Mooncake event

•Have all pets/ safari animals asleep with unfilled bowls/feeders

•Have all 5 smelters stacked with bars: 1 with only gold, 1 with only silver, etc, etc

•Have a decent supply of the basics (sugars, dairys, feathers, honey, etc) in order to produce other items as needed

•Take a gamble on things like jams/juices/sweets (groups 3 for jams/sweets and 4 for most juices)

•Don't load machines just before event starts as you'll likely need to load them with specific items

•Don't collect/feed production animals (especially long ones like goat/sheep) just before event starts in case you get a task to do just that

Foe the who use Rose and/or Ernest, a quick way to deal with a task such as making sugar or collecting milk is to take the task and then sell stock from the helpers' tab. They'll then make it/collect it for you, even while you sleep.

R3DKNIGHT’s video stated that it will last four (4) days with 20 tasks a day. It showed three (3) days but he said it changed to 4. I’m surprised we have had ALL THE NEW DECORATIONS! I’m running out of room. Good luck farmers 😉👍🏻

3 days, with 5 chick vouchers at 1300 points, that’s doable.

3000 points total needed for final threshold.

nice 4 jam for 80 points. 😂🤔

I think I can finish this event well in time, most likely 1 or 2 days.

I am going crazy over the blurred graphics. I hope it will be fixed really soon.

I am not going to participate. Until a few years back I always expanded my production lines to the max, so I have a lot of stacking going on. So to make say four cakes of some kind, I will have to move a lot of products to my barn. Unfortunately my barn is always almost full, so only way to finish a task is to sell a lot of products, that I had not intended to sell. The decorations this time is not worth the hassle imo. If it was Halloween or Christmas decorations I would be all in. But that is just me.

Good luck to all participants. I hope it goes more smoothly this time.

I have 3 still in the queue the six on the board are all ones that are going to take time to complete. There is a couple of wax candle double but placed one after another. I did follow the advice here had prepared so far sitting at 1390 completed. Seems much more balanced this time.

I'm going to quickly grab these 5 chick vouchers before they're deemed a "bug" and the reward is changed to a single chick voucher or... a map piece

As already mentioned...the mooncake event is easily doable, no comparison with the difficulties from the Oktoberfest. On one hand I am happy to notice that SC obviously took the complaints from the users to heart but on second thoughts it's still a pity.

The mooncake event is nice, yes, but the rewards don't knock my socks off. Of course, that's my opinion. Hence I decided to stop until I reached the vouchers. Normally I am not very eager for them though. But 5 in one shot can't be neglected. 😉

You’re absolutely right, it’s definitely much better and I am truly appreciative they listened to the feedback and made changes to improve plater experience quite considerable. 
I will also try and participate in this event for sure.

It’s just my initial and raw spontaneous reaction towards seeing this type of event changed dramatically. 
you know it’s a similar feeling as finding the last of your rarest expansion item to finish an upgrade or open a box and finding diamonds and such which I had when Oktoberfest first started before knowing the changes yet. 
I certainly did not have this exciting feeling anymore when first seeing the moon cake 

Before the event started, I had an odd mix of excitement and dread. More dread than excitement.

The Oktoberfest format change really threw me for a loop. It took me 3 days before I realized I could still take tasks from the board when the Queue tracker said I had 0 tasks left. As a result, I missed earning points early on. At least now I have a feel for how this is supposed to work.

Sources of my dread:

1. 3 days long
2. 9,000 points required for top deco (which would require playing 24 hrs per day) per Gizmospike's pre-event video.
3. Getting terrible/impossible tasks (jam maker, preservation station, feed pigs)

Luckily, my farm is well-equipped, and I have lots of inventory. I also have baby farms to help out my main farm. This would be a lot harder for lower level farms, especially if some machines are missing.

Feeling dread for a game that is supposed to be RELAXING and FUN is bad game design.

Luckily, SC dropped the points to a manageable level (only 3,000 points). I am also getting tasks with higher points.

I also took the advice from this thread to prep: 5 white sugar, 7 brown sugar, hungry animals, duck/lobster traps ready, etc.

So far, after just a few hours, I am done with the first 6 awards. I just have the Tom and Mooncake deco left. I should be done today or early tomorrow, without spending diamonds.

So, the dread is fading away. It will require a couple more successful events to prove to me that SC isn't rolling out impossible events or events that require spending diamonds. I need to relearn that I can trust SC. After that, I welcome events like this that provide just excitement (no dread).

3000 points instead of 9000 to finish event?

I can't believe the above delightful surprise when I logged in this morning! I was preparing to grind out 9000 points by completing an average of 20 tasks per day with an average of 150 points. Unlike the recent Oktoberfest event, we know at the beginning of the journey how many tasks are available so we may prepare both mentally and physically.

Thank you Team Hay Day for designing Mooncake Festival easier than Oktoberfest, IMO. I will have fun. And good luck everyone.

hayville

Awesome advice, thank you very much for sharing it! 🙂👍

You can always find that last piece of rare items you need on my farm.

To maintain your excitement, it is very very well hidden .

*hugs with macaron*

One of my baby farms (who has no birds) collected the 5 chick vouchers to have a total of 30/25

(In case anyones worried they can't collect them!)