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| Notification for St Patrick's Day themed update |
This is a flash goal set which runs over just five days and will probably have plenty of players tearing their hair out! But to sweeten the deal there's also a sale running throughout the event, with a range of St Patrick's Day content from yesteryear making a triumphant return, including the Lucky Chest at 25% off.
It's worth noting that not all of those orange framed items are seasonal decor returning - certainly the Stone Wall is a permanent entry and has been reduced for the duration of the sale. Hopefully it won't be removed post-event, but be wary because it could.
And among all of this there are actually a few totally new items (and there's no telling for sure whether these will be removed after the goals finish) so let's have a list:
Wall decorations:
- Celtic Knotwork - 5 gems
- Castle Ruin - 60 gems
- Irish Green Wallpaper - 2 gems
- Irish Green Grass - 2 gems
We have a new wall decoration! It's been a long time coming, with the last being the Towel Rack which was introduced back in August. A scandalous length of time really, but hopefully the Celtic Knotwork will be the first of many more to come. It's not a particularly attractive item, and the 5 gem price tag doesn't help its cause, but hopefully it can be a pioneer!
Indeed all three of the other new entries are also gem buys, and in the case of the Irish Green Wallpaper and Irish Green Grass that means a large expenditure if you want to use them effectively. The wallpaper is reasonably generic with its grassy ground and rocky backdrop while the flooring feels very St Patrick's Day specific thanks to those three leaf clovers.
The new floor decoration is the Castle Ruin which is a terrifying 60 gems. However this is the final goal prize, so there is an opportunity to grab it via the quest. It depicts a large fort structure which is not standing the test of time very well. Some of it is at odd angles and vegetation is taking over. This is not an Irish themed prize as such so could come in handy, especially since it's really one of a kind.
But what about the goals? I won't be finishing them, largely because I'm still on the first step having been rather busy these past few days. But even if you got going straight away you may have problems. That's because there are some lengthy recipes called for, and with a lot of focus on the Shamrock Oven, it's hard work to serve up everything you need to before the timer runs out.
And what makes it all the more difficult is the need to collect 14 Shamrocks to build the cooker. That's a tall order for a part which was not previously available to gift, and it gets all the worse when we consider that the Shamrock Oven has been around before and only needed 6 Shamrocks. Six years have passed since it's original release in 2012, and Storm8 have obviously seen fit to make it a much tougher appliance to put together.
So not a goal set worth getting excited about. I'm going to try and unlock as many of the new recipes as I can, with getting all three a long shot given how long it's taken me to get started. What a disappointing quest! With regard to those recipes, they have the following ratings:
| Colcannon | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit | XP gain | Portions | Profit per plate | Availability | Rating |
| 3 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4.1 |
| Irish Soda Bread | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit | XP gain | Portions | Profit per plate | Availability | Rating |
| 2 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4.0 |
| Shamrock Float | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit | XP gain | Portions | Profit per plate | Availability | Rating |
| 1 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3.9 |
Some brighter findings here! Most notably, all three of these dishes carry 5 coins per plate which is higher than the standard 4. That's great news for players who have stacked counters and are therefore already selling the maximum number of plates per day. Raising the proportion of those plates sold which yield greater than 4 coins per plate will inevitably do good things for profit.
The trade off here is that the higher coins per plate results in fewer portions, and consequently all three dishes score in the red for the portions factor. They're not much better on the profit front, but do perform well when it comes to XP. They're on par for XP with all of the foods of the same length released in recent months. It's just that greater coins per plate which makes them a little more interesting.
And on top of all that, the Lucky Breakfast has returned. It's a 6 hour candidate on the Basic Stove which has been re-released on a few occasions if memory serves me right. This time round the gamemakers have made the mistake of placing its timer to expiry completely over the mastery meter which leaves everyone with no idea how close or far they are from mastering it. Another reason to give this update a thumbs down!
So an excruciatingly difficult set of goals and a returning recipe whose mastery meter is blocked off, but also some higher coin yields from the goal dishes and a nice sale. And a very late update post!
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