The Simpsons: Tapped Out Christmas 2013 content update

This article is about the Tapped Out's Winter content update from 2013. For other year's Tapped Out Winter content updates, see TSTO Winter Content Updates.

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Christmas 2013 is the thirty-eighth content update for The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It started on December 10, 2013 and ended on January 14, 2014. It was the second Christmas-themed update for the game.

Characters

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Mr. Costington 30,000 Personal Prize. Unlocks with Costington's. The Yes Guy 975,000,000 Community Prize. The Grumple 120

Character skins

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Plow King Giveaway Wheel Prize. Santa Flanders 22,000 Personal Prize. Ebenezer Burns 800,000,000 Community Prize.

Returning

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Mr. Plow Giveaway Wheel Prize. Santa Homer 200 Unlocks with Santa's Village.

Non-playable characters

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Snow Monster Giveaway Wheel Prize. Christmas Raccoon 18,000 Personal Prize. Candy Kevin 40

Buildings

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes Helter Shelter 24h Providing Basic Necessities Giveaway Wheel Prize. Claus Co. Modernizing Holidays Egg Nog Bar 250 Instant Punishing The Lactose Intolerant Personal Prize. Springfield Mall 3,000 24h Empowering Rent-A-Cops Springfield Skating Rink 10,000 Cracking Coccyx Bones Happy Elves Ride 14,000 Propagating Sickly Sweetness Costington's 30,000 Cutting Wages Personal Prize. Unlocks Mr. Costington. Santa's Workshop 625,000,000 Building Toys Community Prize.

Returning

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes Santa's Village 200 6s Feeding Reindeer Unlocks Santa Homer.

Building skins

Image Name Cost Notes Christmas Skinner House Giveaway Wheel Prize. Candy Cooling Towers 1,200,000,000 Community Prize.

Returning

Image Name Cost Notes Christmas Simpson House Giveaway Wheel Prize. Christmas Flanders House Christmas Brown House Christmas Cletus's Farm Christmas Purple House Christmas Blue House Christmas Van Houten House Christmas Pink House Christmas White House Christmas Willie's Shack Christmas Orange House Christmas Muntz House Christmas Krabappel Apt. Christmas Frink's Lab 10 Christmas Volcano Lair

Decorations

Permanent

Image Name Cost Notes Backwater Brewery 25 Requires Level 5. Jet Engine Bike 30 Requires Level 11. Devil Float 40 Requires Level 9.

Christmas 2013

Image Name Cost Notes Festive Bell Lamp Post 385 Festive Bow Lamp Post Festive Wreath Lamp Post Festive Nutcracker 425 Festive Lawn Bell Festive Fancy Lawn Bell Festive Candycane 450 Festive Lawn Angel 750 Festive Hot Drink Stand 1,200 Present Depot 2,000 Unlocks in Too Much of a Good Thing Pt. 1. Ice God Giveaway Wheel Prize. Elf Home 6,000 Personal Prize. Plow King's Plow 26,000 "Christmas" Totem 450,000,000 Community Prize. Festive Trashcan Fire 3 Santa's Little Helper Snowdog 20 Also available as a Giveaway Wheel Prize. Snowball II Snowcat Grampa Snowman

Returning

Image Name Cost Notes Reindeer 20 One given for free on Christmas Day. Lisa Snowman 20 Also available as a Giveaway Wheel Prize. Marge Snowman Maggie Snowman Homer Snowman Bart Snowman Holiday Tree 1,500 Personal Prize. 75

Prizes

Personal Prizes

Image Name Unlock Image Goal Egg Nog Bar 250 Holiday Tree 1,500 Springfield Mall 3,000 Elf Home 6,000 Springfield Skating Rink 10,000 Happy Elves Ride 14,000 Christmas Raccoon 18,000 Santa Flanders 22,000 Plow King's Plow 26,000 Costington's w/ Mr. Costington 30,000

Once the player has received all prizes, they receive a free Spin Token for every 1,000 they acquire.

Community Prizes

Image Name Unlock Image Goal "Christmas" Totem 450,000,000 Santa's Workshop 625,000,000 Ebenezer Burns 800,000,000 The Yes Guy 975,000,000 Candy Cooling Towers 1,200,000,000

Giveaway Wheel

The Giveaway Wheel is a prize wheel. A chance on the wheel costs a spin token and you can use the wheel after you have collected your first spin token. The wheel gives you one of ten prizes. You can only win prizes once. Once you have won all the prizes on a certain section of the wheel, it is replaced by 1,000 or gift cards.

Spin tokens can be earned four ways:

1. The Egg Nog Bar produces 1 spin token every 24 hours.
2. There is a slight chance of spin tokens appearing in gift bags and presents, similar to donuts appearing in ghosts during the Treehouse of Horror XXIV event.
3. A spin token is awarded for every additional 1,000 the player collects after obtaining all the personal prizes.
4. Spin Tokens can be purchased for donuts: 1 spin token costs 10, 3 spin tokens costs 25, and 10 spin tokens cost 50.

