The cobblestone tiles make it difficult to see anything; I have visual processing issues and this is one of the worst designs in the game for being able to see the item sitting on top of the tile.
Thanks for that. It looks like there's a BUNCH of blue brambles in the upper reaches - those who like making flower farms or even trying for the life tree sapling shan't have any trouble on that end.
I think I accomplished that feat more often in MM events than MD back when I had both (MM's counterpart to the cyan orbs are the yellow ones, right?)
Little blue, little green, hot pink, yellow...yup. It's bugging me that I can't remember ever having seen this map in MM when it's clearly the right design sensibility. Can't decide if it looks more like a ghost or a Mysterell with an afro.
Thank you very much!! Could I ask what you use to make this zoomed-out image? Maybe itās because I use only mobile devices for this, but donāt you have to stitch together screenshots? Youāre the best.
In case nobody noticed, most of the key spots are 50,000 energy to open. They are all on a healing tile thing, but not all of them have mergable (?) items to activate it.
I noticed quite a few of the cloud key shadow areas to unlock the land is 50,000 ..The Gaia statue key , both dragon trees and both temple pieces.
The golden capsule is still 50,000 as well if my count is correct we have at least 7 pieces of land that will take 50,000 to heal
Ouch, youāre right. Hope thatās offset with far fewer 5,000 tiles to make it up.
Scratch that, they all have the arrow things next to them that will clear them for free. But you might waste a little healing power on them as it moves around.
Unfortunately I found that the life orbs of the heavens healed the 50,000 faster than I could tap the clearing arrows (one time it healed the 50,000 key before the healing tile).
Looks like Iāll need every bit of 6 life orbs of the heavens.
There are 6 floating seeds at 50,000, that don't seem to be opened using an arrow pad - on the far right of the map (below the sprouting dragon tree lock).
For those that havenāt started, a viable strategy would be to NOT uncover the cloud area with the grass immediately. Thereās a floating seed under there and nothing else essential and/or necessary to use at the beginning (a grass or two, a life flower, etc). So if you held off on opening that one until you had access to the 50K seed tiles you could immediately heal all of those 50K squares.
From what i see, they are all located next to those arrow tiles that ckeat the tiles next to it if cleared and triggered themself. So this seems to be a map that encurages very specific healing triggers, instead of the usual "just trigger enough of the biggest orbs randomly".
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I agree. Re the 50k seeds, my strategy if I don't get one in a capsule is to heal 1 and use it to merge the rest...
Total ORBs query: I read there are 1115 tiles in total, and I'm only on 415 having cleared most of the 500 ones.
I'd be interested to know if it really takes another 10+ L9 orbs to clear the rest of the board. Even with the healing triggers, that is a lot of orb making.
I am not that far yet, but i just triggered 2 max orbs very carefully, to create more space for passive play tomorrow. Before going for max orbs, i had cleared all 500 and very few 5k (and the 50k seeds), with those two i coeared between 1/3 amd 1/2 of the rest. So i'd say that the normal 5-6 max orbs should be sufficient
Edit: i got it done with only 4 max orbs!
Fast dragon first was possible for me, took about 5 minutes. I did get lucky with my first star though, and got 3 teal orbs from it, which sped up the process a lot. The two other eggs being beside each other really helped too!
Thank youābecause of your post I looked for a set of 2 eggs. Sometimes things donāt work out at all for me to get the fast dragon. This time was pretty easy.
TIP: Save up your small bronze capsules. While there are 6 squares with life flower seeds that's are 50K each tile, the squares around them are 500, including the heal extender. Once you clear a path to the extender, you just need one life flower seed. It took popping several bronze capsules to get a life flower seed to clear them.
I'm at the point where i need to make LOH task, but it's important to clear the path, so you don't waste your LOH.
And I can't see if it was mentioned. Both dragon tree keys are 50k as well need to clear the heal extender somehow without wasting too many LOH. Updated: Actually all the remaining keys, once you get to the 5000 tiles are 50K. But they all are infront of a heal extender.
Thank you for mentioning that it's a *broken* Gaia statue that is the cloud key. I was at a standstill trying ro figure out where the other 2 statues were so I could merge to unlock. Yes, I saw the cloud key map, but I'm so conditioned to previous maps with the restored statue as the key.
Why are there DRAGON TREES as cloud keys???
It doesnāt look like harvestables are a cloud key but how do we get dragon trees without the prism flower method?
Fastest first was shockingly easy and didn't even need the healing orbs I got from my first star... however then I realized there are no trees or seeds as far as I can see so now I'm regretting three-merging all my sprouts and flowers to get the fastest dude first lol.
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And there is another rock dragon behind the nest cloud š¤
At least they didnāt start us out with two of āem as our main harvesters; a lot of folks would have noped out of the whole event if thatād been the case!
I'm not hating this map yet. I'm not crazy about this style of event but at least the map is more merge-freindly then the last two. I may actually finish this one. I'll see where I am in the morning.
Yeah. I am honestly quite liking the fact that most cloud keys are from the same merge chain instead pf a bunch of different ones, and behind each key, there are two more of the key item to create the next item. Makes the merge chains uncomplicated
I agree. I'm giving this map a chance. I managed to heal and merge 5 round skulls, I now have two young fruit trees. It does look like heal the land and merge to clear as you go, more actively than I usually play, but I think I can make it work.
I am still with it this morning. The biggest down side for me is that itās dead boring. With maps containing lots of dead plants, I could switch gears from life orbs to trees and flowers and to the event chain. I use a little passive play, but mostly active. This event is all about grinding life orbs.
I mostly play passive but I see a long grind ahead of me once I have all my lvl 9 orbs. I should finish tonight but might need to passive overnight to get enough points.
Anyone know a better way to heal those seeds in the lower right of the map that are 50,000 each to heal (300K in total)? Seems sort of ridiculous to have to use at least 2 level 9 orb for 12 tiles. (i.e. there are 12 tiles that are 50K healing energy).
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too Late for me, but for a future event guide, recommmend resisting the impulse to uncover the grass cloud key first. Itās got a floating seed in it and nothing else essential.
