The Simpsons: Tapped Out content updates
So far, two content updates for The Simpsons: Tapped Out have been released. One was released in September 2012, the other in October.
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The first content update
In September 2012, the first content update was released for the game. The new level 21 was introduced - bringing a new building and character, as well as bringing several new 'decorations'. Also, the character Kearney was introduced as a Premium character (a character that is bought in-game with donuts). Level 12 also came for new players with a new building - the Springfield Library - which a player could build after the character Bart Simpson is notified that he may have to repeat the fourth grade by Seymour Skinner and that he must study. The library's first visitors are Bart and Martin (a new character unlocked when the library is built), who study for a 'meaningless' test. Finally, the Springfield Observatory was made available as a premium item. The update was 40.3 MB.
Characters
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Locations
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Objects/Decorations
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- Unlocked in Level 1:
- Butterfly Tent -
20
- Unlocked in Level 12:
- Snapdragons - costs
270 (improves tree-hugging rating)
- Unlocked in Level 21:
- Piece-of-crap car - costs 30 (0.75% bonus money and XP to all jobs)
- Broken Down Washer - (improves vanity rating)
- Broken Down Dryer - (improves vanity rating)
The second content update
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The second content update (version 3.0.0.) was available to download on October 3, 2012. This was a huge update, introducing new Halloween characters and buildings. Players are now able to squish zombies after building the Springfield Cemetery, TP and egg friends' houses, and unlock new Halloween quests. Also, new objects have been released: a Pylon, a Gas Pump, a Patio Table, a See-Saw and a Stop Sign - all of which are unlocked on the new level introduced in the update - Level 22. Edna Krabappel's apartment block and Edna are available to unlock in the new level 22, after completing the quest "Staff Needs".
The player needs to be on Level 5 to unlock the Halloween features. Once the Mayan calendar has been completed, the Mayan God asks the player a question - if the player answers correctly they get Mayan Homer and 10 donuts, but if they answer incorrectly they don't get 10 donuts. A clue to the answer is in the season 24 episode "Treehouse of Horror XXIII".
If you complete the Treehouse of Horror XXIII character collection, which consists of the Mayan God, the Talking Krusty Doll, Kang, Burns Monster and the Raven, you get 1,000 and 
20.
The Halloween features are available until November 1, 2012 - and until that date, Mystery Boxes are Wicked Treat Boxes.
Despite the Treehouse of Horror Update Guide in the game listing the date of October 31, 2012 for when the Treehouse of Horror event will last until, the update's content is still in the game as of November 1, 2012.
Characters
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Locations
The Springfield Cemetery and Springfield Pet Cemetery give out 10 zombies every 10 hours. The Mausoleum, however, gives out 15 zombies every 8 hours.
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The Cemetery, the Pet Cemetery, the Zombies, the Artifacts and the Subatomic Supercollider
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Once the player has got the Halloween update:
- Homer: Halloween is coming! Let's crank up the "spooky" factor around here by building the Springfield Cemetery!
- Lisa: There's a lot more important things to build first.
- Homer: I'll be frank. We're all living inside buildings I, Homer Simpson, built in less than a day. Pretty soon we're gonna need somewhere to put dead bodies.
- Lisa: Excellent point.
The player then receives the quest "Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 1", which is to "Build Springfield Cemetery". The Springfield Cemetery is free, and takes only six seconds to build. The reward for the quest is 
1, 5. After this:
- Lisa: Zombies are pouring out of the cemetery!
- Homer: Think! What kills zombies -- silver bullets? Garlic? Me relaxing in my hammock?
- Lisa: The best method is squishing them with an enormous sky-finger.
- Homer: Where, oh where, will we ever find one of those????
The player then receives the quest "'Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 2", which is to "Squish Zombies" - ten. During zombie squishing, a Mysterious Artifact is found. Once the player presses "Place":
- Lisa: That's weird. That zombie was holding some sort of ancient STONE ARTIFACT. I wonder why?
- Homer: Why do zombies do anything? For money, that's why.
- Lisa: Uh, I'm pretty sure all zombies care about is eating brains.
- Homer: You need to hang out with a higher class of zombie.
- Zombie: Watch October 7 Treehouse of Horror episode --
The player then places the artifact. After doing so, a quest pops up, "The Secret of the Mayans", which is to "Find and Place Mysterious Artifacts" - because the player has already placed one, it is listed as "1/2". Continuing to squish zombies, the player finds another Mysterious Artifact. Placing it, the player has completed the quest given, and receives 1 and 5.
- Homer: Another ARTIFACT! And look -- it fits together with the first one!
- Lisa: Dad, I think these are pieces of the Mayan Long Count Calendar! But why?
