Hi everyone! Monthly news for you all!

Fall SEASONALS:

As usual, this month comes with new seasonal items and a new pet!

Crafting Recipies:

• Fudge
  • Food
• Candied Bacon
  • Food
• Acorn Garland
  • Collectable
• Fall Wreath
  • Collectable

Pets:

• Kitwisp
  
  • Drops nothing

Seeds:

• Squash seeds
  • Planted on Awan.
• Flower Seeds
  • A new Autumn flower has been added!

Halloween Event Extension + RAFFLES:

The deadline for our Halloween prompt has been extended! It will close on November 7th. The  Halloween Shop will close the next day, on November 8th.

All three doors are now closed, and designs from Potfox's Door that were not won are now being raffled off! You can enter yourself into the raffle once for free here, and additional tickets may now be purchased from the Halloween Shop. There are 7 designs being raffled off, and each winner will recieve one at random. The raffles will be rolled after the Halloween Shop closes.

This years Halloween pets have been added to the Halloween shop as well, for 60 candy each.

Item expirations:

UPDATE:  While we intended for everybody to get a 1 week grace period before items begin to expire, due to a site issue we are finding they have been removed early. There is a thread in our Discord server for corrections if you have had food items erroneously removed and would like them given back to you!

Certain items now expire/get removed from your inventory automatically!

The following items now expire:

• Port Chrysanthemum MYOs now expire on the last day of each month
• Food items now expire 3 days to 1 year after you craft them.  Everyone will have 1 week to use their food before this goes into effect, after which point all of your old food items will expire automatically! This only affects food items that grant you encounter energy, not ingredients. Items like the lab grown meats will not be effected.

Guest Artist Opportunity [Reminder]:

As a reminder, we are looking for guest artists for our annual winter advent! 

This is a paid opportunity. Each artist will be assigned a theme and species to create a single design, and will be paid $20 USD. Designs will be due one week before the day they are expected to go out.

You must be at least 16 years old and able to recieve payment via PayPal in order to apply. The form will close on November 7th, and guest artists will be contacted on November 10th.

Apply here!

Draw the Creature/couple Above Adjustments:

The draw the Creature/Couple above channels in our discord server are temporarily being shut down while we work on moving the game over to our website! This should be ready by next month. You may still complete your pre-existing claims (and are encouraged to please do so), but no more may be made in this time.

Raffle Winners:

In addition to last month's pay-to-enter raffle, the winners for The Invisible Game of Fate's raffles have been rolled!

• October Pay-to-Enter raffle: Lucky_cat_Frank
• The Invisible Game of Fate part 1: Lucky_cat_Frank
• The Invisible Game of Fate part 2: Redpandaseas
• The Invisible Game of Fate part 3: ray

Port Chrysanthemum update:

Characters that have been in Port Chrysanthemum for a couple months now have been updated to have the option to be purchaseable with Cloud Coins instead of Starbits! Their Starbit prices have also been slightly discounted.

We will be routinely doing this for characters that have remained in the Port for some time going forward.

November BIMONTHLY UNCOMMON MYO RAFFLES:

Each MYO is 1,500 Cloud Coins if you win!
Please remember to have the Cloud Coins before entering! If we are forced to reroll you because you did not read this, you will be getting a strike. Thank you.

You can enter on the raffles page here. You will be able to self enter until 11/3 23:59:59 site time, and the raffles will be rolled on 11/5!

November SUPPORTER RAFFLE:

Design can be seen below! Everybody who is subscribed to the Space Station Ko-fi at any tier during this month gets a ticket to win the following design!

A second winner will recieve a Fabled Trait Choice Box!

November MONTHLY MADNESS:

This month’s theme is Relationships! Draw or write about your TSS character's relationships! This prompt is vague, you can draw/write about any type of relationship (familial, platonic, etc.).

The November monthly madness will last till November 30th!

Misc:

• Our charity stream last week raised a total of $155 for the PCRF! Thank you so much to everyone who attended and donated.
• We are still currently having issues with dailies not resetting! Unfortunately, this is a problem with our hosting provider.  We are currently talking to Dreamhost in order to solve it, but in the meantime dailies are still being reset manually. 
• We currently have a bug with user shops corrupting items that are withdrawn/purchased from them!! If you encounter this bug please let us know so we can fix your item!
• All Port Chrysanthemum MYOs from last month have been deleted, aside from those currently in the MYO queue! This does include drafts that were not in the queue, so if your submission was cancelled or you had yet to submit it, you will unfortunately need to obtain a new slot.
• As a reminder, the scheduled site downtime for our new hosting provider has been moved from November 1st until January. 
• GalacticRing has stepped down as an owner, and is now a guest artist!
• winterbunz has been promoted to senior mod!
• 39friend has been promoted to helper!
• We will be opening helper applications sometime next month!

