Spring Festival Event 2023

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## New Cats

Spring Festival 2023 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 3.12. It began on March 6, received a mid-event update on March 29, and ran through April 22. An app update to version 3.12.1 was released on March 9 to fix an issue with the Event Badges. An update to fix a visual glitch with one of the new Spring guild leader items appeared on March 22 and took the app to version 3.12.2.

The event introduced six new heroes: Muma, Sossa and Olga, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. All 31 of the previous Spring Festival cats were available in various ways.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were one new and eight returning hero outfits. Items from past Spring Festival 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.

## Event Quest

The event included a 17-quest campaign that featured the following characters (in order of appearance): Purrcis, Francis, Cupcake, Nolan, Kai, Lumoz, Conan, Mewton, Edward, Catniss, Romeo, Juliet, Purrcis, Sabrina, Morrigan, and Logan. A complete transcript of the story dialog is now available.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event was live, rewards for event-specific, regular and battle quests at quest level 4 and above could include eggshells, feathers and paintbrushes, Spring Festival 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 Spring Festival material,  300 gems and Florinda | $9.99 USD
 1000 of each Spring Festival material
 500 of each Spring Festival 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 Spring Festival heroes as microtransaction purchases and all 17 returning heroes available for gems. *Note: Prior to the 3.13 update, Aspen was available for 300 coins rather than gems, an inadvertent bug.*

 +250VIP XP

### Alchemy

#### Hero Eggs

Three new Spring Festival heroes could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Vine, Ladybug and Flower Mask Eggs. Fourteen crafting cats from previous Spring Festival events were also available.

#### Plushies

*Note: Plushies can only be unlocked in guilds that have reached level 50.*
The eight plushies from the Spring Festival events in 2020, 2021 and 2022 were again available this year. Players who unlocked them in previous years found them ready for crafting in the Alchemy station or, if already crafted, with a green checkmark. The returning plushies had a variety of unlock methods:

* Collecting decorated eggs that drop when cats were shaken for gold; these eggs were tracked on the last line of the inventory screen (below the reputation tokens).
* Growing flowers by tapping on the sprouts that occasionally appeared in the grass in the guild hall ten times each, until they were fully grown and disappeared with a flash; note that each tap cost one of the decorated eggs, and players must have had at least ten eggs in inventory before the flowers would appear.
* Unlocking other plushies.
* Using the Theater on April Fool's Day.

Three new plushies could be unlocked by matching gold stars in the Matching Mania mini-game.

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Joyful Face
 Scarf and Hood
 Ducklings!
 Oriental Shorthair Fur
 Totals

The Event and Gold Pass exclusive outfits from last Spring Festival were also available for gems.

### Hero Outfits

A new Spring Festival costume for Cupcake and eight returning 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 played upon purchase was strictly cosmetic; each of the nine items had 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 17 previous Spring Festival premium heroes: Hop, Nolan, Baz, Tefiti, Tekah, Renée, Logan, June, Wendy, Pan, Aery, Aisling, Aspen, Tomo, Mira, Bob (Festival) and Curio (Festival).
	+ All eight previous Spring Festival hero outfits, two for Conan and one for each of the following cats: Molotov, Pipsqueak, Chief, Logan, Catniss and Francis.
	+ Sixteen guild leader extras from the Spring Festival events of 2018, 2020 and 2022.
* The following items each had a Rare (14%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Nearly 90 different guild leader items from the Spring Festival events in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
	+ Gems in fixed amounts of 50, 30 and 20
	+ Reputation tokens in fixed amounts of 12, 9, 6 and 3
* These resources each had a Common (84%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Event materials in fixed amounts of 300, 200, 100 nand 50
	+ 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 eggshells 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, was 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 eggshells icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen and then opening the third tab on the right.

#### Requirements and Rewards

Rewards include tickets that could be used to open the Event Box (pink with gold star) and to refresh the prize pool of the box (blue with circular arrow) after the "Refresh" ad has 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 needed to be tapped for each stage missed.

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