Happy New Year! We hope you all had a good holiday season. Here's the monthly news for you all!

Winter Seasonals:

As promised, we have added more seasonal content this month!

Foraging Locations:

• Hot Spring

Encounter Regions:

• Ice Skating Rink

Crafting Recipies:

• Cheesecake
  • Food
• Chocolate Coins
  
  • Food
• Soup
  • Food
  • There are four different types of soup. One is chosen randomly upon crafting.
• Ice Skates
  
  • Collectables
• Snowglobe
  
  • Collectable
• Paw Warmers
  
  • Collectable

Pets:

• Hollydove
  • Variants: 
    • Mistledove

Seeds:

• Although there are no new seeds, several new flowers are now available from growing flower seeds.

Ko-fi:

We have launched a Ko-fi page! It can be found here.

We have multiple membership tiers available for those of you who wish to support us. Supporters will recieve a special role on-site and in the Discord server, and will recieve various perks and monthly rewards depending on their tier, detailed here.

Proceeds from Ko-fi support will go towards maintaining and upgrading The Space Station's website. Regardless of whether or not you choose to support us financially, we thank you all for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Additionally, the cash shop has been moved to our Ko-fi page. This allows purchases to be handled automatically, streamlining the process for everybody involved.

When supporting or purchasing an item via Ko-fi, please ensure that your Ko-fi email is the same as the one associated with your site account!
If it is not, you will not recieve your rewards correctly. In the event that you do not recieve your rewards, please contact an owner as soon as possible so that it can be sorted out.

STAFF APPLICATIONS:

In order to reduce strain on staff, particularly during events and large updates, we have decided to introduce Species Artists as a new role for our staff team. Species Artists will be responsible for the creation of website graphics such as item art on a sign-up basis.

This position is non-monetary and paid via a special on-site currency that can be used in the Staff Shop to purchase species items. Additionally, Species Artists will have the right to participate in USD adopt batches, gachas, breedings, and other design opportunities.

You must be at least 18 years old to apply. The sign-up form will close on January 7th, and we hope to announce new staff on January 10th.

Sign up here!

GuEST ARTIST OPPORTUNITY:

We are looking for guest artists to create an adopt batch this month!

Artists will get to create one design of any species to be sold for a price of their choosing. The deadline for design completion will be January 29th, and the batch will go up for sale on January 31st.

You must be at least 16 years old to apply. The sign-up form will close on January 7th, and we hope to announce guest artists on January 10th!

Sign up here!

January gacha:

We will be hosting a USD gacha on January 15th to celebrate the new year! This gacha will be music themed.

Rolls will be $20 each. A raffle to pay form will go up on January 14th, and FCFS slots will open the day after.

January 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 01/3 23:59:59 site time, and the raffles will be rolled on 01/4!

January Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is Celebration! This prompt is purposefully vague so feel free to interpret it as you wish! 

The January monthly madness will last till January 31st!

MiSC:

• Lobcorp won the Peppermint Sodacat raffle!
• In case you missed it, completed Secret Santas are now able to be posted publicly and sent to their recipients. Thank you all for participating!
• Several staff sonas have been changed or updated. You can view the current list of staff sonas here!
• Categories for items, pets, and crafting recipes have been rearranged to reduce redundant categories and hopefully make things easier to find.
• Several items have had their art redone over the past few days.

Hi everyone! Our third Intermission for the Disquiet event is here!

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:

Intermission 3 of the dialogue event can be read here! Be sure to read it before participating in the event.

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing!

SCAVENGER HUNT:

For this intermission, we are hosting a small scavenger hunt! Each target contains a random prize, which can include crafting materials, Cloudcoins, or MYO items. There are no first-come, first-served prizes.

Hunt targets can be found on any page that has text and is accessable by members of the site. This includes character notes, descriptions, and profiles. 

Your first hint is: "I heard the feline was quite young… go and check up above. Maybe he’s having some fun."

The scavenger hunt will end on January 5th. You can track your progress here.

MISC:

• In case you missed it, Transparency has been added as a new Fabled trait for Spacecats!
• We recently noticed that selfbreed items were mistakenly still discounted from Peace and Love back in February. This has been corrected, and items will now cost full price once more.
• Pet drop rates have been adjusted for balance reasons. Out of season seasonal pets no longer drop items.
• The amount of clay needed to craft Clayfox MYOs has been dramatically increased for balance reasons, as there are extremely high quantities of clay in circulation at the moment.
• The next part of Disquiet will be released on January 5th!
• We apologise for the number of delays that have occurred over the course of the past few months. Many of our senior staff members have been experiencing health struggles, which takes priority over species work.

