3rd Anniversary Event

The 3rd Anniversary Event is the 16th Major Event to take place in Pocket Ants, and the 3rd annual edition of this event. It was announced on 17-Jun-2023 on Discord.

## Duration

The event started on 23-Jun-2023 at 0:00 UTC and will end on 10-Jul-2022 at 23:59 UTC, having a duration of 18 days.

## About the festivity

This event is about the third anniversary of the game Pocket Ants: Colony Simulator, released in early access by Ariel Games on 27-June-2020.

## Special Creature

Main article: Manticora Tiger Beetle

Unlike the 1st Anniversary Event, where creatures from previous events could be attracted, in this event only one creature can be summoned. This creature is the Manticora Tiger Beetle. It's a special variant of the Tiger Beetle, having higher stats especially on speed and health, which is increased to more than triple the health of its normal counterpart. It acts as a melee, damage dealer and sniper unit on battles.

It can be attracted with a limit of two creatures per day.

## Activity Bar

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

 Processing Chocolate Cake pieces into food.
 Obtaining Honeydew from Aphid Farms only.
 Gathering from Acorns.
 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 3rd Anniversary 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 creatures easily.

### Ant Skins

This Event includes **three** new Anniversary Ant skins: the **Number 3 Candle skin**, the **Festive Tiger Beetle skin**, and the **Yellow 3rd Anniversary 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 farm timer, from 6 hours to 4 hours.

## Visual changes

* In this Event, acorns received a special party-themed texture.

* It also included a logo, which was visible at the right side of the start screen.

## Trivia

* The 3rd Anniversary Cake is very similar to the Valentine's Cake. It also includes a candle with the number 3.
* The duration of the 1st Anniversary Event was 28 days whereas this year's event is 18 days long, just like other events such as the Christmas 2021 or the Valentine's 2022.
* The 1st Anniversary Event also offered all previous creatures to be attracted at random, whereas this event includes only one creature, making it more similar to other events.
* The splash screen showed the 2nd Anniversary Event Logo until players updated to version v0.0820. After updating it changed to the correct 3rd Anniversary Event Logo.