News and Updates

You notice a small envelope slipped under your door! Opening it up you find the following message scrawled in strange cramped writing:

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Hello friend,

—This has been my favorite time of year since I was just a wee spright of a fellow. I always feel my magic flowing strongly through my veins and as such I decided this month (and only this month) I will share the wealth, so to speak. I’ve hidden some of my favorite potions throughout the lands, ten in each area. They’re mostly outside, hidden away in little places, I hope you can find them all!

Yours in Magic and Mirth,

Charlie

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Wow! Sounds like a really nice guy, you better get out there and start looking for the potions he shared, it doesn’t sound like they’ll be around for long!

NEW MESH CRAFTING + NEW DEFAULT RESOURCES & RECIPES
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We added a new mesh crafting recipe, “Gift Boxes #1”, which can be learned about a the Research Station.

To build it we also opened up some new default recipes on the Paper Press and Tincture Table:

– Fine Cardboard
– Wrapping Paper
– Straw Paper
– Gift Ribbon
– Palm Wax

WIZARD TOWER BACK DOORS
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We added ‘back door’ TP shells to the bases of all the wizard towers. Now if you’d like to craft a wand but don’t want to deal with climbing stairs, you can touch one of these shells (usually somewhere outside the tower by the ground or on a wall) and it will zip you right up to the top:

POCKET ADJUSTMENTS
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To create less confusion (and free up space in packs and chests) we’ve decided to make the pocket stack situation much more uniform. Unless something is money (Copper Coins, Tokens, etc.) or a Stamina Pack (Humanity Pod, Ichor Ember, etc.) then items should have a stack size of 25.

This means that dozens of resources will be more stackable (iron cauldrons, buckets, idols, figureheads, etc.) but also mean that a few resources came down in stack size (Dust, Holiday Cookies and Treats, etc.). We hope that having things a uniform 25 will create less confusion for players and our quest-writers going forward.

We’ve released a set of new Cooking Station recipes. These recipes do not deliver mesh items, but they do give back more % of stamina when they are consumed. These recipes are all sold in shops around the various 5 RP sims, just ring a vendor’s Service Bell and see if they have one you want!

We’ve put out a Valentines themed Legends Satchel. If you take your wand to the dome at Bloodlines Midland (or any of the other four domes) you can summon one for yourself before they go away!

We wanted to let you all know about a change that we made with the way that the all-time Legends Achievements are tracked for families.

When we released Legends War at the beginning of January, we started tracking Legends Achievements by Family as well. Before January, we were just tracking Legends Achievements for individuals, for all time. With the release of Legends War, we added three new categories of tracking:

1. Monthly individual stats for the Legends War monthly contest.
2. Montly family stats for the Legends War monthly contest.
3. All-time family stats.

Family achievements are recorded as the aggregate of the progress and levels of the family members. That is, the progress doesn’t accumulate to achieve the levels, the progress just accumulates, and the family gains a count on a level when an individual reaches that level. For example: if two people in one family each get 5 on an achievement that requires 10 for level 1, this progress won’t accumulate to win level 1 for the family. The family will just get a progress of 10. Then if they each get 5 more and both reach Level 1, then the family will have a progress of 20, and two instances of Level 1.

So, levels for monthly family achievements (for Legends War) were triggering when family members gained levels in the monthly counting, and levels for all-time family achievements were triggering when family members gained levels in the all-time counting. But, if family members had already gained levels in the all-time counting before family tracking started, there was no way to earn those levels again. It’s all-time, you can only earn them once. However, if you hadn’t gotten the achievements before and did them for the first time after we started recording family achievements, then you could earn them for your family. This caused a lot of confusion, because when looking at the stats, achievements were showing up in the monthly counting, but not in the all-time counting for members that had already earned the all-time levels before Legends War started.

This seemed unfair, and here is the solution that we have come up with for this: if you earn an achievement level in the monthly counting for Legends War, and your family isn’t marked as having that level earned in the all-time stats, it will set it as earned. This has been retroactively applied to the beginning of January from our logs. What this means is that any levels that you earned for your family in the monthly counting, should now also be earned for your family in the all-time counting.

If you have any questions about this, or anything still doesn’t look right in your stats, please create a support ticket. Thank you!

UPDATE 1/8/21: Because this quest was only able to run for about a week, we’ve decided to re-open it for another week.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce our another quest for the winter season.

Patrick Sawyer, the Midlands baker wants to treat his customers to some delicious delights for the holidays. Help him by going to some friends and asking them to pitch in for the cause.

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer.

This quest starts with Patrick in Bloodlines Midland.

Seasonal Winter quests will be available through 12/31/20.

We’re happy to announce that we’ve added a small new feature to Legends – the Research Station! At these stations you can look up recipes to learn where you can unlock them, and also sometimes just immediately learn new crafting recipes at the Research Station itself. We kicked the stations off by immediately adding a new recipe, the Rustic Cart, which can be immediately learned and then crafted at a Carpentry Counter.

For now the stations are just on our own sims, but if they prove useful we may eventually release them for home use. You can find them at our landing domes, as well as in our main stores next to the crafting station displays:

.:[ Vampire Islands ]:. ~ Bloodlines East

.:[ Mortal Crossroads ]:. ~ Bloodlines Midland

.:[ Lycan Woodlands ]:. ~ Bloodlines West

.:[ Haunted Domain ]:. ~ Bloodlines South

.:[ Angel Havens ]:. ~ Bloodlines North

We’ve released a small mini-quest with stamina treats! You can go to any of the our sims and click on any of the characters (they can be alive, dead, animal, or human, but they won’t be inanimate objects) and they may give you a piece of candy. There are 18 treats to find in all and each gives you 20 stamina. This mini game is only available for a limited time, so get the treats while you can!

Seasonal Winter quests will be available through 12/31/20.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce our first quest for the winter season.

The Angel Havens guard Thrasyllus wants to impress his aunt who is coming to town, but finds himself lacking the knowledge and recipes to do so. Help him by doing a little research and crafting the feast he needs!

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer.

This quest starts with Thrasyllus in Bloodlines North.

Seasonal Winter quests will be available through 12/31/20.

We’ve put out a holiday-themed Legends Satchel. If you take your wand to the dome at Bloodlines Midland you can summon one for yourself before they go away at the end of the month!