Weekend Bonus: Half-Price Attraction Flowers

Event Timer (seems misaligned, not may fault Runaway~! :P)

Bonus Effects:

1. Cost to buy attraction flowers from the flower inventory in Glowbucks is half-priced

Notes:

To check the price of each type of flower, open up your flora inventory and click on the flower you wish to view. The price in Glowbucks will be displayed in the "Buy" icon.

Zodiac and Lunar flowers (which are hard to obtain) are also half-priced! Their 100% flowers cost 50 Glowbucks each during the event.

To look at the frequency of Weekend Bonus events, refer to the Calendar Archives. To see all types of Weekend Bonus, check the List of Guides.

Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

Cheers,
Night

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Weird & Wilder: Some Moths Breathe Underwater!

Last week in Flutter DYNASTY, I shared a video by Tasha Stanley who had found a moth chilling out in her fish tank, completely submerged underwater! You can check out the video here:




Seems like the moth is perfectly fine in the fish tank! It could move around, breathe, and when Tasha took it out of the water it didn't seem to have sustained any injuries.

Some moths are quite hairy and these hairs help to repel water and trap air bubbles around them, perhaps this is the reason why Tasha's moth could go for a swim in the tank.

I also googled around for some explanations and found this interesting video about Aquatic Moths and how they actually spend over half their life cycle underwater!

The video explains that these moths have waterproof hairs that are called Hydrofuge Hairs, and these hairs on their skin creates an air bubble around them which is called a Plastron. Oxygen from the water diffuses into the Plastron which then allows the moths to breathe.

A study by Daniel Rubinoff and Patrick Schmitz on the Hawaiian Hyposmocoma moth found that the larve submerged underwater rely on direct diffusion of oxygen from the water into their hydrophilic skin along their abdomens. Therefore they can only survive in "well-oxygenated streams, and quickly die in stagnant water."


Who knows, next time our moths in Starlight might run over to take a dip in Splash too! xD


Weird & Wilder is a mini series dedicated to exploring the strangest facts about moths and butterflies. Who would ever again think that moths are boring? Check out the entire series here!


Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

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Saving Your Game Data

Missing eggs? Disappearing wisps? Timers reset? Are your attraction flowers vanishing?

If you log into your game and find that you have a bunch of missing progress, it could be due to your game data not being saved properly on Runaway's servers.

The game saves your progress automatically every 20 seconds or so, therefore your progress should be updated constantly as you play your game.

Source: Starlight Helpshift

It is pretty obvious that you need a good internet connection for your game, however, it is also understandable that sometimes these things aren't within our control, and your game progress might not get synced with the servers automatically when the connection gets weak.

Sometimes it does not make sense for us to pause and wait for 20 seconds just to make sure that our data is saved. That 20 seconds is a long dreary wait and we will probably continue to tap on other things in the game anyway... and that means you have to wait another 20 seconds to save your latest progress? -_-


How do I make sure my game progress is 100% up to date?

The only way to make sure that your game is definitely synced onto the servers is to let your game do a 'Forced Save'. A forced save happens when you perform certain actions which triggers the game to save your game data onto the server. Currently, there are 2 ways to do a forced save in Starlight.


1) Exit your game via the game menu (Android users)

1. Press the 'Back' button on your device.  Most Android devices have a physical 'Back' button on their screen.

2. After you have tapped on the 'Back' button, a pop-up in Starlight will appear asking if you want to quit the game. Click the Tick button to say yes.

3. The game then proceeds to SAVE your game before exiting .

If you see that the game is not exiting even after you have confirmed that you want to quit the game, this means that your internet connection is weak and the game is still trying to establish a connection with the servers to attempt to save your progress.

If that happens, you can wait a while to see if the attempt is successful. Or you can press the Home button on your device and try to fix your internet connection yourself (reconnect your WIFI / 4G Data etc), then go back to your game once more. If your connection is back and secure, the game should detect your connection and immediately perform a save before exiting.

If the game fails to save your progress, it will not exit the app. Instead, you should get an error notification.

Do note that this method only works if you exit the game via their game menu. Force closing the app via the Task Manager or swiping Starlight off your task switcher will only cause you to lose your latest game progress!


2) Log out of your Facebook account within the game menu

This is an alternative option suggested by Lizzie Flutter from Flutter DYNASTY. For those who are iOS users, or those who do not have a 'Back' button on their device, you may want to try this instead.

1. Click on the Gear icon on the top left corner of your game screen.

2. Click on 'Settings'.

3. Select 'Logout'.

4. Click on the Tick button to confirm that you want to log out.

5. The game then proceeds to SAVE your progress before going back to the opening screen.

Your flutters are now in safe hands~! xD

Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

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Night

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Easter Egg Fun~!

How many types of Easter Eggs have you come across so far?

