Castle Story: 05/22/2014 EVENT: Infiltrate The Pyre Caverns

[Aggwynn]

Hi All,

We hope the teaser last week got you excited! Today is the start of the dragon event we hinted towards last month!

1) Infiltrate the Pyre Caverns
-Available to players Level 28+
-Event runs from 05/22/2014 - 06/01/2014
-Collect all 3 Dragon Eggs from the Caverns!
-If you obtain a Dragon Egg you will have unlimited time to hatch it
-There will be Limited Time steps during the hatching process
***NOTE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COMPLETE LIMITED TIMED QUESTS TO CONTINUE. HOWEVER, COMPLETING THEM QUEST WILL GET YOU AHEAD.


Quest Titles:
Ice, Ice, Baby
Out Of The Frying Pan...
Dragon Eggs (Completing this will unlock 3 Quests: The Pyre Egg, The Ultramarine Egg, and The Sparkling Egg)


Quest Titles for the Flare Dragon:
The Pyre Egg
Hot Potato!
Highly Combustible
Hot And Heavy
Pop The Water, I'm Sweating!
Drop It Like It's Hot
All Fired Up
Pyre Crystals
Stop, Drop, And Roll


Quest Titles for the Matrix Dragon:
The Ultramarine Egg
Nose Goes!
True Love To Melt The Ice
All Gold Everything
Learned It From Dragon Story
Not Now, But Right Now
Water Birthing


Quest Titles for the Bijou Dragon:
The Sparkling Egg
Jewel Absorber
Like Diamonds In The Sky
What Came First?
Why Am I Here?
Baron's Charm Knows No Bounds
Scrooge McBaron
The Bribe


We hope you guys enjoy it! Glimmergate and I are excited this event is finally getting released!
-Aggwynn and Glimmergate

[Aggwynn]

edit (KP) - 6-2-14

See Specific thread for Egg Glitch

https://forums.storm8.com/showthread....l=1#post912161

In case you have not read the recent posts, there seem to be an issue with the quests.
It has been reported.
It is the weekend, so we may not hear anything back until tomorrow.
The mods will keep you updated as soon as we hear back.

Edit (maguar)

1. Ice,Ice Baby
* Craft Ice Brand - (1 Longsword, 1 Enchanter Essence, 1 Mithril, 10 minutes in forge)
* Craft Dragon Armor - (1 Light Armor, 1 Dragon Scale, 1 Vital Extract, 10 minutes in forge)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

2. Out if the Frying Pan
* Infiltrate the Pyre Caverns adventure
- 3 hrs from keep
- 6 hours from barracks
- 1 Ice sword, 1 Dragon armor, 1000 gold
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

3. Dragon Eggs
* Open the Treasure Trove x 1 (place on map and chop, 1HP)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, unlock quest chains for The Pyre Egg, The Ultramarine Egg, The Sparkling Egg

Ice brands and dragon armour cost 8 gems each through the keep

Adventure Reported Drops
treasure trove, Longsword, wisp lantern, pyre crystals, dragon eggs, dragon scales, prime cuts, light armour, energy (so far seen 5-20), apple pie, prime cuts, gems

Treasure Trove Reported Drops
Jewels, mithril, large diamond, wisp lantern, silver ore, breaded fish, sweet feast, iron ore, glimmer pitcher plant, yellow dye, large diamond, gems, fertiliser, expansion permit, hearty feast, wooden beam, grits, gems, mithril, glimmer rafflesia plant, adamant, golden egg, golden apple, golden nugget, energy, coins, faerie murmur, floral glow, simple glue, wood, bacon, red dye, fancy block, stone block, ornate beam, stone, mushroom, living wood, fur, fey crystal, energy, sap, Glimmerdust, apple, blue petal, prime cut, simple glue, dragon scale, glimmer shard, bread



FAQ



Q.: Event Ending Time

June 1, 4AM PST

You can use this Time Zone Converter to figure out your local time. You can enter "San Francisco" for the TL time zone (PST).

Looks like adventures sent before the expiry time, but collected afterwards, still have a chance to find the egg. However! The quests themselves ("get the ultramarine egg") will have expired, so you won't be able to start them =/

I would plan on having all your Adventures collected before the quests expire.

Q. Do I have to do the timed portions?

Exactly! Completing the timed portions of each egg's questline will speed up the process of hatching them, but as long as you have the egg, eventually you'll be able to hatch it.

Q. What are the chances of getting an egg?

There is not an equal chance of getting each egg. Each egg has a different rarity.

Also, all 3 eggs drop independently of each other. Whether or not you have one does not affect your chances of getting the others.

So if you have an unhatched egg of one type it won't prevent you from getting an egg of a different type.

Though we don't have the loot system improvements we want yet, we took great pains this time around to try and guarantee that players will get at least 1 egg before the time runs out, if they are able to do the adventure at least once a day. We're monitoring feedback to make sure that this is the case. Remember that it's only day 1! There's lots of time left.

