⭐ Stars — how they spawn & where they go

How the in-run Star / SuperStar field collectibles are distributed in Claw Master, whether spawns are random, and what they're spent on. Both are CurrencyItemConfig wallet currencies earned and spent inside a run — there is no separate meta "Star" currency, and the meta "Star Trail" feature does not consume them (see §4).

172

Star — authored wave drops (16 biomes)

SuperStar — authored wave drops

200

Waves counted

Distinct spawn paths

1 · How a star reaches the player — three paths FACT

(a) Authored per-wave drops — primary, deterministic. Each wave's EnemyWaveData.Drops is a fixed list of {ItemConfig, int Amount} (no weight/chance). Spawned as grabbable field items by LevelSpawnDropsAbility.Spawn(...) and collected via HoldGrabAbility.CreateGrab. e.g. Enchanted Forest wave 1 = Star ×2. FACT
(b) Per-kill weighted drop table. EnemyDropConfig has two instances — "Default" (Common enemies) and "Super" (Super enemies) — each a weighted EnemyDropTable[] (Item, Weight, Limit + Min/MaxCount). Both include Star at Weight 1.0. FACT (kill-drop = the path; method bodies stripped) INFER
(c) Grab-carriers. GrabCarrier_Bat is a moving carrier spawned by LevelSpawnGrabCarrierAbility; 47 waves list one. In the extracted data carriers bind no star payload, so their star contribution is UNKNOWN.
+ In-run skill. The Stars skill grants IncreaseCurrencyEffectConfig "Get 3 Stars" — picking it adds +3 Star to the wallet directly (not a field spawn). FACT

2 · Chance / probability FACT

Authored wave drops: no chance. EnemyDropData = {ItemConfig, int Amount} only — placement and amount are deterministic per wave. FACT
Kill-drop table: weighted. EnemyDropTable has float Weight + int Limit; Star = Weight 1.0 in both tables. Exact roll count (Min/MaxCount) is ambiguous in the byte dump, so the resulting per-kill probability is UNKNOWN.
Modifiable: ModifyItemSpawnChanceEffectConfig / ModifyItemSpawnChanceBonusData let skills/relics multiply a given item's field-spawn chance at runtime. Whether any ship-default targets Star is UNKNOWN.

3 · Stars per biome — authored wave drops FACT

Recomputed here directly from biome_waves_detailed.json drops (item = Star / SuperStar), in play order. Amounts are fixed small integers (Star 1–2, SuperStar 1); the final ~3 waves of each biome (boss/clear) drop nothing. Kill-table, carrier and skill stars are extra and not counted here.

#	Biome	Waves	Star	SuperStar
1	Enchanted Forest	10	8	2
2	Mystic Woods	15	13	3
3	Frozen Tundra	10	9	2
4	Crystal Caves	15	13	3
5	Molten Fields	10	9	2
6	Clockwork Factory	15	13	3
7	Desert Oasis	10	8	2
8	Abandoned City	15	13	3
9	Poisonous Marsh	10	9	2
10	Glacial Peaks	15	13	3
11	Scrapyard	10	8	2
12	Blazing Caves	15	13	3
13	Dark Catacombs	10	9	2
14	Ancient Ruins	15	13	3
15	Neon District	10	8	2
16	Ghostly Swamp	15	13	3
	TOTAL	200	172	40

4 · What stars are spent on — the in-run Vendor FACT

Field Star / SuperStar are an in-run shop currency spent at the mid-run Vendor. Star buys common offers; SuperStar buys the premium/defensive ones. (The Vendor also has Gem-priced offers — HoneyPot, Book, StarPack, Cheese=revive — and reroll costs 1 RerollCoin.)

Offer	Cost	Effect
Acorn	Star ×1	heal once (HealOnceBonusData)
Fork	Star ×1	+damage
PepperBomb	Star ×1	+ammo damage
BulletPocket	Star ×1	+ammo
Garlic	Star ×1	+damage
BerryJam	Star ×1	+heal items
Cake	Star ×2	+damage
Soup	Star ×2	heal once
Chitin	SuperStar ×1	−received damage
DogCollar	SuperStar ×1	+claw size
Shovel	SuperStar ×1	+bonus refill height

Star Trail is a different system INFER

The meta Star Trail (StarTrailConfig, namespace Game.Meta.GemMelter) is a separate time-gated ladder using a StarDustConfig point currency with goal thresholds (200, 450, 800 … up to ~16,950) paying out Coins / RerollCoin / Tower&Dungeon tickets / ResurrectionStone / RelicKey — never Star/SuperStar. Whether its points are literally the field stars or a hidden "StarDust" balance is UNKNOWN (no CurrencyConfig(StarDust) instance appears in the dumps). Treat Star Trail as meta, separate from the in-run star loop.

5 · Other facts FACT

Stars are not a meta reward — zero occurrences in all_rewards / biome_rewards / tower_rewards / dungeon_rewards. Purely an in-run pickup → Vendor loop.
Not convertible — Star/SuperStar don't appear in ConversionConfig (which only converts Gem → HeroCredit/Coin/Energy/HeroCard).
Not a meta-upgrade cost — despite a README phrasing "stars × level × cost", the meta-audit confirms MetaUpgradeRanksConfig has no "StarsRequired" field. Any "stars to rank up" framing is wrong.
Tutorial doesn't force a star drop (only "Bullet" appears as a tutorial-possible drop).
Per-grab stack/display cap appears to be 10 (CurrencyItemConfig); wallet cap UNKNOWN.

Facts / inferences / gaps

FACT: the three spawn paths' existence, deterministic wave drops vs weighted kill table (Star weight 1.0), the per-biome authored totals (recomputed: 172 Star + 40 SuperStar / 200 waves), the Vendor spend table, and that stars are not meta rewards/convertible/rank costs. INFER: kill-table is the per-kill path (bodies stripped); Star Trail is a separate meta system. GAPS: exact per-kill drop probability (Min/MaxCount ambiguous); grab-carrier star payload; whether Star Trail points equal field stars; per-run total star earn/spend rate is not extracted (economy_simulation.json flags it) — so kill/carrier/skill stars on top of the 172 authored ones are un-quantified.