TT Event: Volcanic Tark'ee

Unlike the other tark'ee subspecies, these will not yet be interested in colonies. They remain around the strongest of their kind, their Rokk'ma, protecting her from you.

This stage of the event involves an alpha-stage mechanic for battle that involves the use of armour classes. These are automatically calculated on all colonists as a combination of constitution (how hard a punch you can take), dexterity (how you might dodge or shift so a punch doesn't hit so hard) and species (some critters can get hit harder than others.) They can also be affected by armour which now can fill in the following slots: head, body, limbs, and hands. There are also pre-existing shields that a colonist can don to further increase their Armour Class.

While we plan on releasing more armour in the future, right now only leather armour is available.

Finally, this new armour and weapons can be purchased using Event Currency via a new Event Shop! Feel free to head in there and grab some gear!

Users have expressed interest in supporting us via Discord, which we are very grateful for! Discord boosts allow us to populate the server with fun emojis, larger file uploads, and other such decorative boosts!

One of the suggestions was to have VIP behind the scenes content for boosters.

We have decided to shift the existing "behind the scenes" category to be visible to those with our booster member group, which is automatically applied when you boost a server. For flavour, this member group is called "DPIP Informant." We will be more active in those chats moving forward, giving more updates to what we're doing on the back end and our plans for future gameplay. We will be doing further research into more non-game-breaking rewards for boosters, which might include personal involvement in future mini-events or NPC creation. If you have any suggestions, feel free to speak up!

We want to reiterate that we never want Xiunus to become pay-to-play or pay-to-win. Suggestions of booster rewards that would negatively affect the in game economy will be unlikely to be pursued.

The event will be concluding in the next couple of months. Real life and various situations have caused the back-end development towards an admittedly overambitious event to go much longer than we wanted. In the future, we intend on all events to be fully fleshed out and planned before initializing, so that this doesn't happen again. We as a team want to thank you for your patience with this event!

We want to focus on the following game elements after the event:

• Revisiting the Newbie Guides
• Revisiting the Design Guide
• Worldbuilding!!!

The birth defect known as Short Arms has been renamed to Short Limb Pair to better reflect its presence on non-Tsabhua species. Its new description is as follows:

These colonists have a singular pair of limbs that are so short that they can make life difficult for a colonist. This can be short arms on a tsabhua, short forelegs on a belemoid, or even wings that have become winglets on a winged colonist!