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Stonecutters Event

June 3, 2014 - July 2, 2014

The Stonecutters Event was the ninth major event to be released for The Simpsons: Tapped Out. The event was made available to all players on June 3, 2014 and ended on July 2, 2014. The event introduced a new Currency, Emblems, which could be obtained from the All Seeing Eye, from the Chest of Sacred Artifacts, from "spying" on neighbors towns, from completing Number 1's Tasks and from tapping on The Order. Since it was a major event, a themed splash-screen and icon for the app were used.

The Stonecutters Event also reintroduced the prize system, which included 10 brand new prizes to be won by collection the Emblems. The bulk of the new items in the event were costumes for various different characters.The update also introduced two new features in the build menu. First, was the button that "hides" Road, pavement, and rivers, similar to how the buildings could be "hidden". It also introduced a new button that stored every single thing in a player's Springfield into their inventory but got rid of it a couple days after the update arrived. The nuke button returned towards the end of the event. The inventory was also updated so players could now find the buildings before the decorations, and also in alphabetical order. It also keeps on scrolling and doesn't stop until you stop.

Another feature that was added was the Town Census, that is accessed from Town Hall, which is a complete list of all the characters in your Springfield and what they are doing at the time, ex: being idle, doing a 4h job, etc. This allows for easy location of any character, instead of having to cycle through the character locate button until the character is found. Also, the Conform-O-Meter now shows the total bonus to Money and XP, adding the boost from premium decorations to the Conform-O-Meter bonus and displays the total to a hundredth of a percent (i.e. if you had Five Stars on your Conform-O-Meter and 52.50% from premium decorations, your total bonus would display as 57.50%).

Personal Prizes

Prize	Amount to Earn
Sacred Parchment	1450
Number 36	4000
Chest of Sacred Artifacts	6500
Number 85 Number 600	10000
Number 29 Money Pool	14000
Number 50 Number 79	18000
Stone of Triumph	22500
Number 5 Number 12 Number 14	28000
Stonecutter Table	31500
Satan's Anvil	35000

Note: After getting all the Personal Prizes a "Bonus Prize" task unlocks where you can earn Donuts every 3,000 Emblems. If you do not get 3 Donuts on your first pick you can try again (much like the regular bonus levels after hitting the current level cap, but the extra tries cost 150,000 Cash).

Number 1's Tasks

Main Article: Number 1's Tasks

One of the ways players could collect emblems was to complete Number 1's Tasks, which were various 1-2 hour jobs that various characters were sent on. A total of four jobs were available and every time a job was complete, a certain amount of emblems were collected, and the amount of emblems collected increased after each job. There were 4 ranks of jobs that reset every 24 hours.

Sacred Parchment

Main Article: Sacred Parchment

The Sacred Parchment is the first of the personal prizes. When placed it gave the player the ability to solve riddles. Solving riddles earned the player emblems and after a certain number of riddles solved players could unlock new Stonecutter outfits and the grand prize, the Ark of the Stonecovenant. The prizes for the Sacred Parchment are listed below.

Prizes

Prize	Amount of Riddles to Solve
Number 21	1
Number 111	5
Number 22	10
Number 66 Number 67	15
Number 59	20
Ark of the Stonecovenant	24

New Content

Below is a list of all the new content included in the initial Stonecutter 2014 Event on June 2, 2014. Please note that after the event, some or all of the items listed may no longer be available:

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Name	Cost	Characters Unlocked
Stonecutter Lodge	2000	Number 1
Stonecutter Daycare Center	250000	None
Abandoned Store	30	None

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While many of the following are costumes, for the purposes of this event they are counted as characters and are in a character collection. The majority of the Stonecutter's do not have any outdoor tasks. The only ones that do have visible animations are; Number 51, Number 36, Number 50, Number 908, and Number 5.

Name	Character	Cost/How to unlock	Collection
Number 1		Stonecutter Lodge	Stonecutters
Number 2	Dr. Hibbert	60	More Stonecutters
Number 5	Jasper	28000	More Stonecutters
Number 12	Lenny	28000	Stonecutters
Number 14	Carl	28000	Stonecutters
Number 21	Moe	Solve the First Parchment of the Sacred Parchment.	More Stonecutters
Number 22	Quimby	Solve the Tenth Parchment of the Sacred Parchment.	Even More Stonecutters
Number 29	Mr. Burns	14000	Stonecutters
Number 36	Krusty	4000	More Stonecutters
Number 50	Wiggum	18000	Even More Stonecutters
Number 51		100	Stonecutters
Number 59	Smithers	Solve the Twentieth Parchment of the Sacred Parchment.	More Stonecutters
Number 66	Brockman	Solve the Fifteenth Parchment of the Sacred Parchment.	Even More Stonecutters
Number 67	Arnie Pye	Solve the Fifteenth Parchment of the Sacred Parchment.	Stonecutters
Number 79	Disco Stu	18000	Even More Stonecutters
Number 85	Willie	10000	More Stonecutters
Number 111	Grampa	Solve the Fifth Parchment of the Sacred Parchment.	Even More Stonecutters
Number 314	Frink	12	Even More Stonecutters
Number 600	Skinner	10000	More Stonecutters
Number 908	Homer	FREE	Stonecutters

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Name	Cost
All Seeing Eye	100
Chest of Sacred Artifacts	6500 55
Hieroglyph Wall	500
Tube Slide	2500
Stonecutter Table	31500
Stone of Triumph	22500
Money Pool	14000
Satan's Anvil	35000
Ark of the Stonecovenant	Solve the Twenty-Fourth Parchment of the Sacred Parchment.
Sacred Parchment	1450

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Trivia

In the show, the Stonecutter organization was disbanded after Homer became ruler.
This is the first instance where costumes were put into a character collection
This is also the first instance where a character collection had more than 5 characters, it was previously thought that 5 was the maximum allowed in a collection.
During the event, each Stonecutter character made more money then normal characters for completing tasks. This was referencing what the official event instructions meant when they said, "Exclusive perks for belonging to a secret society."
At the start of the event, 12 free donuts were given out along with 20 for completing The Secret of the Cut Stone questline, for a grand total of 32 free donuts.