Spring Festival Event 2022

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## New Cats

Spring Festival 2022 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 3.5. It began on March 7, received a mid-event update on March 30, and ran through April 23.

The event introduced six new heroes: Aspen, Tomo and Mira, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. The 25 previous Spring Festival cats were also available for recruitment.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were one new and seven 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, with quests released every other day or so. The story featured the following characters (in order of appearance): Catniss, Francis, Conan, Logan, Tefiti, Tekah, Kai, Edward, Purrcilla, Purrcis, and Aspen. A transcript of the dialog was recorded as the story unfolded.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event was live, rewards for event-specific, normal 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 14 previous Spring Festival heroes for 100 or 300 gems each.

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Three new Spring Festival heroes could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Fated, Fintastic and Highland Eggs. Eleven 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 four plushies from the Spring Festival events in 2020 and 2021 were again available in the 2022 event. Players who unlocked them in previous years found them ready for crafting in the Alchemy station or, if already crafted, with a green checkmark. For newer players, the returning plushies could be unlocked by collecting decorated eggs that dropped when cats were shaken for gold and by tapping the small flowers that occasionally sprouted from the grass in the guild hall ten times each, until they were fully grown and disappeared. At least three new plushies were also available by gathering decorated eggs, growing flowers, and unlocking other plushies. A fourth new plushie was available on April Fool's Day.

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Spring Umbrella
 Nature Wrap
 Rain Slicker
 Spring Frog
 Totals

### Hero Outfits

A new Spring Festival costume for Logan and seven returning hero outfits are available for purchase in the Event Shop.

### Event Box

The Event Box, shown in the final tab of the Event Shop window, 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. For each box purchased, a player received one of the nine prizes shown in the window, chosen at random. The prize pool, which refreshed automatically every day at midnight (00:00) local time, could also be reset by watching an ad and then by using Refresh tickets (see the Event Pass section below) if any were available, or if not for successively higher gem prices starting at 5 gems.

The overall prize pool for the Event Box included:

* All 14 previous Spring Festival premium heroes: Hop, Nolan, Baz, Tefiti, Tekah, Renée, Logan, June, Wendy, Pan, Aery, Aisling, Bob (Festival) and Curio (Festival).
* Seven Spring Festival hero outfits for six cats: Conan (2), Catniss, Francis, Molotov, Pipsqueak and Chief.
* Eighty different guild leader items from the Spring Festival events in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
* Various resources in the following fixed amounts:
	+ Gems: 50, 30, 20
	+ Reputation tokens: 12, 9, 6, 3
	+ Event materials: 300, 200, 100, 50
	+ Rare embers: 5, 3
	+ Common embers: 10, 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 in the bottom left 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 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 in the bottom left of the guild hall screen and then opening the third tab on the right.

#### **Requirements and Rewards**

The requirements for completing the pass were reduced for this event from 10,000 of each material to 8,500 each. Rewards included 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.

 **Spring Festival**: 2017 (*Transcript*) • 2018 (*Transcript*) • 2019 (*Transcript*) • 2020 (*Transcript*) • 2021 (*Transcript*) • **2022** (*Transcript*) • 2023 (*Transcript*)
 **Call of Heroes**: 2018 (*Transcript*) • 2020 (*Transcript*) • 2021 (*Transcript*) • 2022 (*Transcript*) • 2023 (*Transcript*)
 **Anniversary**: 2017 (*Transcript*) • 2018 (*Transcript*) • 2019 (*Transcript*) • 2021 (*Transcript*) • 2022 (*Transcript*) • 2023 (*Transcript*)
 **Charity**: 2017 (*Transcript*) • 2018 (*Transcript*)
 **Summer**: 2017 (*Transcript*) • 2019 (*Transcript*) • 2020 (*Transcript*) • 2021 (*Transcript*) • 2022 (*Transcript*) • 2023 (*Transcript*)
 **Halloween**: 2017 (*Transcript*) • 2018 (*Transcript*) • 2019 (*Transcript*) • 2020 (*Transcript*) • 2021 (*Transcript*) • 2022 (*Transcript*) • 2023 (*Transcript*)
 **Purrismas**: 2016 (*Transcript*) • 2017 (*Transcript*) • 2018 (*Transcript*) • 2019 (*Transcript*) • 2020 (*Transcript*) • 2021 (*Transcript*) • 2022 (*Transcript*) • 2023 (*Transcript*)