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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 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. 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 revolves around the player fighting an alien invasion and earning Treat Bags to unlock Personal Prizes, and it appears there is a massive currency-depend-on aspect to the event. There also appears to be a massive overhaul of the Store. The three main currency are Probes, Ray Guns and Long Protein Strings.

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

Some information may be incorrect.

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!!!

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 "Family will always love you… unless they already have a kid that looks like a clean version of you." Personal Prize. Mutant Peacock 3,250 "Proud of his deadliness." Personal Prize. U.B.O. 14,900 "Unidentified Burns-like Object"

Returning

Buildings

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes Rigellian Tribal Hut Personal Prize. Spooky House Personal Prize. Make-a-Thing Workshop 2,000 8h / 4 Drive-In Theater 150 Unlocks Space Mutant. Portal to Rigel 7 100

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

Returning

Returning item combos

Image Name Cost Includes.... Notes Ancient Burial Ground + Zombie 60 Ancient Burial Ground - 40 and Shuffling Zombie - 25 5 more when bought separately. 100px Bad Dream House + Raven 100 Bad Dream House - 85 and The Raven - 30 15 more when bought separately. Devil Flanders + Heck House 120 Devil Flanders - 75 and Heck House - 40 5 less when bought separately. Gypsy Fortune Teller Shop + Maude 150 Gypsy Fortune Teller Shop - 150 and Maude House of Evil + Krusty Doll 90 House of Evil - 45 and Talking Krusty Doll - 60 15 more when bought separately. Mausoleum + Zombie 70 Mausoleum - 60 and Senile Zombie - 12 2 more when bought separately. 100px Pet Cemetery + Zombie 50 Pet Cemetery - 70 and Clawing Zombie - 25 45 more when bought separately. 100px Pet Cemetery + Zombie 50 Pet Cemetery - 70 and Snarling Zombie - 25 45 more when bought separately. Pet Cemetery + Zombies 90 Pet Cemetery - 70, Clawing Zombie - 25 and Snarling Zombie - 25 30 more when bought separately. Springfield Cemetery + Zombie 80 Springfield Cemetery - 75 and Crazy Zombie - 12 7 more when bought separately. Super Collider + Black Hole 75 Super Collider - 85 and Black Hole 10 more when bought separately. Victorian UFO + Number 51 120 Victorian UFO - 40 and Number 51 - 100 20 more when bought separately.

Personal Prizes

Prizes appear to be on a rotation where they change out occasionally. 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. Probes, Ray Guns and Long Protein Strings are used to unlock Personal Prizes.

Image Prize Cost to craft Cost to unlock Grand Pumpkin 350, 400 and 300 Pumpkin House 300, 300 and 50 Rigellian Queen 400, 400 and 300 Rigellian Tribal Hut 400, 400 and 300 Hugo 300, 300 and 250 Spooky House 300, 100 and 50 Gold Treat Bag 50 and 50 Spooky Wall 20, 25 and 10 Human Test Subject 100, 100 and 50 Rigellian Shrub 50, 25 and 20 Mutant Peacock 500, 500 and 300 Donut Torture Device 200, 500 and 500 Bulldozer-saurus 500, 500 and 300 Hover-copter 200, 500 and 300

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

Gameplay

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.

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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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