Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Back with another edition of Addicts Question Corner, this time addressing your Act 3 concerns.
This post is based around the most common questions we’re seeing asked in the comments. And it’s designed to help you understand the event a little bit better..or at the very least make you feel like you’re not going crazy with an issue you’re having. So…if you’re stuck somewhere, seeing something strange or just not sure what’s going on read this post first. If you don’t see the help then ask your question. I’m going to try and address every major question we’re seeing in this one post. So hopefully this will help those that are still stuck/confused out.
Let’s get to it…
First let me start by saying…we’ve got two other Question Corner posts written for Act One and another one for Act Two. So if you don’t see your problem addressed here, check those posts out first…there’s a good chance it was covered there. They can be found here, here and here.
Now let’s start with the number one question we’ve been seeing in the comments for the last day….
Nightmares Aren’t Spawning In my Town…My Game Is Broken! AHHHHHH!
First…STOP FREAKING OUT. Please. It’s a game and seriously not worth you freaking out over this. Second, your game is NOT broken. Once Act 3 starts Nightmares will no longer spawn on their own in your town. What this means is…no matter what level you’re on at the Campfire nightmares will not just spawn in your town.
Your first task in act 3 is The Sandwich Horror, where you have to send 5 adults to the Simpson House (these 5 adults can only be Homer, Marge, Grampa, Kirk and Luann…so if you’re missing any of those you’ll have to send them twice). Once you complete The Sandwich Horror you’ll completely lose the ability to send kids to the campfire for Roasting S’mores and/or Telling Spooky Stories.
BEFORE completing The Sandwich Horror you will be able to send kids to the campfire, as you have been doing for the whole event. If you clear the kids task BEFORE clearing the adult task to complete The Sandwich Horror, you will spawn nightmares from the campfire.
Now some of you are confused on what this means. It does not mean nightmares will randomly spawn from the campfire. It means when (and only when) you clear the task for the kids at the campfire (i.e. tap the thumbs up) you’ll see the nightmares appear, the ones you earn for completing the task. But remember…once you complete The Sandwich Horror, by sending those 5 adults all tasks at the campfire to spawn nightmares will stop.
So If They’ll Still Spawn As Long as I Don’t Complete The Sandwich Horror, Should I just Ignore the Questline All Together?
No. Do not ignore the questline. First, if you ignore the questline you’ll lose out on LOADS of chances to earn Candy Apples. Second, by running through the questline you’ll unlock another way to spawn nightmares from kids tasks. So don’t skip it. Continue to play the questline as you normally would.
Well If I Can’t Earn Nightmares How Am I Supposed to Earn Candy Apples?
By completing the questline and playing Act 3 as you should. There are loads of ways to earn Candy Apples in Act 3….and different ways than before. (which is great because a lot of you were complaining about how boring the update was…at least there’s something different to do now) Here are the ways you can earn more Candy Apples in Act 3:
You’ll earn Candy Apples once again by tapping on the nightmares in Springfield. So Zombies, Snakes, Bunnies and Skeletons, will all yield them. 1 per squish. You will be able to Spawn MORE once you go through the questline via the Have Kids Hunt Nightmares Task. So just be patient they’ll come back.
You can also earn them once again via the Daily Play Combo…where you earn bonus Candy Apples each day just for logging into your game.
You’ll earn Candy Apples each time you complete a part of the main questline (this time it’s The Blameless City).
Candy Apples can be earned by defeating the M’nthster, there are various ways to do this…you can defeat him in the sky, at the campfire and at the sunken temple.
You should have no problem earning all the prizes before Act 3 ends…..
My Town (and Even Neighbor’s towns) Keeps Saying It’s Full of Nightmares, But It’s Not. What’s Going On? WHERE ARE MY NIGHTMARES?!
Relax. It’s a bug. It’s been happening since the event started, you just didn’t notice because your town almost always had nightmares in it. The alert means nothing. It’s annoying as anything, but just ignore it as best you can. You can try contacting EA but at this point they won’t do anything about it. It’s not impacting the game itself, it’s just annoying.
Can I Still Upgrade the Campfire to Earn the Hedges and other Prizes?
Yes. Even though the campfire won’t work for spawning, you’ll still be able to upgrade via the Hunt Nightmares task at the Brown House. So by tapping those nightmares that spawn there they’ll count towards upgrades. It’ll be harder, but you can still upgrade.