Hi everyone! Our second Intermission for the Disquiet event is here!

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:

Intermission 2 of the dialogue event can be read here! Be sure to read it before participating in the event.

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing!

Winter SEASONALS:

As promised, our winter seasonals are now here! We will be adding more content each month - this includes locations for foraging and encounters, collectables, food items, and pets.

Prompts:

• Fun in the Snow!
  
  • Draw or write about your TSS character enjoying the snow!
    
    • Requirements: One flat fullbody with a simple scene background or 500 words
    • Rewards: Random chance of crafting/cooking materials, MYO slots, Trait items, Random trinkets, Crafting recipies, and Pets!
    • Risks: Frigid, Broken Bone
• Ice Fishing
  
  • Draw or write about your TSS character fishing under the ice!
    
    • Requirements: One flat fullbody with a simple scene background or 500 words
    • Rewards: Random chance of crafting/cooking materials, MYO slots, Trait items, Random trinkets, Crafting recipies, and Pets!
    • Risks: Frigid, Radiation Poisoning
• Travelling
  
  • Draw or write about your TSS character cooking going somewhere, familiar or not!
    
    • Requirements: One flat fullbody with a simple scene background or 500 words
    • Rewards: Random chance of crafting/cooking materials, MYO slots, Trait items, Random trinkets, Crafting recipies, and Pets!
    • Risks: Wound, Broken Bone

Foraging Locations:

• Frozen Lake

Encounter Regions:

• Light Show

Crafting Recipies:

• Latkes
  • Food
• Eggnog
  • Food
• Fruitcake
  • Food
• Gingerbread Cookies
  
  • Food
• Ornaments
  
  • Collectables
• Dreidel
  • Collectable
• Fake Snowman
  
  • Collectable
• Candlestick
  
  • Collectable
  • This pet can only be obtained via Winter prompts! 
  •  

Pets:

• Snowpuff
  • Variants: 
    • Bunny
• Ice Bear
  
  • This pet can only be obtained via Winter prompts! 

Seeds:

• Beetroot Seeds
  • Planted on Soda Planet farm.
• Flower Seeds
  • Remaining from Autumn, these will now drop a new set of seasonal flowers!

MISC:

• Seasonal prompts have had their requirements lowered slightly! Drawn submissions no longer need to be shaded.
• Autumn seasonals have now been phased out for the year, with the exception of the Leaf Bug, which currently remains available via Winter prompts.
• The OOAK Pet Variant gacha has been delayed by one day. It will now be going up on December 16th.
• Pinniped Tail has been introduced as a trait for Guppymanders! It is currently lacking a visual guide, which will be amended soon.
  
• The next part of the Disquiet event will be on December 22nd. This will be another intermission part.

Hi everyone! Monthly news for you all. 

Winter Seasonals:

Winter seasonals (prompts, encounter regions, forage locations, new pets, etc.) will be pushed back till December 8th. Autumn seasons will remain open until then!

Winter OOAK Pet Variant Gacha:

We will be hosting another OOAK Pet Varient Gacha on 12/15! Rolls will cost 2,500 CC each, and will distribute a unique winter themed variant of an on-site pet. These variants will not be obtainable through any other means, and thus are completely unique individuals.

GUEST ARTIST OPPORTUNITY:

We are looking for a handful of guest artists to create designs for a OOAK pet variant gacha! You can be any age to apply and will receive CC for any pet variants you make! :]

You can apply here!

The form will close on 12/4, after which those chosen will be contacted with further details.

Secret Santa:

Our secret santa form has closed and we will be contacting everyone with their partners soon!

As a reminder:
All art will be due on the 31st of December! If you've sign up and at some point something comes up and you're unable to finish the art please contact a mod by the 26th so we can find a backup for you. If you do not finish the art and do not contact us by the 26th to let us know you won't be able to finish you will receive a strike.
If you sign up to be a backup artist you will be contacted if someone drops! the due date for backup artists will be the 10th of January.

All art submitted, regardless of how much of the character is drawn, must be colored and cleanly lined. Fullbodies don't need to be shaded, but headshots must be.
You must submit your secret santa to the prompt located here.

