February Currency
The event currency for February is Heart Shells [HS]! These are what you will use to buy items from the event shop. There are multiple different conversion rates that people use for HS and ! The two most common rates you will find are 10 HS = 1 and 6 HS = 1 ! Which rate should you try to use? Well that all depends on if you are buying or selling! If you are buying HS, then it would be best to try and use the 10 HS = 1 ratio! If you are selling HS, it would be best to use the 6 HS = 1 ratio! I will say though, once February finally comes [and especially when tier 3 opens], it may be extremely difficult use the 10 HS = 1 ratio due to others offering more!

Items
Th reason February is such a good month for breeding valuable lions is because of the items you can get from the shop! There are tons of items February has to offer, but I am only going to go over the major ones! [If you would like to see all the items, then click here: CLICKY]

There are 2 different shops in the February event. The flirt shop and slap shop. Between both of these shops, you can get:


This Item Guarantees At Least 2 Cubs In A Litter!

This Item Reduces The Breeding Cooldown Of A Lion By 1 Day Per Use!

This Item Guarantees At Least 3 Cubs In A Litter!

This Item Gives A 25% Chance [5% For Double Uterus] To Pass Down A Mutation From The Mother [Does Not Work On Hybrids]!

Each of these items is extremely important for lioden gameplay, especially for hybrids! All of these items allow the best possible results of a litter! More on how to use these items as well as which items to get later!

Event Encounters/Activities

Of course in order to buy stuff from the event shop, you need to get the currency first! This is mainly done through exploring! As you explore, you will come across February exclusive encounters that will give you heart shells! Now some things to note about exploring...

1.Do NOT Battle at all! Battling is a huge waste of energy! Even if battling gives you heart shells, you are more likely to come across more encounters with the 10 energy you could waste on a battle!
2. Make sure to use the wiki! This wiki has all the explore encounters as well as the options that give you the most HS! CLICKY
3. Don't rush! A common mistake I make a lot is trying to rush the explore! Often when I do this I end up skipping over some encounters or accidentally choosing the wrong options :3
4. Use both your accounts!

While exploring is the best way to gain HS, there are a number of ways to earn HS otherwise!

Flirting/Slapping
In the event, there is a special area called "Aphrodisia" where you can attempt to flirt with other players lions! You can do this every 15 minutes to potentially gain HS! Doing this can get you between 0-3 HS! Now while that doesn't seem like much, it adds up over time! If perhaps another lion tries to flirt with your ladies, you can slap them to win HS as well!

Buying
A lot of players (including myself) choose to also buy other peoples currency for other items such as /apps/MoD's/etc.! This may cost a lot of initial investment, but to me it is entirely worth it! Buffalo Scrotums [for example] are only 10 during the event, but later in the year they are worth 30 ! By buying a bunch of HS now, you can potentially triple what you spent later on!

It is also important to note, you can NOT trade the currency directly. If someone buys currency from you, you will have to buy whatever items they want with that currency from the shop and then trade those items!

In this event, it is important to spend your energy and time wisely! Now, please note that I know a lot of people can't do what I am about to suggest. If you are one of these people, just do what you can! If you can't do certain parts then don't! If you can then do it! I am only suggesting the best possible way to spend your energy as well as some schedules and items you can use to maximize your yield!

Items to help you gain energy

Bone marrow boost your energy by 20%! You can only use it once a day per account! [can be bought in money business]

This item gives you 1 full energy bar! [can be bought in oasis]

This item gives you the chance to gain/lose 10% energy! Make sure to only use if you have no energy left! [can be bought on branches. Prices may change]

This item gives 5 full energy bars! [can be bought on branches. Prices may change]

This item allows you to gain twice as much energy for 8 hours! So instead of your bar taking 2 hours and 30 minutes to fill, it only takes 1 hour and 15 minutes! [can be bought on branches. Prices may change]

This item allows you to gain twice as much energy for 8 hours! So instead of your bar taking 2 hours and 30 minutes to fill, it only takes 1 hour and 15 minutes! [can be bought on branches. Prices may change]

All of these items give experience! Once you get enough experience to level up, you can gain 1 full energy bar! Make sure all your energy is used before leveling up! [Can be bought on branches. Prices may change]

This item changes your personality to anything of your choosing! Use this to change your personality to hyperactive to get a free 30% energy boost daily!

