Candles Collection Mission
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Collect Candles
Try to collect Colourful Candles when making farm products as follows:
70 Pink Candles from Pitaya
50 Blue Candles from Peacock Feathers
30 Yellow Candles from Orange Jam
10 Green Candles from Matcha Tree
Rewards: Street Lamp Decoration and Juniper Bush
Note that you can purchase the Juniper Bush in the Market as well for 7 RC. It yields Juniper Berry every 6 Hours.
In tandem with the Collections Mission is the usual traditonal Quest sequence as follows:
Fortune Telling Night Quest
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Fortune-Telling Night I
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Felicia: Have you ever heard of St. Andrew's Night? It's a traditional night of magic and fortune-telling. Young girls will try to find out about their future by playing games! Do you want to try it out after we finish our work on the farm?
Plant 40 Fern Flowers
Skip for 20 RC
Harvest 40 Fern Flowers
Skip for 20 RC
Craft 6 Conch Earrings
Skip for 6 RC
N.B. The Nautica Sea Snail takes 49 Minutes to process in the Seafood House and yields Raw Sea Snail with the Sea Snail Shell you need as a POSSIBLE Bonus. If you have not been processing your Snails regularly, you may think about buying the shells for 1 RC each. Stupidly, I have over 40 Sea Nails in my Barn, none of them processed yet!
The ingredients for Conch Earrings are 1 Conch Shell, 1 Snail Shell and 1 pair of Earring Hooks. Earring Hooks can be requested as a Free Gift from Neighbours. Make certain that you do this periodically so that you have plenty in your Barn. Another Free Gift that is used in the Beauty Shop, although not needed in THIS Quest sequence is Glass.
Reward: 100 Coins, 12 XP
Felicia: It sounds like so much fun! I'm so excited to find out about my future!
Fortune Telling Night II
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Felicia: Grandma told me I can invite some of my friends to come over and organise a sleepover to celebrate St. Andrew's Night! But before I call my friends, I need to finish all my farm duties! Would you mind lending me a hand?
Harvest 40 Onion
Skip for 20 RC
Harvest 40 Rice
Skip for 20 RC
Produce 50 Beef Salami
Skip for 25 RC
Felicia: Phew, we're done with all the work! Let's get the party started!
Reward: 100 Coins, 14 XP
Fortune Telling Night III
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Felicia: Grandma promised to teach me all he games and rituals. I am so excited! The girls will be here soon, so I'd better make sure we'll have plenty of things to eat and drink!
Harvest 8 Oranges
Skip for 8 RC
Produce 10 Mango Juice
Skip for 10 RC
Prepare 15 Kvass
Skip for 15 RC
N.B. To make Kvass, you need Black Bread and Honey.
Felicia: i can't wait to see what the games are all about!
Reward: 110 Coins, 14 XP
Fortune Telling Night IV
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Every girl knows that a night of gossip and playing can be exhausting! Being the host of this party, I need to take care of the food as well! How about some traditional Polish recipes? Let's get all the ingredients!
Place Juniper Bush
Reward from Collections Mission
N.B. Can be purchased in the Market for 7 RC as well
Prepare 20 Steak Tartare
Skip for 20 RC
Collect 40 Eggs
Skip for 20 RC
Felicia: I'd better ask Grandma for help! She's the expert in the kitchen!
Reward: 110 Coins, 15 XP
Fortune Telling Night V
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The main purpose of St. Andrew's Night celebrations is to predict the future of an unmarried girl and especially her prospects for a good marriage. Put your apron on farmer, a good wife needs to be a good cook!
Harvest 4 Juniper Berries
Skip for 4 RC
Harvest 50 Cabbages
Skip for 25 RC
Prepare 20 Beef Risotto
Skip for 20 RC
Note that you will need 2 Rice for every portion of Beef Risotto. Rice is needed to feed the Peacocks that produce the Peacock Feathers yielding Blue Candles in the Collections Mission so make certain that you have plenty of Rice!
Felicia: The food smells amazing! We're almost ready for the games!
Reward: 110 Coins, 15 XP
Fortune Telling Night VI
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Felicia: The most popular ritual is pouring hot melted wax through a key into a bowl of cold water. Hardened wax is held up to the light and the future is predicted by observing its shadow cast on the wall! This ritual makes me hungry...
