What it is
Pumpkin Harvest is Total Battle's Halloween event. It runs for about two weeks from late October. Unlike the clan tournaments, you aren't racing another clan. You work your way up a reward track called a battle pass, and you smash a lot of pumpkins along the way.
Some things never change: a pumpkin-headed reaper called Jack, plenty of angry pumpkins, and a Halloween look for your city at the end. How the event works changes almost every year, though. Older guides talk about candy, a Spooky Lottery and witch mercenaries. That was the event up to 2024. In 2025 Scorewarrior rebuilt it around a battle pass and renamed it Pumpkin Harvest. Every holiday event since has used the same setup (Christmas snowmen, Lunar New Year, Easter carrots), so if you played one of those, you already know how this one works.
There are three parts, running side by side:
A tough monster squad you fight every day with one captain. In 2025 it was Baron Candlemourn, under a tab called the Wickborn Curse.
Monsters you put on the map yourself, then kill together with your clan, using Heroes only. The last hit wins clan chests.
Filled up with Black Flame from the other two. It gives most of the event's Valor, captain XP and the city look.
Scorewarrior hasn't published anything about the 2026 run yet. Everything below describes the 2025 event, which every holiday event since has copied. If the event's Rules screen in the game says something different, go with the game.
How it scores
Everything you do earns one thing: Black Flame. Every 20 Black Flame moves you up one level on the battle pass. The pass has 44 levels, and after that it keeps going with extra levels that each give more Valor.
You only get Black Flame by reaching daily targets, and the targets start over every day. So this is an event you play a little every day, not one you can catch up on at the end. If you miss a day, that day's Black Flame is gone.
| Where it comes from | What you get | How much a day |
|---|---|---|
| Reaching the daily epic's points target | 10 Black Flame | once a day |
| Hitting Crazy Pumpkins (targets at 30, 50 and 80 Halloween Treats) | 5 Black Flame per target | about 20, after roughly ten pumpkin attacks |
In practice, pumpkins move you up about one level a day and the daily epic adds a bit more. Keep that up for two weeks and you'll get far up the pass.
The pass has three tracks: a free one, and two paid ones called Bone and Soul. The paid tracks add more Valor, mercenaries and gold. The free track still gives billions of Valor at the higher levels, boxes of captain XP, and a frame for your profile picture at the end.
The daily epic drops Halloween Coins, captain XP and a few other things, but no Valor points. Scorewarrior says you'll get "far more" from the pass. Fight the epic to reach its daily target, not for the kill itself.
How to play it
- Put down your pumpkin every day, but only when people are ready to help. You get 15 Pumpkin Coins a day, and a pumpkin costs 15, so that's one free pumpkin a day. It only stays for eight minutes, and it takes four or five Heroes to kill it in time. If you put one down with nobody online, it disappears, and your coins and the chests go with it.
- Attack pumpkins about ten times a day. That's how many hits it takes to get the most Black Flame pumpkins can give you. Hitting your own pumpkin plus one or two of your clanmates' gets you there.
- Reach the daily epic's target. One or two good attacks with your strongest captain should do it. Turn on your XP, strength and health boosts first.
- Make sure our clan lands the last hit. Whichever clan finishes a pumpkin gets its clan chests. If you see an army from another clan marching at one of ours, finish it fast.
- If a troop upgrade is about to finish, wait to claim your Valor. The Valor on the pass goes up the moment your troops reach a new tier. Claim it after the upgrade, not before. (More on this below.)
- Save something for Jack. Jack Reaper arrives for the last few days, and he's the best fight of the event for Valor and captain XP.
- Claim everything before the event ends. Pass rewards, shop items, all of it.
Ways to play it
There's no single right way to play this event. Here are four, depending on how much time you have and how strong your account is. Pick one, mix them, or switch partway through.
Put down your pumpkin, do about ten pumpkin attacks and reach the daily epic's target, every day. It's a few minutes here and there, and it gets you about a pass level a day. Good for everyone.
Be the Hero your clan can count on when someone puts a pumpkin down. Pumpkins only need your Hero and cost nothing beyond the free coins, so this is where smaller accounts earn most of their Black Flame.
Build a proper army for the daily epic and use it to level a captain who's falling behind. If your army is thin, the epic costs a lot to fight and to revive, so just reach the target and move on. Best for mid-sized accounts.
Hold off claiming the pass's Valor until a troop upgrade finishes, then claim it all at the higher amount. Then go all in on Jack with your Hero and three captains. Best for big accounts, or anyone about to reach a new troop tier.
Your two weeks, day by day
This assumes the event runs about 13 days, like last year. Each day starts at the game's daily reset, 17:00 UTC.
| Day | What to do |
|---|---|
| 1 | Collect your first Pumpkin Coins, find a few clanmates to help, and put down your first pumpkin. Try the daily epic to see if your army can handle it. |
| 2 to 11 | The same routine every day: your pumpkin, about ten pumpkin attacks, the daily epic's target. Spread pumpkins out across the day so people in every time zone can help. If a troop upgrade is coming, don't claim the pass's Valor yet. |
| 12 and 13 | Jack Reaper arrives. Fight him with your Hero and three captains. Keep up the pumpkins. Before the end, claim every pass reward and spend your Halloween Coins in the shop. |
Deeper in
Crazy Pumpkins up close
You put a Crazy Pumpkin on the map yourself, the same way you'd put down a Mimic Chest. Tap an empty spot on the kingdom map, choose Build, choose the pumpkin, and pay 15 Pumpkin Coins. It then stays there for eight minutes, and anyone can attack it.
