FoEHints: Archaeology Event 2020 in Forge of Empires

FoEHints: Archaeology Event 2020 in Forge of Empires Last year the Archaeology Event was very popular, so it comes back this year. It got a bit spiced up and of course, there are new unique rewards. Just as last year the main task is to collect ancient scrolls. It starts with an initial stock of 120 scrolls and the first login every day provides another 50 scrolls. More scrolls can be found in the incidents in and around the city. Then there is the usual long questline. The initial 39 rush quests provide 60 scrolls each. The 21 daily quests provide 80 scrolls each, the last quest even 100 scrolls. Especially the long productions should be planned wisely and it helps to have enough production buildings. My 2 production buildings of the current age plus 3 blacksmiths definitely were not enough. And it can happen that suddenly all taverns are filled completely as all players need tavern visits simultaneously. But this can be less of a problem as players play their normal world more active than the beta server. In total, the number of scrolls is more than enough. Everybody will be able to have the Airship on the highest level. The risk might be that the incomplete second airship can motivate to invest diamonds to complete it. But with a total of 11 levels, it is still a long and expensive development. The scrolls are then used to trade them for tools. It is recommended to always buy the biggest toolset only. Do not buy single tools. With these tools, you can then move forward in the excavation. Brushes are for the detail work. Use them to remove sand from a single tile. With a shovel, a complete column can be cleared. And dynamite removes the sand from all surrounding tiles. Don't worry: Explosions will not destroy the relics. Instead, the sand is removed and you will be able to collect the previously covered item. The effect of shovels and dynamite ends at walls. So use them wisely. Discovering a relic isn't enough. The sand must be removed first before it can be moved to the inventory. In most cases, the brush will be the right tool. But sometimes a shovel or dynamite can help better. During your excavations, you will find more tools, bit also vases that contain rewards that we already know from many other events. There is a small chance to receive the daily special instead. One of these daily specials is the popular carousel. Besides that many well-known buildings are offered as daily specials, including the previous year's grand prize, the world exhibition. For me the number of upgrades was not enough for bringing it to level 10, but other players succeeded. Luck is still a relevant factor in this. Besides that there is a completely new building among the daily specials, the globe fountain. It is beneficial to only collect scrolls for a while and to use them when the offered daily special is interesting. I concentrated on the golden idols. As I found out later, everybody receives so many scrolls and tools that even those artifacts can be collected which are not in the shortest way for your progress. This will be a very relaxed event. But do not underestimate the required time for this minigame. It took more than one hour to complete my excavations. In the end, I had many different rewards including several hundred forge points. This will be an accelerator, especially for new cities. 20 Golden Idols are required to receive a Grand Prize, e g the upgrade kits for the Airship. You will receive the airship as a reward for completing quest 5. The first 3 upgrade kits become available with the milestones of the questline and all others will be received from the minigame where every 2nd grand prize is an upgrade kit. As mentioned before you will receive more upgrade kits than needed. Everybody will be able to get the Airship up on level 11. On this highest level, it will provide population, bit not happiness. On top, it adds coins, supplies, 15 goods of the current age, 8 forge points plus another 15 goods for the guild treasury. The Airship has exactly the same 7x3 size as the Ship, but it provides more goods and forge points if motivated. By the way, motivated buildings cannot be plundered. During the excavations, you will also find clay tablets. Each can be used to start a little extra questline. I recommend to collect these clay tablets and to start all of them simultaneously. It took very long until I found the last missing clay tablet, a silver one, while I already had all others several times. These are random effects, but it is possible that it also depends on how carefully the excavation is done. In all these areas that I left hidden, more clay tablets might have been. All these mini-quest lines have similar quests. Complete one and all others will also be completed if they are active at that moment. The best example of this is the 4-hour production quest. Nobody wants to start all these 4-hour productions for 6 quests individually. Do it once and all 6 quests are completed. The first 4 quests of each mini questline give a reward of 5 scrolls. The final quest will then provide a nice small extra reward. For completing all 8 mini questlines the Historian Reward is granted, a toolset plus an avatar. Some more avatars can be achieved through the excavation and the main questline. I enjoyed this event a lot in beta. A possible reason might have been that is was very relaxed. I think we all can be happy that this great event is coming soon.

Thank you for the insight and analysis ! Always appreciate your effort

Thank you! I was wondering what the next event would be.

Another great video, thanks FoEHints :)

Again very helpful and well researched

thank you. you are undoubtedly the best.

Thank you for your very accurate hints. They are very useful, especially for new player like me. Note. I believe inno has modified airship stats and now it provides happiness as well.

Much obliged as always sir ❤

Thanks as always for the info. I'm not thrilled that the mini-quests (tablets) are still there. I am happy that the event building has a depth of 3, which works better with my city layout than would another building with a depth of 6.

11 levels, intense, but we getting an awesome Airship! SWEET! And this is literally my fave event from last year, the worlds fair was and still is an awesome building. They managed to improve an already awesome event too.. awesome.

Thank you for all the effort you put into these, your work is always spot on! Could you do a video explaining Great Buildings that boost production on these special event prizes? I understand the World’s Fair and Balloon collections can be boosted? Thank you!

I can't wait! 😄

Thanks a lot. Great video :)

Can you upload a video of tips and advises when advancing from LMA to Colonial age or from one age to another?

Is there any date on how many diamonds in needed for a second fully maxed event building?

Thank's for help!

I would agree only purchase the large tool bundle, however I would say that as there was no login available on the 22nd calendar day of the Event, once you have collected all the incidents and completed all the Quests. look to purchase the small tool bundle if you do not have enough scrolls for the large tool bundle, then if you still have any scrolls left, only then purchase individual tools so that you have 0 scrolls at the end of the Event. Plus use them wisely if the tile is light in colour and has only sand it is unlikely to be hiding anything, only the Dark ones may be hiding something.

Thank you a lot for all these videos, really appreciated. I'm a new player (about 3 months into the game) and as soon as i found your channel, my gameplay has become so much funnier. With your tips for the spring event, I was able to get the fire pagoda and the mikawa bridge! You are really the best! Just one question about this event: what daily rewards would you suggest aiming for, as a new player? Something like a good strategy to follow, like you did for the last event. It was very userful. I'm at colonial age and growing :D Thank you in advice!

When will this event take place ? Any approximate dates ?

Thank you so much for the quality content! Do you think that we should change our strategy at all given that the large tool chest costs more and the milestone reward has been reduced? Will we still have plenty of scrolls to finish the event comfortably?