Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Well here we are, in most Tappers favorite time of the year in Springfield….Halloween! (although I prefer Christmas 😉 ) The leaves on the tress have changed colors, the water is murky and there’s a darkness that falls over our TSTO screens. All of these effects fit in perfectly with this year’s theme….Nightmares.
This Event is broken up into 3 Acts, with each Act containing part of the story. To help you move along with the event you’ll get several prizes per Act. Each prize will either be something fun for Springfield or something to help you move along in the event. For the first Act you’re tasked with collecting S’mores (
) to unlock each prize!
The first Act 1 prize awarded at 180 is a supply of Crafting Resources to help you craft fun prizes during the event!
And the second Act 1 prize awarded at 540 (or +360, from Prize 1) is the Spooky Cabin, an all new “house” for your Springfield….
So let’s take a closer look at these first two prizes and just what happens when you unlock them in your Springfield…
Let’s start with Prize 1….
Once you’ve collected 180 you’ll automatically be awarded the crafting resources and you’ll see this message popup:
There won’t be anything to place in your Springfield and you won’t have to do anything additional to get these resources. Simply earn 180 and they’ll automatically go into your resource counter.
So how many of each resource do you get for this first prize? It’s broken out like this:
50 
50 
50 
50 
And that’s it for the details on the first prize! For more information about crafting (including what you can craft during Act 1, and how to) check out this post all about crafting during Act 1.
Now let’s move onto Prize #2…
Once you’ve collected 540 (or 360 more from prize one) you’ll automatically be awarded the Spooky cabin and you’ll see this message popup:
You’ll have the ability to place the statue in your Springfield immediately or place it in inventory for later (store). If you store it, remember you’ll have to go into your inventory to retrieve it..
If you decide to place it it does have a build time associated with it of 4 hours.
And that’s really it to the second prize. There’s no questline, no dialogue, nothing telling you to place it in your Springfield to earn more . Just win the prize and that’s it.
Here are some quick facts about the Spooky Cabin:
Size: 7×5
Build Time: 4hrs
Conform-O-Meter Impact: Tree-Hugging +10
Where Can I Place It?: Grass/Pavement
Earns: $200, 20xp/12hrs
What Does it Do?: Not a whole lot. It basically just sits there, like most buildings in Springfield 😉
What’s Next?
Pirate Kang the third prize, which will be awarded at 2,160 (or +1,620 from the Spooky Cabin). This will be the next prize we cover in a prize rundown post.
So that my friends is the full breakdown of the first two THOH Act 1 prizes!
What do you think of the extra crafting materials and Spooky Cabin? Thoughts on the event overall? What are you most looking forward to? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
Quick question: do you know if the files were changed to reduce the odds of getting formless terrors (faces) when tapping nightmares and formless terror speed demons? I’ve been keeping track (I seriously have a legal pad with PAGES of tallies since the event started, including blob drop percentages, number dropped TO neighbors, number dropped BY neighbors, approximation of those collected by neighbors, which neighbors I’m on approximately the same schedule with for which nightmares I’m spawning, and more… I have WAY too much time on my hands, apparently). I went from averaging receiving a blob face every 3.4 nightmares tapped in every 24 hours to every 11.04 nightmares tapped in 24 hours. Last night, for example, I collected 57 nightmares without a single blob terror face. Oy.
Just curious if EA changed the percent chance since it was so easy to collect them, or if it changes as you upgrade your campfire, or if I’m just having the most absolutely foul luck, because that is a DRASTIC change.
Guess that question wasn’t so quick. Sorry ’bout that. Thanks! 🙂
It is still just a vague random chance. You will most likely see it vary the entire Event. 😉
Thanks, Bunny! Hope my luck turns around soon!! 🙂
Wish I had too much time, I would be more persevering with neighbour visits…
good job you’re keeping an eye on statistics, 👀🎃 🙂
Is there a glitch where collecting nightmares doesn’t show on your bar for upgrading the campfire? Or is there a daily max that I don’t know about? Or what?
You have to make sure you’re collecting the right kind of nightmare to upgrade it. For example, my Level 3 required snakes, Level 4 requires bunnies… look at the icon to the left of the bar to make sure you’re collecting the right kind.
THANK YOU!!!! I just thought that my snake was messed up! Lol. I knew there was a trick I was missing. The Tapped Out world makes sense again!
I don’t know what I’d do with out you guys! <3
I think for future events, EA should go back to using cumulative numbers for upgrading. Instead of having 0/360 s’mores when you start the Spooky House, it should be 180/540. There’s too much unnecessary confusion, and it’s more satisfying to see the growth in the bar.
Does anyone else start at 0 smores again for the count for each prize? I have 4500 total and only 2350 toward the donut lady.
The count is showing you just that prize. It doesn’t show a cumulative like previous events but you haven’t lost anything. If you subtract the amount shown for the prize your currently working towards from your total, it equals the total amount you needed for the previous prizes.
