Dev Diary: Halloween Event 2020

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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 2020, 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. Let's get a closer look at what this year's Halloween Event holds for our Community:

EVENT SCHEDULE

Event start: 19.10.2020, at 10:00 CEST
Start of removal phase: 09.11.2020, at 10:00 CET
Complete deactivation: 16.11.2020, at 10:00 CET
Level requirement: 19+

HALLOWEEN 2020 CHANGES

• New "Chummy Geologist"
• New "Scared Explorer"
• New "Ghost General"
• New Building "Blacktree"
• New Building "Wondrous Halloween Residence"
• New Darkhood Quest Chain
• New Rewards in Event Calendar
• 4 New time-limited Bundles
• Split City Adventures give out pumpkin refiller

Read more about...

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

Please remember:
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

Have fun and creepy settling!

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 2020 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 Min
Common pumpkin cemetery	2 Hours 40 Min
Noble pumpkin cemetery	40 Min

Split City in Summer joins our Seasonal Adventures! 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 2020:

Adventure	Type	Pumpkin refillers min.	Pumpkin refillers max.	x2 seasonal max.
Buccaneer Roundup	Coop	4	8	16
RaidingtheRaiders	Coop	10	16	32
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
MotherLove	Mission (Follow Up)	3	8	16
MoreSecludedExperiments	Mission (Follow Up)	8	14	28
OldFriends	Mission (Follow Up)	11	18	36
The Invasion of the Nord	Mission (Follow Up)	18	32	64
TheCleverLittleTailor	Mission (Follow Up)	7	14	28
The Heroic Little Tailor	Mission (Follow Up)	7	14	28
1001NightsSeaSnake	Mission (Follow Up)	16	26	52
1001NightsTreasureWisdom	Mission (Follow Up)	24	45	90
PirateLife	Mini	12	19	38
The Sleeping Volcano	Mini	6	9	18
Arctic Explosion	Mini	16	23	46
BuffAdventures_DragonRoost	Venture	3	8	16
BuffAdventures_ElChupacabra	Venture	9	14	28
BuffAdventures_RaidOfTheNords	Venture	9	14	28
Evil_Queen_Red_Riding_Hood	Venture	12	24	48
Evil_Queen_Snow_White	Venture	10	20	40
LostCity	Venture	11	22	44
OneStepAhead	Venture	12	24	48
Unknown_Regions	Venture	18	30	60
The_People_of_the_Mountain	Venture	30	50	100
Split City in Summer	Coop	9	14	28

 

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!

This year we also introduce the Darkhood Quest which surrounds a mysterious hooded being! It is of utter importance that you fulfill the Rituals the hooded individual is guiding you through. Just who is this hooded creature and can you trust it? You have to find out yourself and you'll be rewarded greatly.

The Darkhood Mainquest starts after reaching level 19 and will activate subquests 1-13 all together immediately! The 14th and last quest will start once you completed the Darkhood Mainquest and will reveal the secrets that you encountered along your tricky and treaty adventure.

We know you love riddles and mysteries, therefore, we highly recommend reading the story. Blink just once and everything crumbles to dust, leaving only the unknowingly and fear behind.

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As we all know, it is customary to animate the tiny "Event Island" located in the center 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 properly. Additionally, the supreme golem got an increase to become a greater challenge. A small spooky tip: It is now more valuable to defeat the reoccurring 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 the 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 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 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! This time we added new spooky rewards!

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 afterward
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.

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Adventure	Max Amount	Normal Amount
Tomb Raiders	19	13
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 Invasion of the Nord	32	18
Pirate Life	19	12
Bastille Island	22	14
Wild Mary	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
BuffAdventures_DragonRoost	8	3
BuffAdventures_ElChupacabra	14	9
BuffAdventures_RaidOfTheNords	14	9
BuffAdventures_Evil_Queen_Red_Riding_Hood	24	12
BuffAdventures_Evil_Queen_Snow_White	20	10
BuffAdventures_LostCity	22	11
BuffAdventures_OneStepAhead	24	12
BuffAdventures_TMC_Unknown_Regions	30	18
BuffAdventures_TMC_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
Split City in Summer	9	14
Split City in Fall	21	34

 

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This year's ghastly headliners will be the brand new Ghost General and the Scared Explorer. Is the Scared Explorer afraid of the Ghost general or does he know of something dangerous slumbering in the deeps of the abyss? In life, the Ghost General was a strict noblewoman betrayed by pirate mercenaries. Now a ghost seeking retribution. And she believes you to be the perfect partner to accomplish it. Will you actually help her out? Additionally, another Specialist will keep his distance but still offered you his help. The Scared Explorer is incredibly fearful and gets startled by the faintest of noises. Thus, he needs longer for all searches, but is very eager and brings back more treasures from his searches. And that’s not all: Due to his particularly sensitive nature, he always has a small chance of finding something extraordinary like crystals, premium time Items, or precious books:

Name: Ghost General
Description: In life, a strict noblewoman betrayed by pirate mercenaries. Now a ghost seeking retribution. Unit HP+20%, Enemy Accuracy is halved, travels 3x as fast, recovers 4x faster and 20% lost units. Natural 1-Up does not stack with skill.
Cost: 3x 5799 Pumpkins, 2x in bundles | per Event

Name: Scared Explorer
Description: He’s incredibly fearful and gets startled by the faintest of noises. Thus, he needs 4 times longer for all searches, but at least manages to come home with 4 times the treasure on treasure searches and often some omniseeds, too. And that’s not all: Due to his particularly sensitive nature, he always has a small chance of finding something extraordinary like crystals, premium time Items, or precious books.
"Whoaaaaa! Did you hear that?"Trait: Fearfulness

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Chances to find the following extra loot on treasure searches:
Short:
50x Omniseeds
15x or 30x or 80x Crystals
1 or 3 or 7 Premium Days or Premium Friend Buff
Books (4x / 8x Manuscripts or 2x / 4x Tome or 1x / 3x Codex)

Medium:
85 Omniseeds
15x or 35x or 85x Crystals
1 or 3 or 7 Premium Days or Premium Friend Buff
Books (4x / 8x Manuscripts or 2x / 4x Tome or 1x / 3x Codex)

Long:
160 Omniseeds
15x or 35x or 85x Crystals
1 or 3 or 7 Premium Days or Premium Friend Buff
Books (4x / 8x Manuscripts or 2x / 4x Tome or 1x / 3x Codex)

Very long:
300 Omniseeds
20x or 40x or 90x Crystals
1 or 3 or 7 Premium Days or Premium Friend Buff
Books (4x / 8x Manuscripts or 2x / 4x Tome or 1x / 3x Codex)

Prolonged:
440 Omniseeds
20x or 45x or 100x Crystals
1 or 3 or 7 Premium Days or Premium Friend Buff
Books (4x / 8x Manuscripts or 2x / 4x Tome or 1x / 3x Codex)
Cost: 3x 4199 Pumpkins | per Event

Name: Chummy Geologist
Description: There is nothing in life the Chummy Geologist wants more than to be your friend. To please you, he finds deposits really quick or returns with sweet chocolate from his longer searches once every couple of searches.
"Let’s be Friends, okay?" Trait: Choco Bonus

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Chance to return with a Chocolate Rabbit, Chocolate Pralines, Chocolate Covered Arrows, or Viscious Drinking Chocolate on the following searches:
Coal 40%
Gold 40%
Granite 60%
Titanium 60%
Saltpeter 60%

Needs 50% more time for Coal, Gold, Granite, Titanium, and Saltpeter deposit searches than a regular geologist.
Needs 50% less time for Stone, Copper, Marble, and Iron deposit searches than a regular geologist.

Cost: 5x 1249 Pumpkins + 1 Calendar | per Event

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: 1x 6999 Pumpkins | 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: 2x 4313 Pumpkins + 1x bundle | per Event


Name: Mad Scientist
Description: A General who is "Crazy for Explosions" and increases the damage of heavy units.
Cost: 2x 4999 Pumpkins | per Event

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Type: Culture Building (Provisioner)
Effect: Allows production of different buffs
Size: 2 x 2
Limit: 2x each Tree (exception is the blue tree with limit 1, as you get 1 for playing the questchain Darkhood)
Cost: 4500 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: All of them are not tradable and not giftable

Blacktrees are cultural buildings same as all other with one difference. Usually all culture buildings of the same type share one production and thus getting more only speeds up the production. The blacktrees are actually 5 different culture buildings. This means you will be able to run 5 different productions at the same time and speed up each one of them with one additional tree of the same color. Furthermore, Blacktrees can't be buffed.

