The Tower - Idle Tower Defense Beginners Event and Medals Guide

Events are essential mechanics in The Tower - Idle Tower Defense where you will earn Medals that can be exchanged for various rewards. This is the main place where you will earn Relics as well. It's recommended to go through The Tower Ultimate Beginners Guide to get familiar with the game basics. With that said, let's dive into the guide.

The Tower - Idle Tower Defense Event and Medals Guide will help you to find most efficient way complete all the missions, explain how relics work and figure out how to earn and spend stones. It's part of the The Tower - Idle Tower Defense Guides series, where you can find the rest of the guides on the game.

Events are unlocked upon reaching Tier 1 Wave 70 and will run for 2 weeks. They begin with 5 missions and 2 additional missions are added daily for the first week. There are no new missions in the second week. For completing the missions you will earn Medals, that can be spent in the Event Shop. Medals carry over after the event ends. Most of the time when current event ends, another one starts straight away and any completed, but unclaimed mission rewards are being sent to the player Mail.

Missions

The Tower Idle Tower Defense Event Guide Missions Icon in the main menu

When the new Event starts you will have 5 set missions to start then 2 missions unlocking daily for a week, with the first 2 unlocked straight away, which equals to 19 total Event Missions per event.

Each Mission has 3 milestones that has to be completed to earn Medals. Each next milestone rewards more medals and most of the time is harder to achieve. The amount of medals per mission per milestone is the same for all the missions:

• Milestone 1 - 10 Medals
• Milestone 2 - 15 Medals
• Milestone 3 - 20 Medals

You can also purchase Event Boost that will double the amount of medals per milestone which works retroactively (your finished milestones will have their rewards doubled). It works only for the current event and has to be purchased for each event separately.

Each Event has 2 main medal milestones that rewards relics.

• Rare relic - Requires 350 total medals earned
• Epic relic - Requires 700 total medals earned

Full Mission List

There are variety of missions that can appear during the event, some of them appear all the time in all the events, while other can be randomly selected by the game from the pool of available missions.

