Autumn Festival 2023
Event Period: November 1st, 2023 ~ November 30th, 2023
 | Welcome to Sakura's second event: the Autumn Festival! With so many autumn holidays and festive occasions such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, moon viewing festivals, and more, we thought why not celebrate them all? And thus, Sakura's Autumn Festival was born! In this event, we'll focus more on the themes of Halloween and Harvests, which is why there are two (or more like two and a half?) parts of this event: Harvest Season and Trick or Treating. "Harvest Season" involves gathering ingredients and making meals for everyone to share and enjoy, whereas "Trick or Treating" involves the classic Halloween activity of collecting treats from other players' houses – and even setting up your own house so members can visit you, too! But I heard that maybe you might have to complete a trick first...? |
EVENT GUIDE
As mentioned previously, there are 2.5 parts to this event: Harvest Season is part 1 and 1.5 while Trick or Treating is part 2!However, players do NOT need to complete or participate in Harvest Season if they only want to participate in Trick or Treating (or vice versa) – you can choose to do just one part or both, it's up to you! Additionally, there is no sign ups or anything of that sort for this event. Simply pick the part(s) you want to participate in and get started on it whenever you'd like!
HARVEST SEASONThis part of the event will consist of various mini games tailored specifically for this event, that only give out random ingredients which players can then use to make certain recipes!Each recipe makes a specific autumn or Sakura-related dish (or even a special item) that can later be redeemed for rewards like cards, currency, and coupons once they are brought to the Pot Luck Gathering to share. Furthermore, we will also be keeping a collective tally of how many dishes players make overall so we can all enjoy them together! The more dishes and items made, the better the rewards will be for everyone who participates and contributes at least 5 dishes (and as long as the collective total reaches each milestone to unlock its assigned reward). More details about this part of the event can be found below, and guidelines on how to correctly participate can be found in the event information thread on the forums! Please read both sections if you want to participate. | TRICK OR TREATINGIn the spirit of Halloween, this part of the event is something some of you may be familiar with: Trick-or-Treating!This is a returning activity from the past run (and other TCGs) where players can set up their own threads to use as "houses" and others may visit to receive a treat— or a trick first, then a treat! In this activity, players can either be Homeowners (those who set up a house), Trick-or-Treaters (those who visit houses), or BOTH – but we encourage players who only want to be a Trick-or-Treater to consider opening up their own house as well, so there are more opportunities for treats to be given out! More details about this part of the event can be found below, and guidelines on how to correctly participate can be found in the event information thread on the forums! Please read both sections if you want to participate. |
HARVEST SEASON
For this event, there are a total of 25 recipes that can be made: 10 drinks and 15 food items! Players do not need to make every single one if they only want to make certain recipes because of the specific rewards they want.You can see them below, as well as on the full Recipe Master List in our Autumn Festival Guide which lists each possible recipe, its assigned reward upon being shared at the pot luck, and the ingredients needed to make it. If the ingredient has a marked-off checkbox that means it is required! Empty checkboxes not marked means they are not needed for that dish.
DRINKS          SPECIAL ITEM | FOOD               |
(Credit to the Hello Kitty Island Adventure Wiki for the ingredients and food pixels used for this event!)