The blacktree will offer with each upgrade a variety of powerful and unique buffs for resoure costs after upgrading with PUMPKINS:

Upgrade Level	Name	Description	Production Time	Production Cost	Target	Upgrade Time	Upgrade Cost
Level 1	Black Pollen (freely placeable area buff)	+300% output also +100% input required, 7x7 area. 24 hours (36 hours on friend)	23,5h (Base Production)	1500 Flour, 1200 Sausages	Workyard	x	x
Level 2	Blackened Titanium Horseshoe	+25% movement speed, 6 hours. Note: This buff affects only a single adventure	18h (Base Production)	100 Titanium, 1500 Coal	Generals on an adventure	2m	500 Exotic Wood Planks, 1500 Pumpkins
Level 3	Witches' Grout	Converts 30 Marble, 20 Granite and 50 Brew into 2 Grout	40min (Base Production)	30 Marble, 20 Granite, 50 Brew	Converts Resources	2m	1000 Exotic Wood Planks, 1750 Pumpkins
Level 4	Blacktree Blossoms	+300% EW output for 24h	47,5h (Base Production)	2200 Oilseed, 3500 Water, 2500 Marble	Epic Workyard	2m	1500 Exotic Wood Planks, 2000 Pumpkins
Level 5	Black Vortex (Zone Buff)	Reduces General travel time by 35%, stacks with other buffs of the same type, e.g. Star Charts. 3h duration.	72h (Base Production)	50 Map Fragment, 1000 Intermediate Paper, 10 Adventure Tale	Adventure	2m	2000 Exotic Wood Planks, 2250 Pumpkins
Level 6	Arcane Crystallization	Converts 20 Granite, 150 Oilseed and 100 Brew into 1 Crystalshard	3,5h (Base Production)	20 Granite, 150 Oilseed, 100 Brew	Converts Resources	2m	2500 Exotic Wood Planks, 2500 Pumpkins
Level 7	Blacktree Arrow	A defined amount of random units in a camp will be defeated and removed. Defeats less units compared to other arrow types, but use on enemy camps is not limited!	36h (Base Production)	500 Exotic Wood Planks, 200 Book Fittings, 50 Saltpeter	Adventure Camps	2m	3000 Exotic Wood Planks, 2750 Pumpkins

Type: Residence
Effect: Increases the population limit +140 Population from start and with Upgrades will increase the population up to 650!
Size: 2 x 2
NOTE: Requires 2500 pumpkins to upgrade from level 7 to level 8!
Cost: 3x 7995 Pumpkins + 3 in Bundles
Trade/Gift: The residence is not tradable and not giftable

A creepy variant of the Wondrous Residence. A must-have for enthusiasts of scary times.
Instead of tokens this variant will require pumpkins as upgrade costs.

Level	Costs	Population	Construction Time
1	-	140	5 Minutes
2	Coin 350 Marble 300	+30 (170)	10 Minutes
3	Coin 900 Hardwood Planks 1000	+30 (200)	30 Minutes
4	Coin 1100 Granite 1000	+35 (235)	1 Hour
5	Coin 1500 Exotic wood Planks 1000	+35 (270)	2 Hours
6	Grout 1500 Granite 2500	+40 (310)	3 Hours
7	Coin 4000 Mahogany Planks 5000	+40 (350)	6 Hours
8	Grout 1000 Pumpkins 2500	+50 (400)	1 Day
9	Coin 5000 Granite 7500	+50 (450)	3 Days
10	Grout 5000 Granite 12500	+50 (500)	4 Days
11	Magic Beanstalks 10000 Granite 12500	+50 (550)	7 Days
12	Grout 10000 Coin 15000	+100 (650)	7 Days

Only the Lantern can directly be purchased for 5.499 Pumpkins and you can obtain 3 during this Event. The lantern is not tradable and can't be gifted. 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.Fthe

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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!

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

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Type: Workyard
Effect: Produces 12 Bronze without the need of Coal and 6 deposit
Time: 3 min.
Size: 2 x 2
Limit: 3 (+ 1 Calendar)
Cost: 3499 Pumpkins (tradable, but not giftable)

The Laboratory

The Laboratory enables various resource conversions. Additional Laboratories will increase the production speed of these conversions.
It can be purchased once for 3999 Pumpkins, once for 4799 gems and once in a bundle. 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

Sunflower Farm

Description: The Sunflower Farm produces oilseed very slowly and can be buffed massively by the buff "Sunflower Fertilizer".
Limit: 3 per player (former acquisitions don't count)
Cost: 800 Pumpkins
Trade/Gift: Not 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

Deco Palm (1, 2, 3)

Description: A very beautiful palm tree that can be placed on your island to prettify it.
Limit: No limit Cost: 65 Pumpkins for each of the 3 versions
Trade/Gift: tradable, giftable

Deco Cactus (1, 2, 3)

Description: A very beautiful cactus that can be placed on your island to prettify it.
Limit: No limit Cost: 65 Pumpkins for each of the 3 versions
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 once again for all players that could not acquire it in the past.

Name: Delicious Treat (not tradable, not giftable.)
Type: Bundle
Cost: 7999 Gems - Overall only once per player. If you purchased it in 2019, you won't be able to buy it again!
Description: Oh this dainty bit cannot escape your attention. Check out the ingredients of this time-limited feast.

