[2021] Winter Event 2021

Greetings, queens and kings!
On Wednesday, October 06th, you can get many presents at this year's Winter Event!

This is the place to be if you have any questions about it or would like to discuss it with other players.
Please keep in mind that your opinion may differ from the opinions of other players, you don't have to convince each other of anything here.


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Thank you very much and have fun!

Best regards,
Your Forge of Empires Team  

Dear Kings & Queens,

We hope you are prepared to face the cold as the Winter Event is back! This year, your Quest Giver Isabella will guide you through the snowy town of Mistletown! There are Reindeers, Mystery Presents, a new Grand Prize, and a Winter Calendar full of surprises waiting for you!

The Winter Event will run from October 6th, 2021 to November 7th, 2021.​

Similar to last year's Winter Event, you will get the chance to unwrap amazing presents containing some pretty interesting rewards. Shuffle the stack of Mystery Presents and use 10 Stars to open one of them. Those Stars can be collected by completing the event questline, as well as special daily quests and in incidents hidden around your city. In addition, each time you open a Mystery Present, you will receive a Match Stick, which can be used to gain progress toward the Grand Prize! Use a Match Stick to light Candles inside 1, 2, or 3 town houses. Once all 20 houses are lit, the town's Winter Tree will light up and you'll obtain the Special Grand Prize!

There are also three special tiles hidden amongst the presents:

	Show Two, which reveals the rewards hidden inside two unopened presents.
	Times Two, which doubles the contents of the next present that you open.
	Shuffle, which exchanges all of presents with a whole new set of wrapped up rewards!

That's not all! Each day a new Daily Special will be hidden among the Mystery Presents! When revealing a Daily Special, you will also find one of the 9 lost Reindeers! Once you have found your first Reindeer, it will reveal a hidden reward offer which can be claimed using diamonds! Help return all the reindeer to their sleigh. Collect 9 Reindeers to unlock more rewards and get yourself a better deal.



There is more! The well known Winter Calendar will return, with 32 doors for you to open, with a reward behind each one of them! If you open all the Winter Calendar doors, you will gain some very special rewards. For example, a special avatar and a new decoration for the Winter Train building: The Parlor Car!


To open these doors, you will need keys! You can find one key each day when unwrapping presents! New doors will unlock each day of the Winter Event, so make sure to come back every day to find the keys! In case you find a second key in the same day, it will be replaced by 1 Master Key Piece and 10 stars. Upon collecting five Key Parts, you will create a Master Key, that can be used to unlock previously missed doors.

Please note: If you get double reward before finding the Daily Key, you will get a Daily Key and a Master Key Part!


Opening mystery presents is not the only way to win Key Parts, as you can also receive additional parts by completing a Daily Challenge or purchasing with diamonds.


As with all events, there is a brand new Grand Prize to be won! This year, you'll have the chance to snatch the charming and brand new Winter Canal. Upon reaching the maximum level, this 10 levels' branching building will offer two options: the Festive Canal and the Jolie Canal! Both of these buildings will offer Happiness, Population, Coins, Supplies, Medals and Forge Points. Apart from the nice visuals, the main difference between them is the battle boosts: the Festive Canal increases your defense for both attacking and defending army, while the Jolie Canal increases the attack for both as well!

So, which ones are you going to go for? Festive or Jolie? Choose wisely!

Festive Canal (6x4)	Jolie Canal (6x4)

In addition, successfully completing quests within the event will reward you with you the 'Festive Grotto', that provides a coin production boost!



Last but not least, we have one more thing in our stack for you! As for every event, you will be able to get two new Avatars as a questline reward! Our third Avatar, the Winter Waiter, is an unique Avatar Reward that can only be obtained through the Reward Calendar.


Should you have any comments, questions or issues, please let us know! We're very much looking forward to your feedback!

Finally, please keep in mind that you can always test our newest features in advance by using our Beta Mobile App. For more information on how to install it, please follow this guide.

Sincerely,
The Forge of Empires Team.  

Devilsangel said: Can you tell us the parlor car bonus or we wait and see?
Or is it just a decoration?

MooingCat said: I'm excited to see what the building stats are and what the new train car gives

Sadly we don't have the buildings data ready for you yet.

drakenridder said: Doesn’t it? Because I thought presents only contained virtual resources or currencies or buildings or items. Or is the cake (still) a lie..?

