The easter bunny is hopping around and wiggling his tail in excitement at this announcement. This means you can now fill players baskets with goodies and enter the daily peggscape contest!

--To open your Peggscape: Go to your profile and click the peggscape link. Create your peggscape using the list available in the "All Items' section.

--To activate your basket for goodies: Go to your profile, click the easter basket link and activate. (( Items with an average value of 2500PBucks and up can be set in baskets. ))
¢¢Contest will begin April 4th(due to late opening) and end April 30th.

¢¢Prize will be a trophy for your profile and a one month free account upgrade!

¢¢To Enter Contest:Sign-up in THIS post for the first day. Once the first daily winner has been chosen, you will then sign up in the daily winner update for your chance to win!




So hop to it! Get those baskets open and get a start on creating your peggscapes! You never know when the bunny will come a-hoppin' down the wabbit trail and leave a surprise for you! Have fun!!

Peggscapes no longer use flash. Not all items have been tested yet, so if you find one with issues, please report it.

Enjoy designing your peggscapes!

• A brand-new Shoryu outfit is here, hot off the presses! Swing by Uni's Clothing Shop today to check out the Messenger Shoyru outfit!

  
  

• Are you ready for a sweet new Shoyru colour? Take a dip in the Rainbow Pool today to check out the Candy Shoyru!

  

• A new selection of Poems for Shoyru Day awaits! Did any of your verses make the cut?

  

• Ahoy maties! Don't forget there is free training for all pets on their day! Today all Shoyru will get FREE training from Cap'n Threelegs so make sure you head over and get your free training on!

  

• The Art Gallery has been updated with two wonderful pages of Shoyru Day themed submissions to get you through the week. Check them out here and here!

  

• The April Fool's Day Edition of the Neopian Times will be released later today! Get ready to check out some of the great new series, including "The Flash Drive," or read through the Editorial for the answers to some of the most buzzed-about questions around Neopia.

  

• Congratulations to the latest Beauty Contest winners - Snuggleable, _Flotsylicious_, and Icepha! Head over to the contest page to check out the top 3 entries or vote for your favourite entry in the next round of competition!

  

• NC MALL NEWS: Today is your last chance for Dyeworks! Make sure you stop by Loic's Dyeworks Studio while you still can! The Mysterious Morphing Experiment Retired Mystery Capsules and bundles will also be going offsale on April 4th. Be sure to swing by the NC Mall today so you don't miss out on these spectacular items!

  

Dance, Wushi, Dance!

Raffle now open! Join the merriment! :)

Calling all Festive Wushi!

^.^

A new Pet has joined Terrafrost, and though the comedy of Prankster Day still lingers in the air, we promise we're not pulling your leg! This brand new goofy Pet is sure to fill your holiday with plenty of laughter. Put your hands together for the one and only Prankster Cobron!



As with all Prankster Pets, your Cobron will need to get whacked with a delicious Prankster Pie to get this new design. These can be purchased at Sugar Rush, and can be more easily found as the rarity will be temporarily lowered.



Feeling brave? The Suspicious Present will be restocking in all NPC shops (except for the Snow Jar Igloo and Golden Touch) and given as a reward in all quests. For those who aren't familiar, within this gift box lies one of many sweet items that are perfect for the spirit of Prankster Day -- most of which, by the way, have been revamped for the holiday! This includes the Suspicious Present itself, the Peanut Surprise (formerly known as Fart Spray), the Propeller Hat (formerly known as I Got Pranked T-Shirt), Prankster Dovu Ice Cube (formerly known as April Fools Dovu Ice Cube), Prankster Jakrit Ice Cube (formerly known as April Fools Jakrit Ice Cube), Prankster Ori Plush, Prankster Pie, Prankster Pie Ice Cube (formerly known as Prankster Ice Cube), and last but not least, the Joy Buzzer. Get one while you still can, because the Suspicous Present and lowered Prankster Pie rarity will only be in effect until April 10th, 23:59:59 IcePets Time.



Got a sweet tooth? This weekend, the Candy Quest will be doubling its daily limit and prizes! This opportunity will last until April 4th, 23:59:59 IcePets Time.

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The easter egg hunt is from April 1st to April 24th.

