News and Updates

To welcome Spring, we’ve set a few Cherry Blossom trees around the sims. There are ones by the domes, which are temporary, and one down in Angel Havens, which is permanent.

Once an hour you can harvest Cherry Blossoms for 5 stamina. They can be used in two new recipes:

Cherry Blossom TIncture (purpose TBD)
Cherry Blossom Puffed Pastry (Consumable)

The Puffed Pastry Recipe can be purchased from Gertrude’s shop.

Happy Questing everyone and have a great week!

For the next month we’ve added a Collectible Texture delivery to every race HUD purchase. If you gift (or purchase for yourself) a Rage, Thirst, Virtue, Ascent or Torment HUD you’ll receive the correlating texture. The giveaways end on January 18th.

*The textures are delivered straight into your Rare Texture Library on your profile and do not come with a paint can delivery. You should be able to load them either straight onto a container or into an empty paint can in-world.

***If you make a HUD purchase with a gift card, the texture delivery does not work. We’ll work on updating this, but for now please be aware!

We are pleased to announce Season 7!

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 Seven, will run from midnight (SL time) on September 30th to midnight on Nov 30th, 2022.

NOTE: We have rotated some achievements from Wave 5 and Wave 6 into this seasons challenges! The remainder of unused achievements will rotate in next season.

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. 

*This season has 3 Collectible textures rather than 4, due to the fact that the Haunted Domain mesh items are appearing as reward options. Next season will have 4 textures again.

We are pleased to announce Season 6!

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 Three, will run from midnight (SL time) on July 31st to midnight on September 30th, 2022.

NOTE: This will be the last season which has this particular configuration of achievements. The next season will have several changes, not least of which will be to incorporate some or all of achievement waves 5 and 6.

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. 

Update: see this knowledgebase article for detailed instructions on how to get container replacements online.

One of the most common support requests that we get is from players that have lost their metric containers and want replacements. We have just released a convenient website feature that will allow you to replace your missing containers yourself. In order to use it, first navigate to your containers through your slbloodlines.com profile. You can do this by clicking on any container icon under the ‘Items’ section of your profile. You will see a tabbed interface that shows all of the Tanks, Casks, Barrels, Prisms, Urns, and Vessels that you own. Click on an individual container in order to view the profile for that container. On that profile, you will see a submenu on the left side of the screen. On that submenu, you will see a new option labeled ‘Replace’. Select that option and follow the on-screen instructions in order to replace your container.

When your container is replaced, if it is full, you will be delivered a full container. If it is less than full, you will be delivered an empty container, and any metrics currently in the container will be moved to a special reserve called your Replacement Reserve. You can use this reserve to refill containers directly on the website. This is a separate reserve from the metric reserve that purchased metrics go into, and refills done from the Replacement Reserve do not count for container-refilling achievements. To refill a container from your Replacement Reserve, select the container on the website you wish to refill to go to the container profile, and select ‘Refill’ on the submenu, then follow the on screen instructions in order to refill your container.

Please keep in mind the following:

1. Containers can only be replaced once every 30 days. So, when you register a new container, it must be at least 30 days old before you will be able to have it replaced.
2. If you hand a container to someone or sell it, it will still appear under your account until that person rezzes the container. So, you will not have the container in your inventory, because you transferred it, but it will still appear on your profile, because our system can’t know that they have it until they rez it. Before requesting a replacement, please make sure you didn’t hand it to someone and then forgot about it, and if someone hands you a container, make sure to rez it as soon as possible so it transfers to your account.

Announcing Achievement Wave 6, which will be arriving on June 1! This wave features 48 beautiful new badges you can earn, level up, and show off on your Bloodlines profile! This achievement wave includes the following achievements:

Reaver : Achievement count is sum of River achievements in last 30 days. Level can vary up and down.

Warrior : At midnight SL time, current Reaver level is added to count, and count is kept permanently.

Reveler / Bender : Consume Shots.

Feaster / Raider : Consume apples.

Brewmaster / Bottler : Sell bottles and cans from vending machines.

Bartender / Tapster : Sell shots from bar taps.

Benefactor / Patron : Send metrics with coffins (and the equivalent device for other races).

Investigator / Detective : Due to popular request, we’ve brought back the original Investigator and Detective achievements (while keeping Detective 2 and Investigator 2).

As usual, all of these achievements start counting at release (midnight May 31st, 2022), unless otherwise specified.

All of these achievements will also count in the monthly Soul War. They have not been added to Seasons yet, but may be in the future.

Based on feedback from the community, we have decided to reverse the update we made in 2020 that made it so metrics could not be obtained from fresh victims. Originally, the reasoning for this is because we noticed that some people were using the ability to gain metrics from fresh victims as an exploit to obtain unlimited free metrics. They were just creating thousands of throwaway alt accounts, and only using them for the first free metrics. They were able to do this because Second Life allows the creation of unlimited anonymous alt accounts. The update in 2020 made it so that metrics were only transferred to an attacker from fresh victims once they joined. So, the metrics were transferred at the same time that the soul was transferred.

As of today, we have reversed this update. Everyone should now be gaining metrics on the first attack of a fresh victim. There is no limit to the number of fresh victims you may obtain metrics from in a given day. We ask that everyone please cooperate with the spirit of this: it is to incentivize hunting of real Second Life accounts.

Please do not create fresh alt accounts to attack just to get free metrics!

We will be keeping an eye on this to make sure that it is not being exploited. If we observe any large-scale operations creating alt accounts in order to farm free metrics from them, any associated Bloodlines accounts with those operations will be banned. Thanks for your cooperation.

We are pleased to announce Season 4!

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 Three, will run from midnight* on March 31st to midnight on May 31st, 2022.

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. 

We are going to be retiring support for old containers on 4/3/2022. The containers being retired were sold prior to our series 5 update in 2014. These containers can be replaced with the latest versions using the Container Trade-In Machine, even after the 4/3 retirement date. What this means is that these old containers will stop working on 4/3. If you have a container purchased prior to June 2014 that you have not traded in yet using the Container Trade-In machine, we recommend that you obtain a trade-in machine and update it. You can obtain the Trade-In Machine for free in any Bloodlines main store, from the vendor to the left of the main HUD vendor. For example, the machine can be obtained at Bloodlines Midland here.

This will affect the following container versions:

1. Blood Tank Versions 1.0 – 4.0
2. Blood Cask Versions 1.0 – 4.0
3. Iron Prism Versions 1.0 – 4.0
4. Bone Prism Versions 1.0 – 4.0
5. Cider Barrel Version 1.0

This should not affect any container purchased after June 2014. This does not affect Urns or Vessels. If you are in doubt about the version of your container, you can always try the Trade-In Machine on it, and it will check the container for you and let you know if it is eligible for trade-in. If your container does not have a ‘Select’ button on the menu, then the Trade-In Machine will not work. You will need to hand your containers to LiquidDesigns Resident *in a folder with your name on it*, and have your containers manually traded out.

More information on the Trade-In machines can be found here.

We are pleased to announce Season 3!

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 Three, will run from midnight* on January 31st to midnight on March 31st, 2022.

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.