Lioden Treasure Hunting event

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Lioden has introduced some new markings for their lions and their treasure hunting event will begin relatively soon. What are your thoughts on the new markings?​

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Treasure Hunting: January​

Starting automatically on 21st January at 00:00am Lioden time and lasting until 31st January at 11:59pm Lioden time, the Treasure Hunting event will return!

How Treasure Hunting Works
You can choose from several different maps to send a submale out Treasure Hunting. The hunt lasts 15 minutes and rewards a small prize at the end. Each standard hunt has a chance of discovering a Treasure Map, leading to a much bigger reward if you follow the directions and discover the right place to send him next!

The return of Treasure Hunting means that Doubloons are coming back as well! Every Treasure Hunt rewards some Doubloons, but following a Treasure Map will give a bigger amount.

The Treasure Cove is makings its return, too, with new items!

In addition, all current shop items can be found (rarely) when completing a Treasure Map hunt!

New Maps for Treasure Hunting
Enjoy two new maps: Smuggler's Cove and Golden Sands!



New Item from Treasure Hunting

- Suspicious Tadpole will be an item found during Treasure Hunting - it will let you visually swap the gender image of a chosen Battle Beetle. Thank you for the suggestion, Mad Hyena (#29080)!

New Item in the Treasure Cove

- Clear Rum will let you visually disable a mutation, so you can use more decors or custom decors. It will force a subtle frame effect. Thank you for the suggestion, ⛧August⛧ (#93898)!

Cape Fur Seal Female	Cape Fur Seal Pup	Captain's Hat	Pirate Bandana [Red]	Pirate Bandana [Black]
Pirate Bandana [White]	Pirate Treasure Leg Wraps [Gold]	Pirate Treasure Leg Wraps [Silver]	Old Barrels	Old Pirate Flag
Rusting Ship Scrap	Old-school Anchor	Hanging Nets

Enjoy the bounty!

Raffle Lioness System Updates​

On Friday 17th of January we will be starting our implementation of a new Raffle Lioness system. This first phase will not feel like a huge change to players, but it's a big upgrade on the back-end of things. We will need to have a short maintenance to implement it - we will notify you of the maintenance period planned a little closer to the day.

Raffle Lioness - Phase 1​

* The 17th January's raffle lioness will be pulled as normal - after this, there will be a short period of time where there is no raffle lioness available and we will have maintenance.

* Going forward, raffle lioness designs will now be queued up and set to release on a specific date automatically.

* The winner of a raffle lioness will now be pulled automatically at 3am server time (an hour after Rollover time) on Fridays.

* When a winner is pulled, four runner-ups are also pulled and stored secretly.

* The winner will be sent an in-game message asking them to visit a link to "claim" the raffle lioness. This is not regular claiming where you might lose her, this is just a check to make sure you have room in your territory - and if so, she's yours.

* If the winner does not accept the raffle lioness within 28 days of receiving this message, the first runner up is pulled and is offered the chance to claim her. This process repeats throughout all four runner ups.

* In the very, very slim chance that nobodyaccepts her, her design will be sent back to the admins. Her design may be released in a regular raffle in a Community News post, or be put back into the Raffle Lioness system at a later date, or it may just be discarded.

Raffle Studs - Phase 2​

* This will be coming soon - we don't have a date set for this, but we are aiming for Q1 of 2025.

* Every Friday we will be listing a Raffle Stud - this will either be a duplicate design of the raffle lioness from the same week, or a previous week, or may be an entirely different design.

* A week later, 20 winners will be drawn to have 1 studding with him. The breeding will be instantaneous, with no fails regardless of fertility (except Infertile).

* As a winner, you will be able to use any breeding items on your lioness, but no breeding items will be applied to the stud. The window to breed to him will be 1 week (not rollover days, real-time week).

New Raffle Markings​

On the topic of the raffle lioness system, we've added in some new raffle markings - one brand new shape, one brand new marking colour, and one existing colour making its debut as body markings!

All of the below markings are released through weekly raffle lionesses. They are introduced as Tier 5 in order to prevent them from being applied early via RMAs/RMRs/Total Shuffles until the raffle lioness with the first marking is delivered to her owner. Once the raffle lioness is delivered to her owner, the marking is then set to Tier 2!

New Shape - Ocelot​

Ocelot comes in the following colours:

• Black Ocelot
• Cimmerian Ocelot
• Dark Brown Ocelot
• Lilac Ocelot
• Noctis Ocelot
• Onyx Ocelot
• Seal Ocelot

Thank you for the suggestion, Rosedapple (#116087)! We plan to release Ocelot in more colours, but would like to start with these for now.

New Colour - Latte​

Latte comes in the following shapes:

• Dim Latte
• Latte Brindle
• Latte Burmese
• Latte Crackle
• Latte Crumbing
• Latte Glaze
• Latte Indri
• Latte Inverted Zebra
• Latte Lace
• Latte Margay
• Latte Panther
• Latte Pelage
• Latte Points
• Latte Quail Flecks
• Latte Rims
• Latte Roan
• Latte Rogue
• Latte Shine
• Latte Siamese
• Latte Soft Unders
• Latte Underfelt

Thank you for the suggestion, 🎩Lance [G2 Bast Phase Wicked] (#173175)!

