Dev Diary: Valentine 2020

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The upcoming Valentine 2020 Event: Calendar, New specialists, new buildings, new buffs and more

Dear Settlers,

Love is in the air - can you feel it!? Valentine's Day has always been a time to share your affection for those you hold most dear: family, friends, and even total strangers if you have an abundance to go around. For this year, we'd like to celebrate this event by encouraging you to play together with your friends in jolly cooperation; those that do can expect to reap many bonus rewards! But even if you're the more lone-wolf kind of player, we've still got some love-themed content for you to eat your heart out.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Event Start: 10th February 10:00 CET
Start of removal phase: 24th of February 10:00 CET
Complete deactivation: 02nd of March 10:00 CET
Level requirement: 16+

All relevant quest chains will be triggered upon reaching level 16; if your level is below 16, you will receive a quest tasking you to reach level 16. So hurry up, you surely don't want to miss out on all the fun!

Explorer will only bring back event currency if they return BEFORE the Removal Phase starts. In rare cases, explorer might bring back resources when sent before the Removal Phase and returning during the Removal Phase. Please also have in mind that the same behavior is present for the Start of the Event. Explorer will only bring back Event Currency if sent after Event Start. In rare cases explorer might bring back resources when directly sent before the Event starts and returning after the event started!

QUICK LINKS TO FEATURE TOPICS

• Flowers & Farms
• Quests & Adventures
• Buffs & Items
• Buildings
• Specialists & Achievements
• Calendar
• Deactivation steps

We implore you to confess your feelings in our
dedicated feedback thread.

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• Availability: Only during the Valentine Event
• Benefit: You can acquire special items for Flowers in the Valentine shop category
• Trade: Flowers are tradable like regular resources
• Removal: Check removal phase details as event resources and Valentine items are available only for a limited time!

You can get the event resource by...

• Sending Explorers on a Treasure search
• Completing Valentine tutorial quests
• Producing them with Flower Farms
• Trading with other players
• Item gifts from friends
• Buying Flower packages in the Shop

FLOWER FARMS

Flower Farm: Costs 50 Stone and 100 Hardwood Planks
Production: Each Flower Farm produces event resources (Flowers) over time - starts with 100 Flowers, and takes 35 minutes to perform a full production cycle.
Limit: 3 per player

You can build them on your island: not only do they provide Flowers, but they also help set that romantic mood!

The Flower Farms can only be refilled with "Flower Refills". If you're wondering how you can get those precious refillers, you should play any co-op and multiplayer adventures; basically, any that are designed with more than one player in mind. You can find the complete list in the in-game Event window.

There's another thing that can happen to your Flower Farms: they can deplete if you let them run out! If that is the case, you can purchase Fertilizer from the in-game merchant to revive them. It costs 75 Flowers and it revives the depleted Flower Farm with 10 Flowers. This might look like a bad deal at first, but you will be able to use refillers and buffs again on a restored Flower Farm, leading to more Flowers!

Please be aware, the Output of the Flower Farms can be drastically increased with the new and old buffs.


Flower Farms will still be able to produce Flowers during the Removal Phase.
Flower Farms will be deleted at the time of the Deactivation Phase.

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If you're level 16 and above, you will begin a small introduction quest chain that will explain to you the base mechanics of the event. You will aid Flora, our lady of love, be reunited with her significant other so that they can spend this romantic season together. You'll need to start with building your Flower Farms to grow her signature roses, forming them into buffing bouquets and applying them to your friend's population buildings.

Later into the quest chain, you'll start exploring a type of buff which requires certain conditions to be met in order to trigger powerful effects!

With this event being themed around helping out your fellow Settlers Online players, it's the perfect time to join together and tackle the various cooperative adventures we have in the game. Doing so will earn you Flower Refills, which are a great way to sustain your Flower Farms and collect those beautiful red roses to spend in the shop!

The list of adventures that award Flower Refills for Valentine's 2020 is:

• Aladin and the Oil Lamp
• Ali Baba and the Second Thief
• Ali Baba and the Treasure of Knowledge
• The Betrayed Little Tailor
• The Black Knights
• Buccaneer Roundup
• The Dark Brotherhood
• Gunpowder
• The Heroic Little Tailor
• Lakeside Treasure
• More Secluded Experiments
• Motherly Love
• Raiding The Raiders
• Roaring Bull
• Secluded Experiments
• Sindbad and the Besieged City
• Sindbad and the Sea Snake
• The Sons of the Little Tailor
• Sons of the Veld
• Stealing from the Rich
• Surprise Attack
• The Clever Little Tailor
• The Dark Priests
• The Nords
• The Siege
• The Valiant Little Tailor
• Tomb Raiders
• Victor the Vicious
• Whirlwind
• Split City in Summer
• Split City in Fall

