Start on 04 October -> Ending 14 October (10 days)

• Level 2

* What is Oktoberfest bringing?

There will be a special Event Crop: Malted grains

Time: 3 hours
EP (2x2): 30 EP

Plant category: "Event"
Can be grown on all lands (including Bahamarama)
From level: 2 (including Bahamarama)

• Donate your harvested malted grains in a 10-step-3-difficulties Farmer's Society Quest, to receive in exchange Malt beer kegs and other great prizes.

• Use your Malt beer kegs and watch them grow into fermented Malt beer kegs
  Time for a fully grown Level-4 keg: 16 hours.

Once harvested, you'll find them in your Barn under the "Other" tab

• Then, you can donate your fermented Malt beer kegs to the 6 tiered Event

• There will also be a drop-item: Glucose syrup that can be used on the fermenting beer kegs to reduce the fermentation time of the beer keg by 25% (can be used 1x per keg).

You can add the Glucose to each beer keg by clicking on its special icon:

* This Quest seems complicated: Malted grains, Fermenting Malt beer kegs, Farmer's Society Quest, Event Place Quest... where do I start?

Firstly, as mentioned above: plant your 10 free malted grain seeds (add water, manure, Suzy's fertilizer and super-grow if you wish). Do not forget to use a harvest revenue product as well (Pumpkin Jam or Carrot Apple Chutney)
All players level 2+ will get 10 seeds at the beginning of the Event. They will not be in the Seed Shops, nor will they be buyable/sellable at the market. If you drop down to less than 5 seeds, you'll need to wait for the automatic replenishment every 4 - 5 hours.

* Can I buy a Starter Pack to get a good head start for this Event?

Yes, of course!
There are two Starter-Baskets in the Shopping Center

Sweet Malt Beer Basket
• 250x Malted grains
• 5x Fermented Malt beer kegs stage 4
• 20x Glucose syrup
• 50x super-grow
• Price: 1.99 Euros (or equivalent in your currency) / buyable only once


Perfect Party Basket
• 1000x Malted grains
• 30x Fermented Malt beer kegs stage 4
• 2x carrot apple chutney
• 100x Glucose syrup
• 100x super-grow
• Price: 10 Euros (or equivalent in your currency) / Buyable only once

Whichever basket you buy, you'll find your fermented Malt beer kegs stage 4 in your "Other" tab, and you'll see them on the donation pop-up (Event place quest)

* OK, now: my malted grain plants are growing, where should I go first Farmer's Society? or the Event Place?

• First go to visit Farmer's Society, as you'll need the prize-items from this quest (Malt beer kegs), to participate in the Event Place Quest!!!

where you'll find a 10-step quest, with silver-gold-diamond jobs.

Here is the chart with the required items and the prizes:

Oktoberfest Quest

It's also possible to reset/re-start the quest at any moment for 25 BB, by using the "reset" button at the top right of the quest window:

You'll be asked to validate on a pop-up window.

By accepting to re-start the quest at Step 1 Silver, you get to keep any rewards that you have won up to that point.

If you don't have enough items to finish a job/challenge, it's preferable NOT to start donating items, as these are non-refundable!

* OK, I've done a few challenges (still have a few to do), I now have some Malt beer kegs. What do I do with them?
Once you have won some Malt beer kegs, you'll be able to plant them (on an empty space) and watch them grow!
The Beer kegs can be harvested manually at any stage of their fermentation (they will go to your Barn under "other" tab

Yes!
You can add Glucose syrup 1x to your kegs to shorten the growing time: 25% shorter growing time.

Glucose syrup can be added to Malt beer kegs stage-1, stage-2 or stage-3 fermenting kegs.

• You can also use the Harvester for FREE to add Glucose syrup to all your malt beer kegs seedlings at the same time!
  Click on the Harvester Machinery, and you'll see a 4th icon, allowing you to add Glucose syrup to all the fermenting kegs simultaneously (as long as you have enough Glucose syrup in your inventory!)

• Glucose syrup can also be bought in the Shopping Center
  • 1x Glucose syrup – 2 BB
  • 50x Glucose syrup – 85 BB (15% cheaper)
  • 100x Glucose syrup – 150 BB (25% cheaper)
  • 150x Glucose syrup – 200 BB (33% cheaper)
• Glucose syrup can also be gifted to/from buddies/neighbours from level 5+.
  • you can send 5 free gifts (or 7 with the neighbour rune), then it will cost 2BB each.
  • maximum number of the gifts received per day is 20

Now that you have some Malt beer kegs, you'll be able to follow the Event-Place Quest.

Here is a chart of the required items and prizes:

Prize Items

Thumping Party Tent

size: 1x2
gives: 225 EP
time: 5h

Brew Buddies

size: 1x2
gives: 275 EP
time: 6h

Thirsty Hamster

size: 1x1
gives: 265 EP
time: 11h

FARMERAMA Bavarian Bears

size: 1x2
gives: 333 EP
time: 6h30m

Magic Beanstalk row of clouds

This "row of clouds" reward
does NOT unlock the Magical Stalk.
It just adds one extra row of clouds.
You'll see this new row of clouds only if and when you have unlocked the Magical Beanstalk
Items to place: Oktoberfest 2012 prize items ONLY (as shown in black/white)
The effect: 55 x level EP
The cooldown time: 24 hours

&the "Supply Pack" Goodie-package
50 super-grow
20 pheromones
25 Suzy Fertilizer
20 power-feed

& the Event Sticker

That you'll find in your Sticker Album,
in the Post-Office building.

The Event-Place quest requires a total CC-value of 75000 malt beer kegs.

This can be achieved by harvesting 750 Stage 4 malt beer kegs.

The Farmer's Society quest will give you a maximum of 871 malt beer kegs (if you complete all 10 steps, all 3 difficulties).

So it is do-able.
It's up to you not to harvest your Malt beer kegs too quickly, as they have less value!

871 kegs :

• harvested at stage 1 will give 21775 CC value
• harvested at stage 2 will give 43550 CC value
• harvested at stage 3 will give 65325 CC value
• harvested at stage 4 will give 87100 CC value

Note: The Harvester-Machinery does NOT harvest your malt beer kegs, at ANY of the levels

• Quest Restart Button – As soon as you have achieved at least 1 challenge, you will see a new icon appear on the quest window of the Farmer's Society Quest.
• You will be able to reset the Farmer's Society Quest, whatever point you have achieved so far, you can start again at step 1!
  (this can be useful maybe if you have enough goods to do all the silver+gold challenges, but no color-palettes, for example...)
• Price for restarting the quest: 25 BB
  It´s possible multiple times.

Yes!

• Glucose syrup – 15 EP and 15 CC

• Malt beer keg 1 – 3 EP and 3 CC
• Malt beer keg 2 – 5 EP and 5 CC
• Malt beer keg 3 – 7 EP and 7 CC
• malt beer keg 4 – 10 EP and 10 CC

The exchange will be done the next day after the end of the event.

Yes! It will have the following stats:
Level (farm): 39

Time: 6h44m
EP (2x2): 30

Plant category: "Crop"
Barn Value: 29 CC
Seed price: 87 CC

The crop-FAQ will be updated soon after this is live.