Getting all 3 eggs is a tall order, meant to challenge you lv. 50 players with lots of resources and an advanced game.

Q. I haven't had any egg drop. Is there something I need to do first?

You do in fact need to chop the treasure trove in order to see the dragon egg drops. For players who aren't active in the forum, it just doesnt make sense to have them drop before they even know the eggs exist!

You only need to chop 1 trove to start getting the chance for the eggs to drop. The eggs will drop from the adventure not the troves.

Q. How do I get [resource]?

If you have the resources, the jeweler's trade in the royal exchange has a 50% chance to drop Mithril and is probably the fastest way to get it!

The Large Diamonds from the Treasure Troves can in fact be used to hatch the dragon from the Forgotten Roost... I don't want to give too much away but if you're debating whether or not to use it for that purpose, I'd recommend going for it

Note: the above bit is for the people who have a dragon egg and are up to the raw materials quest (needs diamond, Golden Fleece and burning ember)

Hmm, the polaris adventures should have a 100% chance to drop forever snow (either 8, 10, or 12 of it). are you certain that you did not get any snow?

Seeds: conservatories, faerie respite, magic garden, Ivy's hut, goddess tree
Conservatory: 15 red petals, & 5ish super glue, fancy beams & fancy blocks to build,2 hour collection time

I was wondering that as well. You can get jewels from the Mines (Sparkling and Deep), Sabina's House, the Jeweler, Toll Vault, Rock Croppings, Iron Rich Rock, Dark Cave Formation (20 gems), crafting in the Magic Forge and I'm sure I forgot sth.
So building several Jewels may help, chopping down Rocks like mad and crafting will be my choices and -naturally- collecting from the above buildings. Oh I forgot the Treasure Troves!

It's possible, but may require a little planning. For one, wait until after 1st of june to move on with this, or until you have all 3 eggs.
- Be sure you are maxed on jewels when you start.
- Make sure you can collect from your mines all day long for two days.
- If you can, buy more jewelllers.
- Remember to collect from Sabinas house.
- Do adventures to the ancient vault, have it ready to collect when you start the quest. This adventure usually drops jewels.
- Save your treasure troves until you need them, they contain lots of jewels.
- Chop all kinds of rocks and deep cave formations.
- Ask you friends to start sending you jewels, don't collect your gifts for 6/7 days until you start the quest. The system usually saves your incoming gifts for a week or up to a maximum of 20. This alone should give you 18/20 jewels ready to collect.
- If you have the 4th shard and have allowed your coal supply to build up again, you can craft jewels in the magic forge.
- You can do exchanges with Belladonna, this usually gives you jewels.
- Collect from sir piggy and your regular dragon(s).

All in all I think it's very doable and you don't even need to do everything on the list to get all 200 jewels.

Q. If I get all the dragons will I still have the adventure?

The adventure will stick around until 6/01, even if you've gotten all 3 eggs and hatched them.

Q. Can I get more than 1 of each egg?

You can only hold 1 of each egg in your inventory. It is possible to get another egg once you've hatched a dragon. It is only possible to hatch more than one of the ultramarine dragons (provided you don't complete the water birthing goal, ie don't feed baby dragon)


Q. Will skipping the egg goals give me the egg?

Skipping these goals for 200 gems will give you the egg (so you don't have to rely on them randomly dropping from the adventures)

Q. If I have the egg and the 10 days expires will I still be able to do the quests for the egg?

They will never expire once you have the egg. The timed portions of the quests will expire if you don't complete them in time, but the quests themselves are designed so that even if you miss every timed portion, as long as you have the egg, you will be able to hatch it.

Q.what are the feed/collect times for the dragons?

Baby dragons get hungry every hour. It takes them 20 feeds before they grow up. Adult dragons are ready to give their gifts every 22 hours.

[Aggwynn]

Edit (maguar)

The adventure will stick around until 6/01, even if you've gotten all 3 eggs and hatched them.

Flare Dragon - Pyre Egg

1. Pyre Egg
* Get Egg from the Pyre Cave adventure (may take a couple of tries)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Pyre Egg x 1

2. Hot Potato!
* Give 80 stone
* Give 50 Wood
* Place egg (click Button)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP
Pyre crystals become craftable in workshop (10 coal, 2 minutes)

3. Highly Combustible - TIMED 12 HRS
* Give 50 Wool
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Pyre Crystals x 12

4. Hot and Heavy - TIMED 8 HRS
* Give 100 Coal
Note you don't have to finish this one but if you do it gives 12 pyre crystals as a reward
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Pyre Crystals x 12

5. Pop the water, I'm sweating
Place the Egg (hit button)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

6. Drop it like its hot - TIMED 8 HRS
* Give 30 sap
* Give 60 wood
* Give more Coal 30
Note you don't have to finish this one but if you do it gives 16 pyre crystals as a reward
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Pyre Crystals x 16

