Christmas Event 2023

The Christmas Event 2023 is the 19th Major Event to take place, and the 3rd annual edition of the Christmas Event. It was announced on 09-Dec-2023 on Discord.

## Duration

The event started on 15-Dec-2023 at 0:00 UTC and ended on 08-Jan-2023 at 23:59 UTC, having a duration of 25 days.

## About the festivity

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on 25 December as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. Stereotypical modern customs include gift giving, Christmas music and caroling, a special meal, and the display of various decorations such Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly. In the North Hemisphere, Christmas is also related to winter and snow scenes.

## Special Creature

Main article: Christmas Crab

This event features two creatures that can be summoned. The main event creature is the Atlered Wasp.

It can be attracted twice per day during this event.

The second creature is the Christmas Crab that can be summoned by filling up the activity bar by winning Christmas Crab co-ops and collecting 5 event creatures to earn a Crab Token. With a full Christmas crab bar and a Crab Token, players can add one Christmas Crab to their army.

Players can earn a maximum of 8 Christmas Crabs during this event (one every 3 days).

## Activity Bar

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

 Processing Candy pieces into food.
 Obtaining Honeydew from Aphid Farms only.
 Getting Pheromones by attacking other players or Dr. Zany.
 Gathering from Acorns.
 Watching ads for Battle Tokens.

## Purchasable Items

### Unlimited Source

The 24-hours Unlimited Source for this Event is the Candy Cane, 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 Candy Cane 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 Candy pieces to process them into food, and Leaves to store them in the Leaf Storage. Seeds can't be gathered from the Cane. 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 event creatures easily.

### Ant Skins

This Event includes **three** new limited ant skins: **TBA**, 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.
* Aphid farms timer, from 6 hours to 4 hours.

## Visual changes and additional features

This Event added the following visual changes:

* A new start screen with a custom Intro Music.
* The terrain on the Main World and the Battle area is covered with snow.
* The Tree has Christmas lights that are turned on at night, with random color patterns.
* Rain was replaced with snow. The snow won't slow down any ants and will be more common.
* Acorns received a new Christmas-themed texture.

Christmas Start Screen.Christmas lights on the tree turned off at day.Christmas lights on the tree turned on at night.Terrain covered with snow and Rain replaced with snow.The full Main World map with Snow and the Candy Cane.Christmas-themed acorn.
## Trivia

* This is only the second event where an event creature was shared by the Developer before the event started.
* This Event is a good chance for players that are interested in getting the Dragonfly, because snow is more common than rain and attracts the same creatures.
* The Christmas lights on the tree have the colors of ArielGames's logo: red, blue, yellow and green.