The Christmas Update Week 2 in 99 Nights in the Forest expanded the festive event with a new objective centered around Christmas Lights and the North Pole Biome. After rescuing elves, now you need to reclaim the North Pole Biome by restoring its lights and safety. By collecting Christmas Lights scattered across the forest and decorating trees in the North Pole Biome, you can earn Candy Canes and permanently secure a new buildable safe zone. So, to help you with that, this guide explains exactly how to find Christmas Lights, use them, and complete the event without wasting time.
How to Get Christmas Lights in 99 Nights in the Forest
Christmas Lights are a special event item added during Christmas Update Week 2 in 99 Nights in the Forest. Unlike Candy Canes, these are not purchased or crafted. Instead, they are obtained organically while exploring the map.
Christmas Lights spawn randomly on regular trees across the forest and can also drop from hostile mobs such as Wolves. To collect them, you simply need to chop down trees as usual or defeat enemies during exploration. When a tree or mob has Christmas Lights tied to it, destroying or killing it will drop the Christmas Lights item automatically, which you can then pick up and store in your bag.
Because the spawns are random, the best way to farm Christmas Lights efficiently is to keep clearing areas you've finished exploring, especially while gathering wood or hunting. Over time, you will naturally collect enough Lights to complete the event without needing to target-farm them.
How to Use Christmas Lights in 99 Nights in the Forest
Christmas Lights are used exclusively in the North Pole Biome, a new area added as part of the Christmas update. Within this biome, several undecorated Christmas Trees spawn near the new elf structures and buildings. These tree locations vary slightly between runs, but the total number of trees that can be decorated is capped at twelve.
Once you have Christmas Lights in your inventory, approach an undecorated Christmas Tree in the North Pole Biome and interact with it by pressing the E key. Your character will decorate the tree using one set of Christmas Lights. After each tree is successfully lit, it rewards you with three Candy Canes.
Decorating all twelve trees triggers a special cutscene confirming that the North Pole is safe again. This concludes the event progression and permanently unlocks the North Pole Biome as a secondary safe zone. After this, you are allowed to build structures in the area using blueprints scattered throughout the biome.
Christmas Lights - Event Rewards
Each decorated tree rewards three Candy Canes, and since only twelve trees can be lit, the event provides a maximum of thirty-six Candy Canes in total. These Candy Canes can then be spent in the Christmas Elf Shop on limited-time items, including newly added rewards like the Gifting Elf Class and other skins.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
No, Christmas Lights cannot be crafted. They are only obtained as drops from trees or enemies like Wolves during normal gameplay.
You can decorate a maximum of twelve trees. After all twelve are lit, the event ends, and a cutscene plays.
Once all twelve trees are lit, the North Pole becomes a permanent safe zone where you can build structures using blueprints found in the area.
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