December 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 December 31st 23:59:59 site time! This will be rolled sometime the next day!

December Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is COMFORT! This prompt is purposefully vague so feel free to interpret it as you wish! 

The December monthly madness will last till December 31st!

MiSC:

• We have created a page for all the advent designs to be viewed! Designs will be added to it as they’re revealed. You can view the page here!

Hi everyone! Part 4 of the Disquiet event is here - we're very sorry for the delays!

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 4 of the dialogue event can be read here! Be sure to read it before participating in the event.

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing!

boss fights:

Part 3's boss was defeated with a final score of 25 points, far surpassing the required 15!

As a reward, everybody who participated by submitting an Unexpected Fright prompt will recieve 100 Cloudcoins, 1 Carnivorous Plant Seed, and 1 Random Item Box!

Part 4's boss is THE SQUEEMOTHER!

To participate in the boss fight you must do the Intimidation prompt! The requirements and information on that prompt are listed in the section below this, doing so will reward you with some items + 1 point of damage to the boss. You can view everyones progress here! If this boss is deafeated before the next part, every participant will recieve the following: 100 Cloudcoins, Random Item Box x1, and an exclusive pet!

As a reminder:

Boss fights are goals that the community must work towards together. The 'boss', whether it be an enemy or a task to be completed, will have a site-wide health bar that can be depleted (or filled) by completing prompts! The next part will be released regardless of if the boss fight is completed, but if the boss is defeated before then, everybody who participated will be able to claim a reward!

Prompts:

Here are the new prompts for part 4! 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.

Event prompt submissions will also make contribute to the progress of ongoing boss fight!

Story Prompt:

Show your Space Station character(s) facing off against the Squeemother!

Rules:

• If drawing for this prompt, it MUST be at least a shaded fullbody with a simple scene background! The Squeemother must also be at least implied to be present - this can be as minimal as a shadow or falling feathers. A reference image for the Squeemother can be found here.
• 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 Feat of Bravery Patch
• 100 cc
• 20 user exp
• 20 character exp
• Squee pet

Event Prompt:

Show your Space Station character(s) encountering something larger than they are! This prompt is vauge, so interpret it as you wish.

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
• 1 damage point
• 10 user exp
• 10 character exp

Foraging and Encounters:

There is one more new location to forage at and one more new encounter location during this part!

As a reminder, with the recent changes you will now need to own a character in order to use encounters. Without the use of food items, each character will recieve 3 energy per day, and you can change your character up 3 times per day. Rewards from encounters are now granted to the active character's inventory - remember to check there if you're unsure of where something may have gone!

Additionally, some encounters now have the chance to inflict status conditions onto characters. Some options on some encounters also require specific items to be in your character's inventory to be chosen.

Foraging may drop:

• Crafting Materials
• Cooking Items
• Misc Items
• Currency
  

GARDENING:

We only have one new crop for this round, Turnips! Turnips are grown in the Under Awan area.

Crafting:

We have a handful of new crafting and cooking recipes for this part! You can obtain them by opening the Recipe Cards recieved from this part's prize code.

Additionally, several new items have been added to the geode cracking pool.

Crafting Recipes:

• Stir Fry
  
  • Food
• Rice Pudding
  
  • Food
• Truffle Risotto
  
  • Food
• Pickles
  • Food
• Stone Carvings
  
  • Collectables
• Agate
  • Collectable
  • Dropped from geodes
• Peridot
  • Collectable
  • Dropped from geodes
• Turqoise
  • Collectable
  • Dropped from geodes
• Fossils
  • Collectables
  • Dropped from geodes

Pets:

We have two new pets for this part! They can be obtained through encounters in the Underground River.

Pets:

• Squeelet
  • Drops nothing
• Geode Grub
  
  • Drops nothing
  • This pet has several variants, which each drop a different type of gemstone!

Raffle design:

Part 4's raffle design can be seen below!

By slug

You can obtain one raffle ticket from the prize code at the end of the dialogue event. Additional tickets can be found through foraging!

Part 3's raffle design was won by Lucky_cat_Frank!

Underglazed vesselS:

Underglazed Vessels, the selfbreeding MYOs for Clayfoxes, are now functional!

