Notifications

Notifications are messages or alerts that appear to let the player know when something on Flutter: Starlight is ready to be interacted with, or that something is happening in the game.

There are two types of notifications that the game uses:

## Notification Messages

These types of notifications appear even when the game/app is currently not in use or in the background.

A notification titled "Starlight" will appear on screen, with text telling the player what is happening in their game that is important, & a little black butterfly/moth icon. This will also cause their phone/tablet to vibrate loudly.

On Android devices, if the phone/tablet is on the lock screen, this will show up as a small butterfly/moth icon, which is currently identical to Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary's notification icon.

### **List of notifications & what they mean:**

*- "Time to wake your forest up, let those moths take flight!* ✨*"* - **Shows if Flutter: Starlight has not been played for hours**

*- "A Moth is back from their Mission! Time to collect your reward.* ✨*"* - **This appears when a mission is completed**

*- "You have a reward to collect from a special messenger who has re..."* - **This appears when a mission is completed**

*- "Mission complete! Come and collect your reward!"* - **This appears when a mission is completed**

*- "Mission \_\_\_\_\_ complete!"* - **This appears when a mission is completed (unconfirmed)**

*- "All of your pollen flowers are ready to pop!"* - **All pollen flowers are ready to release pollen**

*- "* 💙 *It's Pollen collection time! Pop in to release and collect your Pollen!"* - **All pollen flowers are ready to release pollen**

*- "Your beautiful pollen flowers are ready to release pollen"* - **All pollen flowers are ready to release pollen**

*- "Your Flowers are ready to give you Pollen."* - **All pollen flowers are ready to release pollen**

*- "Your Pollen Flowers are ready for you!"* - **All pollen flowers are ready to release pollen**

*- "Time to collect! Moths are waiting to give you Honeydew!"* - **All moths have honeydew that needs to be collected**

*- "Your Moths are Ready to give you Honeydew."* - **All moths have honeydew that needs to be collected**

*- "Enchanting Moths are Ready to give you Honeydew!"* - **All moths have honeydew that needs to be collected**

- "*Your new egg is ready to hatch*" - **An egg in the incubator can be hatched (unconfirmed)**

- "*A majestic new moth is Ready to hatch in your Sanctuary!*" - **An egg in the incubator can be hatched**

- "*Your Egg is Ready to hatch - which species is inside?* ✨" - **An egg in the incubator can be hatched (unconfirmed)**

- "*An event has just begun! A whole new set of moths are yours to collect!*"

- "*The Wisp Mother is ready!*" - **This appears when the Wisp Mother is ready to spawn wisps in Wisp Events**

- "*There are new Wisps ready to be captured!* 💫" - **This appears when the Wisp Mother is ready to spawn wisps in Wisp Events**

- "*The Wisp Mother is refreshed! Wisps are waiting!*" - **This appears when the Wisp Mother is ready to spawn wisps in Wisp Events**

- "*The Wisp Mother is ready with more wisps!*" - **This appears when the Wisp Mother is ready to spawn wisps in Wisp Events**

**List of things notifications will NOT alert the player with:**

- The arrival/leaving of Visiting Moths (Reason: moths only visit when a player is on the game)

- Pupas being ready to emerge into moths (Reason: unknown)

- Caterpillars being hungry & ready to be fed (Reason: unknown)

- Mushrooms being fully grown in Ant Events (Reason: one has not been added, yet)

- Spore Packs being ready in Ant Events (Reason: one has not been added, yet)

- Event Fireflies being ready to appear (Reason: unknown)

- Fireflies being left in the forest (Reason: unknown)

- The Florida Tree Snail's roulette needing a reset (Reason: unknown)

- Abilities of decorations being ready (Reason: unknown)

#### **Unconfirmed Information**

Notifications are still being researched; there are likely notifications for the following:

Is there a notification for when Doug the Glowbug is ready?

Are there notifications for Social Activity, such as receiving a gift?

The Wisp Mother & Wisp Event Notifications being different; the newest update has changed a few notifications. Have these ones been changed, too? (YES, they have!)

## In-Game Notifications

### **Timer Icons**

* Main Event Timer Icon
* Visiting Moth Timer Icon
* Half Time Egg Incubation Timer Icon
* Half Price Swap Missions Timer Icon
* Old Half Price Bees Timer Icon
* Old Half Time Missions Timer Icon
* Double Coins/Honeydew Timer Icon
* Double Social Gifts Timer Icon
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When an event is happening, a small icon will appear in the top-right corner of the screen, with a clock telling the player how long they have left until the event ends:

- Both Wisp Events, Firefly Events & Ant Events have a purple circle with a white star as a notification icon that appears in the top right of the screen, & a timer below it. For Ant Events, clicking the icon opens the garden, giving players a quick & easy way to check the mushroom garden.

- In the case of Special Visitor moths, the clock appears under the currencies & settings icons containing the image of the moth that is currently in the forest. The special visitor moths always stay for 1 hour.

- Weekend bonuses have their own special icons that appear in the top-right corner (e.g: half-price bees appear as both the Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee & Nocturnal Carpenter Bee in a grey circle)

### **Crosshair**

* A Crosshair on a Pollen Flower
* A Crosshair on an Egg
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A white crosshair appears when certain objects are ready to be interacted with. These appear over:

- Pollen Flowers when they are ready to release pollen

- Eggs when they're ready to hatch in the Incubator

- Eggs in the forest won from Ant Events; they're ready to hatch instantaneously

- Pupas that have moths waiting to emerge

- The Wisp Mother when she is ready to spawn wisps

- Whenever newly collected information in the Flutterpedia, (such as new moths & decorations) needs adding

### **Title Banner**

A giant brown banner appears when a major event begins. These will appear when:

- A Special Visitor Moth appears (Special Visitor! There's a special visitor in your forest!)

