Flower Festival of Deliveries June 2017 - NEW format

Okay, buckle in, this is going to be a bumpy ride! This guide is in progress, as we're all still trying to figure it out. If I make a mistake, bear with me, I'll try to correct it as soon as possible.

So, open your game and you get hit with the festival. Looks just like a normal one at first, until you see the bottom half of the screen. You should have a free key sitting in the bottom half of your delivery screen, be sure to collect it. You will get a new one every 8 hours. (I'd already collected mine before this photo - you will see it int he space that says "Next one in 7:25:44") You can get more keys from the top spin wheel (random prize) and sometimes from festival chests.



The top half of the festival window looks and works the same as always. You get one free spin on the top wheel every 23 hours, and you start immediately with your first free spin.

When you go to your delivery hut, make your first delivery, and your first chest in the upper left corner of the delivery hut will be a 2 hour chest that is free to "hurry" with 0 gems. After that, keep that festival slot filled, regardless of what's going on at the bottom. (If all slots at the bottom are filled, just keep filling that festival slot, over and over. The flower things you earn from each festival chest will earn you more spins on the top wheel of the festival window - collect 300 of those little flowers, and you get another spin.

Here's where things get REALLY interesting. Instead of collecting ticket pieces for the bottom part of the festival window like we've done for months, we now have a special cave. Go to your inventory (bottom right, the chest icon) and remove the cave and place it anywhere on your island that you like. It looks like this:



You need a key to enter this cave... you get one every 8 hours at the bottom of the festival window, or you can also earn more on the top spin wheel. YOU DO NOT NEED SHOVELS FOR THIS CAVE.

Once you enter the cave, they did do a fairly decent job of explaining what's going on, so SLOW DOWN and read the dialogue and the explanations.

You will be collecting chests and treasure piles inside the cave. Chests will mostly contain colored jewels of various types, but can also contain two different spheres. You want to open as many chests as you possibly can in your trip. You are only limited by the fact that you enter the cave with 5 "lives" shown as hearts at the top. Some of the chests will not contain goodies, they will have a skull and crossbones, which kills off one of your lives. Once your 5 lives are lost, either you can pay gems to refill your lives (starts at 15 gems and doubles from there) or you can just leave the cave. If you are lucky enough to find a Pillar of Life, you can touch it and get back one life for free.

Lives are supposed to regenerate to a full 5 immediately, so if you go back in, you should have a full 5. I went right back into the cave shortly after my first trip (I won a key on the top spin wheel) and when I went back, I only had 3 lives on the counter, not a full 5. So try spacing out your trips, don't go in back to back. This is a glitch, but no sense tempting fate.



Spheres that you collect can only be opened if you find a portal in the cave; when you do, they open up and give you a variety of the colored jewels.



Portal:



If you do not find a portal during your time in the cave, you will lose all spheres when you exit.

To earn a "big" spin for the best prizes, you have to unlock 16 different sections in the bottom half of the festival window. Each section is unlocked by having different types of the colored jewels. Right now in this picture I need 300 blue jewels, but I think for my first piece I needed red jewels. Different colors of jewels require different amounts. You can see in this picture that I have removed 1 of the 16 pieces in the space. When all 16 spaces are unlocked, then you get to go to the big prize spinner and try for one of the 4 big prizes.



4 pieces gone:





The prizes are as follows:

– 150 Luck Coins + puzzle piece for a pet Quokka;
– Airship House, produces useful resources + puzzle piece for a pet Quokka;
– Mystic Castle, produces 80 doubloons or 80 native coins every 24 hours + puzzle piece for a pet Quokka;
– Funny Chess, not only will it please friends, but also produce 150 stamps every 48 hours + puzzle piece for a pet Quokka

WHAT DO I DO WITH THE COLORED JEWELS?

Exchange them for the 16 pieces of the token needed for the big spin.

HOW DO I KNOW HOW MANY COLORED JEWELS I HAVE?

You can only see the number for whichever jewel is currently being requested by the big spin token area; to see all your jewel counts, you need to be inside the cave.

WHAT DO I DO WITH THESE SPHERES I KEEP FINDING IN THE CAVE?

IF you are lucky enough to find a portal, walking through it will open the sphere(s) you have and will give you lots of the colored jewels. If you do not find a portal, you will lose any spheres you have from that trip as soon as you leave the cave.