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I believe this is a first for us. The last update included a quest to use minis on 25 trolls, sheep and Chompy pods. The prize is 50 gems. Upon finishing it, a SECOND quest popped up with the remaining time called "A Mini New Year's Resolution Pt. 2".

Send minis on 75 elemental adventures and send minis to Sunrise Towers 25 times. Once again, the prize is gems. It remains to be seen if there's a part three...

I don't have that my sheep, trolls or chompies show up.

Wow, you got through your Chompies fast! I'm only halfway on that one. Good to know in advance I need to get a move on though.

Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't bothered about rushing this quest - might have to give it a bit more thought now! Not worth spending any gems but definitely worth checking in a bit more frequently now!

Thanks once again

I was pleasantly surprised that this quest didn't seem to decrease the spawn rate the way most do. Now I understand why that was. Will likely post early tomorrow with an answer to the part three question.

The sad truth is I really have nothing better to do. I'm currently disabled, hopefully temporarily, so I poke at the game a lot. It's basically that and watch tv since I've been rendered effectively illiterate by my health. I can only read for a few minutes at a time, a few times a day. Sadly, I spend most of those minutes here.

Quest part 3:

Use minis in sanctuaries 8 times.

Collect from Snack Stands 50 times.

Place 30 decorations.

Part 2's prize was 75 gems and a tree.

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The prize is 50 gems.

WOW !!! That is very generous .

Wow, I'm definately not finishing this with only poor Hijinx. Sanctuaries and Elemental Adventures are fine if I finish the first part,but Sunrise Towers 25 times is too much for just one Mini.

Third part prize is a chompy gift shop and 250 gems. So ignoring the stuff, total prize for the quest line is 375 gems. Worth the effort for most players.

No fourth part.

I need more Troll Camps, it's lagging way behind Sheep and Chompies.

Nice 375 gems ist the best deal i've ever seen in that game.

Wow - thanks for all the info CrazyCanuck!
And I really hope you recover quickly and are back to doing all your regular activities.

Yeah. This seems almost impossible. I know I haven't been playing as much as I used to, but I've been trying to log on whenever I can and not much luck getting the spawns I need. I realized that I had one island almost full of chests leftover from past spawns that I had left behind for Chill Bill. I cleared those out to make room, but still no luck.

Edit: I had a question about these timed quests, but now that I looked back to see how much time we had left, it still had over 15 days left. So it's not a typical 6-7 day quest. So that's good. So to my question at hand, does the timer continue from the original time, or do they have their own set of time? So now that we have 15 days left, if I finished the quest, now, would I still have 15 days, or does the new quest have it's own timer?

Also, by looking at the quest, it does say "Pt. 1", so having it be multi-part makes sense. It does make it a bit more interesting, and may be a way to tie us over for a few weeks.

The three parts all have the same end time. So whatever time you have left on part one when you finish it will be the time you have for part two.

I lucked out with the spawns. I had a ton of sheep and the chompy invasion did well for me. I hit the point where I needed eight trolls with seventeen days to go. It seemed like I had one troll waiting every time I logged in.

Yeah, it did say part one. I checked my wife's game after I got part 2. Like everyone else, I didn't actually read the quest title until then.

The quest is very doable. My wife finished part three yesterday. Admittedly I am assuming most of you have most or all of the minis. 100 quests is pretty easy running 15 of them at a time. Using the clock once it takes less than five hours total for part two. If you only have one mini it will of course be a different story. If you really do only have one mini, PM me and I'll give you some toy codes.

Wow, I wasn't too worried about the time since I'm about half done the first part, but if there's no extra time given for the next two, it could be tight to finish if they don't speed up the spawning. Should be OK, though, since the last two parts are basically fixed-time jobs.

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Wow, I'm definately not finishing this with only poor Hijinx. Sanctuaries and Elemental Adventures are fine if I finish the first part,but Sunrise Towers 25 times is too much for just one Mini.

I could probably get you a code for Whisper Elf. We could work a trade--but I'd probably just give it to you anyway.

Have anything good?

