Flowers In Bloom!

The annual Grow-A-Thon has returned to the Commons! Whack the bushes and gather their bounty so that you can plant flowers and trees in the Event area to make yourself a gorgeous garden. Impress the judges every 20 hours to earn Spring tokens to buy this year's Custom Items. You need to impress the previous judge to get a rating from the next one.

Plus, fill your magnificent garden with critters! There are 5 to get throughout the event, starting with the Squirrel today! You can send out requests for a free one.

Many Quests!

George has such a terrible green thumb, he'll be looking for you to help him out trying to grow a plant for the first (or fourth) time.

Spring usually means spring cleaning, right? Freddy needs some help cleaning up his house. It's gotten a little bit spooky. Cleaning items can only be whacked in his house.

Timmy wants to wake his turtle up from its hibernation after that long, cold winter. Aid him in finding things to tempt it back to consciousness.

Help Farmer McDonald splice together some special Spring Seeds! For players level 400+, Farmer McDonald will reward you with Tier 2 Spring Fruit and Spring Vegetable seeds! These crops will yield energy and gold balanced for your higher level.

Joel has various species of bees for you to choose from after you complete his bee helping quests! They are:

- Leafcutter Bee
- Red-tailed Bumblebee
- Tawny Mining Bee
- Blue Banded Bee
- Neon Cuckoo Bee
- Green Carpenter Bee
- Golden Tail Bee
- Green Sweat Bee
- Purple Orchid Bee

A Seed Surplus

Have too many seeds? There are things you can spend them on:
- 10 Fertilizer, once daily
- The Spring Gift Bouquet, once daily (alternatively to buying for Spring Tokens)
- Resetting the cooldown on the critic's judging of your garden

Gorgeous Garden Contest

Returning is the Gorgeous Garden contest, where each Bush Whacker submits a screenshot of their garden for all to judge! Check back next week for more details.

New Content

This year's update includes:

- 2 new tier 4 and 5 VIP rewards!
- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new garden flowers: Fern Bush, Lions Tooth Flower, Round Shrub
- new garden decoration: Circle Pond
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new holiday 100% reward!

Holiday Trees

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Spring Garden Banner!

More Decorations!

Three new growable decorations have been added: Fern Bush, Lions Tooth Flower, and Round Shrub! Plant seeds for these in your garden boxes in the event area. These can also be bought permanently from Joel at the left of the event area.

A new garden item can be bought for seeds: the Circle Pond!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT There are a total of TWENTY FIVE possible achievements to earn in this year's Spring Garden event.

Returning Achievements

Flower Master- You've grown 1 of each common plant in the Spring Event!
Beast Master- You've gotten every animal in the Spring Event.
Spring Decorator- You've bought 3 of each planter and 1 Watering Can.
Impressive- You impressed all of the Gardening Judges in the Spring Event.
Most Impressive- You got the highest mark from the final Gardening Judge in the Spring Event!
Five Days at Freddy's - Complete all of Freddy's Spring Daily Quests!
Spring Botanist - You collected flowers for all the Spring Garden judges.
Beekeeper - You completed the Spring Garden beehive quests.
Bee Buddy - Help Joel make Bushwhackia a better place for the bees.
Bug Collector - Help Satoshi expand his bug collection. Garden Critic - Vote 50 times in the Gorgeous Garden Photo contest.
Onionling Sheperd - Round up all 100 Onionlings during the Spring Garden event.

New Achievements

Verdant Variety - You bought all the 2026 Spring Garden event items!*

Retired Achievements

We also have THIRTEEN achievements from previous years which may be earnable by spending Bush Bucks if you missed getting them the first time around.