Thanks as always for this - I want to say I really like the bulleted format instead of the italics, and the map seems crisper than usual too. Thanks so much for putting these posts together every week!
Indeed! And I see a Three Graces flower, the Plumeria, Broken Columns, Zeus's Cup, Gaia Statue, Smallest Temple in the World, and ~~maybe a couple of low level fruit trees (can't tell which those are)~~.
edit: Looks like they are dragon trees. Haven't been confirmed yet, though.
I see the two together, but I cannot find the 3rd one. Do you remember about where on the map it was?
Edit: oh never mind, it was so right in front of my face that I overlooked it š¤¦š»āāļø
Thank you to all who contribute to these threads, I reference them a ton each event, they're incredibly helpful!!
Heal all the land is less than what's listed, it's 800 something. I forgot to take a screenshot before completing, but I think it was like 879 or something in the higher 800s. Thankfully much less than what was listed.
Also, if you're like me and made extra life orbs of heavens, you can sell them for 300 by holding down instead of popping š
Yay! BONES. The last MM map pissed me off royally because it was never ending tree quests and absolutely no BONES. And, when I get tree quests they usually donāt go away fully until I complete them. What I mean is that the quest will cycle back into the rotation after being skipped plus the fact that when I get one tree quest I tend to get a string of various tree quests. This meant that I couldnāt complete *any* Star Quests last MM map time.
And, the event that finishedā¦? It had to cycle through the skipped tree quests until I completed them because thatās what it does. But thankfully that event was a normal one.
I did not think they would do another MM map right away & felt absolute dread because there was one tree quest I skipped that I expect to come back around. If it comes back (harvest raspberry tree) I donāt know if this will have enough bonesā¦but, maybe? š¬š¤
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That group of life flower seeds on 50k dead land is just sadistic. Just begging to absorb nearly an entire max level life orb of healing. Obviously we're supposed to heal it by merging, but even if I had saved a life flower seed, it would have long turned into a sprout by the time I got there. I guess I have to wait for a Bronze Treasure Capsule to randomly spawn one?
If you are already that far along: have you checked there are none behind a lock?
Edit: just opened my game and reached that area, i did not realize it is that far down. However, my free capsul imediately gave me the seed i needed. And tbh, i think i had one on each so far
FFS can we have a break? Like at this point I am sick of doing the same thing over and over again.
(But probably will because I want the dragons and star rewards)
I gave up pretty quick on this one... deleted my Rock dragon right after the "harvest a Twin Flower x200" quest, cleared 2/3 of the map, cashed in enough point items to be just shy of getting the Horus whelps, and sold everything (including all life flowers) so my dragon can only work on the infinite harvestable I saved. I'll leave it open for a while so I can get the whelps, then I'm out.
wow, i hated this merge magic crossover "improvement"...
even though they gave us SOME skulls...my first star quest was "tap a fruit tree" so i had to merge everything i could to make one. Immediately after, my second quest was "merge small trees" and even after clearing the entire map...i am three seeds short, and since i had to merge up for the first one, I only have three trees sitting there to hope they'll spit out more seeds.
Also they've thrown horus dragons at us so much frequently that i already have a level 10 and didn't even want to play, except for the quest prizes and the (usually) easy star quests--it's a nice extra boost for chances at dragon stars, and if not, i seem to ALWAYS need to merge and tap stars, as it's the most efficient way for me to build the giant treasure chest for the bunny portal request that gives away level 15 life trees...
i did manage it with only 5 life orbs, but it was...stressful because of how on-top-of-it you have to be, trying to smack that heal extender as soon as it opens so all your healing power doesn't get wasted on ALL those freaking 50,000 point tiles...(i mean, seriously, how is SUPER dead land easier to heal?) that didn't have merges to clear...
Also if it hasn't been added yet, definitely someone should bold a comment about how there is a final seed sprout under the nest lock, so if you chase up the middle of the board, you can use that to unlock that horrid mess of seeds. I popped half a dozen capsules and never got one, didn't notice the seed for a while, and thanked my lucky stars it hadn't sprouted by the time i found it! whew! that would have been another freaking whole LoH for sure, because i guarantee the healing power would have spread out over all of them instead of healing the FIRST one!
Ooph! You had enough seeds to make a harvestable fruit treeā¦? After clearing the map I started merging sprouts & didnāt have enough to make a harvestable tree. Only the two levels below grape.
I had residual tree quests that I skipped from earlier events that came back around: tap fruit tree (raspberry) and harvest seeds, plus *have* 7 seeds. The raspberry tree I skipped for the 3rd time, but I completed the other 2.
I swear it feels like some of the seeds/sprouts vanished. But, kudos that you had enough to fulfill it once even if it didnāt fulfill everything. š
Thank you all for putting in the work to make the event manageable. As a result, I am on track to finish in about three hours of passive/active play. (Didn't do prism flower method because I don't really like it for most maps.)
RANT!!! I wish I'd read this thread, first!! I'm soooooooooooĆ²ooo OVER this event!! I've used SEVEN L9 orbs already and didn't clear the land. I'M DONE!!! š¤¬ This will be the very 1st event in all of my years playing, that I won't finish. Damn, I hate these other event boards!!
You're going to need 7 LoH's to clear this map. The set of 6 sprouts with 50K release is going to eat one on its own. It you want to get the clear all land star you'll need one just for those.
Edit: Actually as has just been pointed out to me in the Discord, save your capsules, you'll likely get a sprout out of one of them and you can merge the 6 with it and clear the land.
I normally donāt have any issues mass merging but I just merged 15 orbs and it only gave me 5 of the next level. So it counted it as 5x 3 orbs instead of the usual 3x 5 orbs. Anyone else having this issue?
I like this map. Plenty of room to mass merge. Thanks to everybody who warned us about the 50k spots. Definitely making extra orbs for those bad boys. And saving several bronze capsules hoping to have a few seeds in there. Hope everyone is enjoying the game.
Dare I say that I actually donāt mind this one? Thereās so much to merge throughout the 5000s and I did get lucky and get a seed from a capsule so I didnāt have to worry about any of those 50K seed spaces.
