Family Dinner Time-Restricted Quest and Wine Glasses Collections Mission

 (Screenshot shows my farm with the three Rewards from this Mission:  The Vanilla Garden and Cornucopia Decoration from the Wine Glass Collections Mission and the Autumn Arch Decoration from the traditional Family Dinner Quest sequence)

A new time-restricted Quest has been released in Seaside in the form of a dual Mission consisting of a Collections Mission for Wine Glasses of four different colours and a traditional Quest sequence entitled 'Family Dinner'.

Collections Mission:
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Collect Wine Glasses

70 Green Wine Glasses from Chardonnay
50 Blue Wine Glasses from Peacock Feathers
30 Red Wine Glasses from Orange Jam
10 Brown Wine Glasses from Walnut

Rewards: Cornucopia Decoration and Vanilla Garden (produces Vanilla every four hours)

Note that you cannot purchase the Vanilla Garden in the Market at this point in time.  Like other 'Collectables', however, it no doubt will become available for players after the expiration of this Quest so that the farmers that did not participate in the Mission can make the items that require Vanilla as an Ingredient.

Please note as well that the traditional Quest has been created to dovetail with the Collections Mission in terms of some of the tasks, unlike some of the previous time-restricted Quests.  In the very first task group, you need to harvest 40 Peacock Feathers, one of the Items that produces Wine Glasses.  You will need to harvest 40 Chardonnay for Family Dinner II.  You need to harvest Walnuts in Family Dinner IV.  Walnuts randomly produce the Brown Wine Glasses needed to complete the Collections Mission.  Cleverly done, these tasks make timing important in terms of completion of the Collections Mission.  Complete it too quickly and you will have to harvest more of one of the required Items.  Complete it too slowly and you will not have the Vanilla Garden required in Family Dinner VI.  It really is admirable how the developers planned this one.  In the past, so many tasks had nothing whatsoever to do with the Collections Mission or anything else.  Here you will find that many of the Items produced to satisfy task requirements are used in Cooked Dishes that are needed to complete other tasks.  In short, DO NOT SELL ANYTHING!  You probably will need it later...

The traditional Quest sequence is as follows:

Family Dinner Quest
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Family Dinner I
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Tonight is our family reunion dinner.  And guess what?  The kids are in charge for the dinner this time!  But don't worry.  Grandma will be watching over us, just in case!  Let's start off with something simple, maybe some jam?

Produce 40 Jars of Orange Jam
  Skip for 20 RC

Produce 40 Peacock Feathers
  Skip for 20 RC

Prepare 20 Milk Cookies
  Skip for 20 RC

Felicia:  I'm so excited and it's a really big challenge to cook for the whole family!

Reward: 100 Coins, 17 XP

Family Dinner II
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We have so much work to do.  Oh, what a nice surprise.  Our cousin decided to help us!  We can always use an extra pair of hands.  He said he can make great cheese!  Let's see what his secret is!

Produce 40 Buffalo Milk Cheese
  Skip for 20 RC

Harvest 40 Chardonnay
  Skip for 20 RC

Produce 50 Beef Salami
  Skip for 25 RC

Felicia:  I can be the head chef tonight and Darryl and my cousin can be my little minions!

Reward: 100 Coins, 14 XP

Family Dinner III
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Felicia:  Let's put the chicken in the oven first, because it will take a long time to cook!  I can ask Darryl to have a look at the chicken once in a while.  I should ask him to do some easy tasks.


Prepare 20 Betutu Chicken
  Skip for 20 RC
  N.B.  Do not sell!  This will be needed later in the Quest sequence.  Plant more Rice as well!  The Turkey that is needed to produce the Turkey meat used in this Recipe eats Rice as does the Peacock that produces Peacock Feathers that yield Wine Glasses randomly.  Betutu Chicken Rice, required in a later task, uses Rice.

Produce 50 Champagne
  Skip for 25 RC

Produce 40 Maple Sugar
  Skip for 20 RC

Felicia:  Everything is going well so far.  I hope the dinner will be great!

Reward: 110 Coins, 14 XP

Family Dinner IV
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Felicia:  Now let's see how my cousin can help me.  Hm, I will need some sweet tomatoes for my special sauce.  He knows how to harvest, so maybe I should ask him to get some tomatoes!

Harvest 50 Tomatoes
  Skip for 25 RC
  N.B. You will need Tomatoes for Tomato Relish, a Recipe that is available on a temporary basis in the Kitchen.  

Harvest 6 Walnuts
  Skip for 6 RC

Prepare 20 bowls of Tomato Relish
  Skip for 20 RC
  N.B.  Tomato Relish is a Recipe that is available in the Kitchen on a temporary basis.

Felicia:  This is so much fun!  We're all working together like a team!

