Merge Mansion — 2022 Ursala’s Birthday Party Event Item List Guide

updat­ed 08/22/2022

An Un-Offi­cial Item List Cas­cade Guide by a Merge Man­sion Fan for Ursala’s Birth­day Par­ty Event


Main Merge Man­sion Item Guide
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Merg­ing Cas­cades (A‑Z)

Bak­ing Books

  • From: Fan­cy Cab­i­net
  • Items Obtained: Cake Bat­ter, Mac­aron, Pie Dough
  • Cas­cade: Bak­ing Book lvl 1 > Bak­ing Book lvl 2 > Bak­ing Book lvl 3 (max)
  • Item Text: “1 cup of mys­tery” > “2 scoops of humor” > “A pinch of dra­ma”

Birth­day Cake

  • From: Event Start, Cake Tow­er
  • Cas­cade: Birth­day Cake (max)
  • Note: Feed a Cake Knife and either Karaoke Machine, Wrist­watch Box, or Motor­cy­cle Hel­met. Although Wrist­watch Box is sup­posed to be able to be fed to it, I’ve only been able to do that at event start.
  • Item Text: Par­ty is not ready yet

Birth­day Par­ty

  • From: Birth­day Cake
  • Items Obtained: Slice
  • Cas­cade: Birth­day par­ty (max)
  • Note: Dis­ap­pears after 30 taps
  • Item Text: Par­ty is set

Cake Dec­o­rat­ing

  • From: Bak­ing Book, Cake Stack
  • Items Obtained: Cake Bat­ter, Birth­day Cake (from Cake Tow­er)
  • Cas­cade: Cake Bat­ter > Can > Float > Pitch­er > Dis­penser > Cool­er (max)
  • Note: Exhaust­ing a total of 14 (7+7) taps reverts Cake Stack to Cake Sand­wich.

Cake Knife

  • From: Game Start, Pie Serv­ing
  • Cas­cade: Cake Knife (max)
  • Use: Feed to Birth­day Cake
  • Item Text: “An inno­cent cake knife hid­den inside a pie”

Cake Serv­ing

  • From: Birth­day Cake
  • Items Obtained: Yarn and Nee­dles
  • Cas­cade: Slice > Three Quar­ters > Half > Pitch­er > Lucky Bite > Secret Key > Mys­tery Map > Secret Box > Knit­ting Set (max)
  • Note: 2‑hour wait time. Only gives 1 Yarn and Nee­dles
  • Item Text: Get a piece of the action” > “Back for sec­onds?” > “Can’t. Stop.” > “What a sur­prise!” > “Ready to open up?” > “Bet it will lead to some­thing nice” > “Let’s crack it open and see” > “Oh, how well you know me”

Fan­cy Cab­i­net

  • From: Event Task #2
  • Items Obtained: Bak­ing Books
  • Cas­cade: Fan­cy Cab­i­net (max)

Gift Box

  • From: Event task ful­fill­ment
  • Items Obtained: Ear­ring Box, small time skip boost­er
  • Cas­cade: Gift Box lvl 1 > Gift Box lvl 2 > Gift Box lvl 3 (max)
  • Note: 10-minute wait to col­lect items, 10–12 taps

Knit­ting

  • From: Jew­el­ry Box
  • Cas­cade: Yarn and Nee­dles > Knit­work > Knit­ted Socks > Knit­ted Scarf > ?? (max)
  • Use: Event Task Ful­fill­ment

Jew­el­ry Gift

  • From: Event Start, Gift Box lvl 3
  • Cas­cade: Ear­ring Box > Ring Box > Jew­el­ry Box > Bal­le­ri­na Box > Wrist­watch Box (max)
  • Use: Event Task Ful­fill­ment, Feed to Cake

Music Play­er

  • From: Dis­co Ball
  • Cas­cade: Vinyl Records > Radio > Gramo­phone > Record Play­er > Walk­man > CD Play­er > Karaoke Machine (max)
  • Use: Event Task Ful­fill­ment, Feed to Birth­day Cake

