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Ring Three of the event has now opened! The Royal Aerobic tark'ee do not trust the colonies, but perhaps they will, given time and food. 

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We are releasing a limited/beta version of Hunting with four prey species, connected with the event. We are testing this system, meaning that anything connected to hunting, such as the prompts, the carcasses or drops, or other things might be changed or tinkered with as we go.

These carcass items may be opened to reveal an assortment of rewards, unique to each carcass type. If you're participating in the event, though, you may want to hold onto these carcasses temporarily to complete the Desires for the royals. This portion of the event's "turn in" feature makes use of the Collections extension, so items are not debited! Once you've completed a Desire for a royal, you may feel free to open up those carcasses as you wish.

Surprise! A new subspecies has entered the stage, this time not Tark'ee! Accompanying Aquatic/Draconic Tark'ee and Reef Belemoid, Tsabhua now have an aquatic/semi-aquatic subspecies.

Submitted by Tsidal via Worldbuilding: we present the Nukap!

The advent calendar for 2024 is currently running!

As with previous years, colonies who collect on all 31 days of December will automatically get an extra prize, while colonies who collection 30 days (only missed one) may request their prize via a Claim (a prompt-less submission).

Xiunus has grown recently, and the staff team has grown with it! Please welcome Ezi and Giieko to the staff team!

Literature pieces now have an "Analysis" tab that will track colonist mentions, word count, and environmental bonus sentences! This change not only makes it easier and faster for staff to process lit submissions, but is a useful tool for checking your written pieces to ensure colonists are mentioned every 200-word chunk, and to track word count without needing an external calculator!

• New Design Rule: Monochrome+! Markings with Monochrome+ can pick their color from any of the base coat sliders of the same species when present on a colonist with monochrome base (white, black, or non-tinted silver).
• Fewspot Appaloosa adjustment: Fewspot has had a bit of an update with new examples and general density range. Please review the changes before designing!
• Melanism: The Melanism mutation has had a few new options added. Please check the mutation page to learn about the new possibilities!

Going forward, instead of a maximum of four natives from any region available at one time, there will now be a maximum of one native available per region. This will prevent more popular regions from depleting their native population faster than other regions, and will technically allow more natives to be available at any time, given that there are five total regions. If a native has already been discovered in the region a submission takes place in, observations that would normally discover a native will instead grant a ticket to the currently available native.

For all those who have been inquiring about how to support the site and its development, we've finally finished the last preparations needed to release (drumroll please)... the premium shop! This real-currency shop will be for decorative items such as backgrounds and an upcoming item type called decor. We have no intention at this time of adding any items to the premium shop that would give an unfair advantage to anyone who can't afford them; this is purely for decoration to keep our site online!

Premium backgrounds have a golden frame around their new chipset-style item art, whereas free backgrounds available in the Background Emporium have a dark blue and natives/immigrants/other such specialty backgrounds are red-orange.

With this change, the four original Native regions (not the Ocean, which has fairly recent art) have new background art! The item backgrounds has been automatically changed over to some fresh new art, check it out! If it doesn't automatically update for you, give your browser a hard refresh so your cache clears.

Cleaned up versions of the old Native backgrounds are available for purchase at the premium shop and can be seen here:

You finally make your way to the end of the Emerald Enclave, having fully mapped it out, when out of the broken wall pops a brown head.

The golden eyed creature observes you. It looks a lot like one of the Tark'ee you've seen before, more Aquatic than Draconic, but its features are a bit more feline, with a sharp beak and clearly more land-faring in nature.

He eyes you deftly before bolting past with a golden-horned male, into the wilds of Issiq. Behind him is a soft-snouted creature that definitely looks more like the aquatics, but is still clearly not. He runs off towards Mireh, along with a very fluffy maned one. Finally, two pale-furred females head out towards Rekes. A final singular Tark'ee flees towards L'hatzif.

It's clear that none wish to return to water, so none head towards the Ocean.