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- What Is Life Day?
- When Is This Year’s Life Day Event?
- How to Get Started
- How Do You Hug a Wookiee?
- Life Day Rewards 2021-2022
- Cartel Market Items
- TL;DR – Enjoy the SWTOR Life Day Event Everwhere in the Galaxy!
What Is Life Day?
Note: like “Christmas” holidays, “Life Day” is not a one-day only event. And for 2021-2, it’s a whole year celebration!
It’s Also SWTOR’s 10th Anniversary
2021 is SWTOR’s 10th Anniversary! For more info on these two events that happen at the same time, see December’s Events page.
Pick Up Freebies
From Fleet, you can pick up a wide variety of freebies, so go get-em! Also, as it’s the SWTOR 10th Anniversary…
…To mark this occasion, a special “Anniversary Personnel” vendor can be found on the fleet with new Class Ship Stronghold Decorations.
When Is This Year’s Life Day Event?
Life Day 2021 Event Dates are: December 14th 2020 to January 2023.
No, that’s not a typo. The Anniversary event will run through the entirety of 2022!
It starts and ends at the following times on the dates above: 4:00 AM PST, 12:00PM GMT (Use Timezone Converter to get your time!).
How to Get Started
As soon as the event goes live, head to your faction’s fleet. Follow the sounds of music and festive cheer until you find several NPCs dressed in dark-red robes.
What are Snow-Covered Parcels?
Snow-Covered Parcels are a type of ‘token’ you use to exchange for event rewards. They are not character-bound, so if you collect a few from a number of characters you can pool them.
Every time you throw a snowball at a valid target, you have a chance at being rewarded a Snow-Covered Parcel.
The more parcels you earn, the more rewards you can buy from the event vendor, simple!
Who Can I Snowball?
Although you’ll see players snowballing other players on fleet, or on Dromund Kaas, players are not the only valid target. That said, it is encouraged as Life Day is a community event, after all! However, other valid targets include:
- Companions: yours or other players’.
- Special Protocol Droids dotted around the Galaxy
- Enemies, of any race/species. Oh and defeated enemies count if you hit them before they de-spawn!
- NPCs: Vendors, repair droids, questgivers and any others you can successfully select or target.
You cannot, however, snowball pets – because they cannot be selected. Here’s some of my fun from previous years!
What are the Life Day Protocol Droids?
These droids supposedly have a higher chance of a Snow-Covered Parcel than other NPCs. These can be found on Capital worlds, Nar Shaddaa and I found some on Mek-Sha. Where else SWTOR have put them this year, Maker only knows!
I believe the chances of a parcel are higher again on Overheated Life Day Droids and, according to Dulfy, the chance for a stronghold decoration.
Life Day Legacy Titles (Achievements)
- Life Day Celebrant: Find 25 × Snow-Covered Parcels
- A Special Snowflake Find 100 × Snow-Covered Parcels
- Wookiee-Hugging Champion: Hug 1000 × Wookiees during the Life Day Event (hahaha)
You do not need to keep your parcels until you have 100 however. It is a legacy achievement that will increase all on its own. So feel free to buy any rewards you want!
How Do You Hug a Wookiee?
Well there’s a question I never thought would crop up in SWTOR content! But if you want that Wookiee Hugging Champion title then best get to it!
1. Hug the Right Wookiee
The first thing is, you need to find specifies Wookiees: Wookiee Revelers and Carolers.
2. Approach With Caution!
Don’t worry they won’t tear your arms off! But as you approach a valid Wookiee (from the front), you get a temporary ability bar with the hug action in it. The normal /hug emote doesn’t work.
It is a bit fiddly – you can get the ‘too far away’ and ‘too close’ errors. Wait for the ability to light up then click it. If you find it doesn’t do that, then I’ve found backing away until the bar disappears and trying again works
3. Get Wookiee-Hugged!
Aww!
4. Complete: Could Use a Good Hug Mission
Hugging your first Wookiee triggers a 10 × Hug mission called Could USe a Good Hug! As this is day one, I don’t know if it’s a daily. But completing it gives you 2 × Snow-Covered Parcels.