Hi everyone! Monthly news for you all!

Fall SEASONALS:

As usual, this month comes with new seasonal items and a new pet!

Crafting Recipies:

• Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
  • Food
  • This recipe has two variants! The first is unlocked for free and converts one Pumpkin Seed packet into one Roasted Pumpkin Seed. The second requires a recipe card and a whole Pumpkin, but yields four Roasted Seeds!
• Coffee
  • Food
• Carved Pumpkin
  • Collectable
• Crochet
  • Collectible Set
  • Has been updated with two new collectibles!

CRAFTING MATERIALS:

• Coffee Beans
  • Used to make Coffee!
• Coffee Grinder
  • While not a material in itself, this is required to turn Coffee Beans into Coffee. You can purchase one from Spacemart!

Pets:

• Stink Bomb
  • Drops nothing

Seeds:

• Coffee seeds
  • Planted on Soda Planet Farm.
• Flower Seeds
  • A new Autumn flower has been added!

Arcade rework:

The Arcade has been updated slightly to hopefully be more worthwhile!

• The price has been increased to 300 CC per play.
• Past event pets and collectibles are now more common as prizes.
• Uncommon MYO choice boxes are now available as prizes.
• Random MYOs are now available as prizes.
• Starbits are now obtainable as prizes, at an extremely low rate.
• As it was before, there is also a chance to obtain all plushies, Cloud Coins, (non-fabled) trait items, and myth items.

Halloween Event + Gacha:

We will be hosting a small Halloween event near the end of the month! Alongside it we will be hosting a livestream and a Halloween themed gacha.

More details will be coming in a later newsletter, on October 24th!

Guest Artist Opportunity:

We are looking for guest artists to create designs for our upcoming Halloween event! 

This is a non-monetary position. Artists will be tasked with creating one Halloween or Autumn themed design of any species. Artists will be compensated for their work with 1,500 CC and a DIY Pet Variant Voucher [Halloween].

Anyone of any age may apply. The form will close October 7th, with guest artists being chosen on October 8th! The final deadline for designs will be October 23rd.

Apply here!

October Pay-To-Enter Raffle:

Design can be seen below! Each raffle ticket can be purchased for 500 CC and can be found in the Starstop Shop!

This raffle will close October 31st, 23:59:59 site time, and will be rolled sometime the next day!

October SUPPORTER RAFFLE:

Design can be seen below! Everybody who is subscribed to the Space Station Ko-fi at any tier during this month gets a ticket to win the following design!

From this month onwards, the monthly supporter raffle will roll a second winner, who will recieve a Fabled Choice Box!

October MONTHLY MADNESS:

This month’s theme is Pumpkin Carving! Draw or write about your TSS character interacting with carving pumpkins!

The September monthly madness will last till October 31st!

Misc:

• We are still currently having issues with dailies not resetting! Unfortunately, this is a problem with our hosting provider.  We are currently talking to Dreamhost in order to solve it, but in the meantime dailies are still being reset manually. 
• We currently have a bug with user shops corrupting items that are withdrawn/purchased from them!! If you encounter this bug please let us know so we can fix your item!
• All Port Chrysanthemum MYOs from last month have been deleted, aside from those currently in the MYO queue! This does include drafts that were not in the queue, so if your submission was cancelled or you had yet to submit it, you will unfortunately need to obtain a new slot.
• The Crochet Hooks, Rock Tumbler, Sewing Kit, Paint Set, and Glass Blowing Kit have all been moved to Spacemart.
• Daily rewards and the Gachapot have been moved to the Boxes category of the inventory, instead of Misc.
• Fabled Choice Boxes are now available to purchase via Ko-fi!
• The Invisible Game of Fate epilogue has been delayed until October 10th, in order to give us a little more time to complete working on it.
• There will be a period of downtime on November 1st while we attempt to switch hosting providers! 

Hi everyone! The 3rd part of The Invisible Game of Fate is now out!

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.

Dialogue Event:

Part 3 of the dialogue event can be read here! Be sure to read it before participating in the event, there is also a prize code at the end!