Name: Halloween Elite Pack (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 25999 Gems (Limit: 1 per Player) | Halloween exclusive Bundle. Only available during Halloween
Description: A scarily magnificent bundle. An elite troop of generals with elite housing.
Event limited bundle with an insane 50% discount! Get it now or fear the consequences! Muahahaha!

Your foes start shivering just looking at the content of this exclusive and time-limited bundle:

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• 1x Younger Gemini General
• 1x General Sylvana
• 1x Cloaked General
• 1x Bewitching Explorer
• 1x Wondrous Halloween Residence
• 1x Tree House
• 1x Haunted Mansion
• 30 Premium Days (split into 3x 7 Days, 2x 3days,3x 1day)
• 1x Prestigious Friend Buff
• 2x Medipack
• 10x Bag of Rainbow Snow
• 10x Elixir
• 10x Barazek
• 10x Rain of Flaming Arrows
• 10x Ballista
• 10x Ranged Support
• 10x Blacktree Arrow

Name: Halloween General Bundle (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 16666 Gems (Limit: 1 per Player) + 16999 Pumpkins (Limit: 1 per Player) | Halloween exclusive Bundle. Only available during Halloween
Description: Not Zombies but still creepy! Get your hands on a bunch of Halloween Generals including a sweet discount!
So don't trick yourself, treat yourself!

An ideal bundle for Veterans, Beginners, and everyone in-between:

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• 1x Younger Gemini General
• 1x Grim Reaper General
• 1x Lord Dracul General
• 1x Ghost General
• 7 Premium Days (split into 2x 3days,1x 1day)
• 1x Prestigious Friend Buff
• 5x Rain of Flaming Arrows
• 5x Ballista
• 5x Ranged Support
• 5x Blacktree Arrow

Name: Brilliant Halloween Building Bundle (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 18777 Gems (Limit: 1 per Player) + 18999 Pumpkins (Limit: 1 per Player) | Halloween exclusive Bundle. Only available during Halloween
Description: Brilliant beautification for your settlement with lots of building space. The perfect bundle also for brilliant scientists to get their own Laboratory!

Don't you get Goosebumps with such greatness in one bundle?:

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• 1x Wondrous Halloween Residence
• 1x Laboratory
• 1x Tree House
• 1x Haunted Mansion
• 1x Spooky Bronze Mine
• 7 Premium Days (split into 2x 3days, 1x 1day)
• 1x Prestigious Friend Buff
• 10x Bag of Rainbow Snow
• 10x Elixir
• 10x Barazek
• 10x Zombie
• 10x Mr. Myers
• 10x iGor

Name: Bewitching Bundle (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 9799 Pumpkins (Limit: 1 per Player)
Description: The Bewitching Explorer has chosen some really enticing items for you in this time-limited Halloween Special. Come closer, have a look…
“Let yourself be bewitched!”
This bundle contains:

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Bewitching Explorer
Gold-Hearted Geologist
Token Mint
Capacious Warehouse
Treehouse
Prestigious Friend Buff
3x Elixir
3x Barazek
1x Solid Sandwich
2x Ranged Support
4x Chocolate Covered Arrows
2x Mr. Myers
2x Nash Williams

Name: Eery Booster Bundle (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 2999 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: Pumpkin (not tradable, but giftable. The pumpkins [Resource] can be traded)
Type: Resource
Cost: 60 Gems
Effect: Contains 50 pumpkins


Name: Pumpkin Basket (not tradable, but giftable. The pumpkins [Resource] can be traded)
Type: Resource
Cost: 360 Gems
Effect: Contains 300 pumpkins


Name: Pumpkin Cart (not tradable, but giftable. The pumpkins [Resource] can be traded)
Type: Resource
Cost: 5000 Gems
Effect: Contains 4200 pumpkins


Name: Oil (tradable, not giftable)
Type: Resource
Cost: 10x 170 Pumpkins | per Event
Effect: Contains 100 Oil. Is required for many level 7 building upgrades


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 the 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: Trick
Where: It can be produced in the Provision house and applied to 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.


Name: Change Skin: Excelsior Halloween (not tradable, but giftable.
Type: Buff
Cost: 50 Pumpkins
Effect: Sets Excelsior Skin for 5 Days to "Halloween"


Name: Change Skin: Permanent Excelsior Halloween (not tradable, but giftable.
Type: Buff
Cost: 995 Pumpkins
Effect: Sets Excelsior Skin permanent to "Halloween"

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• HALLOWEEN 2020 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?
09.11.2020, at 10:00 CET, at 10:00 CET

• 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 canceled.

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

• 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 canceled 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 the 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?
16.11.2020 ~10:00 CET

• 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!