UPDATE: Looks like EA lowered the time for the Hunt Nightmares task. It’s now been reduced to 4hrs from 8hrs. So you should earn twice as many each day. This will be a big help for many of you worrying about just how you’ll earn the 9,000+ Candy Apples for Act 3.
Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Just popping in with a quick tip for earning more nightmares via the Hunting Nightmares Task. We’re seeing loads of you in the comments upset because you’ll send all your kids to Hunt Nightmares, and it’ll only yield 20 when the task is complete.
So why is that? Well it’s because the max in your town allowed at one time is 20. Now there’s been a bank of 40 throughout the entire event (that your nightmares will appear from when you clear the first 20), but it appears that..at least for now..the bank isn’t working with the Hunt Nightmares task.
So how to we optimize and get the most out of the task to yield the most Candy Apples? Let’s take a look….
Here’s the key to maximize the most out of this task….
Multiple Brown Houses
Since the task takes place at the Brown House, the best thing is to have multiple Brown Houses in your town. Then send various characters to perform the task at different Brown Houses. Count up how many nightmares the characters will yield and don’t have more than a yield of 20 from any of the houses.
Then clear each house one at a time, clear the nightmares that spawn & reassign the kids to the Hunt Nightmares task at that house.
Basically…if you have ALL of the kids (or almost all of the kids) you’ll need 4 Brown Houses to maximize the Nightmare spawns….here’s a look for each one:
Brown House #1- Yields 20 Skeleton Nightmares: Bart (2), Database (2), Gino (4), Sherri and Terri (8) & Laura (4).
Brown House #2- Yields 20 Bunny Nightmares: Milhouse (2), Ralph (2), Rod (2) , Todd (2) , Shawna (4), Jessica (4) and Uter (4).
Brown House #3- Yields 20 Zombie Nightmares: Martin (2), Michael (2), Kearney (4), Greta (4), Jimbo (4) and Squeaky Voiced Teen (4).
Brown House #4– Yields 10 Snake Nightmares: Lisa (2), Hugo (2), Nelson (2), Dolph (2) and Janey (2).
So when they’re ready clear the thumbs up over Brown House #1, then clear the skeletons that spawn from it, then reassign the kids to the task and move onto Brown House #2.
Repeat for each Brown House.
Important….Space your Brown Houses apart OR store your IRS building so you don’t accidentally clear them all at once. This will only work if you clear 1 brown house at a time.
This will help you complete maximize how many nightmares you’ll get from doing the task….
Hopefully this will help many of you clear up the issues of nightmares not appearing when you clear the Brown House and help you maximize your Candy Apple earnings for Act 3!
What are your thoughts on this strategy? Have you been doing this or sending them all to the same Brown House? Think this will help you earn more Candy Apples? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
When I tap on any of my brown houses, the game won’t let me assign Uter to Hunting Nightmares just his regular tasks. Time to contact EA?
He’s not listed anywhere? If he’s not listed then yes, contact EA
yup. same issue for me. Uter isn’t available for hunting nightmares.
I haven’t read all of the comments here but one observation I thought I’d share. This has been working for me, once I figured out that one of the four brown houses I’m sending my kids to is spawning all of the nightmares from each kid regardless of which brown house they were hunting in. So every time I clear one of the brown houses, I have to go back to the main brown house as that is where the nightmares are spawned. This messed me up for one round of hunting but since figuring it out in getting all rewards now. Kinda tedious though.
Same for me, you’re not alone. 😉
I’ve just moved my other brown houses to areas close to the original brown house spawn hot spot. This way, those sneaky nightmares don’t have time to moonwalk, hop, slither, and tiptoe away. Just remember if you do that, either keep them outside your IRS tap radius so you can still release one house at a time, or store your IRS building. 🙂
For the first time, I am disappointed with this game!!
Is anyone not getting the nightmares from the kids in the brown houses? I have the houses far apart as suggested, I tap only one house at a time, but only the kids come out, no nightmares.
