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New World winter event: how to earn Winter Tokens and get exclusive items from the Winter Convergence FestivalHow to earn Winter Tokens, claim free gifts, and participate in event-exclusive quests in the Winter Convergence Festival
How to earn Winter Tokens, claim free gifts, and participate in event-exclusive quests in the Winter Convergence Festival

When will New World’s winter event be taking place?Whatever you celebrate at this time of year — or even if you don’t celebrate at all — if you’re aNew Worldplayer you’re no doubt eager to see what the people of Aeternum get up to around the winter solstice. Surely an island so in tune with both nature and magic must mark the occasion somehow? As it turns out, they do, with their own Winter Convergence Festival.
Amazon Game Studios are marking theirMMO’s first holiday season with a new update introducing a series of time-limited, festive events into the game. For information on the event’s start and end dates, freebies giveaway, and how to earn exclusive store items, read on below.
New World: Winter Convergence Festival TrailerWatch on YouTube
New World: Winter Convergence Festival Trailer

When does the New World Winter Convergence Festival take place?
TheWinter Convergence Festivalevent will be live in New Worldbetween December 16th, 2021 and January 11th, 2022. That gives you just under a month to sample everything the celebration has to offer.
In addition to new content that will be running for the event’s duration, a series of smaller time-limited item giveaways will take place fromDecember 17th-27th.
When is the Winter Convergence Giveaway and what items can you claim?
There will be five waves of free items in total over an 11-day period, and you just have to log on once during each window of time to claim all the goodies in that “wave” from the in-game store.
Below is a full list of Winter Convergence Giveaway items in New World and their dates of availability:

How to get Winter Tokens during the Winter Convergence Festival
The Winter Convergence Festival adds a number of Christmas-like activities with an MMO twist to New World, most of which will be time-limited. These event-only quests and interactions net youWinter Tokens, an event-exclusive currency that you can exchange for a catalogue of appropriately festive skins, emotes, consumables, and decorative items in the Convergence Shop.

For more on New World, be sure to check out our suggestions for thebest New World character builds(sadly there’s no Santa Claus build, but you could improvise). We’ve also got Christmas dinner covered with our guide toevery turkey spawn location in New World.