Events

Events are temporary features on the game. During a certain lapse, which can be a few days or several weeks, exclusive content and special features are added, or existing features are modified.

## General information

Events are helpful for most players, as they give the opportunity to get special rewards, such as strong creatures and/or resources that are usually harder to get. Events usually start on a Friday and finish on Monday or Tuesday.

Big updates are not released while an Event is in progress, thus they can be seen as a distraction for players, giving time to the Developer for working on big features that are released after the Event finishes.

Some Event features can be later on implemented as a permanent feature into the game, for example, the Strawberry.

## Types of Events

### Major Events

Major Events, also known as "Festivity Events" or simply "Events", include a series of features related to popular festivities. According to ArielGames, the festivities featured in these events are those that are celebrated around the world, rather than in specific countries. Since they are tied to real-life annual celebrations, they occur around the same dates each year, as listed above:

* Valentine's day (14-February).
* Easter (between March and April).
* Game's Anniversary (27-June).
* Summer Season (26-August).
* Halloween (31-October).
* Christmas (25-December).

Features that are seen in these events are:

* A new window for the Event, accessible through a button located above the Shop menu.
* An Activity Bar, which can be filled through completing a series of activities like battling, defeating the red ants, etc.
* One, or many, Special Creatures, which can only be attracted during the event by filling the Activity Bar. They have higher stats than Normal creatures, even higher stats than Golden Creatures. Players can only attract **two** of these creatures per day.
* A free Unlimited Source that last for 24 hours and gives event Activity Points. It can be purchased for another 24 hours with Gems.
* Daily Rewards of Resin, Honeydew or Body Parts and, in special occasions gems, that players can claim by logging in every day. Skipping a day will not reset the progress.
* Re-spawn Timer reductions for Red Ants, Aphids Farms, **and/or** Creatures.
* Limited Ant skins that can only be purchased during the event with gems. They won't disappear from the skin shop if they were purchased.
* Visual changes, like new textures for Acorns, decorations, etc.
* Additional features **may** also be added.

### Creature Events

Creature Events, also known as Mini-events, are short Events that were made to give players the chance to get Special Creatures from the past or fuse the ones they have. These Events are very different from the Major Events, since these don't feature any festivity but only the creature. They occur a couple weeks after a Major Event is finished, and bring back the creature that was included on the last year's edition of that Major Event (by example, a Creature Event that occurs after the Christmas Event 2021 will bring back the creature from Christmas Event 2020, which is: Christmas Spider).

Features that are seen in these events are only the following:

* A new window for the Event, accessible through a button located above the Shop menu.
* An Activity Bar, which can be filled through completing a series of activities like battling, defeating the red ants, etc.
* The Activity Bar can also be filled by spending Gems, 1 Gem is worth 1 point.
* A Special Creature from a previous Major Event, which can only be attracted during the event by filling the Activity Bar. They have higher stats than Normal creatures, even higher stats than Golden Creatures. Players can attract as many creatures as they can every day, **there's no daily limit**.

Unlike Major Events, these don't include Unlimited Sources, Daily Rewards, Re-spawn Timer reductions, Ant skins nor Visual changes of any type. Getting creatures in these Events is harder because the Red Ants and Aphid Farms re-spawn time isn't reduced, thus they won't give as much Activity Points per day as they do on Major Events.

### Weekend Events

Also known as "Special Weekends", these are the simplest and shortest variant of an Event. As their name suggests, these occur only on weekends, selected by the developer, and involve a major reduction of one of the three Re-spawn Timers, giving three possibilities for a Weekend Event: Creature Weekend, Aphid Weekend, and Red Ants Weekend.

Unlike other Events, Weekend ones don't add a new menu or anything else, the re-spawn time reduction is the only feature. The timers are reduced more than on Major Events.

The last Event of this type occurred on 20-August-2021, it's unknown if they will come back one day.

## List of Events

These are the lists for each type of Event, sorted in chronological order. Visit each Event's individual page to see the full details.

### Major Events

\*Events start at 0:00 UTC on the First day and finish at 23:59 UTC on the Last day.

Extra information:

### Creature Events

\*Events start at 0:00 UTC on the First day and finish at 23:59 UTC on the Last day.

## Trivia

* The Pumpkin from the Halloween Event 2020 derived into the Strawberry, making Unlimited Sources a permanent feature.
* Similarly, Easter Eggs from the Easter Event 2021 derived into Acorns. The main difference is that Acorns give Fungus, Leaves and Seeds while Easter Eggs give resin, body parts and gems. Easter Eggs have different designs with random colors while Acorns have only one design at a time.
* The purpose of Creature Weekend Events was to give players more ways to get body parts, but they were replaced with the Vinegaroon, a permanent mini boss that appears every 4 hours on weekends and gives body parts when defeated.

1. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/738416192255164446/771309272025137152/898968185854906429
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Date
3. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/738416192255164446/738416851503284295/911639313501007924
4. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/738416192255164446/738416851503284295/878409312999985163

Ariel uses the word "event" to refer to one of these features.
5. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/738416192255164446/738416851503284295/1003084081837383751 The event was extended an extra day due to a bug that affected IOS users' ability to log in to the game.
6. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/738416192255164446/771309272025137152/843157502391484477