Easter Event 2022

The Easter Event 2022 is the 9th Major Event to take place in Pocket Ants, and the 2nd annual edition of the Easter Event. It was announced on 2-Apr-2022 on Discord.

## Duration

The event will start on 8-Apr-2022 at 0:00 UTC, and will end on 25-Apr-2022 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: Orchid Mantis

This event's creature is the Orchid Mantis. It's the second special variant of the Praying Mantis, having higher stats specially on Attack Rate, which is maxed. It also has more than double the health of the Ghost Mantis, making the Orchid a much better creature. It acts as a melee, damage dealer and sniper unit 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 Orchid Mantis easily.

### Ant Skins

This Event includes **three** new limited ant skins: the **Orchid Mantis skin**, the **Easter egg skin** and the **Monarch Butterfly 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 this Event, acorns are replaced with Easter Eggs, their original counterpart.

Like acorns, 10 Easter Eggs will appear scattered across the map every day. 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 20 Activity Points when found and gathered by the player in this event.

## Trivia

* This is the second event since the 1st Anniversary Event in which Aphid Farms' timer isn't reduced. This makes it much harder to get Activity Points in this event since aphid farms have become a beneficial source of them in the latest events.