Monstrology Mini-Event

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Find in locations as many items highlighted in the search list as possible. Beneath them are the Mistress's witchcraft cards. Collect the entire deck and get valuable rewards!

- Mini-Event description

**Notice: The mini-event description varies from event to event. Also, the term that the game uses for the special highlighted hidden item varies from event to event. You might be collecting witchcraft cards, Easter eggs, visiting cards, phantoms, demons, screams, jars of jam, frost, firecrackers, or anything else.**
The goal of this mini-event is to collect as many **highlighted** hidden items as you can. The **highlighted** hidden items are shown to you as part of the normal search of a location which has a ghostly colored swirling cloud above it. After you finish searching all the locations that have the cloud, a new set of locations with a cloud above them will appear.

**For the purposes of the remainder of this description, we will assume you have been asked to collect *phantoms*. But, remember, it does not matter what term the game is using for these highlighted hidden items.**
This mini-event starts at the same time for all players (8am UTC) and usually lasts for 48 hours. This mini-event has occurred in both the Main City and the Upper City.

## Overview

When the mini-event starts, one of the city Characters will ask for your help in collecting something. For this description, we will assume you have asked to collect *phantoms*. In order to collect these *phantoms*, you will have to search specially marked Locations.

Various locations will have a ghostly colored swirling cloud above them (the colors change from event to event). This means that the location has the *phantoms* you are trying to collect. Up to 5 locations may have the swirling cloud. You will have to search all 5 locations before you are given a new set of locations to search. Often the game will repeat locations in the set it gives you.

As you collect these special *phantoms*, you will be placed into a random group of 30 players. At the end of the mini-event, whoever has collected the most *phantoms* among the 30 players wins a major prize.

Along the way, you may collect enough *phantoms* to achieve the fixed prizes.

## Gameplay

You will search the location for the regular hidden items in a specific way. To collect a *phantom*, you will need to find the **HIGHLIGHTED** regular hidden item. After you find the first highlighted hidden item, a new hidden item will become highlighted. The number of *phantoms* you will have collected depends on how many **highlighted** hidden items you find. This is the key point: you have to find the **HIGHLIGHTED** hidden item in order to accrue one *phantom*.

While in the affected location, you can see a counter at the top of the screen telling you how many *phantoms* are available to find.

You do not need to collect all of the highlighted hidden items in sequence to complete the location. However, **only** the highlighted hidden items will count towards the number of *phantoms* you have collected in this location.

If you find and click on a non-highlighted hidden item, the counter at the top of the screen will decrease.

Whether Words or Silhouettes, the current hidden item you should seek will be highlighted in a colored tint on your list. Clicking hidden items that are highlighted in this manner will contribute to the goal of the mini-event. Clicking a highlighted hidden item will gather one *phantom*, and the highlighting will move to a different hidden item on the list.

## Tools

* The Detector tool can now be used to find one highlighted hidden item. This feature became available in October 2023.
* The Compasses and Magnifiers do not usually point to the highlighted item.
* Diode Bombs will collect highlighted items in the top three positions on the list.
* The Lunar Lens is useful for narrowing down specific items on the list.

## Fixed Prizes

In this mini-event, you can earn prizes for collecting 3 levels of *phantoms*.

* 60 *phantoms* awards 30 minutes free energy
* 200 *phantoms* awards 30 event tokens and 3 detectors
* 400 *phantoms* awards 150 event tokens, 50 event entry items, and 4 magnifiers

The actual fixed prizes are the same as the very old version of Monstrology although the number of *phantoms* required is different. You can see the prizes (both fixed and group) by tapping on the icon for the mini-event on the right side of your screen when on the city map.

## Group Prizes

 2
 3
 4-10
 11-20
 21-30

## Tips

* Anomalies or other modes may actually benefit you during this mini-event, since they give more time to complete a location.
* **Be careful with the time limits in locations and on the mini-event itself-- it's very common to use more items than end up being earned as a result of this event!**
* Similar Items and Bats modes will count hidden items as two *phantoms*.
* Take screenshots so you can take your time.
* If new to the game, there will likely be fewer and/or easier locations for the mini-event to show up in.
* New players should not open up a new location right away so as not to Rank up in more difficult/expensive locations while playing the mini-event.

## Trivia

* Prior to the Thousand-Legged Beast event of September 2022, this mini-event gave out fixed prizes at 3 levels of items collected (not quite the same levels as now). Also, there were two different (but similar) versions, depending on how many items needed to be collected. See Old Monstrology Mini-Event for a description of how it used to work.
* Between the Thousand-Legged Beast event of September 2022 and the Beauty Magic event of September/October 2023, this mini-event gave out prizes according to each player's ranking in a grouping of 30 random people. There were no fixed prizes for meeting certain levels.
* As of the Prisoner of Jack's Castle event of October 2023, this mini-event gives out fixed prizes **AND** prizes according to each player's ranking in a grouping of 30 random people.
* As of the Prisoner of Jack's Castle event of October 2023, the Detector could now be used to find a highlighted hidden item.

## Related Pages

* Home Page
* Hidden City Info
* Events
* Mini-Events
* Locations
* Tools

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