Once you get through what I would consider the event tutorial, you’re tasked with collecting 7,000 carbon rods. This will unlock the second prize for part one: Burns State Prison. To collect that many carbon rods you’re going to have to tap on tap on criminals. These characters are easy to spot because they tip-toe around your town and are dressed in black. On average they drop 15 carbon rods each.

When visiting your neighbors, you can also tap on criminals there, as well on the red telephones you’ll see hovering over buildings. This gives you a total of six things to tap in each neighbors town. Don’t forget to take advantage of this, because it will definitely help boost your carbon rod totals.

If you see these bright yellow atom icons in your town (shown below), tap on them. They will also give you some carbon rods as well. At first I didn’t realize you could tap these, so my town was covered in them. You’ll want to tap these frequently so when a neighbor visits your town they’ll have buildings to tap on.

Basically tap on everything that looks out of place, and do so frequently. In no time at all you’ll be on your way to unlocking the Burns State Prison, the second of three prizes for this part of the event. To give you an idea as to my personal progress, I’ve managed to collect just over 2,100 carbon rods.

This portion of the event appears to last the entire 33 days, so don’t go nuts trying to get everything before part two starts in five days. For reference, the third prize, which is the Clownface costume for Krusty requires 18,500 carbon rods. So be dilligent, but don’t be crazy. There’s no need to panic and start rushing things with donuts for fear of missing out on one of the prizes. Just log-in often and tap any criminals and yellow atom icons you see in your town, and visit friends daily.