To keep track of the ones you have already found laying around on the site you can visit your solCloset. [/center]

Eggs are out and can be found by cruising around the site. I had noted to users on the thread about an hour ago to hold off on opening two of the eggs while we got the items added and I'd let them know when all is good, well all is good now. Items have been added, all eggs should be good to open. Contests: I Spy Ongoing Minigame Coloring Minigame Rock Art Flower Power Scav Hunt Duration of Fest: April 2nd - April 9th "Laurel, heavens, where did you get all of these?" Florrie eyed the crates in front of their home. Her eyes already watering. She had a good idea as to what was in those crates. "Why did you bring home leaves from the pear tree? Don't you usually give those away?" Laurel gave a huff, eyes narrowed on the crates. "We have had a situation." She sighed, a paw raising to rub at her eyes. "Apparently the Pear Tree is doing very well this year. So well in fact, I'm unable to clean out my inventory as fast as it's

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

This week's theme: Pastel

The poll booth has a new poll available for you.

This time, we would like to know:
Have you opened your Easter basket for 2021?.

Go There: Poll Booth

Thanks for participating!

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
barbchin
barbchin
barbchin
SC
SC

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

• Announcing Neovision+! All of your favourite Neopian shows and movies, all on one convenient platform, all for one convenient price. Explore the latest and greatest Neopets streaming service, Neovision+!

  

  

• The Caption Contest winners have been posted! Go check out the winning captions and get those creative juices flowing for the next contest!

  

• A new Mystery Picture has arrived, so don't forget to submit your best guess for a chance to win a piece of the next prize pool!

  

• The Art Gallery has been updated with a wonderful array of April Fool's themed submissions to get you through the week! Check them out!

  

• A new selection of Poems for Chet Flash/April Fool's Day awaits! Did any of your verses make the cut?

  

• NC MALL NEWS: A new NC Collectible has been released! Stop by the NC Mall today to check out the Grundo Programmer Servers and Screens Collectible. Since this is the final collectible of the Lost in Space 2 series, you will receive a bonus today if you have bought all of the previous collectibles for this series!

  

° New Companion!

After much searching and digging, we have finally managed to find enough of our new companion to add them to the General Store! The Earthworm is a cute little companion which will keep your horse company, bust a move doing the worm, or maybe even just crawl back in the dirt. We honestly aren't sure what they¢ll do alongside your horse but, they do give a small show and twin boost. According to our sources, the earthworms have decided to only be in the General Store until April 2nd at midnight.  

°´ Breed of the Month

This month's breed of the month is the Shetland Pony ...or as we know them today, Sheepland Poe Knees! Be sure to check out the forum to enter!

Enjoy the rest of your day everyone!

Cheers,

The Dev Team

Hello and welcome to Eqcetera¢s biggest update ever. Boy has this update taken some work, but it is well worth it!

Please note that there are a lot of fundamental changes to the game in this update. Each section in this news post links to additional information on the help site. It was entirely too much information to fit into a single post. We understand that when there are major changes, there are bound to be questions. We are here and available to help answer any questions and concerns that you have!

We hope you¢re as excited as we are to see Eqcetera grow and expand. Before we get to all the changes we want to note that these new changes are designed to cater to new play styles and have only slightly changed the old gameplay style. This means for most of these new features, you can opt to do them or not but still be successful in the game. 

Now onto the details of each new change!

¢¡ Horse Energy

Horses now have energy. This determines how many actions you can do with your horse each day. This was decided to level the playing field for basic players and make a few requested adjustments to breeding.

¢¡Read more about energy ¢¡

Energy brings about a couple of major fundamental changes. 

1. Both upgraded and basic players can now compete with their horses the same number of times each day. This will put everyone on a level playing field.

2. There will no longer be breeding fail wait times. You can breed your horse (while it has energy) until the breeding succeeds. Successful breeding cooldown still applies.

3. There will no longer be any retrieval fail wait times. You can retrieve from the horse as energy allows. Weekly limits and successful retrieval cooldown still applies.

4. You will have to make choices each day on what to do with your horse. All horses will start with 100% energy at rollover. If you breed, train, or show, this will decrease your horse¢s energy. 

° Regular Showing

Important! Please read.  The show formula has changed to add more weight to a horse's breed standards. Over our time of development, we have had lots of feedback on adding more weight to BS. The new formula will not be disclosed like our old formula. The show formula only uses breed standard and performance stats.

° Read the updated help post °

°§  Personalities

What¢s a horse without a personality? Horses on Eqcetera now have personalities which incorporate traits of gregariousness, predictability, reactivity, and sensitivity. 

°§  Read more about personalities °§ 

All horses in-game have randomly been assigned a personality. All foals from this update onward must have personality revealed via foal training, see more info in the article above.