Mys­tery Pies

  • From: Bak­ing Book
  • Items Obtained: Pie Dough (Pie Box), Knife (Pie Serv­ing)
  • Cas­cade: Pie Dough > Pie Crust > Pie Fill­ing > Pie Bake > Pie Box > Pie Serv­ing (max)
  • Note: Exhaust­ing a total of 30 (15+15) taps reverts Pie Box to Pie Bake. 30-minute wait to col­lect Cake Knife from Pie Serv­ing

Tea Par­ty

  • From: Bak­ing Books
  • Items Obtained:
  • Cas­cade: Mac­aron > Tea Cup > Tea Set > Tea Stand > Shat­tered Stand > Dis­co Ball (max)
  • Note: Dis­co Ball dis­ap­pears after taps
  • Item Text: A sweet treat” > “With some­thing to drink” > “Pour me some more” > “A delec­table dis­play” > “Watch out!” > “For par­ty crash­ers

Young Ursala’s Swag

  • From: Dis­co Ball
  • Cas­cade: Avi­a­tors > Leather Neck­lace > Flower Crown > Plat­form San­dals > Boho Satchel > Sun Hat > Motor­cy­cle Hel­met (max)
  • Use: Event Task Ful­fill­ment, Feed­ing to Birth­day Cake

Event Task Text

Text A

  1. Clear the over­grown bush­es
  2. Well what do you know? *get Fan­cy Cab­i­net*
  3. The cat’s out of the bag
  4. On details from long ago
  5. So this is the month
  6. And tomor­row is the date
  7. When Grand­ma’s age changes
  8. Once a year this is our fate!
  9. The tables have turned *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  10. For once I’m in the know!
  11. Not a huge rev­e­la­tion
  12. But one I can’t for­go *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  13. Because for many a year
  14. I had no idea
  15. Of Ursu­la’s birth­day *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  16. Whether it was far away or near
  17. Now what to do
  18. A cel­e­bra­tion must be had *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  19. And maybe I won’t tell Grand­ma
  20. Would that be so bad?
  21. I think she’d like that
  22. It’s kin­da her style
  23. A lit­tle bit of mys­tery
  24. I can turn up the dial! *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  25. So where to start?
  26. What would Grand­ma like?
  27. Bal­loons for one thing *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  28. That’ll make her smile
  29. And once those are put up
  30. We can move on
  31. A red car­pet is a must
  32. I think I saw one in the attic *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  33. Ran­dom as that may be
  34. If I inscribe some gold ini­tials
  35. And give it a good beat­ing *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  36. It’ll be ready for “U.B”
  37. Now we need a list
  38. Of who to invite *Get Gift Box lvl 1*
  39. I’m not all that famil­iar
  40. With the neigh­bor­hood

Well, what do you know? The cat’s out of the bag on details long ago! So, this is the month, and tomor­row is the date when Grand­ma’s age changes. Once a year, this is our fate! The tables have turned; for once, I’m in the know! Not a huge rev­e­la­tion, but one I can’t for­go because for many a year I had no idea of Ursu­la’s birth­day, whether it was far away or near. What to do…? A cel­e­bra­tion must be had! And maybe I won’t tell Grandma…would that be so bad? I think she’d like that! It’s kin­da her style: a lit­tle mys­tery. I can turn up the dial! So, where to start? What would Grand­ma like? Bal­loons for one thing, that’ll make her smile, and once those are put up, we can move on. A red car­pet is a must! I think I saw one in the attic, ran­dom as that may be. If I inscribe some gold ini­tials and five it a good beat­ing it’ll be ready for “U.B.” Now we need a list of who to invite. I’m not all that famil­iar with the neigh­bor­hood

Text B

  1. Well, it’s com­ing togeth­er
  2. But it’s not quite com­plete
  3. With­out a birth­day cake *Get Ener­gy Chest*
  4. For Grand­ma to eat
  5. Wow, this is pres­sure
  6. I hope I do well
  7. It’s not often I bake
  8. Let’s hope nobody can tell
  9. As the area comes togeth­er *Get Ener­gy Chest*
  10. I’m excit­ed for Grand­ma
  11. Drinks will be served

Well, it’s com­ing togeth­er, but it’s not quite com­plete with­out a birth­day cake for Grand­ma to eat. Wow, this is pres­sure! I hope I do well… It’s not often I bake. Let’s hope nobody can tell. As the area comes togeth­er, I’m excit­ed for Grand­ma. Drinks will be served.