This item reduces the energy it takes to explore from 1-3% to 1-2%.

Submitting a Cub to gorilla enclave also gives you a 60% energy boost!

Energy Schedule [for the maximum possible gain]
I strongly suggest setting up a schedule for February! You can always create you own schedule, but for the best possible gain, I would follow the schedule below:
1. Log in as early as possible to both your accounts!
2. Flirt with a lion and slap whatever lions you can! Do the same with your alt [I suggest setting a timer for every 15 minutes to come back online!]
3. Use a full energy bar to explore. Do the same with your alt.
4. Use a roasted lamb/red bull for each of you accounts
5. Use your daily energy boost on both accounts to explore
6. Use your daily hyperactive boost on both accounts to explore
7. Use a bone marrow on each account to explore.
8. Submit a cub to Gorilla Enclave and Use that 60% Energy
9. Come back every 1 hour and 15 minutes [or 2 hours and 30 minutes if not using lambs/bulls] and use all your energy!

Other energy Usages
I suggest using all of the below after tier 3 opens, as more encounters will be available then!
1. Use your fermented marula fruits! Make sure you have no energy when using them, and if you use 1 and get energy, use it before continuing to the next marula fruit.
2. Use all of your energy boost and meat pies to explore!
3. Use your giant tortoises, broken drones and coconuts to get experience. Then use that experience to level up and get more energy! [make sure all your energy is used before leveling up!]
4.Use your coffee beans when using your extra energy items to increase the amount of encounters you get!
5. Use hyena butter to remove NCL encounters. NCL encounters take up event encounters, so removing them can allow more event encounters to come up.

If you don't plan to breed any hybrids/RCL's/Dwarves/Etc, then you can use your currency in other ways!

Selling/Auctioning/Raffling Your Heart Shells!
If you really want up front and riches, and don't care about using your heart shells, you can always sell them to others before/during February! There are plenty of people [including me... shameless plug: CLICKY] that are willing to buy heart shells for tons of and items!

Another way to get rid of your heart shells, is auctioning them! Let me tell you, this is super successful! Or at least it was last year for me! I auctioned 6k heart shells for a quad rosette pon [worth about 2.5k ]! With this, I strongly suggest not putting any auto buy! If someone wants to auto buy then they can offer, but do not put a set auto buy! You only limit what you can get by doing that!

You can also try raffling your heart shells, but if I am being honest this is a bit iffy. You can either make more, or you can make less...

Investing
The other thing you can do, is invest! If you don't care to breed, would like to get and are super patient, this is the option for you!

After grinding all your currency, spend most of it on Buffalo scrotums [and a bit on lion scrotums as well]! After you get them, just burry them in your hoard and wait! Once you wait enough, Buffalo Scrotums will sell for 30 and Lion Scrotums will sell for up to 65 ! Now the reason I say to get more Buffalo Scrotums than Lion Scrotums is cause they are easier to sell and more desired. If you don't mind hassling to sell, then lion scrotums wouldn't be such a bad idea!

If we do some math here.... Lets say you get 3k heart shells this February and buy solely Buffalo Scrotums.. Buffy scrots are 10 [or 60 HS] during February. So if you use all your 3k HS to buy buffalo scrotums, you will get 50 Buffy scrots [500 during February]. If you wait till Buffalo Scrotums cost 30 , your 50 Buffy Scrots will go from 500 to 1,500 !

In doing the same with lion scrots [worth 15 in February], you can get 37 lion scrotums from 3k HS. This will be worth 555 in February. If you wait till they become 65 a piece, you will go from 555 to 2,405 !

Another method is to buy Yohimbe barks with HS and sell them. I do not recommend this method, as once barks become worthy to sell (they sell for 5 in February but sell for 15+ once September rolls around), they become hard to sell. Barks are often only valued in bulk during the month of February. So you may find them extremely difficult to sell when they are at their highest.