Please note a lot of the new sprites for this part are not animated due to time constraints. They will be animated and fixed up post event, the same goes for finishing Moonbeam's new sprites.

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing.

Prompts:

Here are the prompts for part 3! As a reminder:

Story prompts must be completed in order, and 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:

Draw/Write about your character providing assisting someone (or something) more vulnerable!

Rules:

• If drawing for this prompt, it MUST be at least a shaded fullbody with a simple scene background!
• If writing for this prompt, it MUST be a minimum of 750 words!
• This prompt MUST be completed by the character owner
• This prompt can only be completed once!
• Your piece MUST be submitted to the event gallery AND Event prompt! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)

Rewards:

• A Bit of Assistance Patch
• 500 cc
• 20 user exp
• 20 character exp
• 1x Part 3 Raffle Ticket

Event Prompt:

Rules:

• If drawing for this prompt, it MUST be at least an unshaded fullbody with a simple scene background!
• If writing for this prompt, it MUST be a minimum of 500 words!
• A maximum of 3 characters can be in one scene, this may be changed in the future.
• This prompt can be completed by someone else for you, so long as it depicts your character! Rewards will be given to the person whose character was drawn or written about!
• Your piece MUST be submitted to the event gallery AND Event prompt! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)
• The person who completed the piece will be the one to upload to the gallery, not the one who owns the character!

Rewards:

• Random chance of any of the following items:
  
  • Crafting/cooking materials
  • Trait items
  • MYO slots
  • Trinkets
  • Recipe cards
  • Pets
• Chance of status effects
  • Wound
  • Broken Bone
• 10 user exp
• 10 character exp
• 1x Part 3 Raffle Ticket

Items, Pets, and Locations:

Food:

• Instant Noodles
  • Found via encounters/foraging.
• Meal Replacement Drink
  • Found via encounters/foraging.

Pets:

• Montsun
  • Drops 1 legendary chest per year.
• Quakewyrm
  • Drops 1 legendary chest per year.

Encounter Regions/Foraging Locations:

• Port Chrysanthemum Park
  • Foraging location
• Port Chrysanthemum Park
  
  • Encounter Region
• The Destroyed Strip Mall has now been updated with many additional encounters!

Harbingers of the end:

As with the Meteosaurus and the Vulkanspinax, the new pets for this part are Harbingers that are obtained in a unique way! New encounters have been added to the Destroyed Strip Mall, allowing you to obtain their Vestiges. From there, you can complete their respective prompts to obtain the pets!

Submissions should be submitted to the Harbinger Encounters sub-gallery and the respective encounter prompt.

Quakewyrm:

• Item: Vestige of the Crumbling Earth
• Prompt: Encounter with the Crumbling Earth

Montsun:

• Item: Vestiage of the Raging Tide
• Prompt: Encounter with the Raging Tide

Raffle design:

Part 3's raffle design can be found below!

by akechi

You can obtain one raffle ticket from the prize code at the end of the dialogue event. Additional tickets can be obtained via the event and story prompts!

This raffle will remain open until this event concludes.

Port Chrysanthemum Opening:

Port Chrysanthemum is now open for business!

Port Chrysanthemum is an adoption center that allows you to purchase characters for currency! Our staff and guest artists have worked hard to create over 100 designs for the initial stock. You can surrender unwanted character, and each month you may claim up to three free MYOs in order to create new designs for the Port, both in exchange for currency. 

Designs created using Port Chrysanthemum MYOs go through the approval queue like any other character, but will be immediately surrendered upon approval. All rules can be found in the description of both the item and the slot itself, so be sure to read them carefully. Beyond the three Port Chrysanthemum MYOs per month, you can also use your own items to create designs for the Port so long as you specify in the comments that that is your intention.

Each user may claim up to 4 designs from Port Chrysanthemum each month, with a cooldown of 24 hours in between. This may be adjusted in the future.

If you surrender a character that has a Toyhou.se profile, please send a transfer to TheSpaceStation on Toyhou.se and let us know. If you purchase a character with a Toyhou.se profile you can submit a claim on-site to have it transferred to you.

The Port can be accessed through the World dropdown menu, and will be permanently open.

Starbits:

Starbits have been introduced as a new currency! They are primarily used in Port Chrysanthemum, and are required to purchase designs.