The nightmares sometimes appear in different parts of town.
Yes, I had the same thing happen! No nightmares spawned anywhere in town last task!
But how do you get the kids to go to different brown houses???
The task is assigned VIA the Brown House. So you simply tap on different Brown Houses to send kids to different locations. The ones you assign at each house will go to that house…
How many houses are required? I have a ton. Spaced them out and still nothing for hunting nightmares. Help lol
You have to be on the act 3 questline to see it. Did you for sure finish the act 2 questline?
What great advice !
All my Brown houses say is hunt for nightmares at krusty murder,
and can’t even send the kids to the houses. Does anyone know what’s going on with that( have finished act2)?
Open your task menu and compare all your open task name and part #s to our turbo tapping questlines. That’ll let you know where you are. 🙂
Do StarSpawn count toward the limit of 20 nightmares? Thanks for all the info, impossible to play without you guys!!
No
I tried this today and even with separating my hunters into groups of 15 yields I still lost 10 nightmares somehow. I broke them down into groups of 10 yields to see if that changes things. I’ll know in 4 hours. Is it possible that star spawns are messing with my totals? I also have seen no evidence of a bank in this act. I get that the 1st 2 acts were ridiculously easy, I just wish they wouldn’t have gone SO far to the other side of the spectrum.
Ive tried to post this comment twice from mobile now and its not shown up. Trying from a desktop now.
Im seeing some very strange things with the spanning of the nightmares from the brown houses. I have the kids all split into 4 brown houses based on what nightmare they spaun. I should be seeing around 30 nightmares every 4 hours. When I clean a house the nightmares start marching out and instead of only zombies from the zombie house I get zombies and a few star spauns. Im only actually getting 21 apples from the nightmares and seeing 2 or 3 star spans from each house. Something is not right here.
I have confirmed that at least one other play is seeing this as well. Anyone else? Any Ideas?
Thanks
20 is the max at once time….
Alissa- I totally understand this and have my kids split correctly between 4 brown houses. What I’m saying is that with a clear town, I clear the first house and should get 8 zombies, but Im getting 6 zombies and 2 star spauns. Ive tried waiting up to 20 minutes and the final 2 zombies never show. the star spauns march out in lone with the zombies
First…Star spawns have NOTHING to do with the Hunt Nightmares task…they only appear when the M’nthster has disappeared from Springfield.
Beyond that there’s no fix I can offer you. You’ll have to contact EA and explain it to them
Cool. Totally understand that are not linked as well. Just was trying to explain strange gameplay. I will contact EA. Thanks…
Did the star spawns give you apples? Because it just happened to me. I got 2 star spawns with a release of zombies, but i got apples from them…oddly.
It doesn’t happen often, but I’ve received apples from star spawns on multiple occasions now.
I think there’s a random chance for it. But what I’m saying is when they appear instead of a nightmare, i’m wondering if it’s just a visual glitch and they still payout the same
ah gotcha. yeah i haven’t noticed any star spawns appearing instead of nightmares, but then again i haven’t really been paying attention to whether i’m getting all my nightmares or not. i guess i’ve been getting enough that i haven’t noticed if some were missing….
That’s kind of how I am. I’m way ahead of the calendar..the 4hr drop in the nightmare task certainly helps.
Someone distracted me and I mixed up some of my zombie kids with my snake kids
Any tips on ignoring the real world? 🙉 🙉 🙈 🙈 🙉 🙈
🎃 💀 🐍 👻 🍭 🏈 🙂
Lee…if I knew I would give them to you.
Fingers in your ears and shouting la la la , I can’t hear you , oh and shut your eyes 🙂
Don’t try this when driving or operating machinery . Not much help when playing Tapped out either , come to think of it .
What’s that you’re saying ? Sorry , had my fingers in my ears
Trying out my theory , yup it works….. 🙂 🙂
Sorry , what was that again , I’m listening now honest ,
La la la la , sorry , were you saying something ?