COLLECTING INGREDIENTSThere are a total of 18 ingredients, all of which can be earned at random from the games with an equal chance of receiving each type.         L-R: apple, candy cloud, chocolate, cinnamon, cream, dough, espresso nut, fizzy soda, flour          L-R: marshmallow, milk, moon cheese, mushroom, mystery fruit, pumpkin, sakura, toasted almond, star While all the ingredients have a specific use, stars have two uses: to make a special Jack O' Lantern recipe OR to transform into any ingredient available from the above list. For the latter, you can transform them through the self-serve Shooting Star Exchange at the Grocery Store but to consume them in a recipe, you use it like any other ingredient! In addition, all ingredients ARE able to be traded with others' ingredients and even gifted away – but doing either will NOT count towards trade meters. Also, players are NOT allowed to trade cards or currency for ingredients (and vice versa) with other players, except when using the Grocery Store! There, you can purchase them in Bulk Ingredients which requires sakura petals or flowers to use. Please note that reward logs for the event games that give ingredients will NOT be logged on-site so players must make sure to manually save a copy of it themselves elsewhere if they aren’t uploading it to their post right away, as we will be requiring logs of what ingredients were earned when making recipes! MAKING RECIPESTo do all the cooking (or crafting, in the case of the Jack O' Lantern), players will make a thread in the Harvest Season forum to use as their kitchen of sorts.Here, players can keep track of their ingredient stocks & how they earned/used them (especially if they don't want to use their regular logs for this), the recipes they've made so far, and post the forms to do the actual cooking/crafting! | POT LUCK GATHERINGTo celebrate the theme of "harvest" as well as Thanksgiving and other similar holidays, this year we will be holding a Pot Luck Gathering and ask that players bring some dishes to share with others!Of course, players won't go unrewarded for their contributions. As long as a player brings at least 5 dishes to the pot luck, they will be able to earn the base bonus rewards (from Tier #01) at the end of the event. This base reward can increase based on how many items are brought overall from every participating member though so if one wants to be eligible for the additional rewards (from Tier #02 and up) then they must contribute at least 20 dishes total instead! As mentioned, there are certain milestones that once met, adds extra rewards to the base milestone reward. You can see the currently available milestones to reach in the table below! In the right-most column, the additional reward is what is added to the base reward PER milestone met (that aligns with that reward in the table).
Rewards from the pot luck will be handed out in December, once the event ends entirely and we have time to calculate the final totals and send them out to everyone involved! |
REWARDS
For reference, the type of rewards you can get from a dish depend on how many ingredients were used to make it:- 2-ingredient dishes = 2-4 random cards, 10-50 petals, 1-2 regular coupons
- 3-ingredient dishes = 3-5 random cards, 1-4 flowers, 1-2 special coupons
- 4-ingredient dishes = 1-3 choice cards, 4-6 random cards, 2-6 flowers, 2-3 regular and/or special coupons
- Jack o’ Lantern only = rare coupon
You can pick and choose the recipes you want the rewards of the most, and focus on collecting the ingredients needed for those only or you could just make whatever you're able to from the ingredients you do collect – it's up to you how you want to participate in this event!
TRICK OR TREATING
As mentioned previously, in order to participate, players will take on the role of a homeowner, a trick-or-treater, or both!Those who are homeowners will create a thread in the Trick or Treating forum (which they can decorate as they please!) that includes their Personal Stamp as well as a link to the Treat Randomizer, which is what trick-or-treaters will use to grab their TREAT from. However, homeowners have the option to also include a TRICK, which can be any simple task or question that the Trick-or-Treater needs to complete/answer before they can take their treat!
Trick-or-Treaters on the other hand just need visit as many of the participating players' houses as they like and collect treats! If there a trick, you MUST complete/answer whatever the homeowner asks for first before taking your teat, to honor the spirit and theme of the activity.
This time however, we will be trying a different method of this activity than we have done in past years so things will be more self-serve! Players will now collect their treats themselves and post in the homeowner's thread with what they received from the given randomizer, as opposed to waiting until the homeowner passes out treats themselves. It should also be noted that logs for the treats from this event will NOT be saved to your account or on-site records!
PERSONAL STAMPS
| These are simply graphics that each homeowner makes themselves for trick-or-treaters to take once they complete a visit to their house, like the example shown on the right! Stamps not only work as a tracker for players so they know which houses they've already visited but are also what I hope is a fun way for the homeowner to show off something that the represents them– like their favourite character! Keep in mind that stamps are required if you're a homeowner but you can make it as simple or as fancy as you'd like, as long as it follows the given guidelines (which you can find in its event information thread)! |  |
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