

If the portal opens and release one greedling, this is where the Blood Moon assault will come from. To do that, the Monarch shall approach the portal ( less than half of the screen) and wait a couple of seconds for the reaction. Scouting at least one active portal on the afternoon of a Blood Moon day can be useful to predict which side of the Kingdom will be attacked. When this happens, Monarchs should be aware that an important enemy force is already on land and heading to town.Ī Blood Moon wave is a one-sided wave, meaning that the attack comes from only one random side.Īt noon the active portals on both sides use to become non-exhausted.īut on Blood Moon days only one portal will recover its ability to recognize a hostile presence. This is the same noise that warns of an upcoming counterattack after having destroyed a portal.Ī couple of seconds after that, the first monsters will traverse the swirling goo of the portal, being followed by the rest of the wave. The moment the portal is opened, a deep rumbling or grinding sound of moving heavy stones that lasts for about a second will be heard all over the land. In New Lands the sound is more subtle (hear it in this video). This section is about New Lands & Two Crowns. Players that have lowered the music volume too much won't be able the hear the Blood Moon track. Note that sounds and musics have different volume sliders on the options menu. Two Crowns Dead Lands – 🔉 Crimson Moon.Two Crowns Europe & Shogun – 🔉 Blood Moon.(Links go to Bandcamp, and the last one to Youtube): Here are the Blood Moon tracks for each of the games and settings. On Blood Moon days a sinister music starts playing exactly at the sunset.Ībout fourty seconds after that, it will be midnight, when the wave should be hitting on the Kingdom borders. Kingdom Two Crowns – The morning day number on a Blood Moon day tends to have a reddish color. However the sky at dusk before the Blood Moon tends to be red for a noticeably extended time. Kingdom Two Crowns – The weather is overall more diverse, with a larger range of nuances, and it can't easily be used to foresee a Blood Moon during the morning and after noon. The entire daytime preceding a Blood Moon is usually stormy, rainy (snowy if in the winter), or at least very cloudy.įrom the sunrise of that day, the sky is pinker and darker than usual. Kingdom: Classic & New Lands – Aside from the frequency in which they occur, Blood Moons can be fairly predictable during the day by the weather and the color of the sky. Rain and redder sky at sunrise: a Blood Moon is coming by nightfall (day V, 3rd island, New Lands). The most typical sign of a Blood Moon is that during the night of the event the sky and the Moon, both acquire a red hue. With some knowledge (usually acquired along a succession of Monarchs), even without paying much of attention to its scheduled frequency, it's possible to notice an incoming Blood Moon by its visual and audible indications. Kingdom: New Lands & Two Crowns – This timing is announced by a rumbling sound.īlood Moons can catch a new Monarch unaware, especially if they've never experienced the event before. Just like nightly waves, Blood Moon waves are timely launched to reach the Kingdom's border by midnight. In all Challenge Islands Blood Moons take place with the same frequency of those in Classic and New Lands-i.e. So, on the first two years: one Blood Moon per season, with fifteen days between the Red Moon days.įrom the third year onwards: two Blood Moons per season, with only seven days between them. Hover the mouse over the days to display its respective roman numeral. Starting on the spring of the third year, an extra Blood Moon will always occur two days before the middle of the season.

Hover the mouse over the days to display its respective Roman numeral.Ī Blood Moon will always take place around two days before a season change. The following board showing the start-end days for the seasons helps to understand it: Numbers are days with Blood Moon, bullets represent the common days between Blood Moons and underlined days denote a 6 day interval.īlood Moons start a bit later and happen in a schedule linked to the seasons cycle. The sequence below shows the notes of a player who recorded all the Blood Moons between day 35 and 100, when he was going for the New Lands "Day C" achievement. If the Monarch wants to track more precisely when the Blood Moon will come, they'll need to take notes about the last time it happened. If the 1st happened on day VI, the 2nd will take place on day XI or XII and so on.

If it happens on day V, the second will take place either on day X or day XI. So the first Blood Moon will take place on day V or VI. Frequency In Classic and New Lands Īll Blood Moon events will happen after five or six normal days.