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I need more Troll Camps, it's lagging way behind Sheep and Chompies.

I got Knight Light about the time I got the mini quest, and gave him all my troll camps for a while. I'm 18 short of finishing the quest

I'd be interested in that. Do you need Bop or Terrabite, I could give you one of those.

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The three parts all have the same end time. So whatever time you have left on part one when you finish it will be the time you have for part two.

The quest is very doable. My wife finished part three yesterday. Admittedly I am assuming most of you have most or all of the minis. 100 quests is pretty easy running 15 of them at a time. Using the clock once it takes less than five hours total for part two. If you only have one mini it will of course be a different story. If you really do only have one mini, PM me and I'll give you some toy codes.

I noticed we had 21 days from the start of the quest, and then noticed the Pt 1. So I'm not surprised we get just the one chunk to do it all. I'm glad to know it's such a nice reward.
We'd do it anyway, and we have plenty of minis, but I'm a bit bothered at the HARD quests being just a gem or worse yet the gateway one where you have to spend 1500 gems for just a Shrine. If I was willing to pay gems for a shrine--I'd do that.

and on a completely different note concerning the chompies and Villains.

Threatpack doesn't just grab the running trolls and sheep (although just having something get the wizard trolls is worth every potion/trap he cost me) but he nabs those little buggers too!

I confess it only seemed very reasonable that he would--but it's a nice surprise that it is true!

Threatpack is alright if you aren't good with tapping the screen, but he also completely removes the rewards for chompies and wizard trolls.Might be a glitch, but in that case I'd rather just do it the old fashioned way instead of wasting energy for quick XP.

no rewards? I got my potion rewards for the chompies, that's how I noticed he was working. I logged on and as the screen was setting up, I saw a poof and a potion bottle just appear where there weren't any crops. That's how I knew a pod was just off screen.

As for the wizard trolls, you do get the larger ransom from them at the prison, but I didn't notice the reward for actually getting them.
Our problem is that we seem to miss at least 1-2 escapees because they always spawn in some of the tight places on the islands. and remember our kids play and sometimes they aren't quick enough.

But after my last round with Broccoli guy I have 25M energy. it's not really a matter of wasting

Part 1 is proving to be difficult for me. I cleared out the chompie and sheep parts easily enough, but Trolls just aren't spawning. I've only cleared 7 so far. Unless I have a major troll invasion take place soon, it's going to be extremely tight to complete parts 2 and 3 by the time I catch them all.

Same deal on the trolls for me. Now I'm getting those snowman trolls at times and they don't count toward the mission, so it's gotten even harder. I even got lucky and trapped the villian that increases invaders with not much extra help. Parts 2/3 seem like a long shot.

I've been getting a lot more trolls today than before, but it's still way less than usual. The wish stone trolls really seem to replace regular ones because before they showed up I'd get a pretty healthy amount of trolls.

10 troll camps so far. I have upped the visits from5 a day to 10 today.

I have had no trolls for 2 days and have 10 spots for them to choose from.

Its now teasing me by dropping loads of sheep, that I don't need. On,y 9 total trolls and none in 3 days.

Almost done with quest 2

Just started 3rd quest on one game. The other will start tonight.

Finally got another Troll! When I clear it, that will be #9 for me, so still a long way to go. Some people swear that if you leave a given type, it will multiply. I decided to test that theory out. I cleared all chompies and sheep, and left the one troll camp for later. Fingers crossed that his friends will come and join him!

Stuck with 5 troll camps to go and no trolls in sight! Conversely, my spawn rate for traptanium is WAY up. I even had 2 spawn right next to each other this morning. I almost never have 2 spawn at once. Now I get a new one spawning every time I load the game. I wonder if there's a correlation (like the game needs to put something there and since it refuses to put trolls, it puts traps?).

I've noticed that too, Midas! I've had tons of traptanium!! I used to get one every 2 or 3 days, but for the past week or so I've been getting at least one every time I open the game.

