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This article is about the Tapped Out's Halloween content update from 2014. For other year's Tapped Out Halloween content updates, see The Simpsons: Tapped Out Halloween content updates.

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The guide to the event.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out Halloween 2014 content update is a content update and event which was released on October 7, 2014^[1] and will run until November 12, 2014 or after. It will be the game's third Halloween event, after Halloween 2012 and Halloween 2013. This event launched under app version 4.11.0.^[2]

The event is split into three parts, the first part lasts until October 20, 2014, at which point the second part will commence will will last to October 31, 2014, at which point the third will commence.

Upon installation of the update, players will be requested to enter their age and agree to terms and conditions.

Description

App Store Description:

The Treehouse of Horrors update is here and it’s out of this world!

Aliens have arrived in Springfield with plans to attack! Uncover their plot and save your town! At least until the government finds out and covers this all up.

• Squish the alien invaders and collect probes, ray guns and more to earn special prizes
• Trick-or-treat with more characters than ever and craft unique limited time items
• Compete with your friends on NEW LEADERBOARDS and see who can squish the most aliens
• Enjoy new characters, buildings and decorations and rediscover missed prizes from last year

What's New in Version 4.11.0:

The Treehouse of Horror update is here!

Ready the Spooky Checklist! Costumes? Check. Candy Bags? Check. Ungrateful greedy children? Check. Alien Invasion?... Looks like this totally normal Halloween update got a little out of this world. Maybe add a few mutated trees and zombies to the checklist too. Doesn’t hurt to be prepared.

Enjoy new characters, buildings, decorations and more in the latest event!!!

Gameplay

Squishing Rigellians and Grem-Aliens

Players squish Rigellians that arrive in Springfield and receive 3 Probes (until October 20, 2014), and 1 in a friends' town. They can also receive Grem-Alien Eggs, which can be used in players' towns to release Grem-Aliens which after 4 hours if not squished by the other player, the player receives a reward. If the Grem-Alien is squished, both players share the awards. Treat Bags can also be obtained from squishing Rigellians.

You can buy Grem-Alien Eggs in the Store:

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  Grem-Alien Egg - 1

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  5 Grem-Alien Eggs - 3

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  10 Grem-Alien Eggs - 5

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  25 Grem-Alien Eggs - 10

Treat Bags

The player receives Treat Bags from sending Kids, Toughies and Squeaky Voice Teen on an 8 hour task to "Go Trick or Treating", which rewards either a Bronze Treat Bag, a Silver Treat Bag, or a Gold Treat Bag. Premium characters earn either a Silver or Gold Treat Bag.

You can buy Treat Bags in the Store:

Bag Contains Bought for Bronze Treat Bag Broken Fence and Rotten Egg 3 Silver Treat Bag Candy Corn and Gummy Bear 4 Gold Treat Bag Chocolate Bar and Pumpkin 6 Bundle of 5 Gold Treat Bags 25

Crafting Items

The Crafting interface.

The player can craft items with items received from Treat Bags at the Make-a-Thing Workshop.

Image Item Items needed to craft Notes Weapon Upgrade +1 Nail to level up This is used to help squish Rigellians. A higher upgrade, the larger radius of alien squishings are available. The Grand Pumpkin 400 + 350 + 300 Pumpkin House is unlocked with the item's questline "Life is Grand Pt. 2". Hugo 300 + 300 + 250 Spooky House is unlocked with the character's questline "The Good Son Pt. 5". Spooky Wall 20 + 25 + 10 Can receive multiple Human Test Subject 100 + 100 + 50

Currencies & Ammo

The currencies Probes, Ray Guns and Long Protein Strings are available to use in the first part, second part and third part of the event respectively.

The player can also receive Ammo which is used in friends' towns to shoot down UFOs which the player can receive rewards for. Ammo is obtainable through Treat Bags.

Ammo can also be bought in the Store:

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  5 Ammo - 15

Rigellian Hunting License

The Rigellian Hunting License can be bought for 90, which allows extra rewards from squishing Rigellians in a friend's town.

Daily Play Combo

The Daily Play Combo changed with this event. There is now a Silver Treat Bag on the fourth day, with a Gold Treat Bag on the fifth.

