Happy 10th Anniversary Bushwhackia!
This event starts at noon on Friday April 15th!
Your friends in the Commons event area are up to something--and they need your help!
Be warned, this post contains SPOILERS for the event! You may want to play the first couple days of the event before reading these details!
Developer Turn-in Stations
The developers of Bush Whacker 2 are running the turn-in stations. Over the course of the event, you can find Typo Reports, Bug Reports and Suggestions in the bushes to turn in for event progress. Can you flood the poor developers with enough to earn the 100% reward?
Quests
Four daily quests will help you gain progress as well, starting with the quest for Gnome parts.
The developer gnome quest has been updated with 5 more gnomes. Each completion will award you a random developer gnome and there are now 32 of us to collect.
Note, if you have less than 27 gnomes, you'll get 2 gnomes per turn in until you catch up.
Later on, there will be a daily quest to test your Bush Whacker knowledge with trivia questions, featuring 6 new questions! Plus the return of Linus (from Halloween) who will have a sweet reward and of course, 10 years of whacking bushes has taken its tole, so it's best if you help to replant.
Familiar friends, like Nate and Kaine, will also have quests as the event goes one.
Costume Contest
Do you have a favourite outfit from among the all the Custom Items over the years? Well, you can now show them off! Once you build the Costume Contest area, you can enter your favourite outfit and vote. New winners will be chosen daily, and will get a small treat. New this year, you can ask Alexis what your current bracket is if you're participating in the day's contest. Brackets are top 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 500+.
The Cake Isn't a Lie!
And what is an anniversary without cake? Not a very good one!
A souvenir cake will appear on Monday April 18 at Noon PDT and be available to interact with until Friday April 22nd at Noon PDT.
New for 2022:
If you can complete the event, you'll earn the lucky Anniversary Flower Box!
For quests, we've added 1 new quest for our past community manager Erika to Zoey's community manager quest line!
There are also new customization and ranch items in the store, a new cake, 6 new trivia questions, 5 new developer gnomes, and the ability to view your current ranking in the costume contest!
Event Achievements -- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are a total of FOURTEEN possible achievements to earn in the Anniversary event.
Returning for 2022
Surprise!? - Help set up your own surprise party (Finish the set up and last-minute set up tasks.)
Support Ticket - Do a turn-in at each turn-in station.
Papers, Please - Do 50 turn-ins at each turn-in station.
Know Your Stuff - Complete the Trivia Daily Quest 5 times.
Lookin' Sharp - Enter the costume contest.
Best Buddies - Complete the event quests for Kaine and Nate.
Fashion Critic - Vote 50 times in the Costume Contest!
Gnomevelopers - Earn all 8 developer gnomes from the 2016 Anniversary Event.
Gnomevelopers 2 - Earn all 16 developer gnomes from the 2018 Anniversary Event.
New for 2022
Decade Dressing - Purchase all the 10th Anniversary Event items*
Gnomevelopers 3 - Earn all 32 of the anniversary developer gnomes
Gnomefier - Craft anniversary developer gnomes 5 times
We also have 2 achievements
from previous years which may be earned by spending Bush Bucks if you missed getting them the first time around.
Anniversary Mementos - Purchase all the 6th Anniversary Event items.
Celebrate Good Times - Purchase all the 4th Anniversary Event items!
*The Mini Golf piece isn't required to complete the Decade Dressing achievement.
Mount Sale!
New Mounts:
The
Airavata is a glorious and wise flying multi-trunked elephant mount! It
increases your speed by 60% and it's starting bonus increase your Energy wins by 5%!
Get this mount free with the purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more during the weekend sale running until Monday March 15th @ Noon PDT!
Also see the Starlight Airavata and Sunset Airavata mounts in mount packs, available during this sale!
Pet Packs!
New Pets
COMING SOON! Keep an eye out for the sale pop-up!
Post your plans for the next year of adventuring with Bush Whacker 2 on the forums!
The event will run until Friday April 29th at Noon PDT!
Frequently Asked Questions
- Which developer gnomes are available?
There are now THIRTY TWO developer gnomes available. You can collect one at random each time you do the Gnome Parts daily quest. Note, if this is your first time doing the event, you'll get 2 gnomes per turn in.
- Why do I want to help Linus daily?
The more times you help him, the better your reward at the end of the event. His quest can be reset with the VIP power to reset daily quests.
- Will this event repeat next year?
Good question! We'll tell you next year!
- How does the Costume contest work?
You can enter the contest once per day. Once you've entered you cannot change your entry, so choose wisely. Throughout the day players can vote on other entries much like the screenshot contests from Halloween and the Spring Garden events. At midnight, the top 5 rated entries win, and a new contest begins! Winners get a unique title and an energy pack, but cannot enter the contest again for 3 days.
- What adds to my event progress?
Doing turn-ins at the 3 stations and completing quests for the NPCs in the area.
- How can I find the turn-in station items?
Just keep whacking bushes and critters. The Holiday Item Runes and Pets will help attract them as well or you can use a VIP Voucher or Token on the Event Drops boon.
- Do I have to ask my friends to help with the turn-in stations?
No, you don't have to. They just allow you to gain event progress faster.
- When will the last quest unlock?
The last event quest will unlock on April 24th.
- Do I have to do the achievements?
No. Completing the goals for the achievements is totally optional. You get either a large energy pack or a title for your character from them, no event progress.
- Where can I see all the achievements available and how to get them?
Either on the holiday dialog, the achievements dialog, or on the blog.