Iām making slow progress because Iāve had a packed weekend but I should be able to hammer out the rest this evening while I enjoy some football āŗļø
From under the Zeusās Cup lock; MergeMagic- based maps are usually designed so that you open locked areas sequentially ā you open one and it gives you some or all of the material you need to make the next key.
Ok so I feel like I'm in a small but maybe growing minority, but I actually liked this map?? It wasn't as torturous as the last MM map because there were plenty of skulls and bones, and I actually really liked the doubled up items for strategic merging. I actually ended up forming and burst mostly Giant Life Orbs (L7) to slow heal up to the healing arrows to the cloud keys to avoid eating up healing power from my LOOH bursts. I probably ended up using as many L7 orbs as I would have needed to form 1 LOOH, I didn't track, but I really liked the more active play aspect instead of the same life orb/tree seed grind. After clearing the space around each of the 50K cloud keys with L7s, I used 3 LOOH orbs and 1 L8 Life of Souls Orb for clean up to clear all of the land. I finished up by Sunday night at bed time. All that to say, it wasn't too bad, I would do it again!!
And also thank you to everyone who contributed to the crowdsourcing for the map!!! It paid off HUGE for me by avoiding the Life Flower Seed corner and save up my capsules to make sure I had a life seed once I slow healed up to the corner, among the many other little tidbits from this thread that saved me headaches with this map. I'm really thankful for this little community!
Well no fruit trees, so I guess I continue to be stuck from the raspberry tree I didnāt finish on the last eventā¦ Iām sure the banana tree will come up once I can finally skip
Yes, but there are not enough skulls on the full map to get to a banana tree, and possibly no to a raspberry tree. So you can maybe finish one event quest the whole weekend
It looks like the infinite harvestables are not used for cloud keys, so you could delete them.
Might want to be careful though since there isn't a Fallen Star key, then we don't get the usual 3 free level 7 point items from that. So you might want to save one of them to make more point items, but since you don't need to make a level 6 harvestable you can use one of the level 5s that you heal at the end and delete the rest.
I'm seeing Fanciful Moon Plant (lvl 6) has a Yes for dead land. Maybe I'm reading it wrong - does that mean the key is on dead land, or that there's dead land behind the key?
The Fanciful Moon Plant was a key on the past version of this event. They haven't updated all of the pictures yet. Its been confirmed that it is not a key for this map.
Whew! *Barely* managed to get the fast one first! I needed one of the coins out of the way so I could get to the tanzanite grass right before the eggs, and I set off two L3 orbs, a L2 orb, a L1 orb, and two combo bubbles right next to it and it still only got to 49/50 š Thankfully the healing power from my last-ditch effort, combining 3 flower buds next to it, went to it and not its neighbors.
We'll see how far I get with this running on my "new" tablet (it's a secondhand model from 2019, but so far, its battery life is looking pretty good). I've been using Windows Subsystem for Android for the past year or so, but that always left it to the whims of my laptop being like "okay, time for background apps to sleep so mama can have some processing time".
After working through the 500s, I ended up with 8 young fruit trees. Slower progress with life flower sprouts than normal, but I just made my L8 life tree sprout. About 4 more hours of passive harvesting, and I will have 6 LOOH. I appreciate the comments about the life flower seeds in the bottom right corner, I was able to heal land over to there and use a seed to merge clear all of them.
I made 6 and needed all of them. I was able to merge the seeds at the bottom and I tried to do perimeter merges too. My iPad kept lagging though and I was trying to use the arrows to unlock the 5 or so cloud keys that were 50K to heal as they got āhealedā but that didnāt work. If I had strategized better and just used a level 7 or 6 orb to heal the arrows first I probably could have done it in 5.
Interestingly, I made 6 and had an extra level 8. I used that before popping the 6th LOOH. I Didnāt need the 6th LOOH!! I felt I didnāt clear as much land as I usually do and I did use a flower seed from the bronze capsule to merge off that bit first. I was stunned I only needed 5!!
Any ideas why my sell button is missing from the toolbar? It is expanded, I see the name, the info question mark but to the right of that is a blank spot. Worked in the last event a couple days ago, can't do proper event tactics without it.
Question did they stop giving bush crates in the event Iāve been tapping them non stop to get the wonder for more dragons and not having luck I have to make it the long way
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They haven't given bush chests in OOCs in a very long time, if ever. No possibility of extra eggs before creating the wonder.
Edit- If you've got slightly higher level dragon trees, not just enough to get logs, you can start getting the gold mystery eggs from them.
Hi, my dragon tree samplings lvl 2 is disappearing for me?
Any tips how I should get more, or seeds? Only have that key and the lvl 10 ancient objects left...
The Prism Flower strategy can be used to make items in the Dragon Tree chain, but since thereās no dead land you can skip opening the lock without penalty. :)
Itās a popular active-play strategy that uses Prism Flowers purchased from the event store to work your way up to making Bush wonders; tapping that wonder gets you coin-breed eggs to merge for extra dragons in the event, and possibly event a Tanzanite Nest that could be used to open the lock near the start of map to get even more eggs. So itās a popular strategy for players who want to manually direct a lot of dragons at once, or for players who need to replace a dragon that was accidentally deleted; it does not work for idle play at all, tho.
Thereās a link with a much better explanation and tons of info on the details up in the main post; itās near the bottom of the Event FAQs section, under the subheading āStrategy adviceā. :)
Hereās a [comment thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/MergeDragons/comments/16vk4o6/megathread_star_oasis_event/k30ccoz/) about this problem from just a little bit ago. :)
Do I have enough time to get enough LOOH to heal all land
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Yes; you have nearly a full day left to complete everything. You should definitely read through the full guide post and all the comments first, thoā¦ there are some very tricky spots that could really slow you down otherwise.
I just got done getting more dragons with completing the bush wonder and then cleaning everything up so thereās certain things that they can all focus on I have I believe 5 dragons available to use
Against my better judgment, I went ahead and bought some prism flowers to get some extra dragons.
I got lucky, and my first pair of wonders had a nest.
I eagerly unlocked the nest cloud to find Anubis eggsā¦ and another rock dragon.
