The Birthday Event is a holiday celebrated on Jorvik, celebrating how long Star Stable Online has been open to play. It is held in September or early October. During this event, players can gather golden horse shoes, do special birthday races, shoot off fireworks and eat cake.
History[]
The first Birthday event was held in October of 2012. In the first version of this event, special shops were placed around Jorvik to allow players to purchase a special exclusive sweater, an exclusive set of tack, and fireworks for players to shoot off in designated areas.[1]
2013's Birthday added a new exclusive set of clothing and tack for purchase.[2]
2014's Birthday removed the exclusive clothing and tack from the event shops in favor of a Birthday Leader players could talk to each day to receive exclusive gear and tack pieces for that year. This year also introduced a special birthday race where players could run in a special location each day of the week. These special races had extremely large amounts of XP, so users could quickly level up a horse during the birthday week and have remained a staple of the Birthday Event since.[3]
2015's event remained the same as the year before.[4]
2016's Birthday involved removing the Birthday leader's gift-giving in favor of a set of special birthday quiz trails that players could take to win the special set of clothing and tack for that year.[5]
2017's event removed the quiz trails and introduced a new way to grab the exclusive gear and tack for that year, the Golden Horseshoes. These special shoes were hidden all over Jorvik, and once enough were collected, they could exchange the shoes with a birthday leader for the gifts for that year.[6]
2018, 2019, and 2020's celebrations remained largely the same, with only color changes and a location change. 2018's birthday moved the party's location and the birthday leader, to Old Jasper's House, just outside of Moorland.[7][8][9]
2021's birthday celebration was expanded upon from the previous years, reintroducing the Quiz Trails, adding a treasure hunt quest line, and adding an exclusive free horse, the Soul Steed. The event lasted four weeks instead of the usual two.[10]
The event in 2022 also had Quiz Trails and Golden Horseshoes like the previous year. The Soul Steed returned, this time for purchase for Star Coins, and a cake-baking quest line and theater acting quest line were added.[11]
Appearance of Jorvik[]
During the Birthday Event. Jorvik is decorated with the color scheme of the birthday in question (it's a different scheme each year) in the form of balloons, pennants, and lanterns hanging on almost every surface of the landscape. One noticeable difference is that a giant cake was placed in Firgrove starting in 2013 and remaining there for every event until 2018.
2018's Birthday cake was moved to Jasper's Old House just outside of Moorland and is more lavishly decorated in the hues of the birthday's color scheme. The area includes wood fencing, a wooden stage for music decorated with hanging lights and ribbons that players can play on, and a designated fireworks station.
There are picnic blankets laid out for players to lounge on and picnic tables surrounded around the giant cake sitting in the middle of it, all styled in a different look each year.
The color scheme for each birthday changes with each year, so far the colors have been:
- 2012 - Magenta, Purple, and White
- 2013 - Gold, Teal, and White
- 2014 - Purple, Green, and White
- 2015 - Navy, Coral, and White
- 2016 - Black, Pink, and Gold
- 2017 - Yellow, Blue, and White
- 2018 - Red, Yellow, and Green
- 2019 - Chocolate, Pink, and White
- 2020 - Purple, Pink, and Green
- 2021- Purple, Pink, and Black
- 2022 - Pastel Purple, Pastel Green, and White
- 2023 - Purple, Cream and Pink.
Quests and Races[]
The Birthday Events between 2012 and 2013 had no quests available and simply had items for purchase.
Only a single race was added for 2014's event, the Birthday Race, which has remained in the following years.
2016's Birthday introduced special Birthday quizzes, but they did not return until 2021's event. They returned again the following year.
2017's event introduced the Golden horse shoes allowing users to exchange them five of them in for a single piece of the set that year. To complete the full set, players needed to exchange 75 horseshoes. The quests have remained the same in following years.
The event in 2021 introduced a treasure hunt quest line, and 2022's event had a cake-baking quest line with Jamie Olivetree and a theater bootcamp with Thalia.
Gifts and Rewards[]
The 2012 to 2013 event simply had shops or users purchase special clothing sets, gear, and fireworks.
2014's event rewarded players finishing the Birthday races with large amounts of XP for their horse, and gave players the exclusive clothing and gear as prizes from the birthday leader.
2016's event gave players special gifts only after completing Quiz Trails.
In 2021, there was a free horse available during the event and a treasure hunt quest line was added.
Currently, there are now three ways to receive rewards during the event. XP can be gained through the Birthday Races and exclusive gear and clothing from exchanging five Golden horseshoes to the birthday leader, and completing the Quiz Trails rewards horse XP and clothing or tack.
Users may also purchase fireworks from special event shops and cake from the giant cake in the party area.
Horses[]
During the event, two limited time horses are available for purchase.
- Soul Steed
- American Paint Horse - Palomino Tobiano
Trivia[]
- During the 2023 Birthday Event, when a player were to be on their horse near the firework stand, every time a firework would go off it would give the players horse 10 horse xp. The feature was unfortunately removed on September 13th 2023, 1 week prior to being added. Players were exploiting the feature and standing AFK around the firework, causing some players to crash and have performance issues due to the massive amount of fireworks.
References[]
- ↑ "Star Stable's 1:st Birthday!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, October 3, 2012. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/93
- ↑ "Star Stable 2 Years!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, October 2, 2013. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/413
- ↑ "HAPPY THIRD BIRTHDAY STAR STABLE!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, October 1, 2014. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/982
- ↑ "Happy Birthday Star Stable!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, September 30, 2015. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/2066
- ↑ "HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAR STABLE!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, October 5, 2016. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/2993
- ↑ "Happy Sixth Birthday Star Stable!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, September 27, 2017. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/4232
- ↑ "Star Stable Turns 7 Years Old!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, October 3, 2018. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/5850
- ↑ "Happy Birthday to Star Stable!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, October 2, 2019. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/7543
- ↑ "Happy Birthday to Star Stable!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, September 30, 2020. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/9178
- ↑ "Happy 10th Birthday Star Stable!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, September 15, 2021. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/10763
- ↑ "11 Years of Star Stable!" Star Stable. Star Stable Entertainment, September 7, 2022. https://www.starstable.com/en/article/12660