm	5 Tickets
The Headless Horseman	5 Tickets
Zombie	5 Tickets
Chant of Focus	5 Tickets
Recruitment Guide	5 Tickets
Mining Guide	5 Tickets
Farming & Hunting Guide	5 Tickets
Rock Mining Guide	5 Tickets
Wood Cutting Guide	5 Tickets
20 Gems	5 Tickets
10 Crystals	5 Tickets
300 Coin	5 Tickets
500 Coin	5 Tickets
Omniseed amount 500	5 Tickets

 

Ghosts of deceased settlers and soldiers keep appearing after we defeat their villains and free them of their burdens. But instead of haunting the Living, they are very friendly and want to help you in your efforts fighting all the evildoers by producing bronze really quickly. Nobody can explain how the ghosts do it. And imagine how hard it was for Sonya to convince everybody else that this would work out!

!!Please be aware!!
The building is not recurring. If you delete it, it will not go back to the starmenu

Type: Workyard
Effect: Produces 12 Bronze without the need of Coal and 6 deposit
Time: 3 min.
Size: 2 x 2

The Laboratory

The Laboratory enables various resource conversions. Additional Laboratories will increase the production speed of these conversions.
It costs 3,999 Pumpkins has a Limit of 2 and you cannot trade it or send it as a gift.

The Haunted Mansion

The Haunted Mansion increases your population limit by 145, while also having some other spooky surprises when you interact with it. Its Limit is 3.
It costs 2,450 Pumpkins and can be traded, but it's not giftable.

PUMPKIN CEMETERIES

Production: Each Pumpkin cemetery produces event resources (Pumpkins) over time
Limit: 3 per player and version = 9 buildings (former acquisitions don't count)

You can build them on your island: not only do they provide Pumpkins, but they also contribute to the Halloween mood!

The Pumpkin cemeteries can only be refilled with "Pumpkin refillers". If you're wondering how you can get those precious refillers, you should play adventures: not all of them offer Pumpkin refillers, but most of them do. You can find the complete list in the in-game Event window. Please be aware that the premium friend buff positively affects the production of the cemeteries when these are buffed

There's another thing that can happen to your Pumpkin cemeteries: they can deplete. If that is the case, you can purchase Fertilizer from the in-game merchant to revive them. It costs 75 Pumpkins and it revives the depleted cemetery with 10 Pumpkins. This might look like a bad deal at first, but you will be able to use refillers and buffs again on a restored cemetery.

Small version: Costs 50 stone and 100 pinewood planks
Common version: Costs 150 marble and 200 hardwood planks
Noble version: Costs 10 granite and 25 exotic wood planks

IMPROVED BAKERY

Description: The Improved Bakery produces bread at three times the speed of a normal Bakery
Limit: 2 per player (former acquisitions don't count)
Cost: 1,250 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: Tradable, not giftable

IMPROVED DEERSTALKER HUT

Description: Produces meat without using a meat deposit, twice as fast than the regular Deerstalker Hut.
Limit: 2 per player (former acquisitions don't count)
Cost: 2,850 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: Tradable, not giftable

IMPROVED FARM

Description: Produces wheat 3 times as fast as a regular farm
Limit: 3 per player (former acquisitions don't count)
Cost: 700 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: Tradable, not giftable

THE VILLAGE SCHOOL

Description: Speeds up the process of getting new settlers in your village.
Limit: 3 per player (former acquisitions don't count)
Costs: 600 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: Not tradable, not giftable

SILO

Description: Replenishes wheat fields over time.
Limit: 3 per player (former acquisitions don't count)
Cost: 600 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: Tradable, not giftable

IMPROVED STOREHOUSE

Description: Another type of Storehouse that provides 3 times more space for resources than a standard one.
Limit: 3 per player (former acquisitions don't count)
Cost: 600 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: Tradable, not giftable

FISH FARM

Description: A scientific state-of-the-art fish farm: it doesn't require a deposit to produce fresh fish.
Limit: 3 per player (former acquisitions don't count)
Cost: 700 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: Tradable, not giftable

DECORATIVE PUMPKIN CEMETERY

Decorative building: Have a Pumpkin Cemetery on your Island all year!
Description: Spook your island's visitors and be in a Halloween mood.
Cost: 325 Pumpkins
Limit: None, transferred to Star Menu when demolished
Trade/Gift: Tradable, Giftable

MINIATURE GOLEM STATUE

Decorative building

: Have a golden Golem on your Island
Description: A shiny golden Golem
Cost: 375 Pumpkins
Limit: None, transferred to Star Menu when demolished
Trade/Gift: Tradable, Giftable

DECORATIONS

Description: Increase your island's spookiness and help get everyone in the Halloween mood.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: It varies, check the Halloween shop
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

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Now it's time to introduce some of the buffs available during the Halloween Event! There will be old content available, that we're all familiar with from the previous years, but also some new additions. Check them out below:

This very unique bundle was re-added for all players that could not acquire it during the Venture season.

