Halloween

Halloween ambience: scary trees and pumpkin lights

Halloween in Craft the World is a special event based on two Western real life traditions: the Halloween celebration and the Friday the 13th's superstition, applying some changes to all worlds, like the zombie waves and featuring a bunch of items which are only acquirable within this time period.

Frequency and duration

The Halloween event takes place on two different occasions:

Annual

It primarily happens every year around the real life Halloween time, including one week before and two weeks after the October 31, i.e.:

• from October 25;
• to November 15.

Friday the 13th

And it happens whenever the real life 13th day of the month falls on a Friday. In that case, it will last for only 24h.

Next Fridays the 13th

2023	2024		2025	2026			2027
Oct	Sep	Dec	Jun	Feb	Mar	Nov	Aug

Triggering the Event

The event depends on the system date on which the game is being played to be triggered.

Changing the system date will cause the event to take place or to finish, depending on the date chosen.

Tricks

During this event, many changes will apply to the base game:

• Group of bats fly on the sky instead of the regular yellow bird.
• Scary trees grow randomly on the surface of the world, being a light source during the night, and providing only wood (4 per block) when felled.
• Walking pumpkins spawn instead of slugs and small caterpillars.
• Regular zombies appear in Halloween costumes (demoness, frankenstein, vampire and witch), move faster, cannot be thrown by giant throwers and drop more bones.
• Pumpkin plants grow on the world surface and can be cut down.
• Zombie waves take place almost every night between the regular monsters waves.

Zombie Open Season

Zombie Open Seasons are mini-events or mini-games that happen every night inside the Halloween event. The game consist in red portal (similar to monster portals) opening and spawning mainly costumed zombies, and a zombie number counter. The counter schedule an amount of zombies that must die that night, dividing the objective in 3 stages and giving 1 star for each stage accomplished. The more stars the player get, the bigger will be the reward at the morning.

Each opened portal spawn a random and limited amount of zombies. The player must kill them as fast as possible because the next portal will only open if there is no more zombies left alive from the previous one.

As the items provided are in most cases strictly better than any other item in the game, and will literally drop from the sky without any of the hassle of crafting them, it's highly recommended to use coins and buy mithril weapons, if this technology is not available yet. The 3 stars reward includes a considerable amount of coins, which will compensate part of the investment.

Treats

Halloween items cannot be purchased and are not craftable.
Once in the inventory, they can not be disassembled.

Parachuted Halloween box

Package

Halloween items may be received as:

• a reward for getting stars in the Halloween night event; and
• a freebie every noon.

These items will drop in parachuted boxes around the base (image at the right), and a notification icon (image above) will focus the screen on the packages when clicked. Each box is opened by clicking on it. The items will fall on the ground and dwarfs will be able to collect them.

Armors

 Angel Halo

 Bat Ears

 Beautiful Witch Hat

 Demon Horns

 Demon Hunter Hat

 Funny Skeleton Helmet

 Funny Skeleton Cuirass

 Funny Skeleton Mace

 Funny Skeleton Shield

 Funny Skeleton Shoes

 Jason Mask

 Pirate Hat

 Pumpkin Head Helmet

 Scream Mask

Food

 Punch

 Skull buns

 Spider Nest Pie

 Witch Finger Cookies

Furniture

 The house of an old friend

 Brain in a Jar

 Halloween Picture

 Pumpkin

History

Version	Date	Changes
1.3.005	2 Nov 2016	Fixed bug - zombies counter grows indefinitely when Halloween zombie falls into the lava.
		Halloween celebration prolonged about 2 weeks, the frequency of the waves eventually decreasing.
		Reduced the number of items in the award for the 2nd star in the Halloween event.
1.3.004	27 Oct 2016	Special content available during the event: attire, weapons, armors and furniture items.
		Hostile creatures behave more aggressively than usual.
		Introduced the zombie waves.
		Monsters, plants and the rest of the environment take on an unusual appearance.
0.9.036	17 Oct 2014	Introduced.