Purrismas Event 2023

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## New Cats

Purrismas 2023 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 4.3. It began on November 20, received a mid-event update on December 13, and ran through January 13.

The event introduced six new heroes: Mishka, Chipper, and Suri, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. All 39 of the previous Purrismas cats were also available in various ways.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were one new and eleven returning hero outfits. Items from past Purrismas events were available in the prize pool of the Event Box. The Event Badge and Event Pass offered progressive rewards as players met objectives based on event activities.

The Mew Year's Eve mini-event began on December 31 and ran concurrently with the remainder of the Purrismas event. It introduced one new premium cat, Scott, and one new guild leader item available for Purrismas materials. Three returning hero outfits were available for gems, and all seven previous Mew Year's Eve cats were available in the Event Shop or in Alchemy.

## Event Quest

The event included a 25-quest campaign with quests released every other day or so. The story featured the following characters (in order of appearance): Mai, Lee, Catniss, Conan, Francis, Romeo, Juliet, Pipsqueak, Edward, Benedict, Kai, Purrcis, Curio, Molotov, Bob, Kyle, Sandy Claws, Santa Paws, and Nicholas. A complete transcript of the dialog is available.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event was live, rewards for event-specific, regular and battle quests at quest level 4 and above included gingerbread hearts, candy canes, and snowballs, Purrismas event materials that could be used to craft hero eggs and plushies and acquire new guild leader items. These materials could also be purchased as microtransactions in the Event Shop.

 Event Pack:  1000 of each Purrismas material,  300 gems and Ginger | $9.99 USD
 1000 of each Purrismas material
 500 of each Purrismas material

The quest selection screen included a materials boost button offering the option to watch an ad and get double event materials from quest rewards for 30 minutes. Alternatively, purchasing a new premium hero for real money doubled event materials from quest rewards and purchasing two or more microtransaction cats tripled them. These boosts lasted for the duration of the event and replaced the ad boost option.

### Premium Heroes

The Event Shop offered three new Purrismas heroes and one new Mew Year's Eve hero as microtransaction or gem purchases. All 22 previous Purrismas and all five previous Mew Year's Eve purchase cats were available for gems.

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Three new Purrismas heroes could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Winter-Ready, Sculptor, and Gem-crusted Eggs. Seventeen crafting cats from previous Purrismas events and two from previous Mew Year's Eve events were also available.

#### **Plushies**

*Note: Plushies can only be unlocked in guilds that have reached level 50.*

Ten plushies from previous Purrismas events and one from previous Mew Year's Eve mini-events were available again this year. Players who have already unlocked them will find them in the Alchemy station available for crafting or, if already crafted, with a green check mark. Earning all of the Purrismas plushies required engaging in a number of distinct activities.

* Players could complete an Advent Calendar by opening the appropriate panels on each day from December 1 to December 25 to earn a plushie. If days are missed, their panels could still be opened for the price of two gems each. The calendar became available on December 1 for players who did not complete it in previous years. (Note that the calendar will *not* appear in guilds that have already unlocked the plushie.)
* Snowballs (distinct from those used as event materials) dropped from heroes when shaken for gold and could be used to build a snowman in the guild hall between the Questboard and the Alchemy cauldron, unlocking a Frosty plushie when finished.
* Wrapped gift boxes were available as quest rewards and could be given, one at a time, to the heroes in the Fortress by tapping on the gift icon that appears to the lower left of each hero. The boxes were stored in inventory and capped at 30; quests stopped offering them until there is room for more in storage. Two plushies could be earned by giving certain numbers of gifts. Another unlocked when a hero disappears in a puff of smoke after receiving their gift, which seemed to occur at random.
* Another unlock method included lighting (or not lighting) candles in the guild hall. The candles appeared frequently in the snow on the ground when the sky was dark. When a candle was tapped, a window popped up offering to light the candle for a cost of between one and five common red embers. Players were awarded the plushie recipes after spending certain amounts of embers or by declining to light candles. On Saint Lucy's Day (December 13) the sky was dark but there were no candles; players could unlock a plushie by tapping the lamp in the guild hall until the sky is light once again.
* Players who watched the fireworks that appeared over the guild hall on Mew Year's Eve (between 11 pm, December 31, 2023, and 1 am, January 1, 2024, local time) could unlock a Rocket plushie if they hadn't done so already in a previous year.

