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New Product: The Determined Wells

Friday, November 22nd, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re happy to announce the release of the Determined Wells! They work just like the wells on our sims, but you can own and Rez them on your clan or family lands.

You and your friends can check in for the Determined achievement conveniently and also have a nice race-oriented decorative well with particle effects as decor.

There’s a well for each race, and you can buy them at their respective sims Bloodlines NorthBloodlines South, Bloodlines East, Bloodlines West, and Mortal Crossroads. They will also appear immediately in affiliate vendors (with a refresh) under Accessories.

Happy Hunting!

 

Bloodlines Legends Module 1 Released!

Monday, May 6th, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re excited to announce that the first module of Bloodlines Legends is out now!

This module includes:

  • Magic Map & Backpack HUD
  • Treasure Chests & Market Barrels
  • Collectible Rare Magic Wands
  • Quests (including rare texture and mesh item prizes)
  • Skills
  • Achievements (based on the mechanics from Module One)
  • Profile Updates (New sections added, as well as the ability to reorder sections via your Profile Editor)

The HUDs are free to any current Bloodlines member who already owns a Race HUD (Thirst, Rage, Ascent, Torment, Human) and will be auto-delivered to anyone who wears their current HUD. The auto-delivery system takes a while to crank through everyone, though, so please be patient! For anyone who doesn’t own a Race HUD, the Legends HUD is $499, available in the Mortal Crossroads RP Area Quest landing. Also, if you own a Legends HUD and pass your Map Sphere to a new player and they join, you’ll receive a stamina bonus which will aid you in the game.

A FEW CAVEATS – PLEASE READ!

  • This is just the first wave of items. Crafting, crafting stations, harvesting stations, and more are still on the way! We decided because this is such a massive update to Bloodlines, it’s better to get it out in sections and make sure everything is working as we go.
  • Right now Questing is only on Bloodlines Midland. We want to make sure the Quest system is working smoothly before porting further. Eventually Quests will be on all our sims, as well as on local clan sims and lands! Thanks for your patience here, we realize Midland is likely to get laggy / crowded at the start. We promise to expand the Quest lines as quickly as we can once we’re sure it’s all solid.
  • Balancing is a process. We are introducing several new metrics and mechanics (XP, Stamina, stamina packs, Map Searching, etc.) and as much as we’d love to think we nailed the balancing of it all right out of the gate, the truth is that we’re going to have to adjust as we go. All big RPG games deal with this – some things will have to be nerfed and some things will have to be buffed. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work our way through it, and we promise not to make any arbitrary decisions. Any balancing we do will be based on deep study of the developing trends and always in an effort to make the game sustainable and fun in the long-term.
  • The wands will have more functions as we go along. On this initial release, the wands are largely rare collectibles. There are thousands of them, of varying rarity, and each one is programmed with powers and features that will be prominent in later Quests and NPC interactions. We’re very excited about the many uses a Wand will have in the game, but we appreciate your patience as we get there step by step.
  • If you have feedback or suggestions, file a ticket! We want to hear your thoughts and suggestions as we go, so please don’t hesitate to file a support ticket. If you think something is a good idea, chances are many other people would to, but if everyone thinks “Oh someone probably already mentioned this” then we’d never hear a peep from anyone. So please file those tickets and let us know how to improve the game!

 

Bloodlines Event: 1920’s Speakeasy

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

 

This Friday, we’re taking over the worst-kept secret in town: the local speakeasy. We’ve got illicit booze, live music, and dancers for your entertainment! Just whisper the password to get in the door, and give in to an evening of great music, best costume contests, and Rare Texture giveaways!

When: Friday, April 12, 2pm-5pm

Suggested Attire: 1920’s attire, flapper dresses, mobster suits, etc.

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Starz (darkxstarz) | Decor: Demi Riaxik | Host: Aimee Novaland | Rare Texture: Hosea Whitfield | Event Organizer: Aimee Novaland

Determined Achievement: The End of Resets

Saturday, March 30th, 2019

Please read this post if you want to keep your Determined Achievement going!

We updated the Determined Achievement at the beginning of February so that it counts based on visits to the Determined Well instead of HUD wear. In certain cases we’ve been resetting achievements for people that asked for help during this transition period.

We have no reason to believe that there is any problem with this achievement, and when it gets reset, every indication is that it’s due to a user not actually successfully touching a well. This could be either from standing too far away, or just not remembering to show up that day, etc.

We want to make everyone aware that starting April 1, we will no longer be resetting Determined Achievements for any reason.

IMPORTANT: In order to keep track of your progress and make doubly sure that you are succeeding in touching a Well, we recommend that you SAVE A COPY of the message that you get when you touch the well that tells you what your determined status is. The message will look like this:

You touched the Determined Well at 2019-03-27 08:17:19 SLT. Your count is now at 2 days. Make sure to touch the Determined Well again tomorrow (2019-03-28) between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 SLT

IF YOU DON’T GET A MESSAGE THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS IN LOCAL CHAT, IT DIDN’T WORK, AND YOU NEED TO TRY TOUCHING IT AGAIN. There is no harm in touching a Well more than once a day. In fact to make doubly sure you are succeeding, you can touch a Well until you get this message:

[15:58] :: You already satisfied your Determined achievement today at 2019-03-27 08:17:19 SLT

An easy way to keep track of your Determined status is to make a notecard in your inventory, and just copy and paste your daily message into that notecard. Or, you could do the same thing with a document on your computer; either way you always have a record of when you touched it. We log every time anyone has a Determined Achievement event, so we also have this information on our end.