How Do I Hunt Nightmares? When Does it Appear?
Hunting Nightmares is a task that’ll appear for your kids to do at the Brown House via the Something Strange in the Neighborhood quetline (Bart starts this one. You can see when it pops up here). It’s an 8hr task for the kids (Same ones from the Campfire) to do and it’ll spawn nightmares for you. Each kid will spawn a DIFFERENT nightmare. So the days of selecting all the kids to spawn 1 nightmare are over. Here’s who spawns what and how many:
Skeletons: Bart, Database, Gino, Sherri and Terri & Laura. 2 for freemium 4 for premium 8 for Sherri and Terri
Bunnies: Milhouse, Ralph, Rod, Todd, Shawna, Jessica and Uter. 2 for Freemium 4 for Premium
Zombies: Martin, Michael, Kearney, Greta, Jimbo and Squeaky Voiced Teen. 2 for Fremium 4 for Premium
Snakes: Lisa, Hugo, Nelson, Dolph and Janey. 2 for Freemium 4 for premium
Attacking the M’nthster
So once you’ve completed the main questline, one of the primary ways to earn Candy Apples is by continuing the attack the M’nthster. After you complete the main questline he’ll hang out at the Sunken Temple. You’ll have to wait 12hrs and it’ll spawn there again. After that it’ll jump back to the Campfire…and it’ll continue to jump around. Here’s a breakdown at each part:
At the Sunken Temple- Simply Tap the M’nthster 10 times. If it’s going to reappear at the Sunken Temple it’ll reappear 12hrs later.
At the Campfire- You’ll have to send the kids to Fight. You can ONLY send Bart, Milhouse, Lisa & Martin. No other kids can attack. It’s a 4hr task and if you don’t have premium characters you’ll have to do it more than once. (by premium I mean Saxophone Lisa, Radioactive Milhouse & Wizard Martin) You need to get his “meter” down from 10 to attack. If a kid is in costume (this includes Clockwork Bart) it’ll go down 3 with each attack. If the kid is NOT in a costume it’ll go down 1 or 2. So for Clockwork Bart, Saxophone Lisa, Radioactive Milhouse and Wizard Martin….fighting the M’nthster lowers his health meter by 3 for each. For Bart, Lisa, Milhouse and Martin it’s either 1 or 2 each (we’re getting conflicting answers/results). So if you have no costumes you’ll have to send characters twice…
You have 16hrs to fully defeat the M’nthster at the Campfire or his “health meter” will reset back to full.
Again the M’nthster will jump around from the Sunken Temple to the Campfire and back. Sometimes it’ll appear in the same place twice. So just follow it around and do whichever method you need to do. Completing it will earn you more Candy Apples.
Advantage Glitch Alert!
There’s a glitch being reported by players in the comments with the M’nthster. Unfortunately I cannot get this to work in my town…because the dialogue autostarts. So I don’t know if it’ll work for you, but I figured enough players are reporting it that I should share…
Here’s the details from Paul…
“I found a bug I think. As soon as the M’nthster jumps on the Sunken Temple, do not hit any other characters or storylines, begin tapping the M’nthster on the temple. Since the task of tapping 10 hasn’t been read yet, it allowed me to tap repeatedly for about 10 mins until I completed the Act III five stages. Weird.”
This has also been reported by: Nate, Stuart and JMBLYA.
Again I cannot confirm this. I tried it in my game but it doesn’t work because the dialogue auto starts. So don’t be upset if it doesn’t work for you…it’s possible it might not. Just thought I’d pass it along…
When Does Act 3 End?
The event itself ends on November 17th. (but as we all know you’ll probably get an extra day or so because it’ll require an app store update to remove)
Will You be Doing A ________ Post?
As always, lots of posts are still coming. Just trying to focus on addressing the issues/questions we’re seeing in the comments most often first. Then we’ll jump on more specific posts (like Should I Buys etc). Lots more coming…I promise.
If you’re still confused on any of the Act 3 details I suggest you check out the Act 3 rundown post. It’s got loads of if about the Act 3 basics.
And, I believe, that my friends covers most of the common questions we’re seeing in the comments.
Anything you’re still confused on? Anything you didn’t see ask that you would have asked? This clear things up for you? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
It seems like no matter what kids I send to the brown house, they will spawn zombies only. Anyone else having this problem?