Prizes

Prize(s) Odds before the update on January 10, 2014 Odds after the update on January 10, 2014 Claus Co. 275 ~1.56% ~5% Christmas Flanders House Christmas Van Houten House Christmas White House Christmas Muntz House Christmas Skinner House 1,000 ~20.22% ~14% Snow Monster 250 ~1.68% ~5% Christmas Brown House Christmas Purple House Christmas Pink House Christmas Orange House 1,000 ~20.22% ~14% Helter Shelter 225 ~2.25% ~5% Christmas Simpsons House Christmas Cletus Farm Christmas Blue House Christmas Willie's Shack Christmas Krabappel Apartment 1,000 ~20.22% ~14% Ice God 150 ~2.25% ~6% Marge Snowman Maggie Snowman Homer Snowman Snowball II Snowcat 50 ~13.48% ~14% Mr. Plow Plow King 100 ~5.05% ~9% Lisa Snowman Grampa Snowman Bart Snowman Santa's Little Helper Snowdog 50 ~13.48% ~14%

Mechanics

Two new mechanics were added to the game. The first is a character locator. At the top left of the screen, there is a face of a character. Clicking on that will take you to the character. The face will then change to another character.

Second is an easier way to navigate through friends. When you're in a friend's Springfield, there are two arrows in the bottom left of the screen, one pointing left and one pointing right. Clicking these will take to the previous or next Springfield on your friends list.

Quests

• Too Much of a Good Thing
• Flanders' Dual-Colored Dreamcoat
• A Holiday Hymn
• How Mr. Simpson Stole Christmas
• Christmas Bonus Payout
• The Cost of Doing Business
• The Once and Future King
• A Bont of Friendship
• Righteous Indignation
• Do Unto Others
• Dollars to Donuts
• Holiday Trappings
• Positive Reinforcement
• Egg on Your Noggin'
• Trees and Greetings
• Christmas Clearance
• Deck the Malls
• Better Than a Garden Gnome
• B-List Stars on Ice
• Rest From the Wicked
• Plowness Envy
• Not in Pandaland Anymore
• Next Idle Character Intro
• The Face of the Holidays
• The Great Donut Caper

Conform-o-meter impact

Name Rating Points Claus Co., Springfield Mall, Costington's, Santa's Workshop, Present Depot Consumerism 10 Egg Nog Bar Gluttony Happy Elves Ride Nausea Festive Bow Lamp Post, Festive Bow Lamp Post, Festive Wreath Lamp Post, Festive Lawn Bell Vanity 100 Festive Fancy Lawn Bell 150 Festive Candycane 200 Festive Hot Drink Stand 250 Festive Lawn Angel 300 Festive Nutcracker 350 Festive Trashcan Fire 400 Backwater Brewery Gluttony Bonus % and XP 10 0.5% Elf Home Indolence Bonus % and XP 10 2.5% Santa's Little Helper Snowdog Vanity Bonus % and XP 300 0.75% Jet Engine Bike, Snowball II Snowcat 400 2% Ice God 500 2.25% Devil Float 600 2.5% Grampa Snowman 870 0.5%

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The Simpsons: Tapped Out content updates

