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Get Spring Lanterns from quests. Use them to get fantastic prizes - including brand new buildings with set bonuses!
Welcome to the Cherry Blossom Festival! Let's celebrate it as this year's Spring Event . When the cherry trees bloom, everyone gathers at the parks and celebrates!
The Cherry Blossom Festival will begin on March, 28th.
During the event, a new resource will be added to the game: Spring Lanterns! Win them by solving quests and collecting cherry trees outside of your city.
The Lanterns can be traded for chests. Click the event button to open the event window:
As you can see, the window consists of several elements:
1. Spring Lantern counter. This shows how many Lanterns you currently have. The main way to get Lanterns are the Spring quests. You can also get a few Lanterns from cherry trees that will show up in the wilderness around your city when you open a chest of complete a quest. Alternatively, you can also use Diamonds.
2. Chests. There are three of them: bronze, silver and gold. Each of them contains different rewards and you have to pay with Lanterns to get one of them! Hover over the chest of your choice to see what prizes are available for you to win. To see what a more detailed description of each prize, click the '?' icon. Among the rewards, you will find not only buildings from the previous events, but also a few new items! More about them below .
3. Daily Special. This is a particularly valuable reward. It's available in every chest and changes every day. The chances of getting the Daily Special differ from chest to chest.
4. The Grand Prize. Every time you open a chest you will also get cherry blossoms which fill up the Grand Prize progress bar. Once this is completely filled up you will get the Grand Prize. You can get the Grand Prize multiple times (it will change to a new one), as the bar will reset when you reach the goal.
As always, in addition to the items that already exist in the game, there are completely new items available for you to get!
Let's talk about the buildings first . There are six brand new Spring buildings, all of them themed after the Japanese Cherry Blossom festival:
Gong of Wisdom 1x1, Provides medals |
Sakura Rock 2x3, Provides happiness |
Nishikigoi Pond 2x3, Provides happiness |
Zen Zone 3x2, Provides coins |
Emperor's Entrance 3x2, Provides coins |
One-Story Pagoda 4x4 - Residential/Culture. provides population, coins and happiness Is not a part of the Cherry Garden set |
The new buildings all look nice, but they will look even nicer when you put them together in the following configuration:
As you probably noticed above, five of the six new buildings are marked with a "
That's because all the five buildings visible above have a "Set" building skill. When a building with a set bonus is built right next to another (different) building from that specific set, it gets a bonus. For example: Zen Zone normally produces only coins, but when it touches other buildings from the Cherry Garden set it will:
1. Produce additional supplies (when touching at least one).
2. Produce additional goods (when touching at least two unique buildings).
3. Produce additional medals (when touching at least three unique buildings).
The bonuses add up, so when touching two other buildings, you get bonus for both 1 and 2. Detailed amounts will be shown in tooltips, when hovering over the new buildings.
We hope you will like this new twist to the city development mechanics .
You'll be able to find the new Cherry Garden set buildings as Daily Specials during the event. However, you'll also be able to gather some from other places:
- Zen Zone: in one of the first few quests.
- Gong of Wisdom: at the end of the main Spring questline.
- Sakura Rock: as the first Grand Prize, which is earned by opening chests.
There is one more brand new feature that we created for the Spring Event.
As you remember, not long ago we introduced a boost overview. It will now become more useful, as we also introduce boost items that you can activate at the time of your choice!
Among all the rewards that were previously mentioned you will be able to get Boost Crates:
Each Boost Crate represents a random boost item you will get when you open it. There are 4 different kinds of boosts:
Once you've opened a crate in your inventory, it will transform into one of the boosts listed above (randomly chosen).
Each of the boosts exists in three sizes (small, medium and large). This is represented by the size of a bottle. For example, these are defense boosts in all three sizes:
Then you can use them at your convenience, they will stay in your inventory for as long as you wish. Effects from the boosts can add up - except for the attack boost - so you can use multiple boosts at once.
The boosts' effects will be of course visible in the boosts overview, which was built with these new boosts in mind.
This year we would also like to introduce a new mechanic for quests. In all events to this day, we were using either daily triggered quests (typically one quest triggering every day) or directly available quests (that is all quests available immediately). This time we have both .
There are 25 quests that you can do right away and that is the main questline of the event:
Completing them will grant you the final rewards of the questline (which will be two Japanese-themed portraits and and the Gong of Wisdom building from the Cherry Garden set).
We however believe that it's a good idea to give you an additional chance of getting more Lanterns. That's why, once you've completed the questline, a daily-triggered mechanic will kick in. You will then get a new quest every day until the last day of the event. As there is a quest for every single day starting on day one (they are just invisible while you handle the main questline), you will probably have a few of them stacked when you get to them.
And that is not all! You will be getting 10 Lanterns per day from the town hall, but on top of that, you will also be able to find some Lanterns hanging from the cherry trees in the wilderness surrounding your city:
Every time you open a chest or complete an event quest, a new tree will spawn. The amount of Lanterns you will get from each tree is random and ranges from one to ten. Naturally, trees with a single Lantern will be the most common ones, and you have to be lucky to get ten!
You have until April, 17th to complete all the tasks (so complete BEFORE April 17th). We wish you a lot of fun at the Cherry Blossom Festival! We also really hope that you like all the new things we introduced.
Let us know what you think in here .
Happy Spring!
Your Forge of Empires Team