Wisp Event

A Wisp Event is the first type of special moth events introduced on the 29th June in 2016.

However, Wisp Events have been absent since 15th June 2021 (Phalaina event), & as of May 30th 2023, Wisp Events have been officially announced as being temporarily retired while some in-game mechanics are being worked on.

During a Wisp Event, players had to catch wisps released by the Wisp Mother to get special attraction flowers for event moths.

Some time before the start of the Wisp Event, a sleeping Wisp Mother would show up between the leaves next to the incubator and would wake up once the event starts. However, this no longer happened in Wisp Events as of 2020, as she spawned wisps the moment a Wisp Event began.

As soon as a Wisp Event began, players would receive a notification message that read "Starlight - An event has just begun! A whole new set of moths are yours to collect!"

## Event Mechanics

To get the attraction flowers, you need to catch the wisps, which are released when you tap the ready Wisp Mother. The Wisp Mother is able to spawn wisps every 2 hours, with 3 to 5 wisps spawned each time.

A notification message that reads "Starlight - The Wisp Mother is ready!" should appear to let the player know when the Wisp Mother is ready to spawn wisps.

However, this notification will fail to appear if the device was powered off during the two hours where the Wisp Mother is sleeping, so a countdown app may be needed.

After wisps have been spawned, in order to catch them, tap a wisp, and a menu with two options with net icons will appear at the bottom of the screen.

The first option **Try Capture** is free, but doesn't guarantee a successful capture, with each wisp having a chance to escape from the player. Escaped wisps are removed from the forest.

The second option **Capture** costs 20 , but will guarantee a successful capture.

During the event, it is possible to purchase Golden Wisp Nets in the shop, which act similarly to this option and guarantee a successful capture when used.

All of these Golden Net packs can be viewed in the slideshow below:

* A promo for Wisp Event shop packs
* Event Starter Pack
* Event Blaster Pack
* Event Booster Pack
* Event Finale Pack
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Each wisp color corresponds to a specific event moth, depending on their rarity, and will drop a 10% attraction flower for said moth when caught. Currently the wisp colours correspond with the following moth rarities: common (white), uncommon (green), rare (blue), epic (purple), legendary (yellow).

Every event flower fills all three incubator slots (region, rarity and size) at once, so it is not possible or necessary to place rarity and size flowers.

It's possible to buy specific event attraction flowers right at the attraction flower inventory while the event is active. It's not possible to get them from other usual flower sources like feeding Trevor or Bee Fly.

After the event is concluded, any remaining event flowers will be converted to honeydew.

## Related Special Abilities

The following decorations had abilities that assisted in Wisp Events:

Note: As of May 30th 2023, an update removed all these decoration abilities & replaced them with other abilities. These may or may not return in the future

* Sweet Thorn; Paperflower Penjing, Deluxe Japanese Camellia, Pomegranate, Flamingo Cockscomb: allow to capture a wisp with 100% success chance (similar to Golden Nets). **Side note**: Paperflower Penjing can be bought on a Decoration Sale - and so, you can have two or more of them in your forest. Presumably, same applies to Flamingo Cockscomb.
* Deluxe Sweet Thorn, Deluxe Spider Flower, Deluxe Parachute Pinwheel Mushroom: duplicates a wisp.
* Exclusive Sweet Thorn, Exclusive Golden Crocus, Exclusive Poet's Daffodil: allows to hurry a Wisp Mother.
* Exclusive Red Cage Mushroom: causes Wisp Mother to spawn a lot of wisps at once. Essentially, it is a more effective hurrying.
* Exclusive Shaggy Mane Mushroom: creates a wisp (among other goodies) when Wisp event is active.

## Tips

- The first time you launch the game after the start of the event, the Wisp Mother will spawn some white wisps, enough for one 100% Common event flower. **It seems that these starter wisps will always be caught**.

- Apparently, at least **one catch is guaranteed per wisp spawn**! You can manipulate it by trying to catch less needed wisps first, and if all of them miss, you'll get a guaranteed catch on the last one. Catching a wisp with the net or via decoration ability will count as a catch, however, and will negate this effect.

- Event decoration packs usually come with a temporary bonus effect of doubling the wisp spawn, making it 6 to 10 wisps per spawn. **Buy the pack once Wisp Mother is ready**, so you can immediately benefit from the effect.

- **There is a number of past decorations that help with Wisp events**. Notably, both common and deluxe decorations for Boom set have a Wisp event ability; these may appear in Ant Events. Paperflower Penjing is a decoration you can buy on a decoration sale, and you can have many of them in your forest.

- If you need to hurry the Wisp Mother, **check when hurrying cost will change**. Hurrying the Wisp Mother right after the spawn will cost you 30 . The cost goes down 1  each 4 minutes. At 30 minutes remaining, this costs 8 glowbucks. The Currency page has a guide on how much hurrying will cost depending on the remaining time.

- **Use an app that has a countdown timer & set it to 2 hours**; this will help you to remember when the Wisp Mother is ready to spawn more wisps in case notifications fail to appear (which happens when the phone/tablet is turned off.)

- **Compare the cost of 100% event attraction flowers & egg laying;** usually, egg laying cost less than the flowers, so it would be cheaper to get a moth to lay an egg, than to buy an attraction flower for one.

- **Do NOT panic;** any exclusive decorations that are missed out on will return in Ant Events, which are not too hard to complete. However, the prizes on Ant Events are randomly generated.

- **It's advisable to only spend glowbucks if an event decoration's ability helps to complete future events.** Such as the case with abilities that allow to lay an egg for free or hurry caterpillars, pupas and eggs.

- When laying an event moth egg, make sure that there's enough time left in the event for the moth to mature. Legendary moths require a total of 8 hours to fully grow, with each caterpillar stage taking 2 hours.

- **Merge all flowers, even ones you no longer need;** 50% event flowers are likely to fail, so make sure you always use 100% flowers to attract event moths. Flowers that are no longer needed (because that event moth has been perfected) can still be merged, & when the event ends, those unwanted 100% flowers will be converted into more honeydew than a non-100% flower would be.

- **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 makes leveling up an event moth easier, since you will not have to wait for pollen to be created, which would cost much needed time.

## Past Wisp Events

* 29th June – 12th July 2016: Yanada
* 22nd September – 10th October 2016: Boom
* 19th October – 2nd November 2016: Yokai
* 15th December – 29th December 2016: Cuti
* 13th February – 26th February 2017: Rosa
* 16th April – 30th April 2017: Blossom
* 18th June – 2nd July 2017: Joya
* 17th August – 31st August 2017: Yinhe
* 18th October – 1st November 2017: Oog
* 6th December – 20th December 2017: Shamash
* 2st February – 15th February 2018: Cupid
* 5th April – 18th April 2018: Sakura
* 8th June – 21st June 2018: Komorebi
* 10th August – 23rd August 2018: Natsu
* 18th October – 31st October 2018: Specter
* 21st December – 3rd January 2019: Poinsettia
* 27th February – 12th March 2019: Vera
* 10th May – 23rd May 2019: Gaia
* 16th July – 29th July 2019: Atlas
* 16th September – 29th September 2019: Tempus
* 21st November– 5th December 2019: Demeter
* 5th February – 18th February 2020: Amare
* 31st March – 15th April 2020: Fleur
* 3rd June – 16th June 2020: Natalem
* 4th August – 17th August 2020: Pollinis
* 19th October – 2nd November 2020: Hades
* 1st February 2021 - 15th February 2021: Rosea
* 1st June 2021 - 15th June 2021: Phalaina