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This event has a special type of buff: Conditional Buffs. These are activated by first fulfilling certain conditions, and stay in effect so long as the conditions remain met, only stopping when you fail to maintain the condition. First, though, let's take a look at the main buff that you'll need to use in order to achieve these special objectives:

Name: Flower Bouquet
Effect: Activates heartily buff effect
Target: Population building
Duration: 3 hours (22 hours on friend/guild members)
Price: 4 Flowers

Flower Bouquets can be made in your Provision House and Rarity Provision House by using Flowers. On their own, they provide a pretty love-filled buff effect on population buildings, but don't let that fool you into thinking they're just shiny fluff! If you have a certain amount of these buffs running concurrently on your home-island, you'll gain access to powerful zone-wide effects:

Name: Heart Lockets
Effect: +200% population growth
Targets: Mayor's House, Village School, University
Condition: Five (5) active Flower Bouquet buffs

Name: Family Day
Effect: +200% recruitment speed
Targets: Barracks, Elite Barracks
Condition: Ten (10) active Flower Bouquet buffs

Valentine Cards are another precursor buff that can be used to create lucrative effects:

Name: Buddy's Valentine Card Box
Effect: Rewards one of the Valentine Cards randomly
Production Time: 36 hours (Provision House), 6 hours (Rarity Provision House)
Cost: 4,400 Pinewood Planks, 780 Simple Paper, 660 Nibs

Upon making Buddy's Valentine Card Box, you'll be rewarded with one of 9 Valentine Cards, picked at random:

Name: Valentine Card
Effect: +300% Flower Farm production
Target: Flower Farms
Duration: 1 hour (3 hours on friend/guild members)

At face value, these appear as short but powerful buffs to your Flower Farm production, but something special happens when all three of your Flower Farms are buffed at the same time:

Name: Valentine
Effect: +200% to resources, refiller and XP!
Targets: Completed Co-op & Multiplayer adventures
Condition: Three (3) active Valentine Card buffs

As long as this conditional buff is active, the owner will be able to take advantage of increased loot from their cooperative adventures, including Flower Refills! So be sure to spread the love, and the reap even more rewards while you tackle some group-content! A zone-wide adventure loot boost buff is triggered once valentine card buffs are running on all three flower farms simultaneously. The zone-wide buff is stopped when the amount of simultaneously running valentine card buffs is below 3.

Premium Boost: The +50% premium boost is applied after the initial reward boost. Example: 100% (Base) + 200% (Valentine Buff) = 300% Overall Reward
Overall Reward (300%) * 1,5 (Premium) = 450%

This isn't the last method of activating the conditional buff effects: you can also do it with the Love Garden building!

While every player can get a bonus to the loot of a coop/multiplayer adventure, everyone has to have the buff active on their own island to benefit from it. It is not working for everyone in the adventure just because the owner has it active on his island.

Name: Recipe: Normal Star Chart
Effect: Reduces General travel time by 50%
Duration: 2 hours
Price: 399 Flowers

Name: Recipe: Detailed Star Chart
Effect: Reduces General travel time by 75%
Duration: 2 hours
Price: 599 Flowers

Name: Hugs & Kisses
Effect: +200% recruitment speed for Barracks & Elite Barracks
Duration: 32 hours
Price: 249 Flowers

Name: Love-crazed
Effect: Double effect of all active productivity buffs
Duration: 2 hours (3 hours on Friends)
Price: 399 Flowers

Name: Celebration of Love
Effect: Replaces buff sparkles with hearts
Duration: 7 days (10.5 days on friends/guild members)
Price: 199 Flowers

Name: Flower Rain
Effect: Lets flower petals rain from the sky
Duration: 7 days (10.5 days on friends/guild members)
Price: 199 Flowers

Name: Bottled Innocence
Effect: Replaces wild animals with unicorns
Duration: 7 days (10.5 days on friends/guild members)
Price: 29 Flowers

Name: Grout
Description: You get 200 Grout
Tradable: Yes (Resource)
Price: 199 Flowers

Name: Fertilizer: Flower Farm
Description: Resurrects Building and adds +10 Flowers to Depleted Flower Farm
Tradable: Yes
Price: 75 Flowers

Name: Small Flower Package
Description: +100 Flowers
Tradable: Yes (Resource)
Price: 219 Gems

