Happy Valentine's Day! Here's our yearly event newsletter for you all :)

PLEASE READ THIS NEWSLETTER IN FULL.

An Important Reminder:

We do not tolerate any form of cheating in our events. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Multiaccounting, including getting friends to sign up just to send you items
• Exploits that are discovered that are not promptly reported, and are instead used to get a large quantity of items
  • You are also disallowed from telling other people about exploits that you find, other than staff when you report it
  • If you find an exploit by mistake, you will not be punished so long as you let us know immediately
• Hacking the website, or other people's accounts
• If you cheat in these ways, then we will find out. We do not tolerate it whatsoever, as it gives users an advantage over others. This includes getting a mass amounts of MYOs to use to make characters, as well as trading illegitimate items for art and characters.

If we catch you cheating, then you will be given a full-site ban, the length of which varying depending on the severity of the offense.

Art Redemption Update:

We have fixed the issue we were having with criteria on gallery submissions, so art redemption - including Monthly Madness - is now done entirely through the gallery once again!

For those who are not familiar, this means that you must include criteria on your gallery submission!

The respective prompts have been hidden as such. This only applies to regular art redemption and Monthly Madness - all other galleries and prompts are unchanged.

If you've submitted to the Art Redemption or Monthly Madness galleries while criteria was broken, you may have recieved notifications about us processing your submissions! You can ignore them, as we just needed to clear out a queue. 

Peace & Love Rerelease:

As mentioned in our last newsletter, this year we are rerunning our Peace and Love event from 2024. 

The corresponding dialogue event can be read here! This event was written by GalacticRing.

Note that while the story itself has received no changes, each route has an updated prize code, containing Sweethearts and a small number of items each.

Crafting & cooking:

Several removed food items are returning with this event, and several collectables that previously lost their recipes are now craftable again! These recipes can be unlocked using the Valentine's Recipe Book, which can be purchased in a limited quantity from the event shop and randomly dropped via event activities.

Additionally, the Peace and Love collectables have had their sale prices updated to reflect their crafting recipes.

Crafting Recipies:

• Love Letter
  • Collectable
• Valentine's Card
  • Collectable
• Ring
  • Collectable
• Locket
  • Collectable
• Heart Wreath
  • Collectable
• Bouquet
  • Collectable
• Candles
  • Collectable
  • Drops from Peace and Love encounters and foraging!
• Fruit Trifle
  • Food
• Fruit Basket
  • Food
• Chocolate Cupcakes
  • Food
• Heart Cookies
  • Food
• Ice Cream Sundae
  • Food
• Strawberry Shortcake
  • Food

Foraging & encounters:

The following foraging and encounter regions have returned! Foraging and encounters can drop crafting and cooking materials, certain collectables, and Sweethearts. Encounters can also yield past Valentine's pets!

Foraging locations:

• Mall
• Lovely Park

Encounter Regions:

• Gift Shop
• Mall

Prompts:

We are rerunning the original Peace and Love prompts from 2024! Note that if you completed the story prompts during the initial run, you may now complete them again.

As a reminder:

Story prompts can only be completed once per person. They must also be completed by you. While you can include other users' characters (with permission), the focal character(s) must be your own and other users cannot submit your drawing to the prompt.

Event prompts are repeatable, and can be completed as many times as you want during the event's duration, in order to obtain resources and other items. Other people can fulfill event prompts for you, as long as they feature your characters! Be sure to read the prompt rules thoroughly.

Story Prompt 1:

Boss Fight:

We have another boss fight for this event!

LOVESICK VULKANSPINAX

By visiting the link above, or navigating to the Bosses page via the navbar (under Play) you can participate in the fight against the Lovesick Vulkanspinax! 
Damage can be dealt to the boss using the following methods:

• Daily Logins: By visiting the boss fight page, you can damage the boss with the attack button once per day to deal 1 damage.
• Donating Cloud Coins: Donating Cloud Coins directly via the boss fight page will deal damage, with a ratio of 100CC to 1 damage.
• Donating Sweethearts: Donating Sweethearts directly via the boss fight page will deal damage, with a ratio of 1 Sweetheart to 1 damage.
• Donating Items: Donating items directly via the boss fight page will deal damage, with a ratio dependant on the item's rarity.
• Prompt Submissions: Submissions to any of the Peace and Love or Awan Cleanup prompts will contribute damage to the boss fight, with a ratio of 100 damage per submission.

