Clan Event

Once every four weeks, there is a clan event. It begins on Sunday at 3PM US Central Time and ends the following Sunday at the same time. If you are signed up, a countdown will appear on your quest bar a few days before the event starts.

## To Sign Up for the Clan Event

To sign up, go to the event site and click the shadow monster. If at least four people from your clan sign up, your clan will automatically be entered into the event. You do not have to participate, but by taking action at least once, you can help your clan a lot!

You can register at any time before or during a clan event, and you can unregister at any time before the event starts. You'll have to re-register at least once every four weeks after a clan event has ended, as you can only register for one clan event at once.

## How To Play

The game includes a brief tutorial which you can open by clicking the question mark symbol in the middle of the event page.

Essentially, you'll want to click to the islands view in the clan event menu, then select a critter from the menu at the bottom. Drag and drop that critter onto the plot with your name on it. Come back every two hours to collect critters. You can speed up time between collections using moon mice or happy makers. Collect the requested critters from the list on the bottom left to gain XP and level up. Two clans work together in this event, and both benefit.

Tutorial oneTutorial twoTutorial 3Tutorial fourTutorial fiveTutorial sixTutorial sevenTutorial eightAs you get through each level of the clan event, you have to harvest more and more to achieve the goals. Higher levels give more and more element points. They are slightly skewed to reward the more active clan, but all players who have at least one critter will receive increasing rewards as the event levels up. The higher of level you achieve, the more element points you'll get. There are 40 levels possible, but you'll certainly need to have an active clan to get to that level!

After a 2023 update, clans are matched with the clan that scored closest to them in the last event. You may be matched against a clan with many more or many fewer members compared to yours, but hopefully both plans will be able to enjoy the game with comparable enthusiasm.

#### **Leveling up critters**

You can level up your critters with 20 water lilies. When you do this, that critter will produce +1 yield per level. This lasts for the whole week and only affects your critters of that type. It resets at the beginning of the next clan event.

For the rest of the event, this player's blue slimes will produce 11 blue goo at harvest instead of 10Leveled critters get a special glow
#### Happy Makers

Happy makers are little hearts you can give critters to help them grow faster.

You can accumulate up to 12 of them, and you can earn more by completing levels. They take longer and longer to accumulate the more you have stocked up, so it's better to spend them immediately. If you have 0 happy makers, it takes 10 minutes for a new one to appear, but for each happy maker you have stored, it takes an extra 5 minutes for a new one to come, up to 1 hour and 10 minutes for the 12th one. If you spend happy makers, the cost will immediately go down by 5 minutes, but this isn't always obvious because the timer keeps counting down and subtracts a flat 5 minutes each time you spend a happy maker, so if you had 12 minutes before the next happy maker would arrive and you spend two, you'll only have to wait 2 minutes for the next to appear.

You can also purchase happy makers anytime with water lilies.

You'll notice that your mouse defaults to harvest mode and appears as a harvester. You can click on any critter that isn't ripe yet and your mouse will transform into a heart. You'll have to click again to spread a happy maker. This is to prevent players from accidentally spreading happiness while harvesting.

## Element Points

By using many points, you can significantly decrease the growth time of your plants. If you place element points somewhere and change your mind, you can reset them, but it will cost you a small number of water lilies each time. The lily cost goes up the more times you reset 30 element points, so choose wisely!

Typically, you can only use element points to get an individual plant to 50% reduced growth time. This stacks with the total element reduction from the category percentages, however, which reduces a percentage of the remaining time. You cannot reduce the time by 100%, but by boosting a plant individually and boosting a category, it should be possible to reduce it by 75% (50% of 50%). That would take over 15,000 element points though!

Blue Plants Element Upgrades. Note that while each plant is 9% faster after an upgrade, the amount of time varies based on the plant's original timeYou can reset element points for some water liliesYou can also unmark plants individually

## Shadows

You may notice some of your friends (or yourself!) shrouded in shadows during the clan event. As their clan works together to gain XP, the shadows slowly go away, and soon friends are surrounded by glowing wisps instead. This does not affect gameplay in any way, but it's a fun way to keep track of how well your friends are doing in the event.

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## Tips

* You must be in a clan to participate in the clan event, so you'll need to be at least level 6.
* There must be at least four members of your clan signed up before the event starts. You can sign up and not participate if you'd like, and if you didn't sign up, you can still join later in the week if you want as long as four other members of your clan have signed up early.
* Everyone gets their own happy makers automatically. You're not using anyone else's if you use them, so click away!
* Happy makers come back faster the fewer of them there are, so you'll get more if you use them frequently. You get up to 12, and then they stop generating. You may find yourself with more than 12, which is because you get an additional 12 each time your clan gets to a new level in the event.
* Each clan member is scored based on how many happy makers they use and how many boosts they give with moon mice. This ranking does not affect the gameplay, but it does let you know who is most active. You get one point per happy maker used and two points per boost from moon mice.
* Anyone can harvest from any island. No individual points are given for harvesting, but all harvests count toward the clan's stock.

* If your clan is participating, but you don't think you'll be able to join in much, still put critters on your island in the clan event. Your clan mates can harvest them, and they'll build up over time.

* Make sure to open up the clan event at least once so that you earn element points along with your clan. You can see which clan members have opened the clan event from your clan totem; there are symbols next to clan member names letting you know who has signed up. Participating members will have colored symbols next to their names, while those who are not receiving element points will have gray symbols (signed up but not signed in) or no element symbol (not signed up or signed in). You get the full amount of element points even if you don't participate much, but you do not get element points retroactively if you fail to sign up before they're distributed.  You can also click on the settings in your clan totem to see how many clan events your clan has competed in and which level you've achieved each time.

* It may be tempting to use your element points to speed up one plant individually (certain fire plants come to mind), but note that many of these plants aren't used much after a certain level, so your element points won't seem as worth while. Spending element points on fractional percentages of one element may seem tedious, but after a while, it does add up.