Spring Selections - You bought all the 2025 Spring Garden event items!*
Gardener's Garments - You bought all the 2024 Spring Garden event items!
Dewy Duds - You bought all the 2023 Spring Garden event items!
Blossom Buyer - You bought all the 2022 Spring Garden event items!
Planter Purchases - You bought all the 2021 Spring Garden event items!
Flowery Frills - You bought all the 2020 Spring Garden event items!
Ripe Raiments - You bought all the 2019 Spring Garden event items!
Garden Gatherer - You bought all the 2018 Spring Garden event items!
Organic Acquisitions - You bought all the 2017 Spring Garden event items!
Spring Token Trader - You bought all the 2016 Spring Garden event items!
Garage Sale Connoisseur - Purchase all the 2015 Spring Event items!
Spring Spender- Purchase all the 2014 Spring Event items!
Fresh Year Round- Purchase all the 2013 Spring Event items!

*The mini-golf piece is not required for the Verdant Variety achievement.

A Growing Companion!

Mount Packs

To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available this weekend, from May 8th to 11th!

The Purple Butterfly mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Blossoming Duck and Floral Kangaroo are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

Pet Packs

Three new pets can be picked up May 15th to 18th in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle! From left-to-right they are the Toadstool, Satyr, and Turnip!



Post your green thumb adventures and questions on the forum!

The event will run until Friday May 22nd at 12 PM PDT!

View the full Change Log

Frequently Asked Questions

• How can I find the seeds?
  Just keep whacking. The Holiday Item runes and pets will help attract them as well.


• How do I grow plants?
  There are the planters outside the garden to grow flowers in. If you click on them, you can see the plant store. Each plant has a different cost and grow time to get you your event progress points. You start with 4 free planters.


• Is it good to buy extra planters for growing the plants?
  If you have the seeds to spare and prefer to plant long-growing plants, then yes, it's worth it.


• How do I get the Decorator achievement?
  If you go into the gardening area, the store button ($) has a selection of garden decorating items, where you can find the planter styles and watering can. These items also cost seeds.


• What are the possible seed combinations for Farmer MacDonald's quest?
  You can choose seeds that grow either Energy or Gold, and then choose between 20, 15, 4, and 3 hours of growth time.


• Why do my custom seeds cost Gold to plant?
  You created the combination, which is unlocked until they expire. Just like normal plants, they cost Gold for planting. We don't award a flat number of seeds, because not all players have the same amount of farm plots. This way, you get to choose how many you end up growing. :)
  
• Why don't my custom seeds last longer?
  Because they're OP! Enjoy them while they last. :)


• How do I please the judges?
  Just keep growing plants. As your event progress increases, you will impress the judges more and more. You DO NOT need to place them in your garden if you don't wish to. The plants still count for progress.


• Does the Timey-Wimey watch or Time Turner affect the judges?
  No, judges do not have quest cooldowns, so trinket effects that work for quests will not apply to them.


• What adds to my event progress?
  Growing plants worth points and completing the side quests. To get the points from your plants, you don't even need to place them in your garden! Just grow them!


• 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.

Spring Garden Event Update (May 8th, 2026)

- Updated Spring Garden Event
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Updated tier 4 and 5 VIP event rewards
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Added Fern Bush, Lions Tooth Flower, and Round Shrun as growable garden decorations
- Added new garden item: Circle Pond

Bird Watching

Wren Windmere, a travelling ornithologist, has arrived to the land of Bushwhackia!

In this unique window of time, a vast variety of birds are gathered here together. Wren is hoping to observe and document every bird he can find, but he needs help from the whole community to do so.

Enriching Contributions

To attract these migratory birds to the event area, each individual Bush Whacker must find Bird Toys from bushes all across Bushwhackia!

Turn in these Bird Toys to Wren to earn Bird Watching Tokens! These tokens can be traded for your choice of bird pet!

And to further the effort, Wren's assistant, Piper, has a series of quests you can do to build up the temporary roosting spot in the event area.

Birds of a Feather

Every Bird Toy found increases your individual Bird Toy Points for this mini-event, but also earns points towards the collective goals for the community!

The more community progress, the more options of bird pets there are to choose from in Ye Rare Bird Aviary to trade your tokens for!

Each Bush Whacker may only trade for 1 bird pet during this mini-event. Work together to unlock the most options possible!



After selecting your bird pet, extra tokens can be exchanged for special satchels in the store.