- Homer: Stay tuned for the answers, everybody!
- Zombie: Complete calendar. Watch October 7 Treehouse of Horror episode.
The player then receives the second part of the quest, "The Secret of the Mayans Pt. 2", which is to "Find and Place Mysterious Artifacts". The quest requires the player to find and place 3 artifacts, and the player has already found and placed 2 of them at this point. The player squishes the rest of the zombies and gets the reward for "'Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 2", 1 and 5.
- Cletus: Oh, sad day. Cletus Junior, my favorite huntin' dog, has passed.
- Lisa: That's terrible! How did he die!
- Cletus: We was deer huntin'. Poor dog had one too many beers, tripped over his own paw, and his gun went off.
Then, the player receives the quest "'Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 3", which is to "Have Treats" (10) and to "Build Pet Cemetery". The pet cemetery costs 10 and takes 4 hours to build. Another horde of zombies comes out of the cemetery, and squishing them, the player gets at least one more artifact - completing "The Secret of the Mayans Pt. 2" which gives the reward of 1 and 5.
- Lisa: The Mayan calendar is almost complete! Dad, I think the zombies are trying to tell us something...
- Zombie: Complete calendar. Watch October 7 Treehouse of Horror episode. Answer trivia question about it. Answer correctly and receive a--
- Homer: Take that, zombie! (BLOWS ZOMBIE AWAY WITH SHOTGUN)
- Lisa: Dad! That zombie had something to say!
- Homer: And I had a shotgun. Which means I win.
The player receives "The Secret of the Mayans Pt. 3", which is to "Find and Place Mysterious Artifacts" - five, even though that the player has already found 3 of the artifacts at this point.
Once building the Springfield Cemetery:
- Homer: I found a stray dog! Can we keep him?
- Lisa: I don't know, Dad. He's kinda... decomposing.
- Homer: Yeah, but he's smart. If you listen, you can hear him saying "brains.. want brains..."
- Lisa: Terrific. Now the pet cemetery is churning out zombie pets.
The player receives "'Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 4", which is to "Squish Zombie Pets" - ten of them. Once squashing the ten zombie pets, the player receives 1 and 5 as a reward.
Professor Frink then appears in your town:
- Frink: Good glavin! I have developed a theory to explain the existence of multiple Springfields!
- Homer: I too have developed a theory: you yell boring things as if they're exciting.
- Frink: Quickly! I need access to a high-energy super collider.
- Lisa: What about the LHC at CERN? It just found the Higgs Boson.
- Frink: Not powerful enough. The boson I'm looking for is much harder to find. You see, due to a printing error, the word "boson" appears upside down on its shell. Very rare. Highly collectible.
Professor Frink disappears and the player is given the quest "The Black Hole Pt. 1", which is to "Build Super Collider". It costs 100 and takes 8 hours to build. The player receives 50 once building the Super Collider, fully named the Springfield Subatomic Supercollider, and then receives 1 and 5 for completing "The Black Hole Pt. 1". Once the player has tapped on Lisa's exclamation bubble after building the Supercollider, Professor Frink appears again:
- Frink: The collider is ready! With the plasmas, and the crisp new lab coats, and the slamming things together for learning...
- Lisa: I read somewhere that supercolliders can spawn miniature black holes.
- Frink: Later, Lisa! It's time to sciencify!
Frink disappears, and the player receives "The Black Hole Pt. 2" quest, which is to "Make Lisa Turn on the Super Collider" - a 45 second task, which in reward, the player is given 1 and 1. This task can only be done once in the game. The reward for the quest is 1 and 5. Professor Frink appears again.
- Lisa: A black hole! A tear in the very fabric of space-time that could swallow the earth!
- Frink: Get that thing out of here before it gobbles the building!
- Lisa: Will do! Wait a second, where are you going?
- Frink: Any Springfield but this one! With the naked singularities, and the oh-so-short life expectancy...
Frink disappears, and the player receives "The Black Hole Pt. 3" quest, which is to "Place Black Hole". The black hole is in the player's inventory, and once the player places it in their Springfield, the player receives the reward of 1 and 5. An exclamation mark pops above Homer's head.
- Homer: What about the candy? Surely the candy will survive the black hole?
- Lisa: I... I'm afraid not.
- Homer: Then we don't have much time.
- Milhouse: KID POWER!
- Lisa: I know there's zombies out there but how often do kids get the opportunity to amass a horde of candy?
The player receives the quest "The Black Hole Pt. 4", which is to "Send any Kids Trick-or-Treating". The reward for a character going trick-or-treating is 1 and 125, and the only characters available to go trick-or-treating are Bart, Lisa, Milhouse, Martin and Nelson. Once the player has tapped the "thumb logo" above one of the characters that the player had sent trick-or-treating's heads:
- Kang: Foolish Earthlings! They do not grasp the TRUE danger of the black hole! Science teaches us that black holes are a gateway, connecting this world to the Christian hell! Just as their Albert Einstein predicted, if you read him correctly. Behold! The legions of hell pour forth.