Reward: 110 Coins, 15XP

Family Dinner V
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Felicia:  Now it's time to prepare some healthy drinks.  Wait!  I forgot that our juice machine is broken!  Darryl, please hurry up and ask our neighbours for a toolbox so we can fix it.  Otherwise, there won't be any drinks for tonight!

Collect 20 Toolbox from Neighbours
  Skip for 20 RC

Craft 10 Peacock Feather Earrings
  Skip for 10 RC

N.B.  Peacock Feather Earrings are made in the Beauty Shop.  Each requires a Pearl, which is a random result from processing a Scallop in the Seafood House, 2 Peacock Feathers and 1 pair of Hooks, an item that can be requested as a Free Gift.  It takes 12 minutes to make a pair of Peacock Feather Earrings.

Prepare 20 Cream Corn
  Skip for 20 RC

Felicia:  I hope he'll be back soon.  We are running out of time!

Reward: 110 Coins, 15 XP

Family Dinner VI
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Felicia:  Let's see what my cousin found on the farm.  What's this?  Sweet potatoes?  I said: to-ma-toes!  Ugh... Now I have to improvise and make a nice dish with these sweet potatoes.  Hmm, if only I had some vanilla.

Place a Vanilla Garden on your farm
  (from Collections Mission)
  Skip for 10 RC

Produce 40 Lychee Candies
  Skip for 20 RC

Prepare 10 plates of Candied Sweet Potatoes
  Skip for 10 RC

Felicia:  Tomatoes, potatoes.  It doesn't matter when you have vanilla!

Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP

Family Dinner VII
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Felicia:  Darryl, why does it take so long to fix the juice machine?  Oh, I see, you forgot to plug the cable in.  Here, problem solved!  Now let's quickly make some juice!

Produce 60 glasses of Grape Juice
  Skip for 30 RC

Prepare 10 glasses of Mulled Wine
  Skip for 10 RC

Produce 60 loaves of Oat Bread
  Skip for 30 RC

Felicia:  The most inmportant thing is to stay positive and problems won't be a trouble for you!

Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP

Family Dinner VIII
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Felicia:  There is one more thing left to do: dessert!  Is it me or does it smell like something got burned?  I totally forgot about the chicken!  I will have a look at the chicken and I will ask Darryl to take care of the cake!

Produce 30 Almond Cake
  Skip for 15 RC

Prepare 12 bowls of Candied Walnut
  Skip for 12 RC

Harvest 6 Peaches
  Skip for 6 RC

Felicia:  I hope they won't mind if the chicken is a bit crispy...

Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP

Family Dinner IX
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Felicia:  I need to work on the presentation of this chicken.  Let's see, what else can Darryl help me with?  I know it!  Maybe he can collect some wreaths!  People will love it!

Collect 20 Autumn Wreaths from Neighbours
  SKip for 20 RC

Place Cornucopia
  (From Collections Mission)

Prepare 30 Betutu Chicken Rice
  Skip for 30 RC

Felicia:  Our neighbours are the best  They always help us when we need something!

Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP

Family Dinner X
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Felicia:  Our family reunion dinner is ready!  Maybe it's not perfect but we did our best.  Oh wait, I almost forgot!  Grandma loves chocolates, so let's prepare some sweets for her!

Prepare 20 bowls of Cream Casserole
  Skip for 20 RC

Prepare 30 bowls of Bean Stew with Crumbly
  Skip for 30 RC

Produce 10 Cherry Chocolates
  Skip for 10 RC

Felicia:  Grandma said the dinner was delicious and she loved the chocolates!  It was really nice to spend some time with the whole family!

Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP

N.B.  This last group of tasks is perhaps the most arduous in a way as it requires a great deal of Power to complete.  Cream Casserole is the third and final Recipe in the new group of Recipes and the Ingredients are two Recipe Dishes: Candied Sweet Potatoes and Creamed Corn.  Although you should have 20 bowls of Creamed Corn and 10 plates of Candied Sweet Potatoes in your Barn from previous Tasks in this Quest Sequence, you will need a total of 20 Cream Casserole.  That means you need to make 10 more plates of Candied Sweet Potatoes.  That will require 10 Power, but more than that, 10 more Vanilla.  Your new Vanilla Garden produces a single Vanilla every four hours, provided you collect instantly...  the time of production obviously runs from the time of collection!

Although the total amount of Power needed for the 20 bowls of Cream Casserole should be 30 Power (10 Power + 20 Power), provided you did not sell the Ingredients, there is another Dish requirement in this last step in the form of the Bean Stew with Crumbly.  Here the Power requirements are far greater.  Making Crumbly only requires Ingredients that are produced on your farm in the form of Oat Flour (x 2) and Eggs (x2) but you need 30 Crumbly here as well as 30 Bean Stew.  Bean Stew requires only Items made on youf farm in the form of Beef Salami and Green Bean, but again you will need a total of 30 Power to make the Bean Stew.  Finally, you will need another 30 Power to combine these two Recipe Dishes to make the Bean Stew with Crumbly.

