⛏️🧨 2022 Archaeology Event 🧨⛏️️

(05 May to 19 May)

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SUMMARY

Most players enjoy this style of minigame over the others even though as FoEhint suggests – this event is pretty stingy with the Daily Specials. If this is your first time for this Event and was around for the recent Halloween Event; the play style is exactly the same.

A few extras are in this event. There is an alternate Daily Special that can be optioned without knowing what it is until switched for the current Daily Special. Replayable Side Quests from discovering Clay Tablets can also be had that will give smaller prizes on completion and a larger prize if all are completed. There is also a Calendar that could garner smaller, daily rewards as well with a larger prize, if completed.

Daily Specials will range from the usual suspects (SoK, Wishing Well, Shrink Kits) but also includes the Carousel, World’s Fair, Airship and the Ferris Wheel (last year’s Grand Prize). This event’s Grand Prize is the Butterfly Sanctuary Set that works similar to the Harvest Barn or Celtic Forest as it has a menagerie of features from Population to FP to combat boosts.

EVENT PLAY

The Event currency is Scrolls (#1) which can be collected by completing Event Quests, logging in daily, and from Incidents that spawn around your City. You will spend Scrolls to acquire Tools (#2) for using to navigate through the playing area to find treasures.


The playing area (#3) is a never-ending tomb that has a viewable area consisting of tiles 8-wide and 6-tall and operates like a “scroller” where you move left-to-right by clearing a path ahead. As you progress to the right, you will be blocked by walls - that cannot be moved; and, sand - that you will need to clear out with Tools.

As you progress through the tomb, you can discover more Tools, as well as:

How It Will Work

You will navigate through the tomb maze by clearing sand using 3 different tools; the brush, shovel and dynamite. Walls can NOT be cleared away.

Under the sand (and sometimes sticking partially out), you will find Tools, Avatars, Vases, Tablets, and Golden Relics.

  1. The brush will clear one tile of sand at a time.
  2. The shovel will clear an entire vertical column of tiles and must be placed on an empty tile in that same column. If a wall is located in that column, it will block the shovel from clearing the remainder of the column (either above or below depending on which side of it you apply the shovel).
  3. Dynamite will clear 7 adjacent tiles and can only be placed on an empty tile (you cleared are standing on the 8th tile). Think of it as a bomb as it will attempt to clear all tiles around it (of course, not the walls.)

PRIZE SYSTEMS

As well as a Grand Prize for every 20 Golden Relics, there is a decent selection of Daily Specials to choose from listed below although as noted, this event isn’t as Daily Special friendly as others.

Daily Specials can be won by discovering Vases in the minigame. There are 4 types of Vases in the 3 different categories of Vases for a total of 12 different ones; each providing a different type of smaller prize as well as a different % of receiving the Daily Special.

This event will have an Alternate Daily Special so if you do not like the current one, you cant switch it and an alternate Daily Special will be provided for the remainder of the day. There is no undo button once switched. The switch button is located next to the Daily Special (the crossing arrows button).

Tablets provide a short questline (quantity 5). Each completed quest will provide 5 Scrolls and completion of all the quests will snag a small prize. A large set of Tools and a new Avatar can be won when the questlines for all 8 Tablets have been completed. The questlines can be replayed infinite times as long as you find additional Tablets, but only one Avatar will be awarded for completing them.

In the Museum, you will find a Calendar that will provide a small reward everyday by using a Gem on one of the Calendar’s slot. The first Gem “shard” found each day in the tomb will be a complete Gem for unlocking that day’s Calendar slot. Any subsequent shards found will count as 1/5 of a Gem. A completed Gem can be assembled using 5 shards and can unlock any previous days’ Calendar slot. Gem shards will also be given out as an alternate to the regular Daily Challenge.

🔥 Hot Tip: If you uncover a gem shard and do not collect until the next day, it will become a Gem. <- This was last year’s note, I am unsure if applies for this year’s event.

PRIZES

*** Event Main Building (Grand Prize) ***

*** Other Notable Buildings (from Daily Specials) ***

DAILY AND ALTERNATE DAILY SPECIALS (from Beta)

Daily Special Pool (Remaining)

Event Daily Specials

  1. Ferris Wheel Selection Kit
  2. World's Fair Selection Kit
  3. Rogue Hideout
  4. 6h Mass Supply Rush
  5. Globe Fountain
  6. Hall of Fame Selection Kit
  7. Shrine of Knowledge
  8. Tactician's Tower Lvl 1
  9. Stage of Ages (Not in Beta)
  10. Winner's Plaza (Not in Beta)
  11. Airship Selection Kit
  12. Sentinel Outpost Upgrade Kit
  13. The Lord's Manor
  14. Carousel
  15. Sentinel Outpost Lvl 1
  16. Wishing Well Shrink Kit
  17. 6h Mass Supply Rush
  18. Ferris Wheel Selection Kit
  19. Airship Selection Kit (Not in Beta)
  20. World's Fair Selection Kit
  21. Botanical Rotunda (Not in Beta)
Alternate Daily Specials - Chance Pool

CALENDAR STUFF

  1. 20 FP
  2. One Up Kit
  3. 25 Current Era Goods
  4. Extra Large Medals Pack
  5. Mass Self-Aid Kit
  6. Premium Decoration
  7. 50 Current Era Goods
  8. 8 Fragments of Shrine of Knowledge
  9. Boost Crate
  10. Premium Decoration
  11. Store Building
  12. 50 Current Era Goods
  13. 20 Forge Points
  14. 30% Defender Boost
  15. Premium Decoration
  16. 6h Mass Supply Rush
  17. Extra Large Medals Pack
  18. 2 Blueprints
  19. 20 Forge Points
  20. 8 Fragments of Shrine of Knowledge
  21. Store Building

GRAND PRIZES - ROTATION LIST (For 20 Golden Relics)

  1. Butterfly House Upgrade Kit
  2. 50 Forge Points
  3. Butterfly House Upgrade Kit
  4. Store Building
  5. Butterfly House Upgrade Kit
  6. Renovation Kit
  7. Butterfly Gardens Selection Kit
  8. 6h Mass Supply Rush
  9. Butterfly Gardens Selection Kit
  10. Gigantic Medals Pack
  11. Butterfly Gardens Selection Kit
  12. Tactician's Tower Lvl 1
  13. Butterfly Gardens Selection Kit
  14. Rogue Hideout
  15. Butterfly Gardens Selection Kit
  16. Rogue Hideout Shrink Kit
  17. Butterfly Gardens Selection Kit
  18. Shrine of Knowledge
  19. Butterfly House Level 1
  20. 50 Forge Points
  21. Butterfly House Upgrade Kit
  22. Store Building

GRAND PRIZE UPGRADING

The Butterfly House is upgradable to Level 5 and you will receive a Level 1 Butterfly House upon the first 5 Quests a Butterfly House Upgrade Kit upon completing 45 quests. You will receive two Butterfly Sanctuary Selection Kits for completing all 60 Quests (at #18 and #60). These selection kits can be used to upgrade the Butterfly House or convert into one of remaining 6 buildings of the set.

Looking at the Grand Prize list, you can max out the set’s main building upon gathering 5 Grand Prizes (i.e, collecting 100 Golden Relics). All remaining selection kits for the other set buildings will be need to be obtained from gathering 12 more Grand Prizes to max out the standard set (or 11 more Grand Prizes plus the Mystery Box from the previous event).

NOTES AND TIPS

These tips are based off previous years’ post and I am not seeing much difference from what I’ve read and seen, so here goes:




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