Event Anniversary Event 2023

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Dear Kings and Queens,

Forge of Empires is turning 11 years young! Those of you who were here last year will remember our big tenth anniversary celebration, but we thought - why stop there? We had such a great time we decided to celebrate our birthday again this year! So get your party hats ready and prepare to join us in our sparkly new event with brand new mechanics and some beautiful new prizes to be won.

The event starts on March 28th and runs until April 17th!

The plot​

This year, we take you on a journey to investigate a mysterious phenomenon. A group of scientists discovers a rich vein of gems they've never seen before. Moreover, some of the gems hold what appears to be keys, or at least parts of them.

Lacking existing solutions, the scientists develop new technologies to analyze the gems and find out their origin: the Spawner to extract the ores, and the Converter to crack them open for keys. Digging deeper, the scientists discover a chamber full of chests, each requiring multiple keys to open, and rewarding you with valuable resources.

To aid their research, our characters hired Lilith, the Key Master. Overseeing all the operational details, Lilith will give you event quests. Make sure to complete them to gain enough Energy to extract the gems. Of course the Energy can also be found in incidents, just like in any other event.

Want to know more about the plot? Check out the Avatars section for details from each scientists' role in the research!

Event mechanics​

Spawn and merge the gems​

This year's event features an all new merge mechanic! When the event starts, you will gain access to a board full of marvelous gems. Most of these gems will be locked in place behind the glass. To break the glass and unlock the gem, you need a free gem of the same color and level. To get the free gem, click on the Spawner button. This button will use Energy to spawn the gem. You can then use this newly spawned gem to "break the glass" and unlock a locked gem of the same size and color. Doing so, you will also level up your gem and can use it to continue merging. Every new merge with a locked piece will also get you a small reward and Grand Prize progress. The higher the level of the gem, the bigger the reward! Note: gems will get you different type rewards depending on their color. Check out the Cheat Sheet under the board to see which rewards you can get!

Convert gems into keys​

Each locked gem will also come with a key part: either a top part or a bottom part. Pay close attention to these when you are choosing which gems to merge! If you merge two gems with key parts, those parts will be combined into a full key. But remember - to make a full key you need to merge a top part and a bottom part, as well as matching the colors and sizes of the gems. Feed the gems with a full key into your Converter to remove the piece from the board and free up the key. Keys can be created on gems of many sizes, but the bigger the gem, the more keys you will get for converting that gem! You can also receive one per day from Daily Challenges.

Open chests for rewards​

Keys can be used to unlock chests to give you a chance to win the Daily Special, among a variety of other useful resources! Your first chest of each day will also have a bonus increasing the prizes you gain from that chest, so pick your first chest of the day carefully!

The objective is to clear all the gem combinations on the board and collect all of the keys required to open the reward chests. If you have unlocked all of the locked gems on the board, you can reset the board for free to populate it with new gems and keep matching. But most importantly, you get a board completion reward for the finished board!

Feeling stuck? Don't worry, you can also reset the board with locked gems still on it. Once refresh a day is free, but you will have to spend Energy to do the reset afterwards. If you have a lot of pieces left on the board, you'll gain some bonus keys when you progress to a new board!

Prizes​

Grand Prizes​

Every time you merge a previously locked gem or open a chest, you gain progress towards the Grand Prize. This year's Prize includes kits for our stunning new building, the Tower of Conjunction! It does not require any road connection! A fully upgraded Tower of Conjunction will get you the following bonuses:

Tower of Conjunction - Lv. 10 (7x3)
61 to 4524 Medals 1000 to 63200 Supplies 9 to 11 Forge Points 20 to 22 Goods +12% to +22% Attack for Attacking army

With the help of the Golden Upgrade Kit, you can branch out the Tower of Conjunction into one of the four different variants, each favoring a certain gameplay style. After this upgrade, the building boosts the level 10 stats and a couple of extra bonuses, depending on the style of the building.

You can get the Golden Upgrade Kit from the Grand Prize, from the Tower of Conjunction Selection Kit, from the Anniversary Prizes, and also from the final League Reward.

Apart from the extra stat bonuses, you can also select a brand-new look of your Tower, as shown below:

Royal Tower of Conjunction	Cardinal Tower of Conjunction	Phantom Tower of Conjunction	Scholar Tower of Conjunction
+ bonus Supplies and Medals, Previous Era Goods, Guild Goods, One Up Kit Fragments, Supply Production boost	+ Coins, Renovation Kit Fragments, Coin Production boost	+ bonus Defense and Attack for Defense and Attack Army	+ Population, Happiness, Random Units, Blueprints

Other prizes up for grabs!​

Daily Specials​

Daily Specials deserve a separate mention in this announcement as this time they feature quite a few rewards from past events. So don't forget to check your Specials! One of them might be that last Selection Kit you need to finish your favorite special building.

Anniversary prizes​

Can't get enough of our gorgeous art deco style main prize? We have a bonus for you - the Key Master's Workshop! It is a brand new 4 level building, also in that elegant art deco style, which provides a wealth of resources for your city. However, all this comes at a price: note that the building will increase your City's demand for Happiness and decrease the available population. Use it with caution!

The Key Master's Workshop is available as a reward in the Anniversary Prizes lane.

Key Master's Workshop - Lv. 4 (2x3)
1220 to 25710 Happiness demanded 195 to 11297 available Population demanded 6 to 8 Forge Points 18 to 20 Goods +2 Tower of Conjunction Selection Kit Fragment (100 required) +9% to +11% Attack for Attacking army +10% to +12% Attack for Defending army

We've also added two more brand-new items to the Anniversary Prizes lane of the event:

	The Epic Anniversary 2023 Selection Kit. Did you miss out last year or hope to gain more copies of the Golden Orrery? This kit containing all the popular buildings from last years' Anniversary Events is here to grant your wishes!
	But if that doesn't float your boat we have even more to offer! The Epic Historical Questlines Selection Kit, containing almost all buildings which were available in our previous Historical Questlines, is here to add some history to your city Forge of Empires style!

Leagues​

For the more competitive players, the Event League is the perfect way to match your progress against the other players on your world. The more you progress through the event, the higher you rank, and the better the bonus prizes you could win at the end of the event.

Avatars​

For this event, our talented artists bring you 6 new avatars, available from Quests, the League Reward and the Anniversary Prizes.

Each avatar represents one of the scientists investigating the mystery gems together with you.

	Elise	Hadwin	Viktor	Akari, Calder & Nigel
Portrait
Where to get?	Quest reward	Quest reward	League reward	Premium Pass
Biography	Was the first to discover the new vein of gems you have never seen before.	Singlehandedly concepted and engineered the Spawner and the Converter – the key elements of your search.	Released a research paper unifying all of the gem theories and reached the conclusion that those gems are not natural but created by some artificial process, yet unknown to our civilization.	Each one of those scientists formed their own theory about each of the specific gem elements. Can you guess which scientist is responsible for which research?

As always, should you have any comments, questions or concerns, please let us know! We're very much looking forward to your feedback here!

Let the journey of discovery begin!

Your Forge of Empires Team