-LOCKED - April Development Update #54!
Posted on 2023-04-14 23:09:15

New Skins!


Today, we're releasing a set of new noses/skins, inspired by the Blue and Eggshell suggestions. Thank you, Vera (#158086)!


We have implemented a new kind of skin: breed only!

April 15th Edit: We misunderstood the feature and unintentionally released incorrect information within the news. The following information is correct in how breed only skins work.

These breed only skins will have a 7% chance at appearing on a cub when bred from a parent with the skin's associated base. Skins will still operate as normal and have their default assignments (e.g. Water Hyacinth being tied to Dusky skin, Interstellar being tied to Black skin, etc.), but cubs bred from parents with certain bases will now have that additional 7% chance to roll a breed only skin that matches the parent's base.

For example, let's pair an Interstellar-based king with White skin to a Jet-based lioness with Dusky skin. They produce a Jet-based cub. The cub has an 80% chance to inherit Black skin (the default skin for Jet), a 10% chance for White skin (the father's skin), a 10% chance for Dusky skin (the mother's skin)... and then finally, the cub will roll an additional 7% chance to get the Echo breed only skin, which originates from Interstellar parents.

Bunting: can be produced from Champagne, Citrine, Goldenrod, and Sulphur
Echo: can be produced from Interstellar
Eggshell Blue: can be produced from Haliotis
Ink: can be produced from Noctis and Styx
Lilac: can be produced from Glass, Kunzite, and Protea
Plum: can be produced from Prismatic and Water Hyacinth
Quail: can be produced from Buttercream, Pearl, Qahir, and Teardrop
Sandstone: can be produced from Arabica, Buff, Cameo, and Flaxen
Welsummer: can be produced from Anjeer, Sapela, Sepia, and Shedua


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Craftable Applicators!


As promised, Fuchsia-inspired craftable applicators are now available as year-round recipes in Monkey Business!

- Protea Nectar will let you add one of four Protea markings: Protea Glaze, Protea Lahore Plumage, Protea Snuggle, or Protea Vitiligo!
Recipe: 7x Fuchsia Flower, 5x Antelope Hoof, 20x Stripped Cacti, 5x Kingfisher Feathers

- Water Hyacinth Mane will let you apply this new mane colour!
Recipe: 4x Fuchsia Flower, 20x Underbrush, 10x Locust Wing, 5x Gem: Amethyst

- Hibiscus Mane will let you apply this new mane colour!
Recipe: 4x Fuchsia Flower, 20x Ubhubhubhu, 5x Shiny Red Rocks, 5x Rainbow Stones

- Fuchsia Mane will let you apply this new mane colour!
Recipe: 8x Fuchsia Flower, 10x Flamingo Feathers

- Azalea Mane will let you apply this new mane colour!
Recipe: 4x Fuchsia Flower, 5x Four Leaf Clover, 25x Flamingo Feather, 10x Ostrich Feather

- Scent of Azalea will let you apply this new base!
Recipe: 4x Fuchsia Flower, 10x Four Leaf Clover, 50x Aloe Leaf, 50x Flamingo Feather, 25x Ostrich Feather


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New Combo Mane Colour!




The Serruria mane colour is now possible to obtain while breeding for a Serruria base!

To refresh your memory on how combo mane colours work...
When breeding Serruria factors together, you have a chance of spawning a Serruria-based cub. When a Serruria-based cub is produced, there is a 50% chance that the cub will also pop up with a matching Serruria mane colour! This is the only way to produce this mane colour without at least one parent having it.

If a lion already has the mane colour and wants to breed, there's a normal mane colour passing chance, so you can pass the beautiful Serruria mane colour onto any future cubs. The cubs do not need to have the matching Serruria base in order to pass the Serruria mane colour. Already having the mane colour itself is enough to potentially pass it onto future offspring!


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New Whack a Snake Rewards!


Since the minigame is back, we have added some fresh decors and a new background you can win!


King Fern

Ladder Brake

Ribbon Fern

Stamvrug

African Corkwood Tree

Prince Demidoff's Bushbaby

Wolf's Mona Monkey

Fire Skink

Cape Grape

Snake Plant

Pousargues's Mongoose

Ekom Nkam Waterfall




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New Raffle Markings!


We've implemented a few new recolours of the Quail Flecks and Siamese markings, available only via raffle lionesses (or RMAs/Total Shuffles in the futureβ€”we'll announce when the markings can be achieved through these items)!
* Bushveld Quail Flecks
* Bushveld Siamese
* Goridhe Quail Flecks
* Goridhe Siamese
* Lilac Quail Flecks




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Extra Stuff


New Oasis Decor

The Aging Caracal decor has been added to the Oasis and can be purchased year-round!



New Bunny Shop Items

We also have added two new backgrounds to the Bunny Shop!

Fluffball Utopia

Flower Garden


Art Bug Fixes

* Scarlet Pimpernel Legwrap [Blue] now displays on Adult Male
* Scarlet Pimpernel Legwrap [Orange] now displays on Adult Male
* Scarlet Pimpernel Neckwrap [Blue] now displays on Adult Male
* Scarlet Pimpernel Neckwrap [Orange] now displays on Adult Male
* Scarlet Pimpernel Rumpwrap [Orange] now shows proper artwork on Adult Female Default

Coding Bug Fixes

* The bunnies were quick to forget that an adolescent was already down in the tunnels, they should now show the proper cooldown timer on the Bunny Shop page.
* Additionally, a user log is now generated when sending an adolescent into the tunnels.
* Some lions were briefly displaying blank skins, these should now be showing properly!

