Gift-O-Palooza is an event which had 3 different parts to it, with users being able to complete said parts in any order.

The event ran from December 22, 2024 and ended on January 1, 2025 when the Nuclear Winter set stopped giving out event items.

UGC Gifts is an on-site event that most UGC creators took part in. Each UGC creator made their own present for sale, and on Christmas, unboxed it with fun items.

Sulko's Lost Present of a Long journey unboxed on December 24th 2024, granting the Traveler's Mage Hat.

The rest were unboxed on December 26th, 2024;

• Max's Gloop-Powered Present granting Glooped Aura, Gloop Control and Gloop Seeking Optics.
• Yek's Colorful Present of Life granting Yek's Colorful Sword of Life.
• Thomas's present of mimicry granting Husk Hood and FACE/OFF

This task is no longer running.

Nuclear Winter is a set in which players must repair the breaking machines. A machine will fail 60 seconds after it as broken, with too many failed machines causing the game to end.

To repair a machine, the player may be prompted to solve a simple math problem, stand still for a moment, or do simple trivia. What the machine wants the player to do will be displayed to the player through in-game Chat.

To make this tougher, there are broken pipes that have steam coming out of them in the shape of bubbles. If the steam touches the player, it lowers the player's walking speed until they walk out of the steam zone.

There are also exit workers, who will do nothing unless they bump into the player, at which point they will display a short message in the form of a chat-bubble and make the player unable to move for a few seconds.

As of January 1, 2025, this task is no longer running, though it has been stated that the set will remain online indefinitely and, in the future, give out non-event-related items.

One of the gifts from the Gift-O-Palooza event, being the Locked present of Decendence, was obtained through an ARG (Alternative Reality Game). In this ARG, you had to scavenge around the entire SandPile website to get clues on how to obtain the gift.

# ARG Completion Steps:

Step 1: Head over to the Gift-O-Palooza Event Page, then click on the Picture of Santa Claus to load the Santa´s List Page. Scroll to the bottom and you´ll find the list being cut into two by a mysterious void, clicking on the void will redirect you to the Main Page of the ARG.

Step 2: The image that the static website will load contains a lot of information, but you need to focus on the glyphs in the bottom of the image. You´ll notice that some glyphs are repeated and form an order. The ARG takes place in the entire SandPile website, including games, which means you´ll have to scavenge to find the meaning of these glyphs, which are colors.

Step 3: The first glyph in the list can be found by going to the User Sets page of the user "Scoops" (whom is an official account registered by the SandPile Staff). This page instead of loading the regular 404 page, it will load a custom 404 page. This custom 404 page contains an image with the first glyph aka the S glyph painted with the color green, that means the first glyph is green.

Step 4: The second glyph in the list can be found by

• Sulko's Lost Present of a Long journey

• Max's Gloop-Powered Present

• Yek's Colorful Present of Life

• Thomas's present of mimicry

• Nuclear Winter

• Locked present of Decendence

• https://sandpile.xyz/events/giftopalooza/Origin