Life Day Rewards 2021-2022
Here is a sample of the rewards available! There are quite a lot, especially if you decorate strongholds. The event vendors can be found in the Galactic Trade Network quadrant of your faction’s fleet. If you just want to see a list of goodies you can get then click/tap here.
Pointers
Per the Calendar Announcement, there are no new rewards, achievements or quests for 2021. Probably something to do with a certain expansion being in the works!
Note: These rewards relate to those only obtainable by taking part in the Life Day event, not special offers or Cartel Market items uniquely available during it.
Speeder Mounts
There are three mounts you can earn for Snow-Covered Parcels:
Sleigh I – 20 Parcels
Packed with presents, the Sleigh I mount is requires relatively few parcels, but is still a lot of fun!
J0-1Y – 100 Parcels
Jingle all the way across the Galaxy in the J0-1Y Speeder!
Czerka LD-1 Celebrator – 100 Parcels
Finally I got enough parcels to bag the last speeder mount. The Czerka LD-1 Celebrator comes with festive lights and a funnel spouting snow. Or noxious gases, I’m not sure. Let’s say it’s snow!
Armour / Cosmetic Outfits
Just a note: if you want to dye these items the same colour, you’ll need to use different dye combinations.
- Secondary Dye: Life Day Vestments (Chest)
- Primary Dye: Lower Robe
Don’t ask me why, it’s always been like that! So unless you’re using the same primary/secondary combination, don’t use Unify Colours!
Pet – Wampa Cub – 60 Parcels
Have a mini-Wampa run around on missions with you!
Toy – Life Day Orb – 50 Parcels
Gaze into the Orb to regenerate health and resource bars out of combat!
Stronghold Decorations
There are various stronghold decorations available, but I only have shots of these ones at the moment. And one of these is just pulled from the monthly event round-up by SWTOR!
Various Holo-Trees – 40 Parcels
There are three different Holo-Trees available (red, green and blue) but I think I only have two of them.
Note: these Holo-trees require a “Centerpiece” hook (read: humungous!). If you don’t have one of these, get another stronghold that does…or save your Parcels!
Wampa Rug – 40 Parcels
Medium Potted Tree
These twisty, Christmas-style trees have little Baubles. Go back to the natural tree!
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Full Rewards List
Here are the images taken from the Master of Ceremonies vendor on-fleet. You will find other vendors elsewhere in-game but they all have the same stuff (as far as I can tell).
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XP, Dark & Light Side Points
Each time you successfully acquire a Snow-Covered Parcel, you complete a ‘quest’, with XP (where applicable). As with other quests this will advance your Dark/Light Side score, which affect your Force Alignment.
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Cartel Market Items
- Snowball Cannon: Price: 500 Cartel Coins – launch snowballs with a shoulder cannon. Couple this with your Snowball Bomb to increase the number of times you can launch snow at high speed!
- Snowtacular Flair: Price: 1000 Cartel Coins – A beautiful, snowy character flair! Remember Snowtacular is for life, not just for Life Day!
- Bundles: the 2017 and the “Wampa” bundles are available for purchase. As far as I can tell, if you want the Merry Ice Tromper mount, the Wampa companion or the Festive Tauntaun mount you have to buy a bundle. I cannot see them sold separately on the Cartel Market.
- Snowglobe Decorations: 100 Cartel Coins each
Here’s the Cartel Market showing some (most?) of these items and their prices (tap on the image to open it full screen).
TL;DR – Enjoy the SWTOR Life Day Event Everwhere in the Galaxy!
The great thing about the SWTOR Life Day Event is that you can take part wherever you are in the galaxy. Snowball other players, enemies, NPCs and even your grumpy companions. Rack up XP and Snow-Covered Parcels then trade them in when you’re next at fleet. Above all, remember to have fun with it. You can find a fuller list of rewards over on Dulfy, by the way! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Yule or just enjoy a holiday time, I wish you the best and I’ll see you next year in SWTOR!
About the Author
I have been playing MMOs for about ten years and began writing guides to The Lord of the Rings Online in 2017. I've only been creating content about Final Fantasy XIV since 2022, but I am glad for the mix. My current games include LOTRO, FFXIV and the occasional Palia session too.
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