At Christmas everything revolves around gifts. You find them on the game pages, capture them when attacking bandit camps and wild animals, and receive them from the elf workshop and the advent calendar; spells of the Mage also bring gifts during the event. The event box in the left-hand menu shows how many you have.
The elf workshop
The elf workshop is the Christmas event building. You can only build it during the event, it needs no build field, and the Construction office does not speed it up. From level 10 your elves wrap gifts every 10 hours – the higher the level, the more. On the event page you pick them up with collect gifts.
The advent calendar
An advent calendar with 24 doors waits in the castle view. If you open a door on its day, you get the full contents – what is inside stays a surprise – plus resources for the castle you currently have selected. You can still open missed doors later, but then you only get resources.
The Christmas shop
On the event page you trade gifts for boosts: +100% resources or +50% troop production for the selected castle (24 hours or 7 days) and +100% trader carrying capacity (7 days). For your whole account there are 10 free spells for the Mage, 1,000 dragon scales and up to three extra slots for your active masters (48 hours each). You can also expand your treasury capacity here.
Alliance gift and alliance bonus
The alliance gift gives your whole alliance +100% base production for 24 hours. You buy it in the gold menu on the Premium page – for 5,000 gifts or for 300 gold. Only one gift can run per alliance at a time; all members see in the event box how long it still lasts.
On top of that, every attack by your members on bandit camps and wild animals counts: it builds up a resource bonus for the whole alliance, which you can follow in the event box.
The Christmas rankings for players and alliances show who has collected the most gifts. During the event the gold menu also has a christmas offers tab with offers that change daily.