Easter Event 2021

The Easter Event 2021 is the 4th Major Event to take place in Pocket Ants. It was announced on 19-Mar-2021 on Discord.

## Duration

The event started on 26-Mar-2021 at 0:00 UTC, and ended on 11-Apr-2021 at 23:59 UTC, having a duration of 17 days.

## About the festivity

Easter is the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ and held (in the Western Church) between March 21 and April 25, on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the northern spring equinox. Easter customs vary across the Christian world, and include, among other activities, the decoration and the communal breaking of Easter eggs (a symbol of the empty tomb). Customs that have become associated with Easter and are observed by both Christians and some non-Christians include: Easter parades, communal dancing (Eastern Europe), the Easter Bunny and Easter egg hunting.

## Special Creature

Main article: Monarch Butterfly

This Event's creature is the Monarch Butterfly. It's a Special variant of the Butterfly, having higher stats in general. It acts as a healer on Battles.

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 Chocolate Egg pieces into food.
 Gather from Easter Eggs.
 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 Easter Chocolate Egg, 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 Egg 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 Chocolate Egg pieces to process them into food, and Leaves to store them in the Leaf Storage. Seeds can't be gathered from the Egg. 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 Monarch Butterflies easily.

### Ant Skins

This Event includes **two** new limited ant skins: the **Chocolate Bunny skin** and the **Easter egg Bunny skin**, which can only be purchased during the Event with 500 gems each one 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.
* Creatures timer, from 24 hours to 4 hours.

## Additional Features

### Easter Egg Hunt

During the Event, Easter Eggs were implemented a a new feature.

Every day, 10 Easter Eggs will appear scattered across the map. These eggs have multiple designs and give resources when collected. Collecting them is as simple as selecting them and pressing the "Gather" button.

They are not visible in the expanded map, but they can be seen in the minimap at the top-right corner of the screen. There is only one egg active on the map at a time if they haven't been collected all. Once one egg is collected, the next one will appear in a random place.

Known rewards obtained from these eggs are Fungus, Gems, Resin, and Body Parts. Resin is the most common, body parts are quite common, and the gems are quite rare. The only way to get the fungus is if the player just started the game and doesn't have any chambers for body parts and resin.

    Additionally, they give 25 Activity Points when found and gathered by the player.

## Trivia

* This is the first event where 2 new ant skins will be available.
* This is the first event where honeydew doesn't gives Activity Points and Aphid farms respawn timer is not reduced. In return, the daily rewards give honeydew.
* The Monarch Butterfly is the first case of a Special creature being added before its Normal variant, which was added later.
* The Monarch Butterfly is also the first case of a Special creature that doesn't have a conceptual or visual connection to the event's festivity like the Ghost Mantis or the Paussinae Beetle respectively. Instead, it's **theorized** that the species itself is connected to Easter because the first anual generation become butterflies around the time Easter festivity happens (April-June months). Secondarily, the healing ability may have a symbolic connection to Easter, as it's a festivity about Jesus Christ's resurrection, the Monarch Butterfly has the power to give life to ally creatures.
* The Chocolate Easter Egg has three little chrysanthemums painted on its shell, as well as some spirals.
* The Easter Eggs derived into the Acorns, which were used in following Events.

1. ↑ https://monarchjointventure.org/monarch-biology/annual-life-cycle