🙂 🙂
Yes that sounds like the sort of advice I’m after thanks Phil,
but maybe I should have said…I don’t want it to be obvious to the person I’m trying to ignore, 🙂
I already pushed my luck by insisting on a cup of tea before divulging the information she wanted, 🙂 ……my own fault for thinking I could do two things at a time…..
I like her best like she is now…..asleep….
before going to see some Bob Marley & his Wailers tribute act called “Legend” at some music venue between Bournemouth & Poole
👻 🎃 💀 🍭 🏈 😀 🙂
Ok Lee , keep it down or you’ll wake her up .
Bob Marley , huh ? Not bad but I’d prefer a rock theme .
Foo Fighters , AC/DC , Stones , Queen etc.
Just rediscovering some music from my youth , Sweet , Slade , Dr.Feel good , and particularly Squeeze all have a new album out . 🙂
From your list, Queen and definitely Squeeze…….
how about The Jam/style council
🏈🍭💀👻🎃😀:-)
The Jam yes, though not big on the Mod revival other than them but my little bro was a Mod . He liked Style Council , Secret Affair etc .
Definitely The Who . Think I veered off into punk and new wave while he stayed Mod . Didn’t dislike the ska of The Specials .Selecter etc. in small doses too .
Hated the rise of synth / electro music , garage , hip hop and rap ( missed the c off the front of that ) leave me cold . 🙂
Unfortunately, I still can’t make the math work to allow many of us to get to 9000+. Unless EA has more changes coming, this will disappoint many players. Completions might finish, but that’s all.
Take me, with 4 premium kids. At the unlikely 4X per day that is 64 candy apples + 72 non-premium+ 64 M’nsther fighters + 100 M’nsther +125 avg daily bonus=425. At the more likely 3X per day, it is 375. That’s about half of what is needed to reach 9000+. Potentially a disappointing end to this event.
Please tell me I’m wrong! Oh well, there’s always Christmas.
I’m gonna tell you what I tell everyone…don’t think just play. 🙂
I just wanted to inform that bunnies are not spawning when you send Milhouse, Ralph, Rod, and Todd. It just spawns more zombies.
They’re working for me. Have you sent them to an individual house and cleared that first?
I’m right there with you on the math. But I’m trying not to think (thanks, Alissa), and I’m trying to be patient (thanks, Sandra), and I’m hoping EA will see the error of its ways and make it even just the tiniest bit easier to get the candy apples.
I haven’t been thinking and am right on on target (per the calendar) on both my level 58 free game and my level 33 free game. The level 33 game might be tight, but should be OK, with diligence!
I think one of the maths to look at is what you get from battling M’nsther at the Sunken Temple. I saw 200 point jump today (20 taps to clear, not 10).
Or I’m a TSTO addict and suitably sleep deprived……
Someone else might want to take a look..
Looks like i already have a good setup for this. My IRS is level 3, and if i use the corner houses, I’m fine. Gotta love happy accidents.
http://imgur.com/syKml7z
Are we expecting any more craftables or donut costing things in the store for THOH?
Craftables No. Donuts yes.
Here’s a tip but it only applies to people who have Lisa, Martin and Millhouse’s skins. When sending all four to battle M*ther, when they’re finished tap Bart first. The IRS effect doesn’t work here so you have to tap all four individually. I did the three premium characters first and it was enough to defeat him and I didn’t get my apples for Bart.
How on earth am I supposed to upgrade the campfire to level 9 (the shopkeepers task) in time, with just 2 measly Skeletons (only have Bart) every 4 hours?
