Ignatius Boulton (Event)

Ignatius Boulton is a Story Event in Merge Mansion. It is used to obtain the Stone Can.

Event Mechanics

Prerequisites: This event only opens once you have the "Fix Missing Item" Task which is unlocked at the beginning of Frog Pond Falls.

How to get to it: Once you unlock the event, it will be available via the event button on the map screen in the upper left hand corner.

Reward: Garden Statue. The item reward for this quest allows you to merge Stone Can. You earn rewards by levelling up.

Levelling up: To level up you need to collect Ignatius Boulton, these are generated by the Garden Furniture items.

Event Length: This event is only available for 3 days (72 hours) each round. Once the event is over, you can claim the rewards and start the event again. You will lose all your progress in the previous round and start over. However, you can keep replaying to get higher level Stone Gate and gain additional Experience Points (XP) & Bronze Coins.

• Note: As of January 2023, players are only given 3 hours to play, yet the event can still be manageable. It is currently unknown if Metacore will ever revert back to a 3 day format.

Event Gameplay Tips

• Since you can play the event multiple times, sell the Six (L7) to earn coins. Use the coins to buy extra storage space in the garage.
• Even if you're not interested in the Stone Can, this event is an energy-efficient way to gather XP for leveling up by just merging numbers. The Rotary Phone drops low-level and high-level Numberss with equal probability (except for number 4, which has a higher probability), and every number higher than 2 results in an XP star when merged.
• In the current, revised version of this event (as of the November 2022 update), reaching Level six provides enough items to create the Stone Gate and begin progression towards the Stone Can.

The 3 hour Event

As of January 2023, players are only given 3 hours to play.

• It's highly energy-intensive, so “budget” 100 Energy for it. If you do it after waking up, your energy will be full.
• When opening boxes at the start, you’re doomed if you don’t uncover the Box Pallet.
• Without the Box Pallet, you can’t get more 0s to open all the boxes to get the Rotary Phone and Grandfather Clock.
• You will also be doomed if the Grandfather Clock doesn’t give you enough pieces to make an L1 Small Time Charger.
• If you cannot make a Time Charger, try to open all the boxes and dusted numbers, making Piggy Banks and tapping them out, then merging them etc. until you get the max Cash Register.
• Tap out the phone and start the Time Charger to halve the time it recharges.
• By this time you should have approximately 30 energy left. After this it’s just a matter of tapping out the Rotary Phone whenever it recharges.
• At some point energy will run out anyway, so there’s no point making another Time Charger when it runs out. Keep an eye on the countdown timer and try to juggle time left vs energy left to optimize Rotary Phone + Cash Register output.

Ending

• The event can be replayed multiple times as long as rewards have been claimed from the event’s previous run-through.
• The event will end and can no longer be played when the Stone Can is turned in.
• After the Stone Can is turned in, all event items used in the making of the can will turn into a Bronze Coin (L1). You can sell the items before turning in the can in order to make much more.
  • Before selling your Garden Statue, you can use it to create items to sell, if you are low on Coins.

Item Trees

As soon as the event ends, you will lose access to the event garage and all items in the event garage will disappear when you start the next round. As such, you can sell all the items before the event ends for additional coins.

• Box Pallet
• Grandfather Clock (Generates Time Charger Shard)
• Cash Register
• Rotary Phone (Generates Numbers)
• Numbers
• Garden Bush
• Wood Chipper
• Garden Furniture
• Ignatius Boulton (Generates Event XP + Story)
• Dust Remover (Clears Cobwebs, only from Store)

Flowchart

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Event Rewards

Event Progress can be found, by clicking the Button on the lower right hand side.

It shows the current Level for the event and what the rewards will be.

Rewards will be given out as soon as the event ends.

The maximum level is 5.

Rewards per Level

Reward per Level

Lvl	EXP Required	Number of Garden Statue Lvl
		1		2		3
		Add	Total	Add	Total	Add	Total
0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	41	2	2	1	1	-	-
2	62	1	3	2	3	-	-
3	82	1	4	1	4	1	1
4	150	-	4	2	6	1	2
5	200	-	4	2	8	1	3

Merged Items

Merged Items

Lvl	Merged Items
0	-
1	1x Lvl 3
2	1x Lvl 1 , 1x Lvl 4
3	1x Lvl 5
4	1x Lvl 4, 1x Lvl 5
5	1x Lvl 6

Story

Ignatius Boulton's story is told through the Ignatius Boulton items:

A new adventure lies ahead for young Ignatius and his family.
They travelled across the ocean to the Big Apple.
Cans made out of tin used to preserve the food during the journey.
The Boulton family settled in Illinois.
Papa's got a brand new store.
By age of 15 Ignatius had dropped out of school.
He took a job in his father's store.
While sweeping the floors Ignatius had a stroke of genius.
He took his idea to the bank, and a tin can factory was born.
Tin can demand made young Ignatius a rich man.
With his new-found wealth, Ignatius built a mansion.
Passion for travel sent Ignatius around the world in search for a soulmate.

Shop

Accessible via button on the lower right hand side.

Ignatius Boulton

Lvl	Image	Name	Starting Cost*	Max Cost
1	File:BushNumber 0.png	Zero	45	780
1		Time Charger Shard	19	94
1		Time Charger	30	30
1		Dust Remover	30	30
6	File:BushNumber 5.png	Five	98	350
1		Time Skip Booster	50	50

*The cost for the items rises with each item bought.

History

Before November 2022	The rewards received had a maximum level of 21.
After November 2022	The rewards received had a maximum level of 6.
Before January 2023	The Event was unlocked at the end of The Grand Drive.
After January 2023	The Event now unlocks at the beginning of Frog Pond Falls.