We hope this helps clarify things, and once again we are not going to be resetting any Determined Achievements anymore starting 4/1. Please see FAQ answers below.

FAQ:

  1. Q: What if I am certain I touched a Well yesterday but I get this message? “Your last Determined Event was at 2019-03-27 08:17:19 , which was before SL time yesterday (2019-03-28), so your Determined achievement has been reset to 1 day.”
    • A: If you get this message, you did not successfully register a touch the previous day. If you are saving your messages, you can look back at your notecard and see if you have a message from yesterday. Unfortunately, in this example you will only see the message that you touched the well on 3/27, and you won’t have a message from 3/28. That means you forgot to touch it yesterday, so it makes sense that it was reset to 1 day today.
  2. Q: What if I’m in the hospital and I can’t log in to touch the determined well?
    • A: In order to be fair to everyone, we can’t make exceptions to the no reset rule for any reason. If we say that we will reset you if you’re in the hospital, unfortunately, bad actors will just claim to have been in the hospital. We can’t be put in the position of verifying who was really in the hospital.
  3. Q: What if I know I won’t be able to reach my computer for a day, so I give my login to someone else to do it for me, and they forget, and I get reset to 1 day?
    • A: This is a situation similar to the one above, we cannot make exceptions to the no reset rule, or else bad actors will claim that exception. In order to be fair to everyone, we have to say that there are no exceptions. We recommend that you never give your SL login information to anyone.

New Release: Ether and Ichor Siphons

Monday, February 25th, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’ve just released the Ether and Ichor Siphons! Now you can more easily and quickly transfer large amounts of Ether and Ichor between your Vessels and Urns.

If you’re familiar with our other siphons, we’ve updated these to be easier to use. There are fewer menus to click through, you only need to select ‘siphon’ on the siphon menu, then press the select button on your source container, then press the select button on your receiving container, then select the amount.

You can read more on the Ether Siphon and Ichor Siphon gear pages. You can buy the Ether Siphon at Bloodlines North, and you can buy the Ichor Siphon at Bloodlines South.

Bloodlines Event: Holiday Nutcracker

Thursday, December 20th, 2018

HAPPY HOLIDAZE!!! Bloodlines is giving you the opportunity you’ve been waiting for – a chance to put off shopping just a little bit longer. Please join us this Friday for a night of prizes, costume contests, and awesome music!

When: Friday, December 21, 4-7pm

Suggested Attire: Holidays, Ugly Sweaters, Anything wintery

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Syn | Decor: LilahCeleste | Host: Aimee Novaland

Bloodlines Event: Warehouse Rave

Thursday, October 11th, 2018

 

This Friday get ready for the sweatiest dance party this side of the 90s. We are going to dance and let our minds float away with the music.We’ll have a costume contest or two and probably some rare giveaways, oh and there will be music as well brought to us by the one and only Lord. Please join us and bring your dancing shoes!

When: Friday, October 12, 3-6 pm

Suggested Attire: Ravewear, Club kid wear, neon etc

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Lord | Decor: Fawn | Host: Aimee Novaland

Gallery Tour 2018 Results!

Friday, September 28th, 2018

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Bloodlines Gallery Tour! It was very difficult judging this event, because there were a lot of really amazing galleries. If you were one of the hundreds of locations that opted your Haunt in, big thanks to you for being a creative participating member of the Bloodlines community.

Everyone who opted in their haunts to the Gallery Tour event have received a special limited-edition tank, prism and barrel texture that they can apply to their blood tanks or lumen prisms.

We have 3 winners, and they will receive an additional limited-edition Gold Crown texture for tank, prism and barrel, and have their haunts featured on the Bloodlines homepage for a week:

Lover Gallery 2018

The Arcana Imaginarium Gallery

Smaugs Stolen Treasures (Formerly Novalands)

We originally said we’d do 10 runners-up, but there were just too many great entries, so we went with 12 instead! These avatars will also all receive an additional limited-edition Silver Crown texture for prism, barrel and tank:

Kinky Dark Souls Texture Museum

Queen Kymberlys Texture Gallery

The Addams Family Horde Estate

Rare Textures

Temple of Rares

Devious Garage & Galler

Hauntweeden

E.L.O Display Room

Liliths Offspring Gallery Tour Please Vote

Andrea*s Blood Bank – Tank Texture Gallery & Shop

The Devils Gallery

Bravin Gallery

For the original Gallery Tour event post, check here.

Gallery Tour Awards Party!!

Friday, September 28th, 2018

 

It’s finally time to announce the winners of the Bloodlines Gallery Tour!

We’ll be holding an event on our sims with a DJ, music, costume prizes, and a Rare giveaway just for the party. Then at the end Lyle and Mars will announce the winners of the Gallery Tour event, and deliver everyone’s Rare Textures (including the Participation awards).

We hope to see you there!

When: Friday, September 28th from 1-4 PM SL

Suggested Attire: Ball attire, dresses / suits / gowns / etc.

Where: Bloodlines North

Music: DJ Candi | Host: Aimee Novaland

Bloodlines Event: Jungle Apocalypse

Thursday, August 16th, 2018

 

Oh NO we got stranded on a jungle island and the world has dissolved into chaos!! What are we going to do?? Well if you’re anything like us, you figure, why not have a massive party!! Come out this Friday for an awesome night of great music, costume prizes and Rare giveaways.

When: Friday, August 17, 1-4 pm

Suggested Attire: Old tattered clothes, jungle wear, apocalyptic finery

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Candi | Decor: Fawn Madrigal | Host: Fawn