New Body Colour - Whisper​

Whisper already existed as a colour for mane markings, and it's now been expanded to body markings starting today!

Whisper comes in the following shapes:

• Whisper Crumbing
• Whisper Inverted Zebra
• Whisper Margay
• Whisper Panther
• Whisper Rims
• Whisper Roan
• Whisper Soft Unders
• Whisper Underfelt

Thank you for the suggestion, grassman 🌱 | project (#243884)! We will be looking at implementing the other Whisper markings within this suggestion in a future update.

Marking Note: Ocelot is still being uploaded for the last few mutations. Latte and Whisper are available for default lion stages, and is being uploaded for mutations ASAP!

Contest Reminder​

All contests are now closed for new entries!The voting period began at 00:00am Lioden time today (January 10th) for the "Front Page Designs" contests, and will last until 11:59pm Lioden time on January 16th. Winners for all contests will be announced on January 17th, and they will receive their prizes then!

Details
* There are 12 front page design contests in total—one for each monthly event on Lioden.

• Entries are themed around specific events (e.g. only submit January-themed arrangements for the January contest, etc.).
• Everyone can vote for whichever entries they like best! Each player can vote 5 times per contest, 1 vote per entry (so you cannot put all 5 votes into one entry), and you will get a bonus 5 SB per vote for participating.

• Votes cannot be incentivised. Do not ask for other players to vote for your entries, your friends' entries, etc. anywhere on Lioden. This includes in the chat room, on the forums, or in various other areas of the site. Incentivising votes can lead to actions being taken against accounts—we really want this to be fair and for players to genuinely vote for whichever entries they like best!
  [*]If your design is chosen, it will be added to a pool of randomised images that will be shown on Lioden's front page when that specific event is occurring on Lioden!

Art Bug Fixes​

* Spirited Mane Heavy - Quartz mane markings and White Waves had wrong files

• Spirited Mane Barbary - Onyx mane markings had wrong files
• Spirited Pose - fixed Stellar and Axion eyes hues
• Spirited Pose - fixed skin hues to resemble default lion ones more: Bunting, Burnt, Dark, Dark Brown, Dusky, Fallow, Ink, Pale, Quail, Quartz, Ruffian, Sandy, Welsummer
• Primal Ennedi Vossoko - Fiery base and markings colouration issues
• Dwarf Male - Valiant marking having a big cut on muzzle, fixed for all recolous
• Cyclopia - Terrazzo Eyes
• Cub Young Primal - Scarab Eyes
• Tigon Cub - Bloody Omen marking positioning
• Teen Female - Patches Nebulous having no detail pattern on face
• Teen Male Ennedi Vossoko - some mane files missing
• Cubs + all body mutations - Onyx / Noctis Ear Rims clipping issues
• Lich Fire portrait showing wrong colour for Royal Mane
• Purring Japanese Bobtail positioning on Jolly

Spirited Updates​

Fix: Issue of some mane-specific decors working in wardrobe but not on actual Spirited lions has been fixed.

Important: We are aware that some mutations and mane-specific decors for the Spirited pose are still not functioning in the Lion Wardrobe despite files existing, and custom decor submissions for this pose are not available yet. This is currently being worked on - we’ll send out an announcement when it’s fixed. Thank you for your patience! <3

Posed Mutation Info: Added Eyeless, Achromia, Melanism, Clawless, Blind, Primal Fangs, Overgrown Tongue, Overgrown Teeth, and Overgrown Claws for Spirited.
Achromia and Melanism might be the ones glitching until code is adjusted.

Maneless: We are working to make Maneless a posed mutation so it will work with Spirited! It will work a bit differently than on current males, so the split coding will take a little time.

Piebalds Status Update: All Piebald designs have been created, however the mane adaptation is taking a bit, because we want the patterns on the manes to be as similar to original males as possible on each mane for each Piebald. These will be worked on next week and start appearing soon enough. Patches will be done after Piebalds!

Raffle Lioness​

Congrats to the winners of last week's raffle lioness!
A new Cairngorm lady with Black Ocelot (NEW!), Lilac Freckles 2, and the eighth Ruacana Falls background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

There are no new tags this week! Shad may be looking into adding them in a near update.

Poll Results - Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! We will provide sketches for Ennedi Dilali and Mngwa for you all to vote on sometime during spring this year.

NEW POLL - Are you interested in a new Rosette marking that would be excluded from RMAs? Let us know in this week's poll!

Next Update: Community Update - January 17th!
Next Development Update: February 14th!!



Where's the official raffle and Friday comic?

Community raffles and Friday doodles are only released on community updates. This is a development update, so no raffle or doodle will be released this week, sorry!
Source: January Development Update #76! :|: Lioden

 

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Oh, by the way, have any of you noticed the markings on the lions for the new lions that has been made? The Treasure Hunting seems like really fun, can’t wait to participate in it, at least to check what can be found in there.