Pass the tape...

It's coming up to Christmas and Santa has to get himself ready, only problem is his Elves have taken a trip to the beach and aren't back yet, so what can we do? Get him some new helpers of course!

Of course this being the Frontier we don't have Elves on hand so we're going to have to find something else to take their place in some pointy hats and shoes...

I wonder what that could be...

As usual we'll see a popup to start.

That will launch a traditional four mission thread with a wrapper and a Monday Mission (all details HERE) along with a 3-step buildable, the Christmas Workshop (all details HERE).

The Workshop itself will act as the "home" for a new set of Partner Animals.

They start from one of two things, the coin Gift Wrap Station or the HS Elf Tree...

That will give us one of four wrapped gifts we'll heal individually or with a partner to become one of four variations each...

All the feed info for that is in the mission posts but what we will need is the new Free Gift Crop, Christmas Cactus...

Which will be joined in the thread by some festive decorations and a brand new Festive Outfit!

So, what are you waiting for, let's get Unwrapping...

Super Star

The sky is falling!

OK actually it's not as just one little bit of it, a meteor, has arrived and landed smack dab in the middle of the Homestead. It's up to us, along with Doc, to go find out what's going on and see if there's anything fun can be done with what it's brought to us...

...only problem is, Doc's not exactly known for his caution when it comes to scientific experimentation, so the chances are things are going to get a little bit crazy and a little bit weird, as it always seems to do when Doc gets himself involved...

As usual, it's a popup to start.

That will kick off a 9 mission, 3 wrapper, 1 Monday release set of map missions (all details HERE). As with all map missions what we won't see is a build, although we will get a decoration for the homestead, the Meteor!

This will give us access to the mission map, just a quick note these missions are repeatable but only OPTIONALLY if you want more rewards, there are no mission requirements and no compulsory repeats.

As well as the map, the Meteor will also have a fishing mechanic, this drops one of three "Elements", Red, Yellow and Green.

Those Elements, and their mysterious meteor powers, will then be used to create one of three new healables, Unstable Sheep, Chickens and Pigs!

They, and their variations will be needed for mission requirements for both healing and for drops.

Their feed will require the new Free Gift Crop, Giant Toadstools:

Now all we need to do is get Doc away from that Meteor before he tries experimenting on something more intelligent than livestock... No Doc... Back off!

Gobbling Food

Thanksgiving has arrived on the Frontier and there's just one problem... There's something up with the Turkeys.

Now, a lot of people would point out that the problem with them is they're about to be invited to Thanksgiving Dinner with a unique invite... but there's other stuff as well...

That means we're going to be hitting the homestead to work on not only our own Turkeys, but going hunting for wild ones too!

As usual we'll see a popup to start...

This will kick off three series of four missions to be done concurrently, along with a small wrapper and a Monday mission (all details HERE). What we won't have is a buildable, but there is a small decoration, the Thanksgiving Feast.

This one will let us start the three threads as they release over the next few days, with each thread having it's own little mechanic to work on.

Set one has a set of paired healables. We start off with the Faint Giggles which, when healed, can then become a Turkey Sighting. both of which are small healables...

The second set has a new Partner animal, a new dog the Lil Tracker which, when healed, becomes one of four different hunting dogs.

Then finally the third series has a new injured animal that pops out, the mysterious Wikiwah legend, the Great White Turkey! This one will only drop while the missions are open and has it's own set of drops.

They all use the same feed, Fowlcatchers. That uses the new crop as part of it's crafting, Cherokee Tomatoes.

So, lets go track down some turkeys and enjoy Thanksgiving!

Daddy Issues...

If there's one thread that goes all the way through the story of Ted, Bess and now Tess it's the sudden arrival of family and friends to shake things up. Mothers, Brothers, Nieces, ex-Girlfriends/Partners in Crime and now a paternal shocker to add to the list.

Just when it looked like we'd run out of red headed people up pops another one, in this case it's Ted's father Red, a bit of a bad sort from way back who's arrived to see his sons and his new grandchild...

But does he have ulterior motives? Of course he does, it'd be a pretty short mission if he wasn't...

So, ahoy the popup!

That kicks off a 5 mission thread with a wrapper and a Monday mission (all details HERE). We'll also see a new building, the Guest House... (all details HERE).

The Guest House will contain a crafting and sending mechanic for feed used with the new healables.

We'll see four of those...

...which becomes one of four new animals!

As with previous threads (Free Range/Re-enactment etc) we're going to see two types of feed, what we craft which is worth one feed and what neighbours receive when we send it which is worth four.

We'll see a new crop, Red Cactus, which is used in one of those feeds...

...and a new collection which will not only give the crop but also the premium item that we can use to make our own 4-tend feed.

And that will be it, so I'm sure it'll all go smoothly with no trouble...

...oh boy, here we go!