18 April 2014

Time-Restricted Easter Quest




Above, two screenshots of my Farm.  The top one shows the Chicken Home upgraded to Level 5, an Easter Table from the Collections Mission and the final Reward from the Easter Quest in the form of the Ice Cream Machine.  The second one shows the Easter Chocolate Tree, a special Decoration that is being offered currently in a sale.  There are three special Items:  The Easter Chocolate Tree, the Angel Rain Egg and the Easter Bunny.



Above, you can see the Easter Bunny decoration on the left side of the screen as well as the Angel Rain Egg on the right side.  The Easter Bunny can be cleaned but has no other special properties.  The Angel Rain Egg, however, when cleaned by a Neighbour, will yield Rain until the 24th of April.  The lovely Easter Chocolate Tree randomly will yield either a Decoration Egg or a Chocolate Egg until the 26th of April when it will begin to yield one of the three types of Chocolate available in the game instead.

Note the gift-wrapped box icon on the top right of the screen.  This is the sale offer.  Open the link and swipe to find three different offers.

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Easter Mission/Quest
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On Good Friday, a new time-restricted Quest was released entitled quite simply, 'Easter'.

As usual, this time-restricted Quest gives the Farmer 9 Days for the Collections Mission.  The traditional Quest sequence can be found in the top left of the screen and has a total of 9 steps.  You need to complete the Collections Mission for the final prize of the Walnut Tree and place it in order to complete Easter VII  unless you prefer to purchase the Walnut Tree in the Market for 8 RC.  In Easter VIII, you will be required to place three Easter Tables on your Farm.  To do so, you will need a total of 225 Little Chicks.  You will need 200 Little Chicks to redeem the Walnut Tree.

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Collections Mission
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With Chicken Home, collect Little Chicks from all kinds of crops, trees, animals and Machines!

Purchase the Chicken Home for 500 Coins and place it, then tap on it to open it.  You will find four Prizes.

The four Prizes are:

Chicken Nest (1 Little Chick each)
  You will need these to upgrade your Chicken Home.  The price never changes.

Easter Table
  There are a total of 5 Easter Tables that can be redeemed.
  100 Little Chicks for the first Easter Table. 
  You will need three of these placed on your Farm to complete the traditional Easter Quests.
  To redeem the second Easter Table, you will need 75 Little Chicks.
  To redeem the third Easter Table, you will need 50 Little Chicks.
  To redeem the fourth Easter Table, you need 25 Little Chicks and for the fifth, only 15.
  As previously stated, therefore, you will need a total of 225 Little Chicks to redeem the three Easter Tables needed to complete Easter VIII.  The other two are optional.

Sack of Bait
  There are a total of 100 that can be redeemed.
 1 Little Chick for the first one.  You need to redeem at least one to unlock the Walnut Tree
  The second Sack of Bait will cost 2 Little Chicks.  The third costs 4 Little Chicks.   The fourth costs 8 Little Chicks.   The price reaches a plateau of 30 Little Chicks when there are 195 Sacks of Bait remaining in the stocks.

Organic Fertiliser
  Sack of 25 Fertiliser.
  There are a total of 25 that can be redeemed.
  The first one costs only 1 Little Chick.  You need to redeem at least one to unlock the Walnut Tree.
  The second Sack costs 2 Little Chicks.  The third costs 4 Little Chicks.  The fourth costs 8 Little Chicks.  The price will continue to increase.  For example, the fifth costs 32 Little Chicks and the sixth costs 50 Little Chicks.  The next costs 100 Little Chicks and after that, 200 Little Chicks.  The next after that costs 250 Little Chicks, making one begin to wonder how much a sack of Organic Fertiliser really should be worth!
  At this point, however, one probably has nothing else to do with the Little Chicks apart from redeeming sacks of Fertiliser and Bait...

The Chcken Nest costs 1 Little Chick and is used to upgrade the Chicken Home to 'improve your luck'.  At the final Level 5 Upgrade, you will receive 2 Little Chicks randomly in collection.

You need to redeem at least 1 of each of the four Prizes in order to unlock the Walnut Tree.

When you have redeemed at least one each of the four Prizes, you will unlock the Walnut Tree.  200 Little Chicks are required to redeem a Walnut Tree.