The last part of the event wasn’t thought through very well…
Well…technically that was asked of you on Tuesday BEFORE Act 3 hit. So they assumed most people would be done with it before Act 3 started…
I was going to say……..I had to send 15 kids to hunt nightmares, which they were already doing,….. so when the shopkeeper challenge started, I let the kids out and got the donuts
Tuesday seems like ancient history now, …..yes this player should have done this sooner, when there was an abundance of skellies
The only thing you can hope for is a happy upgrade glitch…..it happened to me this morning…… an unexpected upgrade and spooky shed, ….when I checked the upgrade screen …..I had a few more than last time I looked, but had definitely not collected 200
💀🎃🍭👻:-)
You probably already realize this but just in case… Go through your neighbors and clear the towns that are spawning whatever you need. Don’t clear the other towns and you can check later to see if they are now spawning what you need. Nightmares tapped in neighboring towns will count toward your own totals. If you don’t have a lot of neighbors, there are posts on this site with people looking.
Visit neighbours and only tap if they have what you need. Should get it in one day if you have 100 neighbors.
I’m beyond disappointed with act 3. Considering how much money *some* people put into this game, I think EA should have pulled up their socks by now. If you’re like myself, who doesn’t spend money and only have the free kid characters, you’re pretty much screwed since only Bart spawns skeletons. Does EA even factor that in? They should have left spawning at the campfire where we could get more nightmares. Not to mention that now my campfire will be stuck at level 23, not allowing me to complete the other side quest where I still have to update the campfire two more times.
The “Getting Wood” sidequest doesn’t matter whatsoever, just something to keep you busy.
As far as the skeletons, as long as you have a decent amount of neighbours you can tap their skeletons and it counts toward your campfire upgrade. You still have a few days. Just make sure you don’t tap ANY other nightmares in their towns, just skellys.
Yes, getting wood keeps me busy between candy-apple payouts
Sounds like you got an all around sticky situation on you hands! 😉
*your
It should be a challenge. I have spent exactly 0 dollars in my game and I’ve earned Holiday Homer today and my campfire is at level 46
Excellent tip!!! Thanks for that. Of course, lazy as I am, I was sending them all to the same house. Still getting the 9000 + in 11 days will be difficult.
Got my 20 donuts just by releasing the kids from their respective brown houses, and got the Homer skin at 5am GMT …..pics of both on the flickr page
👻 🐍 💀 🎃 🙂
I was wondering where my nightmares were as I was sending kids to one house 😩 Have now got 4 houses and assigning kids accordingly!!
I’m a bit annoyed still as looks like I won’t be getting my bonus donuts this week as wasn’t able to do the “upgrade campfire task” and still need to squish 150 skeletons which just doesn’t look likely – unless I’m missing a loop hole? Even collecting skeleton bones from the star spawns doesn’t seem to effect my skeleton progress on upgrading campfire. 😕 Any advise?
Ps sunken temple glitch worked for me – thanks for the tip 👍🏻
You can ONLY upgrade by tapping the actual nightmare. Collecting the crafting currency from starspawns or formless terrors DOES NOT count
Today Clockwork Bart gave me zero hits on the monster instead of the one from yesterday and I had to rush it again. Also Wizard Martin and Radioactive Milhouse have a two for nightmares in the brown house, but all other premium characters have 4. I’m not terribly upset as I’ve been able to reach the end prize of the first two acts with plenty of time to spare and I average a couple donuts a day from friends but it’s aggravating.
My game says do hurt nightmares are Krusty murder help!
Everyone’s game says that…it’s a mistake. IGNORE IT. The task is at the Brown House
Hi all! I am just wondering what everyone is doing with all their wailing walls? I have put some around the volcano laid but I don’t know what to do with the rest! Any ideas?
If you don’t want them on show, you can hide them same as training walls, …or check the flickr page for my… “wailing wall tower block 3D design illusion miracle™”
which I only did for fun, but people have liked the idea
Also don’t put any washing out …….
because if it’s raining in Christchurch, it will be raining in Poole 🙂
💀 🎃 🍭 👻 🙂
Thanks Lee. I just had a look at your tower it’s amazing!
