Ant Event

Ant Events are the newest type of in-game events introduced on **July 21st 2020**, and are the only method of obtaining exclusive decorations from past events other than from Decoration Sales.

When this event is active, an ant character will appear in the special event area, asking for help with growing some mushrooms. Players can help the ants tend to their mushroom garden, and in return, the ants will award players with personalized rewards.

Ant Events don't have their own moth sets or exclusive decorations, and they don't stop Special Visitors from appearing.

## Event Characters

The first event on **July 21st 2020** introduced Lizzie Media, a Leafcutter Ant, who is an adventurer looking for mushrooms to take back home to her colony to show them what life is like above ground. Sometimes, she'll need the mushrooms to help her go on an expedition on the canopy to bathe in the sunlight.

On **August 20th 2020**, Dr. Sofia Minima was introduced; she is a worker minima ant who loves to study & research mushrooms as a hobby, & sometimes needs them to heal injured ants in the leafcutter ant colony.

As of Update 2.04 Halloween, a Velvet Panda Ant character named Maite Euspinolia, was added to the game, & made her first appearance on **11th November 2020**. She wants to grow mushrooms in order to feel like she fits in with everyone in her new home with the leafcutter ants. She easily becomes homesick, though.

## Event Mechanics

During an ant event, players acquire different spore packs which contain spores to plant in the garden. A free common spore pack is granted to the player every 2 hours; this can be reduced to 1 hour & 30 minutes by watching an advert. Free hurrying has a cooldown time of 1 hour & 30 minutes once used.

Each spore pack contains six spores of random rarity, from common to legendary. Additional spore packs can be bought with glowbucks - 10  for a common spore pack, and 20  for a deluxe spore pack, which have a higher probability of containing rarer spores. Spore packs can also be found inside gift box rewarded for reaching some event milestones, which can be used to help with the event's progress.

Spores can be planted in the garden by dragging a spore to an empty plot. The mushroom garden has 5 plots in total. Each spore, regardless of its rarity, takes 2 hours to grow into a mushroom, with the player being able to speed up the process by using hurry option (Mulch) for 25  or by watching ads (30 minutes reduction per ad). The free hurry for mushroom growth has a cooldown time of 1 hour, 30 minutes.

Spore rarity influences how much event points the resulting mushroom will grant the player once harvested: **(NOTE: As of 17 January 2024, new points were given to the mushrooms - bolded values refer to the current points)**

Common (greenish spore with white border) - **10** points
Uncommon (purple spore with green border) - **12** points
Rare (blue spore with cyan border) - **16** points (15)
Epic (pink spore with pink border) - **22** points (19)
Legendary (brown spore with orange border) - **28** points (24)

When an ant event comes to an end, any unused spores, unharvested mushrooms and unclaimed rewards will disappear & cannot be kept for a future ant event. However, unopened spore packs and unused mulch will remain, and can be used for future events.

**Information that needs confirming:**

It appears that if a decoration was not successfully earned in a pervious Ant Event, it will most likely return in the following one; this means that the decoration the player is given the chance to earn previously will stay until it has been earned, before another Exclusive decoration takes its place in a future Ant Event.

However, it is currently unknown if the decoration from the failed Ant Event carries over to a different Ant; e.g: a decoration not won from Sofia ends up appearing in the next Ant Event, which has either Lizzie or Maite.

## Event Prizes

Rewards for the event are personalized for each player, with the prizes being event moths, exclusive event decorations and event shop decorations that said player doesn't already have in their Flutterpedia. In case the player already has all the moths and decorations, they will only receive gift boxes instead of moth and decoration prizes.

Moth prizes consist of 5 eggs of one moth species, and 5 eggs of another, allowing the player to perfect two moths during the event. The eggs rewarded by the event are already incubated, and will spawn somewhere on an empty space in your forest, ready to turn into caterpillars. The decoration reward will be from the same set as one of the moths, if possible.

The rewards listed on the reward chart appear as black silhouettes until a certain milestone is reached, after which the moths/decoration will become visible on the chart and on a small summary field below it. The rewards can be tapped for details on what set they are from, their rarity (for moths) & ability (for decorations).

Egg images on the reward chart do not always correspond with the moths' rarities, they simply show which of the two moths is rarer. I.e., the common-looking egg might actually represent an epic moth.

- The common moth is revealed when the first obtainable common moth is the current prize milestone.

- The rarer moth is revealed when the first obtainable rarer moth is the current prize milestone; the rarer moth is usually obtainable after all of the common moth prizes have been obtained.

