Hearts event

In February, around Valentine's Day, the familiar treasure chest hunt turns into the Hearts event. It works like the treasure chest week of the monthly rotation (see Events), but comes with a hearts theme, its own Space Pass task and usually a shared collection bar for your alliance. It typically lasts a little over a week.

How the treasure hunt works

1. Planets with treasure chests appear in the Galaxy map. A galaxy scan also tells you whether a treasure is hidden in the scanned area (see Galaxy scan).
2. Send spy probes (Spy probe) on a treasure hunt to these planets. Each planet only holds a limited number of chests, and you can take each chest only once – latecomers go away empty-handed.
3. Open your treasure chests in the event shop. They contain random rewards and gold.
4. Trade the gold at the Gold Market for bonuses such as free Interdimensional Transmitter spins, research and building accelerators, double production, the inactive farmer, a fleet building bonus, alien bonuses or even a planet move.

Every chest you find counts as a heart for the Space Pass task "collect hearts" (see Space Pass). It also fills your alliance's collection bar: the fuller it is, the more production bonus all members get. The bar starts over every day.