Additional Note

Next month, we'll be adding in a new Reptile Roundup level. It was planned for today, but some things weren't able to be finished on time. We'll also be focusing mainly on a lot of art bug fixing, as well as what wins this week's poll!


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Raffle Lioness


Congrats to the winner of last week's raffle lioness!
A new Styx lady with Algae Crumbing, Bushveld Quail Flecks (NEW!), and the ninth Great Rift Valley background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

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! It looks like Ra - v.3 is very popular! We'll see what we can do for this June!

NEW POLL - For the next development updates, which area of the site would you like content updates (decors, etc.) for the most? Let us know in this week's poll!


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Next Update: Community Update - April 21st!
Next Development Update: May 12th!!




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!



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Edited on 15/04/23 @ 12:20:16 by Katze (#3)

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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:03:26
please consider making whack a snake more enjoyable and accessible to all users
https://www.lioden.com/topic.php?id=304429498027



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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:05:48
WHOOO BIG DAY FOR BO BREEDERS



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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:06:00
I love the new whack-a-snake decors! I'd like them more if they were achievable to the casual player



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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:08:09
NEWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS



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In My Dreams *PBC* (#7497)

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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:09:59
Yay news yay



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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:10:21
Fantastic new additions!!



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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:14:16
Thank you for the lovely additions!



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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:19:19
NEEEEEEEEEWSS!!!



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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:28:31
FINALLY NEW SKINS ! Love em



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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:28:41
I am thrilled and still pretty shocked y'all added NINE of them! The incorporation of the dark/purple skins really took me by pleasant surprise. Thank you so much for taking them and adapting them, it really boosts the variety in skins for RLs, projects, etc. and I can't wait to see how people use them.

I'm so happy to see a combo mane :0 Serruria ftw. Also REALLY thrilled about BO quail flecks, you have no idea

The new decor and especially the backgrounds look really great!

Also have to commend some different materials being used in crafting. Really nice to see another use for clover.

Overall just a banger of an update.



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Kam 🐾 (Hiatus) (#163483)

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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:39:03
I'm a little disappointed about how the Azalea base and mane both require Four Leaf Clovers. Not only the Clovers are only available once a year, but there was also downtime (Which I'm not mad about, it happens!) that effected people from getting Clovers (Especially for people who work overnights in the Western Hemisphere, or for people in general in the Eastern Hemisphere). I know the point of the Four Leaf Clovers is for St. Patrick's, but it is extremely disappointing that there is a new base and mane to be crafted, but with no crafting materials to be able to make it. The only solution to be able to craft these now is to either buy more Clovers (Which people are understandably more stingy about for their own crafting), or to wait almost a whole year to get some more again.

Also, I feel like the rewards system for Whack-a-Snake should be scaled down a bit, or there should be some other solution implemented (This thread is a great example on some solutions.) so people are able to get rewards a bit easier in WAS.
It takes 400-499 points for even the chance to get a decor. Personally, to get a score that high, it usually takes me 15-30 minutes of game-play to even get that chance. Not to mention the dreadful 1,000+ score that barely any people get, so there's not to many of the WAS exclusive backgrounds cycling around the website to buy anyway.
I just feel like it would be beneficial to either scale down the rewards system or implement a score multiplier.
To be honest, I LOVE a lot of these Whack-a-Snake decors and backgrounds, but I'm very discouraged that I'll even be able to get them. With having a full time job and other things to do on Lioden, I don't have time to make multiple attempts at grinding for a background or decor.
I hope there will be some changes in the making for Whack-a-Snake, it would be such a shame to see a lot of this beautiful art go to waste because it's so hard to obtain.

Once again though, thanks for all the new BO-skins! I'm sure a lot of BO-breeders (such as myself) are thrilled to see these!



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Edited on 15/04/23 @ 00:49:30 by Kam (1G 3.2K Elysian) (#163483)

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Posted on
2023-04-15 00:42:50
NOOOT NEEEEWS!



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Posted on
2023-04-15 01:00:51
Oh I love the breed-only skins! They sure give Clouded competition!



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Casey (Hiatus) (#52546)


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Posted on
2023-04-15 01:04:50
I love the new BO skins!

Like a few other users mentioned, I am a little disappointed with Whack-A-Snake right now. It takes me 15+ minutes to get a score of 300-400ish, only to get a measly prize like 10-20 SB or something worth around that amount for 15+ minutes of my time. I can't even imagine having to sit there and play this game for an hour or so just to get a score of 1,000+ for one of the backgrounds.

I'm glad that we get more things to craft with four leaf clovers, but I'm almost disappointed that it was implemented the same year as a 3+ hour downtime on the ONLY day you can find clovers in the whole year. I know downtimes happen, but it's still disappointing, nonetheless. I almost wish we were "reimbursed" for this downtime, ESPECIALLY now that there are new craftable items with four leaf clovers. I barely managed to get any four leaf clovers because I work overnights; I feel like people who live in the eastern hemisphere or people who work overnights/have an odd schedule in the western hemisphere missed out. I barely got any four leaf clovers this year myself because of this downtime.

I personally feel like the four leaf clover requirement on these craftable items should be changed to a different craftable item (like a feather? stone? gem? etc) OR introduce an uncommon explore encounter exclusive to a specific month where you get four leaf clover(s) from.



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2023-04-15 01:04:53
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