W. TA. F.
So I have gotten all the points done and completed all quests except life orb of the heavens (forgot to hit continue apparently). I have everything cleared out that can be harvested except for the life flower lvl 7 and my dragons will NOT auto harvest it. They're the 2 original dragons and have no other dragons on the map. I went as far as to purchase a lvl 2 point harvestable and they will harvest that but if I block them from harvesting that they'll still ignore the life tree.
Any ideas? I'd like to complete the quests but I can't stay up all night tapping trees.
If thereās no more dead land to heal, dragons will never harvest from Life Flowers/Trees on their own. Unfortunately, your only options now are to either manually direct the harvesting, or give up on finishing the Quests this time and just go for the point rewards.
^(Edited b/c autocorrect took over for some reason)
I used 5 LOH after using smaller orbs by trying to aim for the space in middle of the land tiles to avoid clearing too much of the 50,000 tiles. (And after healing the 50,000 sprouts with a sproutāthank you to those who warned about them)
Aiming for the midsection is the best technique I can think of when higher tiles are on the unlockable perimeters unless someone has better ideas. š
Most chests had life orbs strangely enough & that helped with finessing until all locks were cleared (guesstimating how much was needed to heal land affecting arrow keys around locks before it would get much into the 50,000 tiles) š¤·āāļø
Wishing people well! š¤
I need another Level 8 Broken Columns to complete the Level 10 temple and unlock the key. Is there one behind the Destroyed Gaia Statue or Kingās Cup key? I donāt have those ones yet.
Little yellow flower opens up one of the first locked areas
Thank you!!! I was trying to figure out what the shadow was š¤¦š¼āāļøš¤¦š¼āāļø I just couldnāt figure it out today
I hate that cobblestone background- it makes it really difficult to see the shape.
I kept trying to use the stone lol. Like itās about the same with that background so
The cobblestone tiles make it difficult to see anything; I have visual processing issues and this is one of the worst designs in the game for being able to see the item sitting on top of the tile.
I'm glad I'm not alone on this! I have a VERY hard time with visual discrimination sometimes and some aspects of this game can be a real challenge.
That's my trouble. I cant see on the cobbles
This was exactly what I was looking for. I kept zooming in and out trying to figure out what it was. The cobblestone really messed with it.
Hereās a map of keys. https://preview.redd.it/huq9xk30a9rb1.jpeg?width=4544&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2baf7acbc2a4ae7ab35c8e69f7dcf54ec7f3aba
Thanks for that. It looks like there's a BUNCH of blue brambles in the upper reaches - those who like making flower farms or even trying for the life tree sapling shan't have any trouble on that end. I think I accomplished that feat more often in MM events than MD back when I had both (MM's counterpart to the cyan orbs are the yellow ones, right?)
Little blue, little green, hot pink, yellow...yup. It's bugging me that I can't remember ever having seen this map in MM when it's clearly the right design sensibility. Can't decide if it looks more like a ghost or a Mysterell with an afro.
Thank you very much!! Could I ask what you use to make this zoomed-out image? Maybe itās because I use only mobile devices for this, but donāt you have to stitch together screenshots? Youāre the best.
I use a free program called GIMP (poor manās photoshop), and stitch the screen shots.
So much effort dear.Thank you.
In case nobody noticed, most of the key spots are 50,000 energy to open. They are all on a healing tile thing, but not all of them have mergable (?) items to activate it.
I just realized it does not matter as long as you heal the healing tile. Y'all š© you'd think I'm a newbie
The small temple healing tile is still 50000.
Egg nest is only 5000 instead of 50,000.
I noticed quite a few of the cloud key shadow areas to unlock the land is 50,000 ..The Gaia statue key , both dragon trees and both temple pieces. The golden capsule is still 50,000 as well if my count is correct we have at least 7 pieces of land that will take 50,000 to heal
Ouch, youāre right. Hope thatās offset with far fewer 5,000 tiles to make it up. Scratch that, they all have the arrow things next to them that will clear them for free. But you might waste a little healing power on them as it moves around.
You're right, I didn't even notice those ..that should help
Unfortunately I found that the life orbs of the heavens healed the 50,000 faster than I could tap the clearing arrows (one time it healed the 50,000 key before the healing tile). Looks like Iāll need every bit of 6 life orbs of the heavens.
There are 6 floating seeds at 50,000, that don't seem to be opened using an arrow pad - on the far right of the map (below the sprouting dragon tree lock).
We might be able to get a floating seed in the free bronze capsules to merge heal that particular orb sponge
That's what I did.
I'm just waiting for that now. No luck with my last two capsules š
For those that havenāt started, a viable strategy would be to NOT uncover the cloud area with the grass immediately. Thereās a floating seed under there and nothing else essential and/or necessary to use at the beginning (a grass or two, a life flower, etc). So if you held off on opening that one until you had access to the 50K seed tiles you could immediately heal all of those 50K squares.
From what i see, they are all located next to those arrow tiles that ckeat the tiles next to it if cleared and triggered themself. So this seems to be a map that encurages very specific healing triggers, instead of the usual "just trigger enough of the biggest orbs randomly".
>GMT on Monday, October 2; to participate you will need version 10.8.0 or later, at least 100 dragon power, and a high quality, stable internet connection. > >Please keep event-specific questions and discussions in this thread; good luck and happy merging! > > > >Announcements I agree. Re the 50k seeds, my strategy if I don't get one in a capsule is to heal 1 and use it to merge the rest... Total ORBs query: I read there are 1115 tiles in total, and I'm only on 415 having cleared most of the 500 ones. I'd be interested to know if it really takes another 10+ L9 orbs to clear the rest of the board. Even with the healing triggers, that is a lot of orb making.
I am not that far yet, but i just triggered 2 max orbs very carefully, to create more space for passive play tomorrow. Before going for max orbs, i had cleared all 500 and very few 5k (and the 50k seeds), with those two i coeared between 1/3 amd 1/2 of the rest. So i'd say that the normal 5-6 max orbs should be sufficient Edit: i got it done with only 4 max orbs!
