FYI Make SURE you update your game in the App Store (I know it’s on Google Play, not sure on the others…please let me know). This Update will ensure you have the PROPER Version of Phase 3 (you should be earning 5 Protein Strings/squish…if you’re only earning 3 Update)
Update 8:45am EDT: UltraHouse 2 is back as well…i’ve updated it below. Also, for those wondering…you can still craft prizes from the Probes Prize box. So if you missed out on those they’ll still be there as well.
Also…wondering if you’re the only one who can craft another Hover-Copter? You’re not. Apparently it’s going around. If you look in your Ray Gun Prize box it may show that you didn’t win it, even if you did. Mine’s showing no Hover-Copter…but it’s still in my Springfield. So yes…you can craft another one. BUT I wouldn’t. 1. you don’t know if it’ll be able to be placed in your Springfield and 2. why spend the items on that when there is new stuff to craft?
Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
The switch has happened…Ray Guns are gone & Protein Strings have arrived! We’ll be working through the details of the new phase and have any changes up for you soon…but the basic principle remains the same.
Squish Regillians, stop/send Grem-Aliens, shoot down UFOs & earn Treat Bags to earn enough Protein Strings to earn all the Protein String Prizes!
Kang will kick off Phase 3 with a 24hr quest. So make sure he’s free. You will also need Lisa for the quest.
Protein String Prizes include….
Diet Sign- 4th Prize 6,000 Protein Strings
UBO- Final Prize. Requires 14,900 Protein Strings.
Of course there will be Gold & Silver Treat Bags to win as well!
There’s a HUGE increase in the value of each Protein String. But the amount required for each prize is significantly higher . For each squish in your own town you’ll earn 5 Protein Strings. (Grem-Aliens still earn at the same rate)
As far as the changes to Make-A-Thing…
If you didn’t win all of the Ray Gun Prizes, you can now craft them at Make-A-Thing!
Bulldozer-Sauras- 500 Gummy Bears, 300 Pumpkins & 500 Rotten Eggs
Hover-Copter– 500 Chocolate Bars, 200 Broken Fences & 500 Candy Corn.
Hugo, the Great Pumpkin, Spooky House, Pumpkin House, Test Subject & Spooky Wall are all still there for you to craft.
In addition there’s new stuff to craft!
The Rigellian Queen- 400 Broken Fences, 400 Rotten Eggs & 300 Gummy Bears
The Rigellian Tribal Hut- Will unlock once you’ve crafted the queen and complete her questline to Part 2. This will cost 300 Candy Corns, 50 Chocolate Bars, and 50 Pumpkins…increasing in cost for Candy and chocolate each new one. Each hut will spawn 3 Rigellians every 24 hours.
The Rigellian Shrub is Also Now Available ( 50 Broken Fences, 25 Candy Corn & 20 Pumpkins)…but remember you can win this for FREE in the bags. My advice is..don’t craft it.
You can also now craft Gold Treat Bags! (50 Fences and 50 Rotten Eggs)
If you saved Treat Bags to open during phase two, they WILL contain Protein Strings! So you’ll get a nice head start on them 🙂
Premium Items….
As I suspected…the items from last week are gone and new (old) ones have arrived!
Now you can purchase Ultrahouse 2, Burns Monster, the Super Collider & Black Hole AND the Ghost Zapper….all for donuts! (should I buy is coming on these..but I’d pass on the monster, Buy the Collider, Pass on the Zapper, iffy on the Ultrahouse..that’s just me. Full Pros and Cons coming)
If I’m missing any please let me know. My C game is very limited…it’s only Level 11 purposely..but it’s the only game I don’t have everything in.
So my friends, that about covers the quick rundown for Phase 3 and the Protein Strings. Happy squishing!
What do YOU think of the Phase Changes? Are you happy to be collecting a new item? Are you excited for the new prizes? How about the new 5 per squish rate? Sound o3ff in the comments below, you know we LOVE hearing from you!
Feeling overwhelmed by the requirements this time around! Though we get 5 DNA strands per squish in our own town, it’s still only one per squish when we visit neighbors – is that right? I actually have the Hunting License and I am receiving 2 strands per squish, but that seems so low compared to the amount we get in our own town and compared to how high the new goals are. Am I getting full credit in my friends’ towns? Thanks for any help!
1 per 90 actions. 2 with license. Working on math of it all.
What does the super collider do? Is it worth buying?
Should I coming. More a cool looking building and the black hole is kinda amusing to have.
