Valentine Event 2024

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## New Cats

Valentine 2024 is a full *Castle Cats* event that was added in version 4.4. It began on January 15, and is scheduled to run through March 2.

The event introduces four new heroes so far: Daisy and Lockhart, who can be purchased with real money, and two more who can be crafted in Alchemy. All 31 of the previous Valentine cats are also be available in various ways.

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

## Event Quest

The event includes a 16-quest campaign, currently in progress, with quests released every other day or so. The story features the following characters so far (in order of appearance): Catniss, Curio, Molotov, Francis, Mewton, Purrcis, Edward, Kai, Kyle, Conan, Mai, Lee, Romeo, Juliet, Benedict. A transcript of the dialog is being recorded as the story unfolds.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event is live, rewards for event-specific, regular and battle quests at quest level 4 and above can include chocolate hearts, red roses, and love letters, Valentine event materials that can be used to craft hero eggs and plushies and acquire new guild leader items. These materials can also be purchased as microtransactions in the Event Shop.

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

The quest selection screen includes 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 will double event materials from quest rewards, and purchasing two or more microtransaction cats will triple them. These boosts last for the duration of the event and replace the ad boost option.

### Premium Heroes

The Event Shop currently offers two new Valentine heroes as microtransaction purchases and several returning heroes available for gems. Returning heroes are added to the shop periodically, usually on Fridays. It is expected that all 17 of the previous Valentine and all five of the previous Lunar New Year purchase cats will be available eventually. Moreover, two new microtransaction heroes will be added to the Shop at some point: a Valentine cat with the mid-event update and a Lunar New Year hero when that mini-event begins.

 +250VIP XP

### Alchemy

#### Hero Eggs

Two new Valentine heroes can be crafted in Alchemy, from the Love Letter and Cactus Eggs. Fourteen crafting cats from previous Valentine events are also available. It is also expected that the two Lunar New Year Alchemy heroes will become available when that mini-event begins.

#### Plushies

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

Ember, Catania's version of the friend-matching app Tinder, and its five related plushies that debuted in the Valentine Event 2021, are available again this year. Players who have already unlocked them will find them in the Alchemy station ready for crafting or, if already crafted, with a green check mark. The Ember "app" can be opened by tapping the pink and white icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen.

Players can use Ember to like, superlike or dislike other Ember participants, who consist of 33 guild heroes and known allies. After liking or disliking the character currently showing in the window, a new one will appear. Players get to like only 10 cats and superlike only 1 cat per day. The allotment resets to those numbers at midnight (00:00) local time regardless of how many had been used up the previous day. Players can get five additional likes by watching an ad and additional superlikes for 25 gems each as often as desired after using their daily allotments.

Sometimes after liking a character, Ember will indicate that a match has been made. When this happens, players are offered the option of sending "Sweets", a "Letter" or "Flowers" to their match, and a random amount (estimated to be between 5 and 25) of the corresponding event material will be taken from inventory. (Note that players who do not have at least 25 of each material in inventory will not be allowed to send anything.) Plushies, including at least four new ones, can be unlocked by liking cats, making matches, and sending materials, as described in the table below.

Also available are five returning plushies from 2022 that can be unlocked while playing Matching Mania and one new plushie involving the tossing of cats.

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Heart Cleaver
 Heart Bird
 Dusk to Dawn Fur
 Totals

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

### Hero Outfits

A new Valentine costume for Kenshin and eleven returning hero outfits are available for purchase in the Event Shop.

### Event Box

The Event Box is shown in the final tab of the Event Shop window. It can be purchased for 50,000 coins every two days or for 60 gems otherwise at any time. Players get a free box at the start of the event as well and can also earn free box tickets by completing certain stages of the Event Pass. For each box purchased, a player receives 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 refreshes automatically every day at midnight (00:00) local time. It can also be reset by watching an ad and then by using Refresh tickets, also earned as Event Pass rewards, or if no tickets are available, for successively higher gem prices starting at 5 gems. The overall prize pool, which can be reviewed by tapping the question mark icon at the top left of the box, features collectibles and resources with varying odds of appearing in the box, as described below.

* The following collectibles each have a Mythic (2%) chance of appearing as one of the nine potential prizes in the box.
	+ All previous Valentine premium heroes: Amortina, Charmer, Rich, Venus, Berry, Lou, Shirley, Demaires, Iridessa, Kate, Cyrille, Stillsphere, Komachi, Dimitri, Baah, Vio, and Gordon.
	+ Previous Valentine hero outfits, one for each of the following cats: Conan, Catniss, Francis, Purrcilla, Kai, Benedict, Kyle, Romeo, Juliet, and Morrigan.
	+ Guild leader extras from the Valentine events of 2018, 2019 and 2020.
* The following items each have a Rare (14%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Guild leader items from the Valentine events in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
	+ Gems in fixed amounts of 50, 30 and 20
	+ Reputation tokens in fixed amounts of 12, 9, 6 and 3
* These resources each have a Common (84%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Event materials in fixed amounts of 300, 200, 100 and 50
	+ Rare embers in fixed amounts of 5 and 3.
	+ Common embers in fixed amounts of 10 and 5.

### Event Badges

Players can earn up to ten event badges by acquiring new event content and completing event quests. Prizes are awarded for obtaining 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 badges. Note that not all content needed to complete all badges has been released yet. Progress is tracked and prizes can be claimed in the Event Badges window accessed by tapping the red rose icon at the bottom 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 USD in real-money purchases.*

### Event Pass

The Event Pass awards prizes as players collect event materials; additional rewards are available to players who purchase the Gold Pass for 450 gems. Materials requirements increase as players advance through ten stages and act only as criteria, not costs; that is, no materials are taken from inventory as prizes are claimed. The Event Pass window can be found by tapping the red rose 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 can be used to open the Event Box  and to refresh the prize pool of the box  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 can be purchased at any time to receive rewards retroactively from stages already cleared; the "Claim" button will need to be tapped for each stage missed.

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