Final Prize:  Walnut Tree

It is only when you wish to upgrade to the final Level that you will need RC.  To upgrade from Level 4 to Level 5, you will need:

10 Roof Tiles (Request from Neighbour)
5 Chicken Nests (Redeem for 1 Little Chick each)
1 Mother Hen: 5 RC

In tandem with the Collections Mission is a traditional sequence of Quests:

Easter Quests

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Easter I
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Where do all these fuzzy little chicks come from?  Oh, I know, it's almost Easter!  I think the Easter Bunny has set them free.  Let's build them a nice chick coop so they can stay there until Mama Chicken comes back!

Place a Chicken Home on your Farm
  Find it under the Specials Tab for 500 Coins

Harvest 40 Corn for the chicks
  Skip for 20 RC

harvest 40 Lilies
  Skip for 20 RC

Reward: 85 Coins, 17 XP

The chicken home looks so comfy!  I'm sure they will bring us a lot of eggs this year!

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Easter II
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Grandma:  So nice!  The Easter Bunny wants to visit our farm and bring us delicious eggs and other treats!  Let's prepare an Easter Breakfast!  Can you help me prepare it?

Produce 40 Wheat Bread
  Skip for 20 RC

Collect 40 Eggs
  Skip for 20 RC

Prepare 20 Egg Tarts
  Skip for 20 RC

Reward: 90 Coins, 18 XP

That really looks good!  You did a great job!

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Easter III
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The food looks really good, but we should also prepare some drinks.  The oranges are big and sweet this year.  How about some orange smoothie?

Prepare 20 glasses of Orange Smoothies
  Skip for 20 RC

Prepare 10 pitchers of Lemon Champagne
  Skip for 10 RC

Produce 40 Cherry Juice
  Skip for 20 RC

Reward: 100 Coins, 20 XP

Those drinks look delicious!  Now we have a complete Easter breakfast!

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Easter IV
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The kids loved the breakfast!  Well, Easter is nothing without colourful Easter eggs.  I was thinking of creaitng our own natural paint so the kids can use it to paint the eggs with.

Harvest 50 Blueberries
  Skip for 25 RC

Produce 50 Pineapple Jam
  Skip for 25 RC

Produce 50 Ketchup to make paint
  Skip for 25 RC

Reward: 100 Coins, 20 XP

Well done!  We have all the colours we need!

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Easter V
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Oh, the kids painted all kinds of different eggs.  They are really talented.  I heard some neighbours have little chicks, but don't have time to take care of them.  Maybe they can bring the chicks over so the kids can play with them.

Collect 20 Easter Chicks from your Neighbours
  Skip for 20 RC

Prepare 10 Chocolate Eggs
  Skip for 10 RC

Harvest 50 Daisies
  Skip for 25 RC

Reward: 110 Coins, 22 XP

It's so cute  The kids really take good care of the chicks.

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Easter VI
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I have to prepare the Egg Hunt for the kids.  In order to keep them away while I hide the eggs, I will ask our neighbours to keep them busy for awhile.

Help your Neighbours 40 times

Produce 10 Raisin Chocolates

Prepare 10 Fruit Butter

Reward: 110 Coins, 22 XP

Our neighbours are so kind.  They are more than willing to help me out so I have enough time to prepare the surprise for the kids.

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Easter VII
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While the kids are gone, I can prepare the egg hunt.  I do not only want to hide eggs, but also some other nice surprises!

Place Walnut Tree
  (Collection Missions Reward)

Produce 60 Blue Teddy Bears
  Skip for 30 RC

Prepare 5 Hot Cross Buns
  Skip for 5 RC

Reward: 110 Coins, 22 XP

I hope the kids will enjoy the egg hunt and find all the eggs and surprises I hid!

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Easter VIII
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That was fun!  It took awhile, but the children found all the eggs and gifts.  Darryl even dove into the pond to look for eggs, ha ha.  After all the activities, the kids must be hungry!

Prepare 10 bowls of  Egg Salad
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 6 Easter Pies
  Skip for 6 RC

Place 3 Easter Tables on your Farm
  (These are a Prize from the Chicken Home Collections Mission)

Reward: 120 Coins, 23 XP

That should be enough for all the kids!  And the tables look so nice on the farm!

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Easter IX
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Tonight we will have a big family dinner!  I still need help with the sweets and the children are eager to help!  I hope we have enough dough so all the kids can help us!

