SimCity BuildIt Event Track Guide
SimCity BuildIt Event Track Guide
Event Tracks are seasonal events in SimCity BuildIt, and this SimCity BuildIt Event Track guide explains how they work, what you have to do, and what you can win. They run alongside the normal game, with their own theme, tasks and rewards, and they are one of the best ways to earn items and currencies that are hard to get from normal play.
What an Event Track is
An Event Track is a time-limited seasonal event with its own theme, tasks and rewards. Community guides describe Event Tracks as seasonal events you can take part in, each with its own theme, rewards and tasks. To take part, you complete tasks such as collecting items, building structures, producing goods or upgrading homes, and each completed task moves you along the track and earns a reward. Event Tracks are separate from the Mayor’s Pass, although both run on a seasonal calendar and both reward active play.
How to take part
Open the Event Track from the event icon in the game and check the current tasks. The tasks are usually normal gameplay — produce a certain item, collect taxes, upgrade a home, complete a shipment — so you can often complete them by playing as usual. Check the track every day, because tasks can change and the track has an end date. If you only check once a week, you will miss tasks and rewards.
What Event Tracks reward
Event Track rewards include Golden Keys, Platinum Keys, SimCash, Simoleons, Speed-Up Tokens, Seasonal Currency and special buildings, according to community guides. The exact rewards vary by event, so check the track screen in the game for the current event. Some events also include limited-time buildings that are only available during that event, similar to Mayor’s Pass buildings. Those are worth prioritising if you want them, because they may not return.
Event Points
Event Points are earned from Contest HQ assignments and from upgrading residential buildings, according to community guides. They are a separate point type from Plumbobs and Mayor’s Pass points, and they feed into event progress. Completing assignments and upgrading homes during an event therefore earns you progress in the contest, the pass and the event at the same time. That is why event weeks are the best weeks to push upgrades.
Strategy: plan around events
Do not start a big production push the day before an event ends. Instead, check the event calendar at the start of the week, see what tasks are coming, and queue production to match. If an event asks for donuts, make flour first. If it asks for upgrades, save your upgrade items until the event starts. A little planning turns an event from a distraction into a reward run.
Events and the main game
Events are optional. You can ignore an Event Track and keep building your city normally, and you will not be punished. But events are where many of the best free rewards in the game come from, and they cost nothing except the play you were already doing. Even a casual player who checks the track once a day will earn more than one who ignores it completely.
FAQ
What is an Event Track in SimCity BuildIt?
A time-limited seasonal event with its own theme, tasks and rewards.
How do I earn Event Points?
From Contest HQ assignments and upgrading residential buildings, according to community guides.
What rewards do Event Tracks give?
Golden Keys, Platinum Keys, SimCash, Simoleons, Speed-Up Tokens, Seasonal Currency and special buildings, depending on the event.
Do Event Tracks cost anything?
No. They reward normal gameplay. Some events have premium options, but the free track is available to all players.
Can I still get rewards after an Event Track ends?
No. Event rewards end with the event, so complete the tasks you care about before the end date shown in the game.
Start at our homepage — and read our Mayor’s Pass guide for the other seasonal track that runs alongside events.
