[Event] Blast: Fall



Blast: Fall



Fall arrived and brought a new edition of the Blast event! Destroy blocks in a grid to win incredible rewards!


Note:

There will be 2 different events, each lasting 12 days. The next event will start 22 hours after this one ends.
The divine in the Tyche’s Crown is the same for both events and his fragments can be obtained for the whole duration - 4 weeks!



How to play?


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Destroy them by clicking on a group of at least 2 blocks of the same color. When you destroy blocks, your meter fills up. At the end of the level, you get a chest whose value depends on the number of blocks you destroyed.



Special Blocks

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You can find the following special blocks:

Glass blocks


Destroy adjacent block groups twice to destroy them and to get additional points.


Stone blocks


Get them to fall to the bottom of the grid to destroy them and to get additional points.


Rockets


Create them by destroying at least 8 blocks of the same color at once. Click on them to destroy all the blocks in the same column or in the same line.


Explosion


Use the Explosion to destroy all the blocks on the grid and get 400 points. You get 2 free Explosions for logging in 5 days in a row. You can also buy one Explosion for 35 Passes.


Chests

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Each time you destroy blocks on the grid, points are added to the chest gauge. The more blocks you destroy at once, the more points you get.


When there are no moves left, the grid ends, and at that moment, you will receive:

A chest that will be added to one of your available slots. The rarity of the chest depends on how filled the chest gauge is.

A cup that will fill your general gauge.


At the beginning, you have one slot available. You need to wait to unlock the other two slots or you can pay if you want to unlock them right away.

If all the slots are occupied, you cannot play on the grid anymore until you open one of the chests in a slot to free it up.

To open the chest you can:

Wait until the end of the timer.

Use boosters, and reduce the timer for some hours.

Pay for the Master Key, and reduce the timer to 0 for all the chests in the slots.

The chests that are in your slots will automatically be opened at the end of the event.


Boosters

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Use boosters to open your chests faster!

You can get boosters:

By buying them with Passes.

Every day when you log in, with a fidelity bonus if you come 5 days in-a-row.



Jackpots



Heracles’ Horseshoe


When you reach level 3 on your gauge, you can win the new Heracles’ Horseshoe Cross Country.




Liana


Fill the 5 levels of your gauge to get Liana, the Plant Kingdom Divine.



New divine: Oyster

Mushroom


Oyster Mushroom is the first divine of our New Divine Series: the Mushroom horses!
You can get fragments for this divine in the Tyche’s Crown.



Mobile version


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The mobile version is available for this contest.

To avoid compatibility issues, we recommend you play on the mobile version (if you want to play on a mobile device).

Good luck with the blast event!
The Howrse Team
 
AmOwzing
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When is the next event supposed to start? I don’t see it in the banners yet. default smiley :(
Trex
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Trex wrote:

When is the next event supposed to start? I don’t see it in the banners yet. default smiley :(
did you read the info right above this? it tells you when the next one starts. i won't be in the banner yet. Note that the fact that this promo lasts 2 weeks is a LIE. it lasts 12 days and 2 hours.
Hiram Farmer
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did they edit the above to say 12 days not 2 weeks? i am sure this morning it said 2 weeks.
Hiram Farmer
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Is anyone else experiencing a glitch in the blocks game? I just started opening the chests, so it's still in tutorial mode, and its up to the part where she's telling you to use a rocket to get rid of a whole row. I cannot click the rocket! The box with the instructions is over top of it and it won't even let me drag it out of the way... Therefore, I'm stuck and can't continue.
owl lover
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Honestly, this is hilarious.

Shortening the time by an astounding amount, locking the final prize behind a paywall. Greed left and right, essentially making indirect fun of f2p players. Sure, you need money to run and manage a game but this is hideous.

The overused, repetetive events were already boring enough as is, with the (in my opinion worthless) piñata companions being most of the rewards and the rest of the rewards being food items, fragments for divines you can't get unless you spend real money or save up a ridiculous amount of passes for one divine, etc etc etc. Even more greed all around.

What I mean to say is, there was no need to make the hardly rewarding events impossible to complete for someone who's not willing to spend real cash on a bunch of pixels.

Genuinely now, I'm this close to permanently quitting the game.
Blurryface_
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as a f2p user, i just started back in august and these events and the responses are kinda disheartening to see. i was hoping maybe the events would be completable without pass spending but given the feedback it doesnt seem to be so... i thought i saw in another thread that theyre SUPPOSED to be, but alas i guess default smiley :(

the shark merge just started when i joined, and it was ok but boring. i liked the maze but had to spend passes to complete it despite being fully active the entire event (which i dont regret but dont love and dont plan to do again as id like to save them). this event looks... very disappointing in how little interaction there really is, and the timers seem entirely too long in an attempt to have players spend more. i will still play to get what i can, but i really hope howrse listens to feedback here and the events can maybe become more enjoyable
a_dreemurr
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Hiram Farmer wrote:

did they edit the above to say 12 days not 2 weeks? i am sure this morning it said 2 weeks.


I'm 90% sure it said two weeks this morning. They noticed that we noticed default smiley (lol)
Royale
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owl lover wrote:

Is anyone else experiencing a glitch in the blocks game? I just started opening the chests, so it's still in tutorial mode, and its up to the part where she's telling you to use a rocket to get rid of a whole row. I cannot click the rocket! The box with the instructions is over top of it and it won't even let me drag it out of the way... Therefore, I'm stuck and can't continue.


