Chat Options & Launcher Version 1.2 (December 19th, 2020)

- Chat options now available on the Desktop Launcher chat sidebar! (no launcher update required). Allows you to:
- Change between black or white colour schemes (white matches the web version).
- Choose between 3 text font sizes: 12, 14, and 16

- Desktop Launcher v1.2 changes:
- Will now properly update your BW2 game time played on your CNE Games profile.
- Email text field is focused automatically if Remember Me is not toggled.
- Can press Enter to log in without having the password text field in focus.

- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!

Extra Life Fundraiser Success!

To all of you who donated to our Extra Life campaign: Thank you. Thanks to your generosity we've managed to raise over $18,000 CAD to help sick and injured kids.

Of that, the Bush Whacker 2 team was able to raise over $1,300 CAD! We had four goals that each unlocked a corresponding coupon code, and your generous donations have unlocked 3 of them! Redeem them before February 1st, 2021:

Goal	Code	Effect
$200	EXTR-ALIF-E020-0200	1 Cake, which restores 75% of your maximum energy!
$500	EXTR-ALIF-E020-0500	1 Pristine Feed Voucher!
$1000	EXTR-ALIF-E020-1000	1 Unique DNA!
$1500	Locked	50 Bush Bucks

Live Stream Cancelled :(

We are cancelling the Codename Entertainment 24-hour Extra Life 2020 live stream due to new pandemic restrictions in British Columbia through early January. While we are sad to make this announcement, we are happy to do our part to help in the fight against COVID-19.

Read the CNE blog post for more details

Christmas Event! (December 11th, 2020)

- Updated Christmas Event
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Added new snowman pet and christmas tree quest rewards
- Added new item to fish up from the ice fishing hole
- Added new item in leftmost dev present
- Added a new gift to steal from the Slippery House
- Added new krampus achievement
- Added Christmas Cookies you can by from Mrs. Claus’ sweater store after you’ve bought your yearly sweater
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event

- After you’ve collected all 13 holiday 2020 pet pieces, return to the Commons to find someone to help you assemble them into the Holidoll Cat companion!

- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!

'Tis the Season for Giving!

Get into the giving mood of the holiday season by tackling the Bushwhackia Christmas event.

You'll want to get started by heading to the event area in the Commons to meet up with the stranded elf and help him fix his teleporter. (It's delicate, OK?) Once you've got it operational, you'll be able to make the journey far to the North Pole where you'll find a bevy of characters who need your special skills to make the holiday celebrations work!

Your primary task will be helping the elves make presents by bringing them Candy Canes (that you find in bushes), but there is a veritable smorgasbord of holiday related quests to complete as well. All of these quests will unlock over the course of the event, with the last ones unlocking on Christmas Day.

Once you've found reindeer chow for the poor reindeer, then you can help out Santa by delivering a present to a random house daily.

New for 2020

This year's update includes: a new Christmas tree for your ranch received from completing the Decorate Tree quest; a new Snowman companion from the Build a Snowman quest; another custom item for ice fishing; a new dress-up achievement; a new item to steal; and more!

Christmas Pet Piece

Get 100% completion this event to collect the final Holiday Pet Piece of 2020! After you’ve collected all 13 holiday 2020 pet pieces, return to the Commons to find someone to help you assemble them into the Holidoll Cat companion!


The Christmas Pet Piece!

Presents all Around!!

Here's the event that started the gifting tradition! Once a day, if you have excess tokens, you can send a Present to a friend! These presents will contain a random amount of gold, energy, mana, power and come with some other treats as well. If you want to send more presents in a day, it will cost you a few Bush Bucks. Talk to Sasha in the North Pole to learn more!


Sasha has the power to gift your friends!

Event Achievements - POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!

There are a total of TWENTY-NINE possible Achievements to earn in the Christmas 2020 event:

Achievements Returning in 2020:
Apprentice Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least one present!
Journeyman Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 20 presents!
Professional Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 50 presents!
Expert Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 50 presents from each Elf!
Santa Man - You've delivered a present to someone's house!
Diverse Santa - You've delivered a present to several houses!
Schoolyard Victor - You won 5 snowball fights!
Reindeer Herder - You've saved the reindeer 5 times!
Yay! Presents - You've opened a present from the Developers!
12 Days of Bushmas - You completed all 12 days of Bushmas!
Christmas Savior - You've helped all the citizens in need at the North Pole!
Snow-ho-ho! - You built yourself a snowman!
Well-arranged Caroling - Find all the special arrangements of famous Christmas carols. Sweater Weather - Buy one of Mrs. Claus' specialty sweater weather.
Grumpy Cocoa - You helped fix Grumpus a hot cocoa!


Added/Changed for 2020:
Holiday Haberdashery - You bought all the 2020 Christmas event items!*
Nicked Knicknacks - You stole something from someone's house!
Kind Krampus - You've delivered a present dressed as Krampus!