Prepare 6 Juniper Sausage
Skip for 6 RC
Prepare 20 Braised Cabbage
Skip for 20 RC
N.B. Note that you need two Pickled Cabbage and two Onions for each of the Braised Cabbage. You therefore will need a total of 60 Power to complete this single task. With the 6 Juniper Sausage, you need a total of 66 Power. If possible, make the Pickled Cabbage in advance!
Produce 20 Black Forest Cake
Skip for 20 RC
Felicia: My shadow looked like a cookie! Does it mean my future looks... sweet?
Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP
Fortune Telling Night VII
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Felicia: To find out who will get married first, we'll put our shoes in a line and move the last to the front, one by one, towards the door. The girl whose shoe first crosses the doorstep will be married first! Let's get some nice shoes!
Place Street Lamp
Reward from Collections Mission
Collect 20 Elegant Heels from Neighbours
Skip for 20 RC
Prepare 20 Cabbage Rolls
Skip for 20 RC
Felicia: What? Whose shoe is it? Looks like my little brother pulled another prank on us! It's his little shoe that crossed the doorstep first!
Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP
Fortune Telling Night VIII
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Felicia: For the next game we'll need lots of apples! We need to peel the skins off and throw them behind us! The shape the apple skin takes on the floor should resemble the first letter of the future husband's name!
Harvest 6 Apples
Skip for 6 RC
Prepare 8 Bigos
Skip for 8 RC
Prepare 10 Candied Apples
Skip for 10 RC
Felicia: What are we going to do with all these apples now?
Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP
Fortune Telling Night IX
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Last but not least, reading the tea leaves! Even if we can't really guess anything, it's always nice to have some tea, hehe. Let's give it a try!
Prepare 10 Maple Milk Tea
Skip for 10 RC
Fish 12 Times with the Squid Hook
Skip for 12 RC
Produce 40 Sugar
Skip for 20 RC
Felicia: My tea leaves look kind of like a fish... that's good! Fish is a symbol of wealth! I'm gonna be rich!
Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP
Fortune Telling Night X
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Felicia: That was fun! Now that we've tried our hand on fortune telling, let's finish the night with a little home spa! Let's go to the beauty shop and get some masks!
Process 10 Gulfweed in the Seafood House
Skip for 10 RC
N.B. Gulfweed will produce 3 Algae Power in three minutes. This is used in all Facial Masques. A possible Bonus when you process 25 Fertilisers and 6 Super Fertilisers but this is a random result.
Craft 10 Rose Facial Masques
(Do this in the Beauty Shop)
Each Rose Facial Masque takes 15 minutes to complete.
N.B. The Ingredients for this are: Clay Facial Masque, Blue Rose x 2, Red Rose x 2
Incidentally, Red Roses can be requested as a Free Gift from Neighbours, although they now only take 4 Hours to mature when planted.
Craft 10 Pearl Hydrating Masques
(Do this in the Beauty Shop)
N.B. The Ingredients for this are: Clay Masque, Cucumber x 4, Pearl
You can obtain Pearl as a RANDOM result from processing Scallops in your Seafood House. Clay Facial Masques are made in your Beauty Shop.
You will need a total of 20 Clay Facial Masques to complete this part of the Mission. Each Clay Facial Masque has the following ingredients: Algae Powder x 2, Batter, Distilled Water
The Distilled Water can be requested as a Free Gift from Neighbours. You should stockpile this in advance of any Quest, along with the Glass and Earring Hooks used in the Beauty Shop for other Craft Recipes. Batter is made in the Kitchen. It is a Dish that is used in many different Kitchen Recipes as well as in the Beauty Shop so have plenty in the Barn at all times.
Felicia: These masks will make us so pretty!
Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP
Fortune Telling Night XI
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Felicia: I found out a lot about my future! And now it's almost time to sleep... Remember that dreams are also important and they can come true! Let's finish our work on the farm and have a good night's rest.
Harvest 60 Daisies
Skip for 30 RC
Produce 60 Ostrich Feathers
Skip for 30 RC
Produce 60 Angora Hair
Skip for 30 RC
Felicia: Thanks for spending this magical evening with us, farmer!
REward: 120 Coins, 16 XP
FINAL REWARD: Flower Barrow Decoration, gives Purple Gift Box when cleaned by Neighbours
Six new Recipes have appeared in the Kitchen. You will make all of these for the Quest sequence but one Ingredient that can be made in advance is the Pickled Cabbage needed for the Braised Cabbage Recipe.
