Valentine's Event 2021

The Valentine's Event 2021 is the 3rd Major Event to take place. It was announced on 28-Jan-2021 on Discord.

## Duration

The event started on 5-Feb-2021 at 0:00 UTC and ended on 21-Feb-2021 at 23:59 UTC, having a duration of 17 days.

## About the festivity

Valentine's Day is celebrated annually on 14-February. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. It's commonly celebrated by exchanging handmade or store-bought “Valentines” (greeting cards) or other tokens of affection like chocolates and flowers.

## Special Creature

Main article: Paussinae Beetle

This Event's creature is the Paussinae Beetle. It's a Special variant of the Bombardier Beetle, having higher speed. It acts as a crowd control unit on Battles, and it could also be used as a tank.

It can be attracted twice per day during this Event.

## Activity Bar

The activity bar can be filled with 1000 Activity Points that are gotten from the following activities:

 Processing Cake pieces into food.
 Obtaining Honeydew from Aphid Farms, the Fire Ant Nest or Beehive.
 Getting Pheromones by attacking other players or Dr. Zany.
 Watching ads for Battle Tokens.

## Purchasable Items

### Unlimited Source

The 24-hours Unlimited Source for this Event is the Valentine's Chocolate Cake, which is located like the rest of Unlimited Sources: at the north of the player's Colony, next to the Tree. All players get one for free, and it can be purchased unlimited times on the Event Menu with a cost of 650 Gems.

The Cake will only disappear 24 hours after its activation. It's activated by gathering from it, or selecting it as a source. Once activated, the 24-hours timer in the Event menu will start.

Worker ants can gather Cake pieces to process them into food, and Leaves to store them in the Leaf Storage. Seeds can't be gathered from the Cake. It's recommended to log in often as the infinite food allows for quick soldier ant regeneration. It will also allow players to build colony upgrades easily.

Since it's a source of Activity Points, it is recommended to delay its activation by an hour or two after the reset (0:00 UTC), so it can last for two days, allowing players to get 4 Paussinae Beetles easily.

### Ant Skins

This Event includes a new and limited Pink Heart-Shaped ant skin, which can only be purchased during the Event with 500 gems in the Ant Skins shop.

## Daily Rewards

This event included Daily Rewards that players can claim by logging in every day. Skipping a day will not reset the progress.

## Timer Reductions

The Respawn Timers that were reduced in this event are:

* Red Ants timer, from 12 hours to 6 hours.
* Aphid farms timer, from 6 hours to 3 hours.
* Creatures timer, from 24 hours to 4 hours.

## Trivia

* This is the first time the creature respawn time has been decreased in an event.
* The Paussinae Beetle shoots out not acid, but hearts from its abdomen. They are no less deadly.
* The Paussinae Beetle had a different texture when it was first released, looking more similar to the real life Paussinae beetles. Although the antennae are the same on both designs.