The catch rule the whole game hangs on
Every star is caught in two moves. You lock onto it, then trace its constellation before your light runs out. The official listing is explicit that the rarer the star, the harder it fights back, which means the trace that lands an Epic will not necessarily land a Mythic.
The prompt above is the second move. Numbered points appear over the star, and the line only completes when you join them in sequence rather than in any order. A node missed or taken out of order costs time you do not get back, because the light bar is running the whole time.
The rarity ladder, with real player counts
The badge list is the only public place where Starfall reports how many accounts reached a tier. Epic Catch sits at 178,149 awards, Legendary Catch at 80,866 and Mythic Catch at 36,994, against 212,409 accounts holding the Welcome badge. That is 83.9 percent, 38.1 percent and 17.4 percent, and it describes the real curve better than any tier list written by feel.
| Rarity | What proves it exists | Players who reached it | Share of players |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rare | Brass Lantern card: reveals stars up to Rare | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Epic | Epic Catch badge | 178,149 | 83.9% |
| Legendary | Legendary Catch badge | 80,866 | 38.1% |
| Mythic | Mythic Catch badge | 36,994 | 17.4% |
| Secret: Star Kraken | The Star Kraken badge, called the deep reef's Secret | 4,796 | 2.3% |
| Secret: The Heart of the Moon | The Heart of the Moon badge | 13,981 | 6.6% |
| Secret: The First Star | The First Star badge, burning above Aurora Peak | 23,021 | 10.8% |
| Golden, Rainbow, Huge | Official listing names all three as bonus stars | Not recorded | Not recorded |
Read the last row carefully. Golden, Rainbow and Huge are described as bonus stars rather than tiers, so there is no badge for them and no count to quote. A page that prints a percentage for a Huge star is printing something the game has not published.
The three Secret stars
Three badges name a Secret catch, and each carries one hint rather than a location.
- The Star Kraken is the deep reef's Secret, and the badge text warns it does not let go easily. It is the rarest of the three at 4,796 awards, so a little over two percent of accounts have caught one.
- The Heart of the Moon tells you to follow its heartbeat through the dark. At 13,981 awards it is the most reachable of the three, which makes it the sensible first Secret to chase.
- The First Star is the oldest light in the sky, burning above Aurora Peak. It sits at 23,021 awards, and the official preview video closes on the question of whether you can catch it.
Two of those are places rather than rarities, so the hint is doing double duty as a location. The deep reef and Aurora Peak are landmarks, not islands, and the island page keeps the two apart.
Weight and what a star sells for
A caught star carries a weight in kilograms, and the Star Keeper pays by weight. The one reading this site can show is a Phoenix at 1.3 kg worth 143,000 Stardust, taken from the official preview video.
Treat that as a single record rather than a rate. The game does not publish a price per kilogram, and rarity is clearly involved, so two stars at 1.3 kg do not have to pay the same. What the number is good for is scale: a full bag of double-digit-kilogram stars is worth more than the four codes combined, which is why selling before you log off matters more than any single grind.
What is still unconfirmed
The complete Star Index is not published anywhere outside the client, so this page cannot name every star per rarity. The multiplier between tiers is unrecorded, and so is the size of a Golden, Rainbow or Huge bonus. Those three appear in the table without a count because the official listing names them and stops there.
If a site claims a full rarity list with exact odds today, compare it against the badge counts first. Six numbers on this page came from the game itself; a list that contradicts them is the one to doubt.