These work a little differently from the other selfbreeds. Creating a slot will instead roll a pool of traits from the parents for you, similar to a random MYO. It will also generate a color palette suggestion, but you are not required to use it in your design so long as your character still resembles it's parents to a reasonable degree - it's just for fun! There is also a chance to generate twins.

To create a slot, rather than opening the item from your inventory, you need to go to the pairings page, linked under 'play' on the navbar. You will have to attach your Underglazed Vessel and set the parents, and will also have the opportunity to attach a Lucky Charm.

If you want to use a parent Clayfox owned by a user other than yourself, they will have to grant you a breeding permission. They can do this by going to the breeding permissions page accessible on the sidebar of the character's masterlist entry. All characters have 100 breeding permissions that you can grant or use - if you somehow run out, you can request more for free.

You will not be able to add or remove traits until after the kit design is already approved, but a Lucky Charm can be used whilst generating the slot to increase the odds of inheriting Mythical rarity traits.

If you happen to roll a kit with an impossible set of traits (such as a tail modifier with no base tail shape) you can submit it to the Random MYO Fixes prompt.

The way non-Clayfox selfbreedings work has not been changed in any way.

misc:

• All characters now have a colors field on their masterlist entries. Some existing characters have had them automatically generated based on their images and some have not - we're unsure of why this is. This happened as a side effect of our update and we cannot find a correlation between characters with and without it.
• If you happen to want us to manually generate the palette on one of your characters you're free to ask us to, but it is completely optional and has no real function. Keep in mind these palettes may also pull from unusual places such as lineart, shading, or backgrounds and thus may not be truly representative of a characters' colours.
• winterbunz now has a staff sona!

Thank you all for reading! 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!

The next part will be released on December 8th. We hope you all enjoy it!

Hi everyone! Our first Intermission for the Disquiet event is here!

PLEASE READ THIS NEWSLETTER IN FULL.

If you wish to read the newsletter without getting story spoilers, then we recommend reading the dialogue event first before scrolling!!

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:

Intermission 1 of the dialogue event can be read here! Be sure to read it before participating in the event.

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing!

Winter advent calander Guest Artists:

First our winter advent has been extended from 25 days to the full 31! With that we've chosen 8 GAs to help us, Bloodborne, Chooliw, ColdRising, dadada_darling, hellpriest, kingscreek, Lunaray10, and meow ! If you didn't get chosen this round we plan on having more GA opportunities soon! We'd like to host some GA only adopt batches in the future :]

As a reminder claims for our annual winter advent calendar will go live on November 15th! There will be both raffle-to-pay slots and first-come, first-served slots. There will be 31 days to claim, and they will be $20 each.

The raffle to pay form will open on 11/13 at 2pm EST, and close and be rolled on 11/14 2pm EST.
The FCFS slots will open 11/15 at 2pm EST.

As usual, these will be themed mystery designs that will be revealed and distributed throughout December.

Adjustments to Encounters:

To start we'll be switching encounters from user based to character based. This means users will have to own a character to do encounters from this day onwards. Characters may only be swapped 3 times a day, and they each have their own individual pool of energy. We will be lowering the base encounter energy from 5 to 3, meaning (without the use of food) users with 3 or more characters will have a total of 9 energy, rather than 5 a day. We have a few reasons for this but mostly:

• We will be adding character jobs sometime after the new year. This will allow us to restrict encounters to characters with specific jobs, via an item in their inventory.
• We can make failing encounters apply status effects to characters.
• Unfortunately, most cheating in events is done via encounters. By requiring characters new accounts will be unable to do encounters, this will (hopefully) discourage people a bit more from cheating. 

As a note setting your character for the first time will consume one of your daily character changes. We will also be slowly rewording encounters to be more in the perspective of characters, rather than NPCs.

Note that any items required to enter an encounter location must be in the selected character's inventory to enter it.

Thank you all for reading! 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!

The next part will be released on November 24th. We hope you all enjoy it!

Hi everyone! Monthly news for you all. 

Autumn foraging and encounters:

As promised, we have added the final forage and encounter areas for the season! These, alongside the seasonal prompts, will be available until the beginning of winter.

Foraging Locations:

• Apple Orchard

Encounter Regions:

• County Fair

MYSTERY ADOPTS:

We are preparing a batch of mystery adopts this month. These will all be song-themed Clayfoxes, to celebrate the introduction of the species!