Personal Prizes

Prizes rotate every 12 days. If the player misses out on getting a prize, "Looks like you missed these prizes, but you can still try craft them" the player can craft them using either Chocolate Bars, Gummy Bears, Jack-o-Lanterns, Rotten Eggs, Candy Corn and Broken Fences.

Part One Image Prize To unlock... Silver Treat Bag 325 Gold Treat Bag 825 Silver Treat Bag Mutant Peacock Silver Treat Bag Gold Treat Bag Silver Treat Bag Gold Treat Bag Gold Treat Bag Donut Torture Device

Characters

Image Character Cost Unlock message Notes 100px Space Mutant "We're just like you — if you cut us we bleed, if you cut us deeper we become two people." Unlocked with Drive-In Theater Bulldozer-saurus 2,825 "Don't mention his underbite!" Personal Prize. Hugo 300 + 300 + 250 "Family will always love you… unless they already have a kid that looks like a clean version of you." Can craft him. Mutant Peacock 3,250 "Proud of his deadliness." Personal Prize. U.B.O. 14,900 "Unidentified Burns-like Object" Personal Prize.

Returning

Buildings

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes Spooky House Personal Prize. Make-a-Thing Workshop 2,000 8h / 4 Drive-In Theater 150 Unlocks Space Mutant. Unimplemented Rigellian Tribal Hut Was to be a Personal Prize.

Returning

Decorations

Image Name Cost Notes Rigellian Queen Personal Prize. Grand Pumpkin Personal Prize. Human Test Subject Personal Prize. Rigellian Shrub Personal Prize. Donut Torture Device Personal Prize. Hover-copter Personal Prize. Teleporters Alpha and Omega 50 Tentacle Tree 18 Portal to Rigel 7 100

Returning

Image Name Cost Notes Pumpkin Patch 450 From Halloween 2012. Jack-o-Lantern 135 From Halloween 2012. Spooky Tree 325 From Halloween 2012. Dead Tree 270 From Halloween 2012. Wailing Wall 50 From Halloween 2013. Ray Gun 150 From Halloween 2012.

Returning item combos

Image Name Cost Includes.... Notes Ancient Burial Ground + Zombie 60 Ancient Burial Ground - 40 and Shuffling Zombie Mausoleum + Zombie 70 Mausoleum and Senile Zombie Springfield Cemetary [sic] + Zombie 80 Springfield Cemetery and Crazy Zombie Pet Cemetary [sic] + Zombies 90 Pet Cemetery, Clawing Zombie and Snarling Zombie Gypsy Fortune Teller Shop + Maude 150 Gypsy Fortune Teller Shop and Maude

Glitches

UFO glitch

After tapping on a UFO and destroying it with ammo, it's possible to tap anywhere in the area and bring up the UFO tap screen again, so you can shoot it down again. This can mean you get multiple prizes from the same UFO, without having to chance upon another UFO.

Grem-Alien glitch

Occasionally, a Grem-Alien may not be tappable. One may be seen just sitting still and not moving. Then it might start moving again. However, you can not tap on it to "kill" it. It will act as if nothing has happened

Quests

Free Hugs Pt. 1

Kang spawns in your town: Hey there. You're new in town, aren't you? I'm a police officer, in case you're wondering why I'm so astute. You do seem pretty sharp. Chief Wiggum! He's not a visitor to our town, he's a hostile alien. Arrest him and call out the national guard. I was gonna do that. That's the procedure for all visitors. I think it may be why our tourism industry is in the dumper. Wait! I have fled the lush tyranny of Rigel VII to seek asylum in this trailer park of a planet: Earth. Oh, Chief Wiggum, we've got to help him! Kang is a defector, like Rudolph Nureyev or Martina Navratilova! Yeah, but those guys could do stuff and this thing's just a drooling squid. I wish to be an Earthling now and follow Earthling customs. Our drone cameras report that you saliva-swallowing bipeds enjoy building useless 2-D buildings. I shall build the most useless, most two-dimensional building of all! Wait, did you say drone cameras? Silence foolish Earth-tween! If you are accusing me of breeding organic, living camera drones that resemble Earth's housefly... and then abandoning the project because we got too much footage of dog poo, you are paranoid! Just build your building. The player unlocks Kang if not already obtained Task: Build the Make-a-Thing Workshop - 2,000, 8h to build and Make Kang Watch Housefly Drone Camera Footage - 8h, requires Brown House After quest completion: So what kind of store did you build, Mr. Kang? It is genius! I provide plush-bear skins and people pay to labor like third-world child-slaves, stuffing and putting sunglasses on them. I guess you'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Look at the accessories! There's even a tiny wheel chair! And a little boombox! I wanna make one! Yes! Stuff! Stuff like there's no tomorrow! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Treat Yourself

