Starlight Bottle

The or the Bottle of Starlight confirmed by RediblesRed on X: "btw the official names for these are "Vial of Starlight" and "Bottle of Starlight" 🫡🫡🫡 https://x.com/5Y24RsORcK" / X (twitter.com), is a consumable item that spawns in the final room of The Backdoor, purchasable for gold. It was added on March 15th, 2024 due to The Hunt: First Edition.
==Usage==
The Starlight Bottle, when used, heals players by 50 health points, gives them a temporary speed boost, and creates a small circle of light around them. If a player uses the Starlight Bottle while at full health, the 50 health points will be granted as an "overheal" or, how it is called in-game, "Star Shield", that drains quickly. The speed boost and light will vanish approximately 10 seconds after usage. The Starlight Bottle is consumed upon use.
If the Starlight Bottle is taken to The Hotel, it can be used on the rift in The Reception or The Electrical Room to make a second, smaller Rift. This second rift is yellow in color, and can house 1 set of items, similarly to the original rift. It is curious rift, the curious rift will disappear if players take an item out of it; this includes with attempts to exchange items in it. 
===Notes===
*Multiple Starlight Bottle cannot be taken in quick succession (and by extension players cannot stack its effects). After the effects wear off, players must wait a few seconds before using another.
*A Starlight Bottle can be placed into the rift if the smaller rift is already active.
*There are three ways for a player to obtain more than one Starlight Bottle in one game (however, only one can be held at a time): 
**Collecting enough gold in The Backdoor to buy more than one Bottle (this is useful if the player took a lot of damage from the Lookman, since they can regenerate their health before heading to The Hotel).
**Picking the Bottle from a dead player who had it in their inventory.
**Placing the Bottle into the rift and collecting it on another run.
*Starlight Bottles can be helpful in running through rooms quickly.
*If used at full health, players will be granted the HP as Star Shield. This Star Shield drains faster the more a player has, causing them to reach 100HP when the effect ends if no damage was taken in between.
*Players can't use more than one Starlight Bottle on the rift and, therefore can't have multiple smaller rifts.
*If there is nothing placed in the smaller rift, it will stay there even after rejoining or playing different runs and still not putting an item in it.
*There is a death message that appears when a player drinks the Starlight Bottle (at a low enough health to die) before Rush (Ambush not tested yet) kills them. It reads, "I saw you drink something before your demise, but I can assure you that stuff isn't strong enough."
**Getting this death message requires a player to complete The Backdoor (with 100 coins to get the Starlight Bottle) and then drink it (at a low enough health; the easiest way to do this is to let the Lookman drain your health) when rush spawns.
==Pros and Cons==
===Pros===
*Heals a great amount of health.
*Can be used to create a second rift.
*If used at the right time, it can protect you completely from Rush and Ambush, if you are hit with MORE than 25 Star Shield and are at full health.
*Gives a strong speed boost which can give you enough time to hide from highly damaging attacks such as from Rush or to run away from Entities such as Seek.
*You can survive Rush or A-60 by drinking it at full health.
*Gives an absorption extra health if you have full hp.
*Gives a limited light resource.
*Can be stacked with vitamins to make yourself even faster.
*Has a low price of 100 coins.
===Cons===
*The speed boost cannot be stacked by other starlight items.
*The potion's effects have a short duration.
*Stack limit of one prevents the user from buying many of this item before leaving The Backdoor.
*Can only be obtained at the end of The Backdoor, which may be tedious or luck based.
*The second rift will disappear once an item is taken out of it, requiring another Starlight Bottle to be put in the main rift to respawn it.
*Star Shield cannot defend from Instant-kill entities, such as Seek or Figure.
==Trivia==
*The Rift it creates is a perfect place to store the Starlight Jug, since the Rift will only disappear when an item is taken out, the Starlight Jug can be kept inside safely while still being able to use the main Rift for future runs.
*According to RediblesQW, the Starlight Bottle and the Starlight Vial taste like pickle juice.Q: What do they taste like A: pickle juice" / RediblesQW, X (twitter.com)
*It can actually protect a player from Rush or Ambush because these entities do 125 and 100 damage, respectively, which is enough to kill a normal player with 100 health but is survivable with a Starlight Bottle, since it can increase the player's health to 150. Ambush is also survivable with a Vial of Starlight, but Rush is not.
*The Starlight Bottle is one of the couple starlight items obtainable by Candy, the other being Vial of Starlight.
*The Starlight Bottle might have been a way for the developers to actually add the Shield Potion from the Super Hard Mode Event into the game.
*You get a special dialogue line from El Goblino when you hold the Starlight Bottle. El Goblino will say "Wh-what is dat, hombre? A golden liquid... beautiful! Oye... can I have a sip?"
** This dialogue also appears when you hold out the Vial of Starlight, and the Starlight Jug needs confirmation. 
==Gallery==
Large Curious Potion Shield.png|The Star Shield effect given from the Starlight Bottle.
BottleStarlightHp-ezgif.com-speed.gif|Ditto but Draining
Orange Rift Hotel.png|The yellow Rift created when placing the Starlight Bottle into the blue Rift.
Curious Rift + Bottle.png|Ditto, but with the empty bottle seen on the ground.
Star Vial.png|The Starlight Vial, a smaller version of the Starlight Bottle.
CuriousPotionInGame.png|The Starlight Bottle's location.
Door -0.png|Ditto but Full Graphics
Large Starlight Potion.png|The Starlight Bottle as seen in player's inventory.
Bottle starlight end scene.png|A player holding the Starlight Bottle during the end cutscene.
Curious Rift + Bottle.png|The yellow Rift created by the Starlight Bottle.
GoldRiftAndBlueRift.jpg|The Starlight Bottle inside a normal Rift.
File:Chug Jug of Starlight Icon.png|The Starlight Jug, the largest and most powerful version of the Vial and Bottle respectively.
Floortle of starlight.jpg|A Starlight Bottle on the floor from the "Prize Inside" candy.
==References==
Category:Light Sources
ru:Большое звёздное зелье
Category:Speed Boosting Items
Category:Consumables
Category:The Backdoor