- The exclusive decoration is revealed once there are only four prizes remaining.

To receive your rewards, don't forget to visit the Reward tab of the event, and claim your prizes! Unclaimed prizes will become unobtainable once the event ends. The game will warn you if you have not claimed a reward by putting a red exclamation marker on the Reward Tab, and put "Claim" on top of the prize of the obtained faded-out prize on the milestone chart.

**Total number of rewards:**
5x Moth #1 (lesser rarity)
5x Moth #2 (higher rarity)
5x Gift Box
1x Decoration

First reward (for 50 points) seems to always be a Super Spore Pack.

**Possible gift box rewards:**
- Basic Spore Pack or Super Spore Pack
- Mulch (hurry garden)
- Storage item (leaf, twig, sap)
- Toad treats
- Glowbucks
- Attraction flowers

You may receive multiple rewards at once from a gift box. (I.e. 2 toad treats, a basic spore pack, and a 10% Legendary attraction flower.)

It turns out some players have the premium decorations from the shop as their reward. The Parrot Flower, Singing Orchid, Red Plumeria, and the Moon Orchid are the ones that appear in some ant events. The Star Lotus and Red Slipper do not appear. They need to be bought by real money.

## Reward Milestones

What is rewarded for each specific milestone varies from player to player, with one exception: the decoration is always the last reward.

**Note:** it appears that table below is only one of the possible variants of milestones in the event.

**Note:** with the January 2024 Update, ant events are now 7 days long, and points required for new milestones have been increased. The bracketed values are one example of the new changes. (to be updated)

## Reward Order For New Players

**Information that needs confirming:**

For now the event rewards appear to be in the same order for new players. This may change in the future and for now this is just data collected from what new players of the game have experienced. If seasons matter this data was collected starting June on Event 5.

**Note:** This table is incomplete and will get updated as they are discovered

**Information Needed Updating:**

The following rewards are for events 1-5 and they need to get sorted into the above table.

**Decorations:** Chocolate Cosmos

**Moths:** Southern Flannel Moth

## Garden Deals

From September 30th 2020, Ant Events began at 11:00pm instead of 12:00am & also introduced Garden Deals, which are bundles that contain items to help with Ant Events and can be purchased with real money.

* **Mushroom Booster** - Contains 4x Super Spore Packs & 4x Mulch Packs. Usually costs £8.00, but sometimes lowered to £4.69
* **Fungus Flourisher** - Contains the boost item 1.5x Garden Points for 5 days, 8x Super Spore Packs & 8x Mulch Packs. Usually costs £58.00, but sometimes lowered to £22.69

## Tips

- **Hurry Spore Packs & Garden around the same time;** Both hurries for a free spore pack & hurry garden have a cooldown timer of 1 hour, 30 minutes. This means that they will become ready again at the same time the mushrooms become fully grown if both the garden & free spore pack were hurried around the same time as each other.

- **Use a Countdown Timer to know when mushrooms have matured;** Hurry both the garden & spore pack by 30 minutes for free, & then use an app that has a countdown timer, & set it to 1 hour, 30 minutes to help keep track of whenever the garden is ready to harvest mushrooms. Repeating this will increase the chances of getting all of the prizes.

**- Set shifts on all Pollen Flowers on a day before an event starts**; make sure that the number of pollen in the sanctuary is maxed out (3000 or over). This gives easy access to leveling up your new moths, even though Ant Events don't need to have fully leveled up moths; they only require all prizes to be claimed.

**- Continue to collect Free Spore Packs even when all prizes are collected;** any unopened spore packs will carry over to future Ant Events, which may help out in cases where you have less time or server maintenance happens during an Ant Event.

**- Look at the silhouettes on in the Ant Event Rewards & use the Visual Lists on this wiki;** Visual List of Moths Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4, & Visual List of Decorations Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 can help you tell which Ant Events are worth spending saved up Mulch & Spore Packs on

**- Don't merge moths starting at 360 ;** if you frequently open the app no moths in the early game will ever match the coins per minute of the event moths that make 360  in their first stage and merging these moths don't raise their coins per minute.

## History of Ant Adventures

21st July 2020 - 26th July 2020: **Featured Ant:** Lizzie Media. **Notes:** The 1st ever Ant Event, & Lizzie Media's 1st appearance. Also, this 1st Ant Event occurred before the Forest Expansion Update.

20th August 2020 - 25th August 2020: **Featured Ant:** Dr. Sofia Minima. **Notes:** This was Dr. Sofia's 1st appearance.

