The game just hit its one-year mark, and the anniversary celebration opened yesterday. Instead of a single event, this drop bundles close to ten overlapping modes together, some solo, some tied to alliance coordination, all running on different clocks. Rather than walking through them in the order the game lists them, it's easier to split this guide into what you can finish alone and what needs your alliance on board, so you know where to spend your time first.
Timeline at a Glance
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Category |
Modes Included |
Duration |
|
Main statewide events |
Sweet Project, Anniversary Market, Party Feast, Surprise Delivery, 2x Rewards |
14 days |
|
Short sprints |
Pinball Party, Anniversary Pass |
7 days |
|
Daily resets |
7-Day Tour tasks, daily objectives |
Every 24 hours |
One thing worth flagging early: most leftover rewards get auto-mailed once their mode ends, but the Anniversary Market works differently. Its top items are locked behind badge thresholds, so if you're planning to redeem something rare, don't leave it to the last day.
Solo Modes: What You Can Clear on Your Own
Daily Tour Tasks and Surprise Delivery
Daily tasks rotate across three categories, covering things like intel runs, clearing infected, hero recruitment, and using speedups. Completing them fills a hot air balloon meter, and hitting milestones on it unlocks bonus rewards. This track runs for the full 7 days, and anything unclaimed gets mailed afterward.
Alongside that, Surprise Delivery boxes trigger automatically once you hit daily resource thresholds:
- Every 2,000 gems spent (capped at 100 per day)
- Every 300 minutes of build, research, or training speedups used (capped at 100 per day)
- Every 200,000 wilderness resources gathered (capped at 50 per day)
- Every infected kill (capped at 50 per day)
These stack independently, so if you're already gathering and speeding things up as usual, you'll likely fill most of these without going out of your way.
Anniversary Pass
Progress here comes from Daily and Target Tasks, which build up Anniversary Points across a free track and a paid track. The free line hands out speedups and basic materials at points like 40, 80, and 120, while the paid track adds a heavier reward on top of every milestone. This one only runs 7 days, shorter than the main event window, so it's worth front-loading your dailies here rather than letting the tasks pile up.
Pinball Party
This mode uses a separate token, Festive Pinball, to play a mini-game that climbs a leaderboard and racks up milestone points. Hitting 5,000 points unlocks a permanent base skin exclusive to this event, which comes with passive buffs to troop attack, hero attack, and hero defense. It's the only permanent stat gain in the whole event, so it's worth pushing toward even if you skip everything else. Below that ceiling, the milestone track drops resource crates, gear chests, and skill manuals along the way.
Alliance Modes: You'll Need Your Squad Online
Sweet Project
This is a server- or alliance-wide meter that everyone pushes together by donating Anniversary Candles. Each donation carries a chance to crit and double its value, counting toward both the shared meter and your personal score. Top 3 donors get a rare Anniversary Golden Egg reward when a level clears. Once the whole meter is maxed, you can keep donating for personal points, though it stops affecting the group total.
Party Feast
Alliance leadership (R4/R5) drops party structures on the map, and members pitch in to level them up. Each one only lasts 12 hours before disappearing, so this is the one mode where getting your whole alliance online at the same time actually matters. Higher party levels mean better payouts for everyone who contributed.
Anniversary Market
Badges earned from daily tasks and other event modes get spent here on resources, speedups, and a handful of scarcer items. Some of the better items require hitting a cumulative badge threshold before you're even allowed to buy them, which means steady daily grinding rather than a last-minute rush. Leftover badges convert automatically once the event ends, so nothing gets wasted either way.
Server-Wide 2x Rewards and Top-Up Tiers
Select activities get a "+2" tag during the event window: doubled Solo Shipments & Raid rewards, doubled solo attack rewards in Terror Purge, and doubled Daily Target Crate rewards in Power Play (ranking rewards and task points aren't affected). These bonuses stay doubled even if you claim them after the event closes, so there's no rush to collect immediately.
For anyone planning to spend during this window, there's also a cumulative top-up tier track. It starts at 5,000 diamonds with basic currency and materials, adds a permanent march skin with a small speed bonus at 15,000, and keeps scaling up through 25,000, 50,000, and up to 500,000 diamonds. Gifted gems and growth kits don't count toward this total, which is worth knowing before you plan around a specific tier.
Priority Tips
If time is tight, push Pinball Party to 5,000 points first for the permanent skin, then keep the daily tasks and Surprise Delivery thresholds filled since they overlap with normal play anyway. Alliance modes can be scheduled around your group's availability rather than rushed, except for Party Feast's 12-hour windows, which do need everyone online at once.
FAQ
Is this event worth the time investment?
The permanent base skin from Pinball Party and the permanent march skin from the top-up tiers are the only lasting rewards here. Everything else is one-time materials, so those two are the priority if you're short on time.
Can free-to-play players get the good rewards?
Yes. The free Anniversary Pass track, daily tasks, Surprise Delivery, and the Pinball Party skin are all available without spending. The paid pass and top-up tiers add extra rewards on top but aren't required for the permanent skin.
Will I lose rewards if I forget to claim them?
Most modes auto-mail unclaimed rewards after they end, and the 2x bonuses still apply even to late claims. The Anniversary Market's badge-gated items are the one exception worth checking before the event closes.
Do I need to participate in the alliance modes?
Sweet Project and Party Feast mainly affect your personal score and your alliance's shared progress. Skipping them won't hold back your solo progress in Pinball Party, the Anniversary Pass, or daily tasks.
