A Modern Stone Age Catastrophe

A Modern Stone Age Catastrophe

Tapped Out Quest Information Level: 5 Update: Better Late Than Forever Required characters: Normal Springfielders, Lisa, Homer, Caveman Homer Optional characters: Time Traveler Frink, Otto, See Currency-earning jobs Internal name(s): AModernStoneAgeCatastrophe ID(s): 276001 - 276005 Previous quest(s): Why 2K? Next quest(s): A Sound of Blunder

A Modern Stone Age Catastrophe is an event-exclusive questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Better Late Than Forever content update.

Dialogue

Pt. 1

After completing Why 2K? Are those dinosaurs walking around town? Is it me, or does that one kinda look like my dad? Get out of my way, shorty! Something went wrong and the entire city has been sent back to the Pleistocene! Like all of my political mistakes, no one could have predicted this. *sigh* So we're stuck back in the Stone Age? At least my eyebrows will fit in here. It's gonna take a lot of donuts to speed up time enough to get us to the present. The important thing is avoiding the Butterfly Effect. Anything we do here could cause catastrophic changes to our future! Uh...what? I think he's saying the butterflies are even more dangerous than dinosaurs! There's one! Get it! Oh, boy. Task: "Collect Wooden Clubs" (x155). Task: "Make Springfielders Complain About Being Stuck in the Past" (x5). The jobs take place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and take 4 hours. If Time Traveler Frink is owned: Task: "Make Time Traveler Frink Warn About the Butterfly Effect". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Help Explain the Butterfly Effect". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Homer Eat the First Butterfly He Sees". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Did you just eat a butterfly? You know what they say — butterflies are the donuts of the Stone Age. No one says that. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Caveman Homer

Pt. 2

After completing Pt. 1 Y'know, this Stone Age ain't so bad. No responsibility, no pressure, free pickled eggs all over the place... Uh, Moe, I think those are just regular eggs. Regular pterodactyl eggs... Is that why I keep feeling wings beating in my stomach? I need to figure out a way to transport Springfield back to our old present before things get really crazy. Without my donuts, I feel crazy already. *throwing a rock* Go back to your cave, you ape! Our odds of avoiding crazy seem to be pretty slim at this point. Less than a smidgeon. Task: "Collect Wooden Clubs" (x125). If Time Traveler Frink is owned: Task: "Make Time Traveler Frink Panic". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Watch Frink Panic". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Springfielders Embrace Stone Age Lifestyle" (x5). The jobs take place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and take 4 hours. If Otto is owned: Task: "Make Otto Get the Good Kind of Stoned". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Caveman Homer Get the Bad Kind of Stoned". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Tar Pit

Pt. 3

After completing Pt. 2 Not workin' and relaxin' are both nice, but is there anything needlessly reckless to do around here? Well, we could hunt dinosaurs. Dinosaurs? Great Marsh's Ghost! They shouldn't be in the Stone Age! Are you sure? I've seen a lot of nature documentaries. Well, Saturday morning cartoons, but I assume they're based on true stories. I'm worried about the timeline...something's floyvin where it's supposed to be flayvin... Forget this, let's make cool prehistoric cars like in the cartoons. Like instead of a steering wheel, it'll be a rock! And instead of an engine, it'll be a rock! And instead of a seatbelt— Does someone want to explain why dinosaurs are using my sarcophagus as a chamberpot? Okay, that's definitely wrong. You didn't let me finish. Instead of a seatbelt... It'll be a rock. Task: "Collect Wooden Clubs" (x125). If Time Traveler Frink is owned: Task: "Make Time Traveler Frink Realize Timeline is Falling Apart". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Caveman Homer Run From Dinosaurs". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Springfielders Make Cool Prehistoric Cars" (x5). The jobs take place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and take 4 hours. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Pharaoh's Sarcophagus

Pt. 4

After completing Pt. 3 Okay, the Stone Age car thing is old now. Let me check my myPhone for something else we can — Hey, wait a minute, my battery is dead! Mine is too! Can we just go home now? Well, we could — except it turns out that you people stripped my time mobile when you were making your hot rods. Turns out, stones don't make good engines. You may have doomed us all to live the rest of our lives in this mixed-up Stone Age crazy land! Come on, Moe. If we're gonna be stuck here anyway, let's reinvent something actually important: beer! Good idea. I've never seen you sober for more than four hours; I'm scared of what will happen. Task: "Collect Wooden Clubs" (x155). Task: "Make Springfielders Get Bored of the Stone Age" (x5). The jobs take place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and take 4 hours. Task: "Make Caveman Homer Try to Reinvent Beer". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. If Time Traveler Frink is owned: Task: "Make Time Traveler Frink Scrounge for Parts". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. BLEAH! That's terrible! I'm sick of trying to make beer. Let's just relax. I'll grab some beer. ... D'OH! Quest reward: 100 and 10 Prehistoric Car

Pt. 5

After completing Pt. 4 Professor Frink, are you sure you can't repair your time device and get us back to our old present? I've got it mostly repaired, but it won't work without a massive power source. How about that sweet, huge firework? Holy Alvarez! That's no firework. That's the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs. Perfect! Perfect?! It's about to kill us, too! Ah, but I can harness the energy of that meteor to send us home. Mmm, meatier... But how can you harness its energy?! You don't have any more tech to build with! Young lady, remember you're speaking to a proud graduate of the Elizabeth Holmes School of Technology! Task: "Collect Wooden Clubs" (x190). If Time Traveler Frink is owned: Task: "Make Time Traveler Frink Build a Time Harness Out of Coconuts". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Help Frink Build Time Harness". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Caveman Homer Run From Dinosaurs Again". The job takes place at Moe's Cavern, Prehistoric Jungle, Cave Wall, Cave Drawing, Rock Pillar 1, Rock Pile 1, Prehistoric Fern, Rock Pillar 2, Rock Pile 2, Prehistoric Foliage, Rock Pillar 3, Rock Pile 3, Prehistoric Plant, Bear Cave, Curvaceous Cave, Ancient Dig, or a Brown House and takes 4 hours. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Cavewoman Marge

Currency-earning jobs

Task Character(s) Time Location(s) Reward Carve Wooden Clubs with Rocks Homer, Caveman Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, Moe, Quimby, Wiggum 4h Nature, Simpson House 5, 45 Engineer Time-Appropriate Clubs Professor Frink Frink's Lab 7, 70 Fetch Wooden Clubs from the Past Time Traveler Frink, Mayan Associate God Prehistoric Jungle, Prehistoric Plant, Prehistoric Fern, Prehistoric Foliage 8, 70