Try to separate them. 4 different houses, different nightmare at each
No, however they spawn everything but skeletons! And i need skeletons to finish the shopkeepers quest…! :-/
If you haven’t solved this problem, try asking in a add friends forum. Be specific and say if your spawning skeletons add me my name is … Im sure you will get a few people willing to help.
I’m not sure about spawning nightmares after the event ends in 36 hours, but the shopkeepers challenge seems to go for another 10 days past the event. Hopefully this means that people will be given the resources they need to finish the challenges.
OH my gosh!! All emails from TSTO site since about 10-15-15 have stopped coming to my email! What happened??
I finally found you again, but I have to go through WordPress.com to see any posts.
Anyway I’m way behind and don’t know why my monster just sits at the fire. I keep sending the kids to fight him but he just sits back on the fire.
The lag time is so, so bad!! It takes about 3 hours to get to my neighbors. I play on an iPod touch and ever since Halloween game it’s so slow.
Well hopefully you can help and I can find this again to see your reply.
I think that I’m current with all tasks from reading comments. Just read to send only skeleton kids to house – so I’ll start to do that.
Sorry so long. Gailyn aka gpikky
Not sure on email. Contact WordPress on that one. As far as the M’nthster… make sure you COMPLETELY defeat him within 16hrs, all tentacles gone. Otherwise it resets and you have to start over fighting him again.
Lag… use the tips we offer for lagging and crashing in high activity events.
How many times fo i have to defeat this monster? Is he supposed to be back until the game updates or what???
I am pretty tired of defeating him waiting 11hrs and then hitting him at the castle then the camp then the castle agan i have defeated him like 20 times already and i cant seem to finish act 3 it is annoying!
He’ll be there until the event is over
Hurrah! Thanks to a neighbour who hasn’t moved on to Act 3 and still spawns skeletons in their town, I just finished the Shopkeeper’s Day 1 challenge! Yaay!
Now I just hope the remaining 3 days are do-able!
And although I’m a bit late to the party on this one, I’m saving all the brains I get for wailing walls. I have several now and should be able to get a few more before the end of the event.
And my game just upgraded to Level 59 and the XP bar is almost full already.
All is right, (well, mostly right), in my little virtual world 🙂
Without this site I wouldn’t have known about the limit of 20 nightmares at a time or the cash and xp % bonus of the wailing walls, so thank you.
Had only three tentacles left, so I just sent Clockwork Bart alone to fight monster, but he only cleared 2 tentacles this time. Just fyi.
The first time I fought M’nthster with Clockwork Bart, Wizard Martin, Lisa, and Milhouse, it took him down in one round. The second time, same group, only did 9 damage. Today, same group, only 8 damage. I’m a little worried about what I’ll find tomorrow.
The same group varies each time for me too. Sometimes they defeat M’nthster in one round, sometimes there is 2 or 3 left on the damage meter after one round.
It makes no sense.
I am having the same issue and I have 3 costumed characters most of the time I can beat him in one round but today it took 2. It is kind of frustrating because I only bought wizard Martin and Saxophone Lisa so I could beat him in one round and I am still not able to. Does anybody know why is this just how the game is or is it a glitch? I am ahead of the game on Apple collection so I am not too worried it is just a little Frustrating. Thanks!
Damage 3 – 4 for premium, 1 – 2 (or 3) freemium. Minimum of 6 + 2 in your case means it’s possible for one round to not be enough to deal 10 damage. I guess they expect you to get all 3 premium costumes, which gets you 9, plus 1 equals 10 minimum. But at least you don’t ever need to fight 3 rounds (4 minimum with freemium).
So I guess clockwork Bart counts as a freemium character then not a premium and only earns 1-2. It doesn’t really matter at this point because I earned the final prize this morning it was just so confusing. Thank you for the clarification.
You’re welcome. And yes, that skin was only freemium.
I apologize if this is a repeat post, I tried to post earlier and usually after I post it show up as awaiting moderation, but it didn’t this time.
I am having the same thing happen in my game and I have 3 costumed characters. If I did the math right based on my original post the costume characters should have done 9 tentacles and then Milhouse (my non costumed one) even if he only took care of 1 tentacle should have been finished in 4 hours after 1 attack (10 tentacles all together). I am guessing that it randomly changes for all characters including costumed ones and that it why.