My Rigellian village is now complete thanks to saving a ton of treat bags from the second phase. The added benefit of a great jump on protein strings has put me on cruise control to completion. All the awesome weekend deals has my town looking much more mature. This has been an awesome, yet expensive, event.
How many huts to we need to do the Regallian village? 🙂
5 Million. 😉
To Bunny!! to Cute!! Love your answer abt “how many Huts for a Village”! 5 million!! Sounds quite feasible and now to find a Village Idiot!! LOL ! Use an Alien or as I call them, ” Slime Balls!! 🙂 Mahalo. 🙂 stepingstair. 🙂
🙂
Only 5 million? Crap… I didn’t stop until eleventy billion. Sigh.
Slacker.
🙂 yes!! Only 5 Million!! :). stepingstair 😉
hmmm, so I hope no one asked this question yet, but I haven’t noticed candy available so far today, but I can’t really remember…does that just come later on the weekend, or could it be done?
I need some chocolate to finish off the great pumpkin (which I reeeally want), but as of now I have enough of everything for the spooky house. soooo–should I go ahead with the house, or wait to have enough chocolate for the pumpkin first? I need help! 🙂
I don’t mind using donuts to get some of the stuff, but if the individual candy types are gone & I have to buy the gold treat bags, all told it could get costly. ( and kind of tedious!)
sorry, such a space cadet! realized the candy just dropped! thx! 🙂
Should be in there now.
I was going to report the Hover-copter glitch with this phase, but I see it’s already in the post. Yeah, the exact same thing happened to me. I may craft another one after I crafted everything else. The Hover-copter doesn’t give any bonus or payout, so having multples doesn’t give you any advantages other than the decorative factor.
Disappointed that Grem-aliens didn’t also increase their rate as well.
I’ve seen the Ghost Zapper in other towns and thought it was cool, but didn’t know what it was at the time. If you have no ghosts in your Springfeild is it still worth getting? Does it do something regardless?
Nope. Nothing. More on it coming. Just for looks basically.
Okay. Thanks. I’ll look forward to more details coming soon here about it.
Rigelian Queen vs. Pumpkin House – which should be my first pick? I seriously doubt I’ll be able to get both.
And how necessary is the Bart/Milhouse sleepover? I’ve been avoiding it in favor of ToT.
Thanks so much! 🙂
Not necessary…
Queen…
Do you have to finish the hilarium quests before the hut unlocks?
No. but Kang has to be free to trigger the dialogue that unlocks the hut
I think my game has a glitch! I crafted the Rigellian Queen and a tribal hut this morning. Then this afternoon I noticed that it said I had enough stuff to craft another hut. The counter didn’t show enough broken fences. I hit the Craft now button anyway and got another hut my fence counter didn’t go down. Then I noticed that it said I had 274 of the 360 broken fences needed even though I really only had 111. Well, I do have 274 candy corns. I think it’s confusing my broken fences with the candy corn, but only for the huts.
Apparently the glitch was that it was showing broken fences as a requirement. Now it’s showing candy corn instead.
Many reported this. Glitch in your favor is a good thing. 🙂
Running out of land…..
Strange thing happened to me. I have only 60 broken fences at the moment (spent a lot on the Alien Queen), but when the game offered me possibility to build the Hut (which requires 300 broken fences), it said I can build it, so I did. Game spent my candy corn and chocolates, allowing to build the hut with no expenditure of fences. And then allowed me to build second one without expenditure of fences. And now I cant build third, as the game says I have only 336/360 fences (in fact I have 60).
I would say that I see the problem – I have now 60 broken fences and 336 candy corn – looks to me like these two are switched. That the hut uses not 300 broken fences, 60 candy corn and 60 chocolates, but in fact 300 candy corn, 60 broken fences and 60 chocolates. Can somebody confirm?
Well, update just hit and it repaired the stats – Hut consists of 300 candy corn (third one 360 candy corn), 60 chocolates and 60 pumpkins.
Many are reporting this. All we can say is let EA know.
The UBO is a Mr burns outfit right that’s what it was in the show
Yes. 😉
Hey neighboreenos! So far I’ve only seen one comment on the material counts/tracker for the Make-a-Thing workshop being messy, so I figured I’d comment on it about what I’ve found out so far, and maybe it’s similar for others as well. So here comes a whole big huge post.