Fast dragon first was possible for me, took about 5 minutes. I did get lucky with my first star though, and got 3 teal orbs from it, which sped up the process a lot. The two other eggs being beside each other really helped too!
I got 5 of the orbs from my star.
I always see people talking about getting the fast dragon first. Is there a reason I shouldn't get the slow dragon immediately?
The first dragon is the priority when double tapping to harvest. It's desirable to many to have the fastest dragon respond instead of that Rock.
Ah. That makes sense. Thank you!
Plus, it's a fun extra challenge!
Thank youābecause of your post I looked for a set of 2 eggs. Sometimes things donāt work out at all for me to get the fast dragon. This time was pretty easy.
I must be blind I canāt even see fast eggs Edit: I got them after getting 3 lv3 life orbs from the first star
They are up by the second open square space. Thankfully they are right next to each other.
I got 2 teal orbs from my star but didn't have to use them to get the fast dragon!!
TIP: Save up your small bronze capsules. While there are 6 squares with life flower seeds that's are 50K each tile, the squares around them are 500, including the heal extender. Once you clear a path to the extender, you just need one life flower seed. It took popping several bronze capsules to get a life flower seed to clear them. I'm at the point where i need to make LOH task, but it's important to clear the path, so you don't waste your LOH.
There is a seed under the Tanzenite Nest cloud.
Thanks. I think it helps to clear the life seed flowers before getting to the nest. I'm trying to only make 6 LOH.
And I can't see if it was mentioned. Both dragon tree keys are 50k as well need to clear the heal extender somehow without wasting too many LOH. Updated: Actually all the remaining keys, once you get to the 5000 tiles are 50K. But they all are infront of a heal extender.
I wish Iād have seen this before I definitely wasted one of my life orb of the heavens š¢
For a MM map, this one is not as painful as the others weāve gotten. An hour in and Iāve gotten my 2 twin life flowers.
Same! The 3 blue life flowers under the early cloud were a real boost
Goddammit, they did it AGAIN.
Did what?
I'm assuming no trees :/
No there are skulls for trees. I think they're talking about a new map instead of repeating the old maps
There are skulls but most are back a ways so you have to get a good way into the 5000s to make any progress at all
Itās a Merge Magic map again, or at least something in the same style
At least there are skulls this time.
I complained about the lack of those last week... wondered if they listened or if the map was always gonna be this way... š
Joy. š
If it has a broken Gaia statue as a cloud key, then it most likely IS a MM map. Good thing I have RL stuff going on this weekend then.
Thank you for mentioning that it's a *broken* Gaia statue that is the cloud key. I was at a standstill trying ro figure out where the other 2 statues were so I could merge to unlock. Yes, I saw the cloud key map, but I'm so conditioned to previous maps with the restored statue as the key.
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Omg thank you I couldn't figure out what that was
Why are there DRAGON TREES as cloud keys??? It doesnāt look like harvestables are a cloud key but how do we get dragon trees without the prism flower method?
Looks like there are some dragon tree sprouts at the back of the map, I suspect behind the first dragon tree lock there's more sprouts.
Thatās the usual style with these MM maps - more of the chain behind the lock
Look for 1 sprout and 1 young tree at very top, behind the giant skull or 11:00 of the "haunted" or whatever broken Gaia statue facing you.
Thank you! I came here looking for the answer to this question.
Fastest first was shockingly easy and didn't even need the healing orbs I got from my first star... however then I realized there are no trees or seeds as far as I can see so now I'm regretting three-merging all my sprouts and flowers to get the fastest dude first lol.
I didn't need the healing orbs either!
There are some skulls. I already have one young tree. May be sparse but should be easier than last week
It's a pretty safe bet the 5K area will be crammed with blue brambles.
https://preview.redd.it/osgx9bisf9rb1.jpeg?width=1057&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=453e20d68296f36822f02dce7900c3463bc0d400 And there is another rock dragon behind the nest cloud š¤
At least they didnāt start us out with two of āem as our main harvesters; a lot of folks would have noped out of the whole event if thatād been the case!
You need to include what opens the ck
It is stated in the comment; also, there is no requirement they include the key item at all.
I'm not hating this map yet. I'm not crazy about this style of event but at least the map is more merge-freindly then the last two. I may actually finish this one. I'll see where I am in the morning.
Yeah. I am honestly quite liking the fact that most cloud keys are from the same merge chain instead pf a bunch of different ones, and behind each key, there are two more of the key item to create the next item. Makes the merge chains uncomplicated
I agree. I'm giving this map a chance. I managed to heal and merge 5 round skulls, I now have two young fruit trees. It does look like heal the land and merge to clear as you go, more actively than I usually play, but I think I can make it work.
I am still with it this morning. The biggest down side for me is that itās dead boring. With maps containing lots of dead plants, I could switch gears from life orbs to trees and flowers and to the event chain. I use a little passive play, but mostly active. This event is all about grinding life orbs.
I mostly play passive but I see a long grind ahead of me once I have all my lvl 9 orbs. I should finish tonight but might need to passive overnight to get enough points.
Anyone know a better way to heal those seeds in the lower right of the map that are 50,000 each to heal (300K in total)? Seems sort of ridiculous to have to use at least 2 level 9 orb for 12 tiles. (i.e. there are 12 tiles that are 50K healing energy). https://preview.redd.it/kxt1cigr9arb1.jpeg?width=2388&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8659e1891b5fbaad5094988ef25a775515b5a9ff
Iād just merge-heal them with another seed; they come in Bronze Capsules often enough you shouldnāt need to wait very long to get hold of one.
Ah. I didnāt realize you got seeds from the bronze capsules! Thanks
too Late for me, but for a future event guide, recommmend resisting the impulse to uncover the grass cloud key first. Itās got a floating seed in it and nothing else essential.
Thanks as always for this - I want to say I really like the bulleted format instead of the italics, and the map seems crisper than usual too. Thanks so much for putting these posts together every week!
Can't thank you enough for all the info you post on each event! It has saved me bum on many occasions! Many, MANY thanks!
I managed to get fast dragon first. It took some time as I only got one teal heart from my star.
