The turning-point day of the year – the Summer Solstice Day – is drawing nigh.
The longest light day in the year it is, because it is on this day, and only once per year, can we spend the shortest night of them all sitting with the family, friends or just good acquaintances around a fire.
This celebration has many names and is celebrated on different days the world over.
Therefore, the Summer Solstice Day in the World of 1100AD begins as soon as today and the 1100AD Team have prepared the special offers and innovations for you on this occasion!

THE FEST TREE
The fest tree – the Oak-Tree – will appear in all the towns of the players to bring their owners a gift heralded by the motley bands every 12 hours.

The Oak-Tree can also be used to exchange the unique coins for various items and, most importantly, to play the ‘Three in a Row’ mini-game.

Please, remember that 20% of the money earned on the mini-game will be donated to an orphanage in Riga.

You can keep track of your scores in the chronicle as you play the mini-game.
Each player can take part in the contest for a place in the TOP-10 of the most active and venturesome players.
Try your luck! All the prizes will be viewable in the chronicle.

THE FEST BONFIRE

The bonfires have appeared in the towns and huts that one can explore (in the tactical screen) to find 0 to 3 ancient coins.
Once the fest is over, the successful coin collectors of each game server will get valuable prizes and will be able to exchange the collected coins for various items!

Do not miss out on the chance to take part in the contest and win the super-prize: + 1 TOWN CONTROL POINT! There’s nothing drastically difficult about it! Just explore everywhere, collect the coins and watch the other players. The numbers of coins collected will be shown in the stats; there, you can also see the prizes for the TOP-10 players. Hurry up because your enemies are watching!

THE NEW HERO AND THE NEW ARTEFACTS
You can encounter the completely new 40-lvl hero with all the 4-lvl combat skills opened already in our in-game shop!

Also there you can find the two completely new combat artefacts:
- The Spear of Longinus that gives the attack and attack speed bonuses to some soldier units that are armed with the spears.


- The Victory Herald that gives the attack and path-finding bonuses to some mounted soldier units.



THE NEW ADVENTURE HUT
The Diamond Mine is the new temporary adventure hut that will appear in the valleys of each server in time.
They will spawn randomly and will live for 36 hours.
By exploring them you can get diamonds and the coins of these three kinds: the bronze, silver and golden ones.

Most importantly, the stats of the diamonds found in the hut will be kept per player and ONCE A WEEK the best and most active TOP-10 players WILL FIND PRIZES arriving to them.

The award for a certain position in the TOP list is viewable in the game statistics – via the chronicle.


CITADELS
The greater number of mercenary points: apart from the new skills, the Citadel also affords fivefold the bonus mercenary points.
That is, while an order controlling the Citadel has shared 100,000 mercenary points, it will do 500,000 mercenary points now.

Modification of soldier units: the greater number of available soldiers that can be hired in the castle on the Citadel’s capture.
The Citadel has afforded the maximum of 3,000 Heavy Royal Guards* while you can hire10 000 Heavy Royal Guards * now.
Most importantly, the Heavy Royal Guards* do not require mercenary points to recruit anymore (this modification does not apply to the Server Aquitaine).
*- the names of these units may differ on some servers.

IMPROVED STORAGES
The number of upgrade levels of the Storage has been increased to 10. Now, one storage can hold 75k of the resources of each kind.

DISCOUNTS AND BURNING OFFERS:
-70% on the order skills ‘Vassalage’ and ‘Storage’
- 30% on building in-valley walls and forts
- 30% on buying vassal and mercenary camp control points
- 30% on building and upgrading the following mercenary huts: the Sworbrethren’s Castle, the Byzantine Stronghold, the Livonian Castle, the Visborg Castle and the Vladimir Kremlin (the discount applies to the 3-4-5th levels on the servers where the mercenary camps have 5 levels in total).
- The 3-month and 6-month subscriptions.

The chance of finding the unique artefacts – archery, mounted archery, cavalry, attack and defence – upping the relevant hero levels has been made higher for the duration of the holiday.
The rare gems needed to make unique crowns, soldier units, the new hero and the new artefacts are available in the in-game shop.
Besides, you will see the burning offers in the right-hand menu. Hurry up because the campaign’s time is strictly limited.

MOST IMPORTANTLY – THE GIFTS
On the festive night from 23 to 24 June all the players will have kingdom events containing gifts.
Merry celebration! We wish all of you good rest and excellent enjoyment

ADDITIONAL CHANGES:
1. The throughput capacity of the market has been increased to 55k of resources.
2. The ingredients are drawn from all the towns when items are wrought in the Blacksmith’s.
If the ingredient needed for the specific job is in another town, 1 gold coin is charged for collecting that ingredient (meaning, 1 gold coin per kind).
The information about the amount payable is shown in the recipe. Also, all the newly-made artefacts will go to the kingdom event rather than drop into the treasury of the town in which they were made.
Then, the player can choose in what town to accept the kingdom event with the new artefact.
3. The ‘Vassalage’ order skill has been increased to the 60th level.

The holiday time begins on 18 June and will last until 30 June 2015 inclusive.