Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Event Rewards
  • Main Building: Flamingo Habitat
  • New Buildings: Tapir Trails and Alligator Swamp
  • New Buildings: Daily Specials
  • New Building: Gold League
  • Grand Prizes & Milestones
  • Daily Specials
  • Leagues
• Quest "Cheat List"
• Event Mechanics - Minigame Tutorial!
  • Currency: Tickets & Coins
  • Starting a Board (Regular + Golden Tickets)
  • Popping Blocks (Paws + Chests)
  • Extra Moves
  • Boosters
  • Rival Challenges
  • Minigame Guide
• Event Strategies!
  • When should you play the Minigame?
  • How should you spend Coins?
  • Can you get the Flamingo Habitat fully leveled for free?
  • How many Daily Specials can you expect?
• Diamond Spending Costs
• Comments

Progress	Rewards (Unique)
0	Flamingo Habitat Level 1
25	50 Forge Points
50	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
75	1 Minigame Ticket
100	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
125	200 Goods
150	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
175	Finish Special Production
200	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
225	250 Previous Age Goods
250	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
275	50 Silver Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Fragments
300	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
325	1 Minigame Ticket
350	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
375	Portrait
400	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
425	250 Previous Age Goods
450	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit

Progress	Rewards (Looping)
475	Flamingo Habitat Level 1
500	50 Silver Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Fragments
525	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
550	Animal Crossing Golden Upgrade Kit
575	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
600	50 Gold Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Fragments
625	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
650	300 Previous Age Goods
675	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
700	50 Silver Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Fragments
725	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
750	Finish Special Production
775	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
800	50 Gold Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Fragments
825	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
850	300 Previous Age Goods
875	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
900	50 Gold Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Fragments
925	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
950	Finish Special Production
975	Flamingo Habitat Upgrade Kit
1000	One Up Kit

Daily Specials

There are a lot of daily specials that can be considered good, so for a complete list check out the fandom wiki ("list of possible Switched Prizes"). Below are a select few of my top recommendations:

• Mountain Reserve/Epic Wildlife Kit: Still a really good building for attack, and you get a decent amount per daily special.
• Blood Lilies: Very decent attack, especially for GBG. Only downside is the size and road requirement.
• Raccoon Hideout: A good mix of attack, defense and productions. Especially for newer players, the rogue production is really nice. A few of these in a new city and you're fighting will be much easier until you get yourself a Traz!
• Governor's Villa: Still a good mix of attack, production and units.
• Insect Hotel: A nice and small production building for current age production quests - though probably not worth it if you have Jumpin' Pumpkins.

You can compare all the available buildings from daily specials in my sortable table. For all available event buildings + daily specials, you can use the following link: https://mooingcatguides.com/wildlife-buildings

Leagues

This event has a league system based on points you get from breaking blocks and collecting Chests (chests) and Paws.

The points required on beta are not usually a good estimate for live servers.

New this year is that you get the Apprentice reward in Professional league, and both Apprentice and Professional rewards in Zoologist leagues.

Quest "Cheat List"

Below you'll find my "cheat list" for the quests in this event. This is not a complete list of quests, that you can find here on the fandom wiki. This is a list of quests you might need to plan ahead for, but I always recommend that you check out the complete list yourself to see if there are any other quests you might find challenging. Also, only the "difficult" part of a quest will be shown. For example, a part like "pay X coins" will not be included.

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Event Mechanics - Minigame Tutorial!

The event mechanics are quite similar to the previous wildlife events and the latest fall event, but with a few minor changes! If you have played the Wildlife Event before you should have a good understanding of how it works. It can still be quite a difficult minigame to play at times, so here is my tutorial on the minigame!

Currency: Tickets & Coins

This event has two "currencies". You need "Tickets" to play the minigame, and within the minigame you have a few different ways to spend "Coins" to help you out.

Coins:

• Starting: 200
• Daily Logins: 30*15 = 450
• Rush Quests: 20*10 = 200
• Daily Quests: 20*20 = 400
• Milestone: 100+150
• Total: 1500 Coins

You can also get Coins from Incidents and Daily Challenges.

Coins Diamond Costs:

• 100 Coins for 150 Diamonds
• 400 Coins for 500 Diamonds
• 2000 Coins for 2400 Diamonds

You generate a free Ticket every 8 hours, but only as long as you have less than 4 already. So in order to play as many games as possible, you need to play at least 3 games every day.

