Hello! Sorry its been a bit since I last updated and the last update was the farming feature.. well I promise I have been working on things- Its just not easy to do artwork right now since its so cold out and my wrist hates me. But I promise stuff is in the works despite my Radio silence-

Again I usually update/talk/ask more on the discord server- so if you wanna see more updates- be involved in more stuff with the site I would suggest joining there-  https://discord.com/invite/EqFQcWx

In other news we have other things in the works- we are working on a New pet species- Its a horse-type- but theres still a ways to go for that!

---You can no longer view a banned users Profile (they also dont show up in the user list anymore either-)




--- You can also now tell if a crop is harvestable or not-



--- Added two new slot machines to the Casino- Candy and Bead ones. They arent the most amazing- but something!



--The online list no longer tells you how much money a user has- (I thought it was ridiculous and sort of dangerous- and only setting up beggars to know who to beg at.) So now it shows how many crops a user is growing-



---Added in some Croatian names thanks to Cheba the smol bee
"Sinisa", "Pero", "Ljubimir", "Zvonimir", ¢Mislav¢, ¢Luka¢, ¢Arsen¢, ¢Ivica¢, ¢Domagoj¢, ¢Hrvoje¢, ¢Sasa¢, ¢Damir¢, ¢Davor¢, ¢Mirko¢, ¢Kristijan¢, ¢Marijan¢, ¢Josip¢, ¢Ivona¢, ¢Ana¢, ¢Zeljka¢, ¢Danijela¢, ¢Zvijezdana¢, ¢Tea¢, ¢Mateja¢

Its a mix of masculine/feminine.. since there really arent any gender nuetral names I learned XD sooooooo Thanks bee!


---There is a new Welcome screen when you login! You'll notice theres now weather and your fave pets status! I plan to update/upgrade show more stuff and evenutally make the weather do something but for now you have this-



Im also working on some other things, and minor things, as well as major things! Theres alot going on behind the scenes!

But yea thanks for sticking with me!

~Till next time!

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

The item description was: Watch Mel-T dance around for hours without melting!
The answer was: Wind-Up Mel-T.

13 out of 14 Ichuans answered correctly.

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

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: Kazzy


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: 3174

There were NO winners.

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

[ Mutation Rework Update ] Hello, hello folks! Hope y'alls February is treating you well. We're coming to you with an update regarding the mutation reworks and the mutation marking updates. Once more, thank you everyone for your patience as we work on improving Wajas, we love and appreciate it. There will also be a few polls posted , so check those out once you've finished reading this, but please read this in full. Polls will end on the 13th of February to give Fatal time to make the necessary changes by the 21st release date. First and foremost, please consider this a notice: All updates mentioned in this news post will go live February 21st , we do not have an actual time for release, so if you need to do anything to your Wajas, and want to do it before the changes happen, you should aim to have everything done by February 20th to be safe. Alright, onward to the updates! Lets gooooo! Mutation Marking updates to release 2/21: Bones - Bat W

Do you have the strength to pull the Valentine's Sword from this stone!?!? Try your luck every hour during the Cupid's Cloud event for another chance.

Every week, we will be selecting a random pet's blog from the Pet Zone. Only up-to-date blogs will apply for this.

This week, the award goes to Deidre, who wanted privacy to eat her treat! (read the blog to find out more)
For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner jamileigh17 a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zone and ADD/keep UPDATED BLOGS to your pet images, so you have a chance to win!

Who knows, they might win the next weekly Pet Zone contest.

It seems like things are heating up this Amourok season... but also freezing up?

After the Ice Pets made their debut, they've gained quite a bit of attention over the past few months. While the Ice Pets have reveled in this newfound fame, it's also caused a little tension with the Fire Pets.



"Ever since the Snowslide Expedition, everyone has been praising those goofy Ice Pets nonstop!" Helia, a Fire Trido, scoffs with displeasure. "In my opinion, it's starting to get to their heads. Holding up in the cold may be an impressive feat, sure. But anyone can bundle up and face a snowstorm! Swimming through a volcano, though? Now that's impressive!"



"Well," Cypress, an Ice Ori, pipes in, "I believe that after spending so many years isolated from the rest of Terrafrost, a little bit of appreciation is due! Besides, this is a planet with a notably cold climate -- don't you think that enduring frigid temperatures is far more valuable than showing off?"