I just said, that feedback like this is not helpful, I made no comment on what the presents actually contain. Maybe they are full of (cake) lies? ^^  

Here are the current stats for the buildings:

Parlor Car
(Needs to be connected to the trains from the Winter Event 2019)

Age	Provides		Connection Grants
Bronze Age	200	30	+5%
Iron Age	280	48	+5%
Early Middle Ages	330	120	+5%
High Middle Ages	420	240	+5%
Late Middle Ages	480	360	+5%
Colonial Age	570	600	+5%
Industrial Age	640	1,200	+5%
Progressive Era	700	1,800	+5%
Modern Era	800	3,000	+5%
Postmodern Era	910	4,800	+5%
Contemporary Era	1,060	7,200	+5%
Tomorrow Era	1,320	12,000	+5%
The Future	1,580	19,200	+5%
Arctic Future	1,790	28,800	+5%
Oceanic Future	2,010	36,000	+5%
Virtual Future	2,540	48,000	+5%
Space Age Mars	3,950	78,000	+5%
Space Age Asteroid Belt	4,290	108,000	+5%
Space Age Venus	4,640	126,000	+5%

Jolie Canal

Age	Provides					Produces
						1d	if	moti-	vated
Bronze Age	1,300	275	120	+15%	+14%	2,100	1,410	39	9
Iron Age	2,240	592	192	+15%	+14%	5,000	2,420	50	9
Early Middle Ages	2,470	908	480	+16%	+15%	8,400	2,680	61	9
High Middle Ages	2,760	1,275	960	+16%	+15%	11,800	2,990	72	9
Late Middle Ages	3,080	1,673	1,440	+16%	+16%	15,500	3,330	83	9
Colonial Age	3,620	2,111	2,400	+18%	+16%	23,700	3,920	99	9
Industrial Age	4,080	2,581	4,800	+18%	+16%	29,500	4,420	138	9
Progressive Era	4,480	3,080	7,200	+20%	+18%	35,800	4,850	192	9
Modern Era	4,790	3,611	12,000	+20%	+18%	44,500	5,190	275	9
Postmodern Era	4,990	4,162	19,200	+22%	+18%	56,000	5,410	384	9
Contemporary Era	5,800	4,743	28,800	+22%	+20%	72,900	6,290	549	9
Tomorrow Era	7,040	5,345	48,000	+24%	+20%	84,400	7,630	741	9
The Future	8,440	5,977	76,800	+24%	+20%	96,800	9,140	906	9
Arctic Future	9,830	6,630	115,200	+26%	+22%	110,000	10,650	1,098	9
Oceanic Future	11,340	7,303	144,000	+26%	+22%	124,000	12,290	1,262	9
Virtual Future	13,550	7,997	192,000	+28%	+22%	138,900	14,680	1,536	9
Space Age Mars	21,680	12,658	312,000	+28%	+24%	232,000	23,490	1,866	9
Space Age Asteroid Belt	23,560	13,750	432,000	+30%	+24%	256,900	25,520	2,195	9
Space Age Venus	25,450	14,861	504,000	+30%	+24%	283,200	27,570	2,524	9

Festive Canal

Age	Provides					Produces
						1d	if	moti-	vated
Bronze Age	1,300	275	120	+17%	+17%	1,900	1,620	29	12
Iron Age	2,240	592	192	+17%	+17%	4,500	2,790	38	12
Early Middle Ages	2,470	908	480	+17%	+17%	7,400	3,090	46	12
High Middle Ages	2,760	1,275	960	+19%	+18%	10,400	3,450	54	12
Late Middle Ages	3,080	1,673	1,440	+19%	+18%	13,800	3,850	62	12
Colonial Age	3,620	2,111	2,400	+19%	+18%	21,000	4,520	75	12
Industrial Age	4,080	2,581	4,800	+21%	+20%	26,100	5,100	103	12
Progressive Era	4,480	3,080	7,200	+21%	+20%	31,700	5,600	144	12
Modern Era	4,790	3,611	12,000	+21%	+20%	39,400	5,990	206	12
Postmodern Era	4,990	4,162	19,200	+23%	+24%	49,600	6,240	288	12
Contemporary Era	5,800	4,743	28,800	+23%	+24%	64,600	7,250	412	12
Tomorrow Era	7,040	5,345	48,000	+23%	+24%	74,800	8,810	556	12
The Future	8,440	5,977	76,800	+25%	+26%	85,700	10,550	679	12
Arctic Future	9,830	6,630	115,200	+25%	+26%	97,400	12,280	823	12
Oceanic Future	11,340	7,303	144,000	+25%	+28%	109,800	14,180	947	12
Virtual Future	13,550	7,997	192,000	+27%	+28%	123,000	16,940	1,152	12
Space Age Mars	21,680	12,658	312,000	+27%	+30%	205,500	27,100	1,399	12
Space Age Asteroid Belt	23,560	13,750	432,000	+27%	+30%	227,600	29,450	1,646	12
Space Age Venus	25,450	14,861	504,000	+27%	+30%	250,900	31,820	1,893	12