These will be going up on the 7th, and slots will be $25 each. These will be raffle to pay, and rolled on 11/8!

Winter Advent:

Aside from the mystery adopts, claims for our annual winter advent calendar will go live on November 15th! There will be both raffle-to-pay slots and first-come, first-served slots. There will be 25 days to claim, and they will be $20 each.

The raffle to pay form will open on 11/13 at 2pm EST, and close and be rolled on 11/14 2pm EST. 
The FCFS slots will open 11/15 at 2pm EST.

As usual, these will be themed mystery designs that will be revealed and distributed throughout December.

GUEST ARTIST OPPORTUNITY:

We are looking for five guest artists to create designs for our winter advent! You must be 16+ and able to recieve payment via PayPal to apply.

You can apply here!

The form will close on 11/7, after which those chosen will be contacted with further details.

Secret Santa:

Like last year we will be hosting a secret santa! The sign up form for this will go out on the 21st of this month! It will include all relevant information, including rules and deadlines!

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 will be able to self enter until 11/2 23:59:59 site time, and the raffles will be rolled on 11/3!

NOVEMBER Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is WINTER PREPARATIONS! Draw and/or write about your spacestation character preparing for winter! 

The November monthly madness will last till November 30th!

MiSC:

• Lucky_cat_Frank won the Vampire Guppymander raffle!
• venti has stepped down to the Guest Artist role
• We have added a 'misc' option for transformation tabs for those of you who may have alternative fullbody references that do not fall under any other tab, such as alternative outfits or anthro/feral forms. These are optional use, and like the other tabs you must link to your secondary image in the comments of your design submission.

Hi everyone! Part 3 of the Disquiet event is here!

PLEASE READ THIS NEWSLETTER IN FULL.

If you wish to read the newsletter without getting story spoilers, then we recommend reading the dialogue event first before scrolling!!

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.

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing!

boss fights:

Part 3's boss is CAVE BEAR!

To participate in the boss fight you must do the Unexpected Fright prompt! The requirements and information on that prompt are listed in the section below this, doing so will reward you with some items + 1 point of damage to the boss. You can view everyones progress here! If this boss is deafeated before the next part, every participant will recieve the following: Cloudcoins x100, Random Item Box x1, Carnivorous Plant Seed x1.

As a reminder:

Boss fights are goals that the community must work towards together. The 'boss', whether it be an enemy or a task to be completed, will have a site-wide health bar that can be depleted (or filled) by completing prompts! The next part will be released regardless of if the boss fight is completed, but if the boss is defeated before then, everybody who participated will be able to claim a reward!

Prompts:

Here are the new 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.

Event prompt submissions will also make contribute to the progress of ongoing boss fight!

Story Prompt:

Show your Space Station character(s) surviving in the cave!

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:

• Underground Survivalist Patch
• 100 cc
• 20 user exp
• 20 character exp
• Plain Vessel

Event Prompt:

Show your Space Station character(s) being startled by something! This prompt is vague, so interpret it as you wish.

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
• 1 damage point
• 10 user exp
• 10 character exp

Foraging and Encounters:

There is one more new location to forage at and one more new encounter location during this part!

Foraging may drop:

• Crafting Materials
• Cooking Items
• Misc Items
• Currency
  

GARDENING:

We are introducing a dedicated Gardening Shop as of this part! It will be permanently available, and stock a rotating supply of tools and seeds. The items to unlock each gardening area will also be available here going forward.

We also have a new gardening area, Under Awan, this part, and several new crops to go with it!

To unlock the Under Awan area, you will need to obtain and open the Photo of Under Awan item, which can be obtained for free in the Gardening Shop. Plots can then be prepared using the new Plough tool.

Seeds:

• Carrot Seeds
• Rice Seeds
• Burdock Seeds
• Seed Potatoes
• Cantaloupe Seeds - grown on Soda Planet, as opposed to Under Awan.
• Carnivorous Plant Seeds - a rare drop not purchaseable in shops.

Crafting:

We have a handful of new crafting and cooking recipes for this part! You can obtain them by opening the Recipe Cards recieved from this part's prize code.

Crafting Recipes:

• Jam
  
  • Food
• Sticky Rice
  
  • Food
• Fried Rice
  • Food
• Roast Potatoes
  • Food
• Mashed Potatoes
  • Food
• Clay Figures
  
  • Collectables
• Crystal Jewellery
  • Collectables
• Bone Spiked Collar
  • Collectables
• Woven Baskets
  • Collectables

Pets:

We have two new pets for this part! They can be obtained through encounters in the Underground River.

