Forest Expansions

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To make the forest your moth live in more expansive areas, to allow even more moths to live in it and more caterpillars to grow at one time, or to uncover more Pollen Flowers to level up your moth and your Bee Fly, you have to expand it.

To do that you simply click on a place you haven't unlocked that's "lit up", has leaf icons on it & a price of coins/honeydew.

Clicking on an expansion you are able to unlock brings up a banner that says either "**Expansion Foliage** - Clear to uncover Grow Spot.".

In the case of Expansions containing Pollen Flowers, it will say "**Expansion Foliage** - Clear to uncover Flower Spot."

You have to chop five leaves for every spot you want to expand to.

You pay incremental prices in honeydew for every *leaf* you shake down, and once all the leaves of an area are cleared, a new space for moth or a new pollen flower will be revealed.

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Not all spots are available to be expanded from the beginning. They have a specific look, but they are neither marked with icons nor can be tapped on. Tapping on expansions that cannot be tapped on just brings up a banner that will say "**Expansion Foliage** - Cannot clear yet."

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When you expand to an area that shows a butterfly icon File:Icon§GrowSpot.png on it, you will receive space for two more butterflies.

When you expand to one of six areas that shows a flower icon File:Icon§FlowerSpot.png on it, you will receive a new Pollen Flower in a random color.

To clear an area, you need to shake down 5 leaves, and each leaf has a different honeydew price.

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### **What happens when all Forest Expansions are Unlocked?**

Originally, once all Expansions were unlocked, players could no longer expand their forest anymore. If their population reached the maximum, players would have to store moths. If both the Forest & Storage became full, players would have to begrudgingly sell older moths to make room for new ones.

This was especially painful during Main Events, where players would keep getting new moths from Wisp Events & Firefly Events, forcing them to sell both core set Moths & older Event Moths.

Luckily, as of **27th July 2020,** Runaway released an update where players could expand their forest using Coins/Honeydew after unlocking all the forest expansions

#### **The Official Facebook Post:**

🎉 You can now have more moths fluttering around the Starlight forest! 🎉

Dear Starlight players, you have asked us many times for more forest expansions which we unfortunately cannot do. Doing so would create technical issues for not only us, but also you.

However, if you have a fully expanded forest you can now spend your saved up coins to increase your forest's maximum population! While the forest will remain the same size, it means you can have more of your favourite moths fluttering around it! 🐛

We hope you enjoy this new update!

## Decoration Slots

Unlike Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary, decoration slots are all locked in Flutter: Starlight & like Forest Expansions, they require coins/honeydew to unlock them.

These must be unlocked in order to place down a decoration.

## Related Goals

* Expansion Expert: Expand Forest 10 Times (Reward: Leaf )
* Expansion Expert II: Expand Forest 20 Times (Reward:  5)
* Expansion Expert III: Expand Forest 35 Times (Reward:  10)

## Related Events

### **Half Price Decoration Slots**

Picture of the Half Price Decoration Slots Promo from the Official Flutter: Starlight Facebook page

**Introduced:** 29th December 2017

**Most Recent:** Late 2020

During this event, the amount of Coins/Honeydew  needed to unlock a Decoration Slot is halved.

## In-Game FAQ

### **What is expansion foliage?**

To grow the population of your forest you will need to expand and clear spaces. This is done by chopping expansion foliage. Use coins to “Clear” away leaves and expand your environment. The new spots you unlock can either be “Grow Spots” for raising new moths, or “Flower Spots”, which contain a new Pollen Flower.

Before choosing which spot to go for next, take note of the icon above the spot’s price, this shows whether it's a Grow Spot or Flower Spot. You can fit two moths in each grow spot but flower spots will not increase your forest population.

### **How do I expand my forest?**

You can expand your forest by using coins to remove leaves in the expansion areas. There are 5 leaves per expansion slot and the cost increases as you open the slots and the expansion areas.

### **Can I decorate my forest? (Shortened)**

Yes you can!

Look out for holes in the branches around your environment. This is where you can place your decorations. Tap on a hole and you will be prompted to open the space using coins, then tap the “unlock” button that appears at the bottom of the screen. Tap the open spot again and then the “place” button

### **How do I increase my forest population?**

Great news - you can now use excess coins to increase the population of your forest!! Each purchased slot increases the maximum population of your forest by 1 moth up to a maximum population of 123. The cost for each slot will increase with each purchase, much like forest expansions. You can only increase your population using coins once you have reached maximum expansion.

Note: this does not increase the size of your forest itself, just the amount of moths you can have flying around

## Notes

* The honeydew for the expansion of the first three slots ( 40 in total) are given to you by the Tutorial.

* The prices changed on ??. Show/Hide Old Expansion Price Table