The Winter Expansion in Roblox’s The Forge adds a limited-time Christmas Event, a new Frostspire Expanse island, and a seasonal currency called XMas Tickets. These tickets sit alongside your usual resources and power most of the event’s rewards, including temporary pickaxes, potions, totems, race rerolls, and limited weapon blueprints.
XMas Tickets do not drop from random mobs or ores. They come from a small set of repeatable “Holiday Tasks” tied to a single NPC, and there is a firm daily cap on how many you can earn. That structure matters a lot if you are aiming for the high-end items in Santa’s shop before the event ends.
Where to get XMas Tickets in The Forge
All XMas Tickets come from daily Holiday Tasks given by the Santa NPC.
Step 1: Travel to Island 3, Frostspire Expanse. When you spawn in, look for Santa on his boat right next to the spawn area.
Step 2: Walk up to Santa and press E to start a conversation. Choose the dialogue option that asks to see quests (labeled “Can I see the quests?” in-game).
Step 3: Pick up all three available Holiday Tasks. You can run them in parallel, and they reset on a roughly 24-hour timer.
These Santa quests are the only structured way to earn XMas Tickets. Standard farming in the caves or overworld without having a Holiday Task active will not generate tickets on its own.
All Santa Holiday Tasks and XMas Ticket rewards
Santa offers three repeatable Holiday Tasks, each tied to core activities in The Forge: crafting, mining, and combat. Each completed quest pays out a fixed amount of XMas Tickets once per day.
| Holiday Task | Objective | Reward (XMas Tickets) |
|---|---|---|
| Forge Items (Santa’s Workshop Warmup) | Forge 3 Armors and 3 Weapons | 120 |
| Mine Rocks (Cold as Snow) | Mine 50 Icy Pebbles | 140 |
| Kill Enemies (Santa’s Pest Control) | Kill 25 Crystal Spider and 5 Diamond Spider | 160 |
Those objectives sit directly on top of what you are already doing on Frostspire Expanse: mining the new rocks, forging the new armor and weapons, and clearing out spiders in the caves. As long as the quests are active, your regular play will constantly move their progress bars.
The combined daily maximum from these three quests is 420 XMas Tickets. You cannot accept or complete more than these three Holiday Tasks per day, and each one has a cooldown of about 24 hours before you can pick it up again.
How to complete Santa quests efficiently
The Holiday Tasks are designed to be cleared in the background while you progress through the Winter Expansion. There are still some small optimizations that make the grind less tedious, especially if you are targeting an expensive pickaxe before the event ends.
Step 1: Always accept all three Santa quests at once. There is no benefit to running them one by one. With all three active, mining, forging, and combat in Frostspire Expanse all count toward ticket progress simultaneously.
Step 2: Start by activating the Icy Pebble mining spots. The “Mine Rocks” task asks for 50 Icy Pebbles. These rocks have relatively low hardness, and decent pickaxes can clear them quickly. While you mine, you will also gather materials for forge recipes.
Step 3: Move to the forge and handle “Forge Items.” The task requires three weapons and three armors. The game does not demand high-tier pieces, so fast, low-cost crafts such as basic daggers and light armor work as long as they hit the count. This quest tends to be one of the quickest to finish and is friendly to lower-level players who cannot yet clear tougher enemies.
Step 4: Finish in the caves with “Kill Enemies.” Crystal Spiders and Diamond Spiders spawn naturally in Frostspire Expanse’s combat areas. Players with strong weapons can clear this step quickly by farming these mobs in their usual loops. If your gear is weaker, this will likely be your slowest quest of the three.
Some players automate parts of this cycle with macros or key repeat tools, especially for long mining sessions or repetitive mob grinding. The event structure does not require that level of optimization, but heavy grinders often rely on it to push tickets while AFK.
Daily cap and long-term planning
With three Holiday Tasks and a total payout of 420 XMas Tickets per reset, the event’s hard cap shapes what you can realistically buy.
- Maximum per day: 420 XMas Tickets.
