Taste the Season

The event consist on milling foods to feed characters appearing on the Main land and Green Meadow. Each feeding rewards a random prize. Depending on which character you feed, your chance of getting better prizes vary.

Event crop:	Event drop:	Mill item 1:	Mill item 2:
Marshmallow Bush Time: 4 hours Gives (2x2): 160 EP Plantable on the Main field and Green Meadow only	Chocolate Bar You will get these drops when harvesting your main field and green meadow when harvesting your crops and trees only!	Hot Cocoa Ingredients: 328 x Marshmallow Bushes, 17 x Chocolate Bars Time: 15 seconds can be produced in the main and tropical mills - Events feed tab! This product will be used for feeding the Spawning Treasure Chests! Each Hot Cocoa fed to the Max Character rewards 1 x step on the progression bar!	S'more Ingredients: 656 x Marshmallow Bushes, 34 x Chocolate Bars Time: 15 seconds can be produced in the main and tropical mills - Events feed tab! This product will be used for feeding the Spawning Treasure Chests! Each S'more fed to the Sheldon Character rewards 2 x steps on the progression bar!

The two characters are appearing on different day until the last day of the event where both will be available:

Max 11th December (14:00 - 23:59 CET) 13th December (00:00 - 23:59 CET) 15th December (00:00 - 23:59 CET) 17th December (00:00 - 22:00 CET)	Sheldon 12th December (00:00 - 23:59 CET) 14th December (00:00 - 23:59 CET) 16th December (00:00 - 23:59 CET) 17th December (00:00 - 22:00 CET)
Max	Sheldon
Mill item 1: Hot Cocoa needed	Mill item 2: S'more needed

The event is marked as hard for a good reason, the cloud row is quite a powerful one:

Taste the Season Magic Stalk Row

Effect: 6000 EP x Farm level, 4500 TEP x Baha level, +1 extra revenue when harvesting mainland "other" crops for 4 hours
Cooldown time: 40 hours
Requires the two event items

Numbers depending on your objectives:

	Only with Hot Cocoa (Max)	Only with S'more (Sheldon)
cloud row + 2 givers	32800 Marshmallow Bushes 1700 Chocolate Bars 100 Hot Cocoa + 25m of milling time	32800 Marshmallow Bushes 1700 Chocolate Bares 50 S'more + 12m 30s of milling time

To complete the event, players must make 113 feedings:

Option 1: just using Hot Cocoa	Option 2: using S'more + 1 Hot Cocoa
37064 Marsmallow Bushes 1921 Chocolate Bars 113 Hot Cocoa 28m 15s of milling time	37064 Marshmallow Bushes 1921 Chocolate Bars 56 S'more 1 Hot Cocoa 14m 15s of milling time

Good luck everyone!

 

Thank you, Northy.
I'm not sure if I'm participating yet, still burnt out from the last one. If this was on the event field and if the +1 revenue on the CR applied to all crops, not just mainland "other" crops, I'd definitely participate. I just got everything put back right on my main field and green meadow so I might pass. Not 100% sure yet. Good luck to everyone participating.

 

Well this is gonna be a really fun weekend! I hope no one is colorblind. I'm serious.

The drop item for the upcoming weekend quest is a RED cup of cocoa. Dropping on the main field and the green meadow.

The MILLED item for feeding the spawning character "Max" is a BLUE cup of cocoa.

Now, I don't think they will be that "confusable" - because one is a drop and one is a mill item, but I did want to point that out, just in case anyone else's alter ego is also a "dumbunny."

Anyway, Northy, thanks for starting the strategy thread!

My strategy, given that the red cups of cocoa will drop from the same two fields that we will be planting with the 4 hour event crop is as follows: Plant amaranth right now to harvest tomorrow, to maximize drops for THIS event. Tomorrow - grow the event crop until after dinner (remember I'm in MST so that's around 2 a.m. in Germany - subtract accordingly to your time zone if you wish to do this, too). At that point in time, I will put in Amaranth again. I'll use all the buffs I can for mainland grains OR green goo - depends on what I have in my gold and silver slots (honestly, I'm pretty sure I'll need to use green goo). In the morning, after the weekend quest has started, I'll harvest the amaranth and return to harvesting the 4 hour event crop. I will likely also leave a lot of the trees I have planted around the edges of those two fields (for multiple reasons, including drops for both events).

Additionally, depending upon how the drops go for the weekend event, I may decide to plant overnight crops Friday and Saturday - possibly on one or both fields. But, probably not amaranth again.

Now y'all know what I know. Which is not much, and more seeps out than goes in every day. And with this post, I'm off to prep my farms and then steel myself for an afternoon of Christmas shopping with my MIL. My husband is likely going to drive us. He says taking the two of us (his wife and his mother) shopping is like herding cats. Um, yes. Yes it is.