Forge of Empires: What to Buy First in the Halloween Shops

In the Forge of Empires Halloween event shops, spend your currencies on permanent building upgrades and selection kits rather than consumable boosts or resource packs. Use your primary Cat Charms to secure any missing base tiers of the featured event building, and reserve your scarce Bat Tokens exclusively to complete high-tier Silver and Golden upgrades.

Before purchasing standalone kits early, wait until you finish the main questline and mini-game boards so you can calculate exactly how many upgrades you still need.

Cat Charms Spending Priorities

Cat Charms accumulate steadily throughout the event from milestone quest completions, incident collection, and regular mini-game clears. Because this currency is reliably earned across the entire event schedule, treat it as your baseline budget to assemble functional city structures.

Prioritize Cat Charm purchases in the following order:

1. Main Event Building Selection Kits: Buy only the remaining upgrade tiers required to bring your primary event building to its maximum standard level.
2. Legacy Halloween Selection Kits: Target high-efficiency historical buildings—such as past laboratory or cemetery kits—that offer permanent attack bonuses per grid tile.
3. Finish All Special Production Items: Purchase these utility items only if your city already hosts high-yield event buildings operating on 24-hour cycles.
4. Universal Upgrade Fragments: Buy fragment packs only when they bring an existing, partial kit in your inventory to full completion.

Avoid spending Cat Charms on rotating daily offers early in the event. Natural board clears and quest milestones award standard kits, so purchasing too early can lead to surplus kits that drain your currency budget.

Bat Tokens Spending Priorities

Bat Tokens serve as a strictly capped milestone currency earned from completing entire mini-game boards, opening milestone reward chests, and finishing specialized bonus quest brackets. Because the total available supply is limited, spend Bat Tokens toward finishing one complete premium building track rather than spreading them across multiple projects.

Focus your tokens on securing a single Golden-level structure. One fully ascended building delivers better stat density per square than multiple unfinished Silver structures taking up city grid space and road connections.

Shop Traps to Avoid

The event store frequently rotates items that waste event currency:

• Basic Resource Packs and Blueprints: Regular guild aids, recurring quests, and Great Building investments generate abundant supplies, coins, and blueprints. Purchasing them in the event shop stalls long-term progression.
• Temporary Combat Boosts: Consumable attack and defense potions expire after a few hours or battles, providing no lasting city value.
• Incomplete Fragment Sets: Never buy fragment bundles unless you can afford the full set before the event concludes or already hold the remaining fragments in your inventory. Buying 60 fragments of a 150-fragment building leaves you with unusable items sitting in storage.

Final 48-Hour Clearance Strategy

Conduct an inventory audit during the final two days before the Halloween shops close:

1. Count your inventory upgrades: Total your current building levels and partial fragments to identify the exact deficit needed for completion.
2. Commit Bat Tokens first: Purchase the necessary fragments or kits to finalize your highest-tier Silver or Golden upgrade.
3. Spend remaining Cat Charms on kit targets: Purchase the specific base selection kits needed to hit full levels.
4. Liquidate odd balances: If your remaining Cat Charms cannot afford another full kit, spend the leftover balance on functional utility items such as Mass Self-Aid Kits or Store Building items to prevent currency from expiring unused.