The tension has only grown stronger as Amourok approaches; it looks like we're in for another battle of the colours.

So, will you join Helia in her fight for the Fire Pets? Or will you side with Cypress as she defends her fellow Ice Pets? To take part in this competition, head over to the Amourok sign up page, and your fate will be decided!



Once you've been assigned a team, you can begin collecting Empty Heart Fragments. These can be found around the site in NPC shops (aside from Snow Jar Igloo or Golden Touch), or alternatively, as rewards for playing Heart Breaker and completing quests. Once you collect four different fragments, your team leader can turn them into a Full Blazing Heart or a Full Frosty Heart. If you're lucky, you may even come across some already-assembled Full Hearts while hunting for fragments, too!

Each completed heart you bring gives your team a boost towards victory. So if you're eager to find out which Pet is truly superior, it's time to get hunting for hearts -- Helia and Cypress are counting on their fellow Terrafrostians!

The bait has been hooked, fishing line cast and we have caught catlady167 for this weeks aquarium contest winner!

....Congrats!

¢¢Remember, make sure you feed and care for your fish/tank and collect your nessies bonus daily, if you want a chance to win next week!

Tomorrow, February 9th, is our monthly staff dicey challenge day. You could win $500,000 PB and a cool brand new, never seen before, Dicey Lynx Stuffy!

To win, all you will need to do is defeat a staff member in a 500k Dicey Challenge.

Once you have won, please do not continue challenging the staff.

Good luck, and we hope to see those who dare take on staff, tomorrow!

It's time to head over to Miles Magic Box and see if you can figure out which item is depicted by the artistic rendering. If you do before next week, you'll win a cool prize!

The season of Amourok is finally here! If you're looking for a way to pass the time between giving gifts and snacking on sweets, why not play a few rounds of Heart Breaker?



Never played Heart Breaker before? The rules are fairly simple. To play this game, users may click one heart every thirty seconds for a chance to win a prize. (If you're feeling antsy, you can purchase a UHD from the I.C.E Shop to click every fifteen seconds instead). The game will end once someone wins an Amourok Plush. A new game begins every thirty minutes, so you'll have plenty of chances to play and win!



Aside from Plushes, there are plenty of fun consolation prizes to be won as well. For the first half of the event, we'll be rewarding Items from last year's Amourok. Then, on February 15th, we'll switch them out for some brand new Items!

Heart Breaker will be open until the end of Amourok on February 23rd, 23:59:59 IcePets Time. That's a whole lot of time to play!



Additionally, two classic Amourok Items will be returning today. Keep an eye out for the Love Letter and Evil Letter, which you can find in any NPC shop (except for the Snow Jar Igloo and Golden Touch).



Have you saved up your Ice Cash? Now might be a good time to start, because we also have four Amourok Items returning to the I.C.E Shop! The Dessert for Two, Single Red Rose, Love Ridix Plush, and Ruby Ice Cube are now available for just 500 IceCash each (450 for Gold Users).

All of these returning Items will be available until February 23rd, 23:59:59 IcePets Time. After that, they'll be put back into storage until next year, so be sure to hunt them down while you have the chance!

[center] Dz has made us some new sweaters to help keep our human avatars warm!

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Valentines Day Sweaters - Only available to buy when we are celebrating Valentines Day!

[img]https://solpets.com/images/human_avatar/female/top/item_180.png[/img] [img]https://solpets.com/images/human_avatar/female/top/item_179.png[/img] [img]https://solpets.com/images/human_avatar/female/top/item_182.png[/img] [img]https://solpets.com/images/human_avatar/female/top/item_181.png[/img]

Thank you Dz! They look great! :) [/center]

We've broken ground! Our newest Trading Post activity, Arlo's Ancient Artifacts is now live. You can now begin helping Arlo the Obelisk dig for new and exciting discoveries!

Arlo's Ancient Artifacts

The incredible findings of the Dustcarve Dig have spurred new interest in archaeology throughout Sornieth! Clans everywhere are beginning to break ground and aid the Dragonhome Preservation Guild in the search for treasures and trinkets.

Image Caption: A banner image of a brown, green, and goldenrod obelisk dragon holding a pickaxe and wearing excavation gear.