I crafted my queen and everything was fine, but I noticed with the Tribal Hut:
The hut requires 300 fences, 50 candy corn, and 50 chocolate bars. The number being tracked for my fences was actually the amount of candy corn I had. I only had 244 fences, and 298 candy corn, and it was showing that my fences were 298/300. I got a few more candy corn and it pushed me over the required 300 fences, greening the fence numbers. My candy corns had been greened out for a while, since it only requires 50. The chocolate bars, however, require 50, and I had 72, but the numbers weren’t greened out despite it showing I had 72/50 chocolate bars. However, upon “reaching the required materials” with the fences, I was given the “Craft Now” option, so I went ahead and did it. For science!
When I hit craft, I had 307 candy corn and 244 fences, and 72 chocolate bars. Crafting the hut took away 300 candy corns (since it was counting my candy corns as my fences), it took away the 50 chocolate bars, HOWEVER it didn’t take away an additional 50 candy corns like it actually required.
Soooo in summation: the hut was supposed to cost me 300 fences, 50 candy corns, and 50 chocolate bars. It actually cost me 300 candy corns and 50 chocolate bars. I saved 300 fences but lost 250 more candy corns than I probably should have. I have at least one of everything now, so I’m not too concerned about it. But it’s worth noting, at least for now, in case you have to decide which you want to craft or if you want to hold off. You don’t want to accidentally spend more candy corns than you have to and mess everything up.
Lastly, it’s worth noting. After crafting the hut, it continued counting my candy corn as the fences (I have 244 fences still and only 7 candy corn, but the required materials are showing 7/330 fences). Also, I had 22 chocolate bars, and it showed my chocolate bar progress as 22/55… HOWEVER, it also tracked my candy corn progress as 22/55, despite only having 7 candy corn. I noticed that after picking up another chocolate bar, it increased my candy corn progress up to 23/55, and my chocolate bar progress didn’t move at all, staying at 22/55… And picking up a pumpkin didn’t increase my chocolate bar number either.
So as of right now, I seemingly have no way of increasing my chocolate bar progress towards additional Rigellian huts, the candy corn count is effected by my chocolate bars, and my fences count is effected by my candy corns. Everything else, however, is normal and right and problem-free. It’s just something weird with the hut that is messy.
It’s a lot of stuff I just said, I know, and might be hard to sort out (haha, I tried my best) but these are my findings as of now. Figured I’d spread out my findings and hopefully save someone from doing something which would end up costing them.
I’ll probably contact EA about my findings as well, but I’d think for now, if you’re not as wealthy with materials, I’d recommend holding off on crafting the hut, just in case.
**Last-second edit: I opened up Simpsons just before posting this to check, and sure enough there was a patch which fixed it. The hut (the first time crafting it) now costs 300 candy corns, 50 chocolate bars, and 50 pumpkins, and my numbers are being represented accurately. Which explains the numbers I saw earlier. But I’ll be darned if I don’t post this after typing it all out, haha. And I suppose in retrospect, my Rigellian hut didn’t cost me any pumpkins, but if I am to craft any additional, it will. I can still craft the Hover Copter though, despite winning it in phase 2. Fair enough.
Anyway. Happy tapping, and happy Halloween!
I’m sorry if I am overlooking already available information, but I am trying to find out how many pieces of what are required to build the tribal hut and the pumpkin house once I get them unlocked
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/10/13/trick-or-treat-bag-goodies/
Updated one with Tribal hut is coming.
I am on an iPad and I never had an App Store option to upgrade. My game did automatically upgrade. I am getting 5 protein strings when I tap. Does that mean everything is fine?
Yup, you’re good 🙂
Do you know if there are going to be any other items released to craft in this phase besides the queen and the hut?
Pretty sure this is it.
I’m not sure which items I should craft? Can anyone recommend the best item?
Hugo, Spooky House, Great Pumpkin…all great! Queen is nice too!
Stoked on this update still have the constant alien head glitch. On top of that I saved 500 grem aliens and 380 treat bags. I got enough donuts for the Ray gun and now I’m closing in on another 150 doughnuts. Halloween is by far the best holiday.
I’m about 4000 away from ubo as well.
Now you gotta come up with a solid design scheme for all of it. I’ll drop you some g-a’s to help get you to UBO.
Must….not….waste..doughnuts….to…..get…..Diet…..and………..UBO…Ugh……
Hello! I get pumpkin house in phase 2, now i must to obtain another to get a rigellian hut?? (soory if the names exactly dont mach, my game is in spanish)
You’ll have to get the queen to get the hut.
Ok Alissa, I already have the queen, so based on your answer, I only must to wait for the asociated mission to start. Thanks so much. By the way and for all, here in Cádiz, Spain, children dress up and throw firecrackers in the street.. happy halloween!!