- Quests per day: Three Holiday Tasks, each completable once per daily reset.
- Extra quests: No additional Holiday Tasks appear beyond the standard three.
Every high-ticket item in the Christmas Store should be evaluated against that cap. For example, the Christmas Pickaxe costs thousands of tickets, meaning you need multiple days of perfect quest completion to secure it before the event ends.
What you can buy with XMas Tickets in Santa’s shop
Once you have tickets in hand, Santa’s shop converts them into a mix of consumables, permanent utility items, and time-limited cosmetics. The store is accessible from the same Santa NPC on his boat in Frostspire Expanse.
| Item | Price (XMas Tickets) | Effect / Description |
|---|---|---|
| Christmas Potion | 50 | Temporarily boosts mining speed, mining damage, and luck for 900 seconds. |
| XP Totem | 50 | Grants a bonus to experience gained. |
| Vitality Totem | Regenerates 1% health per second. | 50 |
| Warrior Totem | 50 | Increases damage and movement speed. |
| Miner Totem | 100 | Improves mining speed and mining damage. |
| Luck Totem | 150 | Adds a noticeable luck bonus for drops and rolls. |
| Hell Slayer | 200 | Weapon blueprint for a demon-slaying blade that requires rare materials. |
| Candy Cane (weapon blueprint) | 1,200 | Recipe for a festive-looking weapon with a hardened, razor-sharp sugar edge. |
| Candy Cane Pickaxe | 800 | Event pickaxe with 280 Mining Power and 65% Luck. |
| Race Reroll | 650 | Rerolls your character’s race. |
| Christmas Pickaxe | 3,600 | Top-end event pickaxe with 550 Mining Power and 72% Luck. |
Some of these items have stock limits and may disappear once sold out, even before the event timer ends. Weapon blueprints and pickaxes are time-limited to the Christmas Event window itself and are not expected to return in later patches.
Which XMas Ticket rewards are worth prioritizing
Because 3,600 tickets is a sizable grind and the event only runs for two weeks, not every player will unlock everything in Santa’s shop. A simple way to prioritize is to map item prices to days of perfect quest completion.
- Low-cost boosters (50–150 tickets): Christmas Potions and entry-level totems are cheap enough to buy incidentally as you progress. These make sense if you are actively grinding Frostspire Expanse ores or XP and want short bursts of extra efficiency.
- Mid-tier upgrades (200–800 tickets): Hell Slayer, Miner Luck Totem combinations, and the Candy Cane Pickaxe are reachable in a few days of quests. The Candy Cane Pickaxe’s 280 Mining Power and 65% Luck are a noticeable jump for mining-focused players.
- Race Rerolls (650 tickets): Useful if you are chasing top-tier races and do not want to spend other currencies. One or two rerolls are a realistic target even for casual daily players.
- High-end Christmas Pickaxe (3,600 tickets): With a daily cap of 420 tickets, this requires nine days of full completion with no missed dailies. Its 550 Mining Power and 72% Luck put it among the strongest mining tools in the game during the event.
For most players, the most efficient path is to log in daily, clear all three Holiday Tasks in a single session, and funnel tickets either into a planned big-ticket purchase (like the Christmas Pickaxe or key blueprints) or a curated set of totems and potions that support your main build.
Missing even a couple of days sharply limits access to the most expensive rewards. If you are starting late, focusing on affordable blueprints, race rerolls, and the Candy Cane Pickaxe will usually pay off more than stretching for the Christmas Pickaxe and falling short.
The Christmas Event in The Forge is structured around a small set of predictable daily quests and a strict currency cap, not random grind. Once you understand that loop—talk to Santa, accept all three Holiday Tasks, play Frostspire Expanse until they are done—the rest becomes a budgeting exercise against the prices in Santa’s shop. Plan your targets early, hit the 420-ticket ceiling consistently, and the two-week window is enough to walk away with at least one major seasonal upgrade and a handful of smaller long-term boosts.
