Full Moon Events

Clicking on the moons will give you a pop up showing the timers for the 2 moon events. The Azure Moon occurs at the same time as the real world full moon and the Ruby Moon is a seasonal Event.

## Azure Moon

### Starting the Event

Once every 28 days or so, during the full moon in the real world, the Azure Moon event will start. You'll see a moon plant symbol near the moons on your island. Click this to be taken to the event page or click on the moons from the Event Site.

During the event, Galernikus the Moon Explorer will ask you to produce a certain amount of moon dust. The amount depends on your level and how many garden plots you have available. Only moon dust you collect during the event counts toward your total.

The event runs for 3 days (72 hours). You'll see a timer at the bottom of the event page letting you know how much time you have left.

### Harvesting Moon Dust

To harvest moon dust, you must plant moon plants.

Click on the special plants icon  to find them.

There are four kinds available.

Azure moon flower grows for 5 minutes and produces 1 moon dustTopaz moon flower grows for 1 hour and produces 4 moon dustEmerald moon flower grows for 4 hours and produces 10 moon dustRuby Flower grows for 8 hours and produces 16 moon dustAt the start of the event, several of each moon flower will appear in your inventory (2 Azure, 4 Topaz, 6 Emerald, 8 Ruby). Plant them as you would normal plants. These plants, although not regular plants, can receive bonuses such as bonuses from the world tree and ancestor grove and increased yield from friends' clovers; however, they do not receive extra yield from bonus plots you've earned in the garden mastery event because they are not normal plants. The yield of plants may increase, but the amount of moon dust remains the same. Moon flowers can also be grown in the tree garden.

Once the event is over, all moon flowers will disappear from your inventory; you cannot grow them outside of the full moon event. If you are online when the event ends, all moon plants will disappear from your gardens. If you are not online, the plants will remain in your garden until you login again (this allows your friends to continue giving you clovers, although you do not get the increased yield on moon plants since they disappear immediately when you login after the event ends and you cannot harvest them). You should, however, receive moon dust for each moon plant that is in your inventory when the event ends, as the moon plants are converted to moon dust as they are removed.

#### Moonflower Growing Tips

Although azure flowers seem to produce the least moon dust, you'll note that the amount of dust produced per hour is significantly higher for shorter-growing plants as long as you can harvest them promptly. If you are able, it's better to plant emerald and ruby moonflowers only when you are planning to be AFK.

 Azure Moonflower
1 moon dust every 5 minutes
 Topaz Moonflower
4 moon dust every 60 minutes
 Emerald Moonflower
10 moon dust every 4 hours
 Ruby Moonflower
16 moon dust every 8 hours

You'll also note that you receive no additional moon dust yield if your friends click on your moonflowers. You may decide that you'd rather not allow your friends to click on plants, particularly if you've already completed the event or have enough moon flowers to fill all your garden plots. If so, lock them or plant them in other gardens besides the aqua garden. However, each moon plant you have in your inventory at the end of the event will be converted to moon dust, so if you are trying to defeat some monsters, growing extra moon flowers can be a lovely benefit.

If you're having trouble planting moonflowers, try refreshing your webpage. When you are logged in over the start of the event, special plants tend to glitch, doing things like pretending not to be planted but actually being planted or behaving as though you are planting 5 in the same plot. Some players successfully use this glitch to obtain more moonflowers at the start of the event by planting a few flowers, then exiting the garden and coming back, since the game doesn't always register plants in the field as part of your allotted moonflowers. However, this can be tedious and hard to measure, so if you don't like it, just refresh, and everything should be back to normal.

### Azure Moon Prizes

You can check to see how much moon dust you've accumulated from the moon event menu. Once you have enough, you can activate it to win. You get to keep the moon dust, and you also get to pick a prize. The default prize is a moon apple tree, which produces 40 moon apples and then disappears. You can plant a moon apple tree anytime, but you can only harvest from it 10 times (for more information, see fruit trees). You do not have to choose a moon apple tree as your prize. Click "change" under the prize box on the right to select either 5x dragon flowers or 3 universal puzzle pieces.

You can repeat the event for 50 water lilies. The amount of moon dust required to complete the event a second time may increase, decrease, or stay the same. You do not have to purchase the repeat before collecting more moon dust. If you've finished the event once, the counter will not reset at zero. Continue collecting moon dust, and once you have enough, you can purchase a repeat, and all the moon dust you've accumulated since your last win will count toward the second.

### Moon Mice

As you may remember from the tutorial, you can summon moon mice anytime with energy or water lilies. You can also get moon mice out of a box as a prize for completing quests for the volcano warden. During the full moon event, you can find additional mice.