We also have 10 achievements from previous year's events, which may be earnable by spending some Bush Bucks, if a player was not present during the initial years:

Santa Santa - You're practically Santa! (deliver a present while dressed as Santa)
Materialist - You bought all the Christmas 2012 event items!
Reverse Grinch - You've delivered a present dressed as a Grinch!
All The Toys - You bought all the Christmas 2013 event items!
No Returns Allowed! - You bought all theChristmas 2014 event items!
Season of Shopping - You purchased all the Christmas 2015 event items!
Winter Solstice Souvenirs - You purchased all the Christmas 2016 event items!
The Gift of Getting - You purchased all the Christmas 2017 event items!
Boxing Day - You purchased all the Christmas 2018 event items!
Stocking Stocking Stuffers - You bought all the 2019 Christmas event items!


* The Christmas Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the Holiday Haberdashery achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Note: The achievements Reverse Santa, Reverse Santa 2.0, Napping Nate Nabber, The Gift of Taking, Naughty Nabber, Perks of the Job, and Burglar Burglar are not available during the 2020 event.

Mount Packs

New 2020 Mounts!


Solemn Elk Guardian Mounts

New mounts are available from December 11th to 14th!
The Guardian Elk mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!
The Rime Elk and Eclipse Elk are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher!

Pet Packs

New 2020 Pet Packs:


What festive critters are these?!

COMING SOON! December 18th to 21st! Keep an eye out for the sale pop-up!

Many other pets and ranch items available from previous years via the "Ye Past Yuletide Store"

Share the holiday spirit on the forums!

The Christmas event will run until Tuesday December 29th at Noon PST (8pm GMT.)

Generation 13 Pets! (December 9th, 2020)

- 10 new pets are now in rotation for Misty’s pet raising quests!
- Added 9 new unique variations of the gen 13 pets to the PAGAS egg store.
- Added a PAGAS Pet Progress reward tiers for 700 and 750 unique pets.

- Can now trade DOWN your rarer DNAs by talking to Vincent as choose the ‘I'd like to trade my DNA’ then ‘I'd like to trade DOWN my DNA’ chat options.

- All stores have been improved to show how many of a pet or mount you've owned or the amount of the inventory or ranch item you have when you mouse over the store item image!

- Fixed trinket set buttons in your Inventory not updating to show you’ve equipped one when using the hotkeys.

- Fixed your mount not facing downwards when you equip a trinket set.

- Fixed not being able to re-equip the last trinket set you equipped after changing your trinkets.

- Changed trinket set hotkeys from Q,W,E,R,T to 1,2,3,4,5 to better map to the numbers on the buttons themselves, and prevent accidental switching when mis-clicking the chat sidebar.

- Fixed longer set bonus lists going off the screen when viewing them in your inventory. They are now split into multiple columns if they have more than 10 bonuses.

- Enlarged trinket set slot preview images.

- On the Desktop Launcher, added an exclamation mark on the Options (the gear) menu buttons that shows when you have active tickets. Red for waiting for response, Green for unread responses.

- Added a more descriptive error message for some errors previously just described as “invalid parameters”. This will hopefully help with debugging a timestamp error that might be happening rarely when using the Desktop Launcher.

- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!

Creature Collector - Reindeer! (December 4th, 2020)

- Rerunning Coppers of the Creature Collector mini event with 3 new pets.
- Changed the Coppers of the Creature Collector mini event quests to unlock at noon instead of 20 hours after the last. So the second quest unlocks at 12 PM Saturday, the third at 12 PM Sunday, and the 4th at 12 PM Monday.
- Fixed pet levels not counting when you’re ready to turn in the Proliferating Potential quest.
- Creature Collector’s Cache store now has “Misc” and “Customization” tabs.

- Gems dropped from the Energem trinket of Moonstone rarity and above now have a popup, like gems dropped from bushes. (As of Dec 2nd)

- The odds of the Energem trinket dropping a Gem are reduced when you whack bushes below your level. For example, at level 100 you'll find less Energem Gems whacking bushes that cost 1 energy than you would whacking bushes that cost 10+ energy. The lower the level, the worse the odds are. (As of Dec 2nd)

- Added a more aggressive End of Flash notice above the game on web, prompting usage of the Desktop Launcher. We just want you to be prepared <3 (As of Dec 2nd)

- Added a Town Crier quest to start the trinket sets unlock quest chain so it’s more obvious. (As of Nov 27th)

- Generation 13 Pets coming soon!

- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!

Coppers of the Creature Collector

The eccentric Creature Collector has returned to the Commons, this time with a trio of Reindeer!



Head to the event area and choose one to train. You have until noon on Wednesday December 9th to complete the collector's four daily quests, level up your chosen creature, earn Creature Coppers to spend in their store, and get another page to your Creature Collector's Compendium!

The Compendium Page will be given after the event ends. If you don't have the Creature Collector's Compendium ranch item, you'll get it when you get your first page.

