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Stars
Stars
(Item)
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Stars are the individual sparks and streamers that make up a fireworks display. They are crafted in a Star Rack according to recipes taught at Universities of Art and Music.

Cost

Max Batch size is 100.

  • All stars need a binder:
    • Beeswax - for Comet and Ball-type stars, which diffuse in 'pulses'.
    • Cactus Sap - for Comet, Ball, and Line-type stars, all of which diffuse in either pulses or as a straight line.
    • Clay - for 'popper' stars, which diffuse all in one burst at the end of their fire.
    • Tar - for 'sparkler' stars, which diffuse in sparks throughout their runs.
  • All stars need some quantity of Sulfur and Charcoal.
  • All stars need some variety of Salts of Metal. (range 1-250? salts per 10 stars) - normally 1 salt type for most stars, but two-color stars will have two salt types
  • Some stars also need Aluminum Powder. (this is only required on sparkler- or bomb-type stars)

Use

Stars are used in the Test of Pyrotechnics

Available Recipes

  • Every University of Art and Music teaches the four basic star recipes, Flying Frog, Pinkie, Purple People eater, and Squat Canary.
  • New stars can be designed using a Portable Star Lab. The lab is then turned in to a University of Art and Music. Each time a number of labs have been turned in, one of the previously submitted recipes will be made available to learn from that University. At this time, the cost per star is not fully understood; the first three Stars submitted only cost one lab, the next two cost two each. The cost is increasing, and at this time, it appears that the cost climb is global. One lab turned in at a different University reported a cost of two labs for the next Star.
  • In Tale 9, learning a star from a University in a region not controlled by your faction required a small cost of 25 Gunpowder, but this cost was removed for Tale 10 on 8/14/2021.



For this table, please use the cost of producing a batch of TEN (10) Stars

Star
Name
Star
Type
Color
Region
U Art
Binder
Type
Binder
Amt
Sulfur
Charcoal
Salt 1
Type
Salt 1
Amt
Salt 2
Type
Salt 2
Amt
Al
Powder
Picture
Flying Frog Pulsing Green Common Cactus Sap 9 5 10 Zinc 12 Flying frog.png
Pinkie Pulsing Pink Common Cactus Sap 17 10 50 Copper 29 Iron 56 Pinkie.png
Purple People Eater Cone Purple Common Beeswax 8 12 70 Magnesium 211 Platinum 185 Purple People Eater.png
Squat Canary Pulsing Yellow Common Cactus Sap 10 3 15 Aluminum 11 Squat canary.png
Bullety Trail Green Blue Nile Beeswax 14 2 19 Zinc 38 Bullety.png
Cyan Night ?? ?? Philae Cactus Sap 12 12 27 Lead 261 Cyan Night.png
Firestream Sparkler Orange Blue Nile Tar 9 9 99 Cobalt 14 99 Firestream.png
Golden Time ?? ?? East Kush Tar 6 9 71 Iron 136 71 Golden Time.png
Grassy Trail Trail Green ?? Cactus Sap 18 1 69 Aluminum 20 ??
Green Beem Casserole Trail Green Blue Nile Cactus Sap 17 1 56 Antimony 34 Green Beem Casserole.png
Harry Plopper Popper White Blue Nile Clay 7 24 20 Lead 62 50 Harry Plopper.png
Harry Plopper II Popper White Philae Clay 18 24 5 Magnesium 16 Copper 19 49 ??
Hulk ?? ?? Blue Nile Beeswax 11 24 13 Aluminum 14 Hulk.png
Ice Comet Pulsing Cyan ?? Cactus Sap 10 5 55 Lead 43 Ice Comet.png
Kasiya's Comet Pulsing Blue Blue Nile Cactus Sap 11 5 27 Nickel 27 Copper 39 ??
MacStreamy ?? ?? Blue Nile Beeswax 12 16 53 Nickel 151 ?? ?? ?? ??
Orange Soda Sparkler Orange Blue Nile Tar 18 17 31 Nickel 12 31 ??
Peaches and Streams Pulsing Orange-Yellow Blue Nile Cactus Sap 7 2 44 Iron 6 Peaches and Streams.png
Red Stream Trail Red Blue Nile Cactus Sap 9 1 69 Nickel 95 ??
Sploot Popper White Blue Nile Clay 10 19 5 Silver 9 39 Sploot.png
Spongy Lemon Cone Yellow Philae Beeswax 12 19 16 Iron 82 Spongy Lemon.png
Starduster Sparkler Cyan Philae Tar 20 24 34 Lead 18 Copper 13 34 Starduster.png
Streaker ?? ?? Red Sea Beeswax 17 5 81 Copper 73 Iron 8 ??
Sun ?? ?? Blue Nile Cactus Sap 17 4 30 Iron 149 ??
Thin Irn Bru ?? ?? East Kush Beeswax 7 3 23 Iron 9 ??
Violetta ?? ?? Blue Nile Cactus Sap 7 4 18 Magnesium 139 ??
Whisp Trail White Blue Nile Beeswax 6 7 10 Magensium 17 Whisp.png

For Star Type, please use one of the following:

  • Pulsing - these have a strong glow on the first star, and usually leave a simple trail. There is considerable variability in the size of the star, and the length of the trail. The basic frog and canary designs are this type.
  • Cone (comets) - Have a strong glow at the front, and diffuse into a short 'cone' shape.
  • Bomb (poppers) - These are often hard to see, since they fly their lifetime unignited, and then explode at the end. Single poppers are useful as near-invisible platforms for delivering other stars, while showers of many poppers can be an impressive finale.
  • Trail ("Thin Red Line") - Long thin trails of light, often used for spirals and geometric shapes.
  • Sparkler - These are typically crowd favorites. They leave a shower of sparks as a trail, usually but not always in the same color as the head of the star.

Stars are typically a single basic color, but there are occasional instances of two-color stars. In some cases, both colors are present in the star, and in others, the star has a multi-coloured trail.

See also

Required By

Test of Pyrotechnics, Test of the Humble Priests

Produced By