During the three days of the Azure Moon event, moon mice will appear around your island. A new one will appear every 2 hours. If you click on one, you will receive 10 moon mice in your moon mice inventory. They can appear in any of the four normal gardens (aqua, rock, honey, and root), and you'll often find them on your island main screen. Occasionally, you will even find moon mice while visiting a friend's garden: this mouse is not visible to your friend and cannot be clicked by them. There is no time limit to collecting these mice; they will remain on the screen until you click them. However, there can only be a maximum of 10 moon mice available to you at any time. If they are not collected, no more will come.

Moon mice typically do not appear in areas where you normally can interact with your garden; You'll find them around the edges or on non-interactive features, such as pathways, stumps and wells.

Moon mice on the main islandmoon mice in a friend's gardenmore moon mice on the islandMoon mice do not usually appear on plants, but they canDon't forget to check near your avatar; when you wear fluffy clothing, moon mice can be obscuredIf there is a moon mouse in a friend's garden, you'll notice that if you don't collect it, it will travel to the next friend's garden. Therefore, you do not have to search each friend's garden to ensure you've collected all the mice.

During the Azure Moon event, moon mice are 20% more effective.

### Using Moon Dust

The accumulated moon dust can be used to augment your herbs, potions, and powders when you are defeating monsters.

Click the "5% Damage" button to add moon dust to your brewery itemYou can add several doses of moon dustWhen you do not have enough moon dust, the button will grey outMoon dust is only useful for helping you defeat monsters, so there's no reason to be stingy with it. Each time you add moon dust to an attack, it will increase your brewery item's effectiveness by 5% of the original amount (it is not exponential; if the original item does 100 damage, a packet of moon dust will always increase the amount by 5). The moon dust cost goes up about 30% each time you add it, which means it's usually not beneficial to add a lot all at once. You can make the best use of your moon dust by using it with higher level brewery items. The more the base attack, the more attack points the moon dust will add (because it's percentage based). You can gain bonuses from seasonal prizes that increase moon dust's efficacy.

How do you find out how much moon dust you have? You can click on monsters to check the moon dust supply listed in the top left of the popup. If you click on a monster that is too high-level (one that you cannot attack until you have unlocked a higher garden level), you will not be able to see your moon dust supply. Instead, click on the moons above the brewery. If there is not a ruby moon event going on, there is a box beneath the azure moon countdown that lets you know how much moon dust you currently have.

## Ruby Moon

### How Ruby Moon Events Work

The Ruby Moon events are seasonal. They typically fall on or around the solstice or equinox, although they may be moved so as not to overlap with other events. These events last for 11 days; they start at 3PM US Central Time and end at midnight a week and a half later. Each event works about the same. For each season, there is a special item (winter snowflake, spring flower, summer sun, autumn leaf) which will appear on your island and in your gardens. You can collect up to six of these each day. They come in four different colors. You can exchange them for prizes in the Azure Moon event page.

spring flowerssummer sunsautumn leaveswinter snowflakes
You can repeat this event as many times as you like for free, but you are limited by the number of hidden items you find per day. You can purchase additional hidden items with water lilies; for 20 lilies, 6 more hidden items will be scattered around your island. You may also find that you tend to find a lot of the same color. The colors of hidden items are randomly generated except that you cannot get all one color in one day. This means you may get 5 of one color in one day, although this is unlikely. New hidden items appear at midnight server time (Central US time). Galernikus will want different amounts of each color in exchange for each prize. For a small energy fee, you can exchange two of one color for one of another. The colors are chosen for you.

On the day the event starts, make sure to login between 3PM and midnight since you'll only have 9 hours to find hidden items that day.

### Seasonal Flowers

The big prize, of course, is the seasonal plant. Each season has its own flower, but they're all pretty much the same: They grow for 48 hours and produce one puzzle piece. The yields have been known to change though. Once you have harvested these plants, they disappear from your inventory, and if you want more, you have to complete the event again. These plants do not have to be grown during their season and can be planted even after the ruby moon has set.

Typically, you'll receive four of these flowers as a prize for collecting the seasonal hidden item. These are special plants and do not produce a bonus yield for being in plots you've won at garden mastery events. Friends cannot click them to give you bonus yield either. They can receive bonuses from your ancestor grove related to reduced time, however. They can be grown in the Tree Garden, but they do not provide bonus yield if your tree garden is leveled up.

You can also exchange seasonal hidden items for other prizes, including dragon flowers and mystery baskets.

### The Spring Event

The Spring Moon

Galernicus appears to ask for spring flowersThis icon appears to let you know the event has started
### The Summer Event

Summer Moon

summer suns are small and sneakyYellow suns are particularly adept at blending in with their surroundings