News and Updates

This is just a quick note to let you know we’re working on updating mesh not only in our items, but around the regions. We apologize for the dust and thank you for your patience! Also, the landing point for all future parties if fixed now at the Bloodlines Pavilion / Hub on North, and we’ve added a walkway displaying (almost) all of our previous events. Feel free to touch the pictures to pick up any past flyers you’d like to have for your collection!

[ Bloodlines Welcome Hub & Party Landing ]:.

We’re hoppingly happy to release these Rabbit Rescue themed Legends chests in 10, 25, and 50 pocket sizes. They function just like the basic Legends Resource Chest, but they have a nicer mesh and the ability for texture change and Rare Texture collection.

There are “Haze” chest textures in Piper’s Prize machine now, available by purchase with Carrot Coins from the Rabbit Rescue quest.

*Note: We won’t be doing trade-ins, but the original Legends Chests will continue to work just fine.

You can purchase these chests in our main stores below, or in any Legends affiliate vendor. Happy hoarding!

.:[ Vendors ]:. ~ Bloodlines Midland

.:[ Vendors ]:. ~ Bloodlines East

.:[ Vendors ]:. ~ Bloodlines South

.:[ Vendors ]:. ~ Bloodlines North

.:[ Vendors ]:. ~ Bloodlines West

Today we are releasing three updates to Bloodlines that we are excited to share with you!

The Eternal Shrine

This update is intended to make the stat listings and rankings more fresh and current. What this update does is move old accounts into a separate stat ranking called The Eternal Shrine. Any players that haven’t logged in by wearing their Bloodlines HUD in over a year are moved to The Eternal Shrine, where they are ranked only among other members in the Eternal Shrine. Members in the main stat listings are ranked among other players that are currently playing, or players that have logged in in the last year. If you are in the main stat listings, you may notice that your rank in various listings or your generation has gone up, this is a result of some members being moved to The Eternal Shrine. If someone is moved to the Eternal Shrine, all they need to do to get back to the main stats is log into Second Life and wear one of their Bloodlines HUDs. Find out more detail in The Eternal Shrine Guide.

The Amnesty Program

This program constitutes a second chance for many accounts that have been banned over the years. Some people that have been banned in the past for violating Bloodlines Terms of Service or Second Life Community Standards over the years have been granted amnesty. Bloodlines has been around for 15 years now, and many people come to us asking to have their accounts reopened, having realized they made mistakes and wanting to correct them. What we’ve always said is that if we give one person another chance, we have to do it for everyone. This is us giving that chance to everyone. Well, everyone that we believe is safe to offer another chance. Accounts with especially egregious violations, such as deliberate, premeditated malicious activity, or that we believe constitute a danger to the community will remain permanently banned. This does not apply to region or estate bans, this applies to bans from the Bloodlines game. The accounts that have been granted amnesty have violations that we believe are unlikely to occur again. But, as always, we will be vigilant and respond to reports of violations of our terms of service and Second Life community standards by applying our standard moderation procedures. If you are banned and want to find out if you have been granted amnesty, all you need to do is wear your Bloodlines HUD. You will be asked to agree to the Terms of Service again, and once you do, your Bloodlines account will be automatically reactivated. If you are banned and you have not been granted amnesty, and you want to appeal, please send a notecard to Lyle Maeterlinck in-world, and we will review your case. We had a huge number of cases to review, and we may have missed people who should have gotten amnesty.

The Prestige Update

This is a fun one that we have had some requests for from the community. The Prestige Update allows you to “Prestige” or “Level Up” certain all-time achievements. Which means, you can keep your current levels, but stack them in a similar way to the daily achievements. With daily achievements, you can stack the levels every day, and now with all-time achievements, you can stack the levels each time you Prestige that achievement. Prestiged achievements are indicated with a numbered laurel across the top of the achievement badge, and each subsequent level has a new look. We have updated the combined top player achievement rankings to rank prestige progress and total prestige levels above total medals and total achievements. The benefit of this is that it will allow more fair competition in the rankings, and allow newer players a chance to climb all the way to the top of the rankings by using prestiges. This update won’t affect daily achievements, The Soul War, or family achievements, only certain individual all-time achievements. Read more in The Prestige Guide.

We’ve added a Sweet Dreams texture set to Reapers. There are machines at all 5 regions below. This set will be available until midnight of January 15th, 2024 when the machines will explode!

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines Midland

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines East

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines South

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines North

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines West

In Second Life, you may have received a message that looks like this:

Are you tired of paying your Linden Dollars?
Well, we have an interesting solution for you!
with our SecondLive Viewer, everything is free and open.
Unlock unlimited Linden Dollars (L$) for all your virtual adventures.
Fly to unlimited heights.
Build freely on any land of your choice.
And that’s just the beginning.
Link: https://urlz.fr/(redacted)
We’re grateful to everyone who joins us in our mission to make SecondLife entirely free.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!
Best regards.
note:
Linden Labs is currently attempting to shut down our site and blacklist the IP addresses used to host our free land.
we will not be fooled by a multinational that thinks it can do everything! Here is a direct download link in case our site goes down. https://mediafire.com/file/(redacted)