Name: Large Flower Package
Description: +1,000 Flowers
Tradable: Yes (Resource)
Price: 2190 Gems

Name: Barrel of Oil
Description: +100 Oil
Tradable: Yes (Resource)
Price: 449 Flowers

Name: Proof of Love (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 16999 Flowers (Limit: 1 per Player)


Description:
Sometimes the friendliest, loveliest and most kindhearted Settler gets forgotten and doesn't receive the deserved gift for Valentine. So it is time to get that Settler this proof of love. You might ask who that would be? Of course, that's you!
Get this event exclusive bundle to prove your love to - ahem - yourself. "You deserve to be loved"

"Includes"

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The proof that someone loves you:
1x General Anslem
1x Endless Iron Mine
1x Large Riverhouse
1x Small Riverhouse
1x Improved Warehouse
1x Prestigious Friend Buff
1x 7 Premium Days (2x3 Days, 1x 1 Day)
3x Hugs and Kisses
2x Assassin
2x Big Catapult
2x Rain of Arrows
2x Rain of Flaming Arrows
2x Ballista

The proof that someone loves you:
1x General Anslem
1x Endless Iron Mine
1x Large Riverhouse
1x Small Riverhouse
1x Improved Warehouse
1x Prestigious Friend Buff
1x 7 Premium Days (2x3 Days, 1x 1 Day)
3x Hugs and Kisses
2x Assassin
2x Big Catapult
2x Rain of Arrows
2x Rain of Flaming Arrows
2x Ballista

Please be aware that the "Grand All-in-One" Bundle and the "Marvelous All-in-One" Bundle can be obtained throughout this event too. They will stay active until after Valentine's Event. A final date will be shared at a later point.

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Chocolatier (Limit: 3)

You'd be surprised at the sweet and useful things a chocolatier can create. "So sweeeeeet!"

Type: Provisioner, recurring
Effect: Allows production of different buffs
Size: 2 x 2
Price: 3295 Flowers

Production time 36h - but can be reduced by additional Chocolatiers.
Produces a variety of buffs after upgrading with Valentines Flowers

Buffs & Costs

Level	Name	Buff Costs	Buff Effect
1	Viscous Drinking Chocolate	1500 Brew 1000 Sausage	+900% production speed, 4 hours (6 hours on friend). Target: Provision House / Rarity Provision House
2	Extravagant Sugar Glue	100 Gold 500 IntermediatePaper	+200% production speed, 16 hours (24 hours on friend). Target: Bookbinder
3	Chocolate Covered Arrows	1000 Flour 2000 water 500 Iron	A defined amount of random units will be defeated and removed from an enemy camp. Roughly half as strong as Rain of Arrows. It cannot be combined with other arrow types. Can only be used once per enemy camp.

Move Cost & Upgrade Cost

Level	Move Cost	Upgrade Cost
1	-	Flowers 2000 Tool 1000
2	Marble 6000 Coin 1000	Flowers 3000 Marble 5000
3	Marble 6000 Coin 2000	-

Loses upgrade levels when torn down

Love Tree (Limit: 3)

Meeting at the love tree lets every Settler become overflowed with love and overjoyed.

A beautiful spot filled with memories of generations. Your great grandmother already sat in the shadow of this charming old tree to secretly meet your great grandfather during their break. Tears sealed their joyful engagement as it did for hundreds of others. It is said the love and energy stored in the tree are transferred to every loving soul resting a while in its influence. Probably the reason why many friends and families come here for a picnic regularly.

Type: Public, recurring
Target: Workyard
Size: 1 x 1
Prize: 2195 Flowers

Buffs & Costs

Level	Name	Buff Costs	Buff effects
1	Love Tree Buff Level 1	800 Fish 500 Plank	+600% output, input required +100%, 6x6 area. Duration: 4 hours
2	Love Tree Buff Level 2	1000 Stone 1000 Coal	+800% output, input required +50%, 7x7 area. Duration: 5 hours
3	Love Tree Buff Level 3	500 Flour 1000 water	+1000% output, no additional input required, 9x9 area. Duration: 6 hours

Buff Cooldown: 120 h can be lowered with further Love Trees.