- A Wisp Event starts (Wisp Event! - What's this? Strange wisps have appeared!)

- A Firefly Event starts (Firefly Event! ???)

- An Ant Event with Lizzie Media starts (Ant Event - Help Lizzie support her colony!/)

- An Ant Event with Dr. Sofia Minima starts (Ant Event - Help Sofia grow mushrooms to heal injured ants/)

- An Ant Event with Maite the Panda Ant starts (Ant Event - ???/)

### **Other**

**Audio Cues**

Sometimes, the game uses sounds to notify a player that something important is happening in their game:

- Fireflies make an explosive loud whoosh sound with a choir "waah!" upon appearing & the screen flashes

- Ready caterpillars make a sad squeak when they need to be fed & a leaf appears above them

- The Wisp Mother makes a quiet & excited "Ah!" or excited "Uoh oo ooo!" when she is ready to spawn wisps

- Leaf Bugs & Creepy Bugs make a strange child-like sound (sounds like "ah-ler-reh" or "Eh-low") when they appear. Upon being tapped, they cheer with a "yay!".

- Bark Bugs make either a small grunt ("beck?") or a sharp grunt ("eh!") when they appear. Upon being tapped, they make a croaking noise ("blargh!") or ("yehyehyeh!").

**Michelle expression icons**

Michelle has different expression icons to show the status of a mission:

- **Orange question mark**: a new mission is available

- **Grey question mark**: a random mission has already been chosen & a moth has not been chosen yet. It stays if the wrong moth has been chosen for that mission

- **Orange exclamation mark**: the correct moth has been chosen, or when a moth has returned from a mission

## Other Information about Notifications

### **Old Notifications**

Sometimes, with new updates, Notifications may change. Down below are older Notifications & what they meant

#### **2018 Notifications**

It is unknown when these notifications were altered. These either no longer appear, or have been replaced by the newer notifications from 2019-2021.

– *Invite your friends to make their own forest and share free gifts!* - **Appeared at random if nothing special was happening with the game**
– *Michelle and Trevor miss you! Have you checked out your sanctuary recently?* - **Appeared if the game has not been played with for a while**
– *A new update is available with a ton of cool new features including a shop update with daily deals, help icons and a BRAND NEW core set of moths!* - **Appeared with the Shop update. This was a one time notification & will no longer appear.**
– *Check out the latest update for Starlight! Come and meet Doug the Glowbug, check out the new calendar feature, see visiting moths and more! -* **Appeared when Doug the Glowbug was added to the game in a new update. This was a one time notification & will no longer appear.**
– *There is a bright an beautiful full moon out in the forest meaning you can use your Lunar flowers to attract the elusive Luna Moth for a limited time!* - **Appeared to let the player know that they could attract the Luna Moth by using their Lunar Flowers in the Incubator. The game no longer alerts players about the moon's phase.**
– *The Picture-winged Leaf Moth is the moth representing Scorpio and is now available to attract with your Zodiac flowers for a limited time!* - **Appeared to let players know that the current Star Sign at the time was Scorpio & that they could attract the Picture-winged Leaf Moth by placing Zodiac flowers in the Incubator. The game no longer alerts players about the current Star Sign.**
– *Weekend bonus time! We’re celebrating with DOUBLE coins and DOUBLE rewards from the Video Snail and offer wall! -* **Appeared to let players know that the Weekend Bonus Event for Double Coins & Offer Wall Rewards was starting. However, this mini event is now absent, & the Offer Wall was removed due to technical issues.**
– *Halloween special! Collect FIVE new spooky moths in the Yokai event over the next 13 days and earn exclusive decorations with special abilities! -* **Appeared to let players know that the Yokai Event was starting. Events now share the same notifications for Wisp or Firefly Events.**
– *Time is almost up to complete the SETNAME event! Remember that any unused event flowers will be converted to coins at the end of the event.* - **Appeared to let players know that a Main Event was on the last 24 hours. Notification no longer appear to let players know events are ending.**
#### **2019-2021 Notifications**

At the end of May in 2021, both Flutter: Starlight & Splash: Ocean Sanctuary had their notifications drastically altered.

Update 2.08 (Phalaina Event Update) released, which updated the Notifications in Flutter: Starlight.

Here is an archive of the Notification messages that appeared in 2019-2021.

*- "Mission \_\_\_\_\_ complete!"* - **Appeared when a mission was completed**

*- "All your pollen flowers are ready to be popped"* - **Appeared when all pollen flowers were ready to release pollen**

*- "All your moths are ready to be harvested"* - **Appeared when all moths had honeydew that needed to be collected**

*- "Your new egg is ready to hatch"* - **Appeared when an egg in the incubator was ready to be hatched**

*- "An event has just begun! A whole new set of moths are yours to collect!"* - **Appeared when a Main Event (Wisp/Firefly) began (& still does appear!)**

*- "The Wisp Mother is ready!"* - **Appeared when the Wisp Mother was ready to spawn wisps during Wisp Events**

### **No Notifications/Alerts Glitch**

A glitch prevented "Starlight" notifications from appearing on certain devices, even with the notifications allowed in the settings both in-game, & on the device settings.

This glitch made it harder for players to know when to return to Flutter: Starlight to harvest moths for honeydew, pop open pollen flowers or getting wisps from the Wisp Mother.

As of a 2nd update following update 2.04 Halloween (Hades Event Update), this glitch has been fixed for most of the affected devices; it is currently unknown if this glitch still occurs on certain devices.

On the following week of being patched, the same glitch was patched in Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary.

After two months of both Flutter games being patched, this glitch was fixed in Splash: Ocean Sanctuary.