If it isn’t obvious to you, this is a phishing scam, and it is not a good idea to download the file they point to. Here are a couple of ways you can identify it as a scam. First, the URL shortener urlz.fr is used, this could forward to nearly anywhere, but it probably forwards to a domain the attacker controls. As soon as you visit it, it will know your IP address and other information about your computer. Anything you type into that website, they will get. Second, they make false claims. It isn’t possible for them to do what they are claiming they can do. The servers that track Lindens and control Second Life land are operated by Linden Labs, and they keep those resources secure. A custom viewer can’t get around this unless it is exploiting some vulnerability in the security of the Second Life servers, but that vulnerability can be patched by Linden Labs. What a viewer can do is collect your Second Life name and password and send it to an attacker who can then take over your account. For that reason, you shouldn’t use any third-party viewer that isn’t listed in the official third-party viewer directory. Also, never type your Second Life password into any site that you clicked on from a link. Type www.secondlife.com into your browser, or use a bookmark you made yourself. Someone could make a domain that is like www.secondlife.fakedomain.com. If you go to this site, you are really going to fakedomain.com, and www.secondlife is just a subdomain. If you own a domain, you can name subdomains whatever you want. Third, if they could hypothetically do what they are claiming, it would be crime. It is not wise to place any trust in online criminals or download things they link you to.

Good luck, and be careful out there!

Edit: here is someone who did some analysis on what the download actually does (spoiler: installs remote administration tools). This link is safe to click, you can see it goes to github.com.

We’ve added a Nightmares texture set to Urns, Vessels, Barrels, and Reapers, as well as updated a few of the tank and iron textures from the set. There are machines at all 5 regions below. This set will be available until midnight of November 30th, 2023 when the machines will explode!

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines Midland

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines East

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines South

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines North

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines West

We’ve added Dark Future texture set to Urns, Vessels, and Barrels, as well as updated a few of the tank and iron textures from the set. There are machines at all 5 regions below. This set will be available until midnight of July 17th, 2023 when the machines will explode.

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines Midland

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines East

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines South

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines North

.:[ Nexta Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines West

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new set of Quests: Reward Riddles

This is a starting set of 30 visual clue quests (more may be added later) which can be done daily. They are randomized, so you won’t know which one is available to you until you check in with the Notice board on one of the 5 regions. The Reward Riddle of the day for you may be located on any of the regions, but you’ll be given a clear instruction / LM as to where to start.

Some of these Reward Riddles are pretty difficult (!) with nothing to go on other than the visual clue and the knowledge that the solution is somewhere in a particular region. However the coin returns are generally higher and you only have to complete one of the 30 Reward Riddle quests to get the achievement.

The Quest rewards are listed on the flyer. These Quests start at the notice board on any of the regions:

Angel Havens  Demon Badlands  Mortal Crossroads

Lycan Woodlands  Vampire Islands

We’re happy to announce some updates to Legends!

First, we realize it’s been a while, but we’re hoping to have more consistent updates with Legends going forward.

This batch contains a few new Quests, dozens of new Achievements, and a trove of new Recipes and Resources that can be crafted via the Crafting Stations.

The Research Station should be updated with the new mesh crafting recipes. Most of the new Recipes can be also found in the General Recipe section of the Legends Guide.

There are also of course new Legends War categories, as well as the end-of-month Rare Texture awards that correspond to each.

We thank you for your patience getting these updates out, and we hope to have more for you very soon!

For full reference information, check the various blog posts leading up to this, and check out the Legends Guide.

Happy Questing, Hunting, and Crafting!

*As with all of our releases, we do not award retroactive points or achievements. Progress on Legends War will begin tallying from the time of release onward. 

We are pleased to announce Season 9!

As with the last Season, you will earn points for doing challenges, the points increase a progress bar, and when you reach checkpoints you unlock rewards. Both Bloodlines and Legends activities are included in the challenges. The rewards are a wide mix including but not limited to: Bloodlines Products, Legends Products, Metrics, Resources, Rare Textures and Gift Cards.

The Seasons HUD is available for free in vendors at the landing areas in our regions and we’ll be doing a blast-out delivery to all current Bloodlines players. To be clear, you don’t have to have the HUD on to be earning progress, but you do need to wear it to unlock and claim your rewards.

For full reference information, check out the Seasons Guide. Some highlights are below:

SEASON PASS

There are plenty of checkpoints and rewards by default, but there are also bonus valuable items hidden behind ‘locked’ checkpoints. These can be unlocked by purchasing a Season Pass, which can be done either with L$ or with Season Pass Tokens which can be earned along the Season path of rewards.

REWARD OPTIONS

Certain rewards will have choices, for instance if one of the rewards is a Vial, when you collect it, you choose which kind of vial you want: Blood, Lumen, Human, Ether, or Ichor. Other rewards will have alternatives. For example, say a reward is the coffin, but you already own the coffin, you’ll be given the option to get some metrics instead.

METRIC CACHES & METRIC RESERVES

“Metric Reserves” can be given at various points, and these are metrics that you unlock immediately and can access at Refill Stations.

“Metric Caches” can be given at various points, and these are metrics that you store up and unlock if or when you finally complete the season progress bar.

CURRENT SEASON DURATION

The current season, Season Nine, will run from midnight (SL time) on January 31st to midnight on March 31st, 2023.

Happy achieving!

*As with all of our releases, we do not award retroactive points or achievements. Progress on Seasons will begin tallying from the time of release onward. 

**Please note, the Season Pass is not an in-world delivery, it will show as active on your Bloodlines profile page once you have purchased it.