°¼ Careers 

For horses that don¢t seem to fit into discipline shows or halter shows, the third option is to enter them into careers! Careers allow horses to go to ¢work¢ and earn skills. Careers use skills, personality, and at a very low weight, performance stats. 

There are currently 4 careers available:

• Working Draft - works on the Farm.

• Education Horse - works in the Education Center.

• Therapy Horse - works in the Therapy Center.

• Lesson Horse - works in the Riding School.

°¼ Read more about careers °¼

°ª Skills 

Over time, horses develop skills beyond just performance stats. There are 6 skills that are gained through competing in a halter show or completing a job in a horse¢s career. Horses may complete jobs every 30 minutes at a career center.

°ª Read more about skills °ª

All horses in-game have been randomly assigned a skill percentage between 0 and 20%.

° Foal Training

No RL horse is born to automatically enter competitions. To bring a little more realism into Eqcetera, there is now foal training! Foal training reveals your foal¢s personality, earns their training boost, and can allow them to enter halter shows early.

° Read more about foal training °

All existing horses over 1 year old have had their foal training automatically completed. 

° Breed Registries 

Breed Registries, previously Associations, are now complete! The registries will work as associations did previously and allow you to join and register horses to their associated breed registry. These registries now have forums and halter shows which run hourly!

° Read more about breed registries °

No More Presidents

Unlike V2¢s associations, breed registries will no longer have presidents. We felt that it was unfair for a single player to manage an entire breed. Therefore, all breed registries will be managed by Eqcetera. 

Halter Shows

Halter shows are tiered based on a horse's star rating and gender and are open to foals that have completed foal training. Halter shows run based on the number of entrants and reward halter points toward titles.

° Read more about halter shows °

Herd Management

There are now new tabs in herd management. These tabs are for: halter horses ,career horses, discipline horses, and foals. Each of these gives an overview of important information for each such as, age day for foals, personality for horses, and career tier.

° Small Changes

• ¢Regular¢ players in club member rosters have been renamed to ¢Member.¢

• There is now a Crossbreed Campaigns link on the Clubs page. This page lists out all active crossbreed campaigns, their breed composition, and their current completion percentage. 

• The forum previously named ¢Association Hub¢ has been renamed to ¢Club & Registry Hub.¢

• The Welsh Registry has been renamed to Welsh Pony & Cob Registry.

• Individual show pages should now show the countdown timer correctly.

• Breed Registries now have links to horses from the horse roster.

• The roleplay forum will no longer show up in recent posts due to the higher volume posted in a single thread.

° Bug Fixes

• Failed stud/brood breedings that did not result in a true failure but only an error will no longer take a failed breeding fee.

• Horses under 3 years old should no longer show up in breeding management.

• Fixed where long horse names were throwing errors in some places.

• Crossbreed campaigns should now allow decimals in breed percentages. 

• Horse age has been fixed on the registered horses list in breed registries.

• Horse names now link to the horse in the registered horses list in breed registries.

°¥³ Chat Party!!!

We know this is quite a big update to take in but, we will be hosting a chat party tonight on our Discord at 8PM EST/Game time to answer all your questions. A forum with a live update GoogleDoc will be posted for those of you without a Discord and Q&A available in the same forum. 

Cheers,

The Dev Team

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...

@WildFloof

Thank you for making IcePets a better place!



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

@Gnelmik

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...

@Travis

To acknowledge their contributions to the team, we've created the following Item in their honour!


Worst Pie in Terrafrost





As we move into April, new Items can be found in the I.C.E Shop for the duration of the month! Head on over to pick up Fish Fin Blanket and Scale, along with the returning Peridot Infused Scythe. Each of these is priced at 500 IceCash (or 450 IceCash for Gold Members)!



Additionally, a few of our resident shopkeepers have added some new Items to their stock! The Skytten can be found at Jacobi's Companion Reserve while the Capricorn Plush can be found at the Plushie Palace. The Book Quest will reward the Capricorn Plush immediately, but it will be requested by the Plushie Quest in one week. Be sure to stock up in advance!

I wonder what is going on with the site appearance today. Will this be permanent?

oh, uh, there's a thing happening, I think? you probably just go to the biomes and pick the option that tells you get a special egg and then you maybe get a special egg.

if you don't, then well idk ¯\_(£)_/¯

check it out today because I don't think it's gonna be around tomorrow.