From top left in clockwise direction:

• Green Easter Egg: Shop gift from a friend
• Pink Easter Egg: Normal gift from a friend
• Teal Easter Egg: Spawns from Easter Basket decoration
• Nude Easter Egg: Spawns from Delux Trumpet Lily decoration
• Dark Easter Egg: Hidden Easter Egg Hunt

Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

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Night

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Blossom Event: Easter Basket Decoration (Shop)

A big thank you to all the members in Flutter DYNASTY and those who PMed me to let me know what flower drops they had from the Easter Basket Decoration! ♥♥♥

What does the Easter Basket do?

Bumblebee photobomb~ lols xD

It spawns a teal Easter Egg in your forest, and has a cooldown of 4 days.

When you open the Easter Egg, you get a random flower (predetermined).

If you are still wondering if you should purchase the decoration, I would say that it is a pretty good buy for newer players who have yet to complete their core sets in Starlight. Why?

1) Region flowers from the Easter Egg will always be something you need

Region flowers from Toad Delicacies and Shop Deals will only be produced if you have uncompleted core sets. The Easter Basket decoration also works in a similar way where it may give you Region flowers for any of the core sets you have yet to perfect.

This means there is a very high chance that the Easter Basket Decoration will produce a useful flower!


2) List of possible Flower drops from the Easter Egg

• 100% Rare
• 50% Epic
• 20% Legendary
• 100% Medium
• 100% Large
• 20% Lunar
• 100% Silva
• 20% Chausiku
• 20% Estrella
• 10% Mythic
• 20% Apoyo

You have till the end of the Blossom Event to purchase your own Easter Basket. Don't miss this opportunity~!

Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

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Easter Egg Hunt: Creatures' Bubble Speech Text

Wait... didn't you just say that YOU HID those eggs? o_0

Someone should tell Trevor that there may be Toad Treats in the eggs so
he can get up and go grab some exercise! -_- 

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What's New in v1.30!

Here is a list of cool stuff that is available in version 1.30 of Flutter: Starlight!

1) Blossom Wisp Event 

A whole new set of Easter Moths are up for grabs during the Blossom Wisp Event! You can check out some sneak peeks and details of the new moths and decoration abilities here.


2) Hidden Easter Egg Hunt

During the Blossom event, hidden Easter Eggs will spawn in your forest. You can find 3 hidden eggs per day, each packed with tiny surprises! If you are having trouble finding the eggs, refer to this guide here for some tips.


3) New Gifting Feature, Buy Gifts For Your Friends!

Not long ago we had good news where friend gifting was re-introduced in Flutter. Now it is available in Starlight too!

You can now buy gifts from the shop and send them directly to your friends! Simply click on the item in the shop and click on the Gift icon to select which friend you would like to gift. Currently you can send Daily Deals and Bumble Bees to your friends.

Note: Make sure to send out the free social gifts from your Friends list before you buy a gift for a friend. If not the gift that you paid for will be counted as a "free gift sent" and 1 free gift will be deducted from your current amount of free gifts available.


4) Flutterpedia Updates

There is a new Table of Contents in the Flutterpedia! Simply flip to the very first page to get a summary of your game progress.

A new Creatures chapter is also added! This is similar to what we have in Flutter, where you can unlock page segments by collecting creatures in the game.

5) New Language Update

Thanks 明赵 from Flutter DYNASTY for the heads up that the game is now available in Mandarin! To see how it looks like, simply change your device's default language to Mandarin and reload the game.

However there is a bug in the current Mandarin version of Starlight, where the Social Menu is missing and you cannot access your Friends list. In order to open your Friends list you need to switch back to the English version of the game.

It seems like Runaway may getting ready to translate the game into other languages! Raquel Delgado Boluda posted in Flutter DYNASTY that there are missing translations for her game when her default device language is Spanish. I've tried to change my device's default language several times and I saw that there are missing translations for Korean too! Hopefully Starlight will be able to cater to a wider international audience soon~!


Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

Cheers,
Night

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Blossom Event: Hidden Easter Egg Hunt!

The Blossom event kick starts today~!

For the next 14 days, hidden eggs will spawn all over your forest. Click on them to reveal a surprise gift.

You can get storage expansion materials, 5 Honeydew, toad treats, coins, a golden net etc, or even 5 Glowbucks if you are lucky enough!

If you are having a hard time finding the hidden eggs, check the surrounding foliage areas of your forest. You may also want to increase the brightness of your device screen as the eggs tend to camouflage pretty well.

Lana Rebecca Vaughan from Flutter DYNASTY suggested that you can move your forest over the moon to illuminate the eggs a little better. The game also has several bright spots where you can make use of during your hunt.

Brightness and contrast is adjusted for this screenshot to help you to spot the eggs easier

Do not confuse the Easter Egg Hunt with the Easter Bucket Decoration which is currently for sale in the shop. Although the description says that the decoration will create "hidden eggs", what it actually does is that it spawns a large egg gift in your forest (similar to the halloween Jack O' Lantern or Large Jolly Gift). A list of flower rewards from the Easter decoration will be posted soon.


The hidden eggs seem to spawn quite often, so keep looking out for them! Have fun~! xD

Maybe we can get at least 3 eggs per day? xD

Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

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