Fun In The Ring

If there's one problem with living in a small town on the frontier it's that you have to make your own entertainment!

The kids have seen a circus train head through on the railroad and are now wondering if they'll ever get a chance to see one for themselves.

So, our intrepid homesteaders, with your help as usual, are going to make sure that they sure will!

The circus series is going to be a buildingless set of three small threads, each running alongside each other, and one wrapper mission. (all details HERE).

The first set is a general Circus intro and includes lion taming (of a kind). It'll introduce two new things. The first, a new decoration with a bonus, is the Fortune teller...

That will be collectible every 6 hours and drop a variety of fortunes and bonuses.

The second thing is a new species of Partner Pig, the Circus Pig... Yes, it's a bit of partnering but with a breed we've already seen before, so no new mission and it uses Hog Chow, which many may still have some stocks of... (If you need a refresher Hog Chow takes 2 Ground Corndogs (Corndog Crops/Corn) and 3 Sugary Shortening (Wall Post).

The second mission thread sees the Frontier couple of Hank and Fanny slip into lycra (or the Frontier equivalent) and take to the skies as trapeze artists!

The third mission thread then sees Doc invent a cannon to fire a man out of! Well, actually... to fire a Granny out of...

These last two threads are fairly gentle with some crafting, until we finally find the wrapper which simply ties everything together and get's us something of a unique rideable...

We will see one new free gift crop in the gifts and the market section...

...but generally we'll be using stuff we already know and love!

So, who's ringmaster?

Spring Loaded Florals

It's Springtime and that means flowers!

Join in the floral fun on the Homestead by building the Sunset Flower Celebration Display and crafting bright and beautiful floral displays for the homestead!

We'll see all manner of new things to give a jolt of Spring to the stead, even a brand new market!

As usual, it'll be a popup to start.

That will start a series of 8 missions that will release two a day over the next four days and a trio of wrappers that will sit over them all (all details HERE).

They'll be available inside a non-built-buildable, the Spring Flower Celebration Display:

The screens inside will be the usual ones we're used to, with flowers that open to show when you've completed the missions for the first time.

There is a twist on the usual repeatable missions however, instead of collecting for a Sweepstakes the items we get for each mission (in this case, Petals) are actually currency that we can spend in a new area, the Petal Market!

Three of the things in there are new flower bed decorations, the light, dark and cactus displays:

These are crafted by growing flowers from the Pots in the Market and Petal Market.

Each of those act like a healable animal and are grown with Floral Filling, an item that's crafted with 3 Rich Soil (Sunflowers/Sunny Poppies) and 2 Special Seeds (Wall Post)

The Sunlit Pot takes 6 Floral Filling, the Moonlit Pot takes 7 and the Cactus Bed takes 8.

You'll have spotted "Sunny Poppies" before and they're the new free gift crop...

...which is also in the market along with a few other new goodies.

Finally we'll see a collection that will give Petals and Sunny Poppies!

So, let's get growing...

Powerful Poles

When it comes to the Frontier there aren't many better at working the land than the Wikiwah, and Laughing Bear is trusting you with one of the secrets of their success.

The Wikiwah use spiritually powered Totem Poles to power their animals, crops and trees and he's going to teach us to make our own.

With these Totem Poles we'll be able to boost all manner of things on our homesteads and get a step up in our homesteading...

As usual, we'll see a popup...

...which will kick off a five mission thread and a wrapper mission which will be our Monday release (all details HERE). It'll also allow us to place a four step buildable, the Totem Workshop (all details HERE).

So, how do these magical totems work? We start off with an uncarved wooden base.

This is then carved into a simple wooden totem.

This is then empowered with one of three Spirit Crystals, which are crafted separately.

Then, the Totem can be used to empower items placed around it, so for example a Totem powered with the Animal Crystal grows up to four animals stood around it.

There are also craftable crystals to grow crops and lumber trees instantly.

The Totems themselves can be used multiple times a day, with the only limitation being the power of the crystal. The Animal Crystal has enough power for 6 tends, the Crop Crystal 7 tends and the Lumber Crystal 5 tends, then the Totem is unpowered. (Once the Wrapper is completed our totems will become more powerful and do 50% more stuff).

However, the Totem itself does not need rebuilding, you can simply click it and select to replace the Crystal inside it.

Totems can wither if left unpowered for a certain amount of time (60 hours for Animals, 80 hours for Crops, 40 hours for Lumber). If that happens you have to recharge it, but that does take TWO crystals (for a full guide to the Totems, click HERE)

We are going to see a healable, the Lost Soul...

Which will be fed Spirit Feed (a wall post)...

...and turn into one of three animals, the Spirit Falcon (not shown), the Spirit Raven and Spirit Hawk.

We'll have one new free gift crop...

...which will also be in the market along with the Totems and a mission reward/premium item.

So, lets get building!

Let's Go Fly A Kite...

The wind has picked up and it's time for the homesteaders to have a little fun!

Seems the perfect time to teach our kids how to fly kites, although for Doc it's also a good excuse to get some science done!

So, string? Yep. Canvas? Yep. Wood? Yep.

Seems we're good to go! The Kite missions will be three separate threads that run alongside each other, with a wrapper covering over the top of them. The first two threads will release Monday and Tuesday sees number three and the wrapper (all details HERE). As with most of the missions of this kind there's no build to get through.

Each of the threads and the wrapper will give us an interactive kite for out homestead. As well as flying the kite (it follows you around) you can also collect from them for a variety of bonuses.

The first mission involves teaching the family to fly kites...

...and gives the Goat Kite, which drops Goat Allure boosts and other Goat based goodies.

The second thread has Doc following in the footsteps of the great Benjamin Franklin and his "key on a kite" electricity experiments...

which gives us the Franklin Kite.

The third set is Helping Little Crow retrieve her kite from the tree...

...and gives the Crow Kite.

Finally the wrapper...

...which gives us a dragon kite!

There will be one new crop which is a free gift...

...and in the market along with some other goodies.

So, let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height...