Halloween Event 2023

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## New Cats

Halloween 2023 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 4.2. It began on September 25, received a mid-event update on October 18, and ran through November 18.

The event introduced six new heroes: Fallen, Maudie, and Squishy, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. All of the 40 previous Halloween cats were also available in various ways.

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

## Event Quest

The event included a 15-quest campaign featuring the following characters (in order of appearance): Curio, Bob, Conan, Francis, Purrcis, Catniss, Jörgen, Selene, Kai, Lee, Rose, Kyle, Edward, Molotov, and Mai. A complete transcript of the dialog is 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 bones, bats, and pumpkins - Halloween 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 Halloween material,  300 gems and Phantom | $9.99 USD
 1000 of each Halloween material
 500 of each Halloween 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 Halloween heroes as microtransaction purchases and all 22 returning heroes available for gems.

 +250VIP XP

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Three new Halloween heroes could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Aristocat, Otherwordly[sic], and Eye Eggs. All eighteen crafting cats from previous Halloween events were also available.

#### **Plushies**

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

To celebrate Halloween, Stitch occasionally came trick-or-treating at the guild hall. Tapping on Stitch when he appeared below the arch opened a pop-up window offering a choice of "Treat" or "Trick". All Halloween plushies were unlocked by interacting with Stitch through this dialog. Players who unlocked plushies in previous Halloween events could find them in the Alchemy station available for crafting or, if already crafted, with a green check mark.

When "Treat" was chosen, Stitch took a few Halloween event materials. (Note that players who did not have at least 25 of each material in inventory would not be allowed to choose the "Treat" option.) For players willing to give up some of their hard-earned event materials, there were five plushies that could be unlocked by treating Stitch.

When "Trick" was chosen, Stitch did not get any treats and would therefore play one of the following randomly chosen tricks on the guild:

* Setting fire to the cauldron
* Enshrouding the guild hall in a purple mist
* Entangling the basic materials stations in vines
* Covering the fortress with a black flaming shadow
* De-materializing the bodies of the guild's cats so only their "Cheshire Cat" grins are visible
* Abducting a cat from the guild in a beam of light, as if from an alien spaceship

To dispel the effects of the tricks, simply tap repeatedly on the affected areas, or in the case of "Cheshire Cats", shake them to return them to full visibility. There were six plushies that could be unlocked by cleaning up after each trick a certain number of times.

Because Stitch only appears a few times a day and his actions are random, it can be difficult to unlock all of the plushies in one event. Players are therefore advised to stick with either treating or tricking rather than alternating between the two, until the desired plushies associated with that choice have been unlocked.

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Antler Armor
 Pumpkin Vine Bow
 Jumping Jack-O-Lantern
 Nightsky Fur
 Totals

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

### Hero Outfits

One new Halloween costume, for Tea-Rex, and ten 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 plays upon purchase is strictly cosmetic; each of the nine items has 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 have a Mythic (2%) chance of appearing as one of the nine potential prizes in the box.
	+ All previous Halloween premium heroes: Pumpy, Sabrina, Jörgen, Rose, Silver, Night Queen, Hilda, Harvey, Lucy, Adriel, Surana, Marie, Xerxes, Lune, Ace, Ratchet, Fortuna, Wadjet, Mortimer, Raksha, River, and Nemi.
	+ All previous Halloween hero outfits for the following cats: Purrcilla, Kyle, Pipsqueak (2), Molotov, Mewton, Conan, Catniss, Francis, and Lumoz.
	+ Eight guild leader extras from the Halloween events of 2017 and 2020.
* The following items each have a Rare (14%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ All of the different guild leader outfits, furs, weapons and faces from the Halloween events of 2017, 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 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 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 is tracked and prizes could be claimed in the Event Badges window accessed by tapping the bat 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, is 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 purchase 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 are taken from inventory as prizes were claimed. The Event Pass window could be found by tapping the bat icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen and then opening the third tab on the right.

#### **Requirements and Rewards**

Rewards included tickets that could be used to open the Event Box  and to refresh the prize pool of the box  after the "Refresh" ad had 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 would need to be tapped for each stage missed.

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