I was so pumped to see the Super Collider and the black hole! I hadn’t joined the madness of TSTO yet so yay!!
I have the queen now and she’s fabulous. The huts are awesome as well. Such a nice set of surprises this morning since I forgot about phase 3 lol
You can craft and place multiple hover copters. Got three of them now. 🙂
I saved a bunch of treatbags (more or less 200) and started opening them, halfway through I take a break and see that I got 10 ammo. When I continued opening my bags I got more ammo but now I see that they didn’t get added to the total 🙁 I’ve had a lot of trouble getting ammo so I am really bummed out that when I finally get a lot of it, it doesn’t add to the total. Oh well.
Contact EA. Maybe they’ll give them to you.
Raaaaaaaaaa if they don’t give us more land I will not buy any more premium content!!!!! Driving me crazy!!!
If they do it will be so exorbitantly overpriced it will take a while to get anyway.
What if we don’t send Lisa on the 24 hour task? I don’t want to lose the precious trick or treat time. What’s the point of her 25 hour task? Is it ok to skip it? I’m already getting 5 protein strands per tap, so what changes?
Keeps the questline going…at the end of the questline you’ll get free donuts.
So which quests for Bart, Lisa, Millhouse and other trick or treaters should we do (besides the trick or treating)? I would like to maximize my free play before I go to donuts, and get any free bonuses available. Thanks for writing this blog!! You have really upped my family’s enjoyment of TSTO–my husband and kids all play and we have family rivalries. Happy tapping!!
It all really depends on what you want. Short tasks will always earn the most if sent over n over. Just select what works best for YOU on YOUR time schedules. You can complete any unfinished tasks left open. Etc.
Well pleased to get the super collider, especially for only 70 sprinklies as been eyeing this up in neighbouring towns for ages! Happy days!
I’m loving phase 3!
I saved up my treat bags and had over 400 to open this morning.
Got tons of eggs and ammo so, I’m going to town in my friends’, well, towns. 🙂
I got the queen and bought 4 huts – there seems to be a glitch when crafting it; I could buy it without having enough fences (which I was super low in), so I got as many as I could before it gets fixed. Built a nice little village.
Already at over 1800 strings too!
It would be nice if there was a marketplace where we could exchange craft resources for others, like with a 2-1 ratio or something; I have like 1900 gummies and won’t use most.
Is it just me, or the supercollider is a steal for 70 donuts?
A steal!
Thank you so much for all the info that you guys provide. I’m addicted to this site as much as I am to the game.
WHERE IS THE TWIRL AND HURL!?!? 🙁
Also I have tons of everything but broken fences. Don’t know if I’ll get enough for the hut. Game needs a candy exchange. I got 1300 gummy bears.
There’s some kind of math mistake in the update, and if you get Kang free you can craft the hut even though you don’t have enough fences. (don’t look at the totals, look at the green craft now–if you have enough chocolates and whatever the other thing is you can still make it).
I agree 1000000%!!!! I really want the Twirl and Hurl, too. Every time there’s new items in the store, I pop over to KL, hoping they’ve added it. Alas.
And a candy exchange would’ve bee awesome. I, overrun with gummy bears, too,
Same here :/ was hoping to to see The Twirl this morning.
I concur. It’s the only thing left for my Krustyland (besides the Elves ride that I really don’t want) to complete everything. I’ll be glad to drop donuts for it EA *hint, hint* EA if you’re trolling these posts….. just saying. I know you moderators here at TSTO are good at not reporting things until they are official but does the coding even hint at a possibility at the Twirl and Hurl for us that want it so badly? Thanks for indulging us addicts 🙂
I just opened the bags hoarded over the last couple of days and am a few fences away from getting The Queen. I also found that I alreadu had enough to craft my first Spooky House. Since broken fences seem to be as rare as pumpkins for me, which prize of the two would be best to craft first? 😦
Spooky House awards a bronze treat bag ever 24 hrs…which contain more fences. Personally I’d do the Spooky House first. 🙂
Thank you!
Off to bulid a house… that looks like it’s falling apart.
…😶
Ehhhh?!
I was ready & waiting at 8am for the changeover (it’s still a novelty being back on GMT). Today I’ve crafted the Grand Pumpkin, a pumpkin house and the Rigellian queen, I need 143 gates and then I’ll be ready to craft the Rigellian hut. I’d held off on the pumpkins until I knew the Rigellian items were in reach but looking good now 🙂