The Persona of the Week Contest has been judged! Congratulations to Heartsmoothie on winning this week's competition.

This week's theme: Silver

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
Pyroz
ralmap
Pyroz
Pyroz
underdog

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Luck of the Draw - Available at the House of Luck in Badgeria!

Here are your new mayors for January!


Labrador City - BearCatSparkles
Kuvasz City - michelle2244
Pony City - SummerMaple
Collie City - RainbowGlass
Sheepdog City - truebloodvamp
Dolphin City - Bunchy
Wolfox City - jandjmom
Eagle City - fifercats
Gecko City - StellaEversole
Polar City - clair1231489
Somali City - RoseC

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Happy New Year! The News Years shirt is sold in the Clothes shop!

Thank you mionekitsune for the new shirt!

The Ansvin Pinata is back and looking suspiciously cheerful for something about to get absolutely demolished. Here's your chance to work through whatever 2025 threw at you. Financial stress? Relationship drama? That one Terrafrostian who keeps undercutting your trades? Take it all out on this innocent paper creation!

The rules are simple: sacrifice a Battle Item from your inventory, give the pinata a solid thwack, and collect your reward. You get three chances daily (one per hour) to turn your weapons into a past Ansvin Pinata, or Pinata Prize. It's basically alchemy, but more violent.





Ready for some high-stakes pinata action? Pinata Mania is where fortunes are won (and confetti is scattered). Every click could be the click, the one that breaks open the prize pinata. Or it could just be another burst of colorful paper. The suspense is half the fun!

Fresh rounds start every half hour on the dot (:00 and :30) and wrap up the moment someone claims victory. By default, you can click every 30 seconds, but grab a UHD from the I.C.E Shop and you'll be clicking every 15 seconds instead. That upgrade works on other seasonal games too, so it's helpful for the dedicated prize hunter.

Pinata Mania ends January 25th at 23:59:59 IST so don't miss out!




The votes have been tallied, and it's time to announce the winners of Member of the Month (MOTM for short)! For this month's Yet to Win MOTM, everyone congratulate...

@Sharshee

Thank you for making IcePets a better place!



Next up, the winner of the Free for All MOTM, please congratulate...

@Crankydragon

Thank you for your continuing contributions to our community!



Both of these fantastic members will receive 100,000 IcePoints and either the exclusive Member of the Month Avatar, or, if they already have it, the Honoured Member Trophy.






While member votes were tallying for MOTM, Staff votes tallied for SOTM, and this month's winner is...

@Tinkerbell

To acknowledge their contributions to the team, we've created the following Item in their honour! You can get this Item once a day by visiting the Staff Page every day this month.


Electronic Diary





As we move into January, new Items can be found in the I.C.E Shop for the duration of the month! Head on over to pick up the new Butterfly Hairclips and Ice Cream Cake, along with the returning Spa Day Figurine. Each of these is priced at 500 IceCash (or 450 IceCash for Icicle and Glacier Tier Iced Accounts)!



Low on IceCash? Don't fret -- we have something for you as well! Consider stopping by the Toy Trunk for the Burnt CD! It'll also be rewarded by the Plushie Quest, and a week from now, the Space Quest will begin requesting it. We're also rolling out the new Prismdash Ridix! You can find it at Plushie Palace and rewarded by the Book Quest. One week from now it will also be requested by the Plushie Quest.

Companion Sanctuary

The latest trophies have been awarded, and the leaders are as follows:

• First Place, with a score of 206:
  
  
• RiverStarr
• Second Place, with a score of 146:
  
  
• Rustfreeze
• Third Place, with a score of 50:
  
  
• WidgetWings

Last week's round of What Am I has ended.

The item description was: Wonder what this does...?
The answer was: Water Potion.

12 out of 12 Ichuans answered correctly.

A new round of What Am I has started. Good luck!

A brand new month has arrived, which means we also have a new Premium Gift!




This Premium Gift is available until the end of the month for all upgraded users. Head to your Index Control Panel to accept this month's gift whenever you are ready! Don't forget to open it and see what is inside. :)


Not yet Premium? CLICK HERE for more details, or head to the TE Items Shop to buy an upgrade item! Enjoy!

We'll be updating a few things behind the scenes starting at 5am today (January 1). The goal is to speed up the site, an ongoing project we've been doing one bit at a time. UPDATE: Our first set of updates is complete, a number of frequently used database tables have been converted to a faster internal format. One change you'll probably notice is that we've cleaned up the massive notifications table and archived notifications over 90 days old. This brought the number of active notifications from 16,000,000 down to a much more manageable 250,000. Notifications are being added constantly, and referenced by users frequently, so this one change should help speed up the site immediately. It's not the whole picture, of course, but lots of small improvements will result in a progressively faster site. Thanks so much for your patience and understanding! -- Code

On this brisk January morning, an orange and blue Normal sits at a picnic table. He has a checklist in one paw and skims through an open book with the other. It is well-known around Lunaria that Howie’s greatest passion - next to giving helpful advice, of course - is birdwatching. He sticks the checklist into the book as a bookmark and adjusts the strap on his binoculars when he notices you. “Oh! Hello there. Are you preparing to look for the Pearbird too?” he asks, face lighting up even though his eyes are well-hidden by his bangs. Before you can even answer, he launches into further details at rapid speed. “They are exceedingly rare and hard to locate because they are so shy, but I read that winter is the best time to look for them because there is less foliage for them to hide in. Not to mention their tracks are quite obvious in the snow. I feel really good about my odds today! They are one of the few birds in Lunaria I haven&rsqu

Tomorrow (Jan 2) the site will be offline between 6:00-6:30am Wajas Time so we can update some database settings.

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: Debowski


If you want to have a chance to win next week, make sure to keep your Snapz! updated and current for the season.

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 8218

There were NO winners.

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Mega Money Madness under the GAMES icon.

2025 is almost gone... Just the other day it was still new! I swear! :) But now 2026 is closing in. As is our custom around 8:30 - 9 PM Puma Time we will likely start our New Years Eve BASH on Discord in the General chat. Yes there will be pumas flung, some fun "bash only" gifts and lots of chatter! If you like this sorta thing come join us!

Hope to see you there!

Just a quick flash game to kick of the year. Go to this thread and post your goals for the new year! You will have the chance of winning items form the prize claim thread.  Thread This will be open from 12/31-1/2 at midnight.