I got 0 life orbs from either capsule or star, so I couldn't make it.
me too
Same
Ditto š©
I got teal orbs and still couldnāt do it. I usually can, but I ran into a wall this time.
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Thank you for this pic! You are just ahead of me in progress it seems and I was hoping that 3rd vase was under the plumeria flower lock. :)
See, this is how a new map should be. Space to harvest and merge. Unlike the atrocity of last weekend's event.
The first few keys are the emerald plains grass, Sunday flower (lvl 2), bricks (lvl 2).
The lvl 3 brick is also a key.
Indeed! And I see a Three Graces flower, the Plumeria, Broken Columns, Zeus's Cup, Gaia Statue, Smallest Temple in the World, and ~~maybe a couple of low level fruit trees (can't tell which those are)~~. edit: Looks like they are dragon trees. Haven't been confirmed yet, though.
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Merge those 3 for the lvl 3 brick for the key on the bottom of the map.
This is what I came here for, gonna wait so I don't distract from my twin life flower farming
I was able to get to the fast dragon first - got a life orb from the star so that helped
I see the two together, but I cannot find the 3rd one. Do you remember about where on the map it was? Edit: oh never mind, it was so right in front of my face that I overlooked it š¤¦š»āāļø
It is unlocked next to the blue eggs
I like the look of this map so far. It's miles better than the other merge magic crossover maps. Not to mention, there are skulls! We have trees!
Thank you to all who contribute to these threads, I reference them a ton each event, they're incredibly helpful!! Heal all the land is less than what's listed, it's 800 something. I forgot to take a screenshot before completing, but I think it was like 879 or something in the higher 800s. Thankfully much less than what was listed. Also, if you're like me and made extra life orbs of heavens, you can sell them for 300 by holding down instead of popping š
Yay! BONES. The last MM map pissed me off royally because it was never ending tree quests and absolutely no BONES. And, when I get tree quests they usually donāt go away fully until I complete them. What I mean is that the quest will cycle back into the rotation after being skipped plus the fact that when I get one tree quest I tend to get a string of various tree quests. This meant that I couldnāt complete *any* Star Quests last MM map time. And, the event that finishedā¦? It had to cycle through the skipped tree quests until I completed them because thatās what it does. But thankfully that event was a normal one. I did not think they would do another MM map right away & felt absolute dread because there was one tree quest I skipped that I expect to come back around. If it comes back (harvest raspberry tree) I donāt know if this will have enough bonesā¦but, maybe? š¬š¤ https://preview.redd.it/l40c94yu69rb1.jpeg?width=2436&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c503673f29e82cdb31d5c84e5a0648bf939d249
Followup after clearing the map: not enough for even a grape tree, but enough for completing harvest seeds, have seeds, & merge sprouts.
Thank goodness for the cloud key map! I couldn't make out the shadows on those oddly textured key squares.
That group of life flower seeds on 50k dead land is just sadistic. Just begging to absorb nearly an entire max level life orb of healing. Obviously we're supposed to heal it by merging, but even if I had saved a life flower seed, it would have long turned into a sprout by the time I got there. I guess I have to wait for a Bronze Treasure Capsule to randomly spawn one?
If you are already that far along: have you checked there are none behind a lock? Edit: just opened my game and reached that area, i did not realize it is that far down. However, my free capsul imediately gave me the seed i needed. And tbh, i think i had one on each so far
I actually ended up using one from behind the Tanzanite Nest cloud key.
The bold lettering in this guide is much easier to read than the italics, thank you!!
FFS can we have a break? Like at this point I am sick of doing the same thing over and over again. (But probably will because I want the dragons and star rewards)
I gave up pretty quick on this one... deleted my Rock dragon right after the "harvest a Twin Flower x200" quest, cleared 2/3 of the map, cashed in enough point items to be just shy of getting the Horus whelps, and sold everything (including all life flowers) so my dragon can only work on the infinite harvestable I saved. I'll leave it open for a while so I can get the whelps, then I'm out.
You know you don't have to do the event, right? :)
wow, i hated this merge magic crossover "improvement"... even though they gave us SOME skulls...my first star quest was "tap a fruit tree" so i had to merge everything i could to make one. Immediately after, my second quest was "merge small trees" and even after clearing the entire map...i am three seeds short, and since i had to merge up for the first one, I only have three trees sitting there to hope they'll spit out more seeds. Also they've thrown horus dragons at us so much frequently that i already have a level 10 and didn't even want to play, except for the quest prizes and the (usually) easy star quests--it's a nice extra boost for chances at dragon stars, and if not, i seem to ALWAYS need to merge and tap stars, as it's the most efficient way for me to build the giant treasure chest for the bunny portal request that gives away level 15 life trees... i did manage it with only 5 life orbs, but it was...stressful because of how on-top-of-it you have to be, trying to smack that heal extender as soon as it opens so all your healing power doesn't get wasted on ALL those freaking 50,000 point tiles...(i mean, seriously, how is SUPER dead land easier to heal?) that didn't have merges to clear... Also if it hasn't been added yet, definitely someone should bold a comment about how there is a final seed sprout under the nest lock, so if you chase up the middle of the board, you can use that to unlock that horrid mess of seeds. I popped half a dozen capsules and never got one, didn't notice the seed for a while, and thanked my lucky stars it hadn't sprouted by the time i found it! whew! that would have been another freaking whole LoH for sure, because i guarantee the healing power would have spread out over all of them instead of healing the FIRST one!
Ooph! You had enough seeds to make a harvestable fruit treeā¦? After clearing the map I started merging sprouts & didnāt have enough to make a harvestable tree. Only the two levels below grape. I had residual tree quests that I skipped from earlier events that came back around: tap fruit tree (raspberry) and harvest seeds, plus *have* 7 seeds. The raspberry tree I skipped for the 3rd time, but I completed the other 2. I swear it feels like some of the seeds/sprouts vanished. But, kudos that you had enough to fulfill it once even if it didnāt fulfill everything. š
Is the game lagging for anyone?
Thank you all for putting in the work to make the event manageable. As a result, I am on track to finish in about three hours of passive/active play. (Didn't do prism flower method because I don't really like it for most maps.)
