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Hark! Is that snow in the air? And the delectable scent of a cauldron full of hot cocoa? It must be the fantastical Frosty Jubilee! With winter upon the Vale, what snowy surprises have the witches and wizards whipped up?
FIVE new snow inspired dragons: *Snowbrush Dragon *Flurry Dragon *Thundersnow Dragon *Tinsel Dragon *Ribbon Dragon
TWO surprise limited-time dragons Iceberry Rush - the tap-tastic berry-blasting minigame New whimsically wintery decorations and a "cool" new path Daily rewards to unwrap in the Chilly Chronograph Dragon challenges to tackle with friends in the Snowy Stadium Color Cubes to help you show off your decorator prowess On the heels of the 16th island, yet another island to expand your park Introducing Zola's Reward Chronicle, a new way to be rewarded each day you check in... and this one remains after the Frosty Jubilee ends! (Did we mention there's a Wish?)
Last Edit: Dec 16, 2016 15:07:04 GMT -6 by jamesvaler
Skitch’s “more than you ever wanted to know” guide to maximizing your Iceberry nest egg
We have seen confusion over the years about how to save the most Iceberries during the Winter event, so I have collected our accumulated wisdom and strategy into a single post.
TERMINOLOGY - Part of the confusion has arisen over messy terminology, so let’s define some terms first. Iceberries are stored in two distinct places, and historically we somewhat sloppily referred to both of them as a “bank”. The “Iceberries” icon that appears on your main screen contains currency that you can spend in the prize tent at any time, so rather than calling this a bank, let’s call it the “wallet”. The other place that Iceberries are stored is in the Social menu’s Gifts tab. Iceberries stored here can’t be spent until they are withdrawn into your wallet, so it’s appropriate to call this the “bank”. For the purposes of this guide, “banking Iceberries” explicitly means accumulating them in the Gifts tab.
There is also some confusion over the term “reset”. There are three distinct kinds of reset that are relevant to this discussion. “Park reset” is when your park contacts the server to get new instructions and put new rules or conditions into place. Park reset occurs whenever you restart your app (e.g. after it has been killed or your device has rebooted), when you return to your park after visiting friends, or when your park has experienced a problem and had to reload (e.g. a spell has gone wonky, among other things). “Iceberry reset” occurs daily and means that the Wizards have hidden more Iceberries in your park and have reset the daily cap of Iceberries you are allowed to collect (more on caps later). Iceberry reset occurs at 11:00 AM BFS Time (there is a handy BFS Time clock near the top of our forum pages). “Gift reset” also occurs daily and means that new friend gifts are available to be sent and new Party Hats are available to be tapped when visiting friends. Gift reset used to happen around 6:30 PM BFS time, but updated rules this year have moved that to 11:00 AM BFS Time, the same as Iceberry reset.
COLLECTING ICEBERRIES - I won’t go into great detail about collecting Iceberries other than to note that they can be found in the same basic ways that we’ve seen in previous events (with, as usual, a wrinkle or two): competing in the Snowy Stadium, spinning the Wheel of Chance, playing Make-a-Match, playing the new Iceberry Rush, collecting a gift from the new Chilly Chronograph, collecting DragonCash, harvesting Treats, hatching/selling dragons, competing in the Colosseum, performing Kairos quests, clearing island obstacles, spending Gems, receiving friend gifts, visiting friends to collect Party Hats, and finding and tapping special park visitors. For this event the special visitor is Lumi. Lumi appears at least once a day in your park, but she may appear again 12 hours later if you find and tap her early enough after Iceberry reset (Note: this was true for Frostival last year, I have not verified it for Frosty Jubilee). Finally, you can buy Iceberries as an in-app purchase using real-world money. Iceberries that you receive as friend gifts initially go into your bank and must be moved to your wallet before they can be spent (but you may want to hold off on doing this as I will explain below).
