Run the July 17 to August 7 event loop first
Summer Stall uses one clear order: gather ingredients → cook → collect the finished dish. Read the active order before picking anything up; loading the stove from memory is how ice lands in the brazier or fruit gets mixed with peppers.
Use the first round to locate the ingredient stations, stove, and hand-in point. Chase consecutive orders only after those three legs are clean.
- Accept or read the order before gathering ingredients.
- Once a dish starts cooking, stage the next order instead of waiting beside the stove.
- Deliver the finished dish before cleaning up spare ingredients.
Solo route: protect one order at a time
For solo play, compress the route into a triangle: order board → ingredient station → stove. Keep one dish cooking and at most one order in hand; chasing three orders at once leaves finished food undelivered and ingredients at the wrong station.
When orders back up, save the dish already on the stove, then take the order closest to its ingredient station. After a wrong ingredient, clear it immediately and restart from the shortest available order.
- Finish anything already cooking before starting a distant order.
- After two ingredient mistakes, drop the far order and clear the nearest one.
- If traffic blocks the stove lane, use the outside edge for deliveries.
Co-op roles: gather, cook, and deliver
With two players, assign one reader/gatherer and one cook/deliverer. With three or more, split delivery into its own role: the reader calls ingredients, the cook calls open stoves and finished dishes, and the runner reports completed hand-ins.
The common collapse starts when the runner touches the stove while the cook waits for ingredients. Keep roles fixed during a rush and use one drop point between the ingredient pool and stove so every handoff has a known location.
- Use one ingredient drop point instead of chasing teammates between stations.
- The cook accepts one named order at a time and returns wrong ingredients to the drop point.
- The runner reports availability after each hand-in and waits for the next finished dish.
Special ice food, boss routing, and rewards
Special ice food from the event can bypass selected stronghold bosses. Earn it from the stall first, then chain only supported bosses or outposts into a short follow-up route; those selected clears also grant extra event rewards.
The named rewards include Melon Mountain decor, the Toast pose, and the Sword-and-Shield pose. Check which reward is still missing before repeating the stall or moving to the boss route.
- Carry special ice food only to a supported stronghold target; do not spend it in ordinary fights.
- Claim stage rewards before leaving and confirm Melon Mountain, Toast, and Sword-and-Shield are recorded.
- Move to the boss route only after the stall order loop is stable.