It is a little Frustrating because I bought Saxophone Lisa and Wizard Martin just so I could be sure to beat The Monster in 4 hours. Does anyone know if it is just how this works or if it’s a glitch? Thanks!
WordPress made a change and now you won’t see the awaiting moderation thing unless you post using a WordPress account.
Thanks!
Okay so when you tap the star spawn you get skeleton. How come those don’t go towards your daily tasks and upgrading the campfire
Because you’re just earning the rib cages, not actually tapping skeletons.
Maybe I’m being dim but why are wailing walls so special? Why are some people trying to collect as many as they can? I’m a bit confuzzled.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/10/27/thoh-2015-101-crafting-act-2/
Be interesting to see how much apples I get from defeating M’sther today
I cleared him from the tower this morning and got 50 apples I’ve now sent the kids to fight him I have 2 out of 3 outfits so that should be enough to defeat him just got to remember to tap on Bart and Milhouse first to get their apples
Hopefully the 200 bonus for defeating him is true if it is I’ll easily get the last prize
How it works for me are that there are 3 stages.
He first appears over his tower. You tap 10 times on him, scoring 5 apples per tap.
He then flies to the camp fire where the kids must fight him.
When the kids are successful, he flies back to the tower, clinging to the top of it. You tap him 10 times again, earning 10 apples per tap. Then the tower sinks.
The process repeats when the tower rises from the water again.
So I get 150 apples per defeat plus the few that the kids earn, (which depends on which kids I use and how many times. It’s usually around 24 or 28).
Ahhhh thank you. I’d missed that post. I knew the wailing walls gave cash but didn’t know they also gave the bonus %.
I’ve got a couple in inventory. I’d better get them into my town and go shopping for some more 🙂
The key phrase that you’re looking for in the post that Alissa linked is “Earns a 2.25% bonus on ALL cash and XP”. Those bonuses are typically difficult to obtain in TSTO… I’ve only been playing for a little over a year, and before this event, I had only a small collection of items that gave me bonuses — which includes four Jet Engine Bikes, of course — for a total bonus of somewhere between 25% and 40%. (I can’t really be sure, at this point.) Now, I have a huge collection of Wailing Walls and Spooky Walls, for a total bonus of just over 155%. I probably won’t be bothering to buy any more Jet Engine Bikes, at this point. 😉
Quick update on my game. I posted above saying I am also having the problem with some nightmares not being spawned.
I’ve taken on board the info that there is a limit of 20 nightmares at a time and to divide the kids up between 4 brown houses, 1 per type of nightmare, and collect the nightmare types one at a time.
I’ve been doing some testing. Now clearly I can only do a test every 4 hours, since that’s how long the task takes, but these are my results so far…
I’m definitely not getting all the nightmares that I should be. The last time I did it, I got the correct number of snakes, bunnies and skeletons but only got 6 of the 10 zombies I was due. I collected zombies last of the 4 that time. I *think* the nightmare type I was short of the previous time was also the one I collected last, but I’m not certain.
I’ve contacted EA about this issue but so far they have fobbed me off with restart your ‘phone, reload the game, reinstall the game etc. etc. and closed the case. I’d already tried their advice, but I went through it again anyway. It didn’t help so I re-opened the case.
They’ve now asked me for a whole raft of information, (some of which, like my username and device platform, I’d already given them). They want to know my device type, OS, firmware level, how many apps are installed, how much free space I have, and on and on. I think they’re hoping I get fed up and go away.
There are so many people on here having this problem though that there must be others reporting it. They MUST know they have a problem.
I’ve sent them the info they asked for, so I’ll wait and see what they say.
I don’t buy many doughnuts. I tend to buy 2-3 golden scratch cards per month. However, this month I bought doughnuts, (spending as much as I normally would in 5-6 months), so I could buy Luann, for this event and some of the costumes. Because of that I’m feeling more aggrieved than I usually would that I am having so many problems.
The concept behind these events is usually great, it’s just so frustrating when they don’t run as they should, and particularly when EA seem so dismissive about it. I feel now that spending money on a game that may or may not work right, and that the company may or may not bother about, was a waste.
OK, I just collected another round of nightmare hunt tasks.
Last time all the nightmares spawned were correct except zombies, which I collected last out of the four. I only got 6 of an expected 10. I had 3 kids hunting, one of which should have spawned 2 and two which should have spawned 4.
