Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Act 3 of this magical Halloween hit our towns very early this morning. A magical event full of beasts to battle, wands to wave and goblin gold to grab!
For Act 3 of Halloween you’re tasked with continuing the questline, including adding the Academy Ruins…so we can all see just what what’s his name is up to
As was mentioned in the rundown post, Act 3 of Halloween runs until…November 14th. (when the whole event leaves Springfield)
Don’t forget the Questline will help you get some bonus prize currency…so make sure you complete it to earn that extra currency…also the questline is there to guide you. Make sure you complete the main questline in order to unlock things like neighbor actions, crafting and more.
Now let’s wave our wands and view the quick walkthrough for the third Act of Halloween…
Guys, make sure you read the dialogue on this one. There’s some funny stuff…
Say His Name, Say His Name Pt. 1
Auto starts
Collect Toad Princes- x300 
Completed Task Earns 50 10xp
Say His Name, Say His Name Pt. 2
Homer starts
Make Homer Read Name Out Loud- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
Unlock Barfy- 1300
Completed Task Earns 50 10xp
Say His Name, Say His Name Pt. 3
Lisa starts
Place Magic Academy Ruins- Free (12×12 (comse with Lord Monty))
Make Lisa Search Books for Exploits- 4hrs, Earns 50 ,45xp
Make Homer Hide His Essence- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
Completed Task Earns 50 10xp
The Vestige Pt. 1
Bart starts
Make Springfields Duel Montymort- (works like Beast fights, only you clear hearts) 4hrs, Earns 50 /character sent. Premium characters clear 1/2 heart Freemium clear 1 heart
Completed Task Earns 50 10xp
The Vestige Pt. 2
Lisa starts
Make Beasts Battle Montymort- 4hrs, 50 /beast sent. Premium Beasts clear 1 1/2 heart Freemium clear 1 heart (can only send 2 at a time)
Completed Task Earns 50 10xp
The Vestige Pt. 3
Lisa starts
Defeat Lord Montymort- x3 (basically repeat it all over again 3 times)
Completed Task Earns 50 10xp (And You’ll unlock Montymort as a full character when complete)
The Vestige Pt. 4
Homer starts
Make Montymort Serve His First Life Sentence- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Completed Task Earns 50 10xp
The Vestige Pt. 5
Lisa starts
Make Springfielders Go Shopping at Charmer’s Market- x5, 8hrs, Earns $275,70xp Freemium and $420, 105xp Premium
Make Springfielders Pat to Attend Magic Academy- x5, 8hrs, Earns $275,70xp Freemium and $420, 105xp Premium
Make Lord Montymort Clean Up Beast Droppings- 8hrs, Earns $275, 70xp
Completed Task Earns 100 10xp
Upon Completion of this questline you’ll start the bonut rounds, every 15,000 earns donuts
What are your initial thoughts on Act 3 of this magical event? Thoughts on the dialogue so far? Prizes? Any items you’ve purchased? Ready for it to be over? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
This whole quest? Stupid!
My storage is so full of things that I can not sell. And I can’t put much more in my town without getting glitches
I hate hate the montymort part of this. I don’t get it? It just wastes my time on this game. Idiotic!!!
I got Count Dracula finished, he’s checked off, but I didn’t get him. Will I get him when I finish Lord Montymort?
He’s not in your inventory?
Have th same problem, and he’s not in my inventory.
Did you ever get Dracula? I should have had him days ago, but I can’t find him in my inventory at all. Haven’t finished off Lord Montymort yet, will be done tonight.
Accumulating way too much duplicate junk from the beasts. What’s the point? Where are we to put all this crap? Most crafting items are do-overs from past years, and the best ones are limited to 1 in our towns. Really EA, this is the best you could do for a major event? Things better turn around real soon or I feel like you’re going to lose a LOT of players.
I haven’t seen anything of the collectible character who appears to be an old Chinese wizard? Have I missed something? Or does he turn up in a side task after Montymort is defeated?
http://tstoaddicts.com/2017/10/26/should-i-spend-donuts-on-the-evil-shopkeeper-bundle/
Oh dear. I missed it completely. C minus – could do better!
Thanks for the reply Alissa.
Best wishes
This whole event was extremely boring, drawn out and unexciting. The crafting items were a complete failure and I’ll likely store pretty much everything that the beasts dropped.
I’m glad to have just unlocked Montymort a few minutes ago and completed all prize tracks yesterday so that I’m basically done wit hthe event, except for completing the outstanding questlines from Act 3, Dracula and Montymort. Keeping up the grinding for another 3 or (less likely) 6 donuts is absolutely not worth the hassle. I’m ready for a one or two week break.
I sure hope they have a more inspired Xmas event planned. But first there’s some hope for a few interesting Black Friday offers (to sure be disappointed… 😉 ).
So far my defeating lord mortymort isn’t registering.
