Christmas event

The Ephinea Christmas event is a major annual event that occurs during or around the month of December and lasts four weeks.

The Christmas event features the Christmas Fiasco series of quests, and the event-exclusive server-wide drop of Presents. Completing Christmas event quests also award the event-exclusive currency Coal, which may be exchanged for more Presents.

Additionally, St Rappies will spawn in the VR Temple instead of Love Rappies, and the Visual Lobby will feature the Christmas theme.

Boosts

Rotating weekly boosts

During the Christmas event, each of the four rotating weekly boosts are doubled during their respective active week.

Present rate increase

On Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day, the drop rate for Presents is doubled, going from the base rate of 1/2250 up to 1/1125.

Event items

Present

Present A present wrapped with a ribbon. Wait till you see what's inside... Type : Event Item Max Stack : 1 Hex : 031300

Main article: Present

During the Christmas event, Presents will drop from all enemies at a rate of 1/2250, regardless of quest, difficulty, or episode (with the exception of scared Rappies).

When found, a Present can be "used" from the player's inventory to acquire a random item. The list of items available from these Presents is pre-determined and varies each year, but this list is not revealed to the community. Instead, the community must compile the list of possible items by reporting them in the annual Christmas event thread posted on the forums at the start of the event.

Presents are not affected by any drop rate boosts. Presents will not drop from item boxes.

Note: The Christmas event-exclusive "Present" item should not be confused with other kinds of Presents.

Present types

From the 2017 Christmas event and onward, there are two types of Presents, "Common" and "Ultimate" (though they appear identical in the player's inventory):

1. Common presents are those dropped in Normal, Hard, and Very Hard difficulties. These contain less generally valuable items, such as Photon Drops, Photon Crystals, HP, TP, or Luck materials (in quantities of 1-3), or "joke" weapons with varying Hit %.
2. Ultimate presents are those dropped in Ultimate difficulty. These contain a much wider variety of items spread across different tiers of rarity. Ultimate presents can reward the aforementioned quantities of Photon Drops and Photon Crystals, but also items such as event-exclusive TypeM weapons, the various ring paints, high-Hit % common weapons with valuable specials (e.g. Arrest, Charge, Hell), as well as extremely high-value items at the rarest tier, such as one Photon Hoard, three Photon Spheres, a high Hit % Lame d'Argent or Calibur, and even Heaven Punisher.

Coal

Coal 石炭 An ore discovered upon landing on Ragol. Seemingly useless but maybe someone wants this...? Type : Event Item Max Stack : 99 Hex : 03100F

Main article: Coal

During the Christmas event, Coal is an event-exclusive currency that is primarily obtainable from clearing the Christmas-exclusive quests (see below). It can also be obtained (in varying quantities) from Presents (see above). Coal may be exchanged for two different types of Presents in the Christmas Event Shop at the following rates:

Present	Required Coal
Common	8
Ultimate	40

Associated quests

The main quests featured in the Christmas event are the Christmas Fiasco series. These quests are long, high-enemy-density quests that span the majority of their respective episodes' areas. Upon completion, they award players with Coal in varying amounts (detailed below).

Event category

List of Christmas quests

Episode	Quest Title	Areas
Episode 1	Christmas Fiasco (E1)	Cave 2 Mine 2 Ruins 3
	December Disaster #1*	Forest 2 Ruins 1 Ruins 2
	Solstice Snafu	Ruins 1 Cave 3 Forest 2
Episode 2	Christmas Fiasco (E2)	VR Spaceship Beta Central Control Area Seabed Lower Levels
	December Disaster #2*	Jungle Area (East) Mountain Area Control Tower
Episode 4	Christmas Fiasco (E4)	Crater (Eastern Route) Subterranean Desert 2 Subterranean Desert 3

* These quests are "omnispawn" quests, and are able to feature enemies from any area of their respective episodes (though not all are used).

Coal Rewards per Quest

Episode	Quest Title	Difficulty
		Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
Episode 1	Christmas Fiasco (E1)	1	1	2	4
	December Disaster #1	2	3	4	6
	Solstice Snafu	0	1	2	3
Episode 2	Christmas Fiasco (E2)	1	2	3	6
	December Disaster #2	2	3	5	8
Episode 4	Christmas Fiasco (E4)	1	1	2	6

Shop category

Christmas Event Shop

The Christmas Event Shop is one of the featured quests during the annual Christmas event. This quest features a single NPC, near the Check Room, with whom players may trade Coal for the two different kinds of Christmas presents.

This quest may be selected at the quest counter year-round.

Previous events

Previous Christmas events

Year	Start date	End date	Forum
2016	December 6th	January 9th, 2017	Link
2017	December 8th	January 8th, 2017	Link
2018	December 15th	January 12th, 2019	Link
2019	December 17th	January 13th, 2020	Link
2020	December 12th	January 9th, 2021	Link
2021	December 11th	January 8th, 2022	Link
2022	December 10th	January 7th, 2023	Link
2023	December 12th	January 9th, 2024	Link
2024	December 14th	January 11th, 2025	Link