Winter festival

**Winter festival** is a seasonal event in *Cozy Grove* that takes place in winter **from December 20 to January 23** every year. While the event is active, Ms. Carouse visits the island to offer winter festival themed decorations, clothing, and other items. During the festival, the player can also meet the snowfolk, craft gifts for the bears, and challenge imps to snowball fights.

## Snow piles

During the festival, 12 snow piles will spawn on the island each day. The player can dig through these snow piles similar to leaf piles to obtain snowballs and snow crystals that can be later used to snowball fight imps or make snow sculptures at Ms. Carouse's store.

## Snowball fights

Players may obtain snowballs by digging up snow piles. Similar to hungry imps, who show the food they want in a speech bubble, players can find an imp with a snowball symbol above their head. Placing the snowballs in your hand slot will trigger these imps to begin a snowball fight with you. If the imp hits the scout with a snowball, the scout will be stunned for a moment. If the player hits the imp with a snowball, imp will stop throwing snowballs. Then the player can approach and receive snow crystals in return.

## Gift giving

By talking to Ms. Carouse, the player can craft gifts to present to resident and visiting bears. The player can give a gift to a bear only once per festival season to get a reward (for fruitcake or personalized gifts) and a memory comic (for personalized gifts) in return. Fruitcake is given to resident bears; Flamey, Mr. Kit, Darla O'Hare, Pandam, and Ms. Carouse can be given personalized gifts.

Personalized gifts are crafted using gift wrap; one gift wrap is sent by Ms. Carouse every festival day (up to a maximum of five rolls). Only one of each personal gift can be crafted per festival season.

Only one fruitcake can be crafted per day. To gift every bear on the fully upgraded island, the player would need to craft 17 fruitcakes (and thus to play for at least 17 days while the festival event is active).

 Ms. Carouse's gift

### Bear's reactions

Resident bears will give the player a generic response when the player presents them with a gift. Giving gifts to Flamey, Mr. Kit, Darla O'Hare, Pandam, and Ms. Carouse triggers a unique dialogue and displays a comic.

#### Resident bears

When accepting fruitcake, a bear will thank the Scout and give them a small reward:

**Any bear:** Fruitcake? I can't remember the last time I ate fruitcake! Thank you.
**Any bear:** How did you know that fruitcake is one of my favorite seasonal treats?
**Any bear:** A gift for me? Why, you shouldn't have!
#### Flamey

**Flamey:** Candy coal? You've brought me **candy coal**??
...
Oh... it's so delicious!
I can't remember the last time someone gave me something just to be nice to me.
Thank you, sweet Scout.
#### Mr. Kit

**Mr. Kit:** Why Scout... how did you know I like to play golf?!
...
You see so much with those luminous eyes of yours...
I knew there was something special about you, Scout.
#### Ms. Carouse

**Ms. Carouse:** What now? **You** want to give **me** a gift?
You... got me a journal. To record my most precious memories, lest I forget them over the millenia.
...
...I've been around for a very long time, Scout.
I've given quite a lot of gifts. As you do, when you're the Spirit of Celebration.
But I haven't **received** many gifts in all my years...
And I can say with confidence that I won't need your lovely journal to remember you giving it to me, dearest one.
#### Pandam

**Pandam:** What's this? A blanket, to keep me warm during my endless sales trips?
...
I... I don't know what to say.
Nobody ever gives gifts to the sales guy. No one ever feels grateful for us.
No one but you, I guess. Thank you so much.
#### Darla

**Darla:** What do we have here... an invitation to go **glamping?** What on earth...
...
Oh, I see. **Glamorous camping!** How perfectly quaint!
I'd never considered the possibility! What a delightful combination of the mundane and the luxurious.
This is such a **charming** gift. Thank you, darling!
## Winter cats

Winter cats are special types of cats the player can obtain during the winter festival by luring them in using the cat beckoner inside their tent.

To obtain the cat using the cat beckoner, the player needs to place one snow crystal and two random food items inside and wait for the next day to find a young winter cat inside. (Since the food used doesn't matter, it is advised to use raw ingredients because they are the cheapest and most readily available.)

## Snowfolk

Three unique snowfolk can be purchased at Ms. Carouse's store for 40 snow crystals each. Snowfolk are placed on the island similar to regular decorations. However, the player can interact with them to receive a snow crystal or an essence and listen to their stories. Each snowfolk can only share one memory per day.

See **Snowfolk** for more details.
## Ms. Carouse's shop

### Snow sculptures

Snow sculptures are seasonal decorations that can be crafted by talking to Ms. Carouse using snow crystals. Snow sculptures can be sold or placed anywhere on the island; however, unlike regular decorations, they are not permanent and will disappear after the event ends, turning into fresh water. The rarer the sculpture is, the more snow crystals it costs and the more fresh water it drops after melting. The fresh water can be used during spring festival for crafting orchids or purchasing legendary storage chests.

Thirteen types of snow sculptures exist, with each type coming in seven rarities (common, uncommon, rare, ultra rare, epic, legendary, and mythical). Ms. Carouse offers seven random sculptures to craft per day (one for each rarity).

Snow sculptures can be sold to any shop that buys items for 500 each.

#### Snow crystal costs and fresh water profits

Snow sculptures come in four different sizes, and their crafting costs and the amount of fresh water they melt into after the festival ends depend on their size and rarity. Larger and rarer sculptures produce more fresh water but also cost more snow crystals to craft.

### Clothing

Every day Ms. Carouse has six random warm clothing items for purchase for old coins. Most clothing is exclusive to Ms. Carouse's winter festival store, but she also has a chance to sell warm clothing commonly sold at Mr. Kit's Clothes.

## Version history

* 5.0.0: Melted snow festival resource renamed into fresh water.
* 4.0.0: Introduced.