Name: Delicious Treat (not tradable, not giftable.)
Type: Bundle
Cost: 7.999 Gems - Overall only once per player.
Description: Oh this dainty bit cannot escape your attention. Check out the ingredients of this time-limited feast.

Name: Eery Booster Bundle (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 2.999 Pumpkins (Limit: 1 per Player), 3.599 Gems (Limit: 1 per Player) - The limits are independent of each other, so the package can be purchased once for pumpkins and once for gems.
Description: Get it while this out of the world discounted and event exclusive package is available:

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An eerily awesome package for starters or just to boost your effectiveness during the event.
1x Courageous Explorer
1x Archelogist Geologist
3x Medi Pack
3x Hugs & Kisses
3x Rain of Flaming Arrows
3x Ballista
3x Recruitment Guide
3x Weapon Crafting Guide
3x Paperwork Guide
3x Mining Guide
3x Farming & Hunting Guide
3x Rock Mining Guide
3x Wood Cutting Guide

Name: Laboratory (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Cost: 3.999 Pumkins | Limit: 2
Effect: A simple production building that offers resource conversions. Additional Laboratories increase production speed.


Name: Haunted Mansion (tradable, but not giftable)
Type: Building
Cost: 2.450 pumpkins | Limit: 3
Effect: A residence that increases the population limit by 145.


Name: Pumpkin Cart (not tradable, but giftable. The pumpkins [Resource] can be traded)
Type: Resource
Cost: 5.000 Gems
Effect: Contains 4200 pumpkins


Name: Witches' Familiars
Type: Zone-wide Buff
Cost: 325 Pumpkins
Effect: +100% output on Epic Workyards for 8 hours


Name: Platinum Horseshoes Recipe
Type: Recipe for the Rarity Provision house
Cost: 825 Pumpkins
Effect: Increases movement speed of generals in the zone by 20%.


Name: iGor
Type: Buff
Cost: 56 Pumpkins
Effect: +200% recruitment speed on Barracks or Elite Barracks for 6 hours


Name: Zombie Bite
Type: Zone-wide buff (wildlife)
Cost: 45 Pumpkins
Description: Be careful with this! One mishap may turn dozens of your settlers into zombies.


Name: Ouija board
Type: Zone-wide buff (wildlife)
Cost: 45 Pumpkins
Description: Legend has it, this board can be used to talk with the spirits, and bring them to where you are...


Name: Bucket of candy
Type: Zone-wide buff (production)
Cost: 125 Pumpkins
Description: Zone Effect +100% output on Smelters (Bronze, Iron, Steel, Gold, Titanium, Platinum) for 24 hours


Name: The Headless Horseman
Type: Buff
Cost: 45 Pumpkins
Description: +300% output on Stables or Elite Stables for 24 hours


Name: Efficient traps
Type: Recipe for the Rarity Provision house
Cost: 560 Pumpkins
Description: Buff area Effect: +200% output on the Hunter, Deerstalker Hut, Improved Deerstalker Hut
for 12 hours on a 2 squares radius


Name: Fertilizer I-III (3 single items)
Type: Buff + Refiller
Cost: 75 Pumpkins
Description: Revives and refills a dried up Small, Common or Noble Pumpkin Cemetery with 10 Pumpkins


Name: Nash Williams
Type: Buff
Cost: 48 Pumpkins
Effect: Use on Barracks and speed up recruiting time x4 for two hours.


Name: Grout (200)
Type: Resource
Cost: 170 Pumpkins
Effect: Ressource that is needed to upgrade buildings to level 6


Name: Omniseeds (250)
Type: Refiller
Cost: 90 Pumpkins
Effect: Refill item: Adds 250 units to any deposit (except gem pits)


Name: Trick
Where: It can be produced in the Provision house and applied on a friend's building
Cost: 50 simple paper and 50 fish
Effect: The affected building cannot be buffed as long as Trick is in effect.


Name: Treat
Where: It can be produced in the Provision house
Cost: 200 water and 50 pinewood planks
Effect: It removes the Trick effect from a building. It also buffs the targeted building (+300% production for 2 hours).