New Kitchen Recipes
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Steak Tartare: 133 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Beef x 2, Egg
Beef Risotto: 368 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Beef Tartare, Rice x 2
Cabbage Roll: 505 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Beef Risotto, Cabbage x 2
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Juniper Sausage: 46 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Beef Salami, Juniper Berry
Braised Cabbage: 741 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Pickled Cabbage x 2, Onion x 2
Bigos: 817 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Juniper Sausage, Braised Cabbage
Strategies for Completing Missions
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An important component in the traditional Fortune Telling Night sequence that may not be as familiar to new players as veterans are the requirements to make Items in the Beauty Shop. I have seen posts on Facebook asking whether or not the Beauty Shop is worth the price. Well, like other buildings that cannot be sold or stored, it will be used again and again. If you do not complete it, you will be unable to participate in many of the Quests unless you spend RC to 'skip' the task. It therefore makes sense to spend the RC on the Beauty Shop instead.
Beauty Shop Items like those processed in the Seafood House, take time to complete. Each Item has a different time frame, but the Item is counted towards the Quest task when you BEGIN to craft it and not when it is completed. Note that many of the Ingredients are in fact Items processed in the Seafood House. In this Fortune Telling Quest, you first have to make some Conch Earrings. Later you will be required to make 10 Rose Facial Masques and 10 Pearl Hydrating Masques. Note that ALL Masques have the Clay Facial Masque as the primary ingredient. You therefore may wish to prepare these in advance. You will need a total of 20 Clay Facial Masques to complete the two tasks.
A difficulty where Processed Items made in the Seafood House is concerned is the fact that many of these are only possible bonus Items. The Janthina Sea Snail that produces the Conch required to make Conch Earrings ALWAYS yields two Conch shells but the Nautica Sea Snail that produces the Snail Shells only does so as a possible bonus. Furthermore, it takes 50 Minutes to process a single Nautica Sea Snail. The Conch Earrings are one of the earliest tasks in the Quest sequence. If you have been diligent, you will have plenty of Snail Shells in your Barn. If not, you either will be required to wait while the Items are processed, buy each Snail Shell for 1 RC or skip the task by using RC. .
Likewise, the Pearl that is needed for the Pearl Hydrating Masque is only a possible Bonus when Scallops are processed. As the two Masques are needed to complete later Tasks in the Quest, you may wish to make certain that you produce as many as possible in advance. Unfortunately, there is a task that requires you actually to process 10 Gulfweeds, which means that your Seafood House will be in use at THAT point. Nonetheless, good planning should help you where the Pearls are concerned.
As far as Crops and Animal Products are concerned, you will need a fair amount of Beef to complete the traditional Quest sequence. You need Beef for Beef Salami as well as for use in one of the new Recipes. I have found that 20 Beef often are sold in the Mystery Shop. As my Farm, although expanded to the largest size, is very crowded, I find it useful to purchase the Beef when offered using Green Mystrons rather than allowing the enormous Cow to occupy most of my free space! Other Farmers may not have this problem but whether you produce it yourself or purchase it, the Beef will be needed.
Many of the Tasks require Items that use Machine Products as Ingredients. One of these is the requirement to produce 15 Kvass. Kvass uses Black Bread and Honey. Black Bread is produced in your Baker. It is not a bad idea always to have plenty of Wheat Bread and Black Bread on hand in your Barn for potential use in future Quests. Oat Bread is useful as well but not to the same extent. Incidentally, I never take any Power out of my Gift Box until it is needed. As your Power will refill over the course of time, it is best to use additional Power only when YOUR Power gauge has reached zero.
The most Power intensive series of tasks is Fortune Telling Night VI when you will need two Pickled Cabbage and two Onions for each of the 20 Braised Cabbage. You therefore will need a total of 60 Power to complete this single task. With the 6 Juniper Sausage, you need a total of 66 Power. If possible, make the Pickled Cabbage in advance!