Tickets:

• Starting: 4
• Rush Quests: 10
• Daily Quests: 10
• Grand Prizes: 2 (for free)
• Free Daily Tickets: up to 3*30 - 1 = 89
• Rival Challenges: probably around 3x10 (changes have been announced, we will have to see during live how many you can get)
• Total: up to 115 Tickets + Rival Challenges

New this year is the Rival Challenges (Mini Challenges), where you can get tickets. On Beta you could get 10 tickets each from the 3 Rival Quests that were active, but changes have been announced so this might be different on live. You might also struggle to complete all, so I have not included these in the total number of tickets. More on the Rival Challenges later on!

As has become standard now, this event also has "Golden Tickets", more on those in the next chapter! You can get 3 of these from Milestones, from Rival Challenges (most likely), and a very small chance from Daily Challenges (0.6 Golden Tickets on average for the entire event)

Tickets Diamond Costs:

• 1 Ticket for 200 Diamonds
• 4 Tickets for 750 Diamonds
• 10 Tickets for 1800 Diamonds

Starting a Board (Regular + Golden Tickets)

To start playing the minigame, you must use a "Ticket" by pressing the "Start" button. Once used, you will have 25 free moves (or "pops") on the generated board.

In addition to regular tickets there are special "Golden Tickets". These are a very rare, but also very powerful. After activating one, you can start as many boards as you want within a 5 minute time limit, no regular Tickets required. This is definitely hectic, but if you know what you're doing you can get a lot out of it! In the past I usually managed 5 or even 6 games, and from those I got around 20 "paws" each! It's worth keeping in mind that you only have to start a board within the 5 minute time window for it to be free, so for the final game you can spend as much time as you want. During the 5 minute period, my recommendation is to play fast and suboptimally, it's better to start as many games as possible. Go for the low-hanging fruits, don't spend lots of time thinking about the best moves!

Pro Tip: On browser, you can cancel the block-dropping animation and collect all the chests at once by clicking anywhere outside the minigame window. This will immediately close the window and you will get all reward popups at once, then when you re-enter the minigame all the animations are completed. Animations take a lot of time when you have a 5 minute time window, so it can definitely be worth doing when you are using a Golden Ticket. To get the absolute most out of this, you should try making big groups of rewards that drop down with a single pop, then you can "skip" all at once. However, if you spend a lot of time figuring this out, you might lose the time you save. Also, when using this trick you can't see the blocks for a few seconds, so it might take more time to figure out your next move. So my recommendation is to try it when using Tickets, practice, to see how you feel about it and if it will actually save you time in the end!

Example from Fall Event.

Popping Blocks (Paws + Chests)

The main goal of the minigame is to "pop" blocks to collect Paws and Chests. Any group of 2 or more blocks of the same color can be popped. In total there are 5 different colors, however only 4 will be available on each board. This is a huge change from last year's Wildlife event, and it will make the minigame a lot easier to play! Blocks above the popped blocks will drop down to fill the now empty spaces, and new random blocks will spawn from the top. Each time a new block spawns, it has a low chance of being a Paw.

If you pop groups of 5 or more blocks you create a Chest, which you can collect to get rewards, including a chance for the Daily Special. The Daily Special chance increases based on the size of the group of blocks, for a full list of rewards check out the fandom wiki. In total there are 6 "tiers" of Chests:

• 5 Blocks = 1 Star Chest (2% Daily Special Chance)
• 6 Blocks = 2 Stars Chest (3% Daily Special Chance)
• 7 Blocks = 3 Stars Chest (4% Daily Special Chance)
• 8 Blocks = 4 Stars Chest (5% Daily Special Chance)
• 10 Blocks = 5 Stars Chest (6% Daily Special Chance)
• 15 Blocks = 6 Stars Chest (16% Daily Special Chance)

Note: Daily Special Chances not confirmed yet.

The 6-star Chests have a really high chance of giving the Daily Special, so you should definitely aim to generate these. It can be a bit challenging at times, but with the limitation of only 4 colors on each board, it's actually not that difficult to generate a few of these on each board.

To collect Paws and Chests you must drop them all the way to the bottom of the board.