Pets:

• Duglas
  • Drops Truffles
• Flitzie
  
  • Drops nothing

NEW SPECIES:

And now for the biggest announcement: introducing Clayfoxes!

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Clayfoxes are a species of small, tunnelling foxes adapted for digging! They also have a warrior subtype that are much larger and more imposing.
Their traits can be found here!

Clayfoxes use their own unique items. Their MYO slots are called Vessels, their add-ons are Diamonds, and their vouchers are Ambers! They also have their own specific redesign items.

The randomized MYO, Shattered Vessel, and the selfbreed MYO, Underglazed Vessel, are currently unable to be used. This will be updated soon, and the items are still able to be obtained.

Unlike the other species on The Space Station, Clayfox items cannot be purchased in shops. Instead, to obtain them, you must craft them! The recipes will be automatically unlocked for all users. All crafting recipes require the equivalant item from another species, as well as crafting materials and crops. As such, they are more scarce than other species.

Make sure to check which items from your inventory are being used before you hit 'craft'! With recipes that call for any item out of a small pool, you may use the inventory dropdown to deselect and reselect items as desired. If you do not do this, the recipe may use up something you wanted to keep!

We will not be refunding items used in crafting unintentionally. Be sure to pay attention.

Raffle design:

Part 3's raffle design can be seen below!

By sugarsprink

You can obtain one raffle ticket from the prize code at the end of the dialogue event. Additional tickets can be found through foraging!

Part 2's raffle design was won by aphe-lion!

MISC:

Image Blocking:

We have installed an extension that allows you to block images on-site! To use it, go to your settings and enable it. This will add a button that allows you to block an image, which will blur it across the site for you. You can then safely disable the extension without re-enabling the images. We hope that this is a helpful accessibility tool for items and graphics that you may not wish to see, for one reason or another.

Halloween Gacha:

A raffle-to-pay form for slots on our Halloween gachas will be posted in our Discord server on October 29th, 2PM EST. Raffle to pay slots will then be rolled on the 30th at 2PM.

Slots for both the USD gacha and the CC Pet gacha will open at 2PM EST. Once everybody has paid, rolling will be done in our Discord server!

As a reminder, USD slots will be $30 each, and CC slots will be 2,500 Cloud Coins each.

Thank you all for reading! 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!

The next part will be released on November 10th. We hope you all enjoy it!

Hi everyone! Part 2 of the Disquiet event is here!

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 2 of the dialogue event can be read here! Be sure to read it before participating in the event.

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing!

New trait:

With this part, we are releasing a new trait - Frozen Soda, for Sodacats, as modelled by Fizz!

This trait is part of a new rarity tier, Fabled. Fabled traits cannot currently be obtained on MYOs. This will change in the future, however - hold tight!

boss fights:

Part 1's boss was defeated with a final score of 22 points! This is more than double the requirement!

As a reward, everybody who participated by submitting a Snow Day prompt will be awarded x1 Strange Seed, x1 Random Item Box, and x3 Geodes!

Snow Day prompts can be submitted until October 20th, after which they will no longer be able to be completed. Late submissions will not recieve the reward listed above, but will still get the base prompt rewards.

There is no boss fight for part 2, but we can assure you that this mechanic will be returning in the future!

Prompts:

Here are the new prompts for part 2! 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:

Show your Space Station character(s) hunting for the strange figures in the caves!

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:

• Mysterious Voices Patch
• 100 cc
• 20 user exp
• 20 character exp
• 3 Garlic Seeds

Event Prompt:

Show your Space Station character(s) getting lost! This prompt is vague, so interpret it as you wish.

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

Foraging and Encounters:

There is one more new location to forage at and one more new encounter location during this part!

Foraging may drop:

• Crafting Materials
• Cooking Items
• Misc Items
• Currency
  

GARDENING:

We have two new crops this time around, Garlic and Ferns! These can be grown on Awan, on plots prepared using Claw Gloves.

Crafting:

We have a handful of new crafting and cooking recipes for this part! You can obtain them by opening the Recipe Cards recieved from this part's prize code.

