Spring Festival Event 2021

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## New Cats

Spring Festival 2021 was a full event in *Castle Cats* that was added in version 2.17. It started on March 1, received a mid-event update on March 25, and ran through April 17.

The event introduced five new heroes: Pan, Aery and Aisling, who could be purchased with real money, and two cats who could be crafted in Alchemy. It also featured the return of all 20 previous Spring Festival cats.

New Guild Leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were one new and six returning Hero Outfits. Previous Spring Festival items were available in the prize pool of the Event Box.

## Event Quest

### Event Story

The event included a 15-quest storyline, with quests released every other day or so. The story features the following characters (in order of appearance): Catniss, Juliet, Purrcilla, Conan, Francis, Pan, Edward, Sabrina and Morrigan.

A transcript of the Spring Festival story is available here.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event was live, rewards for event-specific, normal and battle quests at quest level 4 and above included a broken egg, 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 would double event materials from quest rewards and purchasing two or more microtransaction cats would triple 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 eleven returning heroes available for gems.

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Two new Spring Festival hero eggs could be crafted in Alchemy, the Red Skirt Egg and the Cherry Blossom Egg. All nine 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 two plushies from Spring Festival 2020 returned for the event and were again unlocked by collecting decorated eggs that dropped when cats were shaken for gold. For players who unlocked them the previous year, they would appear in the Alchemy station available for crafting or, if already crafted, with a green checkmark. As for new plushies, small flowers occasionally sprouted from the grass of the guild hall and tapping them 10 times would cause them to grow and eventually disappear. *Each tap cost one of the decorated eggs*. Two new 2021 plushies could be unlocked by growing sufficient quantities of these flowers.

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Flower Cape
 Gardening Spade
 Doe Eyes
 Spotted Deer Fur
 Total, All Variations

### Hero Outfits

One new Spring Festival costume, for Chief, and six returning Spring Festival hero outfits were available in the Event Shop.

 Spring Queen Pipsqueak
 Fire Staff Chief
 Flower Crown Conan
 Flower Crown Catniss
 Green Riding Hood Francis
 Tomb Raider Conan
 Total:

### Event Box

The event box is shown in the final tab of the Event Shop window. It could be purchased for 50,000 coins every 2 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 purchase, a player received one of the nine prizes shown in the window, chosen at random. The prize pool, which was automatically refreshed every day at midnight local time, could also be reset by watching an ad, and then for successively higher gem prices starting at 5 gems.

The overall prize pool for the event box included the following:

* All eleven previous Spring Festival premium heroes: Bob (Festival), Curio (Festival), Hop, Nolan, Baz, Tefiti, Tekah, Renée, Logan, June and Wendy.
* Six Spring Festival hero outfits for five cats: Conan (2), Catniss, Francis, Molotov and Pipsqueak.
* More than 60 different guild leader items from the Spring Festival events in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
* Varying amounts of several different resources, including event materials, gems, embers, and reputation tokens.

### Event Badges

Players could earn up to nine event badges by acquiring new event content and completing event quests. Prizes were awarded for obtaining 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 badges. Progress was tracked and prizes could be claimed in the Event Badges window accessed by tapping the broken egg icon in the bottom left of the guild hall screen.

#### **Requirements**

*Note: Real-money purchases are 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.*

#### **Rewards**

 **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*)