I laughed so hard at Pirate Kang hobbling around on his 3 peg-legs! It took me way too long to realize that those dried leaves are supposed to be his beard.
It might just be me (I’m slightly colorblind) but I’m having a very hard time finding the snakes. I don’t remember this being so hard during WD.
Oh, geez – hadn’t thought of that…men with red/green color blindness (the most common type, by far) are really screwed when it comes to finding snakes because the ones that aren’t green are orange, so both would be VERY difficult to find (especially the ones slithering through the grass)!
You have my sympathies.
This may be a bit tedious, but go into the mode where you can fade out the roads, buildings, and decorations. (the four arrows, and then the binoculars thing). Leave the characters on. I hope this can help with contrasting them out. You have to go back to actually click them.
I’ve been doing this because they’re usually on the roads and end up slithering behind buildings. They’re pretty small. :/. This works the fastest for me, despite all the clicking back and forth.
I don’t know if this has been reported, but no matter who tells the spooky story, all my town spawns is snakes, also from buildings from past events (like the pet cemetery, which should spawn rabbit)
Does anyone have the same problem?
I know you’re not EA, but maybe you have some Intel on this.
Do you change the story THEN put kids on tasks? The Spawns will be what the item is the moment before they’re sent and won’t change. So make sure it’s set first… then male s’mores. As for rest… report
Wondering if Sandra or other Lost fans thought of ‘Jacob’s Cabin’ :p
Just would like a circle of salt/ash/sand around it :p
Lol – no, I hadn’t thought of that, but now I want that circle, too! 😱
Since there wasn’t anything really that great for my sprinkles I decided to get Sherri and Terri, they really help with this THOH event.
Me too ☆
When I visit my neighbors towns it looks like their kids are in their costumes but mine aren’t. Am I missing something??
The towns are “Alive” right now, so when you visit you will see things you may not have before. It is either the “alive” feature or they have the Nightmare pile that the kids costumes came from.
Is my s’more count meant to reset every time I win a prize from it? 😬
Yes. The count is showing you just that prize. It doesn’t show a cumulative like previous events but you haven’t lost anything. If you subtract the amount shown for the prize your currently working towards from your total, it equals the total amount you needed for the previous prizes.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/10/07/addicts-questions-corner-thoh-2015-act-1/
Thanks guys 😘😂😂
Omg I hope we are able to keep a skeleton to wander our Springfields after the event! Think they will be available like the sideshow bob clones?
Hopefully but only time will tell. EA doesn’t often make the items we tap during events part of the game but sometimes they do like Clash of Clones and Terwilleger. I’d like to have a skeleton too.
I can`t help but think about the dreaded “spin the wheel of chance” corpse I have in my town right now… That was a good one EA… lol
Ok, Alissa, finally opened my mailbox today. Corrected paragraph now in your mailbox. Rest of the article unchanged. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
Sounds good. Thanks!
So I’ve unlocked the pirate outfit for Kang, but I don’t have Kang so it seems useless at the moment… How do I get him?
Wait. See if they bring him back during the Event. Usually if there is a costume… they offer a way to get the Character sooner or later.
Thanks. I had been wondering the same thing!
In my B game I didn’t have Kang when I started the event. Once I won the pirate costume he was awarded to me. So you should have him in inventory if he didn’t show automatically. You might need to contact EA.
If you don’t have Kang, you will get him when you craft the spooky grove. My 5 year old started his own game and is only level 15. Once he crafted the Grove he got Kang.
I hope act II is better Most of the stuff I have already from past THOH
Hey, it’s not all about you! 🙂
maybe act 1 is a chance for everyone who began playing during the previous 11 months to catch up (to where you are) before they release fantastic new stuff in act 2 & 3 🎃 👽 🐍 👹 😈 😱 👾 👻 💀 🙂
Hey I had a question! So, I just finished a task with Homer, I think it was something along the lines of “Waiting Impatiently” and when he was finished, it did some speech with Marge and it glitched and it flashed through the speech before I could read it but I thought it said something about continue this later or here, does that sound familiar? Just wondering.
It leaves off with a hint that it will be continued in Act II.
Where are all the cool premium items from last year?
Did I miss my chance on some of the coolest stuff that I just didn’t have donuts for last year? 🙁
Still a LONG time left. See what all this time brings us. 🙂
I just won Donut girl and can’t find her anywhere. Any ideas where she might be? Does she walk around or is she just a statue? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
NPC… wanders streets. So if she is not in your Character section of Inventory… she’s on the streets wandering. 🙂
I have a dumb question, am I supposed to be tapping my own spawns, or is that for my neighboreenos?
Tap away to earn for crafting.
Im of the opinion that Maggie will appear during this event
I reakon a mini event after Halloween for maggie cuz why would marge get the extra task if there is no maggie
They added a few dozen tasks along with the Job Manager feature on the Unemployment Office. It could be Marge’s new task is related to that.
