Forest Exploration Card Collection Event

Some one asked me to write a post about this.  I will make a simple one that I hope will help a little.

12 January Update: After completing the float on Treasure Island, raising my Star total to 1500, I received card packs, that allowed me to complete all the Card rewards apart from the last one.  I was missing one 5 star card.

I believe that last card which for me was the Tornado only can be found in a Red 5 Star card.  If that is all you need and are impatient to finish, do not waste money on a pink 5 star card.  It is only on Day 35 that you receive a red 5 Star card as the daily card gift.

First of all, the Event lasts 42 days.  It ultimately celebrates the Lunar New Year.   The object is to collect all of the cards required to claim each reward.  In doing so, you can claim a final Reward in tbe form of 1000 Energy and a Cloud Farm decoration, the Unicorn Rocking Horse.  Like other Cloud Farm decorations, its rewards are time regulated.  Tapoing on it gives RC for the first ten days and Energy every 24 hours thereafter.

Here is a list of all the rewards:

1.  2 RC, 25 Fertiliser

2. 288 Energy, 200 OP

3. Forest Vine Avatar Frame, 50 Super Fertiliser

4. 2025 Topiary, 50 Super Watering Can

5. New Topiary, 388 Energy

6. Angora Wool Fabric Vear Token, 1 Rain

7. Spring Outing Bunny Island Decoration, 50 Gasoline

8.  Year Topiary, 388 Energy

9. Chinese Zodiac Snake Topiary, 50 Power

10. Black-eyed Peas Kimchi Gear Token, 488 Energy

11. Napping Fairy Avatar, 1 Thunderstorm

12. Flower Butterfly Deer Skin for Cloud Farm, 588 Energy

How to obtain the cards you need to complete the Collections:

First of all, the star value of a card is only part of the equation.  The colour of the card determines its rarity.  Some cards will be collected again and again so you will have duplicates.  The most valuable in any category are more difficult to obtain.

There are a number of cash offers that give you cards of dicferent values.  The easiest way to obtain the rarest cards,especially those of 4 and 5 star value, is through cash purchase.  The cards you receive, however, always are random.

Each day, you can obtain cards  performing the folloeing:

Each chest on the Daily Quest path yields 1 card.

The first chest give a blue 1 Star card.

The second chest gives you a green 2 star card.

The third chest gives a green 2 star card.

The fourth chest gives a gold 3 star card.

Reset is the time when a new day begins in the actual Card menu.  Each day when you log into the game, collect the card for that day.

I believe the first time you collect the Dedicated Farmer Bonus after reset, you will receive 1 card.

I received 1 gold 3 star card for sending off the Zeppelin just now in the Cloud Farm.  You receive one each timr you send off the Zeppelin.

Each order on the Order Board includes 1 card as a reward.  Today I saw 1 gold 3 star card, 2 blue 1 star cards (2 Orders), 2 green 2 star cards (2 Orders).

Other ways to collect cards:

The Photo Studio Pass from the next Photo event

The 8th Step of the Special Mission for the next Mission

Reward from the Exclusive Pass

The fourth tab of the Card Menu offers timed Events rewards when you collect specific totals of specific cards for point totals.  The first 7 day event is active now and gives:

Pack Points:

For 50 points: 1 Gold 3 Star card

For 100 points: 1 Gold 3 Star card

For 200 points: 1 red 4 Star Card

For 300 points: 1 pink 5 Star card.

Each event is different and point requirements increase.  For this purpose, point value is both star and colour values.

The fifth tab gives all the cash offers.

Other card yields: No mention was made of this now, but last time, completing the Adventurer's Fortune gave a card.  Also box from Adventurer's Bazaar, but did not see that either this time.  I will continue to monitor both.

Strategy:  some players only open the low star cards in the first weeks and save the 4 and 5 stars for the end.  I simply get on with it.  I hate incomplete quests and activities but also when writing guides, the quicker I can suss it out, the better.