Stars

Stars are a resource exclusive to Scrap Clicker 2 and is the primary measurement of progress in the game. Stars passively increase Scrap production similarly to Golden Scrap.

Purchasing Stars
The player's first 10 Stars are earned or "purchased" by resetting their Barrels, Scrap upgrades, and Golden Scrap. Each Star purchased requires the player to have accumulated a certain amount of Golden Scrap first and multiplies their Scrap production by 10 for each Star owned.

Unlocks
At 5 Stars, the player unlocks the Scrapyard, allowing them to spend Scrap to reduce the Golden Scrap required to purchase Stars. The Scrapyard becomes inaccessible once the player reaches 10 Stars. At 6 stars, the GS Multipliers are unlocked.

Upgrading Stars
Once the player has accumulated 10 Stars, the player can no longer purchase more; instead, at 4 million Golden Scrap (often referred to as "x10.5 Stars"), the player is afforded the ability to individually upgrade and increment the Scrap production multiplier for each Star.

In order to upgrade Stars, the player must spend Golden Scrap, Magnets, and Star Fragments. Because upgrades become more expensive the more a Star is upgraded, it is most cost-effective to upgrade them evenly. At the first few star upgrades, Golden Scrap and Fragments are the most expensive, but this changes until ~x30, then Magnets become the main problem of upgrading stars and at ~x90 they're the only one, if played right.

Milestones
Many of the game's features are unlocked at certain Star milestones:

Pre 10 stars milestones

 * 1st Star - Unlocks Teams.
 * 1st Star - Unlocks Leaderboards.
 * 5th Star - Unlocks Scrapyard.
 * 6th Star - Unlocks GS Multipliers.
 * 9th Star - Unlocks Team Leagues.

10 stars+ milestones

 * 10th Star - Removes the first Scrapyard.
 * - Unlocks Star upgrading.
 * x12 Stars - Unlocks Scrapyard v2.
 * x15 Stars - Unlocks Bricks and Brick Multipliers.
 * x20 Stars - Unlocks creating a team.
 * x30 Stars - Unlocks Team Challenges.
 * x40 Stars - Unlocks Skill Tree

Skill Tree milestones

 * x40 Stars - Unlocks Steel Beams
 * x75 Stars - Unlocks Scrapyard v3.
 * x100 Stars - Unlocks Wrenches.
 * x115 Stars - Unlocks Scrapyard v4.
 * x130 Stars - Unlocks Tires.
 * x250 Stars - Unlocks Scrapyard v5.

Star Bombs
Star bombs are a community-coined term for upgrading multiple stars in quick succession. There is no practical benefit on waiting to upgrade, but some may argue there is a certain style to it.

Here are some terms that may be used to describe the size of a star bomb:
 * 1-2: No bomb
 * 3-5: Very small bomb, Micro bomb
 * 6-9: Small bomb
 * 10-15: Medium Bomb
 * 16-24: Big Bomb
 * 25+: Very big bomb, Crazy bomb, Awesome bomb, Epic bomb

Star Wall
Another community term. The Star Wall is the point, where upgrading stars takes almost ages. Before the release of the fifth Scrapyard, it was at x1710, now after it's release it is speculated to be at x1860, but if this is right yet has to be confirmed by the v5's true power. The Star Wall at x1710 needed 120 faster barrels / 20 hours straight for a star, at x1860 it is ~80 faster barrels with a tireyard effect of +500%.

Video
There's a video made by Schrottii, showing upgrading stars, mostly focusing on a star bomb.

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