This time I collected bunnies last. All the nightmares spawned were correct with the exception of bunnies. I was 2 short. Each of the kids I have collecting bunnies should spawn 2.
I don’t have enough data to be sure yet but it’s possible the nightmare type I collect last comes up short and the others are correct. So far the number by which the count is short could be attributed to one kid.
I’ve waited a bit, restarted the game and searched the town carefully. I was definitely short on the number of nightmares both times, (and on previous occasions too).
Weird.
I’ll let EA know this tomorrow, after they (probably) close my case again.
And again this morning.
I collected zombies last. Again all nightmares correct except zombies which were 4 short.
Ho hum, off to EA I go. Again.
I haven’t produced a single skeleton in two rounds of hunting monsters, but I’ve been sending all the kids to the same house. I’ll try your method and see if that changes my fortunes. Thanks for the tip!
I don’t get skeletons, sometimes i get snakes, sometimes i get bunnies. I always get zombies.
I also cannot spawn skeletons at all so cannot complete the daily task so will be limited by the number of tasks completable this week
Why are the nightmare totals so high (30) when spawning takes so long, while the starspawn (who are everywhere) only require 10 squishes?
With Bart & Database being the only ones who can spawn skeletons, and Bart being required to fight M’nthster half the time, I can’t expect to get my skeletons until sometime around Friday. This seems terribly imbalanced/poorly thought out.
Even with bart, no skeletons are spawning for me when hunting nightmares, only snakes, zombies and bunnies. This first challenge is now impossible for me because I decided to continue the questline????? How dumb…
It’s not impossible because you continued the questline. If you didn’t continue the questline the prizes would for sure be impossible. 30 skeletons is completely doable. I know they’re not spawning, but EA’s working on a fix. And this has been happening off and on the entire event…most people just didn’t notice because there were others…just be patient and don’t stress out over it.
I find that all my nightmares appear at one particular brown house no matter which one they were spawned at. By the time I scroll over there, some seem to disappear.
Ekeing out the skeletons soooo slowly. May need to buy the twins…
I figured that out too. I cleared up space around that particular brown house so that the nightmares are visible. And nightmares always try to reach the nearest road. As soon as i click on the thumbs-up on a brown house I immediately rush to that area and catch the nightmares before they reach the road. Hope this helps you.
I do have to mention that like the previous comment I always have atleast 2 nightmares short of one variety..
Try sending the kids that spawn the skeletons to a different brown house to other kids then collect the nightmare hunting tasks at that house first then wait until you’ve found and squished all the skeletons before collecting at another brown house.
The skeletons should be spawned around one of your brown houses but not necessarily the one where you did the hunting, so look round carefully.
I’m still testing but it looks like for me, the nightmare type that I’m short of is the one I collect last. (I use 4 brown houses – 1 per nightmare type – and I collect each separately. I have to have the brown houses far enough apart that the IRS group collection thing doesn’t collect them all together).
It may not work for you but it’s worth a try.
worst.event.ever. No good prizes and tedious tasks. Feel like I am taping like crazy for no good reason.
I’m not getting any skeletons when I send kids to hunt at the brown house. I confirmed this by sending just Bart and rushing the task. I got two ZOMBIES instead. Now I’m going to miss out on the 20 donuts this week 🙁
Anyone else have this? How do I fix it?
You can either wait until tomorrow and see if they spawn, or contact EA. If they don’t spawn tomorrow for sure contact EA
Is there a connection between the number of stars aligned over the sunken temple and the number of candy apples you receive per click when fighting the revived Mnsther? I just got 5 per click after no stars were aligned, but I remember getting 10 per click on a previous battle. Am I mistaken and that was after the campfire task?
Also, what makes the stars align? Is it the number of star spawn clicked? This last temple cooldown was overnight so I was sleeping and not clicking.
The first one back after 12hrs generally yields 5 each time. The second time, after the campfire, generally yields 10 each time. I’ve noticed when it yields 10 the M’nthster is higher up on the temple
Thanks! I guess I’ll see if tapping starspawn seems to get him higher up the temple next time.
Has anyone else had issues with the timer on the sunken temple? Mine has a serious glitch where each hour it counts down is really closer to an hour and a half. My 12 hours should’ve been over at 11:30 last night but there was over two hours left on the counter ?????
What?
