News and Updates

Update 1/31/2019: some people have asked for more reasoning for why we’re making this change, here is the explanation:

Many people have trouble with this achievement, we get several support requests every day asking for this achievement to be reset because they failed to log in. Sometimes HUDs don’t connect when people log in, and they have to go through the process in our blog post where they check the website to make sure it counted up. We can’t send a message to people about this every time they wear their HUD without sending a message every time everyone wears their HUD. This way, we can give an explicit update message to people when they touch the well, and they have to take an explicit action to update the achievement, instead of something that people assume happens automatically, but sometimes doesn’t.

Now, instead of the procedure being: look at the website, log in, look at the website again, reattach until it counts up, it’s: go to the sim, click the well, see a fun magic particle effect, and get a message tell you exactly what your status is.

Original post follows:

We’ve made an update to the sims which will affect the Determined achievement. This update should create more reliability with the achievement (for some users who were having difficulties) and add some interactive fun for everyone!

At the center of each main store is a Determined Well. If your avatar is within 10 meters and you touch the well, it will register your Determined point for the day as well as trigger a particle and sound effect. The locations of the wells are below:

• Lycan Woodlands Determined Well
• Mortal Crossroads Determined Well
• Angel Havens Determined Well
• Demon Badlands Determined Well
• Vampire Islands Determined Well

Until February 1st, the Determined achievement points will register the normal way (via HUD check-in) and via touching the Determined Wells. At the end of the month (February 1st, 2019) we will turn off the HUD check-ins and all Determined points will need to be registered via touching the wells.

This update will help make getting the Determined Achievement a bit less mysterious, because after touching one of the wells, you’ll get a message letting you know the exact status of your achievement, and you should no longer need to follow the procedure that we outlined in our previous Determined post here.

Thanks for the great suggestions, and stay tuned for more updates!

We’re excited to announce the first release in the Bloodlines Legends RPG Expansion: The Claim Flag!

This item allows you to discover Second Life regions, getting your name permanently listed in the Bloodlines Legends records. You can also use flags to try and take over land claimed by another avatar, do battle with other races for control of land areas, and raise the level of regions which affects treasure and resource discovery levels.

The Flags come in 3 types: a 1-point flag, a 10-point flag, and a 25-point flag. They are all single-use, but will contribute that many points to the ownership of the land.

More info on the product page:

The Claim Flag

The item is available to start just in our 5 main stores, and will be in catalogue vendors soon:

Vampire Islands

Demon Badlands

Angel Havens

Lycan Woodlands

Mortal Crossroads

Stay tuned for more upcoming release in the Bloodlines Legends expansion!

We’ve updated the Bloodlines affiliate vendors, and are releasing the Ascent and Torment affiliate vendor sets! The new vendors are mesh, have streamlined resizing / retexturing, and there is now a Single Item Vendor included for those who wish to display more items on their land. We’ve also updated the TP Board, Updater Terminal, and Key Grabber gem items. They are mesh, have texture change and resizing built in.

These vendors are available at all of our main store sims, just to the left of the main HUD vendor.

Vampire Islands

Demon Badlands

Angel Havens

Lycan Woodlands

Mortal Crossroads

The vendors also will be going out as auto-updates to anyone who currently owns them. Thanks as always to everyone for their patience as we got these out! More updates to come soon…

Three new sets of Gacha textures are in the machines as of today!

The machines are still rezzed on each of our sims, so if one set is busy you can try another location:

Bloodlines Midland Gacha Machines

Bloodlines North Gacha Machines

Bloodlines South Gacha Machines

Bloodlines East Gacha Machines

Bloodlines West Gacha Machines

These three sets will be out for about a month and then we’ll pull them back.

If you’d like to read our original Rare / Gacha release post with further details, it’s here.

We’re happy to announce the release of The Absolver and The Displacer! They’re the tools useful for draining victims of ether or ichor (and generating shift) faster than with normal attacks.

These items come both in rigged and unrigged versions, as well as including a new optional mini HUD for controlling their functions. Six default textures are also included.

Thanks everyone for their patience as we get these Angel and Demon tools and accessories released, and happy hunting!

We’re excited to announce the next official grid-wide Bloodlines Event – The Gallery Tour 2018! Last year’s event was such a great success, we’re excited to see what everyone will come up with this year. It will start on September 3rd and run to September 28th.

The Gallery Tour is an event for people who wish to show off their collection of Bloodlines Rares. It doesn’t have to be a bona fide gallery, it could be a dungeon or a room in your house, or any place you like to show off your collection. Also, to win you don’t necessarily need to have the largest collection of Rares – judging will include looking at the style and atmosphere of the place, organization etc. Anyone owning a Bloodlines Haunt can opt-in, and anyone with a HUD will be able to participate in the tour.

What specifically does this mean for Bloodlines players? It means during that month we’ll be connecting participating Haunts up via the website and the HUDs, so that you can easily travel from gallery to gallery, and meet up with people while discovering new Bloodlines-friendly locations.

For Haunt owners, this event means a chance to get your location on the map! The Gallery Tour will provide an influx of new visitors, as well as give you a chance to network with other Bloodlines friendly locations. Players will be able to vote on their favorite Galleries, and prizes will be awarded at the end. Mars and Lyle will be visiting participating locations to help with the final judging of the top locations, and we hope to see you there! On the final day (Friday September 28th) we’ll be having an event on the Bloodlines sims, and we’ll give away the prizes.