My first time with the kids/unicorn did not register either, but my first time with the beasts did.
Whoops, I now realize you have to beat him with both sets for one win.
Still wont matter u beat him 8 times 4 sets with kids 5 with the beasts. Still 1/3
This questline is taking entirely too long. Fighting Montymort 30 times and enchanting him is taking forever, even with 4 wizards on him at all times.
Is there a calendar out yet?
Misspoke… not enchanting him. Having beasts fight him.
I have defeated montymort I got another quest to beat him again for 3 more times I’ve beaten him 20 times and it stays on 0 can anyone pleas d help me
Check out this post here on Battle for Springfield. You have to defeat him 30 times in Part 3 alone before you get to 1/3.
Montymort, like the previous giants, has 15 “beads” of health. When the kids are battling him, they take off 1/2 a bead each, or 1 full bead if they’re a premium character. When the giants are fighting, they take off one full bead each, more if you’ve bought, captured and enchanted a premium giant (Treestache or Wiggops).
This is quite simply a grind task. However, don’t forget that you can rush the last 24 minutes (10% of 4 hours) of each battle. Which lets you start the next one earlier and makes it easier to squeeze more battles into the day.
“Grind Task…”
That is an understatement!
Don’t forget Burns Dragon. (Treestache or Wiggops or Burns Dragon)
I wasn’t given the option to rush battles for free. Even the last 5 minutes or less.
So hit the required quota for Lord Montemorts lair, but can’t find it. Not in my inventory nor in the facade for the power plant, am I missing something?
I found it in my inventory. I had to search through the whole main inventory. Don’t go into any subcategories.
Am I missing the way to make my characters better at magic or is Lisa always going to be half a heart?
You can’t upgrade the amount of damage a character or beast inflicts. Lisa will always be half a heart.
Act 3
Plenty of funny dialog from Characters 👍
Battling Lord Montymort is taking way tooooo long 👎
We’ll see who unlocks Lord Montymort as a Character OR if EA will do us a favor and cut the Task Battles down 🤔
I finished defeat 2 of 3 an hour ago. Lord Montymort is again down for the count for 4 hours. So I should hopefully have him fully defeated and unlocked by Monday. It’s definitely doable for the q4h tapper.
I am still in vestige pt 3 and in my quest bar it still says I’m 0 out of 3 to finish the quest even though I’ve defeated him once. (Fought until the 15 hearts were gone) is there something I’m missing? Is this a bug I should contact ea about?
Check out this post on Battle for Springfield. Your characters have to defeat Normal Lord Montymort with his 15 hearts AND your beasts have to defeat Giant Lord Montymort with his 15 giant hearts; and only after all 30 damage has been done will you get 1/3.
Well this answers my question
Why did EA do it this way to confuse and P O everybody should of just said defeat 6 times then everyone would know what a grind it is and choose to engage based on that info instead of the missing info presented
I defeted him 9 times total and still had 1/3. Shouldnt that have completed after 6?
Unfortunately you were amongst the few with the glitch.
Bug stopped at verge part 3
On vestige pt. 3, stuck on progress. Lord mortymort has recovered from battle but nothing happens when I click done on the event menu. Tried reinstalling and resyncing with krustyland, nothing seems to work. Any suggestions?
My understanding is you have to battle him until all his hearts are gone, and do that 3x. So it’s like battling a beast 3 times (so yes, time consuming).
Yeah but it wont let me start the battles. It says he’s recovered, but when I hit the done button in the event box nothing happens.
Have you gotten unstuck yet? If so, how did you do it? I’m stuck at the same place too and I contacted EA and haven’t heard back yet. I’m worried I will run out of time and won’t be able to finish all the quests because of this bug.
Have you had any luck fixing it? I have the same problem.
This update is meh.
I released all my monsters but when I came back 4 hours later it was like I never released them and I didn’t earn any points! Has this happened to anyone else and is there a solution?
Yeah, I released 6 beasts from work this morning, but my boss came by so I just shut it off without synchronizing on my phone. I came back four hours later and it was as though I hadn’t released any of those 6 beasts. So I lost out on 600 Toad Princes. Fortunately I’m still quite ahead of the calendar, but still upset that I should be at 7148, instead of 6548. A fairly reliable solution is to go to your neighbours and back or Krustyland and back to synchronize your game.
Thanks I will try that. First time I noticed this happened. Wonder how many I missed.
Should we clear Barfy’s dark matter/enchant him or do the Montymort battles first?
Both.
Just use the unicorn when you need Lisa.
Im still stuck on the mars won challenge, i keep putting the rocket back and forth in the inventory and it still dont work
I’ve been paying all day and haven’t any free donuts or the pop up. Hmmmmm.