DIY: Toilet Fill Valve Seal Repair

updat­ed 8/7/2022

What: Kohler High­line Clas­sic K‑11499–0 (bought and installed May 2017) toi­let fill valve (Flu­id­mas­ter Uni­ver­sal 400A OE part — came with toi­let) issues

Prob­lem: Months of slow-fill­ing toi­let along with a loud squeal noise when float rais­es with water lev­el. It final­ly quit fill­ing alto­geth­er.

When: August 2022

Sup­plies: 242 Toi­let Replace­ment Seal, a cup

Cost: Around $4 and gas

Time: 10 min­utes

Dif­fi­cul­ty: Easy

Process

1. Turn off the water sup­ply (bath­room got a nice clean­ing after this)

2. Grab the fill valve cap and twist left to unseat it (you might have to grab the stem of the whole valve to pre­vent the entire valve from spin­ning. Here’s a video)

3. Now to unhook the cap from the float. Give it a nice, care­ful tug, being aware that it is plas­tic.

4. Exam­ine the fill valve seal for debris. Remove it care­ful­ly and inspect under­neath for debris. Clean it out. In my case, there was debris under­neath that was caus­ing a block­age and there­fore no water. It must have been there for a while and then final­ly occlud­ed the open­ing.

5. Sim­i­lar­ly, inspect the cap-less top of the fill valve for debris.

Looks clear to me! But just in case…

6. Now that every­thing is off, let’s go ahead and flush the fill valve itself. Appar­ent­ly, over the years pieces of Teflon tape, or min­er­als or oth­er debris can accu­mu­late in the valve. Flu­id­mas­ter sets the lifes­pan of a fill valve at around 7 years (mine is about 5 years old). SO, grab a cup and place it upside-down over the fill valve.

7. Turn on the water sup­ply and flush for about 10–15 sec­onds (accord­ing to Flu­id­mas­ter)

8. At this point, you would replace every­thing and test it out. It was no longer fill­ing slow­ly after the debris was removed, so BOOM, solved. BUT…the float mech­a­nism no longer worked…as in, the fill valve kept fill­ing with­out stop­ping. Oh, great. I bust­ed it some­how. Removed every­thing again and found that the orig­i­nal seal looked kind of chewed up around the float pin.

9. Turned the water sup­ply back off, and ran out to the store to grab a 242 Toi­let Fill Valve Seal (and oth­er stuff just in case, so I would­n’t have to run out again, but did­n’t need them in the end)

10. Had remove it all again and here is an image of the old seal. If you look at the cen­ter, you can see how rough it looks where I tried to push it in with my fin­ger­nails and prob­a­bly from gen­er­al wear and tear

11. Here’s a side by side of the old seal and the new one

12. Slide the seal onto the cap

13. Now to reassem­ble it all. Line up the cap assem­bly with the float assem­bly stem groove and snap it in

*snap*

14. Place the now-attached cap back on the valve. Remem­ber that you have to turn right to replace it, so place the cap accord­ing­ly so that none of the parts inter­fere with each oth­er

*Let’s twist again! Like we did last sum­mer!*

15. Twist it to the right and, YAY, it’s back on!

Reassem­bled!

16. MOMENT OF TRUTH. Turn on the water sup­ply. You should imme­di­ate­ly hear the water fill­ing up. Now lift up on the float mech­a­nism. If the tank quits fill­ing, you are DONE, and it is REPAIRED! GREAT JOB!

Lift up on the float and BOOM! Hal­lelu­jah!