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark: I might skip trick-or-treating this year. There's so much hunger in the world, I feel guilty getting candy from strangers just because I'm wearing green makeup and a latex wart. Nonsense. You "liked" that Upworthy video about Darfur. You've gone above and beyond to stop world hunger! Maybe you're right. And I did make that Ethiopian baby sleeping next to a goat carcass my profile picture. I deserve a treat! Mother Teresa never felt guilty about trick or treating. Go and do't come back till your pillowcase strains at the seams. Task: Make Lisa Go Trick or Treating - 8h After quest completion: What a haul! This might be my best year ever! What's this? Who gave me a nail? Remember Professor Frink built that robot that was giving out treats. Oh. Are nails candy to robots? Nah. I think it was just falling apart.

Free Hugs Pt. 2

After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark: You were right to insist I go trick-or-treating, Mr. Kang. I had a great time. You deserve it. Now don't be shy -- eat your candy! Thank you, I will. Yes, eat and fatten yourself! Then relax by soaking in some olive oil with garlic and lemon zest overnight in this refrigerator! Hmmm, you're starting to sound like the people-eating Rigellian you used to be. What? No! I am now one of you. Can't you tell by my fanny pack and my tramp stamp? Hmm… Task: Make Lisa Question Kang's Motives - 45s After quest completion: Enough of this grilling! I'll tell you everything. I'm setting you up for a Rigellian invasion. In fact, it's already begun! I didn't even start questioning you yet - all I asked is if you wanted a drink. Oh, In that case… I'LL TELL YOU NOTHING, IMPUDENT GIRL-COW! And I'll take an iced tea. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go alert everyone to the invasion. Great Gas God! She knows about the invasion!! Quickly! Begin phase two of the invasion. Codename: Phase Two!

Free Hugs Pt. 3

People of Earth, cower before the approaching Rigellian onslaught! They're smaller than I expected… Our army is made of juveniles who are old enough to fight but too young to vote. It's the only way we get to fight the really cool, stupid wars. Well, I'm not afraid. We have a secret weapon! Prepare to be squished by The Sky Finger! Task: Squish a Rigellian Invader Ha, ha, ha, ha! Your impotent squishings do nothing! Our troops are wearing a protective film, much like the tinted windows of your Earth limousines. In my short time as an Earthling, I really got into the whole club scene. You know, VIP rooms, bottle service… But that is neither here for any other place! Prepare for your future as livestock! I already came up with the squishing them idea. If the survival of humanity depends on me coming up with another idea, we are ska-rewed.

Free Hugs Pt. 4

Those aliens are going to eat me first for sure. Oh, why do my loins have to be so marbled?! Before we start talking about the quality of our body meat, let's find a way to resist the moiven-occupation! I can engineer a super-weapon! I just need a small, metal, nail-like object. I got a nail in my treat bag. Will that work? Well, it's a little on the nose, but we don't have time for subtlety Task: Use the Make-a-Thing Workshop to Open a Treat Bag and Use the Make-a-Thing Workshop to Craft a Weapon After quest completion: Good glavin, look what I found here next to the teddy-bear-stuffing-injector! The Rigellians have a re-moleculizor! This fascinating machine can take any thing and turn it into a different thing! With the molecules and reconfiguring and the--- Don't get distracted, Professor! You have to get to work on that weapon. Oh, I've already made the super-weapon. It's there on the counter. You hammered a nail into a piece of scrap wood? I also installed a decal that said, "Awesome!" but it, uh, did not stick. Ahoy-vun.

Other changes made

Launch

Teasers

On October 6, 2014, at 8:04pm GMT the following notification was sent out: "Not ready to hang up that robe? Luckily, Halloween's just around the corner, so put down the axes and swords and pick up some plastic axes and swords.", to promote the then-forthcoming event.

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