Everyone is having it. You can contact EA if you’d like to complain…
Just wish the little M’nthster monsters would produce skulls as I’m stuck on that for the campfire upgrade. At least thanks to you I found out I can get enough from the brown house from Bart and database to do the shop keepers challenge. Will I miss out on any quests if I can’t upgrade my campfire past 24? Thanks for all your help 🙂
Shopkeeper’s challenge today: Squish skeletons. I sent kids to hunt nightmares. Snakes, zombies and bunnies emerged after the task, but NO SKELETONS. What? I should have 10 per 4 hours. Nothing. Anyone else having this problem.
It’s going around and happens occasionally. Try hard closing and restarting your game..if that doesn’t work you can either wait until tomorrow (usually they’ll spawn the next day) or contact EA
I expect 38 nightmares from my kids Hunting Nightmares, but it always spawns 20. Usually mostly zombies. It’s hard(er than I’d like) to make progress.
Because…as we’ve said many many many times on this site, in several posts…20 is the max in a town at once time.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/11/05/thoh-quick-tip-making-the-most-of-the-hunting-nightmares-task/
I have Sherri and Terri in there in their third nightmare hunt. I’ve only had TWO skeletons per 4 hours completed. So FOUR is all I have right now instead of 16. What’s going on ??
Contact EA
I need to produce more skeletons. When I visit other spring fields or squish nightmares the scores on the tasks never change. The children’s nightmares produce 10-12 skeletons every 4 hours. There doesn’t seem to be a way to produce these fast enough to complete the last 3 stages. Can anyone help?
Can anyone help? When I send Bart and Database to the Brown house to spawn skeletons, all I get are rabbits. I need skeletons for the shopkeeper challenge and to upgrade my campfire!
It’s going around and happens occasionally. Try hard closing and restarting your game..if that doesn’t work you can either wait until tomorrow (usually they’ll spawn the next day) or contact EA
Hi,
I just wanted to see if anyone else had this problem. I’ll send the kids off to hunt nightmares but I get no monsters spawning at the end of the task.
It’a been happening since the start of Act 3 and it’seems driving me a bit loopy.
They appear outside of the original brown house in your town. SO check your other brown houses
Just wondering.. the first shopkeeper’s challenge in act 3 is to squish 30 skeletons. I noticed that only Bart and another kid are able to do that, so every 4 hrs. I’ll be able to squish 4 skeletons. Does this mean that I’m going to have to go through 16 rounds to clear the 1st challenge? I don’t purchase donuts and Bart has to fight C’thulu every whatever hrs.. Am I missing something in order to spawn more skeletons?
No you’ve got it. Remember you don’t have to complete the task TODAY. You have all week to do it…
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/11/09/shopkeepers-challenges-week-5/
The portal/gateway thingy should produce 6 every 24 hours so that alone can give you the 30 you need without ever using a single child. Any you get from kids will just be bonus. That is where I’ve been getting most of mine
Yesterday it was working. Today I didn’t get any skeletons or bunnies from the brown house and all the kids went twice today so far. I did get zombies and snakes. I’ve looked around a few times and haven’t seen them.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/11/09/addicts-question-corner-more-act-3-clarifications/
Not sure if y’all are still checking comments in this thread, but any ideas why some neighbors have Star Spawn and some have individual nightmares (Zombies/snakes/bunnies/ skeletons)? And what to do about upcoming Shopkeeper Challenges requiring the tapping of 30 of whichever nightmare? (I only have Bart + Database among the Skelly earners and at 4hrs a task, netting me 4 total, I’ll never earn 30 in one day)
For the challenge, you’ll be fine. You have all week to finish it.
As far as starspawns vs nightmares…if they triggered the m’nthster at the sunken temple they’ll be showing star spawns, if not nightmares.
I have visited my 64 friends three times today and the all have been showing star spawns so I guess I’m REALLY unlucky to have so many friends and none of them fighting M’nsther 😞
You definitely need some premium children to complete this act.
If your neighbours are spawning Star Spawn then they’ve all started fighting M’nthster, I think.
Once you activate that part of the game, your town stops spawning nightmares and starts spawning Star Spawn.
As far as I know, the town then carries on spawning Star Spawn. It doesn’t switch back to nightmares when your neighbour has kids fighting M’nthster. At least, I don’t think so.
I could be wrong though.
