Welcome to the Winter Season of 2022! We have lots of things planned for you this month. I hope you will all enjoy what we have going on. Quarterly Events Raffle: Ticket distrutions will resume during the festival games and during various other events held throughout the next few weeks! Check out the thread linked here if you are unfamiliar with the Quarterly Events Raffle Thread: https://ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/oct-dec-quarterly-events-raffle.217691/ Secret Santa: That’s right, out with Thanksgiving and in with Christmas, it is time to sign up for Secret Santa. Hosted on just Main this year in the Winter Festival town built just for this Holiday Season! Thread: https://ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/ecc-secret-santa-2022.219597/ Winter Festival Town: Located at /warp winter, /warp festival, /warp wf or /warp winterfestival on MAIN! This year features a NEW custom-built town where you will find all new redstone games where you can win prizes, collectible items or raffle tickets for the Quarterly Raffle! Each of the redstone games will require a token to play. This year the games require Nether Stars to play! You can buy nether stars from other users, but also! Every day you can /vote on each of the 7 sites, then trade your votepoints for nether stars in the /voteshop! This town will also host several random event games as well, stay tuned for those! Where/How to get Prizes: All prizes can be redeem at /warp redeem on Main or MainNorth, you will find ECD Vouchers, Cosmo Coin Vouchers and Crate Key Vouchers distributed from the games. Raffle Tickets are to be sold to Ediouseig via /warp redeem to be counted in the Raffle! Rules: Absolutely no cheating at the games. If you are abusing the games in any way that disrupts other users or allows you to earn more prizes than intended you risk being banned from the event town and your raffle ticket entries earned since the festival launch will be wiped. There is no appeal to this fate. So, don't cheat. I will offer rewards for exploits/vulnerabilities reported to me privately with any of the festival games. If you think you have found one, simply forum PM me the details Abuse = Ban Report = Rewards Games: What's new?: This year the Festival has been outfitted with all new prize-dispensing machines in each of the games. These machines hold even more prizes than ever before. They should not run out of the "good stuff" after a couple hours and hopefully will require less frequent restocks! Since the design has been completely revamped we are now able to use TARGETS to shoot at rather than buttons! Enjoy! Spoiler: Coral Archery Coral Archery: Time Limit: 6.5 Minutes Cost: 1 Nether Star This game features a fully underwater swimming course with targets placed at various places in the arena. Your goal is to shoot targets to receive prizes. Each target is linked to a matching prize-drop machine nearby. The game will lock and prevent you from getting more prizes at 6.5 minutes, at that point you want to proceed to the openings outlined in sea-lanterns to exit the game. Good luck and enjoy! Spoiler: Ice Boat Track Challenge Ice Boat Track Challenge: Cost: 1 Nether Star Step right up to this ice boat track challenge! This challenge is potentially infuriating in nature nature. Your objective is to attempt to navigate your boat on the ice track to the very end, there are prizes to be gathered along the way. You will have to be careful though, falling off the track will exit you out and your run will be lost! Good luck! Spoiler: Winter Prize Drops Winter Prize Drops: Cost: 1 Nether Star Prize Drops have returned with all new machines enabling us to offer you up to 81 different prizes! Its pretty straightforward. Use your Nether Stars to trade for 1 of 81 prizes. Prizes do rotate on some days. Prize rotations will be announced as needed! Spoiler: Scorched Ice Fields Rollarcoaster Scorched Ice Fields Rollarcoaster: Cost: 1 Nether Star Use your Nether Star to enter through the door, then grab a minecart, place at the start and take off! Enjoy this wild ride through a snowy icy field that seems to have been scorched by dragon fire!?! Admire the community built ice statues and be in awe of the power of the ice dragons breath! During your ride you will gather prizes either simply by riding, or if you arm yourself with a bow you can shoot the targets placed along the track for more prizes! Spoiler: Christmas Caves Rollarcoaster Christmas Caves Rollarcoaster: Cost: 1 Nether Star Use your Nether Star to enter through the door, then grab a minecart, place at the start and take off. Enjoy this scenic ride through underground snowy lush caves that have been richly decorated in the spirit of Christmas! During your ride you will gather prizes either simply by riding, or if you arm yourself with a bow you can shoot the targets placed along the track for more prizes! Twelve Days of Christmas: Starts December 13th! Starting on December 13th, there will be a set of unique items pertaining to 12 Days of Christmas released either as random drops or as part of the redstone game prizes in the festival town. Be sure to participate in the redstone games each day increase your chance at landing once of these items! That's all so far! Go forth and enjoy the events! We hope to see you all there!