Flock Together

You have until Wed April 29th to make your contributions to this limited-time community quest! Assuming you're all successful, you can pick up your reward from them any time before Friday May 1st at noon.

Post your comments, questions, and squawk here on the forum!

Change Log

Bird Watching Community Mini-Event (April 24th, 2026)

- New community mini-event with unique rewards! (April 24 - May 1)
- Gather bird toys to attract special birds to the Commons event area!
- Turn in your bird toys to earn tokens to trade for a bird and satchels!
- Unlock more options of birds to choose from by reaching community goals!

- QoL Adjustments:
- Search bars on store dialogs are cleared when opening a new store
- If a custom or ranch quickset has no name, will default to "Set X"

- Fixed bug where Misty would be missing the option "I have a current generation egg…" after accepting pet hatching quest

- Anniversary event fixes:
- Fixed the 14th anniversary cake not showing up in the event area.
- Fixed the bandoliers trinket set trivia question having the wrong answer.
- Changed an extra trinket set trivia question to a Garment Bag trivia question.
- Added a trivia question on Ranch Moving Box sets.

Happy 14th Anniversary Bushwhackia!

This event starts at noon on Friday April 10th!

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 3 more gnomes. Each completion will award you a random developer gnome and there are now 49 of us to collect. Note, if you have less than 38 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 2 new questions! Plus the return of Linus (from Halloween) who will have a sweet reward and of course, 14 years of whacking bushes has taken its toll, 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. 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 Saturday April 18 at Noon PDT and be available to interact with until Wednesday April 22nd at Noon PDT.

And where's that 1st cake at? Help Investigator Kaine get to the bottom of it in this year's new quest.

New this year:

This year's update includes:

- new tier 3,4 VIP rewards!
- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new holiday 100% reward!
- Added new cake
- Added new quest
- Added 3 new developer gnomes
- Added 2 new trivia questions
- First anniversary cake quest
- Alternate Shlampaca reward for Georgia's quest

Holiday Banner

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Anniversary Banner!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are a total of SEVENTEEN possible achievements to earn in the Anniversary event.

Returning Achievements

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.
Gnomevelopers 3 - Earn all 32 of the anniversary developer gnomes
Gnomevelopers 4 - Earn all 43 of the anniversary developer gnomes
Gnomefier - Craft anniversary developer gnomes 5 times

New Achievements

Fortnight of Findings - Purchase all the 14th Anniversary Event items*

Retired Achievements

We also have 4 achievements from previous years which may be earned by spending Bush Bucks if you missed getting them the first time around.

Decade Dressing - Purchase all the 10th Anniversary Event items
Anniversary Mementos - Purchase all the 6th Anniversary Event items.
Celebrate Good Times - Purchase all the 4th Anniversary Event items!
Decoration Dozens - Purchase all the 12th Anniversary Event items
*The Mini Golf piece isn't required to complete the Decoration Dozens achievement.

Ride In Style

Mount Packs

To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available this weekend, from March 8th to 11th!

The Bush mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Rosebush and Twilight Bush are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

Pet Packs

Three new pets can be picked up April 19th to 22nd in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle! From left-to-right they are the Bush Buddy, Kitsune Kit, and Megalodon Pup!



Post your plans for the next year of adventuring with Bush Whacker 2 on the forums!

The event will run until Friday April 24th at Noon PDT!

Frequently Asked Questions

• Which developer gnomes are available?
  There are now 49 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.


• 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.

Anniversary Event (April 10th, 2026)

- Updated the Anniversary Event:
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Added new cake
- Added new quest
- Added 3 new developer gnomes
- Added 2 new trivia questions
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event
- Alternate Shlampaca reward for Georgia's quest

Happy Easter Bushwhackers!

With the 14th anniversary event on the way, we've shrunk down the Easter event into a bite-sized version!

Mini Eggs!

Find Mini Eggs in the bushes and turn them in at the event area for progress and tokens to spend on some simple items at the mini event store. With enough progress, you'll earn the Mini Easter Ribbon, which permanently increases your maximum energy by 10! There are also 3 achievements to claim!