Move Costs & Upgrade Costs

Level	Move Costs	Upgrade Costs
1	-	Flowers 1000 Stone 2000
2	Marble 1000 RealPlank 1000	Flowers 2000 Exotic Plank 2000
3	Marble 2000 RealPlank 2000	-

Loses upgrade levels when torn down

"Love Garden"

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The Love Garden
The Love Garden is public building with a very similar function to the Christmas Market we released at the 2018 Xmas Event. It can buff population buildings in an area around it with a default buff effect but when enough are affected by this, it can trigger various conditional buffs:

Buff name	Description	Cost	Cooldown	Icon
Love Garden Buff	Effect: Applies default buff effect, used to trigger conditions Targets: Population Building Duration: 12 hours	500 Water 500 Bread	21h	N/A

The first conditional buff triggers once you've buffed at least fifteen (15) population buildings concurrently:

Buff name	Description	Condition	Cooldown	Icon
Heart Lockets Level 1	Effect: +200% population growth Targets: Mayor's House, Villiage School, University	15 Love Garden Buffs Active	N/A	N/A

Upon first building the Love Garden, you might notice a quest that asks you to buff twenty (20) population buildings, and wait one hour! After one hour has passed with the condition met, you'll obtain a random Love Garden quest. These quests can ask you to do various things: complete a certain type of adventure, find a deposit, go on a treasure search, etc, and you will be rewarded with a relevant buff. Once you've completed a quest, you won't receive it again until you've gone through the entire pool, so you'll avoid getting the same quest back-to-back. And once another hour has gone past after completion, so long as the conditions are still met, you'll receive another quest!

Note that if you demolish the Love Garden during one of these quests, you'll be able to complete it, but won't be offered another quest until it's placed again.

There's one final conditional buff to unlock for those who are dedicated, unlocked when you've buffed at least twenty-five (25) population buildings concurrently:

Buff name	Description	Condition	Cooldown	Icon
Heart Lockets Level 2	Effect: +300% Population growth Targets: Mayor's House, Villiage School, University	25 Love Garden Buffs Active	N/A	N/A

For more information on the reach of the area buff from the Love Garden, please check out these screenshots showing where the exact grid of each population building needs to be within the area of effect to be eligible for the buff.

Name: The Love Garden (Limit: 2)
Type: Building 2x2 (Not giftable, but tradable)
Description: A public building starting buffs, which are used as conditions to trigger zone effects and additional content.
Price: 1990 Flowers

The Love Garden
The Love Garden is public building with a very similar function to the Christmas Market we released at the 2018 Xmas Event. It can buff population buildings in an area around it with a default buff effect but when enough are affected by this, it can trigger various conditional buffs:

Buff name	Description	Cost	Cooldown	Icon
Love Garden Buff	Effect: Applies default buff effect, used to trigger conditions Targets: Population Building Duration: 12 hours	500 Water 500 Bread	21h	N/A

The first conditional buff triggers once you've buffed at least fifteen (15) population buildings concurrently:

Buff name	Description	Condition	Cooldown	Icon
Heart Lockets Level 1	Effect: +200% population growth Targets: Mayor's House, Villiage School, University	15 Love Garden Buffs Active	N/A	N/A

Upon first building the Love Garden, you might notice a quest that asks you to buff twenty (20) population buildings, and wait one hour! After one hour has passed with the condition met, you'll obtain a random Love Garden quest. These quests can ask you to do various things: complete a certain type of adventure, find a deposit, go on a treasure search, etc, and you will be rewarded with a relevant buff. Once you've completed a quest, you won't receive it again until you've gone through the entire pool, so you'll avoid getting the same quest back-to-back. And once another hour has gone past after completion, so long as the conditions are still met, you'll receive another quest!

Note that if you demolish the Love Garden during one of these quests, you'll be able to complete it, but won't be offered another quest until it's placed again.

There's one final conditional buff to unlock for those who are dedicated, unlocked when you've buffed at least twenty-five (25) population buildings concurrently:

Buff name	Description	Condition	Cooldown	Icon
Heart Lockets Level 2	Effect: +300% Population growth Targets: Mayor's House, Villiage School, University	25 Love Garden Buffs Active	N/A	N/A

For more information on the reach of the area buff from the Love Garden, please check out these screenshots showing where the exact grid of each population building needs to be within the area of effect to be eligible for the buff.

Name: The Love Garden (Limit: 2)
Type: Building 2x2 (Not giftable, but tradable)
Description: A public building starting buffs, which are used as conditions to trigger zone effects and additional content.
Price: 1990 Flowers

"Observatory"

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Observatory

The Observatory allows a player to greatly speed up the travel time for Generals going to and from adventures. It can produce three different types of Star Chart buffs to accomplish this:

Buff name	Description	Cost	Cooldown	Icon
Rough Star Chart	Zone Effect: Reduces General travel time by 25% Target: Home and Adventure Islands Duration: 2 hours	820 Simple Paper 20 Map Fragments	47h
Normal Star Chart	Zone Effect: Reduces General travel time by 50% Target: Home and Adventure Islands Duration: 2 hours	750 Intermediate Paper 30 Map Fragments	47h
Detailed Star Chart	Zone Effect: Reduces General travel time by 75% Target: Home and Adventure Islands Duration: 2 hours	810 Advanced Paper 40 Map Fragments	47h

The buff works for adventures started while the buff is active. Once Activated the buff will remain on the adventure even if the initial buff on your home zone is not active anymore. Propagated buffs are active on adventures as long as the adventure is running. Travel time for generals is impacted by the buff running in the same zone the general is traveling to. Buffs that are propagated to the adventure also impact other participants, reducing the travel time of their generals to adventures as well. However, the buff on the home zone only impacts the owner of the zone, reducing the travel time of their generals back from adventures. Do note that Star Charts are exclusive to one another, and cannot be combined for a greater effect.

This makes the Observatory a perfect building for those who love to do adventures as their main activity, and even more so if it involves doing cooperative adventures with their friends; especially during this event!

In combination with the "Navigation Crash Course" skill the travel time reduction is applied to the travel time value already reduced by the "Navigation Crash Course" skill. The final value is rounded mathematically.

Example:

Default Travel Time * Navigation Crash Course * Star Chart.

900 seconds * 55% * 25% = 158 (157,5) seconds

Name: Observatory (Limit: 1)
Type: Building 3x3 (Not giftable, not tradable)
Description: An intelligence building which can craft star charts
Price: 3490 Flowers

Observatory

The Observatory allows a player to greatly speed up the travel time for Generals going to and from adventures. It can produce three different types of Star Chart buffs to accomplish this:

Buff name	Description	Cost	Cooldown	Icon
Rough Star Chart	Zone Effect: Reduces General travel time by 25% Target: Home and Adventure Islands Duration: 2 hours	820 Simple Paper 20 Map Fragments	47h
Normal Star Chart	Zone Effect: Reduces General travel time by 50% Target: Home and Adventure Islands Duration: 2 hours	750 Intermediate Paper 30 Map Fragments	47h
Detailed Star Chart	Zone Effect: Reduces General travel time by 75% Target: Home and Adventure Islands Duration: 2 hours	810 Advanced Paper 40 Map Fragments	47h

The buff works for adventures started while the buff is active. Once Activated the buff will remain on the adventure even if the initial buff on your home zone is not active anymore. Propagated buffs are active on adventures as long as the adventure is running. Travel time for generals is impacted by the buff running in the same zone the general is traveling to. Buffs that are propagated to the adventure also impact other participants, reducing the travel time of their generals to adventures as well. However, the buff on the home zone only impacts the owner of the zone, reducing the travel time of their generals back from adventures. Do note that Star Charts are exclusive to one another, and cannot be combined for a greater effect.

This makes the Observatory a perfect building for those who love to do adventures as their main activity, and even more so if it involves doing cooperative adventures with their friends; especially during this event!

In combination with the "Navigation Crash Course" skill the travel time reduction is applied to the travel time value already reduced by the "Navigation Crash Course" skill. The final value is rounded mathematically.

Example:

Default Travel Time * Navigation Crash Course * Star Chart.

900 seconds * 55% * 25% = 158 (157,5) seconds

Name: Observatory (Limit: 1)
Type: Building 3x3 (Not giftable, not tradable)
Description: An intelligence building which can craft star charts
Price: 3490 Flowers

"Weather Station"

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Weather Station

Buff name	Description	Cost	Cooldown	Icon
Weather: Hard Frost	Zone Effect: When weighty defenders throw a punch in such frost, every surrounding unit will be swiped of their feet. Zone Effect: All defense units (including enemy defense units) gain splash damage! Target: Adventure with difficulty 1 - 15 Duration: 2 hours	600 Iron Ore 750 Marble	47h
Weather: Bright Sunshine	In such beautiful sunshine everyone feels reinvigorated. Zone Effect: The HP of all units (including enemy units) are increased by 20%! Target: Adventure with difficulty 1 - 15 Duration: 2 hours	750 Titanium Ore 2500 Wheat	47h
Weather: Heavy Fog	In such dense fog sneaking up to your enemies is no challenge. Zone Effect: All units (including enemy units) gain flanking! Target: Adventure with difficulty 1 - 15 Duration: 2 hours	250 Steel 500 Water	47h
Weather: Hurricane	Fighting within a Hurricane gives an extra force to every hit. Zone Effect: The minimum and maximum damage of all units (including enemy units) are increased by 20%! Target: Adventure with difficulty 1 - 15 Duration: 2 hours	600 Salpeter 2000 Copper Ore	47h

The buff works for adventures started while the buff is active. Once activated the buff will remain on the adventure even if the initial buff on your home zone is not active anymore. Propagated buffs are active on adventures as long as the adventure is running. Buff propagated to the adventure also impact other participants, changing combat values of their units.

