Festival of Deliveries Feb 2017

Festivals are actually easy once you get the hang of them. It should automatically pop up for you when you come in to the game, but if it does not, or if you want to access it later, click the purple chest on the right side of your screen:



Once you click it, you get the Festival window. Here you see the two prize areas, how many colored rocks you've collected, how many spins you have, and how many ticket pieces you have:



The top section, from left to right, tells you how many colored rocks you have, the time you have left until you next free spin, and the little flag by the spin button tells you how many spins you have earned. To earn a spin by collecting rocks, you need to collect 300 colored rocks by opening Festival chests in the delivery hut. Every 23 hours, you also earn one free spin without having to do anything.

The bottom section shows you how many ticket pieces you have earned. You have to collect 5 of them to take a spin on the big prize section at the bottom. When you have 5, the "Play" button will light up for you and you can go spin for a big prize. Ticket pieces are earned in festival chests and by landing on them on the prize wheel in the top section.

Now, click on "To Deliveries" and it will take you to your delivery hut. You will notice that your hut looks slightly different. The usual 4 slots at the bottom are there, but now there is a slot in the top left. This is your Festival slot, and it is the most important slot during the duration of the Festival. You always want to keep this slot filled, even if there are no empty slots at the bottom. Just keep filling that top slot over and over, opening each chest as you get it. IF you have a slot at the bottom open at the same time as the festival slot, then you will get a chest in both slots... but do NOT wait for a bottom slot to open before you send your next delivery.



In this picture, my festival slot is empty, because I'm still working on one of the resources. As soon as my sand is ready, I will send the delivery, and that slot will be filled with one of three chests: wooden (1 hour to open), silver (2 hours to open) or violet (4 hours to open). Each one will have colored rocks and MAYBE a secondary gift.

Wooden chests contain 10 or 20 colored rocks
Silver chests contain 40 or 60 colored rocks
Violet chests contain 100 or 140 colored rocks

Now that I've made the delivery shown above, my delivery hut looks like this:



As you can see, I have two chests opening at the same time... a festival chest up top, and a regular chest on the bottom. You can also see that I have the next delivery ready to go for when the festival chest finishes up. Even though the bottom chest will be finished in 20 minutes, I do not plan to send the delivery then. I will wait until the festival slot is open, so that I don't have to gather materials for another one.

When you collect 300 colored rocks from the chests, an exchange button will light up on the top row of the festival window. Turn them in, and you get a spin on the wheel. When you have 1 or more spins in the flag by the "spin" button, click the spin button, and the prize wheel shows up:



The spin button at the bottom will be lit up... just click it and away the wheel goes. Give it several seconds, and it will eventually land on one of these prizes. You can then choose to either keep the prize given, or pay gems and spin again for something different. (It will not land on the same slot you just hit... that slot will be X'ed out if you respin.)

Once you have collected 5 of the ticket pieces, you can hit the Play button on the bottom section of the Festival window. When you click Play there, you get this window:



All four of these prizes are good prizes, and in addition to the prize you will also be awarded one puzzle piece toward earning the quokka pet.

IF you play long enough and hard enough, and earn enough spins, you can spin for more than one of the big prizes. The average player, though, will only enough enough ticket pieces to spin the big board one time. A lot of players never even collect 5 ticket pieces and just have to be content with the smaller prizes from the wheel.

Remember, the most important thing to remember is to ALWAYS KEEP THE FESTIVAL SLOT FILLED regardless of what's going on with the chest at the bottom.

Along the way, you will also be earning the potions and native coins shown in the delivery hut for each delivery. For instance, in the last hut picture shown above, I will be earning 10 potions and 31 native coins. The potions raise the totem meter to help you earn the normal delivery totem rewards shown on the left side of the delivery hut screen.

Best of luck, players!


ADDITIONAL INFO:

What's going on with the meter? During normal operation of the delivery hut, the meter on the left side contains 4 rewards - native coins, monkey puzzle pieces, gems, and so on. As you reach the line by each reward, you will earn that reward and it will be added to your game. During a festival, there is no room for all 4 items, so it will only show you the next item from your meter that you are working on. The number of potions you have, and the number you need to reach the reward, are shown directly below the meter. In this instance, I have 9372 potions, and I need a total of 9500 to reach the reward of 250 native coins. When I earn that, it will swap over to the next reward available on my meter. Every delivery earns you a certain amount of potions, which is shown under the delivery request on the right.