Let the Hunt Begin!

And keep your eyes peeled for eggs riddled about Bushwhackia in this year's World Wide Egg Hunt! Some eggs have been shuffled around, so work together to find them all!

Eggtra Opportunities!

And while you're at it, help out a Carrot-topped fellow in the event area with a Deviled Egg problem. After you complete his quest, you'll be able to purchase one of 4 Evil Eggs from the event store!

But if you already have all 4 Evil Eggs, a new quest will be available for you! In this quest, you'll be tasked with growing a unique Easter Egg Plant crop!

New Easter Pets!

Three new eggciting Easter themed pets are on sale during this mini-event!


Each of these pet packs includes a bonus costume item:

- Easter Bunny pet & Licorice Whip
- Gummy Unicorn pet & Mint Branch
- Pink Gummy Bear pet & Waffle Cone Lance

Check them out in the event area and consider picking one up before this mini-event ends!

Hop to It!

The event will run until noon on Wednesday April 8th, 2026.

Plan your attack for finding all the Easter eggs here!

Fuzzy Memories

We had something really important to tell you today... something about the Commons? A quest? Forgetful towns folk? It'll come to us, we're sure of it.

In the meantime, perhaps head to the Commons and see if you can figure out what's going on, because we haven't got a clue.

Quality of Life Sprint - March 2026 (March 31th, 2026)

- Fix visual seam/lines on right/bottom of Paint Regions (was especially noticeable in the Flungeon, Tunnels, and Dredge Mines)

- Fixed the slot machine pop-ups being slightly off-center

- After claiming the Slots Master achievement, you can increase your bets by x2 on slot machines at the Amicus casino.

- Fixed non-default hairstyles not working on mannequins.

- Can now name your costume and ranch sets.

- Costume set tooltips now show a preview of the costume saved.

- Added a search bar to store dialogs.

- Added search history, grey out feedback, and immediate search on enter functionality to search bars

- Added new items to the following stores:
- Botanist: Winter trees from Winter ranch style, Special Palm trees from Beach ranch style
- Furniture Salesman: Mic Stand
- Pawn Stars: Brass Horn
- Tailor: Doctor Shirt
- VIP: Gilded Antique Chair, Jeweled Sword, Security Shirt
- Casino: Electronic Keyboard, Totem Brazier 1, Totem Brazier 2, Totem Brazier 3
- Amicus/Island Token Store: Big Luau Drum, Luau Bongo Drum, Totem Face 1, Totem Face 2, Totem Face 3
- Burglary Boutique: Limited Edition Beeman Comic 1

- Updated the mini easter event (April 3-8):
- New ribbon reward
- New sequel quest if you've got all the Evil Eggs
- Changed some locations of Easter eggs in the world wide egg hunt

- Fuzzy Memories… We've got a weird feeling about April 1st.

Happy St. Patrick's Day Bushwhackers!

The Commons is greener than usual! That's because the Commons Party Planning Committee is putting on a St. Patrick's day party!

Unfortunately, the guests of honour seem to have gotten lost in the bushes. Go whack them up and help them find their way to the Event Area!

Leprechaun Collect-a-thon

There are eight Leprechauns to whack up that will help you put on a rocking St. Patrick's Day party! Every day the event goes on, the odds to whack them up gets larger, so you can get them all before it ends. Three of them will have turn-in stations for you to do and the others will have repeatable quests for you to do for event progress.

A Rainbow of Quests

Unlocking throughout the event are previous year quest lines:

Mr. Keith is looking to put out his special brew again. Help him find the ingredients.

Alec Guiness is whipping up another strange Patty's craft brew to show up Mr. Keith's own beer. Help gather his unusual ingredients.

Seamus is in the mood to do some whacking of his own, but first he needs your help to make the perfect shillelagh.

Siobhan is throwing her version of an Irish Feast...but the dishes got lost in the bushes. Go find them for her!

Those poor snakes are tired of being whacked so often. Help their leader out by setting up his snake relocation program efforts.

Help Bree learn about Irish mythology!