2012 Release • Level 21 • "Moonshine River" • Treehouse of Horror XXIII (Level 22) • Level 23 • Thanksgiving 2012 • "Penny-Wiseguys" • "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" • Christmas 2012 (Level 24) 2013 Level 25 • Valentine's Day 2013 • Level 26 • "Gorgeous Grampa" • St. Patrick's Day 2013 • "Dark Knight Court" • Level 27 • "What Animated Women Want" • Whacking Day 2013 • Level 28 • "Whiskey Business" • Level 29 • Season 24 Yard Sale • "Day Old Donuts" offer • Level 30 • Squidport • 4th July 2013 • Level 31 • Level 32 • Krustyland • Level 33 • Level 34 • Level 35 • Season Premiere 2013 "Homerland" • Treehouse of Horror XXIV • Level 36 • Level 37 • Thanksgiving 2013 • "Yellow Subterfuge" • Christmas 2013 2014 "Married to the Blob" • Level 38 • Super Bowl • Valentine's Day 2014 • Friend Points • "Diggs" and "The Man Who Grew Too Much" • St. Patrick's Day 2014 • "The War of Art" • Level 39 • "Days of Future Future" • Easter 2014 • Level 40 • "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" • Level 41 • Stonecutters • Level 42 • July 4th 2014 • Yard Sale 2014 • Level 43 • Summer Donuts Extravaganza • Back to School Gil Deal • Clash of Clones • Level 44 • Level 45 • "Clown in the Dumps" • Treehouse of Horror XXV • Level 46 • Matt Groening • Level 47 • Thanksgiving 2014 ("Covercraft") • Winter 2014 • Level 48 2015 Queen Helvetica • "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" • Level 49 • Stonecutters Black Market Sale • Valentine's Day 2015 • Superheroes • Level 50 • The Homer • St. Patrick's Day 2015 • Mystery Box Upgrade • Easter 2015 • Level 51 • Terwilligers • "The Kids Are All Fight" • Level 52 • Money Mountain • "Mathlete's Feat" • Level 53 • Pride Month 2015 • End of School • Level 54 • Tap Ball (Soccer Cup 2015) • 4th of July 2015 • Level 55 • Springfield Heights • Ice Cream Man Homer • Level 56 • Monorail • Muscular Marge • Level 57 • Level 58 • "Every Man's Dream" • IRS and Job Manager • Oktoberfest • Treehouse of Horror 2015 • "Halloween of Horror" • "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" • New User Power Ups • Halloween Promo • Level 59 • Gobble, Gobble, Toil and Trouble • Black Friday 2015 • Springfield Heights Chapter 2 • Winter 2015 2016 "Much Apu About Something" • Deep Space Homer • Tailgate and Daily Challenges System • Valentine's Day 2016 • World's Largest Redwood • Burns' Casino • "The Marge-ian Chronicles" • St. Patrick's Day and Easter 2016 • Crook and Ladder • Spring Cleaning • Wild West • Whacking Day 2016 • Level 60 • Homer's Chiliad (Donut Day 2016) • Superheroes 2 • 4th of July 2016 • Dilapidated Rail Yard • Springfield Games • SciFi • Season Premiere 2016 • Treehouse of Horror XXVII • "Havana Wild Weekend" • The Most Dangerous Game (Winter 2016 Teaser) • Winter 2016 • First Time Packs 2017 Homer the Heretic • "The Great Phatsby" • Lunar New Year 2017 • Destination Springfield (Football 2017 • Valentine's 2017) • "22 for 30" • Rommelwood Academy (St. Patrick's 2017 • Hellfish Bonanza) • Secret Agents (Easter 2017) • Pin Pals • Forgotten Anniversary • Time Traveling Toaster (Donut Day 2017 • Road to Riches • 4th of July 2017) • Pride 2017 • Superheroes Return • Stunt Cannon • Homerpalooza • County Fair • "The Serfsons" (Magic Station Promo) • Treehouse of Horror XXVIII • This Thanksgiving's Gone to the Birds! (Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2017) • A Rigellian Christmas Promo • The Invasion Before Christmas 2018 The Buck Stops Here ("Haw-Haw Land") • Bart Royale Teaser • Bart Royale (Valentine's Day 2018) • Homer vs the 18th Amendment ("Homer is Where the Art Isn't") • The Springfield Jobs Teaser • The Springfield Jobs (Resurrection of Rigellian Christ • Cinco de Mayo) • Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Three) • Bart the Fink • Itchy & Scratchy Land (Pride 2018 Promotion • July 4th 2018) • Poochie's Dog Dayz • Moe's Ark Teaser • Moe's Ark • Super Powers • Treehouse of Horror XXIX Teaser • Treehouse of Horror XXIX • "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" • Thanksgiving 2018 • A Simpsons Christmas Special Teaser • A Simpsons Christmas Special 2019 Not Yet Spring Cleaning • Love, Springfieldian Style • State of Despair • A Classless Reunion • Marge at the Bat • The Real Moms of Springfield • Game of Games • Flanders Family Reunion • Simpsons Babies • Krusty's Last Gasp Online • Cthulhu's Revenge • Treehouse of Horror XXX • All American Auction • Abe's in Toyland 2020 Holidays of Future Past • Black History • Share the Magic • No Bucks Given • Simpsons Wrestling • Pride 2020 • Game of Games The Sequel • Summer Games 2020 • The Van Houtens • All This Jazz • Treehouse of Horror XXXI • Blargsgiving • Clash of Creeds: Christmas Royale 2021 New Year New You • Love and War • Springfield Choppers • Rise of the Robots • Foodie Fight • Springfield Enlightened • Tavern Trouble • Into the Simpsonsverse • Breakout Bounty • Season 33 Prize Track • Treehouse of Horror XXXII • Northward Bound • Holiday Whodunnit 2022 Red Alert • Cirque du Springfield • Hot Diggity D'oh! • Hell on Wheels • When the Bough Breaks • Dog Days • Splash and Burn • Showbiz Showdown • Tenth Anniversary • Tragic Magic • Treehouse of Horror XXXIII • The Atom Smasher • A Christmas Peril 2023 Springfield's Got Talent? • A Warmfyre Welcome • Shiver Me Barnacles • Heaven Won't Wait • For All Rich Mankind • Fore! • Food Wars • Mirror Mayhem • A Hard Play's Night • Treehouse of Horror XXXIV • Cold Turkey • Snow Place Like the Woods 2024 Better Late Than Forever • Fears of a Clown (Valentine's 2024 Promotion) • The Great Burnsby • The Simpsanos • Charity Case • Summer of Our Discontent (Donut Day 2024 Promotion • 4th of July 2024 Promotion) • The Mayflower Maple Bowl • A Bart Future • Taps