A walk-thru of my method to complete every event (with screenshots)
I've had a few people ask me about my method of completing weekly event, so I decided to create a walk through. On average, I typically complete every weekly event by Saturday night (or 28 hours after it begins). Obviously this all depends on how much you dedicated to the game. I've completed in under 24 hours in the past, and on rare occasions when i have a busy weekend, it may take me until Sunday morning. But rarely, if ever, do I go in Monday (but that probably has more to do with me not having much of a life).
Note: Whenever I mention time, it's EST. My event starts at 3pm on Friday.
The very first thing I do is organize the board to separate the harvest, the flowers and the items (ie: saplings, bushes, and what not). You want to make enough room so that your dragons can harvest the flowers and produce power. Two things to keep in mind:
- Do NOT merge the harvestable event items. You'll find around 9 of them throughout the level. Do not merge them. This is because your dragons will share focus between the life flowers and harvestable event items. (See the bottom row how the harvestable items are separated.)
- Merge flowers until you get Glowing Life Flowers (lvl4). Make sure there are no level 2 or 3 flowers on the board. This will allow the dragons to focus on just one power type for easy merging.
The goal right now is to let the dragons harvest as much power as they can. Once the board is filled up, merge the life orbs. Feel free to pop the life orbs to free up more land. As you free up more land, you'll gather more leaves, seeds and saplings. This part is important.
Only merge the fruit trees until this level (Young Fruit Tree - lvl2). You will need to separate them to make sure each tree is 2 squares away from another tree. This is because these trees will generate life flower sprouts. Over time each Tree will generate 8 sprouts. This step is important because this will allow you to merge the flowers until you reach your goal of producing 1 Life Tree Spout (lvl8). It will take a while, but once you reach a lvl8 Life tree, you're a few hours away from finishing the level.
When the trees have produced 8 sprouts, feel free to move them so that they can produce more spouts. At this stage of the event, you want to focus on the number 20 -- you will need 20 sprouts to create a Glowing Life Flower (lvl4). Your goal at this point is produce 5 of them, so that you can bump up to level 5. The life orbs will remain the same, but it'll bring you one step closer to the goal -- a level 8 Life tree.
Once you reach this point, remember not to merge the flowers too quickly to lvl6 because one of the level achievements is to harvest a lvl5 200 times. What I typically do at this point is I try to generate as many lvl4's as i can. If i reach the goal of 200 harvests while only having 3 lvl4's, then i'll merge the three to form the 3rd lvl 5, and then merge them to form a Brilliant Life Flower (lvl6). You will need to do all of this 7 more times. Your goal now is to produce 8 Brilliant Life Flowers which will allow you to create 3 Giant Life flowers, and then your final goal of 1 Life Tree Sprout.
Roughly 5 hours after the event started, I've generated my first of eight Brilliant Life flowers. Stick to the plan:
- Only have one type of harvestable element (in this case Brilliant Life Flowers). Pop the life orbs to free up more space.
- Gather and create as many Young Fruit Trees as you can.
- Do not merge the harvestable elements.
Keep an eye on your Young Fruit Trees. They will occasionally drop seeds. Store them on the side until they turn until Fruit Tree Saplings. Then merge them to create even more Young Fruit Trees. Typically, depending on the items and rate of seeds generated by the trees, I can generate over 20 of these by the time I create the one Life Tree Sprout.
The new magic number is 125 -- the number of sprouts you'll need to create a lvl6 flower. It is important that you only merge these saplings the moment you have enough to create a lvl6 flower. If you don't have enough, then your dragons will harvest different orbs. This makes it more difficult to mass merge because the different level orbs are meshed together. You want one orb type so you can mass merge them in one shot.
While unlocking land, always pay attention to the two Level 2 harvestable event items which can be found in the 500-power blocks. If you unlock any of these, it will force your dragons to share their focus with both the flowers and the harvestable items. TIP: If you accidentally unlock one of them, you can place the harvestable item next to the flower and select it. Doing so will prevent the dragons from harvesting them, however, the dragons will approach it to attempt to harvest it. By selecting it, the dragons will cancel the harvest and move back to the flower.
At this point, I have 17 young fruit trees and I'm 3 Brilliant Flowers away from producing the Life Tree sprout. On average, you'll only need around 15-16 trees to produce 125 sprouts, but don't let that spot you from producing 20+. You'll reach your goal faster.
This is how the board will look until I produce enough orbs to unlock all of the lands. I try not to unlock any of the 5000-locked land. At this point, your dragons will be harvesting orbs and your trees will be producing spouts.
I produced my first two LOH's. Typically you'll need around 5 to unlock all of the exposed land (not including the land in the clouds). This was around 2pm yesterday -- almost an entire day after the even began. The next few orbs won't take nearly as much time once you get your Life Tree Spout.
At around 4 oclock on Saturday, I generated my first Life Tree Spout. You'll also notice that I merged and sold all of my Young Fruit Trees because they are no longer needed. Now, the goal is harvest enough orbs to have 5 LOH's.
This is the most frustrating part of this strategy. Occasionally the Life Tree Sprout will not only harvest orbs but also flowers. These flowers will distract the dragons and make them lose their focus of ONLY harvesting from the Life Tree Spout. You will have to babysit the game a bit to make sure the Life Tree doesn't harvest anything other than orbs. Just sell / delete the unwanted trees and release the smaller orbs that they may have created.
At 8pm, I finally hit my goal of 5 LOH's -- or 1.5m power to unlock all of the remaining land.
I recommend popping one LOH at at time if you only have 5. This will allow you to merge a few skulls and other items. Remember, these are all 5000 lands. Every land that you unlock will require 5000 fewer power orbs to unlock all of the land. The screenshot above shows how you should try to unlock anything at this point. Typically, you can free up 15-20 land by doing this which comes out to 100,000 fewer power required.
I miscalculated and needed an addition 90,000 power to unlock the remaining land. So i manually had my dragons harvest the Life Tree Spout to generate enough orbs to knock out the remaining lands.
Now you have all of the items to unlock the clouds. You won't need more orbs to unlock the newly revealed land. You'll find plenty of Orbs under the clouds to unlock that land. Plus, that land is typically 500 to unlock.
Also, at this point, you'll probably have enough event items to complete the reward where you have to generate 5 level 7 event items. Make sure you do that immediately.
Once you created 5 level 7 event items, it's time to complete the final task -- harvest the event statue 75 times. You'll find 4 of them as you unlock the land, and each of them can be harvested 25 times. So, you'll have more than enough. Keep harvesting until you hit 75.
Once you do that, the event quest is completed and you can collect the rewards.
Once that's done, you'll have enough harvestable items to produce 2 level 9's which is enough to unlock all of the prizes.
IMPORTANT: Some players are required to harvest a bit more. For me, it's always been two lvl9's.
Annndddd. we're done. Time check: 8:48pm Saturday night. Keep in mind that I did quite a bit of driving and household tasks throughout Saturday. I may have been able to complete it under 24 hours if I had a lazy weekend. In this case, it took just under 30 hours.
Please please please let me know if there's any step if my method that can be optimized. I've used this method for a while and it's worked every time. Hope this helps you!
Posted May 15, 2022, 4:55 PM UTC