[Sneak Peek] Christmas Event 2015

Christmas Event 2015: First insights

A Sneak Peek provides a brief first impression about one of upcoming game versions.
Please keep in mind that it may not reflect the final version of the content, but the test version status.
Once the game version is finalized, a corresponding Dev's Diary will be published.

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A first test version of the Christmas Event 2015 will soon be available.
For more information, visit tsotesting.com.


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Event Start: 15th of December 2015 (all versions)
Removal Phase: 5th of January 2016
Complete Deactivation: 12th of January 2016

Dear Settlers,

The Christmas Event 2015 brings new features (marked in blue) along with familiar content from previous years.
A complete overviews including pictures and detail descriptions will be provided with the Dev Diary before the event starts.

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Presents
You can get the time limited event resources in many different ways and use them to acquire special items.
Your explorers will have a certain chance during each treasure search to bring presents in addition to the normal search reward. Furthermore the Christmas collectibles will spawn on your island again, these can be used to produce presents.



Advent Calendar
The glittering calendar is back, waiting for you to choose gifts on a regular basis.
A new final overall reward is waiting for all diligent Settlers who opened all 21 doors.
You have one day to open a door for free. The remaining time will be shown below the corresponding door.
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Event Achievements
Christmas 2015 introduces new event achievements with exciting rewards.


New buffs, buildings and Specialist
New buffs, new buildings and a new Specialist are all things to look forward to during this year's event.


New Recipes
A recipe is an item that can be used on the "Rarity Provision House" to unlock certain buff productions. This year, new recipes are introduced, but you can also acquire last year's items.


And much more...
The Christmas Event will also feature special Quest chains, Event Daily Quests, the famous Buff Adventures from last year, together with Combat Adventures. Detailed feature descriptions will be published in a Dev Diary later. But first, the team kindly asks you for input about the first test version available on the public test server.

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This year's Christmas Event will introduce new buildings.
One of them is the "Improved Watermill" which supplies your island with water three times as fast as a normal one.
You can acquire up to three buildings for presents (event resource).

Please share your feedback about the Sneak Peek here.

HoHoHo!
BB_Lyedra