Thank you SO much for all this info. I just happened to find this page doing a Google search on how to defeat m’nthster lol I kept tapping him and the “meter” never went down, didn’t realized it reset after so long *DOH!*…also was worried about why I could spawn anything at the campfire anymore as I still need Hugo etc but these articles cleared up EVERYTHING! Thank you again to whoever is in charge of this entire thing…greatly appreciated and I’m no longer confused (slow maybe but not confused lol)
🙂
For the last two days, I have been unable to upgrade the campfire. It is asking for more skeletons and I am getting a ton but only about two per day actually add to the counter for the campfire upgrade. I see another poster has the same issue.
Are you tapping on only Skeletons? Or are you trying to use the ribcage Craft item too to count?
Rib cage, too. But not all skeletons are counting.
Well, the bug/glitch didn’t work for me because dialogue came up too fast. I also noticed this morning, while tapping the sunken temple, it was now only giving 5 apples per tap instead of the usual 10. WTG EA for bringing down the number of apples per tap from 10 to 5 and making act 3 not only more tedious than ever, but harder to get through the numbers to earn the prizes. I made it through acts 1 & 2 without any problems and days to spare because there were more opportunities to earn the items needed. With act 3, it’s pretty much limited as I don’t have all the premium kids so I don’t get as many apples…so it’s wait every 4 hours for them to hunt nightmares (at a reduced rate), battle m’nthster x 2 because I am freemium and didn’t spend donuts for costumes (even though they have costumes from prior years), so that’s 8 hours and then tap sunken temple (at a now reduced rate of apples) then wait 12 hours to do it again. In between I can tap the pet cemetery and mausoleums to get 26 more and once a day hit the portal for 24 more, but that’s it. Nothing to do but wait and wait as the number of apples slowly tick and still have 5k to get the final prize. Doesn’t look too promising. EA should’ve made more things available to get apples for.
The ONLY thing that is a benefit still is the craftable objects that will reward bonus $ & xp to my Springfield once this dull 3rd act is over.
FYI… +5 Apples is CORRECT. The first battle with him in the Tower is +5, then to Campfire, then back to Tower on the 2nd time is +10 Candy Apples. Nothing changed. 😉
Patience. You can do it. Many are struggling at first to get used to it but hitting those daily numbers just fine once they do. 🙂
Sorry Bunny
I’m a lvl 58 player and get 34 apples every 4 hours that I’m awake so from 8 am to 10 pm that’s 4 X 34 per day or 136 apples this is less when the kids are fighting the monster this morning I got 50 apples for defeating it at the temple so today’s total is 186 far far from the 773 I need to complete its been like this for the past few days I’m currently at 1634/2880 from the UFP I noted all 60 of my friends totals tonight and I’m in the top 10 of them for apples most being between 3400-3800 apples. The only ones beating my score have quite a few premium characters. Clearly EA are hoping for us to panic buy premium characters
I don’t know how to get any kids to hunt nightmares other than Lisa, Bart ,Millhouse, and Martin, only the one time did it allow me send all the kids to the brown house to hunt the nightmares and Mr. Burns and that expensive donut spawning nite mare has not been spawning nite mares every single time only has done it during the initial tasks not any more. Not fair cost so much donuts and still haven’t gotten an answer what that small concrete looking four post Halloween type not building but accessory is and it’s not available no one has ever answered my questions I shouldn’t be banned.
I am not sure as to why every time you post lately you are immediately assuming we “BAN” you… but yet your comments are on our site. Maybe you should start following the comments you post if you think they are not posting, then you can see not only are they on the site, but being answered as well. What kind of people do you think we are? To just Ban people for no reason? Seems pretty silly to me if I do say so. 😉
As far as the Nightmares, my response would be the same expressed at least 100 times now in this very post you are commenting on as well as the many many many links within the comments of this post answering the same questions you are asking.