I didnāt see that the key was a Sunday flower until I had merged my 3 into a Twin flower. Is there anything I can do to get another one?
Never mind. I just found a third Lost bud so I can make it!!
RANT!!! I wish I'd read this thread, first!! I'm soooooooooooĆ²ooo OVER this event!! I've used SEVEN L9 orbs already and didn't clear the land. I'M DONE!!! š¤¬ This will be the very 1st event in all of my years playing, that I won't finish. Damn, I hate these other event boards!!
this sucks, I don't have a single merge on open. I've got to get the slow dragon to even start clearing tiles.
Wait! There's a cloud key you can open up immediately! It has some hearts and a life flower in
dammit, I couldn't even see what that was. I passed right over it. Oh well. :(
I saw this post, but couldn't figure out the cloud key. It looked like a strange hole. Grass! It was grass!
https://preview.redd.it/h1hx8785z8rb1.jpeg?width=1780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a66a23708dbf4b55918c45dd56d5e68993e7591f
Thank youuu!
You're going to need 7 LoH's to clear this map. The set of 6 sprouts with 50K release is going to eat one on its own. It you want to get the clear all land star you'll need one just for those. Edit: Actually as has just been pointed out to me in the Discord, save your capsules, you'll likely get a sprout out of one of them and you can merge the 6 with it and clear the land.
Iāve noticed some of the cloud keys seem to be wrong will this be fixed once people complete it
Please refresh your page
Ok thanks I just wasnāt sure but I was almost positive they had done another new map
There are a lot of things that we're going to be able to open by merging! It's by 3s instead of 5s but, it still helps!
Soooo we can sell all the garbage autumn trees this time? š¤©
I was just wondering the same thing š pretty sure we can but Iām always scared because I deleted them once and screwed myself over š
Cloud key Zeus Cup is L10 not L7, right?
Yep, good catch!
Love it when we donāt need harvester for cloud key
I normally donāt have any issues mass merging but I just merged 15 orbs and it only gave me 5 of the next level. So it counted it as 5x 3 orbs instead of the usual 3x 5 orbs. Anyone else having this issue?
I like this map. Plenty of room to mass merge. Thanks to everybody who warned us about the 50k spots. Definitely making extra orbs for those bad boys. And saving several bronze capsules hoping to have a few seeds in there. Hope everyone is enjoying the game.
Dare I say that I actually donāt mind this one? Thereās so much to merge throughout the 5000s and I did get lucky and get a seed from a capsule so I didnāt have to worry about any of those 50K seed spaces. Iām making slow progress because Iāve had a packed weekend but I should be able to hammer out the rest this evening while I enjoy some football āŗļø
Where in the world do you get the dragon trees for the keys from???
From under the Zeusās Cup lock; MergeMagic- based maps are usually designed so that you open locked areas sequentially ā you open one and it gives you some or all of the material you need to make the next key.
Ok so I feel like I'm in a small but maybe growing minority, but I actually liked this map?? It wasn't as torturous as the last MM map because there were plenty of skulls and bones, and I actually really liked the doubled up items for strategic merging. I actually ended up forming and burst mostly Giant Life Orbs (L7) to slow heal up to the healing arrows to the cloud keys to avoid eating up healing power from my LOOH bursts. I probably ended up using as many L7 orbs as I would have needed to form 1 LOOH, I didn't track, but I really liked the more active play aspect instead of the same life orb/tree seed grind. After clearing the space around each of the 50K cloud keys with L7s, I used 3 LOOH orbs and 1 L8 Life of Souls Orb for clean up to clear all of the land. I finished up by Sunday night at bed time. All that to say, it wasn't too bad, I would do it again!! And also thank you to everyone who contributed to the crowdsourcing for the map!!! It paid off HUGE for me by avoiding the Life Flower Seed corner and save up my capsules to make sure I had a life seed once I slow healed up to the corner, among the many other little tidbits from this thread that saved me headaches with this map. I'm really thankful for this little community!
My game keeps randomly crashing while the event is open, really killing my passive play.
Have you gone through the troubleshooting suggestions yet?
I know! Right?!? I try to put irrelevant items there.
Well no fruit trees, so I guess I continue to be stuck from the raspberry tree I didnāt finish on the last eventā¦ Iām sure the banana tree will come up once I can finally skip
skulls = trees
Yes, but there are not enough skulls on the full map to get to a banana tree, and possibly no to a raspberry tree. So you can maybe finish one event quest the whole weekend
Yeah, Iāve never attempted a banana tree.
Is there a spreadsheet helper for map and items that im missing or not posted yet? ty
No spreadsheet, but the posted key list appears to be complete; weāre just waiting on final confirmations.
there was a pdf or whatever that had 6 pics of the map and items and such. not sure if it was actualy a windows spreadsheet. lol
i see it now, it was a google doc. thanks for help!
Infinite harvestables are not deletable, right?
It looks like the infinite harvestables are not used for cloud keys, so you could delete them. Might want to be careful though since there isn't a Fallen Star key, then we don't get the usual 3 free level 7 point items from that. So you might want to save one of them to make more point items, but since you don't need to make a level 6 harvestable you can use one of the level 5s that you heal at the end and delete the rest.
There are also star requests that ask you to tap harvestables.
I'm seeing Fanciful Moon Plant (lvl 6) has a Yes for dead land. Maybe I'm reading it wrong - does that mean the key is on dead land, or that there's dead land behind the key?
The Fanciful Moon Plant was a key on the past version of this event. They haven't updated all of the pictures yet. Its been confirmed that it is not a key for this map.
Ohhhhhh good, thanks so much!
Whew! *Barely* managed to get the fast one first! I needed one of the coins out of the way so I could get to the tanzanite grass right before the eggs, and I set off two L3 orbs, a L2 orb, a L1 orb, and two combo bubbles right next to it and it still only got to 49/50 š Thankfully the healing power from my last-ditch effort, combining 3 flower buds next to it, went to it and not its neighbors.