7. All Fired up - TIMED 24 HRS
* Give 40 Fish
* Give 10 Butterfish
* Give 10 Catfish
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Pyre Crystals x 20

8. Pyre Crystals
* Give 100 Pyre Crystals
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP
Pyre crystals drop from the pyre adventure. They're also craftable in the workshop (10 coal, 2 minutes)

9. Stop, Drop and Roll
* Hatch the Pyre Egg x 1 (Press Roll)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Baby Flare Dragon

Reported Drops
Jewels, dragon scales, armour

[Aggwynn]

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Matrix Dragon - Ultramarine Egg

1. Ultramarine Egg
* Adventure to the Pyre Caverns (may take some tries)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Ultramarine Egg x 1

2. Nose Goes! - TIMED QUEST 2 days
* Adventure to Polaris North x 4 (Only at King's Keep/Queen's Court)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

3. True love to melt the ice
* 50 forever snow
* Build a nest of snow (click build)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

4. All Gold Everything: - TIMED 2 DAYS
* Give 200 jewels (not typo)
* Give 100 Silver
* Give 100 Ore
* Give 5 gold nuggets
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Lapis Lazuli x 10

5. Learned it from Dragon Story
* 15 Lapis (from deep sea adventure in castle)
* Click Place
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP
NOTE: you need to be at level 30 to craft the potion. You can buy the potion for 20 gems. You don't have to complete this part of the quest before the time limit is up so you can wait until you level up.

6. Not Now, But Right now:
* 10 water
* 50 water
* 100 water
* 200 water
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

7. Water Birthing

Hatch the Ultramarine Egg x 1
*Hatch Ultramarine Egg: Ultramarine Egg x 1, Forever Snow x 50, Lapis Lazuli x 15 (Magic Forge, 2mins)
* Feed the Baby Ultramarine Dragon x 2
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Baby Ultramarine Dragon



Note: Polaris snow - from Polaris North adventure at first then only in in royal exchange
*Trade with Polaris: Gingerbread x 3, Hot Chocolate x 3 (Royal Exchange, 3 Hrs)
you get trade ticket plus multiple snow per exchange

*To Polaris North: Gingerbread x 3, Hot Chocolate x 3, Faerie Jars x 1 (8Hrs)
**Gingerbread: Flour x 1, Sugar x 1, Eggs x 5 (Kitchen, 30mins)
**Hot Chocolate: Milk x 5, Chocolates x 2 (Kitchen, 20mins)


*Deep Sea Adventure: Potion of Gills x 1, Breaded Fish x 1, 1,100 Coins
(4Hrs at Queen's Court/King's Keep, 8Hrs at Barracks)
#Each Adventure drops Multiple Lapis Lazuli (2-4)
**Potion of Gills: Mermaid Scales x 20, Water x 20, Vital Extract x 1 (Potion Shop, 2Hrs) (lebvel 30+)

[Aggwynn]

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Bijou Dragon - Sparkling Egg

1. Sparkling Egg
* Get the egg from the Pyre Cave adventure - may take a few tries
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Sparkling Egg x 1

2. Jewel Adsorber:
* Give 50 jewels
* Give 50 silver
* Give 2 adamant
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

3. Like Diamonds in the Sky:
* Give 5 large diamonds (from Treasure troves or deep mines, you get 1 trove per pyre adventure... 1 time use each)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

4. What came first:
* Arrange the Diamonds x 5 (Press Place)
* Place the Sparkling Egg x 1 (Press Place)
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP

5. Why am I here? - TIMED 24 HRS
*Give $500,000
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Winning Ticket x 1

6. Barons charm knows no Bounds - TIMED 24 HRS
* 50 Prime cuts
* 50 Truffles
* 1 golden apple
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Winning Ticket x 1

7. Scrooge McBaron - TIMED 12 HRS
* pay $40000
* give 40 jewels
* give 40 glimmerdust
* give 40 silver ore
* give 2 golden nuggets
* give 2 fey crystals
* give $20000
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Winning Ticket x 1

8. The Bribe
* Give Winning Ticket x 3
*Trade for Winning Ticket: Trade Ticket x 15 (Royal Exchange, 10mins)
#15 Trade Tickets for 1 Winning Ticket
Rewards: 370 Coins, 3 XP, Baby Bijou Dragon

Reported Drops
Jewels, dragon scales, gems

[orleansparish]

Hi Aggwynn!

This sounds super amazing. Pity I'll be out most of the day by time the release starts.

I refuse to be embarrassed for contemplating canceling an appointment today, to be home mid afternoon. o.O

But I won't. Ill think about it but I won't.

[GoodyTwoShoes2]

Yippee!! Now where to start? Reboot Ipad....

[kooky panda]

Ummm.. Same here, packing up to hit the lake for the long weekend! Well we may get a little late start!! LOL.

[zoeee87]

Sounds like fun!!

[vuvhappy]

Waiting and waiting ......... My family believes I am obsess... No no... The might be right