Castle Story: 08/07/15 Update World Event: Midsummer Pyre Festival

Hi All,

Today is a big day for Castle Story! We're holding our very first World Event called "The Midsummer Pyre Festival". Join us and the rest of the community in this summer event!

1) Midsummer Pyre Festival
Summary: The Solstice Wanderers are finally ready to start the summer festival! Collect Sun Stones and get special prizes only available this summer!
Event runs from: 08/07/2014 - 08/25/2014

**NOTE: UPDATE TO VERSION 1.2 IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE!

You can find Sun Stones from the following places:
The Pyre Tent (upgrade the tent for more stones!)
Mythical Beasts
Defeating Monsters
Workshop Craft
Chopping Rocks
Adventures

Happy hunting for the Sun Stones!
Aggwynn, Glimmergate, Buttercup :cool::p:o

(Edit maguar)

How Community Events Work)

Community events have two parts to them. The first is prizes you earn for yourself. The second is prizes that are earned as a community - everyone who is doing the event contributes once you hit 650 sunstones.

In this community event you need to collect sunstones. This can be done by collecting from mines, monsters, mythical creatures, rocks, workshop, pyre tent, adventures. The sunstones won't appear in your inventory. They'll appear as a counter next to the sun icon on the right hand side of the screen. Click the icon to view your (and the community's) progress.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikado86

The newest adventures do NOT classify as distant lands and will not drop sun stones

Search the Ancient Vault, Hunt Roaming Bandits and Explore Dark Caves all dropped from 5 to 15 stones.
Traverse the Desert Sands consistently dropped over 20 stones
Feral Lands Adventure and Envoy to the Plume Hive did NOT dropped any after at least 2 tries

Dragons and Manticore obviously dropped Sunstones, I have gotten over 6 by a single dragon

https://i59.tinypic.com/t052xu.png

Quests

https://forums.storm8.com/attachment....6&d=1407438288

https://forums.storm8.com/attachment....9&d=1407438962

Pyre Tent

Collection time is four hours
Drops the flags and braziers needed for its upgrades
Drops sunstones - drops more at higher upgrade levels

https://forums.storm8.com/attachment....0&d=1407438990

Level 1
* 50 stone
* 3 simple glue
* 50 wood
https://forums.storm8.com/attachment....7&d=1407438495

Level 2
https://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...6659299303.jpg

Level 3
https://i58.tinypic.com/2v2tt8g.png

Level 4
https://i58.tinypic.com/7334op.png

Upgrade to level 5
https://forums.storm8.com/attachment....2&d=1407456240

upgrade to level 6
https://forums.storm8.com/attachment....6&d=1407504228

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenobia42

For anyone else who likes to see it all in one place, I collected this info from a variety of posts - thanks to those who shared:

Pyre Tent
Level 1: 50 wood, 50 stones, 3 simple glues, 500 coins
Level 2: 2 wood beams, 2 stone blocks, 2 simple glues, 1 flame flag
Level 3: 3 wood beams, 3 stone blocks, 3 purple dyes, 1 flame flag
Level 4: 2 fancy beams, 2 red dyes, 3 flame flags, 1 brazier
Level 5: 3 fancy beams, 2 super glues, 5 flame flags, 2 braziers
Level 6: 4 fancy beams, 3 purple dyes, 10 flame flags, 3 braziers
Level 7: 6 fancy beams, 20 wool, 40 flame flags, 10 braziers
Is level 7 the cap? If not, I'll add to this psot as posted.

Flame Flags and Braziers are drops from the Pyre Tent only, and do NOT drop every time. But the prize for collecting 450 sun stones is 10 Flame Flags to help you along.

Quote:

Originally Posted by roguebee

Pyre Tent Upgrades
Level 1: 50 wood, 50 stones, 3 simple glues, 500 coins
Level 2: 2 wood beams, 2 stone blocks, 2 simple glues, 1 flame flag
Level 3: 3 wood beams, 3 stone blocks, 3 purple dyes, 1 flame flag
Level 4: 2 fancy beams, 2 red dyes, 3 flame flags, 1 brazier
Level 5: 3 fancy beams, 2 super glues, 5 flame flags, 2 braziers
Level 6: 4 fancy beams, 3 purple dyes, 10 flame flags, 3 braziers
Level 7: 6 fancy beams, 20 wool, 40 flame flags, 10 braziers

Prizes

https://i61.tinypic.com/33e6d54.png

https://i.imgur.com/VS4snUN.jpg

Caged Pyrefly

https://forums.storm8.com/attachment....4&d=1407868665

sundial

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuskmage

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Originally Posted by tuskmage

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Prize 1 - 150: Bonfire
Prize 2 - 450: Flame Flag x 10, Fancy Beam x 5, Fancy Block x 5 , Wool x 15, Coins x 75
Prize 3 - 1200: Caged Pyrefly x 1 (size 2x2, decoration)
Prize 4 - 2000: Wisp Lantern x 5, Energy x 20, Coins x 10,000, Gems x 5
Prize 5 - 3000: Not finished yet

Info from Devs

Quote:

Originally Posted by glimmergate

We don't mess with droprates like that. Monster droprate is exactly the same as it has been for nearly 2 years - about 1 in 25 chance of getting a spawn :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by glimmergate

The current plan is that the Pyre Tent won't drop anything after the event is over, since it's used only for the duration of the event.

For those who are asking, Braziers are ~33% droprate.

Quote:

Originally Posted by glimmergate

Yeah, looks like that 1% counter is broken.. the yellow bar is accurate, though, so you can use that as a guide. Can't believe you guys are moving so quickly.

Is anything else not working? (Just got in, trying to backread through a bunch of pages). Currently working on getting Sun Stones added to the Plume Hive adventure, the Iron Rich Rock, and the Lovecupine, hoping these will be out in the next couple days.

edit: 8/22/14

Quote:

Originally Posted by PikaSquirrel

With this new update, the percentage on the Community Prize progress has been fixed, no longer stuck at 1%. Also, if you're on an iPod/iPhone, once you update, you will see your icon for this event at the right location which is at the top right of the screen. :)

Yayy! This is going to be awesome! Thank you guys!

Is there supposed to be a pop up or a counter or something like in DS? I have nothing and I force closed twice.

Woohoo! 58 minutes and counting!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aggwynn

Hi All,

Today is a big day for Castle Story! We're holding our very first World Event called "The Midsummer Pyre Festival". Join us and the rest of the community in this summer event!

1) Midsummer Pyre Festival
Summary: The Solstice Wanderers are finally ready to start the summer festival! Collect Sun Stones and get special prizes only available this summer!
Event runs from: 08/07/2014 - 08/25/2014

**NOTE: UPDATE TO VERSION 1.2 IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE!

You can find Sun Stones from the following places:
The Pyre Tent (upgrade the tent for more stones!)
Mythical Beasts
Defeating Monsters
Workshop Craft
Chopping Rocks

Happy hunting for the Sun Stones!
Aggwynn, Glimmergate, Buttercup :cool::p:o

Same here, no dialogue, no pop up, force closed twice still nothing, And I have the 1.2 update
and what's this Pyre Tent ? I do not have it :confused:
I had no goals book for aweek, is it something I need to buy ?!
Thanks in advance for any help!

I don't have the Pyre tent will this affect my game?

Aldo if I have the new icon I've updated? I think my phone did this all automatically just checking.

Update is not out yet.

Any idea what time it starts?

8pm UK time there is a thread. 12pm PDT time.