Elf

* Complete
* Hatless
* Zombie Type

**Additional**
1× Accessory

The Elf is both a player outfit and an enemy mob in Christmas events. The outfit is adorned in green and yellow, and even comes with a pair of slippers.

Back of the outfit
## Enemy in Christmas Events

Since the original 2019 Holiday Royale, there have been annual events featuring PvE combat every Christmas. The Elf has been a staple enemy variant event from Holiday Royale's first appearance. The Elf zombie type was intended as a Christmas theme on the standard Zombie introduced in Zombie Royale event prior for Halloween—consequently the first ever ZBR. These zombies feature a dressed down Elf outfit (no accessories except the hat), and swap out the Elf's head for the zombie head and a pair of Orange Glowing Eyes. They are a standard bot type that come in large swarms.

Since ZDC's takeover of Christmas since the 2021 Christmas event, Elves have lost the Orange Glowing Eyes.

Elves swarming Space Station
## History

The Elf was originally rewarded to players in the original 2018 Winter Event via Holiday Crates. These crates earned every 30 minutes of play had a chance to earn the player the full outfit, or earn part of the Santa outfit. Spare crates would award 25 coins to the user.
2020 was a very odd year for the Elf outfit. All players who played either Death Match Royale or Holiday Royale during the event period (client v397) was rewarded with the Elf's hat for free. The Holiday Crates consequently had an update to change up the drop rarities and remove the hat from the item pool. Players who wished to earn these crates for the rest of the outfit that year would need to earn them through new conditions—a maximum of 20 that could be earned that event. These conditions for earning were to place in the top 3 in Death Match Royale until the New Year, or for every 200 kills and/or winning in Holiday Royale.

Additional to the crates, players could obtain the outfit through the new in-game store. As this was the period during the shop's integration and the market rebalance going underway, the outfit was noticeably expensive compared to prices in current times. The outfit sold as a Legendary for 1400  at its base value, however due to the free hat every player would have, the price by default would be found marked down to 1100 .

Old shop preview for ElfSince 2021, ZDC became the home for extra crates such as the Holiday Crate that holds the Elf outfit. The 2021 ZDC event, and following years, allowed players to earn an infinite amount of these crates by picking up gifts from supply drops along the road. These would not provide any coins upon opening spares. Because the hat is no longer in the Holiday Crate following the 2020 event, players joining the event from 2021 and on are unable to earn the Elf hat through standard means. This has created a disconnect, where old users will have the full outfit with little issue, and new users obtaining a hatless Elf. For a new player to complete 100% of the outfit, they will need to test their luck with special crates.

## Trivia

* The rarity of crate drops changed from equal weighting to Santa being rarer from the 2020 changeOriginal crate previewCurrent crate preview
* The Elf hat is unobtainable via standard means since 2021
* While 1400 was high for its one-time sale, it's not too far off what a sale of it could be if all cosmetics were to be considered Legendary—coming in to 1200 coins