What this means is that you will need a minimum of 120 Power to complete the final task group in this Quest sequence!  Make as much of the Crumbly and Bean Stew in advance as you can.

Finally, although I usually advise players against the use of RC to skip steps or tasks in any Quest, in this case, given the slow delivery of Vanilla and the fact that each Venilla will cost 1 RC if you choose to purchase it, you may find it more useful to 'skip' some of the Corn Casserole rather than purchasing the amount of Vanilla you still lack in view of the Power cost of each Corn Casserole.

For example, if you have no Vanilla remaining in your Barn but still need to make 8 more Corn Casserole to complete the Quest, you have a choice either to spend 8 RC on Vanilla or to spend 8 RC to 'skip' the task.  Given the Power requirement and the need to spend 90 Power on the Bean Stew with Crumbly, perhaps it would be more useful to use the RC to skip the remainder of this step.  Do bear in mind the fact that this advice pertains only to impatient farmers who wish to put the Mission behind them as quickly as possible in order to focus on other projects.  You do have plenty of time to complete the Family Dinner Quest!
Remember as well that Power always can be obtained randomly from cleaning and cooking Gift Bags.  Visit your neighbours, clean their decorations and click on the Cooking Stand to help both yourself and your Neighbours!

Another source of extra Power is the Gallery where specific Items when registered give Power as a Reward.  When you go to your Gallery, take a look at all the Rewards you have not earned yet and choose to Register an Item that will give you a Power Reward, if you need extra Power ror any timed Mission.

FINAL REWARD:  Autumn Arch Decoration  (This one can be cleaned.)

New Kitchen Recipes
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As is usually the case in these situations, new Recipes that are needed for the traditional Quest sequence have been released:

Candied Sweet Potatoes: 334 Coins, 1 XP
   Ingredients:  Sweet Potato x 2, Vanilla

Cream Corn: 356 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Cornmeal, Herb Cream Cheese

Cream Casserole: 730 Coins, 1 XP
   Ingredients:  Candied Sweet Potatoes, Cream Corn

Strategies for Mission
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You will need to place the two Rewards from the Collections Mission in the course of the traditional Quest sequence.  One of these, the Vanilla Garden, produces Vanilla every four hours that is needed in one of the new Recipes that is a Quest requirement.  You therefore should try to complete the Collections Mission before you reach Family Dinner VI.

This traditional Quest sequence, however, has been organised far better than many others in the past, as some of the tasks in the Quest sequence are to harvest or produce Items that yield the Wine Glasses in the Collections Mission.  In Family Farm II, for example, you need to harvest 40 Chardonnay.  Chardonnay produces Green Wine Glasses.  If you collect the 70 Green Wine Glasses needed for the Collections Mission before you reach Family Farm II, you will have wasted an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone as it were.

Power always is limited in Seaside.  My advice is to make all possible ingredients needed for Recipes in advance or you will find yourself in a position where you either have to wait for your Power to be replenished or purchase some.  For example, Bean Stew with Crumbly is a Recipe required for a task.  This is the third Recipe in a Kitchen sequence, which means that the ingredients both are Recipe Dishes themselves.  You therefore can make the Crumbly and the Bean Stew needed for the Bean Stew with Crumbly in advance.    One of the new Kitchen Recipes requires another Kitchen Dish in the form of Herb Cream Cheese.  Make this in advance as well.

Betutu Chicken is a required task Recipe.  For this, you will need Spice from the Spice Rack and Turkey.  Produce the Turkey in advance.  Betutu Chicken Rice is another required task, and the ingredients for this are the Betutu Chicken and another Recipe Dish in the form of Coconut Rice.  This one is a bit tricky as Coconut Rice itself requires a Cooked Dish in the form of Sticky Rice.  Unfortunately, it is here that the system breaks down a little for players who do not have large quantities of Rice in the Barn as the Peacock that produces the Peacock Feathers needed for the Collections Mission as well as the Turkey that provides the Turkey needed to make the Betutu Chicken eat Rice as well!  Make certain that you plant Rice in large quantities for use later in the traditional Quest sequence.

New Gallery Rewards
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With the release of the Gallery, almost every Item that you receive as a Reward in a Mission or Quest can be registered and Registration has Rewards in the form of OP, Power, Coins and or RC.  With respect to the time-restricted Quests or Missions, there usually is a Collection that can be registered as well.  In this case, it is the Family Dinner Collection.  To claim this Reward, you must register the Vanilla Garden, the Cornucopia and the Autumn Arch.