After the event, the collector will be taking their creature back unless you adopt it by purchasing its corresponding pet pack, available starting Monday December 7th.

Train hard, Bush Whackers!

Update: The training quests now unlock at noon on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, instead of 20 hours after the last one is completed. Those busy on the weekends can still catch up!

Note: The VIP "Quest Reset" power does not reset these mini event quests, and they are not affected by the Time Turner and Timey Whimey Watch.

Ye Olde Creature Collector's Galleria - Pets

When you speak to Tanela Tiva in the event area, you can select the "What past pets are for sale?" chat option.

This will open a new store, which will contain 3 non-event premium pets you have never owned! They cost Bush Bucks, like in event stores. The selection will change next time Tanela Tiva visits to event area.

We've done this in response to players asking to see old premium pets they've missed out on, to help you fill out your pet collection. Snag those old-school pets you're missing out on!

Read the Release Notes! Chat about this mini-event on the forum!

Trinket Sets Update (November 26th, 2020)

- Added Trinket Sets! An improvement that lets you quickly switch between sets of your 8 equippable trinkets, letting you easily utilize the right set of bonuses for the situation.
- Added 6 quests to unlock first 2 trinket sets
- Remaining 3 trinket sets can be bought for Gold and Gems at certain levels

- The inventory selection popup (like for selecting a trinket to equip) now remembers the previous filter settings used, if you're choosing the same type of thing as before.

- Fixed some empty inventory item slots having a tooltip.

- Fixed sub-quest timer showing for quests without subquests in the quest dialog.

- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!

We've chosen our 2020 Halloween Decoration Contest Winners! If you weren't aware, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners are picked by the whole Codename Entertainment studio, while Community Choices are voted on by you, the wise Whacker community! Our top three choices earn 250, 200, and 150 Bush Bucks respectively, while the Community Choices take home a cool 50 Bush Bucks.

Without further ado here are your winners:

Winners

Community Choice

Congratulations again to all our winners! Your Bush Buck prizes have been added to your accounts!

Thanksgiving Time!

The residents of The Commons are preparing for a massive feast to celebrate the end of harvest season, and of course they need your expertise at finding things in bushes!

First and foremost, it's all about helping the chefs fill their food stations to the brim - and beyond. There's three of them for three types of meals, so you'll be collecting Meat, Veggies and of course Desserts to feed the hungry masses of Bushwhackia! Can you make all the Pristine Food? Keep doing turn-ins to achieve it!

On the subject of food - four of the guests have promised they would bring a dish to share, but they've forgotten ingredients.

And then, there's the problem of the Turkeys. Apparently, they need to be rescued in some fashion, so you'll need to get on that. You have the whole event to complete it.

Once again we're celebrating other harvest festivals around the world and hosting an inflatable surprise. They'll unlock as the event goes on. And tune later in the event for a parade!

Of course, it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the Black Friday questline introduced in a previous year, and a fridge to store all those leftovers!

If you can complete the event with 100%, you'll earn the Thanksgiving Pet Piece! Collect all 2020 holiday pet pieces to craft a unique pet!

Event Achievements - POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!

Achievements Returning in 2020:

• Special Order - You helped all of the people prepare their special dishes.
• Master of the Ways - You have helped cook each dish excellently for the pristine table.
• Short Order Cook - You've helped prepare one of each dish.
• Turkey Lover - You saved enough turkeys to guarantee survival. This year.
• Historical Detective - You helped Bob the Historian investigate the Pilgrims.
• Family Matters - You brought all of Brock's family together for Thanksgiving.
• Parade Enthusiast - You watched the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• Fridge Fix-Up - You helped Fatima fix an old fridge and move it your ranch.
• Thorough Taste Testing - You helped out Miss Mei enough to try all the different daily side dish samples.
• Fattened Feathered Friend - Help Nate fatten up his turkey.

Added/Changed for 2020:

• Harvest Haul - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2020 items.*

We have 7 achievements from previous years' events, which may be earned by spending some Bush Bucks if a player was not present during the original years:

• Thankful Decorator - You bought all the house items from the 2012 Thanksgiving Event.
• Thankful Dresser - You bought all the player items from the 2012 Thanksgiving Event.
• Thankful Shopper - You bought all the 2013 Turkey Day items.
• Black Friday - You bought all the 2014 Thanksgiving items.
• Thanks For The Stuff - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2015 items.
• Grateful Expenditure - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2016 items.
• Feastful Frittering - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2017 items.
• Banquet Blowout - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2018 items.
• Stuffed Shopper - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2019 items.

* The Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the Harvest Haul achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Grab a new harvest companion!

New 2020 Mounts!




To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available this weekend, from November 13th to 16th!

The Winged Tiger mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Waning Winged Tiger and Rising Winged Tiger are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

Pet Packs: 2020 Pets -- Available in Packs! COMING SOON!



The event will run until Friday November 27th at Noon PST!

Give thanks and feedback here!