### Guild Leader Items

The following new guild leader customizations were available in the Event Shop.

  Comfy Winter Outfit
  Sparkling Cloak
  Mystic Orb Staff
  Orca Pet
  Bobcat Fur
 Totals

The Event and Gold Pass exclusive outfits from last Purrismas were also available for 250 gems each.

### Hero Outfits

One new Purrismas costume, for Snooze, and fourteen returning Purrismas and Mew Year's Eve hero outfits were available for purchase in the Event Shop.

### Event Box

The Event Box was shown in the final tab of the Event Shop window. It could be purchased for 50,000 coins every two days or for 60 gems otherwise at any time. Players got a free box at the start of the event as well and could also earn free box tickets by completing certain stages of the Event Pass. For each box purchased, a player received one of the nine prizes shown in the window, chosen at random. Note that the animation that plays upon purchase is strictly cosmetic; each of the nine items has an equal chance of being selected.

The prize pool refreshed automatically every day at midnight (00:00) local time. It could also be reset by watching an ad and then by using Refresh tickets, also earned as Event Pass rewards, or if no tickets were available, for successively higher gem prices starting at 5 gems. The overall prize pool, which could be reviewed by tapping the question mark icon at the top left of the box, featured collectibles and resources with varying odds of appearing in the box, as described below.

* The following collectibles each had a Mythic (2%) chance of appearing as one of the nine potential prizes in the box.
	+ All previous Purrismas premium heroes: Santa Paws, Sandy Claws, Nicholas, Alfie, Lisa, Charlie, Mrs Paws, Angela, Boreal, Lumi, Yule, Cocoa, Abuela, Star, Christian, Nils, Nora, Rudolph, Pete, Kibo, Vana & Tir, and Saanvi.
	+ All previous Purrismas hero outfits for the following cats: Edward, Kai, Pipsqueak, Bob, Sandy Claws, Beans, Demaires, Conan, Catniss, Francis, and Murrlin.
	+ Guild leader extras from the Purrismas events of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
* The following items each had a Rare (14%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ All of the different guild leader outfits, furs, weapons and faces from the Purrismas events of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 and Mew Year's Eve 2018.
	+ Gems in fixed amounts of 50, 30, and 20.
	+ Reputation tokens in fixed amounts of 12, 9, 6, and 3.
	+ Event materials in fixed amounts of 300, 200, 100 and 50.
* These resources each had a Common (84%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Rare embers in fixed amounts of 5 and 3.
	+ Common embers in fixed amounts of 10 and 5.

### Event Badges

Players could earn up to ten event badges by acquiring new event content and completing event quests. Prizes were awarded for obtaining 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 badges. Progress was tracked and prizes could be claimed in the Event Badges window accessed by tapping the gingerbread icon  at the bottom of the guild hall screen.

#### **Requirements**

*Note: Real-money purchases were required to earn the Recruiter badge, which is fitting given that the reward for earning all badges, a 14-day VIP ticket, is useful only to players who have made at least $10 USD in real-money purchases.*

### Event Pass

The Event Pass awarded prizes as players collected event materials; additional rewards were available to players who purchased the Gold Pass for 450 gems. Materials requirements increased as players advanced through ten stages and acted only as criteria, not costs; that is, no materials were taken from inventory as prizes were claimed. The Event Pass window could be found by tapping the gingerbread icon  at the bottom of the guild hall screen and then opening the third tab on the right.

#### **Requirements and Rewards**

Rewards included tickets that can be used to open the Event Box  and to refresh the prize pool of the box  after the "Refresh" ad had been watched. So far, unused tickets earned in one event remain available for use in the next, although the *Castle Cats* developaws have considered imposing an expiration on unused tickets. The Gold Pass could be purchased at any time to receive rewards retroactively from stages already cleared; the "Claim" button would need to be tapped for each stage missed.

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