Spring 2018 Food Collection Mini-Event
The Food Collection Mini-Event is an mini-event that began on May 15th, 2018. This event is being used as a filler event since there will be no Spring 2018 Event as the KanColle Dev Team are currently working on implementing features for Phase 2. The theme of this event will involve collecting Rice, Umeboshi, Nori, and Tea to make various meal sets as like what has been done in the Naval District Saury Festival
This mini-event can also double as a tie-in collaboration with the Mitsukoshi 5th Anniversary Event which is also selling Kancolle themed Onigiri and Umeboshi.
How to Obtain
In this mini-event, you will be collecting a total of up to 4 items across all the normal water map locations. These items consist of the following:
- Rice
- Umeboshi
- Nori
- Tea
You will be using these items to make food that will be needed to complete quests and to exchange for various resources and other items over the duration the of the mini event.
To be able to locate the food items you will need to go to various various maps that drop them. In order to improve your chances of earning these food item, you will need to organize a fleet in the following conditions:
- Light Cruisers, Training Cruisers and Seaplane Tenders to be places in the flagship position (posiiton 1 in the composition).
- Destroyers and Escorts to be placed in the Escort position (position 2-6 in the composition)
- Using
Skilled Lookouts and 
Searchlights will also aid in helping you collect the food items.
It's been confirmed that an A or S rank is needed for a chance of these food items to drop.
Be advised, it is possible to Overfarm the items resulting in the items dropping less, if they began to appear less frequently, please go to another location to collect food.
Drop Locations
All food drop locations are located in the boss nodes unless otherwise stated.
| Food | World 1 | World 2 | World 3 | World 4 | World 5 | World 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1-3 | 1-4 | 1-5 | 1-6 | 2-3 | 2-4 | 2-5 | 3-2 | 3-3 | 3-4 | 3-5 | 4-1 | 4-2 | 4-3 | 4-4 | 5-1 | 5-2 | 5-3 | 5-4 | 5-5 | 6-1 | 6-2 | 6-3 | 6-4 | 6-5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50px Rice |
◯ | ◯ | ◯ | B | ◯ | ◯ | J, L | ◯ | ◯ | F, K | D, I | ◯ | M | G, H | ◯ | ◯ | F, K | H, O | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | |||
| 50px Umeboshi |
◯ | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | ||||||||||||||||||
| 50px Nori |
B | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | F | H, O | ||||||||||||||||||
| 50px Tea |
F | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Limited-Time Ship Drops
It has been noted that various DE will drop during the mini-event. Most of the drop locations are the same as they have been in previous mini events. There is also the new DE Fukae who will drop for a limited period of time.
Spring 2018 Limited-Time Ship Drops
All DE drop locations are located in boss nodes unless otherwise stated.
Making Meals
When you obtain enough of the food items needed to make specific food, you will can exchange them for various resources. You will also need to do these exchanges these to complete the event quests.
There 4 options of preparing food which includes Onigiri, High-Class Onigiri, Ochazuke or Japanese Meal Set
| Food Preparing Method |
Items Needed | Exchange Rate | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|
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x1 Battle Rations | ||
x2 Umeboshi x3 Nori |
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x3 Development Material x3 Improvement Material | |
x3 Umeboshi x3 Nori x4 Tea |
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x2 Irako x2 Development Materials x2 Instant Repair x1 Improvement Material | |
x5 Umeboshi x6 Nori x7 Tea x1 Canned Saury |
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x1 Houshou's Meal Ticket x1 Mamiya |
Regarding Houshou's Meal Ticket
With the Housou Meal Ticket you will be given the option to select 1 of the possible items noted below with your Meal Ticket:
- x3 Mamiya
- Prototype Flight Deck Catapult (x 300 Instant Construction required)
- x2 Medals
- x9 Improvement Materials
Keep in mind that Houshou's meal set has a set limit of how many items you can obtain from it (suspected number is 3 times). So select your choices wisely.