Arlo, one of several obelisk dragons that have taken up this pursuit, needs your clan's help in the myriad digsites he oversees across the realm. In this new Trading Post activity, you can muster resources and use them to dig in sites and plots to find precious artifacts. You can also share your research with your friends.

Mustering Resources

Once per day, you are able to Muster Resources. This action adds a randomized assortment of tools to your archaeological project. Pickaxes, magnifying glasses, and research notes can be procured, and each has a special purpose towards uncovering artifacts in digsites. Mustering Resources also rewards experience.


Digsites

Digsites are thematic collections of tiled plots that, once uncovered, will yield items and experience points.

Much like Baldwin's Bubbling Brew, your archaeology experience dictates what digsites your clan is able to work on, and thusly, what rewards and items you can uncover. Although the feature debuts today with only one available digsite, Thunder Lizards, you can expect more sites to open up as part of our future content updates. NOTE: Future digsites will require a minimum archaeology level in order to access and work on them.

Items available through the Thunder Lizards dig site include:

Get to Work

Within a digsite, you'll be shown an assortment of different sized plots, which all have a number of dirt tiles to be uncovered. In order to yield an artifact reward, you must uncover all of the tiles within a plot. Uncovering tiles is made possible by the resources you've mustered, and any research that has been shared with you by your friends.

Types of Work Orders

There are two types of digging actions ("work orders") you can perform with the tools you collect using Muster Resources.

• Rugged Work: Performing this action consumes one pickaxe from your resources and will begin a work order on multiple random tiles, selected from any available plots. Using a pickaxe also rewards experience.
• Precise Work: Performing this action consumes one (1) magnifying glass from your resources and will allow you to specifically choose a plot within the current digsite to work on. One (1) random tile in the plot will be worked. Using a magnifying glass also rewards experience.

Image Caption: An animation depicting a pickaxe striking an individual tile within a digsite plot.

Image Caption: An animation depicting a magnifying glass searching an individual tile within a digsite plot.

After some time has passed, your work orders will complete and you can clear the tiles away¢revealing a bit of the artifact(s) beneath!

Image Caption: An animation depicting a tile that has completed its work order and is crumbling away to reveal part of the underlying artwork beneath the dirt tile grid.

Sharing Research

In addition to tools, you can procure research notes from your field team. And in the spirit of collaboration, these notes are intended for you to share with your fellow players! You can share research notes in several ways:

• Assist a Friend: You can send up to three (3) research notes to a player on your friends list. The notes will appear as worked tiles randomly dispersed on their eligible plots, across all their unlocked digsites. Research note recipients can have no more than nine (9) tiles unlocked by research notes at a time. They must uncover those tiles to receive more. Assist a Friend also rewards experience.
• Share with Colleagues: You can send up to three (3) research notes to random active players on your friends list. Each randomly chosen player will receive one (1) note. The notes will appear as worked tiles randomly dispersed on their eligible plots, across all their unlocked digsites. Share with Colleagues also rewards experience.
• Donate to the Guild: For those that don't care to share their notes or prefer solo play, you can relinquish 8 notes to the Dragon Home Preservation Guild in exchange for additional digging tools. This is a change we've made based on player feedback from the earlier Dev Update post previewing this feature.

We're excited to finally share this new feature with our community, and excited to see what everyone digs up!



Trickmurk Circus Skin Contest

The ninth annual Trickmurk Circus will begin February 20, 2022, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Click here for more information!

FAQ

We will be adding as many answers to community questions within this part of the post. Check back periodically!



Why is my Friends List empty or missing someone when I go to share my research notes?

In order to be able to share your research notes, they must:

• Have used Arlo's Ancient Artifacts at least once.
• Be an active player.
• Have not already reached their research notes limit.

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What is the research notes limit?

Once you've 9 tiles unlocked from research notes sent by your friends, you must uncover those tiles to receive more research help from others.

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Are plots only able to be completed once?

Once you complete a plot and collect it it can be completed again and again. You receive a little ribbon for each plot you complete at least once!

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Do resources reset at rollover?

Resources (pickaxe/magnifying glass/research notes) do not reset to zero at rollover. You can muster again after rollover.

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Is there a cap on stored resources?

The cap for resources is so high, it's effectively uncapped. You don't need to worry about maxing out your stored resources in the event you're only able to muster resources for a period of time.