Extra Moves

At the end of each board, you can choose to finish the board, or spend 65 Coins to buy 5 additional moves, down from 10 moves in past events. Even with the nerf, my recommendation is to spend most or even all of your Coins on these additional moves.

You have 1500 Coins, which spread over 115 games is 13 per game. In other words, you can spend 65 Coins for additional moves every 5 games. This is not including any Coins you get from Incidents and Daily Challenges. That doesn't mean you should only spend every 5th game, but that's roughly how frequently you can spend. And it also doesn't mean you should limit yourself to buying 5 moves after a game, if you think an additional 5 will help.

Boosters

If you are stuck, you can use special Boosters to help you out, without using up any moves. The Boosters have been slightly changed from the previous events:

• Hammer: Removes any 1 block.
• (NEW) Leafy Line: Removes all blocks in the selected row (left to right), excluding Paws/Chests.
• Lightning: Removes all blocks of the chosen color.

You start the event with 5 Hammers, 2 Leafy Lines, and 1 Lightning.

You start with a limited number of these, and the cost of buying more really isn't worth it. The Booster Packs are too expensive, with the biggest one costing almost 100% of your free Coins. If you really feel like a Booster will be useful you could consider buying an individual one, but it's worth considering the alternative first by looking at how many moves you could buy for the same prize:

• Hammer: 60 Coins = 4.6 Moves
• Leafy Line: 85 Coins = 6.5 Moves
• Lightning: 110 Coins = 8.5 Moves

For reference, the Booster Packs are (you get 1500 free Coins (excluding Incidents/Daily Challenges)):

• 660 Coins: 6 Hammers, 4 Leafy Lines, 2 Lightnings
• 1230 Coins: 16 Hammers, 8 Leafy Lines, 6 Lightnings

Rival Challenges

The newly introduced Rival Challenges (Mini Challenges) returns this event! In total 3 Questlines will be during the event, all with the same quests. When they appear and which quests they have are unknown, but you can see the rewards and quests as they appeared on beta here: https://forgeofempires.fandom.com/wiki/2024_Wildlife_Event#Rival_Challenges

Note that we do know the quests and rewards will be changed, but all 3 questlines during the event should be the same.

As can be seen on beta, each questline provided a lot of good rewards, including 10 tickets, 3 golden tickets,coins and boosters. More info to come when the first Rival Challenges is launched on the live server!

Minigame Guide

For a video tutorial of how the minigame works, and some general tips on how to play it, check out my minigame guide video from the previous Wildlife Event! I am planning on making an updated version as well, but in the meantime this should give you a good idea :)

Event Strategies

Alright, let's talk about strategies. For this event there isn't actually a lot of strategy involved, most of the challenges of this event come from actually playing the minigame well. The main strategy choice comes down to when you play the minigame, so let's talk about that. Just as a reminder, you need 450 progress to get the Flamingo Habitat to level 11, so that will be the target for my analysis here.

When should you play the Minigame?

First of all, you should always play at least 3 boards per day! As mentioned, you get a free Ticket every 8 hours, but only if you have fewer than 4 at hand. This means that you always want to use at least 3 per day to ensure you always generate these free Tickets. These Tickets account for over 3/4 of your total Tickets, and depending on how well you play a lot of them will be required to get the main building fully leveled. If you want to maximize the number of Tickets you can spend on a given day you should try to have 3 ready when the daily special resets, but as this is midnight it might not work for your sleep schedule. If you can't spend at midnight, I recommend spending all your Tickets at roughly the same time of day each day, for example in the afternoon each day, so that you can generate the free Tickets during the night/next morning.

You do still have 20 Tickets from quests and 2 Tickets from grand prizes that you can control when you want to use. My recommendation is to use these on daily special(s) you want, which means only completing the quests during those days. There are a lot of good daily specials this event and some some will appear multiple times, so this doesn't mean you have to do all these tickets on the same day.

How should you spend Coins?

Another common question is when to spend your Coins. I strongly recommend spending most of them on additional moves - buying boosters is simply too expensive. As mentioned, the top booster pack costs almost all of your free Coins, which means you can only really buy it during the final days of the event... If you are out of free boosters and you think a booster can really be valuable on your current board, you could buy it individually, but for the most part, I think additional moves are more valuable.

So, if you plan on buying additional moves, how often can you do it? As mentioned earlier, roughly once every 5 boards on average. If you really think buying 5 moves is valuable, then go for it (and you can do it more than once per board)! If you run out of Coins towards the end it sucks of course, but at least you got good value for it earlier on.