Quests
During the time of the Food Collection Mini Event, there will be a list of limited time quests that you can complete while the event is active. The following quests are as followed based on the year the event was held:
Food Collection Quests
| ID | Prereq. | Quest Name (Original) Quest Name (Translated) |
Description | Rewards | Note | ||||
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Other | |||||
| FE1 | 主計科任務【おにぎりを作る！】 Accounting Department Mission: "Time to make Onigiri!" |
Accounting Department Mission: Let's cook the rice we gathered and make onigiri.
Onigiri on a sea trip... yummy!
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200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x2 Development Materials Choose one of the following Rewards x1 Searchlight or x2 Improvement Materials |
One time only.
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| FE2 | FE1 | 主計科任務【おにぎりを振舞おう！】 Accounting Department Mission: "Treat everyone to some Onigiri!" |
Accounting Department Mission: Cook lots of rice and make three new Onigiri, I guess.
And treat everyone in the arsenal, I suppose!
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0 | 300 | 0 | 0 | Choose one of the following Rewards x1 Type 2 Flying Boat or x1 Toku Daihatsu or x1 61cm Triple (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount Late Model |
3 Battle Rations will be consumed upon the completion of this quest One time only.
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| FE3 | FE1 | 主計科任務【高級おにぎりを作る！】 Accounting Department Mission: "Time to make high-class Onigir!" |
Accounting Department Mission: Let's use delicious rice, Umeboshi and Nori to make high-class rice balls.
Carefully crafted Onigiri, made with nice ingredients... delicious! It's so delicious, admiral!
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0 | 0 | 400 | 0 | Choose one of the following Rewards x1 Skilled Lookouts or x2 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher or x7 Instant Repair |
One time only.
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| FE4 | FE2 FE3 |
主計科任務【差し入れ！高級おにぎり】 Accounting Department Mission: Here, have some high-class rice balls as a token of gratitude! |
Oh right, admiral, I've got a nice idea! Let's make a bunch of these delicious high-class Onigiri and treat the tech staff to some! What do you think, Kaga?
(※ Let's make two more high-class Onigiri)
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0 | 0 | 0 | 500 | Choose one of the following Rewards x3 Type 52 Zero Fighter or x2 Shiden Kai 2 or x1 New Type Aviation Materials and Choose one of the following Rewards x1 Furniture Fairy or x1 Reinforcement Expansion |
One time only.
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| FE5 | FE2 FE3 |
主計科任務【お茶漬けを作る！】 Accounting Department Mission: Time to make ochazuke! |
Accounting Department Mission: Use rice, Umeboshi, Nori and of course decent tea to make ochazuke.
Whether it's for dinner or after downing a few glasses, ochazuke goes well with either and is just perfect, don't you think?
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500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Choose one of the following Rewards x1 Canned Saury or x7 Improvement Materials or x1 61cm Quad (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount Late Model |
One time only.
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| FE6 | FE4 FE5 |
主計科任務 【海苔巻きを作ろう！】 Accounting Department Mission: Let's Make Nori Rolls! |
Accounting Department Mission: Nope, can't stock up on saury cans this time! ...Don't worry! If you gather 12 rice and 6 Nori for airplane lunch box Nori rolls, the budget bureau will exchange that for saury cans!
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300 | 300 | 0 | 0 | x1 Canned Saury and Choose one of the following Rewards x1 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher or x1 25mm Triple Autocannon |
One time only.
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| FE7 | FE4 FE5 |
主計科任務 【和定食膳を作って完食！】 Accounting Department Mission: Make a Japanese set meal and eat up! |
Accounting Department Mission: We've finally reached the climax of the accounting department missions. Let's mobilise all the ingredients we've got and make a Japanese set meal!
And for those ship girls who think it's delicious but just not enough we also make three additional Onigiri! Eat up!
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500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | x1 Type 2 Depth Charge x1 "Eat Up" Scroll |
One time only.
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These quests will only be available for the duration of the Food Collection Mini-Event; once the event is over, these quests will no longer be accessible.