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

[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
Adventures

Happy hunting for the Sun Stones!
Aggwynn, Glimmergate, Buttercup

[Aggwynn]

(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.

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

Quests






Pyre Tent

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



Level 1
* 50 stone
* 3 simple glue
* 50 wood


Level 2


Level 3


Level 4


Upgrade to level 5


upgrade to level 6

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.

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







Caged Pyrefly




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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

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

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.

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

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.

[shipower]

(Edit maguar)
Prize 1 - 150: Bonfire
Prize 2 - 450: Flame Flag x 10, Coins x 375, Fancy Beam
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

Prize 1 - 150: Bonfire
Prize 2 - 450: Flame Flag x 10, Coins x 375, Fancy Beam
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 - 3200: Fire Faerie Statue x 1 (size 2x2, decoration)

#I am maxed out on Fancy Beam/Block, Prize 2 is not 100% accurate

[silveryedges]

Prize 1 - 150: Bonfire
Prize 2 - 450: Flame Flag x 10, Coins x 375, Fancy Beam
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 - 3200: Fire Faerie Statue x 1 (size 2x2, decoration)

#I am maxed out on Fancy Beam/Block, Prize 2 is not 100% accurate

Prize 2 as stated on the rewards screen that popped up when I reached this goal an hour ago:

Fancy beam x 5
Wool x 15
Coins x 75
Flame flag x 10
Fancy block x 5

[BriarAvenue]

Prize 4 - 2000: Wisp Lantern x 5, Energy x 20, Coins x 10,000, Gems x 5
Prize 5 - 3200: Fire Faerie Statue x 1 (size 2x2, decoration)

Cfm foregoing correct now that I hit the 1200 benchmark.
400 less stones than what I anticipated.

Those who lack 1 flag or brazier to upgrade to lvl 6,
I suggest you to consider to skip with gems if you can.
It's worth it as the stone drop rate will be 18 stones per collection.
Other rates seem also increased. E.g. I had 3 boars from harvesting 16 glimmer bulbs
And that gives me 5 sun stones. Think about it. I think it's worth spending the gems for the last item for your upgrading.

[PurpleScorpion76]

Cfm foregoing correct now that I hit the 1200 benchmark.
400 less stones than what I anticipated.

Those who lack 1 flag or brazier to upgrade to lvl 6,
I suggest you to consider to skip with gems if you can.
It's worth it as the stone drop rate will be 18 stones per collection.
Other rates seem also increased. E.g. I had 3 boars from harvesting 16 glimmer bulbs
And that gives me 5 sun stones. Think about it. I think it's worth spending the gems for the last item for your upgrading.

Thanks will consider this as I'm about to get my next drop from the tent any minute.

[Gabi2111]

Cfm foregoing correct now that I hit the 1200 benchmark.
400 less stones than what I anticipated.

Those who lack 1 flag or brazier to upgrade to lvl 6,
I suggest you to consider to skip with gems if you can.
It's worth it as the stone drop rate will be 18 stones per collection.
Other rates seem also increased. E.g. I had 3 boars from harvesting 16 glimmer bulbs
And that gives me 5 sun stones. Think about it. I think it's worth spending the gems for the last item for your upgrading.

I don't agree totally here. I don't use gems for ornaments. Besides I'm able to accumulate sun stones by buying rocks and chop them down.
And in my kingdom I didn't notice other rates increasing after I upgraded the tent to level 6. Only the tent of course

[tuskmage]

Cfm foregoing correct now that I hit the 1200 benchmark.
400 less stones than what I anticipated.

Those who lack 1 flag or brazier to upgrade to lvl 6,
I suggest you to consider to skip with gems if you can.
It's worth it as the stone drop rate will be 18 stones per collection.
Other rates seem also increased. E.g. I had 3 boars from harvesting 16 glimmer bulbs
And that gives me 5 sun stones. Think about it. I think it's worth spending the gems for the last item for your upgrading.

Sun Stones drop rate increase from the Tent after each Tent upgrade Yes.

Sun Stones drop rate from other resource has nothing to do with the Tent upgrade.

[BriarAvenue]

Sun Stones drop rate increase from the Tent after each Tent upgrade Yes.

Sun Stones drop rate from other resource has nothing to with the Tent upgrade.

May be not for you, but it works for me.
I think I am getting sun stones faster.

[Liloze]

Well it is not happening here! I am still at level 6, I am getting one flag per collection some coins and the 18 stones and that's it!

My first collection today gave one brasier after 4 days of no brasiers at all and still dropping 1 flag per collection! (So I do not think the 33% ratio is accurate! )

So now am at 18 flags and 4 brasiers ! And that after 5 days being stuck at level 6 !

BTW 14 of the flags and the 3 brasiers I got before reaching level 6 which means nothing is increasing with the level up, at least for me!

But I am trying to get more sun stones so am now at 1353