Voting will start in a few days and run until September 28th. During that time, all you need to do to vote is press the ‘Vote’ link next to the Gallery Tour icon on the profile of participating haunts.

Prizes (Awarded at the end of the Month):

Gallery Tour Participation Rare – Given to anyone who opted-in their location to the event. (Limit one per avatar)

10 Runner-Up Rares (Silver Crown) – Given to the best 10 Galleries (or more if judges decide there are more worthy runners-up).

3 Top Rares (Gold Crown) – Given to the top 3 Galleries. These will also receive a banner on the Bloodlines homepage for a week following the event.

Getting involved is simple:

Location Owners – If you already have a Haunt, just log into your profile, Edit Haunts, and opt-in via the radio button for the Gallery Tour Event. Make sure to use the Haunt Events calendar to schedule specific times for your events.

Bloodlines players – The Gallery Tour will automatically generate locations in your HUD, under the Haunt button. We’ll also make it clear on the website which locations are participating, so you should be able to easily find the next great location to visit!

At the end of the month on September 28th, we’ll wrap it up with an official party / awards ceremony on the Bloodlines sims where we’ll deliver all the prizes, so be sure to stop by. See you there!

Let’s take a break from gunslinging, bounty hunting, and cowboy shenanigans and dress up for a dance! Come out this Friday for an awesome night of great music, costume prizes and Rare giveaways.

When: Friday, August 31st, 2-5 pm

Suggested Attire: 1800’s, Western, gunslinger, rustic suits and dresses, etc.

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: Fawn Madrigal | Decor: Fawn Madrigal | Host: Lord Halostar

*ALSO: At the end of the event we’ll be awarding the Bloodlines Banner Photo Contest awards!

UPDATE 8.31.18

We’ve chosen the winners for the 2018 banner contest! It was very difficult to judge, thanks to everyone who participated, really excellent work.

Moon Angel
Wiktiri Junibalya – gold
Snowlashes Resident – silver

Moon Demon
Chele Bowenford – gold

Blood Angel
Billy Aedipo – gold
Gunnkar2 Resident – silver

Angel
SylBernstein – gold
Mikeblair41 Resident – Silver
Braid Bugatti – silver
LilahCeleste Belar – silver

Vampire
edge velde – gold
Acrylickitty Resident – silver
Jadebelgie Wylie – Silver
bella cardboard – silver

Human
Catrie Resident- gold
Adriam Carling – silver
RainNight Resident – silver

Lycan
Midnighttornado Resident – gold
Adriam Carling – Silver

Blood Demon
SylBernstein – gold

Nephilem
calina kestenberg – gold

Vaewolf
Nosbor34 resident – gold

Demon
Sasch Petrov – gold
Ninurs Resident – silver
Naughtylilkittykat Resident – silver
Aimee Novaland – silver

ORIGINAL POST 8.17.18:

Bloodlines is having an avatar photo contest! We’ll have a category for each race (including all the hybrids) so there are lots of opportunities to win. These photos will be featured in the banner on our website for each race’s home page!

The contest is free to enter, and you may enter as many times as you like (as long as each photo is different).

How to Enter
1) Take a photo of an avatar (can be yourself or another) of a specific Bloodlines Race. Final dimensions need to be our Website Banner size, so at least 1200 x 300, max 2400 x 600. If you wish, you can submit a photo that is square (1200×1200 min) but make sure that there is a croppable strip appropriate for a banner.
2) Either put the texture in a notecard, along with your name, title of the photo, and the race represented and pass it to LiquidDesigns Resident

– OR –

Submit the photo via the Bloodlines Flickr Photo Contest page. Please name your entry with your avatar and the race represented, or it may not be counted in competition. We recommend using Flickr as your photo won’t suffer SL compression, but it’s up to you. Either way, you may want to periodically check the Flickr page to see what your competitors have been submitting!

Contest Rules
Time: The contest will end on August 31st, 2018.

Judging: Entries will be judged by Mars Bracken, Lyle Maeterlinck and LiquidDesigns Resident

Criteria: Entries will be judged based on the overall image, but some things to consider might be setting/location, lighting, and mood. Photoshopping is of course acceptable. Bloodlines also reserves the right to do slight photoshopping to winners (if necessary) in order to format them for the final banners.

Prizes
– Top Runners Up (number TBD) in each race category will receive Photo Silver texture for one type of container
– 1st Place Winner in each race category will receive Photo Gold texture for one type of container as well as become the banner for the homepage of that race

We’re looking forward to checking out all the entries and picking the best ones for our site. Good luck!

As part of our ongoing effort to get the sims ready for the RPG Expansion, we’ve updated our Thirst store on Bloodlines East! All the vendors should be working, but if you see any out-of-place prims do let us know.

Aside from the upcoming Angel and Demon refill stations, this concludes the update of the store areas. Next up is a revamp (no pun intended) of the RP areas, in preparation for the RPG Expansion and Quests this Fall.

As part of our ongoing effort to get the sims ready for the RPG Expansion, we’ve updated our Lycan store on Bloodlines Midland! All the vendors should be working, but if you see any out-of-place prims do let us know.

We’ll have more updates coming soon!