Monday 23 September 2013

Collectible Items

An upcoming part to the game is going to be Collectible Items, which will spawn on your island in various locations several times a day.

To help keep track of how many have currently spawned somewhere on your island, you will find a quest in your quest book called "Collect All", and if you hold your mouse over the progress bar it will tell you where you are up to. There are no rewards for completing the quest, other than the fuzzy feeling of knowing that you found everything, which I suspect will only last a few days.



The regular collectibles you can find are Kettle, Scarecrow, Banner, Food Cart, Herbs and Bronze Cauldron shown in order below.

Note that out of these, the Cauldron is only found on adventures, and the others are found on your island. Also important, while the general island ones will refresh every few hours (not currently known exactly how often), the Cauldrons spawn when you first visit an Adventure, and do not respawn/change.
 If Cauldrons have spawned on an adventure, you will have a "Collect All" quest present in the quest log while on the adventure, and can again hold your mouse over the progress bar to let you know how many there are to be had.
 
If the Halloween event goes live at the same time, there will also be pumpkins littered on the island. If this does occur, note that in the Collect All quest the counter will also include Pumpkins to be found.

When you click on one of the collectibles, it can add multiple of the item to your stores. I've seen up to 4 for most items (up to 2 for Pumpkins so far)



You will find in the Mayors House a collections tab where you can use these items you find to produce buffs for your island.
 
The buffs are:
Name: Country Saying (required level: 12)
Requires: 12 Herb, 10 Scarecrow
Effect: Adds 200 Wheat units to a Wheatfield.

Name: Harvest Ritual (required level: 18)
Requires: 10 Herb, 12 Food Cart
Effect: Boosts the production of a Farm up to 400% for 12 hours.

Name: Whips and Carrots (required level: 23)
Requires: 30 Herb, 12 Scarecrow, 10 Kettle, 5 Banner
Effect: Boosts the production of a Stable up to 400% for 6 hours.

Name: Drill Sergeant Skunk (required level: 23)
Requires: 24 Scarecrow, 5 Food Cart, 5 Kettle, 15 Banner
Effect: Boosts the recruitment speed of Barracks up to 300% for 12 hours.

Name: A Sip From the Kettle (required level: 24)
Requires: 15 Scarecrow, 10 Food Cart, 14 Kettle, 8 Banner
Effect: Boosts the population growth up to 300% for 8 hours.

Name: Potion of Endless Energy (required level: 26)
Requires: 32 Herb, 20 Scarecrow, 12 Food Cart, 6 Cauldron
Effect: Boosts the production of a work yard up to 300% for 12 hours.
 
You select them one at a time from the Collections tab to be made using the buttons on the right, and need to come back to the Collections tab to pick them up when done.
 
 
On the test server currently it seems like sometimes the items can be stuck in terrain, or may even be under a building, and this sort of thing could potentially make it onto live. As a result, while I would recommend doing scans of your island for new items intermittently when your quest renews itself (indicating the items have respawned), you might drive yourself insane if you actually try to find all of them, all of the time.


2 comments:

  1. Like i have read somewhere, seems like lately, the content we get is more in quantity then quality.

    But at least it can keeps us busy when we are waiting for something like rebuilding stuff in the morning. :)

    People are complaining a bit about this being bugged in test server and this is going Live next Thursday so I hope it comes better than in test server.

    By the way, Halloween will start on the 10th so even 2 weeks until it starts. :D This was confirmed by BB_Alpaca in the foruns.

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  2. The 10th is a bit of a surprise, I was imagining the 17th for Halloween.

    Definitely agree though that it's something to do while waiting on things to rebuild. Fills that gap nicely, even if you can't realistically find all of the items sometimes.

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