ICEBERRY CAPS - The amount of Iceberries that you can put into your wallet has a daily cap (although there are a few ways that you can put extra Iceberries into your wallet above the cap). The daily cap is 1000 Iceberries unless doubles are in effect, in which case the daily cap is also doubled to 2000 (there may even be triple days, so keep an eye out!). Iceberries that you receive from the daily Chilly Chronograph gift or that you buy as an in-app purchase are exempt from the cap and will be added to your wallet above and beyond the cap limit. If you have a problem in your park you may receive compensation from BFS in the form of Iceberries as well. Depending on the nature of the problem, Iceberries received in this way may go into your wallet or into your bank. If they go into your wallet they will not count against your cap either. Iceberries that you receive as friend gifts initially appear in your bank and are not subject to a daily cap (until you move them to your wallet). You can receive an “unlimited” amount if you have lots of friends. However, note that there is a practical ceiling associated with device limitations and we have seen problems if the gift tab has too many items in it (twin eggs as well as uncollected gifts). You may withdraw Iceberries from your bank into your wallet as long as you have not yet reached your daily cap by tapping the "Collect" button next to the gift. In addition to gifts received from friends (or from BFS), there are two other ways that Iceberries can be banked: if you exceed the daily cap by collecting a prize from the Wheel of Chance, Make-a-Match, or Iceberry Rush, the excess will be credited to your bank. Also, if you wait until you have reached your cap to collect your winnings from the Snowy Stadium, those winnings will be placed in your bank as well.
BANKED ICEBERRIES - The precedent that BFS has established for previous events is that all event currency that has been banked will be moved to your wallet and made available to you for purchasing prizes when the event is over (the Prize Tent will remain open for a while after Iceberry collection is over), so don’t be shy about saving as many as you can. However, note that a new wrinkle in last year’s Frostival is that some prizes must apparently be purchased before the event is actually over (sorta like the one day limited offers we’ve seen in previous events), so be sure to account for that if they appear.
EXPLOITS - An “exploit” is a technique for using a mechanism built into a game to obtain a benefit. An exploit is not a “hack”, although exploits may be either intended or unintended by the developer. Some folks regard exploits as “cheating” but this is certainly a personal choice. There are two interesting exploits available in Dragonvale. The classic one is to “extend doubles”. This exploit allows you to continue collecting double Iceberries after Iceberry reset on the final day of doubles. To use this exploit, you must be in your park at Iceberry reset when doubles would normally be over. Basically, if you do not have a park reset (i.e. you don’t kill the app or visit friends) then you can continue to collect double Iceberries and your daily cap will remain doubled as well. If you intend to attempt this exploit, don’t quit the app or allow your device to go to sleep (these actions won’t necessarily cause a park reset, but they might), and don't visit friends.
A new exploit was discovered last year and there may or may not be another opportunity to take advantage of it. During the first doubles weekend of last year’s Frostival, doubles actually started before Iceberry reset, providing a short window of time where the previous day’s cap was lifted to double its value and, if you were quick and efficient, you could collect an extra 1000 Iceberries before Iceberry reset. This effectively gave us an extra day of doubles. Keep an eye out for this situation during doubles weekends if you’d like to try to use it.
MAXIMIZING ICEBERRIES - The trick to maximizing your Iceberries is to take advantage of the various ways available for sending them to your bank. Be aware of how big your wallet can grow as you play each day. This is a running total that increases by at least 1000 or 2000 per day (depending on doubles). While we had to track daily accumulation in previous years, BFS has given us a daily progress bar to make this easier. Just keep an eye on this bar (beneath the wallet button) and collect Iceberries more slowly as it nears its limit. As you play, be sure to save 1 or 2 spins of the Wheel (or 1 or 2 Make-a-Match plays, or 1 or 2 Iceberry Rush plays) and don’t collect your last (5th) Snowy Stadium reward. Note how close you are coming to your limit for the day and try to use small rewards (hatching Plant dragons, clearing obstacles, etc.) to creep to within 1 or 2 Iceberries of the limit. When you are within striking distance, go ahead and use your last spin or two (or your last play of the other games) to surpass the limit. Any excess above the limit will be banked. This can net you anywhere from 0 to 39 Iceberries above the cap (or twice that if doubles are active). Once you have passed the cap, now you can safely collect the last Arctic Arena prize, which will be banked in its entirety (resulting in a 50 or 100 Iceberry bank, doubled to 100 or 200 when doubles are active). Also, wait until you have passed the daily cap to collect your Gem and Treat gifts from friends. If you do this you will still be able to collect your Gems and Treats, but the Iceberries will remain in the bank. If you follow these techniques, your bank will accumulate a large BFS gift and a bunch of smaller gifts comprised of uncollected Iceberries from each gifting friend. Again, after the event is over, BFS will move all your Iceberries from the bank into your wallet.