Since these buffs affect not only you but all enemy units as well, the Weather Station really allows you to shake up the meta strategies when it comes to dealing with adventures. You might choose to build your unit composition around one of the buffs and its bonuses, on an adventure where the specific enemy units would not gain as much of an advantage. When combined with the Observatory and Scouting Post, you can now test out new and interesting compositions and tactics while being even more effective at tackling even the hardest of challenges!

Name: Weather Station (Limit: 1)
Type: Building 2x2 (Not giftable, not tradable)
Description: An intelligence building which can influence combat on adventures via special weather conditions
Price: 3690 Flowers

Weather Station

Buff name	Description	Cost	Cooldown	Icon
Weather: Hard Frost	Zone Effect: When weighty defenders throw a punch in such frost, every surrounding unit will be swiped of their feet. Zone Effect: All defense units (including enemy defense units) gain splash damage! Target: Adventure with difficulty 1 - 15 Duration: 2 hours	600 Iron Ore 750 Marble	47h
Weather: Bright Sunshine	In such beautiful sunshine everyone feels reinvigorated. Zone Effect: The HP of all units (including enemy units) are increased by 20%! Target: Adventure with difficulty 1 - 15 Duration: 2 hours	750 Titanium Ore 2500 Wheat	47h
Weather: Heavy Fog	In such dense fog sneaking up to your enemies is no challenge. Zone Effect: All units (including enemy units) gain flanking! Target: Adventure with difficulty 1 - 15 Duration: 2 hours	250 Steel 500 Water	47h
Weather: Hurricane	Fighting within a Hurricane gives an extra force to every hit. Zone Effect: The minimum and maximum damage of all units (including enemy units) are increased by 20%! Target: Adventure with difficulty 1 - 15 Duration: 2 hours	600 Salpeter 2000 Copper Ore	47h

The buff works for adventures started while the buff is active. Once activated the buff will remain on the adventure even if the initial buff on your home zone is not active anymore. Propagated buffs are active on adventures as long as the adventure is running. Buff propagated to the adventure also impact other participants, changing combat values of their units.

Since these buffs affect not only you but all enemy units as well, the Weather Station really allows you to shake up the meta strategies when it comes to dealing with adventures. You might choose to build your unit composition around one of the buffs and its bonuses, on an adventure where the specific enemy units would not gain as much of an advantage. When combined with the Observatory and Scouting Post, you can now test out new and interesting compositions and tactics while being even more effective at tackling even the hardest of challenges!

Name: Weather Station (Limit: 1)
Type: Building 2x2 (Not giftable, not tradable)
Description: An intelligence building which can influence combat on adventures via special weather conditions
Price: 3690 Flowers

"Scouting Post"

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For more information on the Scouting Post, please check out our FAQ section.

The Scouting Post
The Scouting Post is the first culture-building to provide buffs with increased XP rewards for playing adventures of various difficulty levels. Read more about its buffs below!
Limit: 1 for Flowers (unlimited with Gems)
Cost: 5499 Flowers

Name	Effect	Cost of production	Cooldown
Weak Combat Intel	Zone Effect: +50% combat experience on adventures started, while this buff is active. Target: Mission with difficulty 1 - 4 Duration: 2 hours Required Level: 26	820 600	48h or skip for 499
Medium Combat Intel	Zone Effect: +50% combat experience on adventures started, while this buff is active. Target: Mission with difficulty 5 - 9 Duration: 2 hours Required Level: 38	750 710	48h or skip for 499
Strong Combat Intel	Zone Effect: +50% combat experience on adventures started, while this buff is active. Target: Mission with difficulty 10 - 15 Duration: 2 hours Required Level: 51	810 570	48h or skip for 499

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For more information on the Scouting Post, please check out our FAQ section.