30th August 2020 - 4th September 2020: **Featured Ant:** Lizzie Media

29th September 2020 - 4th October 2020: **Featured Ant:** Dr. Sofia Minima

9th October 2020 - 14th October 2020: **Featured Ant:** Lizzie Media. **Notes:** This particular Ant Event had the Wisp Mother glitched above her head, & Lizzie's name was misspelled as "Lizzy" on a picture on the official Flutter: Starlight Facebook.

November 11th 2020 - November 16th 2020: **Featured Ant:** Maite Euspinolia. **Notes:** This was Maite Euspinolia's 1st appearance. 4 hours were lost thanks to server maintenance across both Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary, Flutter: Starlight & Splash: Ocean Sanctuary, costing some people the Ant Event.

22nd November 2020 - 27th November 2020: **Featured Ant:** Dr. Sofia Minima

21st December 2020 - 26th December 2020: **Featured Ant:** Maite Euspinolia

31st December 2020 - 5th January 2021: **Featured Ant:** Lizzie Media

13th January 2021 - 18th January 2021: **Featured Ant:** Dr. Sofia Minima

24th January 2021 - 29th January 2021: **Featured Ant:** Maite Euspinolia

17th February 2021 - 22th February 2021: **Featured Ant:** Lizzie Media

28th February 2021 - 5th March 2021: **Featured Ant:** Dr. Sofia Minima

11th March 2021 - 16th March 2021: **Featured Ant:** Maite Euspinolia

17th March 2021 - 22nd March 2021: **Featured Ant:** Lizzie Media

24th March 2021 - 29th March 2021: **Featured Ant:** Dr. Sofia

18th April 2021 - 24th April 2021: **Featured Ant:** Maite Euspinolia

28th April 2021 - 3rd May 2021: **Featured Ant:** Lizzie Media

7th May 2021 - 12th May 2021: **Featured Ant:** Dr. Sofia Media

17th May 2021 - 22nd May 2021: **Featured Ant:** Maite Euspinolia

25th May 2021 - 30th May 2021: **Featured Ant:** Lizzie Media

## Related Pages

* Events
* Tips
* Lizzie Media
* Dr. Sofia Minima
* Maite Euspinolia
* Glitches
* Visual List of Moths 2
* Visual List of Moths 3
* Visual List of Moths 4
* Visual List of Decorations 2
* Visual List of Decorations 3
* Visual List of Decorations 4

## Trivia & Notes

* This is Starlight's version of Garden Events from Butterfly Sanctuary.
* The Ants are all counterparts of Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary's bees; Lizzie Media is Ms Gracie's counterpart, Dr. Sofia Minima is Princess Hailey's counterpart & Maite is Oliver the Blue-Banded Bumblebee's counterpart
* This event type introduced the first (and only) method to acquire exclusive decorations from past events.
* Unlike both Flutter games, Splash: Ocean Sanctuary didn't get an event related to winning prizes from past events until early 2023; Octopus Events are similar to the Flutter game's Garden/Ant Events, but with a few differences.
* It is possible to also obtain decorations that featured in Shop Event Packs during Events from an Ant Event
* New Ant Stories & speeches were added with the addition of Maite, so *all* ant characters will appear with either one of the two stories to share.
* Sometimes, a glitch occurred where Doug the Glowbug appeared & replaced all the mushrooms when there was only 1 minute left for all of the mushrooms to mature. As of **29th September 2020**, Doug no longer appears when mushrooms are about to mature. However, it has not been patched fully; by quickly exiting the garden after planting the spores & re-entering, the Dougs will appear briefly just before the mushrooms begin to grow. It is unknown if this is a glitch, or a placeholder.
* Lizzie's name was misspelled as "Lizzy" on the picture posted on Flutter: Starlight's Facebook page when introducing the **9th October 2020** Ant Event: here is the picture containing the error.
* A hilarious glitch where a piece of the sleeping Wisp Mother appeared above Lizzie Media's head occurred at the start of the Ant Event on **9th October 2020**. This was likely caused by an error in the code of the game, due to the upcoming Hades event being a Wisp Event: A picture of this glitch can be found on Flutter: Starlight's official Facebook Page. This glitch remained for the entire event, & was likely not patched, due to the fans finding the glitch "cute". This glitch did not return in the following Ant Event that introduced Maite.
* More Ant Events have been occurring due to both Wisp Events & Firefly Events being currently unavailable (since the last Lumen Wisp Event), due to game mechanics being updated. It is currently unknown when they'll be returning.