To deal damage via any method besides prompts and click on the Challenge Boss button. From there, navigate to the section for your method of choice, fill out the information, and press the Attack button. Damage from prompt submissions require no further input from you, and will be processed automatically by staff.

Damage dealt is collaborative - every user deals damage to a global pool. The boss has a total of 5000HP.

The rewards can be claimed from the Boss Fight page, and are as follows:

• For participating in the fight, you may claim a raffle ticket for a Valentine's themed mystery design!
• When the boss has lost 25% of it's HP, you may claim a Selfbreed Choice Box!
• When the boss has lost 50% of it's HP, you may claim an Uncommon MYO Choice Box!
• When the boss has lost 75% of it's HP,  you may claim a Lovesick Vulkanspinax Pet!
• When the boss is defeated, you may claim a Covered Basket!
• In addition, each damage threshold reached will grant 25 Sweethearts, and defeating the boss will grant 50 Sweethearts!

The boss fight will last until March 7th, after which rewards will be manually claimable!

Sweethearts & event shop:

Sweethearts are returning as an event currency! They can be obtained primarily via the event prompts, foraging, and encounters. They can be used in the event shop!

The event shop sells random flowers, the Valentine's user borders, new site themes, the Valentine's Recipe Book, and all selfbreed items - including a new one!

Covered Basket:

The Covered Basket is a new randomized selfbreed slot for mixed species pairings!

These slots need to be rolled manually by staff, and can be submitted to this queue. There is no poly version at this time. As with all random selfbreeds, they have a chance of producing twins - they additionally have a very small chance to produce triplets.

Covered Baskets are available in a limited quantity per user from the event shop! After the end of the event, they will be added to the Starbit Exchange.

New Site Themes:

We've added two new site themes! These can be unlocked by purchasing and opening their items from the event shop. 

Lovesick (Goldbeam) is a light mode theme, whilst Lovesick (Tempcyon) is a dark mode theme.

If you notice any issues with any of the themes, please let us know so we can fix it!

Ko-fi updates:

Two updates in regards to the Ko-fi!

Firstly, the Valentine's Bundles have been added to the cash shop and may be purchased for the duration of the event. The Covered Basket is also now available.

Secondly, an amendment to the rules: while reviewing the rules, we decided we ought to clarify for the future that we do not offer refunds to purchased items or subscriptions unless you were erroneously charged. This means that if you purchase an item and regret it, mistakenly purchase the wrong item, or purchase an item and then get banned (temporarily or permanently) for a rule violation, you will not recieve a refund. Please be absolutely certain that you are purchasing the correct item, and that you actually intend to use it in the near future.

Selfbreed limits:

We're currently discussing adding a limit to how many times each character may be involved in selfbreeds. While we still need time to finalise the specifics, this is an advance notice that a limit will be implemented in the near future.

While we understand that this may be disappointing, this is a decision being made for a number of reasons, including the need to keep family lines under reasonable control.

We will not be revoking pre-existing Pairing Slots, even if they go far beyond the limit. However, we ask that you please do not attempt to pre-emptively generate dozens and dozens of slots on one character in anticipation of this rule. Staff-run breeding batches will not be affected and will not count towards the limit, since individual users have no control over the size of those batches.

This is not a decision that is being made in response to any one individual character or user, nor is it intended to be a punishment. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Misc:

• The user shop bug that was previously corrupting items has been fixed! Let us know if you find it persists.
• The pet drops bug that was preventing drops from being collected has been fixed! Let us know if you find it persists.
• The Port Chrysanthemum adoption stock, user character art, and user character design pages are now paginated.
• We'll be doing some site maintanence on March 1st. The site may be down for several days as a result.
• The Valentine's event will last until March 7th! Depending on how long maintanence lasts, this may be extended.

That's all. Thank you for reading!