The player then completes "The Black Hole Pt. 4", the reward for which is 1 and 5. Completing the quest unlocks Devil Flanders, for which the player is given 25.
- Cletus: I reckon it's the hillbilly's job to point out the alien craft menacing our skies?
- Frink: I have positively identified this flying object as a UFO. We must construct the Frink Ray Gun immediately!
- Kang: I KNEW we should have paid for the ray-gun-proof undercoating. Our only hope is that the humans will not have enough donuts to build this ultimate weapon.
(Please go to the Ray Gun section for the rest of the gameplay involving Kang.)
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Objects/Decorations
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- Unlocked in Level 22:
Pylon
Gas Pump
Patio Table
See-Saw
Stop Sign
- Pylon - (improves vanity rating)
- Gas Pump - (improves vanity rating)
- Patio Table - (improves vanity rating)
- See-Saw - (improves vanity rating)
- Stop Sign - (improves obedience rating)
Halloween
Spooky Tree
Pumpkin Patch
Jack-o-Lantern
- Tapped Out Barbed Wire Fence.png
Barbed Wire Fence
Dead Tree
- Tapped Out Iron Railing.png
Iron Railing
Ray Gun
Cauldron
- Limited time objects will be highlighted in red. Note: All limited time objects cannot be stored in the inventory.
- Spooky Tree - costs 325 (requires Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 1, Level 5)
- Pumpkin Patch - costs 450 (requires Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 1, Level 5, improves tree-hugging rating)
- Jack-o-Lantern - costs 135 (requires Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 1, Level 5, improves vanity rating)
- Barbed Wire Fence - costs 175 (requires Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 1, Level 5, improves vanity rating)
- Dead Tree - costs 270 (requires Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 1, Level 5)
- Iron Railing - costs 220 (requires Dial 'Z' for Zombies Pt. 1, Level 5, improves vanity rating)
- Ray Gun - costs 150 (requires The Black Hole Pt. 4, level 5, 3.75% bonus money and XP to all jobs)
- Cauldron - costs 90 (requires Is There an Al Coholic Here Pt. 1, level 12, 2.25% bonus money and XP to all jobs)
Ray Gun
The Ray Gun is a raygun that can be purchased for 150. When Kang flies over your Springfield in his spaceship (after completing "The Black Hole Pt. 4") and Cletus points out the 'alien craft menacing our skies', Professor Frink mentions that they must construct the Frink Ray Gun immediately. Once the player has purchased the Ray Gun, Kang tries to destroy it by firing at it using his spaceship. The player presses the Ray Gun so it shoots into the air. Once the player has hit the spaceship a few times, it starts to wobble before a final hit makes the spaceship crash into the ray gun, destroying it and the ship. Kang comes out alive, shouting "Ouch" because he thinks he twisted a tentacle. Frink says "Bullseye!", and then says that he has put another Ray Gun in storage (the player's inventory). The player then receives 25 for unlocking Kang.
- Kang: Peaceful greetings, puny human!
- Lisa: A real life alien! Welcome to Earth, friend!
- Kang: Let us live in friendship, and let us not deploy the beacon that summons the Rigellian invasion fleet!
- Lisa: Uh... okay.
- Kang: That's one thing I wish you not to worry about. No one is deploying any beacons!
The player then receives the quest "We come in Pieces! Pt. 1", which is to "Make Kang Deploy the Beacon", a 12-hour task, which rewards you with 1 and 150 when the task is set on its own.
Character costumes, outfits and zombies
This is a list of Halloween costume, outfits and zombies the characters of The Simpsons: Tapped Out can change to.
Trick-or-treating costumes
Lisa Simpson - Witch
Milhouse Van Houten - Astronaut
Bart Simpson - Frankenstein
Martin Prince - Fairy
Nelson Muntz - Hobo
Outfits
- Tapped Out Mayan Homer.png
Mayan Homer
- Tapped Out Devil Flanders.png
Devil Flanders
- Tapped Out Witch Marge.png
Witch Marge
Zombies
In the game, once zombies have come out of the cemeteries, they walk around your Springfield. When they meet a character, they turn that character into a zombie. Once tapping on the zombie character, they return back to normal...until another zombie comes along and turns the character into a zombie again.
- Tapped Out Wiggum Zombie.jpg
Premium characters
Characters unlocked with buildings
Characters unlocked without buildings
- Tapped Out Squeaky Voiced Teen Zombie.png