Make sure your kids are first available for the task. Make sure that the questline is in the appropriate location to be able to send the kids to get nightmares. Make sure the M’nthster is not in the game as at times he prevents certain tasks from happening. Outside of all those same basics… I do not know what more to answer you than the same info all over the site.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/11/05/thoh-quick-tip-making-the-most-of-the-hunting-nightmares-task/
FYI… Your comments on our site show 28 to date…. every single one posted. This would make 29. Here are just a few.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/10/30/wookieecorp-brings-you-a-maze-ing-design/comment-page-1/#comment-374960
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/10/29/tapped-out-premium-walkthroughs-mr-burns-and-the-sepulcher-of-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-374552
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/09/18/turbo-tappin-level-58-frankie-the-squealer/comment-page-1/#comment-350377
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/07/23/springfield-heights-101-maximizing-real-estate-points/comment-page-2/#comment-343378
http://tstoaddicts.com/questions-and-answers/comment-page-56/#comment-342609
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/08/16/updates-to-monorail-event-819/comment-page-1/#comment-334940
Tap the brown house it’s the only way to see the quest line. I had the same problem.
10-30 formless terrors and hundreds of nightmares for my friends to tap daily so you can finish in time.
TERRIBLE ADVICE.
TERRIBLE ADVICE.
If there’s anyone left who hasn’t completed “The Sandwich Horror”…. don’t complete it!!! Not completing it is your ONLY way to get the full set of ‘candy apple’ prizes. Once you’ve completed it, you’re screwed. There are only three ways to earn candy apples after you complete it:
“Hunt Nightmares” (~20-40 candy apples every 4 hours)
“Fight Mnthster” (less than 100 candy apples every 4 hours)
daily bonus
You’ll get the prizes much faster if you don’t complete The Sandwich Horror. I made the mistake of completing it! Don’t complete it!
To be fair I completed the task and I’m doing really well, my candy apple count is at 4241 so I wouldn’t say there is no chance of getting the prizes by completing it 😊
I completed the tasks and have continued the storyline normally – I’m about 1500 candy apples ahead of schedule and set to get the last prize a few days early. Just like they say for every event – it seems like earning starts slow in the beginning, but it’ll add up faster as you go on.
My mnthster results
1. CW Bart, Lisa, Martin, Milhouse 8 damage
2. All 4. Remaining 2 damage
3. CW Bart, Lisa, Milhouse 4 damage
4. All 4. Remaining 6 damage
5. All 4 8 damage
6 CW Bart, Lisa, Milhouse. ??? 2 remaining
7. …..
Anyone else notice Miss Alissa’s absence today? Maybe she took the weekend off, but methinks there may be a new addition to the Addicts family that decided to make his/her appearance… 😉
Or she’s taking a break.
That was the first part of my guess, but I think I’m just rooting (for her sake) that mini-Alissa was joining us today. I know she’s been saying she’s ready!! Break or baby, either way, I’m sure Alissa’s glad. 🙂 And hi, Wookiee! 😀
Star spawns stopped spawning in my Springfield. This happening to anyone else?
Is M’nthster back to be defeated again? They won’t come back til you defeat him again. Timer even says so. 🙂
I am having the same trouble. This is my second go-around with M’nthster in the sunken temple and I am not getting enough star spawn to get past this! They just stop generating a few shy of the time limit and then it kicks me back to the campfire to start all over again.
On the star spawn? There’s no time limit on them…if it’s for the task where you have to tap 10 just keep tapping do it it’ll take you to where they’re located in your town
I am having problems fighting M’nthster I can only get a few attacks and i never fill the meter so to speak. How do I defeat him. I don’t have premium costumes
You don’t HAVE to have Premiums to battle him. The regular ones will do it, just will take you a lot longer and more time in your game to do it.
It seems I start straight away once he appears but Don’t always get to do again exactly 4hrs later as I’ve got things like sleep to have etc… But yet I onto get two or three filled sections in the defeat M’nthster tentacles. Does this mission ever complete or does it continue to spawn…
He has to get defeated at the Temple, the Campfire, then the Temple again. He then goes away for 12hrs.
How many of the Characters on the list that can attack do you have? I do not have premiums at all in one test game and took him out with the 2nd attack, so only 8hrs.
So it’s been ~36-48hrs since I got to part 4 in blameless, on task of tap star spawn 10 times, and i havent seen a single star spawn. I log in 5-10 times daily during events and make sure to tap every building, so it’s not like I’m not looking…is this a known issue?
Did you defeat the M’nthster? They won’t show up until you do.
Yup, 3 times now, I even rushed it once.
So all that’s in the water is the light beam and stars and none showing? If that’s the case… EA
I tap the skeletons but don’t get the bones reward so I can’t upgrade my campfire level and complete the shopkeeper reward
Go to friends towns and tap skeletons there.