Prepare 20 Carrot Pastries
  Skip for 20 RC

Produce 20 bags of Chocolate Popcorn
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 6 Candied Walnuts
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 120 Coins, 23 XP

I am impressed with all the teamwork of all the children.  All the desserts turned out great!

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Easter X
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The baking made Felicia creative.  She said she can improve our dishes even more!  I will give her some freedom to impress me!

Prepare 6 Easter Cakes
  Skip for 6 RC

Prepare 8 Chocolate Pave
  Skip for 8 RC

Prepare 10 Stuffed Carrot Pastries
  Skip for 10 RC

Reward: 120 Coins, 23 XP

Wow, she really has soe talent!  I can see a great future for her and our farm!

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Easter XI
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The dinner was delicious and it was great to see the whole family again!  I really love to cook for the whole family.  Every one seems satisfied, but I feel like going back to the kitchen again.

Prepare 10 loaves of Easter Bread
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 6 Gourmet Apples
  Skip for 6 RC

Prepare 10 Meatloaf
  Skip for 10 RC

Reward: 120 Coins, 23 XP

I hope you will also have a nice Easter!  Happy Easter every one!

FINAL REWARD:  Ice Cream Machine

With the Ice Cream Machine, you can make the following:

Apple Ice Cream, Grape Ice Cream, Banana Ice Cream, Strawberry Ice Cream, Lemon Ice Cream, Mango Ice Cream, Apricot Ice Cream, Plum Ice Cream, Coconut Ice Cream, Peach Ice Cream, Pear Ice Cream

Apple Ice Cream: 38 Coins
Grape Ice Cream: 115 Coins
Banana Ice Cream: 75 Coins
Strawberry Ice Cream: 288 Coins
Lemon Ice Cream: 68 Coins
Mango Ice Cream: 65 Coins
Apricot Ice Cream: 89 Coins
Plum Ice Cream: 60 Coins
Coconut Ice Cream: 56 Coins
Peach Ice Cream: 78 Coins
Pear Ice Cream: 42 Coins

New Recipes have appeared in the Kitchen.  Some are required for the Quest:

Hot Cross Bun: 321 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Wheat Bread, Raisin Chocolate

Chocolate Egg: 76 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Chocolate, White Chocolate x 2

Easter Bread: 442 Coins, 1 XP
   Ingredients:  Hot Cross Bun, Chocolate Egg

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Easter Pie: 671 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Soft Dough, Dark Chocolate

Candied Walnut: 99 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Maple Sugar x 2, Walnut

Easter Cake:  927 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Easter Pie, Candied Walnut x 2

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Egg Salad: 283 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Egg x 2, Mayonnaise

Carrot Pastry: 878 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients: Carrot x 3, Soft Dough

Stuffed Carrot Pastry: 1213 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Egg Salad, Carrot Pastry

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Mission Strategies

Knowing the items that will be required for a mission allows one to prepare in advance to some extent.  As is usually the case with respect to recent time-restricted Missions, many Kitchen Dishes are required.  Make as many ingredients as possible in advance in order to prevent unnecessary delays while waiting for Power to replenish itself.

Soft Dough and Egg Nog are two Items that can be prepared in anticipation of the Quest.  Another is Condensed Milk.   Finally, you will need Apple Jelly for the Fruit Butter.

In terms of Machine products, you will need Alpaca Hair for the Blue Teddy Bears and Mayonnaise for the Egg Salad.  Make certain you have a few Grapes for the Raisin Chocolate.

The number of Collection items required to redeem the final Prize has increased from past requirements of 150 to 200.  You will need another 225 Little Chicks simply in order to redeem three Easter Tables.  If you are willing to spend RC on this mission, it would be better to spend it on a Walnut Tree than anything else.  With a Walnut Tree in place, you can focus on the Little Chicks required for the three Easter Tables.

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Easter Decorations in Seaside and the original Family Farm
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Those of us who play both the original Family Farm and Seaside recognise the various decorations and Machines when they appear in Seaside, but there are players who may not be familiar with the older game.  For those players, it may be interesting to note where the decorations originated.

The Ice Cream Machine that is the final Reward for the Easter Quest has been available in the original Family Farm for a long time but the little Eggs that represent different countries are a Craft item in the original game.  You craft them but they then are converted into Bunny Tokens to use for other prizes that include a Camellia Tree and ultimately, a Peek-A-Boo Bunny.  This little Eggs are Decorations in Seaside that can be purchased and then placed on your Farm.

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