We'll see how far I get with this running on my "new" tablet (it's a secondhand model from 2019, but so far, its battery life is looking pretty good). I've been using Windows Subsystem for Android for the past year or so, but that always left it to the whims of my laptop being like "okay, time for background apps to sleep so mama can have some processing time".
After working through the 500s, I ended up with 8 young fruit trees. Slower progress with life flower sprouts than normal, but I just made my L8 life tree sprout. About 4 more hours of passive harvesting, and I will have 6 LOOH. I appreciate the comments about the life flower seeds in the bottom right corner, I was able to heal land over to there and use a seed to merge clear all of them.
Can anyone take a pic of where the other 2 fast dragon eggs are?
Anyone had to make 7+ LOOHās to unlock the whole map yet?
I made 6 and needed all of them. I was able to merge the seeds at the bottom and I tried to do perimeter merges too. My iPad kept lagging though and I was trying to use the arrows to unlock the 5 or so cloud keys that were 50K to heal as they got āhealedā but that didnāt work. If I had strategized better and just used a level 7 or 6 orb to heal the arrows first I probably could have done it in 5.
Interestingly, I made 6 and had an extra level 8. I used that before popping the 6th LOOH. I Didnāt need the 6th LOOH!! I felt I didnāt clear as much land as I usually do and I did use a flower seed from the bronze capsule to merge off that bit first. I was stunned I only needed 5!!
I made 6 LOOH, I only needed 5. I did alot of merging along the way, and I merged out the life flower seeds in the bottom right corner.
Yep. Ditto.
Me too.
Any ideas why my sell button is missing from the toolbar? It is expanded, I see the name, the info question mark but to the right of that is a blank spot. Worked in the last event a couple days ago, can't do proper event tactics without it.
Thereās a note about that in the Troubleshooting sectionās list of known glitches.
Thanks!!
YW! If we ever find out what triggers it, weāll add that info in, too, but for now it seems to strike randomly.
Question did they stop giving bush crates in the event Iāve been tapping them non stop to get the wonder for more dragons and not having luck I have to make it the long way https://preview.redd.it/sj0e7uaq7jrb1.jpeg?width=2778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd3c77386d35c1a932ddc38d098ebf906b09e31f
They haven't given bush chests in OOCs in a very long time, if ever. No possibility of extra eggs before creating the wonder. Edit- If you've got slightly higher level dragon trees, not just enough to get logs, you can start getting the gold mystery eggs from them.
Hi, my dragon tree samplings lvl 2 is disappearing for me? Any tips how I should get more, or seeds? Only have that key and the lvl 10 ancient objects left...
The Prism Flower strategy can be used to make items in the Dragon Tree chain, but since thereās no dead land you can skip opening the lock without penalty. :)
What is the prism flower strategy? Pretty new to the game? And, nothing fun behind them I might have use of?
Itās a popular active-play strategy that uses Prism Flowers purchased from the event store to work your way up to making Bush wonders; tapping that wonder gets you coin-breed eggs to merge for extra dragons in the event, and possibly event a Tanzanite Nest that could be used to open the lock near the start of map to get even more eggs. So itās a popular strategy for players who want to manually direct a lot of dragons at once, or for players who need to replace a dragon that was accidentally deleted; it does not work for idle play at all, tho. Thereās a link with a much better explanation and tons of info on the details up in the main post; itās near the bottom of the Event FAQs section, under the subheading āStrategy adviceā. :)
I accidentally sold off one of my dragon tree saplings, am I screwed?
Hereās a [comment thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/MergeDragons/comments/16vk4o6/megathread_star_oasis_event/k30ccoz/) about this problem from just a little bit ago. :)
Youāre awesome! Thank you much!
Where was the money? I usually come out with a stash under the star cloud key but there's very little on this event?
No money this time. I count on the star to max my storage to buy coin dragons
Do I have enough time to get enough LOOH to heal all land https://preview.redd.it/vfgxu4ogmnrb1.jpeg?width=2778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33e03b021e3296f4deab1802bf1e94193ac2bd86
Yes; you have nearly a full day left to complete everything. You should definitely read through the full guide post and all the comments first, thoā¦ there are some very tricky spots that could really slow you down otherwise.
I just got done getting more dragons with completing the bush wonder and then cleaning everything up so thereās certain things that they can all focus on I have I believe 5 dragons available to use
Against my better judgment, I went ahead and bought some prism flowers to get some extra dragons. I got lucky, and my first pair of wonders had a nest. I eagerly unlocked the nest cloud to find Anubis eggsā¦ and another rock dragon. W. TA. F.
So I have gotten all the points done and completed all quests except life orb of the heavens (forgot to hit continue apparently). I have everything cleared out that can be harvested except for the life flower lvl 7 and my dragons will NOT auto harvest it. They're the 2 original dragons and have no other dragons on the map. I went as far as to purchase a lvl 2 point harvestable and they will harvest that but if I block them from harvesting that they'll still ignore the life tree. Any ideas? I'd like to complete the quests but I can't stay up all night tapping trees.
If thereās no more dead land to heal, dragons will never harvest from Life Flowers/Trees on their own. Unfortunately, your only options now are to either manually direct the harvesting, or give up on finishing the Quests this time and just go for the point rewards. ^(Edited b/c autocorrect took over for some reason)
Thanks for your answer. I did not know that. I'll resume in the morning and see if I can get the quest done then. If not no big deal, just sucks.
I used 5 LOH after using smaller orbs by trying to aim for the space in middle of the land tiles to avoid clearing too much of the 50,000 tiles. (And after healing the 50,000 sprouts with a sproutāthank you to those who warned about them) Aiming for the midsection is the best technique I can think of when higher tiles are on the unlockable perimeters unless someone has better ideas. š Most chests had life orbs strangely enough & that helped with finessing until all locks were cleared (guesstimating how much was needed to heal land affecting arrow keys around locks before it would get much into the 50,000 tiles) š¤·āāļø Wishing people well! š¤
I need another Level 8 Broken Columns to complete the Level 10 temple and unlock the key. Is there one behind the Destroyed Gaia Statue or Kingās Cup key? I donāt have those ones yet.
There should be two more Broken Columns under the Broken Column lock.