A red Leprechaun up on the Rainbow's End Island might need your help at some point.

New this year

This year's update includes:

- 2 new tier 4 and 5 VIP rewards!
- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new sequel to Bree's mythology quest line!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new holiday 100% reward!

Holiday Trees

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The St. Patrick's Plushie!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are a total of 26 possible achievements to earn in this year's St. Patrick's Day event:

Returning Achievements

Little Rascal - Capture a pesky missing Leprechaun.
More Little Rascals - Capture all of the pesky missing Leprechauns.
Destructive Behavior - Help 25 times at each St. Patrick's Station.
A Perfect Brew - Help Mr. Keith make his brew.
King of Clubs - Help Seamus make a Shillelagh.
Mythological Detective - You helped Bree learn about Irish Mythology.
Crafty Brewing - Help Alec Guiness brew the craftiest of St. Patrick's beers. Rainbow Cloud Island - Find all of the Clover Pots on the Rainbow's End Island.
Crock in a Haystack - Make a whoopsie on Rainbow's End Island and then make it better.

New Achievements

Patty's Procurer - Purchase all the 2026 St. Patrick's Day event items*

Retired Achievements

We also have 16 achievements from previous years which may be earned by spending Bush Bucks if you missed getting them the first time around.

My Leprechaun! - Whack a Leprechaun while dressed like Rainbow (Wearing custom items from 2014.)
My Rainbow! - Whack Rainbow while dressed like a Leprechaun (Wearing custom items from 2013.)
Seeing Double - Visit each Leprechaun while wearing their hat, cape, glasses and/or gloves
Pot o' Swag - Purchase all of the 2018 St. Patrick's Day event items.
Patty's Purchases - Purchase all of the 2017 St. Patrick's Day event items.
Always Wearing Green - Purchase all of the 2016 St. Patrick's Day event items.
Lucky Purchase - Purchase all of the 2015 St. Patrick's custom items.
Rainbow Braid - Purchase all of the 2014 St. Patrick's custom items.
Green Pride Week - Purchase all of the 2013 St. Patrick's custom items.
Green Garb and Gear - Purchase all of the 2019 St. Patrick's Day event items.
Rainbow Raiment - Purchase all the 2020 St. Patrick's Day event items
Shamrock Stuffs - Purchase all the 2021 St. Patrick's Day event items
Cheers to Gear - Purchase all the 2022 St. Patrick's Day event items
Emerald Aisle - Purchase all the 2023 St. Patrick's Day event items
Pint-sized Purchases - Purchase all the 2024 St. Patrick's Day event items
Pot O' Purchases - Purchase all the 2025 St. Patrick's Day event items

* The mini-golf piece in the "Ye Green Goods Outlet" is not required for this year's purchasing achievement.

Grab a new drinking buddy!

Mount Packs

To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available this weekend, from March 8th to 11th!

The Green Irish Elk mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Gold Rainbow Cloud and Shamrock Giraffe are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

Pet Packs

Three new pets can be picked up March 15th to 18th in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle! From left-to-right they are the Green Spotty Goat, Shamrock Clover Balloon, and Green Beer!



This event runs until Friday March 27th @ Noon PDT.

Post your comments and questions here on the forum!

Change Log

FAQ

What are the different leprechauns?
You can whack up two types of leprechauns: hatted and non-hatted.

• There are 8 hatted ones to find, 3 will unlock turn-in stations, and the other 5 will give you daily quests. You must manually whack these ones to capture them.


• The non-hatted ones will drop items for you to turn into the turn-in stations. You can quick whack and mana whack non-hatted leprechauns when they appear if you wish. The non-hatted leprechauns will *always* drop some turn-in items, rather than just having a chance to.

How can I find the leprechauns?
Just keep whacking. You could whack them all up in a day if you wanted to. The odds to whack up hatted leprechauns will increase as the event goes on.

What adds to my event progress?
Turning in items to the Gold, Beer and Clover stations, and doing quests for folks in the event area.

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.

Why should I ask for friends to help boost turn-ins?
It increases the amount of progress you get from doing a turn-in.