Crafting Recipes:

• Bread
  
  • Food
• Garlic Bread
  • Food
• Dog Tags
  
  • Collectables
• Metal Spiked Collar
  
  • Collectables

    

    Pets:

    We have three new pets for this part! They can be obtained through encounters in the Tunnel.

Pets:

• Newpy
  • Drops Polished Stones
  • This pet has a varient! use a magic wand to obtain it :]
• Skippy
  • Drops Clay
• Cave Mouse
  
  • Drops Mushrooms and Mushroom Spores

Raffle design:

Part 2's raffle design can be seen below!

By winterbunz

You can obtain one raffle ticket from the prize code at the end of the dialogue event. Additional tickets can be found through foraging!

Part 1's raffle design was won by TheEmunenerEver!

MISC:

Golden Syrups and Golden Sugars are being renamed to Cherry Syrups and Cherry Sugars! This is to better align with the color-coding of the Mythical rarity.

Thank you all for reading! 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!

The next part will be released on October 27th. We hope you all enjoy it!

Hi everyone! Monthly news for you all. 

Autumn foraging and encounters:

As promised, we have added one more foraging location and one more encounter region for autumn! These are in addition to last month's, and will be available until the beginning of winter. One more of each will be added on November 1st!

Foraging Locations:

• Pumpkin Patch

Encounter Regions:

• Farmer's Market

HAlLOWEEN:

We have decided not to host a full Halloween event this year, due to the ongoing lore event that will be running throughout the entirety of October. However, we do have a few things planned for you all!

Halloween Advent Calendar:

This will be hosted in the week running up to Halloween. Prizes will include items and new pets, with an prize for collecting all of the days!

HALLOWEEN GACHAS:

We will be hosting two gachas on October 31st! The information for both of these can be found below:

Cloud Coin Gacha:

We will be hosting a Cloud Coin gacha! Rolls will cost 2,500 CC each, and will distribute a unique Halloween or autumn themed variant of an on-site pet. These variants will not be obtainable through any other means, and thus are completely unique individuals.

USD Gacha:

Alongside the Cloud Coin Gacha, we will be hosting a USD gacha for Halloween and autumn themed designs! As with other gachas, rolls will cost $20 each.

SPACETOBER:

Inspired by an idea pitched by aPhantom in our Discord server, we have decided to host an October daily prompts list!

Rules:

• If drawing for this prompt, it MUST be at least a rough colored sketch fullbody with a props background!
• If writing for this prompt, it MUST be a minimum of 300 words!
• Prompts are intentionally vague! Interpret them however you wish.
• Pieces must be submitted to the Spacetober gallery on-site and to the Spacetober prompt with criteria attached to recieve full rewards!
• You have three days to complete each piece - for example, the Day 1 prompt will be available to be fulfilled until October 3rd, and so on!
• You do not need to complete each day to redeem pieces for rewards. You can do as many or as few as you like! Don't stress about it.
• While you are free to make your own prompt lists, or follow another user's, only the official prompt list shown on this newsletter will be eligible for Spacetober rewards. Pieces for alternative prompt lists can still be submitted for regular art redemption as normal.

Rewards:

• Cloud Coins (art redemption rates +100 per submission)
• 5 user exp
• 5 character exp
• +100 bonus Cloud Coins every 3 submissions
• If you complete at least one prompt from each row on the sheet (for a total minimum of 5 submissions), you can recieve a Random Item Box at the end of the month!

Lineages:

As some of you may have noticed, we are now beginning to add lineages to characters resulting from breeding batches and self breeds! This is being tracked for logistical reasons, to prevent any related characters from accidentally being paired with one another, and is not reflective of any actual lore that may be attached to characters. While we have already gone through many characters whose lineages we are aware of, we're missing many self breeds and old moderator batches.

To help with the process, we have created a turn-in prompt here. If you own any characters from self-breeds or breeding batches without lineages already added, please send in a submission to help us out! Please do not submit characters whose relation only exists in personal lore. While those characters cannot be paired with one another either, we are not officially tracking them as lore is subject to change when characters change hands.

The turn-in prompt for lineages can be found here! Thank you for your help.

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! This will be rolled sometime the next day!

October Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is Dress Up! Draw and/or write about your spacestation character dressing up! 

The October monthly madness will last till October 31st!

MiSC:

• In case you missed it, don't forget to check out Part 1 of Disquiet!
• LupineLeopard now has a staff sona!