The Scouting Post
The Scouting Post is the first culture-building to provide buffs with increased XP rewards for playing adventures of various difficulty levels. Read more about its buffs below!
Limit: 1 for Flowers (unlimited with Gems)
Cost: 5499 Flowers

Name	Effect	Cost of production	Cooldown
Weak Combat Intel	Zone Effect: +50% combat experience on adventures started, while this buff is active. Target: Mission with difficulty 1 - 4 Duration: 2 hours Required Level: 26	820 600	48h or skip for 499
Medium Combat Intel	Zone Effect: +50% combat experience on adventures started, while this buff is active. Target: Mission with difficulty 5 - 9 Duration: 2 hours Required Level: 38	750 710	48h or skip for 499
Strong Combat Intel	Zone Effect: +50% combat experience on adventures started, while this buff is active. Target: Mission with difficulty 10 - 15 Duration: 2 hours Required Level: 51	810 570	48h or skip for 499

LARGE RIVERHOUSE

Description: The large version of the riverhouse that can be built in rivers. Grants space for 60 Population.
Can be upgraded with tokens 3 times for +15 population (up to 105), for 13, 16 and 19 Tokens.
Limit: 7
Cost: 1495 Flowers
Trade/Gift: Tradable but not giftable

WATER MANSION

Description: The fancy and snugly way to live the Settler life in peace and harmony. Grants space for 85 Population.
Can be upgraded with tokens 3 times for +20 population (up to 145), for 14, 17 and 20 Tokens.
Limit: 7
Cost: 2249 Flowers
Trade/Gift: Tradable but not giftable

CHANGES TO THE WATERSPOT

With this version, you're able to add even more lovely and characteristic water buildings and increase the population on your island. But this is not all! Additionally, roughly 40 new water spots were added to give you the possibility to create an individual look.
(Note: O° marks the approximate area where new water spots were added).

Check out the new spots on the map below

IMPROVED FARM

Description: Who would have guessed that the results of modern agricultural research would look more rural than before? This farm harvests wheat with incredible efficiency, yet exudes nostalgic charm.
Limit: 2
Cost: 899 Flowers
Trade/Gift: Tradable but not giftable

IMPROVED SILO

Description: Have you always wanted a way to refill your wheat fields more effectively? Then your wish just came true! This silo refills your fields in the blink of an eye!
Limit: 2
Cost: 1095 Flowers
Trade/Gift: Tradable but not giftable

DECORATION: FLOWER FARM

Description: Decorative version of the Flower Farm.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: 299 Flowers
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

DECORATION: VALENTINE PAVILLON

Description: A pavillon, where your settlers can meet and be together.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: 399 Flowers
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

DECORATION: CUPIDO STATUE

Description: The patron of Love reminding your settlers of the most valuable thing in the world.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: 149 Flowers
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

DECORATION: HEART TREE

Description: What a lovely shape for a tree.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: 149 Flowers
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

DECORATION: VALENTINE FOUNTAIN

Description: Some people say throwing flower petals into the fountain grants a wish.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: 149 Flowers
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

DECORATION: VALENTINE VEGETATION

Description: Every town can use some more vegetation.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: 149 Flowers
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

DECORATION: VALENTINE BENCH

Description: Settlers can relax on the bench from time to time.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: 99 Flowers
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

DECORATION: FLOWERBED HEART

Description: The shape of this flower bed is really unique.
Limit: unlimited
Cost: 99 Flowers
Trade/Gift: All of them are tradable and giftable

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This Valentine Event brings with it two unique specialists to add to your roster! The Keener Explorer is very sporty and runs tasks twice as fast as a normal explorer. She also rolls on the loot thrice with every adventure search! Meanwhile, the Quartermaster Bigheart has the biggest heart of them all and is absolutely loveable, can't even harm a single fly. Therefore, he will not fight himself as this is against his rules - but he will make more units, a magical amount of 2000, follow him!

Name: Keener Explorer (Limit: 3)
Description:
"Brave through Love" Run tasks twice as fast as normal explorer.
Explorer that rolls on the loot table for adventures thrice with every adventure search.
Effect:+100% task speed
Jaunty: +100% task speed. +2 Roll on adventure search tasks.
Price: 2899 Flowers

Name: Quartermaster Bigheart (Limit: 3)
Description:
With the biggest heart of all leaders, every soldier's dream is to join his regiment. Due to the press of the recruits and his soft heart, he grew to become the Quartermaster able to transport the highest amount of units. But this is also the reason he decided to never fight himself.
Effect: Travels twice as quickly to adventures. Can’t fight. Amount of units increased to 2.000
Price: 3599 Flowers

Name: Charming Geologist (Limit: 2)
Description: His handsome looks help him gather information about the easy to mine deposits
Effect: Charming Deposit: Finds 100% bigger deposits for Iron, Titanium, and Salpeter. In addition, there is a 100% chance to find deposits of those types, that can be mined 100% faster.
Price: 1149 Flowers

Name: Lovely Explorer (Limit: 2)
Description: Always brings highest possible resource amount from treasure search tasks.
Effect:Lovely Treasure: +100% task speed and always brings the highest possible resource amount from treasure search tasks.
Price: 2099 Flowers

The Valentine Achievements promote sharing the love with your fellow Settlers, friends, guild members and receiving some love in return! You can unlock them during this event only.
Various buffs are rewarded for successfully completing achievements; with more powerful buffs being awarded the higher the achievement's difficulty.