Starbits can be obtained through the following methods:

• Surrendering characters to Port Chrysanthemum
  • Common characters surrender for 150 SB
  • Uncommon characters surrender for 200 SB
  • Rare characters surrender 250 SB
  • Mythical characters surrender for 350 SB
  • Fabled characters surrender for 550 SB
    • Each Fabled trait past the first will grant and additional 50 SB
  • There is a cooldown of 2 months before you may surrender designs obtained through non-mystery raffles, and a 1 month cooldown for any other character. You must also wait at least two weeks after redesigning a character to surrender it.
• Creating designs for Port Chrysanthemum, up to 3 per month
  • Each approved design will grant 150 SB, regardless of rarity
• Selling unwanted Mythical items from your inventory
  • Mythical add-ons (Essences/Vouchers/Syrups/Sugars/Diamonds/Ambers) sell for 25 SB each
  • Mythical MYOs sell for 50 SB each
  • You can sell an unlimited number of these items.
• Monthly Madness may now grant Starbits instead of Cloud Coins!
  • Details can be found in the Monthly Madness section below.

Starbit Exchange & Fabled Traits:

In addition to Port Chrysanthemum, Starbits can be used in a new shop - the Starbit Exchange!

The Starbit Exchange can be used to obtain rare items, including new items that allow you to add Fabled traits to MYOs! 

Unlike other rarity tiers, each Fabled trait requires its own specific item to use. These items can be used on both new MYOs and redesigns. You can purchase both choice boxes and random boxes from the Starbit Exchange, at a limited quantity per month.

To go with this, we have introduced new Fabled traits for each species! For information, please see the trait descriptions and the visual trait guide.

Spacecats:

• Planet Tail
• Aurora Tail
• Moon Cycle Eyes
• Black Hole
• Starless has also had its rarity upgraded

Sodacats:

• Bottled
• Foam Replacement
• Bubble Tail
• Aquatic Tail has also been added as an uncommon trait

Guppymanders:

• Translucent Skin
• Connected Horns
• No Whiskers
• Aquarium
• Ethereal Smoke

Cirrocanius:

• Fullbody Vortex
• Rainbow Vortex
• Thundercloud Tail

Clayfoxes:

• Raptor Claws
• All Clay
• Mineral Deposit
• They also have a new subtype, detailed below! It has its own unique Fabled trait, Multi Core.

Golem Subtype:

Clayfoxes have a new subtype: Golems! They are considered a Fabled trait.

A new trait category has been added for their required Core traits, usable only on this subtype.

Monthly Madness Rework:

Monthly Madness has been updated! You now have the option to obtain either Cloud Coins or Starbits from Monthly Madness submissions. Both will be granted via criteria, as with before, and you will have to add the criteria for your preferred currency choice when you make your submission.

In order to balance this, Monthly Madness submissions are now limited to up to three characters per piece. Written pieces will only be rewarded for the first 1,500 words. Gift and staff art bonuses do not apply to Starbits. 

At the moment, it is only accepting non-animated 2D art and writing.

Free MYO event:

We're also hosting a free MYO event to help promote TSS to new users :)

All users can claim a free common MYO for any species of their choice (except Clayfoxes) by commenting on this Toyhou.se bulletin and then submitting to this prompt.

By sharing the bulletin (and providing a link in your comment), you can get it upgraded to an uncommon MYO! You can also get +1 rare trait for pinging a friend, up to a limit of four. By doing all of the above, you can get it upgraded to a myth MYO.

These MYO slots will be account bound, meaning you cannot trade them.

This event will last 1 month until October 19th!

Miscellaneous:

• The site has been updated to use a queue for character transfers! This now means that character transfers have to be approved by a staff member. 
• Pet variants are now treated like their own pets, this doesnt really effect anything aside from visuals!
• We have made temporary anatomy guides for each species! These can be found with the site guides here. They will be updated with more detailed and polished guides at a later date!
• Foraging and Encounters should now no longer be able to drop Myth items, for balancing reasons.
• Potfox now has a new masterlist image.
• The NPCs/Staff Sonas page has been updated with new icons for each NPC.
• Legendary Boxes from Harbinger pets may now be opened!
• All of our guest artists have been granted some Starbits as a thank-you for their hard work.
• MYO submissions have now been reopened! Thank you for your patience.

That's all for now! The epilogue for this event will release on October 3rd. Thank you for reading and if you have any questions that are not addressed in this newsletter, feel free to ask us in the help channel of our Discord server!