I was able to click the rocket without issue. Are you on classic or mobile? Maybe try switching from one to the other. Also clear your cache and cookies. Usually that solves most small issues.
Royale
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Proofreading the event information has never been their strong suit. I suppose we should be praising them that THIS one at least didn't cost people a bunch of money. default smiley (d) Too busy wringing it out of people with the week-long time cut, I guess.
Crookedstar915
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I think the worst thing about this is that reduced timer is probably going to trip a bunch of people up, leaving many upset when it leaves almost a week earlier than usual, losing out on the divine if they were close.
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Oathkeeper wrote:

I think the worst thing about this is that reduced timer is probably going to trip a bunch of people up, leaving many upset when it leaves almost a week earlier than usual, losing out on the divine if they were close.
yep. at least it was mentioned in the email that went out. . the big issue will be the plant divine. cause it's going away in 12 days. that's the one i want. I really want a plant divine to work on the plant trophy. I very very very rarely win the new one's but can have luck getting the one's they bring back. that's how i've gotten most of my divines.
Hiram Farmer
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After waiting until the chest was ready to open "the reward" was 100 manure. default smiley (d)
Vaporeon.01
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Crookedstar915 wrote:

Proofreading the event information has never been their strong suit. I suppose we should be praising them that THIS one at least didn't cost people a bunch of money. default smiley (d) Too busy wringing it out of people with the week-long time cut, I guess.


Proofreading anything is not their strong suit. I wince every time the daily achievement tells me to "give birth to a unicorn"! Some of the translations are ... not as seamless as they would hope.

Does anyone have any idea what constitutes "completing a level" this time? The tutorial is so clunky and does not specify.
copykate
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Thankfully i have the plant divine. I bought it when i bought passes. This game used to be a lot of fun. Missing the merge or maze game. Dont i have to open chest at a certain time to get max benefit
Ravenknight
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I'm sorry, but is this actually real? This is making it even harder for people who can't buy passes. We like events as is, but we want there to be better prizes that are easier for free players to obtain! Unless they offer the same divine as the end prize on both, I'm just gonna focus on opening chests and getting BMI. I don't really like the idea of any events in the future being like this.

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jungkookiebunny1
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Probably the most boring event so far for me. I have gotten decent prizes except for these stupid companions that are everywhere you look. I want prizes that’ll actually help with my game please, not the companions. Or make a way to exchange, trade, or sell companions.
westernewilde
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Has anyone calculated how much you need to spend to get the plant divine? Is it worth unlocking one of the slots now if I want to h get the divine?
GlassCat
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it really stinks that the only way to get wilds and chimeras now is to spend 900 passes. they are NOT worth 900 passes. put them back in the luck item promos.
Hiram Farmer
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For everyone that asks about the cost of Liana, this was posted by a player on the discord. I don't think I saw a contradicting calculation.

Posting in a spoiler so it sticks out more, and to separate from my own text:
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"So I think it is still possible to get Liana for free even with it just being 12 days.
I'm treating every day as 6 blocks of 4 hours.
Slot 1 is open from the start so 12x6=72
Slot 2 opens in 4 days so 8x6=48
Slot 3 opens in 9 days so 3x6=18
You get 6 boosters per day so 12x6=72
That gives a total of 72+72+48+18=144+66=210
Divide that by 4 (per wood chest) = 52.5 which is more than the 45 needed.

You do lose a few hours with needing to unlock the gold and diamond chest from the slots but not enough to get rid of the 5 chest buffer and there is the extra set of 6 boosters since this runs across 13 howrse days and the free chest from the tutorial to also help.

I think the main danger is accidentally getting chests better than wood too often."

Some boards are usually more inclined to give one chest over another, so you may have to work hard to get the wood chest over crystals in some cases.
Legacy Ann
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So it’s possible only if you wake up halfway through the night every night, got itdefault smiley :(
gcat113
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You can try just strategically using your boosters so that you're chests are ready to open when you're online, and see how far that gets you. I've always done that with this event. Besides the UFO fights, I can't think of one that I bother waking up in the night for.

Personally, I'd rather wait for some of these older divines to be offered in the Ascent anyway. For a cheaper price than luck items (assuming I don't have enough saved in inventory), I can get multiple horses, and it's something I still enjoy playing nearly a year later.

Regular Rays aren't in the Collections/Trophies anymore, so divines (Liana) that offer them are less of a priority for me.
Legacy Ann
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To add, the player who originally posted those calculations seems to have the same booster plan I do of not needing to wake up to fill your slot, so I don't think it's necessary to log on in the middle of the night anyway.
Legacy Ann
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Thanks for the crosspost!

Based on the info provided it seems setting timers for the event and trying to do as bad as possible on the minigame when it opens will probably be my strategy lool
xiao
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Oathkeeper wrote:

I'm worried about the promos getting even more repetitive. I mean no disrespect, but the same 10 or so promos on repeat gets boring after a while. It would be nice if some old ones, like the stagecoach, potions, and dress up, made a comeback. Those are promos we used to have, but they've just disappeared. It's been years since we've had a stagecoach promo. default smiley :(


I was thinking this recently, too! Bring back some of these other promos! Variety is the spice of life.

I'm still annoyed there is NO Free explosion per day and we don't get double boosters on the 5th day.
carlaz84
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Hello,
I feel sad because if I remeber 1st blowing per day before was free but now we should pay 35 passes! default smiley (n)default smiley :-x
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