Christmas Event

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The Christmas seasonal event takes place during the second half of December.

There is content exclusive to this time. Special music and temporary decorations. During the event a variety of seasonal cosmetic items are available to drop in prizeboxes. There is a questline with unique rewards. Special artifacts drop on all stages. There are seasonal divine items and a mythic emblem. There is a special Boss.

Questline

Quest Requirement Reward
SEASON OF GIVING Give a present to a stranger. 1 Token (recurring)
AGENT OF SANTA Give 3 presents to strangers. Santa's Helper (avatar)
BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE Rescue 10 strangers from ice. Penguin (avatar)
SNOWY STRANGER Build a Snowman. Frosty (avatar)
THIS PLEASES SANTA Win a stage alongside good Santa. Saint Nick (avatar)
I AM BECOME CLAUS Dress as Santa. Below Zero
? Complete Igloo with no monsters remaining. ?
AVALANCHES Destroy 10 Igloo landmarks. Sharpclaw Yeti (avatar)
MILK AND COOKIES Placate Santa with 20 milk or fortune cookies. Ice Patch (inventory)

Questline Tips

Build a snowman by collecting 3 soft snow and using one from your inventory.  Watering Can is probably the easiest way to collect 3, but  Soft Clay may be able to help. Or, if you can get a  Scribe to copy a soft snow into an Heirloom slot, that's obviously a bonus.

I think by far the easiest way to collect all 3 pieces of Santa armor ( Santa Hat,  Santa Robe, and  Santa Boots) is to build a snowman and spend a lot of gold on it (I got 3 full sets from ~500 gold, and the snowman was charging 8 gold).  Christmas Chest may help get soft snow.

A super easy way to complete Igloo (or any stage) with no monsters remaining is to craft  Molotov and use it at the end of the stage (before clicking Finish! button).

Thanks to mozekmc for this strategy for completing the milk and cookies quest:

Mode: Casual Shadowman (Quest V) (has many chests and shops, but quick clears) Mastery:  Bubbler Mastery III Special chest:  Bubble Chest Heirloom:  Santa Doll Favor:  Milk,  Bubble Wrap, possibly  Bubbler Doll (spend the remaining slots on making some random cheap consumables less common) Divines: None are necessary Sigil: None is necessary


My attempts would consist of the following:

  • Try to maintain exactly 10 coins (to manipulate shop inventory and not bloat the pool with expensive items)
  • Avoid opening chests (can contain coins which we do not want)
  • Leave all item shops for later
  • De-clutter the screen by popping bubbles on numbered cells at the end of a stage (except for bubbles containing bubble chests if present)
  • Save bubble chests until the Convoy stage, where I believe they have the best chance to contain Bubble Wrap. If Bubble Wrap is not obtained by the end of Convoy, reset
  • After exiting Convoy, visit all item shops and buy Milk if it is available. If none of the item shops in the quest have Milk, reset
  • Use Bubble Wrap to trap the Milk in a bubble
  • Complete the rest of the quest except for the final stage
  • Use your mastery's ultimate ability to duplicate bubbled Milk along the way, but make sure to save a fully-charged mastery for the final stage
  • At the beginning of the final stage, retrieve the Santa Doll heirloom and use your mastery's ultimate ability to spawn Santa
  • Pop bubbles containing Milk near Santa
  • Finish the stage in as many turns as possible and hope that Santa walks into the Milk
  • If you have additional bubbling items, use them to reposition dropped Milk if Santa walks too far away from it

My last run was extremely lucky, obtaining Milk within the first 2 item shops and a  Bubbler Doll from an extra bubble chest along the way, allowing me to get 16 bubbles containing Milk in the final stage (of which Santa walked into 13). Maybe it's worth it to use a favor slot on making Bubbler Dolls more common?

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