The Tower Event Missions List

Mission	Milestone 1	Milestone 2	Milestone 3	Tips
Login for xx days	7	10	13	Appears every event.
Participate in xx tournaments	1	2	3	Appears every event. You can watch an AD to get additional Tournament Ticket
Have a total Lab research time of xxd (rushed labs count)	12	30	90	Appears every event. Get 5 Labs ASAP, save up elite Cells to Speed up Labs for the event if you need to.
Get the free gem reward in store x times	7	10	13	Appears every event. Don't forget to claim daily gems from the store.
Claim AD Gems xx times	10		60	Appears every event. No Ad pack helps a lot. Just claim those 5 AD Gems that appear every 10-15 minutes.
Tap xx Floating Gems	12	24	50	Try to stay next to your game on the longer runs and click those floating Gems.
Buy xx Cards	20	40	80	Pretty straightforward but requires quite a lot of Gems to complete. F2P might want to save Gems when all the Labs are unlocked and spend them during the event to max out Medal gains. Requires 1600 gems to fully complete the mission
Buy xx Workshop Upgrades	50	150	400	Early on it's pretty easy. When Workshop Upgrades gets too expensive you might want to do workshop reset for 150 gems to do this mission. Keeping unnecessary upgrades like health regen or defense absolute low will help to save on the gem workshop resets.
Reach wave xxxx on any tier		2000	3500	Appears every event. Run Tier 1, get the damage build (ignore coins). Do it closer to the event end time when you are stronger.
Reach wave xx without any card equipped on tier xx or above	20	40	60	Should be pretty simple unless you cheesed and pushed Tiers. Tier in the mission is your maximum Tier -2.
Take no damage for xx consecutive waves	x	x	1200	Should be pretty simple unless you cheesed and pushed Tiers. Tier in the mission is your maximum Tier -2.
Hit xx enemies with Critical Hits	15k	400k	30M	Max out Critical chance to make it faster. Game Speed Perk will help as well.
Hit a boss with an Energy Net xx times	25	80	250	Requires Energy Net card. Will come naturally as you farm with the card.
Hit xx enemies with workshop Land Mines	3000	10000	40000	Upgrading Workshop Mines chance and range can help. Enemy Balance card will help as well.
Hit xx enemies with Chain Lightning	3k	20k	400k	Requires Chain Lightning UW.
Hit the same enemy with 4 Smart Missiles	4	x	x	Max out Critical chance to make it faster. Game Speed Perk will help as well.
Kill xx Bosses	150	500	2500	Game Speed Perk and overnight lower tier runs will help with faster boss kills.
Kill xx Bosses outside of Tower range	3	8	15	Random. Playing on Tier 1 will allow you to reach it faster. Use Bounce Shot and Land Mines, focus on Damage and Crit. That should increase your chances of taking out bosses outside of the Tower range.
Kill xx enemies with workshop Land Mines	750	2500	10000	Upgrading Workshop Mines and Damage stats early into the run helps, as well as running lower tier runs where enemies have less HP. Enemy Balance card will help as well.
Kill xx Common Enemies		200K	900K	Pretty straightforward, should come naturally. Playing on the lower tiers should help a bit. Enemy Balance card will help as well.
Kill xx Ranged Enemies	4k	20k		Pretty straightforward, should come naturally. Playing on the lower tiers should help a bit. Enemy Balance card will help as well.
Kill xx Fast Enemies	6k	15K	150k	Pretty straightforward, should come naturally. Playing on the lower tiers should help a bit. Enemy Balance card will help as well.
Kill xx Enemies with orbs	1k	4K	40k	Random. Pretty straightforward. Lower tiers, higher waves with more enemies might help you to speed it up.
Kill xx Enemies with Death Ray	3k	15K	75k	Random. You need Death Ray Card to complete this mission. Getting Double Death Ray Card Research and Game Speed Perk will speed it up. Enemy Balance card will help as well.
Kill xx enemies while in Demon Mode	30			Random. You need Demon Mode Card to complete this mission. Activating it early into the run and then ending it will help to get Mission faster.
Kill xx enemies while Golden Tower is active	4k	25k	250k	Random. You need Golden Tower UW to complete this mission. Other than that, it's just a grind.
Kill xx enemies with Inner Land Mines	30	x	x	Random. You need Inner Land Mines UW to complete this mission. Lower Tier will allow enemies to easier and Damage upgrades will make mines stronger.
Obtain xx Recovery Packages	400	2000	6000	Random. Max out Recovery Package chance to make it faster. Game Speed Perk will help as well.
Death Defy at least x times on the same round	2	3	5	Might be a bit tricky to pull off. Upgrade Death Defy in the workshop and early into the run. Go into the highest tier unlocked with Intro Sprint card and keep upgrading Death Defy. Another option is having Energy shield, level 2 or 3. It should make it easier.
Keep xx consecutive waves getting max Interest	60	300	500	Random. Just run lower tier and make sure that $ icon next to your Cash won't turn gray. Or just don't buy anything after initial 50 or so waves.
Skip a total of xx waves			500	Random. Run Wave Skip card and you should be good.
Let Energy Shield save you from an attack xx times	10			Random. Use Energy Shield to complete the mission.
Have xx enemies in the same Black Hole	5	13	21	Random. You need Black Hole UW to complete this mission. Playing on a lower tier will allow you to reach higher waves with more enemies on the screen that will help to achieve this mission faster. You can get lucky and get BH from Get Random Ultimate Weapon Perk during the playthrough too.
Poison xx enemies with Poison Swamp	2k	x	x	Random. You need Black Hole UW to complete this mission. Playing on a lower tier will allow you to reach higher waves with more enemies on the screen that will help to achieve this mission faster. You can get lucky and get BH from Get Random Ultimate Weapon Perk during the playthrough too.

Medals

The Tower Idle Tower Defense Medals Icon

Medals are considered to be the hardest currency to earn, since there is no way to speed up its earning process. That's why it's essential know the best ways to spend Medals in The Tower.

Earning Medals

Each fully completed Mission gives player a total of 45 Medals. with 19 Missions per event that equals to 855 Medals at maximum for F2P players and double that amount for players who bought boost pack for the event.

Some Event missions might be extremely hard or even impossible for newer players to complete, so do not stress over it too much.

On top of that Weekly Missions has a total of 70 medals in the rewards per week.

That brings us to 995 Medals per event (or 2 weeks) for the F2P players.

Spending Medals / Event Shop

So, with 995 Medals per Event what is the best way to spend the Medals? General rule of thumb is to go for the Good Relics, then Themes, then other Relics and spend the rest on either Bots or save them for later. Newer players might want to get some Stones as well, since that will help them to get UWs faster, but it depends.

Relics are not available for sale on every Event, so personally I would advise to have some extra Medals stashed in case if they appear and you can't afford them.

Medals Spending Priority

Name	Cost	Total Cost
Background Theme	250	250
Tower Theme	150	400
Rare Relic	200	600
Epic Relic	500	1100
15 Stones	40	1100+

If you will get in an Event that has both Relics and Themes, current Event F2P Medals won't be enough, so you will have to decide what to drop.

Because of that I would advise keeping extra 500-700 medals just in case if it will be needed or invest them in Bots. Bots can be respec once per Event for free to get all invested Medals back, that means that every event you can pull out some extra if you want to.

If you have extra medals, you can buy Songs for extra Coins multipliers.

The Tower Event and Medals Video Guide

This video showcases how events, event missions and medals work, as well as listing the best medal rewards for each event and spedning priority.