Holiday Hustle Strategy thread

Holiday Hustle: Link to FAQ
from the 21st December to the 28th December 2015
SOS Holiday Hustle Drop Item/Mulling Spice Bottles
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Event crops

Anise
(Plantable on all fields, EP/Baha-EP: 15, Time: 4 hours)
Cardamom
(Plantable on all fields, EP/Baha-EP: 20, Time: 7 hours)
event drop: Mulling Spice Bottle
You will get these drops while harvesting animals/trees/crops on your farm
event mill products:
Mulling Spice Time: 1 minute,Ingredients: 6 Mulling Spice Bottles, 24 Anise, 14 Cardamom 10 Sugarcane
Chocolate Cookie Time: 4 minutes, Ingredients: 24 wheat, 28 Anise, 26 Cardamom
Candied Apple
Time: 4 minutes Ingredients: 1 Mulling spice, 5 Apple, 12 Cinnamon
Candy Cane
Time: 4 minutes Ingredients: 2 Mulling spice, 5 Cherries​

REQUIREMENTS​

Penguin: 150 Chocolate cookies (3.600 wheat, 4.200 Anice, 3.900 Cardamom)
Arctic Fox: 80 Candied apples (80 Mulling spice, 400 Apples, 960 Cinnamon)
Polar Bear: 60 Candy canes (120 Mulling spice, 300 Cherries)

for the 200 Mulling spice we need 1.200 Mulling spice bottles, 4.800 Anise, 2.800 Cardamom, 2.000 Sugarcane
Total requirements: 1.200 Mulling spice bottles, 9.000 Anice, 6.700 Cardamom, 3.600 wheat, 400 Apples, 960 Cinnamon, 300 Cherries, 2.000 Sugarcane
Milling time: 10 hours for the chocolate cookies, almost 6 hours for the candied apples, 4 hours for the candy canes. Total milling time: 20 hours​

Thank you cuttie_carrot! For letting us know the differences

Rewards bar progress

1. Penguin

• at 15 Penguins Event sticker
• at 40 unlock Arctic fox bar
• at 60 1 sweet Beak
• at 80 unlock Polar Bear Bar
• at 90 3 wonder Stables mysterious
• at 150 3 gold bananas

2. Arctic fox

• at 20 3 Party spins
• at 30 5 wonder trees
• at 50 1 fruit fox
• at 80 1 frosty friends

3. Polar Bear

• at 20 10 Stars
• at 30 5 wonder trees
• at 40 1 Beary Tasty
• at 50 3 golden banana
• at 60 1 cloud row

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Thanks for doing the sums Arielh. I'm really looking forward to this.

 

Is there a difference between Mulling Spice and Milling Spice? (I think it is a typo. It is like that in the original event post.)

 

I think I may keep this week's big gift (+1 crop for 48 hours) for the event.
Sweet_Cassiopeia I think I have also made a mistake and didn't calculated right the mulling spice and mulling spice bottles. And I believe mulling spice is the same with milling spice.

 

Arielh, are you sure you won't lose the big gift if you don't collect it today?
Thanks for working out the requirements for the quest

Arielh answered :

I am sure of it because I have done it with the previous big gift 100% EP for 24 hours.​

 

Arielh sorry to say that, but you're not correct. We need in general
Mulling Spice - 200
Chocolate Cookie - 150
Candied Apple - 80
Candy Cane - 60
Sure in that. We had the same previous times and the last number of requirements is the total. Sorry once again. I have also counted what we need, it is posted in my page - introduction.

 

EDIT: Figures are now correct according to other forums including the German forum. (If they are wrong there, we are all in trouble!) Thanks cutie!

 

I tend to stay away from thinking about math but in looking at this it seems to me that the required amounts are cumulative. If that is correct then cutie_carrot's basic math would be correct and it looks as if Arielh did the math based on non-cumulative requirements for each individual step.

So the big question is are the required amounts cumulative or not? Meaning when we donate 15 cookies do we then have to donate an additional 40 or 25 to reach the next step?

 

During the kitty event we had the same scales and there were 10 20 50 100. So to close 20 after you closed 10 you didn't donate 20, you just added 10. The same with 50 you just donated 30. so at the end you had to donate only 100 toys in general.

 

If they are cumulative, how do you get 200 Mulling spice? You need one per Candied Apple and one per Candy Cane so that would be 140 not 200. Where did the extra 60 come from?

EDIT: English FAQs were not correct as initially released.

 

I do believe that it will be like in the kitty event, that is cumulative.

 

source​

 

wow. I have read and did calculations when I read the rusforum. It was written there that we need 2 spices for candy cane. But thanks a lot for noticing! I will do maths once again.

*checked it once again. It is written that 2. And also in german forum it is written, that 2
from http://de.bigpoint.com/farmerama/board/index.php?threads/event-weihnachtsrummel.38097/#post-1495329

 

So based on Mir's picture do we need 150 Cookies, 80 Candied Apples and 60 Candy canes like Cutie carrot said?

edit I read in the Greek forum that if we give 40 chocolate cookies to the penguin then we can give candied apples to the fox. And I also found Mir's picture so I will calculate again all the requirements.
Cutie carrot don't be sorry it's better this way and thank you for notice it

 

I have done it. Just repost from my introduction. Cause I don't know how to do it.

 

If using 3 fields available(minus Baha), You will need a smidge more than 5 rounds of crops of Anise and 4 rounds of crops of Cardomom. (3d Revision)

 

For the all the others we have found the same numbers but for these we have some differences. I have done again the calculations. Why do you say we need 200 Mulling Spice?

I am sure of it because I have done it with the previous big gift 100% EP for 24 hours.

 

Look at my previous post. German and russian forums post that we need 2 spices for 1 Cane (and not one like it is written here). I have already attached the photo and site.

 

I am confused.. there is a chart giving items required, but then it also says gifts will be given randomly?

 

It's like with the bunnies, bats and cats, woody. A random gift for each goodie delivered. Then after a certain number of goodies you get an extra reward - listed in the chart.