The long-awaited day has come - September 1, when the new school year begins. The 1100AD team wants to congratulate all schoolchildren, students and their parents on this special moment!
May this year be full of inspiration for learning. We wish you ease in the educational process, a warm friendly atmosphere and exciting events!
In honor of the start of the school season, we are launching special promotions and gifts. These events will run from 28 August to 14 September.

FESTIVE ATMOSPHERE
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In all cities where there is a free cell of sand or grass, a special, festive building will appear - Pencils. Once in a while, they are painted with colorful flowers and bring a gift to their owner.
Check your pencils regularly and have fun with the gifts you find! Among the gifts you can find - resources, artifacts, unique soldiers, gold and diamonds.


COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS
Abodes of Knowledge will appear in all cities and locations that are on land and are not surrounded by a contour. They can be researched, and you can obtain from 15 to 75 ancient coins (depending on the level of the location), after that the coins can be exchanged in the festive tree for valuable goods.

Statistics on the collection of coins are kept for each player and for each Order, and at the end of the holidays, the TOP-10 best players and the TOP-10 best Orders * will receive valuable prizes.

LOTTERY

You can also find the holiday lottery in Pencils. In the holiday lottery there will be a window with 9 gifts, you need to open 3 of them. According to the total number of points you will receive - Bronze, Silver or Gold gift, which include - resources, soldiers, buildings and other bonuses. In order to play the lottery, you need a lottery ticket, which can be purchased - for buying gold or obtained using an artifact - a book of wisdom. One lottery game costs 5 lottery tickets.
By playing the lottery you can also get a special prize - Blueprint of the statue “Stone Book” (4). To do this, you need to reach 100% in the progress bar.


PLAYING ALL TOGETHER

Take part in the match-3 mini-game and try your luck in the battle among the best!
The rules of the game are very simple:
It is necessary to collect in a row or column of 3, 4 or 5 identical elements. Depending on the number of collected items, the player gets points. Collect game points and get super prizes! The more games there are, the more valuable the prizes are.
A combination of 2 bombs gives a special amount of points.

Statistics on the number of points are kept for each player and for each Order, and at the end of the holidays, the TOP-10 best players and the TOP-10 best Orders on each server will receive valuable prizes.
Additionally, we are announcing a mid-server competition!

The best 3 players from the TOP "Match 3" will receive special prizes, including a special city with special buildings, but each player can receive only one prize in the following nominations:
- The best player in the mini-game;
- The best decorator;
- The best collector of combinations;
- The best player in terms of efficiency;
- The best Erudite.

After awarding 15 top-ranked players in the above lists, this time we will be rewarding 15 more players from the top “best mini-game player” * who performed well but failed to make it to the top 3.

* The player receives only one prize for only 1 nomination

Prize - New bonus location Sylvan Castle and bonus point for it.


Follow the statistics of the game, and win unique prizes!


TEMPORARY SOLDIERS

During the celebration, old acquaintances will appear in the game - the Guardian of Wisdom and the Sage, also Carthaginanian Horseman.
A soldier can be obtained for a mini-game, purchased with promotions, or received as a gift. The soldiers will serve until the end of October, after which they will be automatically removed.

NEW ARTIFACTS

Saint Ragedonde ring.
Radegund (lat. Radegundis; 520 - 13 August 587) was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen who founded the abbey of the Holy Cross in Poitiers.
She is the patroness of several churches in France and England, as well as Jesus College, Cambridge (whose full name is "College of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
St. John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin of St. Radegund near Cambridge").

Jeremejevite.
Jeremejevite is an aluminum borate mineral with variable fluoride and hydroxide ions. It is considered one of the rarest and therefore one of the most expensive stones.
For nearly a century, it has been considered one of the rarest gemstones in the world.

It was first described in 1883 as small, single crystals in loose granitic debris in Mt. Soktui, Nerschinsk district,
Adun-Chilon Mountains, Siberia. It was named after Pavel Vladimirovich Eremeev, Russian mineralogist, engineer and professor,
who collected the first specimens. (Jeremejev, German) (1830–1899).


HOLIDAY TOPS

And according to the old tradition, we announce two festive tops
Players who are in the top 10 in collecting these artifacts will receive valuable prizes.


Top Teacher Assistant - help free teachers in locations and get a scroll of philosophy.
The top 10 daredevils will also be rewarded with valuable prizes.


Additionally, we are announcing a cross-server competition!
For the individual competition, the TOP 25 best Teacher Assistant players will be awarded. Top statistics for the cross-server contest can be viewed on the game portal.
The prize is a bonus location Sylvan Castle and a bonus point for it.


New unit for powder points:

Mounted culveriner.
Kulevrina is a firearm that was the ancestor of the arquebus, musket and light cannon. (That is, the kulevrina is the ancestor of the classic firearms.)
The name probably comes from a design in which, for strength, the barrel, forged from iron or copper strips, was attached to a wooden stock with no more than five rings.


Quest Golden Chain
The queen read to our princess a bedtime story:
Near the seaside, the oak is green;
Golden chain on an oak tree:
And day and night the cat - a scientist
Goes round and round in a chain;
Goes to the right - the song starts,
Left - tells a fairy tale.

And the princess is naughty - I want knowledge, I want a scientist cat. But to the wise men here is an advice - if you collect a golden chain, then you will find an oak tree with a cat.
And the king issued a decree - whoever a good fellow collects all 21 links of the chain and a golden lock, he will receive a good prize.


New legendary equipment
Owls have always been considered a symbol of wisdom, strategy, stoicism and messengers of truth. Owls have long been heralds of change and messengers of the divine and the mysterious. They have the unique ability to see the truth through the darkness.
And it was with such an owl that the chief blacksmith of the kingdom met and the owl opened his eyes to many things,
inspired blacksmith sat down at the table to write a sketch of a new equipment and that's how it appeared - New legendary equipment!





Change:
1. The limit of resource locations is set - 122, and bonus locations - 45.
2. Hercules tower, gunpowder magazine, church of peace got new levels