You attack it with your Hero alone, and it works like the Arena: your Hero keeps fighting until it runs out of health, and each attack takes a few percent off the pumpkin. Four or five clanmates attacking over and over will finish one within the eight minutes. Three is cutting it close.
Two rules decide where you should put it:
- Every march to a pumpkin takes at least 40 seconds, however close it is. Putting it right next to your city doesn't save any time.
- You can only use a speedup while the march has more than 20 seconds left. In practice that's one speedup per attack.
So the best spot is about a minute's march from your city, not right beside it. One speedup brings that down to about 11 seconds, much faster than the 40-second minimum. And never open a portal on top of the pumpkin. It doesn't save time, and it makes the pumpkin hard for everyone else to tap on.
Who gets the chests
Whichever clan lands the last hit gets the clan chests, even if a different clan put the pumpkin down. A player from another clan can show up for the final hit and take them. Inside our own clan it doesn't matter who finishes: the chests go to everyone, and anyone in the clan can claim clan chests for 20 hours.
How good are they? In 2025 they were famous. Players reported about seven chests per pumpkin, as good as the chests from big epic monsters, with 20,000 gold, city teleports and talent resets inside. That was a one-off. The Christmas snowman chests after it dropped to about 3,000 gold, and every holiday event since has given ordinary chests. Expect the 2026 pumpkins to pay like the snowmen did, not like last year's. They're still worth collecting, just not worth fighting another clan over.
The daily epic
The daily epic is a squad of four monster groups, and each group is extra strong against one type of troop: mounted, flying, ranged or melee. You only get one captain, so bring a mix of troop types and stack them carefully rather than relying on one. The Ghostflame Lantern from Dark Omens is the artifact to give that captain, since it makes your army stronger against epic monsters.
Two tips from creators who fought it a lot:
- Send your full army, not a small part of it. One creator got about twice the coins and XP when he used his full Leadership instead of a third of it.
- Use it to level a captain who's falling behind. It gives captain XP but no Valor, so it's a cheap way to grow someone who needs it.
Scorewarrior made epic monsters stronger in April 2026 (and improved their rewards to match). Last year's videos show squads that are easier than this year's, so look at the squad in the game before you spend a lot on revives.
Jack Reaper, the finale
Jack Reaper shows up for the last few days. In 2025 he had his own tab called Jack's Return, with a title for the top players. You fight him with your Hero and three captains, plus troops, and he only has four monster groups. That's three captains' bonuses, three artifacts and your Hero's gear against a small squad, which is why players rate Jack as one of the best fights of the year for captain XP and Valor. They say he beats Arachne's Swarm for XP and Doomsday for Valor.
Back in 2023, Jack was a mounted unit with three helpers: a flying Batrider, a melee Gravedigger and a ranged Scarecrow, each extra strong against one troop type. Those numbers are from before this year's epic-monster changes, so check the squad in the game before you rely on them.
Your troop tier sets your Valor
The Valor on the pass isn't a fixed amount. It depends on your highest troop tier, and it goes up the moment a troop upgrade finishes. The jump is big. At Easter, one player's free track was worth about 21 billion Valor with tier-5 troops and about 187 billion with tier 6.
The daily targets only update at the next daily reset, but the pass rewards update straight away. So if you'll finish a troop tier upgrade during the event, leave the Valor on the pass unclaimed until it's done, then claim it all at the higher amount in the last day or two. Lots of players do this. Just don't wait so long that the event ends first.
What you're playing for
Most of the Valor comes from the pass. Billions at the higher levels, more from the extra levels, and more again if your troop tier goes up.
Boxes of captain XP on the pass, plus XP from every epic fight. A good event to push a captain toward the new top level of 600.
A Halloween look for your city, bought in the event shop with Halloween Coins from the daily epic.
From every pumpkin the clan finishes. Not as rich as in 2025, but free.
There's also a personal Halloween ranking with titles for the top players. At the end, the game also lists who killed the most monsters, who finished the most pumpkins and who collected the most Halloween Coins.
It changes every year
The Halloween event looks different almost every year. From 2022 to 2024 it had a Spooky Lottery played with candy or treats, pumpkins on the map you attacked with your Hero and captains, witch mercenaries that hit Jack first, and Jack at both the start and the end. In 2025 it became Pumpkin Harvest: the battle pass, Black Flame, pumpkins you put down yourself, Hero-only attacks, and Jack only at the end. If a guide mentions candy, it's describing an event that no longer exists.
Three things have changed since last year that matter here. Epic monsters got stronger, with better rewards, in April. The top level for Heroes and captains went from 500 to 600 in February. And holiday clan chests were cut back after last year's pumpkins.
Not yet confirmed
- Whether 2026 works like 2025. Every holiday event since has, but the daily epic will probably be a new monster.
- When the Pumpkin Coins refresh, at the 17:00 UTC daily reset or at the time the event started.
- Exactly how pumpkin attacks turn into Black Flame. Three targets of 5 Black Flame add up to 15, not the 20 a day players report, so one target is missing from what we know.
- The chests. About seven per pumpkin comes from two players. Most players think the level of whoever lands the last hit doesn't matter; one says the contents depend on whoever opens the chest. Nobody has tested it.
- Whether unused Pumpkin Coins carry over to the next day. Some clans talk about saving pumpkins for the last day, which suggests they do.
- Witches. The Halloween mercenaries were in the event up to 2024 and weren't mentioned in 2025.
- Which troops set your Valor tier for this event (guardsmen, specialists or monsters). Someone asked on Reddit a few days ago, and nobody has answered yet.