In general, I recommend buying additional moves when doing so can get you 2+ Paws. I suggest that you keep a rough track of how much you've spent compared to the number of games you've played, and then you can adjust how frequently you buy additional moves going forward :)

Can you get the Flamingo Habitat fully leveled for free?

To get the Flamingo Habitat fully leveled you need to collect 450 Paws. For free you can around 115 Tickets, which means you need 450/115 = 3.9 Paws per game to get there. Well, that's if you ignore the 3 free Golden Tickets you can get. Based on my play on Beta, I was able to get around 20 Paws for each Golden Ticket, or 60 Paws in total. Let's be a bit more conservative and use an estimate of 40 Paws from Golden Tickets. That brings down the required Paws per game (from Tickets) to 410/115 = 3.6. Both 3.9 and 3.6 Paws per game are definitely possible, but it does require that you play at least decently well. Below is a table of how many Paws you will pick up at a few different Paws/game numbers (excluding Golden Ticket).

Paws / Board (Excluding Golden Tickets)	2	2.5	3	3.5	4	4.5	5
Boards	115	115	115	115	115	115	115
Total Paws	230	288	345	403	460	518	575
Missing/Excess Paws	-220	-162	-105	-47	+10	+68	+125

Of course, this doesn't include any tickets you get from Rival Challenges. On Beta you could get 10 tickets and 3 golden ticket per questline, plus coins and boosters. So if you are able to complete all the quests, you're probably looking at 100 or more paws per questline. There are 3 of them during the event, so possibly 300 total paws if you complete all. This will be challenging, but even if you don't do all you should be able to pick up a few tickets, coins and boosters per rivals. So if you want extra safety, do as many quests here as you are able to complete.

How many Daily Specials can you expect?

If the daily special chances are the same as during the last Fall event, my estimate is around 1 daily special every 2 boards. How accurate this is I don't know, but I know that this event is a good one for daily specials. If we're using the once every other estimate, that's 57-58 daily specials during the event. A big downside is that you have to spend a lot on days when the daily special doesn't interest you, but when you get a daily special you want you can get a decent amount of them.

Diamond Spending Costs

It can be a bit tricky to estimate, but let's give it a go! You need 525 Paws per additional Flamingo Habitat, so let's look at the cost for different Paws/board numbers. I recommend spending most of your diamonds on Tickets, so as a reminder here are the Ticket costs:

• 1 Ticket for 200 Diamonds
• 4 Tickets for 750 Diamonds
• 10 Tickets for 1800 Diamonds

If you plan to buy Tickets for 2+ Flamingo Habitats, it might also be beneficial to buy some Coins, but I would probably not spend more than 2.4k diamonds for 2000 Coins. So you could add that number to the table below, though keep in mind with those extra Coins your Paws / game should increase as well.

Paws / Board	2	2.5	3	3.5	4	4.5	5
Paws	525	525	525	525	525	525	525
Boards	263	210	175	150	132	117	105
Diamonds	47.6k	37.8k	31.6k	27.0k	23.8k	21.6k	19.0k

As for daily specials, with the estimate of 1 per 2 Tickets, the cost would be around 360 diamonds per daily special, which is a really good price! If you feel comfortable with the minigame, I can absolutely recommend spending diamonds for additional Tickets to get more daily specials!

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And that's it for this guide! I hope you found it helpful, and please let me know in the comments if you have any questions!

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Event Rewards
  • Main Building: Flamingo Habitat
  • New Buildings: Tapir Trails and Alligator Swamp
  • New Buildings: Daily Specials
  • New Building: Gold League
  • Grand Prizes & Milestones
  • Daily Specials
  • Leagues
• Quest "Cheat List"
• Event Mechanics - Minigame Tutorial!
  • Currency: Tickets & Coins
  • Starting a Board (Regular + Golden Tickets)
  • Popping Blocks (Paws + Chests)
  • Extra Moves
  • Boosters
  • Rival Challenges
  • Minigame Guide
• Event Strategies!
  • When should you play the Minigame?
  • How should you spend Coins?
  • Can you get the Flamingo Habitat fully leveled for free?
  • How many Daily Specials can you expect?
• Diamond Spending Costs
• Comments

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