Board Thread:Eureka Moments/@comment-27904998-20160714215842

Time Travelling with Version 1.8.0+
Thanks to DagFox and Stu here are the new time travel instructions for Version 1.8.0, or the Foundation Day update. Here's how to time travel, or to blatantly cheat for fun and profit.

What is Time Travelling?

Time travelling is changing the date on your device so that you can get the game to reset more often for trophy rewards, sending gifts, restoring your energy and completing crafting items.

Getting Started
Do not send any gifts for the current day. As of the Foundation Day update, the game uses the gifting window to track the current date, so if you send gifts, then you won't be able to when you travel back in time because the game already knows what the current date is.

So, before you start, have a look at your gifting counter. Open the Gifts window, then the Send tab. If the counter at the bottom of the screen says 0/xx (where xx is the number of free gifts per day that you can send), then you're good for the free gifts. Now open the Collection tab. If the counter at the bottom says 0/10, then you're good for the non-free gifts as well.

'''Help! My Gift Counters aren't Zero'''

Now we need to make the game think that a day has passed since you last sent gifts. Open the Gifts Window and leave it open. Minimize the game and open your device settings. Turn off the automatic date and time setting, if necessary, and set the date to tomorrow. So if today's date is July 1, set the date to July 2. Return to the game. Open the Send tab to see if the counter has been reset to 0. If it has, continue with the instructions below. Do NOT send any gifts.

How to Time Travel

 * 1) If your trophies are ready for collection, go ahead and collect them. If they aren't, that's ok too.


 * 1) Open the Gifts window and leave it open. Minimize the game and open your device settings.


 * 1) Turn off the automatic date and time setting, if necessary. Set the date to a week earlier, for example. So if the current date is June 10, set the date to June 3.


 * 1) Return to the game and close the Gifts window.


 * 1) Now you can do all your tasks: gift friends, play locations, set up crafting and trade with townspeople. Do NOT visit friends - you can't visit friends in the past.


 * 1) Minimize the game and return to device settings.


 * 1) Advance the date by one day.


 * 1) Return to the game.


 * 1) Collect your trophy rewards and crafting items.


 * 1) Send gifts. All the gifting quantities will be reset.


 * 1) Visit locations and play puzzles. You can use up all your energy.


 * 1) Repeat steps 5 through 11 for each day until you return to the current date.

Basically once you have set the date back, you play the game and advance the date one day at a time until you return to the current date. This allows you to collect all the rewards as if you had played the game each day. Once you have returned to the current date, you can play normally, including sending gifts and visiting friends.

I STRONGLY recommend that you do not travel into the future except to reset the gift counters, and only do that if necessary. I have had too many friends tell me about screwing up their game after travelling into the future and now that the game uses the gifting window to track the date, I think it's even more important to just travel into the past and finish with the current date. 