Ha ha! The rain is definitely ridiculous over here in Poole … but on the upside my son’s football pitch is flooded so I don’t have to get up early tomorrow to take him to training 😉
That’s amazing! How did you stack the walls? I tried but it wouldn’t let me place them like that.
Just found the instructions in the design guide.
I. Love. Your. Tower. And I love that you trademarked it. 😉 lol
The last time I cleared all my kids from the various brown houses I should have cleared 30 nightmares. Strangly I only got 21 and among the nightmares that came marching out of the brown houses were 9 star Spaun. I didn’t get apples for them. Somehow the game sent the span instead of some zombies and skeletons.
I know of at least one other player that this has happened to. Anyone else seeing this. Act 3 has had a very confusing and IMO glitchy roll out.
Doing the math, unless EA changes up something major in the next day or so there’s no possible way I will even get the last 2 prizes this go around.
Did you read the top of this post? Where it says you can only get 20 at a time….
Ack I see the post went showing up on mobile Alissa. My bad on the multi post!
I didn’t even think of this (surprisingly because I usually act like I’m a genius haha) so thanks for the tip! xo
Thanks for the tip with the Brown House split and the one found in the comments to store the IRS building to get rid of the radius. I found that easier than spacing the houses apart, changing my town’s layout.
Let’s see how this works out. I’ve already determined that I’m not going to aim at any prizes beyond Holiday Homer in my B game and depending on how things go, I might also stop trying in my A game as well. It’ll be really hard, if not impossible, to collect 740+ nightmares per day with the current model. If at least the Star Spawn would yield Candy Apples as well…
I’ve encountered a nice glitch since Act 3, involving the Pet Cemetery. At first I thought I was imagining it, but it has happened three times for me now. What happens is that I clear the bunny icon in the morning, starting the 10-hour refresh cycle before it will spawn bunnies again.
Approximately 3 hours later, with 7 hours left on the refresh cycle, the bunny icon appears again, and when tapped will again spawn 10 bunnies. The best part is that the timer continues to show only about 7 hours remaining, and when it gets down to 0 it again spawns the bunnies.
So basically, about 3 hours into the 10-hour refresh cycle, I get an additional set of 10 bunnies.
Anyone else having this glitch?
Ya it’s been happening for me the whole event. No rhyme or reason to it though, some days it works properly, other days I collect bunnies 3 or 4 times 😊🐇
Thank god. I had to find out from you guys that I had to goto the brown house in order to get nightmares now and when I went there it was saying like, 8 hours and I’m like, what?? How am I supposed to fight M’nster and collect nightmares if it takes them 8 hours. Was so happy to get on today and see 4 hours.
Thank u so much! Incredibly helpful!
Wow thanks for this!! How would anyone know what the ‘bank’ is without this site?? Seems like a pretty important part of the event (you lose anything that goes over your bank), yet it’s not listed anywhere in the game.
I honestly don’t know how I did events before without this site. There’s so much pertinent info that isn’t ever explained in the event rundown boxes.
these do not give candy apples though, right? i do not want anything but zombies
Nightmares give candy Apples
ug, okay thanks. glitch didnt happen for me, looks like 2 weeks of chugging out nightmares every 4 hours
At my age, Candy Apples give nightmares – unless consumed VERY early in the day.
I get it takes a bit more effort to get candy apples and that there are many ways to earn them.I play a lot (maybe too much) , and I know why people are upset!!. I have been stuck on getting holiday homer for close to 6 hours. And I mean playing constantly in that time. I hope they loosen up a bit and start giving out more .
Not sure if f you covered this in another post but what’s the “best” item to craft for each crafting item? I realize it’s largely based on opinion but based on incom, bonus, and effect on comfort-meter, what’s the best for each currency? I know brains- wailing wall and eggs-spooky house/spooky wall, but what about for bunny ears and skeleton bones?
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/10/27/thoh-2015-101-crafting-act-2/
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/10/09/thoh-2015-101-crafting-act-1/