Information/Feedback about the Gift Wrapping Station 2022

The storage is what I am fearing.  I am all of a sudden getting just the snowflake crates--- of which I have 1... but 18 of the long and 10 of the stacked, and 9 green.. I keep looking for strangers to help... but they are hard to find

Thanks for letting me know that I had not missed an announcement!  LOL

Maybe the machine will come back for a different holiday and the gifts will morph into a new one...LOL

According to a video:


Boats will stop December 31, 10AM UTC
Gifts and machine will be removed December 31, 12PM UTC without compensation
We have until Jan 2, 8AM UTC to use holly, then it will be exchanged at a rate of 5 coins/holly.

5 coins for 1 Holly? In the catalog I get 25000 coins for 50 Holly, that’s 100 times more. If the 5 per Holly is true you might swap it for coins if you can via the catalog.

Hmm. Good question.

Has anyone noticed this on other boat events, like puzzle boats, etc? It may be the same. But if the gifts are already gone and converted to holly, maybe not.


Edit, three question marks turns into the oddest “confused” face ever, lol. 

At the start of the event, my boat , which was on the way, wanting 3 regular products turned into boat wanting gift after event had started.

If that boat is important for you to be filled, best to open games after confirmation from other players.

Edit after 10AM UTC on 31st Dec (end of boat event):
the boat on the way prior to this deadline arrived and still want gift, as Gift Wrapping Machine is still working (no longer has the same deadline as boat event).
boat following that one no longer requires gift.

Okay. My gift wrapping station seems like it will still work. I didn’t risk it, but it’s doesn’t seem to be rejecting ingredients if I move in the direction of one of its slots. Yet I have a lot of leftover presents made, but my next boat doesn’t want gifts. Part of that is on me as I didn’t pay attention to what 10 am UTC would mean here on the east coast of the US. So that’s on me. But why not let people play on New Years Eve? I have all day, and all these presents pre-made. I wish someone at SC had the job of THINKING about things like that. World wide playing population and all that…

The wrapping machine is still busy, but the next boat is not requesting gifts. I can still finish off the gift boat of my baby farm. And others.

I don’t know what it’s being converted to, lol, but I don’t see anyone jumping online to tell us the answer to the mystery.



I think the question marks have to be separated from the sentence with a space or two.  😂

Of course. Sigh. And presumably now with no place to use the presents.

Oh it’s okay. I really enjoyed the event! The first time I’ve actively done boats since probably about 2015. 

But now I’ll go back to my favorites, town and trucks. 🙂

My bottom line from the event is positive. Although it was laborious and a little bit stressful in the beginning. I misjudged the amount of boats which had to be filled. In short...I served too many boats.   

It took some time to get used to it. Normally I avoid boat orders. I only serve them if I'm forced to. But the stress in the beginning had an advantage, I could step back without the fear to loose a reward I desired. The preliminary work even payed off twice, less stress and being finished with the event at the right time.

No trouble to get rid of the remaining holly and gift. Insofar the laborious beginning was worthwhile.

Looking forward to the next event of this kind, but please, SC, don't give us boat orders again. The town would be a good alternative.

Just for reference, this info is in R3DKNIGHT's video at 17:20.

Uh-oh. If your machine is still there, do you see any gifts in your barn? Thank you.

I finished updating the Community Guide thread about 2022 Gift Wrapping Machine.

A few end of events remarks, for the record:
- 2 extra boosters (last 2 on the list) were added in the last week. I can confirm this having taking screenshot of the pages prior and after.
- at the start of event, 2 event poster (one with the boat, one with the machine) both have the same end time of 26 days (counting down till 10AM UTC on 31st December). This has led to the Gift Wrapping Station being desactivated to make gift around 1 day and a half prior to this deadline.
- as a fix, the Gift Wrapping Station endtime has been changed to 2nd January 2020 8AM UTC. The machine has stopped making gift some time in the evening of 31st December (UTC time).

As consequence, previously anounced end time in various sources are no longer accurate.