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Festivals and Seasonal Events
March 28, 2026 at 06:01 AM
Removed 1 irrelevant image(s): Valentine's Day image on Holiday Festival page (different event)
The Holiday Festival is a Seasonal Event introduced in the v0.5.0 update on December 23, 2025. Running through midnight on January 31, 2026 (approximately 40 real-world days), this was the second major seasonal event added to inZOI, following the Halloween event introduced in v0.4.0 (October 2025). The festival brings Christmas-themed booths, choir performances, exclusive gift boxes, and over 54 limited-edition Build Mode items to all three cities. It launched alongside major new features including Business ownership, the Trial and Justice System, Multitasking, Group Interactions, and Family Trees.
Each city's main park or public area is transformed with Christmas-themed booths and festive installations during the event:
City | Festival Location |
|---|---|
Liberty Square | |
Barat Beach |
The same festival structure appears at all three locations: identical booth types, the same choir schedule, and the same activities. There are no city-exclusive decorations or unique experiences between locations.
Three types of booths are set up at each festival location, offering seasonal purchases and crafting materials:
Booth | What It Sells |
|---|---|
Snack Booth | Candy canes, hot chocolate, and gingerbread cookies |
Gift Booth | Holiday Festival Gift Boxes containing limited-edition Build Mode items (up to 32 unique items) |
Ingredients Booth | Cookie Man Crafting Kit and up to 2 additional crafting kits for making holiday cookies |
Choir groups perform holiday carols at each city's festival location. Zois can visit and listen to the performances, which run daily from 12:15 PM to 10:00 PM in-game time. The choir appears at Central Park in Dowon, Liberty Square in Bliss Bay, and Barat Beach in Cahaya.
The Holiday Festival distributes rewards through several gift box mechanisms, offering a combined total of over 54 unlockable Build Mode items and 7 unlockable clothing items.
When the festival begins, Zois receive a text message announcing the event. Accepting the announcement triggers the delivery of 5 Holiday Festival Gift Boxes to the Zoi's door. Opening all five boxes grants up to 19 different Build Mode items.
Additional gift boxes are delivered automatically at midnight during the festival:
First night: 1 Holiday Festival Special Gift Box containing up to 3 Build Mode items
Second night: 1 additional Holiday Festival Special Gift Box with up to 3 more Build Mode items
The Gift Booth at each festival location sells Holiday Festival Gift Boxes that grant up to 32 different limited-edition Build Mode items, including garland decorations and other festive pieces.
The Holiday Festival introduces several special activities for Zois:
Activity | Description |
|---|---|
Cookie Crafting | Use the Cookie Man Crafting Kit (and other kits from the Ingredients Booth) to bake holiday cookies at home. |
Holiday Snacks | Purchase and enjoy candy canes, hot chocolate, and gingerbread cookies from the Snack Booth. |
Set Table for End-of-the-Year Event | A special interaction that lets Zois set a festive table for a year-end celebration. A "Clear Table" option removes the accessories afterward. |
The v0.5.0 update added the ability to cook multiple servings at once, putting various dishes on the table for the year-end celebration. | |
Watch Choir Performances | Visit the festival location in any city to enjoy holiday carol performances (12:15 PM to 10:00 PM daily). |
Holiday Studio Photos | One new holiday-themed studio background and 16 new studio emotes and poses were added for festive photo sessions. |
The v0.5.0 update brought a massive expansion to winter and holiday-themed fashion in Create a Zoi:
Category | Amount |
|---|---|
Winter-themed outfits | 62 new outfits in ivory, beige, and baby blue winter hues |
Outerwear pieces | 15 new jackets and coats |
Outfit sets | 9 coordinated sets |
New hairstyles | 2 |
Wearable accessories | 55 total new accessories |
Style presets | 295 new cosmetic combinations |
Holiday Festival clothing | 7 unlockable items (time-limited during the event) |
Fashion Accessories | Gloves and scarves added as a new category under Outfits |
The Holiday Festival does not automatically change the weather. Snow does not fall by default during the event. However, players can manually enable snowy conditions using the City Appearance feature:
Press M or click the Edit City icon on the HUD
Navigate to the City Appearance tab
Select the Weather tab
Choose "Snowy" and adjust the dial for three intensity levels
The festival's booth decorations and choir interactions are designed to pair well with snowy weather, so enabling snow creates a more immersive holiday atmosphere.
The update also added holiday-themed lobby music and AI-generated Winter Festival music that plays on speaker objects in-game.
Beyond the holiday gift items, the v0.5.0 update added 173 new Build Mode items in total. Not all are holiday-themed; the additions include modular windows, roofing trim, larger dining tables, and business-specific items. A new Roof Decorations category was added under Building > Home with 11 decorative pieces. Basic structural items like walls and roofs were also made free in this update.
Detail | Information |
|---|---|
Start date | December 23, 2025 (v0.5.0 release) |
End date | Midnight, January 31, 2026 (local time) |
Duration | Approximately 40 real-world days |
Booth hours | Available during the full event period |
Choir hours | 12:15 PM to 10:00 PM daily (in-game time) |
Holiday items could only be obtained by signing in during the event period. Community feedback on the official inZOI forums raised concerns about holiday items being locked behind time-limited events. The developers previously reversed a similar policy for Halloween: the Limited Edition Halloween Outfit Set, originally available only during October, was later made obtainable without time restrictions, suggesting holiday items may also become permanently available in the future.
The Holiday Festival launched as the headline seasonal feature of the v0.5.0 update, which was one of the largest patches since Early Access. Key features that shipped alongside the festival include:
Business ownership: Zois can own and manage cafes, bakeries, bars, and restaurants with hands-on management
Crime and Trial and Justice System: New thief and scammer interactions, Crime Scores, trials, bail, detention, and lawyers
Multitasking: Zois can perform multiple actions simultaneously
Group Interactions: New social interactions designed for groups
Family Trees: New family relationship tracking and visualization
Outfit Wizard: New Create a Zoi tool for coordinating complete outfits including socks, stockings, underwear, shoes, jackets, tops, and bottoms
AI Build system improvements for home construction
Business owners can take advantage of the holiday season with festive offerings at their establishments, complementing the festival's atmosphere across each city.
