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| image = [[File:Goldberry.png|96px]]
| othernames = Goldberry
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'''Golden Strawberries''' (shortened to '''goldens''', '''goldberrys''', or simply '''gbs''') are special [[Strawberry|berries]], tinted gold in color and with a crown on top, unlocked upon completing {{ch|8B|lf=1}}. After being unlocked, they appear at the start of every chapter, except for.<ref>In {{ch|6A}}, all sides of {{ch|8|lf=1}} (all sides), and {{ch|9|lf=1}}<ref>In each of these chapters, the golden strawberry appears at the start of the second checkpoint (the second room in {{ch|8C}},). This skips the secondwaiting room)in cutscenes, crystal heart gate animations, and trivial gameplay.</ref>. They are collected only at the last gameplay screens of the chapter in A-Sides, and upon collecting a heartCrystal Heart in B-Sides and C-Sides.
Upon picking one up, the player must finish the entire chapter without dying to collect it. Dying at any point within the chapter will result in both the loss of the berry and the player being teleported back to the room where they first obtained it.
Golden Strawberries are meant to be some of the most difficult challenges in ''Celeste''. Upon the collection ofcollecting a golden strawberryberry, the chapter in the level select menu gains a golden tint (for its specific side). Obtaining all 202 strawberries will give the entire save file (in the save select menu) a gold-tinted background.
The easiest golden strawberry is generally accepted to be the one in {{ch|lf=1|1a}}. This is followed by {{ch|lf=2|2a}}, as well as the C-Sides, owing to their short length. The B-Sides are generally the hardestharder because they bring both length and difficulty. Farewell is by far the hardestmost difficult in the vanilla game. You can attempt to {{Tooltip|golden|complete without deaths (some maps replace the golden berry visual)}} almost every [[Mods|modded]] map; some of them are significantly harder than Farewell and have only a handful of goldeners, or none at all.
Unlike practicing for [[speedruns]], obtaining a Golden Strawberry is all about '''consistency''' and being able to makemaking it across a large number of rooms without dying once. [[Celestecord]] has some advice for collecting them. However, doing as such usually will not yield it on the first attempt; keep trying, practice makes perfect.
A [[winged golden strawberry]] exists in ''Celeste''; however, it is unrelated to the other Golden Strawberries. This winged golden strawberry, insteadInstead of requiring completing a level without dying, it requires completing {{ch|lf=1|1a}} without dashing at all<ref>You are allowed to dash by accident so long as you die before collecting a Red Strawberry or advance to the next room.</ref>.
== Trivia ==
* Prior to the addition of ''{{ch|9|lf=1}}'', there were 200 strawberries in total.
* On [https://www.neoseeker.com/celeste/Celeste_Collectibles Neoseeker Celeste Wiki], a [[Fun:A Cautionary note about golden strawberries|cautionaryCautionary note]] existsexisted warning the players about the "statistical impossibility" of collecting all 25 golden berries<ref>It washad been written on February 22, 2018, before the addition of Farewell, so it excludesexcluded the Farewell Golden Berry. Imagine how this "cautionary note" would lookhave looked if it had existed then!</ref>. ItFive hasyears later, it was removed from Neoseeker by Artubass. It becomebecame a meme in the Celeste community and is frequently referenced to this day.
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