Valentine Event 2021

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## New Cats

The Valentine Event 2021 was a full event in *Castle Cats* that was added in version 2.16. It started on January 11, received a mid-event update on February 4, and ran through February 27.

The event introduced five new heroes: Demaires, Kate and Iridessa, who could be purchased with real money, and two cats who could be crafted in Alchemy. It also featured the return of all 15 previous Valentine cats.

The Lunar New Year mini-event began on February 12 and ran concurrently with the remainder of the Valentine event. It included the premiere of one new microtransaction cat, Jin Shu, and brought back all four previous Lunar New Year heroes.

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

## Event Quest

### Event Story

The event included a 15-quest storyline that features the following characters (in order of appearance): Romeo, Juliet, Charmer, Demaires, Purrcilla, Sabrina, Edward, Kyle, Francis and Benedict.

A transcript of the Valentine 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 chocolate hearts, red roses, and love letters, Valentine event materials that could be used to craft hero eggs and plushies and acquire new guild leader items. Valentine event materials could also be purchased as microtransactions in the Event Shop.

 Event Pack:  1000 of each Valentine Material,  300 Gems and Julio | $9.99 USD
 1000 of each Valentine Material
 500 of each Valentine Material

As part of the Lunar New Year mini-event, lucky coin pendants were also available as quest rewards under the same conditions as the Valentine materials were. They could be used to craft Lunar New Year Alchemy heroes and to acquire rampaging oxen as guild leader companions.

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. Both types of boosts applied to both Valentine and Lunar New Year materials.

### Premium Heroes

The Event Shop offered three new Valentine heroes and one new and one returning Lunar New Year heroes as microtransaction purchases. All eight returning Valentine heroes and one returning Lunar New Year hero were available for gems.

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Two new Valentine hero eggs could be crafted in Alchemy: the Hi-Tech Egg and the Dreamy Egg, both of which are Merge Alchemy eggs requiring four "sacrifice" cats each. Seven Alchemy cats from previous Valentine events and two from previous Lunar New Year events were also available.

#### **Plushies**

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

The Valentine event included a new feature called "Ember", a Catanian version of the friend-matching app, Tinder. 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. Plushies can be unlocked by liking cats, making matches, and sending materials, as described in the table below.

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Funky Anime Suit
 Crooked Spear
 Swirls & Ear Hearts Fur
 Heartfelt Eyes
 Rampaging Ox
 Total, All Variations

### Hero Outfits

One new Valentine costume, for Purrcilla, and eight returning Valentine hero outfits were available in the Event Shop:

 Charmer Catniss
 Heart Francis
 Fancy Purrcilla
 Love Bomb Molotov
 Young Benedict
 Purple Kyle
 Vest Romeo
 Dress Juliet
 Total:

### 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 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 eight previous Valentine premium heroes: Amortina, Charmer, Venus, Rich, Berry, Lou, Shirley and Gordon.
* Valentine hero outfits for eight cats: Conan, Catniss, Francis, Molotov, Benedict, Kyle, Romeo and Juliet.
* More than 50 different guild leader items from the Valentine 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 red rose 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*)