I also wonder if its the curse of having a quest. Not for the minis - the system doesn't jump to the next available mini when I go to select, so it doesn't seem to know about the quest in the same way, but I have a quest for Knight Light to clear trolls that it clearly does know about.

They really need to re-think timed quests that depend on random aspects of the game. Providing a quest that may be impossible to complete no matter how often you check is bad game design. That's basically saying you players can get free gems, and you other players can not.

At minimum it should be a goal to clear a bunch of "invaders". A goal that allows sheep, chompy pods, trolls, sugar bats, and the nothing guys to all count.

I got one troll today. I'm going with the same theory of leaving it to see if trolls attack in numbers. Cant hurt.

I left. My iPad plugged in and on all day by me while working. I was able to complete phase 1.

10 trolls left here, no luck with spawns after a certain hour for some reason. Plenty of sheep and chompy pods to taunt me however.

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Conversely, my spawn rate for traptanium is WAY up.

My traptanium spawning seems to be normal . Probably just random .

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I left. My iPad plugged in and on all day by me while working. I was able to complete phase 1.

Wow. I don't think I'd get much work done if I tried that. I am in awe of your multitasking abilities.

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I left. My iPad plugged in and on all day by me while working. I was able to complete phase 1.

Wow. I don't think I'd get much work done if I tried that. I am in awe of your multitasking abilities.

I turned the volume up so I could here the noise when I had an invasion. It did effect my productivity some. but it was a light day anyway.
I will be done with the quest today. There are still 11 1/2 days left

11 days and 10 hours remaining, and I've only had 10 Trolls so far. To get another 15 in that time feels optimistic, but I'll keep trying. The adventures, with Sunrise 25 times, can be done in one day. Sanctuaries 8 times only needs 5 hours. So I guess I still have 10 days to get 15 trolls. Should be easy - right?!

And even without Hermit you can just save up energy now while waiting for them and load all Sanctuaries at once overnight. But it really depends on the darned trolls, because who knows if people are going to travel to places with no internet and need those days the lack of trolls is taking.

I was distracted at a crucial moment, finger slipped, and I cleared a precious troll camp with a non-mini. Sigh. So not going to get another 15 if silly things like that happen!

Had a good Troll day yesterday - I'm now up to having captured 18 out of the required 25 trolls, so I'm feeling a bit more optimistic for completing this quest with time to complete parts 2 and 3. Still extremely slow though - especially compared with the numbers of sheep and chompies I'm still getting.

Managed to get the first part finished early yesterday - the trolls really picked up the last couple of days (4-5 each day). Finished the second part this morning and the third part will be done tonight. It's just a pain having to wait for trolls to spawn when you have no control over it.

I've decided to try to clear the Knight Light's troll quest and see if that helps me generate more than 1 troll every other day or so. I've cleared 3 for him today (I was banking a few). Hopefully I get the rest done and the floodgates open so I can at least finish the first part of this quest.

Has anyone finished the third part of the quest yet? Those snack stands barely ever give out chompsicles anymore.

I finished it yesterday, at least when I was doing it they gave the item every time because I have six of them and every collection the total went up by six. It should be a 100% drop as far as I can tell, maybe restart your game?

i added 5 stands to my islands to max of 6 and received a chompsicle each time. It did not take very long.

First part finished as Buzzer Beak only decides to show his ugly face in the last 3 trolls, at least while I wait for timers to go by I can use the Minis that aren't going to Sunrise Towers to complete quests and the like.Kinda difficulty to balance this now with the Empire of Ice timed quest with 12 balloons(missed the airship sale because low attention span), but it's working atm.

The last two parts are fairly quick, particularly if you have appropriate companions to speed up collections, adventures and sanctums. It's just that first random part that is a pain.

By the way, the third part that asks you to use Minis to activate Sanctums will only count one per activation, even if you activate it with two. The only way to get it in one cycle is to use a Mini in all eight.

And I've had a problem with placing decorations "sticking" on quests (since I place them then delete them) if the game restarts. So I always do that part last. Using the free paths counts as a decoration for this quest, so it can save you some gold on the place 30 decorations requirement.