I’ve been playing the game since the first Thanksgiving event a few years ago now, and next to the infamous Easter event of a few years ago, this has to be the most disappointing event so far, which is really dispappointing because I’ve loved the Halloween events of years past. I get “it’s just a game”, but the Act 1 prizes are boring IMHO. The only thing I’m remotely interested in getting is Donut Girl. I wished EA would have read Wookie’s Wish List from a few days ago. Now those would have been some great prizes. I hope Act II and III have better prizes to offer. That being said, I do enjoy how this is much more low key and easier to get what you need without logging in 15 times a day. Props to EA for that.
I completely agree. I’ve been playing for 4 years, right after they stated I believe and this event is highly disappointing so far.
I think the Pirate Kang is really funny. I love his animations! 🙂
Yeah pirate kang is hilarious 😀
I’v gone trough the prizes of last haloween since i started at thanksgiving and i cant really agree that prizes were that much better back than.
A little disappointing, but nothing close to that horrible Easter event. Plus, its early still-maybe there’s more interesting things available in the next 2 acts.
I agree. So far, this Halloween is lamer than last Halloween… Which was pretty lame. I hate when they reuse old ideas act like they are new. Why rabbit nightmares? Because they already have a file for them from easter.
I kinda doubt they went with bunnies to avoid paying an artist to draw one new bunny. Bunnies have always been high on the least-scary-things-ever list, so they get used for comedic contrast all the time. See Monty Python, for instance.
Can’t wait to find out what the “Gate to Nowhere” does. I’m hoping the name is meant to throw us off the trail and it really does go somewhere! 😉
I thought I read it randomly spawns nightmares.
I hope they bring back trick or treating in act 2.
I usually love the Halloween event.. But this one is a let down.. And the prizes seem like an afterthought.. The only decent items seem to be the Donut girl in act one, and the de-Ned building in act 3. As for holiday homer.. Well.. I just don’t get it.. Ghost ships.. Mist monsters.. Vampires.. Werewolves with mange.. Now these would have been cool..
No spoilers, please, Trojan!
Do I have to craft the spooky house to continue the rigelian thanksgiving quest? I have 2 of them and really dont want another one, I tried storing them and hard closing the game then placing them again in town but still stuck in there and I cant continue the quest line. I know this may have been asked b4, but Ive been too busy to tap tap tap and read throught all the posts. I know its notandatory to do them but Im kind of perfectionist (OCD) and have to complete everithing. Also would like if we could craft Kodos and the haunted house, I really like the animation of it.
Yes
Thanks A!!!
So far, I’m liking this event. Not so frantic and I feel like I can get everything I want with diligent tapping. I’ve been playing mostly freemium for about a year and a half. I have 16 kids, only 3 premium. I got two from the weekly prize box (SVT and Kearney) and I just purchased Uter during the sale. I was wondering how many kids others have. The s’mores seem to be taking the longest to obtain, so maybe others are acquiring them faster since they have more kids. Happy tapping!
I’ve got nineteen, n-n-n-nineteen, n-n-n-nineteen, 🙂
if somebody wants more kids ……Terri & Sherri could be best value donut buy ? 🍩 💀 👻 😱 🎃 🐍 🐇 🎃 🙂
I agree with you in the smores. I think I have about seven kids, and it’s a crawl. I’m a little worried I won’t make it to the Gate to Nowhere in the next eight days without having to doughnut it… One of my neighbors is already past the 10,000 smores mark. That’s insane.
im glad game wouldnt let me sell jack .o.lanterns from last halloween…just thought they was clutter in storage but now happy to have them still
I’m glad we can craft more spooky trees. I only got a couple last year. My favorite thing about them last year was when EA put gloves and scarves on them during winter. That made me laugh. I’m hoping they do the same thing this year. Although a hat would be fun too.
And as always thank you for the posts, updates, tips, etc. You guys really do make the game easier to understand and more fun!
Cabin doesn’t do anything. Is it just me or is this event really, really, really slow paced? I love this game but this is the first event that is kind of boring me 😞 Hopefully it picks up a little. Happy tapping everyone! 🍁🎃👻🍂
So far yeah, and I was getting excited for this one, this and Christmas are supposed to be the big ones apparently
Ummmm forgot to add, in the what does it do, animated when tapped
Figured I should clarify, meant the tent not the materials 😀 lol
Errr cabin not tent :S d’oh
hmmm i tapped and saw nothing. I’ll have to check again
you REALLY have to zoom in, but the wood above the door moves back into place, and the door closes. (only really saw it because I tried using BluStacks, may not be visible on a smaller screen)
Scratch that, sorry Alissa, I’m thinking of the OTHER type cabin….ugh, too many similar items in this event 🙁 but yeah, the other mini cabin thing animates
lol ok
Mine doesn’t do anything when tapped, but like other buildings, will randomly show its animation occasionally. Door moves, I think, and a turntable sweeps out from under the wall.
ha, just noticed my reply on here said “turntable” instead of “tentacle”. Blast you, Autocorrect!