The Ooze is rising. Trick, treat, craft, and hold the camp.
October 1 - October 31 · Daily resets at midnight Eastern
October is Oozefest! The Ooze is rising out of the pumpkin patch and the camp has one month to get ready for it. Knock on other members' doors for candy, and on realm pages and news articles too: three quarters of the time you get a treat, and the rest of the time you get a trick. Donate candy, timber, bars and fish to the camp defenses to raise the Settlement Level, because every level of it makes everybody hit the bosses harder. Five bosses come one a week, each with three attacks a day and a chapter of the story, and the last of them walks up to the wall on the twenty-ninth. Smelt, tan and weave what you gather into gear at the Forge, then open a shop on your profile and sell what you do not need. The free 50-level pass pays Ectoplasm all month.
Arm the settlement. A full meter levels up the Militia and sends a strike at the boss.
Equipment
Lv 13
86 / 500 points · armour, jewellery, off-hands
Weapons
Lv 5
4 / 500 points · weapons of any kind
Siege Balls
Siege Balls
4
0 shots
Ooze Balls
35
7 shots
Fire Balls
114
22 shots
Frost Balls
106
21 shots
Blacksmiths cast Siege Balls from bars and forge the elemental ones from Siege Balls. Every trebuchet draws from these stockpiles, 5 balls a shot.
Resupply
Food feeds the trebuchet crews. Supplies build and upgrade the trebuchets. War effort donations fill both.
Food
3,178 / 10,000
Supplies
342 / 10,000
Candy
Any Candy
Lv 8
438 / 1,000·1 pt each
Wood
Pine Plank
Lv 7
561 / 1,000·2 pts each
Oak Plank
Lv 6
311 / 1,000·4 pts each
Maple Plank
Lv 5
427 / 1,000·6 pts each
Ore
Copper Bar
Lv 4
13 / 500·2 pts each
Coal
Lv 3
189 / 250·2 pts each
Fish
Any Fish
Lv 6
493 / 1,000·1 pt each
Food
Any Meal
Lv 3
151 / 250·2+ pts each
Ore and wood go to Supplies. Fish, candy and cooked meals go to Food (bigger meals feed more). Every donation also pays a Gold per item.
Projects
Preparing for the next battle
No boss is in range, so the crews hold fire. Each trebuchet keeps loading from the stockpiles until it has one full shot ready, then stops drawing ammo and waits. No Food is eaten and nothing is thrown until a boss arrives. Militia strikes bank until then too.
Challenges reset every day at midnight Eastern. Season challenges pay Pass XP - finish about half the month to complete the pass. The Gold challenges run every day, season or not.
Seasonal Challenges
Bucket Runner
Trick-or-treat 100 times.
+3000 XP
Fifty Swings
Land 50 boss attacks.
+2500 XP
There When It Fell
Be there for 3 boss kills.
+2500 XP
Master of the Forge
Craft 50 items.
+2000 XP
Shopkeeper
Sell 25 items out of your shop.
+1500 XP
Sweet Tooth Tithe
Donate 250 candies to the camp defenses.
+2000 XP
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MeiLingbao's shop is cleaned to the last item in record time. It's going to be yet another fist fight for the materials on every reset, like it seems to be with some other shops.
Also I do want to add into this that right now, food can restore only 100 extra energy per day. You also do get energy back over time during the day, and you can increase your energy bar if you're lucky enough to get gear with energy on it (Rings and Amulets for now).
We might boost the amount people can restore every day though food, and possibly through other means too. I've intentionally set the target a bit lower just to tame expectations. I'd much rather buff this number in the future than take it away. I have an idea of how the economy is going to change based on this but I don't know for certain.
Also I guess something I will mention too is the reason we still even have cooldowns on gathering is because of the in-game version of Sidequest that is still very much a work in progress. The idea is that fishing in the game will take more effort because you will have to complete a little fishing mini-game and find fishing pools to catch fish, so the site action is like a shortcut, so we limit the time. Also, it will be possible to complete in-game actions like fishing, foraging, mining, etc. with less overall energy usage to further balance out the fact that you will have to actively go and find these kinds of materials which itself takes time.
Everything is a bunch of numbers at the end of the day though that are going to get balanced as people use the systems. This is just a massive alpha test really lol.
Ha! Finally some lovely companionship in camp idiot :D I did the same, plus collected some mats, obviously. I mean I did see the lightning icons. Optimistic that I am I was SO sure this meant "cool, I'm now also getting energy from this, let's go!!" :D :D
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