Harvest and Halloween Update

The Harvest Festival update was released on the 5th of September 2016 for iOS players; with release still pending on all other platforms.

The Harvest Festival Update introduced 2 new pictures - Farm and Curiosities Room; 20 new collections; and 178 new quests, as well as a new set of timed challenges. The update also introduced a new Picture Level - Grand Magister level - which begins after a player reaches 100% on Professor level.

The Harvest Festical Update is also unique as it is the first time that 2 different Avatars - one male and one female - were given to players for completeing a Timed Challenge.

Harvest Festival Event
The Harvest Festival timed challenges begin when a player reaches game level 7 in the game (or automatically after downloading the update if the player is already above level 7).

The Harvest Festival timed event contains 2(?) challenges. Players had a set number of days to complete the following tasks:

Important: The amount of time available for the Harvest Festival timed challenges will vary across platforms. It is important to note that the Challenge timer begins counting down from the moment the update is released in a device's app store, and not from the moment a player downloads the update. Delaying installing the update will not give you extra time to play the challenges.

The Celebration by the Bonfire Updates's Dandelions and Sunglasses
The Celebration by the Bonfire Update was a unique update since it added two different Timed Challenge events to the game, both of which involved players collecting a Special Item in order to play a new picture:


 * 1) Dandelion special Items were required to play Camping Site as part of the Celebration by the Bonfire Timed Challenges.
 * 2) Sunglasses special Items were required to play Tropical Evening as part of the Vacation by the Sea Timed Challenges.

Both of these Special Items were still required for each play of their Picture once the Timed Challenges were completed, and once the events were over both of these items were restricted so that they could only be won by playing games of Japanese House and Amusement Park.

New Picture Level
Exactly 24 months after Professor Level was added to the game by the Treasure Island Update, a new Picture Level for progress above 100% Professsor has been added to the game by the Harvest Festival Update.

Grand Magister level.

Male Avatar Reward for Timed Challenge
For the first time since the game introduced Timed Challenge Events, two Avatars are given as the reward for completing the Harvest Festival Update's Event.

Server Problems Gifting and Visiting
As with all large updates released for the game, the Spring 2016 update will cause an overload in the games servers during peak times for a couple of days immediately following the release of the update on any platform. During this time players may encounter problems visiting and gifting, and be given a "Failure to connect to the servers." error message when trying to interact with the Friends portion of the game. The servers normally go back to normal after a couple of days once all players on that platform have downloaded the new update.

Glitches fixed by the Harvest Festival Update
...tbc...

Related

 * SS Home
 * Updates
 * Holiday Updates
 * Halloween Update
 * Christmas Update
 * Valentines Update
 * Tavern Update
 * Treasure Island Update
 * Christmas Update 2014
 * Valentines Update 2015
 * Spring 2015 Update
 * Travel Time Update
 * Social Events Update
 * Halloween Update 2015
 * Christmas Update 2015
 * Mountain Vacation Update
 * Spring Festival Update
 * Celebration by the Bonfire Update
 * Quests
 * Collections
 * Artefacts
 * List of Artefacts
 * Farm
 * Curiosities Room