Other products that you can obtain in advance are the Milk and Maple Syrup needed to make Maple Milk Tea and the Apples and Maple Syrup needed for the Candied Apples. If you have been playing the game for awhile, you should have plenty of all these in your Barn as long as you harvest your Trees regularly. Milk can be requested from Neighbours as a Free Gift. When there is no ongoing Quest, I try to request Milk, Wheat Flour and Cheddar Cheese from my Neighbours for stockpiling as these Items are used constantly.
In this Quest, you will need great quantities of Rice, both in order to obtain the Blue Candles that Peacock Feathers yield randomly and for use as an Ingredient in Cooked Dishes. The appearance of any Collection Item always is random. You will need a total of 50 Blue Candles. This could require the production of 100 Peacock Feathers or 300 Peacock Feathers depending upon your personal luck. Rice must be fed to a Peacock to produce a Peacock Feather.
When to spend RC (Premium Cash)
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Many Farmers do not wish to spend ANY RC in any so-called 'free' game but if it is a game that you like, you may wish to invest in it, as without funding, these games cannot improve and sometimes even die. Unfortunately, unlike the original Family Farm that gives RC as a daily log-in Reward on a regular basis, Seaside does this only rarely. You can earn RC, however, by completing Accomplishments and by registering specific Items or Collections.
How, then, should you spend your precious premium cash? I would suggest that you use it to produce the greatest benefits for your Farm. In terms of RC that is required to complete any Building or Machine or to buy a specific Tree or Animal, these are investments that really cannot be avoided if you wish to be able to complete all Quests or Missions and obtain all possible Rewards. Do not hesitate, therefore, to use your RC if it is absolutely necessary to purchase a Material to complete a Building or Machine. Every Building and Machine is required again and again. You only delay the inevitable if you 'skip' a task that requires the use of a specific Machine because you are reluctant to spend RC to complete it. In any case, you only can skip Tasks in Quests by paying RC, so you really are wasting your money if you do this.
There are times, however, when the use of RC during a Quest sequence is beneficial. In some cases, an Ingredient needed to make the Item required in a task cannot be obtained quickly or easily. This is true particularly where 'bonus' items processed from Seafood Items are concerned. You may process 30 of the Seafood Item without receiving the Bonus Item you need. In such a case, you may consider, not 'skipping' the Task but purchasing the actual Ingredient instead. After all, each action in Seaside usually has an XP Reward and increasing your Level of Experience may unlock new Items and Quests.
Where Farm Aids are concerned, it is better to obtain these by using Gift Boxes than by purchasing them but sometimes you simply need more. If you are embarking upon a time-restricted Quest or Mission, you may wish to invest in the Farm Aid you need most, whether it is OP or Fertilisers. Seaside does give Farm Aid Rewards, however. You can obtain them in Gift Boxes, by registering Items in your Gallery or by completing Accomplishments. Your level of patience will determine whether or not you wish to speed a task by using a Farm Aid.
On the whole, I prefer to purchase 200 Super Fertilisers for 21 RC rather than purchasing Rainbow Rain for 30 RC. The Super Fertiliser can be used for specific Crops I need. The Rainbow Rain simply blankets your entire Farm. If the Rainbow Rain were less expensive, I would use it, but in the circumstances, I would rather target the specific Crops needed to complete a Task.
Power always is a problem in these time-restricted Quests but the price of purchase for extra Power is truly prohibitive. For 20 RC, for example, you obtain only 30 Power. It is far better to visit Neighbours and place as many cleanable Decorations as possible on your own Farm in order to garner as much Power as possible. Remember, however, that any Reward found in a Gift Box is random. What is true is that the Blue Gift Boxes contain the best Rewards and the greatest number. This brings me to another opportunity to use your precious RC.
From time to time, sales will appear in the top right corner of your screen. They are time-limited and usually include a special Decoration as well as Fertiliser or RC. If you are willing to spend real money on this game, the sales are one of the very best investments. Not only do you receive RC that usually would have to be purchased by itself but you often can obtain a Decoration that yields the valuable Blue Gift Box when cleaned. The most recent example of this was a sale that offered the Boy Cupid, the Girl Cupid and the Japanese Garden in different offers. All of these yield Blue Gift Boxes, I believe. Other Decorations that yield the Blue Gift Boxes include the Market Stall and the special Decorations rewarded for completing Cooking Stand Contests. Among the latter are the Toucan and the Small Squirrel.
