• The ingredients to make the hatching item can be found in Pai, Agnes, and Oran's shops' Bonus Prize pools.
• The item alchemy recipe is available in your recipe book and shown above.
• This Seasonal Pet will remain in the shops for 3 months and rotate out at the end of May to be replaced by a pet for the next season.
• Seasonal pets are obtainable annually on a rotation! The hatching items can be alchemized at any time of the year.
  

• Speak to Lula at the Spiralwood to begin the seasonal quest "Into the Spiralwood"
• There are 3 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
• "Festival of the Slumbering Snail" is a daily repeatable quest which can be completed 4 times per day.
• Winding Shells are the currency for Lula's Festival Booth, obtained through seasonal event quests in the Spiralwood, Random Encounters, Random Item Alchemy, Starry Night Minigame, Adventuring Rewards
• A couple of new items will arrive in the next few days.
  

AVIAR COVE BALANCING UPDATE
We're just doing final testing now for the Aviar Cove update, and are looking forward to releasing it around the first week of this month! Here is a small pet teaser to tide everyone over until then.
UPCOMING CHANGELOG UPDATE
We're looking at releasing a changelog update some time this month with a variety of QoL and UI updates. This includes but is not limited to new forum markup tags allowing the easy posting of items and pets for trading or display purposes, the exciting addition of News Post Polls, a UI update to the login and register pages, and more!

COMMUNITY MANAGER PROJECTS
We hope everyone's been having fun with the first Community Manager run forum contest! We're planning to run different types of contests in the future including brand new ones. If you have feedback of any kind, we're interested in hearing it! Our CM's and new Moderators have been helping us a great deal with running the site as well as generating new ideas. We're looking forward to many things in the future!

UPCOMING UPDATES
After the Aviar Update, the next major content update is the time of the Frog. We'll also have more news on updates to our Roadmap and what else we're working on in an upcoming news post.

WHAT ARE NICO'S CONTESTS?

• This type of contest is run by our Community Managers and will occur around once every month or every two months with about a 2 week break in between contests.
• Thematically, we created this contest type in order to be able to hold staff run forum contests independant of larger overarching events and to be able to hold them on a more regular basis!
• The first batch of Polished Button participation prizes will be sent out on the 3rd day of the contest on February 25th at 7PM DVT.
  

Welcome to Nico's Prize Boutique, the shop that takes currency exclusively obtained in staff forum contests.

• This shop will be a permanent fixture in Peddler's Port.
• Its currency is Polished Buttons, which are tradeable.
• More items will be added to its stock with each contest, including recolours and other variations!
  

• You can start the quest "A Search for the Unknown" by going to Peddler's Port and clicking on Pai.
• There are 3 quests in total: A Search for the Unknown, Perusing the Constellation Library (Repeatable, available throughout the month), and Secrets of the Tomes (Unlocks after a number of days completing the previous quest)
• Agnes' Winter Boutique is open again for the month of February!
• Stocked are Ravan's items, with a new item available!
• Ravan's seasonal currency "Scrap of Knowledge" can be obtained from Pai's repeatable seasonal quest "Perusing the Constellation Library" as well as through several other regular site mechanics.
  

AVIAR COVE BALANCING UPDATE
We're aiming to launch the Aviar Cove balancing update later this month if everything proceeds smoothly! We've separated this and the frog update into two separate updates to accomodate the amount of content to be released. Here is our current progress on it.
Item & Pet Assets • 100%
Quest Adjustments • 65%
Misc Tasks • 65%

FROG THEMED UPDATE
Our plan for the frog themed permanent potato sink update is to launch this some time in March just in time for spring. We're also planning a small gathering event to introduce the new content. Here's our progress on this upcoming update!
Item & Pet Assets • 90%
Quest & Flavour Text • 25%
Misc Tasks • 50%

COMMUNITY MANAGER RUN AVATAR CONTEST
We're excited to announce that our community managers will be running their first avatar contest on the forums later this month! A new permanent shop with exclusive items will be added, to be purchased with tradeable currency only obtainable through these contests. We're aiming to have a staff run contest independent of events every month or two and offer this shop currency as rewards.

 

• Speak to Pellumi at Soll's Ruins to begin the seasonal quest "The Winter Sands"
• There are 4 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
• 2 of 4 quests are repeatable quests. "The Great Labyrinth" can be completed once a day while "A Moment's Respite" can be completed 3 times.
• Pellumi's Antique Nook is open again for the month of January!
• Stocked are Soll's items, with a new few new items available this year.
• This shop takes Ruin Lights which are obtainable through the Seasonal quests in Soll's Ruins, Random Item Alchemy, Adventuring Rewards, and the Starry Night Minigame
  

NEW MODERATORS & COMMUNITY MANAGERS
We're very excited to announce three new Moderators and two Community Managers joining our team! Over the coming weeks they'll be going through onboarding and learning the different aspects of the duties these positions entail.

• Please welcome to the Moderation team • ali #2096 ♦ Morphine #35897 ♦ Musicality#39022
• Please also welcome the new Community Manager team • Nineve #46 and Elkcrown #3063
  

We've also ranked up all active Junior Moderators into regular Moderators, from now on the Junior Moderator Role has been merged with the Moderator Role.

AVIAR COVE BALANCING & FROG UPDATE
We're diligently at work on the Aviar Balancing and Frog sink content! Here's our current status:
Item & Pet Assets • 90%
Quest Adjustments • 55%
Misc Tasks • 55%

CUSTOM BATCH STATUS
Due to the busy holiday season last month for our staff, our currently claimed custom batch wasn't able to be completed yet, it will be completed some time mid month and then we'll resume our usual schedule. Thank you for your patience and apologies for the wait!