I got the ruins, which displays the evil Burns character, but I can’t seem to send Burns on a task! I tap on the Burns icon in the upper-left corner, but nothing happens! Is he unable to do a task until Lisa and Homer finishes theirs? I hippie there aren’t any other characters stuck “behind” him in the icons…I sent everyone on tasks via the unemployment office, but there are always a few “stragglers” that I have to send manually (like Bart, because he has another quest task pending)…I sent a couple before I got to the Burns icon, but I can’t tell whether I’ve sent them all because I can’t send Burns on a task and get rid of his icon!
*hippie = hope
Burns is separate icon to mortymort, he just stands in the middle of his ruin till you send someone to defeat him
So, the icon I’m seeing in the upper-left is for Montymort? I didn’t think to go to the town hall to see if Burns was already on a task.
Having the same question…I see the Montymort character icon in the upper left corner but it doesn’t do anything when I tap it. Is he supposed to have tasks?
He will have jobs once you finish all the tasks above, his icon in the corner is just laziness on EA’ s part, it shouldn’t be there until you finish the quest either have to wait for the full quest is finished or spend doughnuts and speed through it. Mabey EA is hoping there is lots of OCC rappers out there that will freak out about the unclickable icon that the all spend doughnuts
Anymore premium stuff coming? Literally the only thing new this morning was a skin for Frink. Meh.
Yup
Do you have an idea when or what? I want Angelica, but what if something better comes around before the event ends? Can you give us a hint, please?
Stuff is added frequently. We don’t talk about items that aren’t in the game until they’re in the game. But Angelina is there until event ends so if you’re that worried just wait till last day
Ok thanks. Another question 🙂 :When the game gives you that minigame where you have to tap a field with 1, 2 or 3 donuts, how can one increase one’s chances to win 3 upon the first try? This game appears for example when I found Maggie three times. I remember that one of you found out a way to improve one’s timing that not always, but often gave one 3 donuts on the first try but I forgot how that was done. Any advice from you guys?
And another question (sorry, your site is awesome): Do I understand it correctly, that I need to have all buildings placed anywhere in Springfield to get all XP and to get all real estate Points? Can I store buildings if I do not need the experience points but still keep the real estate points? Can extras like balconies, additional stuff that belongs to the buildings be stored in the inventory (to save space) without losing any real estate or xp points?
Many thanks in advance.
There is no real pattern to the 1.2.3 donuts. They change it up. What works for a while, stops working at some point. Random.
Yes. You need to PLACE any of the buildings to earn the rewards. Sorry. Consider the storage unit a black void, that has no impact on your town/game/earnings whatsover. Because, for the most part…that is exactly what it is. Unlike a real storage unit, where you could have an expensive painting that adds to your net worth hiding…in TSTO, it doesn’t count for anything, unless it is in the game…being used.
To give you more fully correct info than you got in the first response, yes, Springfield Heights buildings need to be out for the hidden XP bonus to be in effect, but, no, they don’t have to be to keep the REV you earned on them. And the pieces (balconies, etc.) don’t need to be out at all. So, feel free to use your “storage unit” for everything except the core Springfield Heights buildings.
There are a couple of sites out there that publish ‘spoilers’ – you might want to look elsewhere. 🙂
Well that’s a bit of a twist having Lord Montymort and his ruins for free. Nice. Not a bad Act. Interesting reversion of the bonut system to the end of the quest. 15,000 seems high for bonuts but with all the extra beasts (etc) not entirely out of reach.
Pretty much out of reach for most freemium players. EA are not giving much away here. You will earn donuts quicker just doing the rail yard.
So far I’ve found this event to be extremely ‘meh’. Nothing to do but send out these monsters to get duplicate junk day after day. Nothing for the other characters to do since the monsters unlock so quickly. No use for all the old Halloween skins and jobs.
I usually love the Halloween event, but this one is weak.
Hurrah for something new to do 🎃
anyone else having issues visiting friends towns? My game crashes every time I try.
Seems fixed now
Someone or something is trying to put a virus on this site. Every so often when reading an article I get a pop up telling me my device has been attacked. I don’t know if it’s just me or if anyone has had a message like that off this site. Obviously I didn’t click on anything
May be your device. I’ve been on this site for almost four years and never had an issue with pop-ups like that. Good luck figuring it out.
Usually it’s malware somewhere on your device
It happens quite often with me, but only when I use the app, not the site. It is just this app, no others.
Same thing happened to me once- just the other day.
Same thing happened to me about a week ago. I usually check this site using my iPhone, not PC
Sadly it is one of the ads – when this has happened in the past I notified Alyssa, Bunny or Wookiee and they quickly contacted WordPress to get it taken down.
I got the nightmare pile from the mystery box. Was hoping it worked like the zombie sandwich where I could send a bunch of kids trick or treating,,but looks like it’s just 1 at a time. The ruins are HUGE!! Thought Montymort was going to be a skin for Burns. Don’t really like duplicate characters running around,,its weird!
Trick or treat, treat it is free donuts, would have preferred to sent the kids on trick a treating