Purchasing a bundle of items in a special Sale therefore carries multiple Rewards for the Farmer, especially when it includes a Decoration that yields a Blue Gift Box. These Items when registered often give a Reward in the form of 1 RC. When part of a Collection, registration of the Collection often gives an RC Reward. Finally, each time a Neighbour cleans the Decoration for you, you receive a Blue Gift Box that may contain OP or Power.
Finally, where any Collections Mission is concerned, there are two different strategies that make it easier. One is to have multiple Machines or Animals working together to produce the product that randomly produces the Collections Items. The second is Batch Production. Batch Production really is the least frustrating method of completing any Collection Mission where any Animal or Machine is concerned. By using Batch Production for the Animal and Machine, you can focus on the Crop and Tree that yields the other two Colours of the designated Item. If you are patient, you can wait for the Crop and Tree to produce the Items naturally, but if not, you can use a Farm Aid to speed matters along.
Gallery Registration
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All three Items that are Rewards in this Quest can be registered and have the following values:
Juniper Bush: 8 Medals, 2 Super Watering Cans
Street Lamp: 2 Medals, 2 Power
Flower Barrow: 5 Medals, 15 Green Mystron
When you have registered all three, you will gain the Collections Reward for the Fortune Telling Night Collection as follows:
5 Medals, 150 Green Mystrons, 1 RC
The History of St. Andrew's Night
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The celebration of St. Andrew's Day and Night basically is rooted in Northern European traditions. St. Andrew was St. Peter's younger brother and his martyrdom took place on a cross that was fashioned in the shape of an X. In the old Northern European Rune alphabet, this form is a Rune named Gebo, signifying both 'Gift' and 'Sacrifice'. As the Festival occurs at the very end of November, traditionally a time when blood sacrifices were made in ancient Northern Europe, it is possible that St. Andrew originally represented an older form of human sacrifice for the fertility of the land.
Whatever its origins, St. Andrew's Night is a time when girls traditionally played ritual games in order to discover whom they would marry. (We did this ourselves as children.) One would peel an apple very carefully, making certain that the entire peel remained unbroken, then throw it over ones shoulder. When it landed, the shape it made would represent the first letter of the name of ones future husband.
Another old rite is that of melting wax and dropping it into water to see what form is made. This can be done using molten metal as well, provided one has the means. Another ritual is that of writing the names of potential spouses and placing them beneath the pillow. In the morning, one chooses a slip of paper and the name written on it will be the future spouse. A girl often will bury either 21 grains of wheat or a fresh sprig of basil beneath their pillows. If none is taken in the night, she will marry within the year.
St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. The festival is celebrated both in Austria and Germany. The very flag of Scotland has the saltire or cross of St. Andrew emblazoned upon it.
St. Andrew is considered the first of Christ's disciples by many. He was one of the fishermen who, hearing the call of the Saviour, cast down his nets instantly to follow, becoming instead a 'fisher of men' according to tradition.
The Festival of St. Andrew falls on 30 November during the time of an old Roman festival devoted to Saturn in his manifestation as 'Father Time'. The depictions of St. Andrew usually show him as an old man who originally would have represented the Sun at the very end of the year, when he is old and weary. in Romania in particular, some of the ancient traditions connected to St. Andrew's Festival are inherited from the Romans. On St. Andrew's Night, wolves are allowed to eat whatever and whomever they wish. They can speak to humans as well on this night but if a person should hear one speak, he or she will die within the year.
Another Romanian tradition is that of the mother of the house taking branches from Apple, Cherry, Pear Trees and Rosebushes to make bracelets for all the members of the family. The one that blooms by New Year will enjoy special health and good fortune.
There is another rite connected to the belief that ghosts haunt the land on this night. The rite is a special social gathering known as 'guarding the garlic'. The doors and windows of the house are rubbed with fresh garlic. All the dishes in the house then are turned upside down. Three bulbs of garlic for each girl at the gathering are placed in a wooden tub in a room lit only by candlelight. An old woman is set to the job of guarding the garlic throughout the night. In the morning, the tub is taken outside and every one dances round it. Each guest then takes some garlic home for protection.
Another rite of protection involves the cattle and livestock. Salt is blessed and buried beneath the door of the stable. On St. George's Day, it will be unearthed and given to the livestock. This is a rite of protection against wolves. St. Andrew is known as the patron saint of wolves.
There are many more traditions that involve divination and protection.
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