I hope this guide is helpful for you, and if you notice anything I've missed or gotten wrong. please let me know!
Koala everybody! Skitch
Last Edit: Dec 15, 2016 16:33:09 GMT -6 by Skitch: Iceberry Collection Guide corrections
The Frosty Jubilee begins December 15th and runs through January 10th. Prizes will be available until January 17th. On January 18th all remaining Iceberries will be turned into Dragon Treats.
EARNING ICEBERRIES
Receiving gifts from friends Breeding Dragons Collecting DragonCash or Treats Visiting friends and tapping on party hats Competing in the Colosseum Clearing items from Islands Finding and tapping on Gift Boxes or Sandakloz in your park Questing at the Perch of Kairos or Legendary Nursery Playing games in the Arctic Arcade: Wheel of Chance, Make-a-Match, and Iceberry Rush, oh my! Competing in the Snowy Stadium
ICEBERRY CAPS
On a normal day there is the normal cap of 1000 berries. How much of this you have received is shown in the meter below the iceberry counter on the left hand side of the screen. You can also bank 139 berries a day by using Skitch's guide. On the last week you will be able to cash in on up to 8000 (ish) berries which you have banked. Whether or not they will allow us to bank all our banked berries like sometimes we do not know, but probably not.
Awesome: 100 Iceberries Day 01: 50 Iceberries Day 02: 25 Iceberries + 1 Gem Day 03: 25 Iceberries + DC % Day 04: 25 Iceberries + Treats % Day 05: 25 Iceberries + 1 Gem Day 06: 500 Iceberries
Day 07: 50 Iceberries + 2 Gems Day 08: 50 Iceberries + DC % Day 09: 500 Iceberries Day 10: Snowflake Habitat Day 11: 50 Iceberries + 2 Gems Day 12: Special Snowflake Dragon!
Day 13: 75 Iceberries + 3 Gems Day 14: 75 Iceberries + DC % Day 15: 750 Iceberries Day 16: 75 Iceberries + Treats % Day 17: 75 Iceberries + 3 Gems Day 18: Mystery Dragon!
Day 19: 100 Iceberries + 5 Gems Day 20: 100 Iceberries + DC % Day 21: 1000 Iceberries Day 22: 100 Iceberries + Treats % Day 23: 100 Iceberries + 5 Gems Day 24: Choose: Snowbrush, Flurry, Thundersnow, Tinsel, or Ribbon
I want everything omg!! And the BEB started too?? So exciting! Today we got 100 from the tutorial and 50 from the gifts, right? I also love that they've introduced a thing beneath the ice berry counter that tells you how many more you can collect? At least I think that's what it's supposed to be. There are no presents around the place like the pumpkins during Halloween...
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There's a graph showing me how many Iceberries I've *collected* so far today. {love} Out of my 451 Iceberries, I've collected 301. 100 as a gift from the help menu and 50 from the Chilly Chronograph. I'm going to love that soooo much! No more keeping a note of some sort going! Yay. Thank you, BFS!
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all/Gloom, despair, and agony on me... {HeeHaw, 1970s - totally showing my age)
We get three free dragon eggs!! That is the happiest thing for me because I need literally all the dragons. I'm never going to have enough ice berries to catch 'em all.
Post by - beth75 - on Dec 15, 2016 12:47:46 GMT -6
So I was so disappointed when I saw there wasn't a snowflake dragon as a prize(I need that first one to get started with the rest)... I thought... now I'll have to use that wish... But then I checked our gifts... YES!!!! free snowflake dragon on the 12th day! So happy!!!!!!
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Post by DragonMoonX on Dec 15, 2016 13:04:54 GMT -6
I'm trying to breed for mistletoe and holly and what do I get? Another ghost dragon! I got five of them during Whitbee's Candy Bash and this will be my sixth. Lol Nightmare Before Christmas anyone?
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My free galaxy dragon today was a twin, one of the 4 twins I was missing. It's a nice touch to give a missing twin, when you already have all the dragons!
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I'm never going to have enough ice berries to catch 'em all. 