The Achievements deal with many aspects of the event:

• Having friends buff your buildings
• Completing co-op adventures with friends
• Receiving one of every Valentine card (9 total)
• Maybe even being a bit selfish!?

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This Year Valentine will present a Calendar in which you should open the doors daily!

To access the Calendar, just click on the icon next to your avatar.

2 DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOORS

There is a total of 14 doors. You can open one door each day. Opening missed doors for gems will cost 100 gems for normal doors and 300 gems for special doors.

Don't forget to open the doors daily and also remind your friends to do so!

Type: Regular door
Amount: 9
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 100 gems afterwards
Requirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or not
Rewards: Provides basic rewards (such as resources), sometimes chosen randomly

Type: Special door
Amount: 5
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 300 gems afterward.
Requirement: All previous doors need to be open
Rewards: Most special doors offer a choice between several rewards when opened

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We previously introduced the level cap raise to 80 which was also the perfect time to increase the upgrade level of the buildings. Several buildings already got their Level 7 upgrade, but some are still missing and we introduce a batch of upgrades with this version. Level 7 Upgrades require the resources of Oil and/or Advanced Tools. You can obtain Oil if you combine Wheat, Stone, Herbs, and Oilseeds in the Oil Mill. Oilseeds can be obtained from Adventures. Below you can find the table of buildings that will be upgradable with this version.

Upgradable to Level 7
Island Storehouse
Homestead
Weaver
Elite Stable
Saddlecloth Weaver
Arquebus Maker
Wagon Maker

Don't worry if you don't see your favorite building listed above; more buildings will receive their own Level 7 Upgrade in future deployments!

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WHAT HAPPENS AT THE START OF THE REMOVAL PHASE?
24th of February 10:00 CET

The core mechanisms of the Event are turned off at the start of the removal phase.

• Info Widget/Countdown
  The event countdown gets replaced by a new countdown.
  The new one indicates the remaining time of the removal phase until the event gets completely deactivated.
• Valentine adventures
  The event currency reward for adventures will be deactivated
  Adventures already in-progress will not reward event currency
• Buffs
  Conditional buffs from both the Flower Bouquets and Valentine Cards will no longer trigger.
• Production
  Event-related item productions inside the provision house will be deactivated.
  Event-related item production, which is already running will continue until they run out.
  Flower Farms will still be able to produce Flowers during the Removal Phase.
• Quests & Achievements
  The event Quest chains and Achievements will be deactivated.
  Only completed Valentine event achievements remain visible.
• Treasure Search (Explorers)
  Treasure searches that are started before the start of the removal phase have the chance to still contain event resources. All Treasure searches started during or after the Removal Phase do not contain any Event Resources.
• Misc
  The event shop remains active and Flowers can be used to get special items until complete event deactivation.
  The event window will no longer be accessible.
  Event-related loading screen, UI skins, and music will be removed/set to default.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE DEACTIVATION?
02nd of March 10:00 CET

• Trade
  New trade offers containing event currency can't be set up anymore.
  Active trade offers containing event currency are set to invisible.
• Shop/Event currency
  The Event shop category is not available anymore.
  Event currency is not visible in the Mayor's house anymore and will be converted into Coins later.
• Explorer
  Explorers will not bring any event currency.
• Buffs
  Flower Bouquets remain available and usable throughout the whole year but only provide a purely cosmetic buff effect.
• Production
  Flower Farms will be deleted at the time of the Deactivation Phase.

EVENT RESOURCE CONVERSION

As usual, all event-related resources will be converted into gold coins.
We will also convert Valentine cards and Valentine Card Boxes into Employee of the month Badges.
No event resources are supposed to remain in the game.

A script will run during a future game update downtime to replace all event resources (especially Flowers) with gold coins.
The conversion applies to all items of that type, such as

• items in your warehouses and in your Star Menu
• items that remain in Flower Farms
• items included in public trades and friend trades
• items attached to in-game mails like loot from adventures or explorer searches

Conversion rates: The final amount will be rounded up.
1 Flower = 1 gold coins
1 Fertilizer = 75 gold coins

There is no action needed from your side, you will receive an in-game message with the corresponding amount of gold coins.