Name: Banshee's Scream
Where: It can be produced in the Mayor's House (with collectibles)
Cost: 10 Scarecrows, 5 Banners and 1 Leather
Effect: +200% output to a Pumpkin Cemetery for 6 hours.


Name: Werewolf's Howl
Where: It can be produced in the Mayor's House (with collectables)
Cost: 20 Barrels, 10 Grain Sacks and 2 Leather
Effect: +300% output to a Pumpkin Cemetery for 6 hours.


Name: Zombie
Type: Buff
Cost: 96 Pumpkins
Effect: +300% to the production of a workyard. The effect lasts for 12 hours.


Name: Mr. Myers
Type: Buff
Cost: 24 Pumpkins
Effect: +300% to the recruitment time of Barracks. The effect lasts for 1 hour.


Name: Frank and Stein
Type: Refiller
Cost: 90 Pumpkins
Effect: Refills the Marble deposit. Amount: 1000 units.


Name: Sandman's Powder
Type: Zone-wide buff (optical)
Cost: 50 Pumpkins
Effect: Turns day into night on the home island. Lasts for 7 days.


Name: Halloween Surprise
Type: Surprise Box
Cost: 195 gems
Description: Provides one of 12 adventures that grants the chance to gain Pumpkins refillers.

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• HALLOWEEN 2019 ACHIEVEMENTS
  All of last year's achievements return, all of them rewarding Pumpkins.

• COLLECTIBLE PUMPKINS
  Pumpkin collectables will be guaranteed to spawn. Each time you click on a Pumpkin collectable, one Pumpkin will be added to your warehouse.

• Ghosts and Zombies
  Where have all the animals gone? Oh right, the zombies got them! Zombies and Ghosts will replace the wildlife on your island. It seems they learned to coexist in... creepy harmony?

GRAPHICS AND SOUND

• Info screen & widget
  The event info window will show you the remaining time of the Halloween event. Also, the info widget is displayed on the left side.
  
  
  

• Spooky background music
  For the duration of the event, the in-game background music will be changed to different tracks.

• Modification of several graphics
  Several graphics will be modified, for example, the logo and the loading screen.

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WHAT HAPPENS IN THE REMOVAL PHASE?
11th of November, at 11:00 EET

• The core mechanisms of the event will be turned off, but the event shop category will remain until Deactivation.

• All quests, achievements and event-related collectables will be deactivated. The ongoing quests will be cancelled.

• Event Adventures will be cancelled and cannot be started anymore.

• Explorers will bring Pumpkins if they were sent before the Removal phase kicked in. New explorer searches will not bring any event currency.
  Explorers only sent and returned during the Halloween Event will bring back Halloween Resources:
  In very rare cases, Explorers may find Halloween Resources on arrival shortly after the start of the Event & shutdown phase

• Golem respawns will be removed. Already spawned Golems can still be defeated, but there will be no reward for defeating them since the quests will have been cancelled at that point.

• The Pumpkin refillers reward from adventures will be deactivated and the Seasonal adventures will return to their normal rewards.

• The creation of "Banshee's Scream", "Werewolf's Howl" and anti-Golem buffs are related to the Halloween event. Therefore this option will be turned off. If you started to produce an event item shortly before the Removal Phase kicked in, this item will be finished even after the Removal phase. The same goes for completed items: you can still pick them up after Removal phase.

• You can use the Banshee's Scream buff in order to get more Pumpkins before the Removal phase finishes. The buff effect will end and you won't be able to use such buffs anymore after the event deactivation.

• The event-related loading screen will be set to the default loading screen and the event window will be deactivated.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE EVENT DEACTIVATION?
18th of November ~11:00 EET

• The Halloween shop category will be deactivated. Pumpkins will not be visible anymore in the warehouse. Pumpkin collections will be removed from the Mayor's House.

• New trade offers containing Pumpkins can't be set up anymore.
  Already running trade offers containing Pumpkins will be set to invisible until they expire.

• Pumpkins remaining on each field, no matter if the fields have been built or if they are still in your Star Menu, will be converted to coins, along with all remaining refillers.

• No matter where the Pumpkin originated from (Cemetery, warehouse, mails, etc.), you will get 0.5 coins for 1 Pumpkin.

• After Deactivation, the "Trick" and "Treat" buffs created can still be used on your friends' buildings, but you won't be able to create more of them

• Any Event Adventures in the Star Menu will be deleted.

• You can apply the unused Golem buffs on the Mayor's house to get a resource refund.

The exchange will be conducted with the next game update!