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 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:
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!
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
We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a group of Collectible Textures tied to the Medals Achievements. Whenever a medal is earned, one of these textures will be automatically delivered to your Rare Texture Library and can be then put into a paint can or loaded onto a container.
*One thing to note: these texture awards are only delivered for individual Medals earned, not Family awards.
**Another thing to note: as with any new award or achievement, we do not retroactively award these based on previous achievements / activity.
We’re thrilled to announce a new set of items in the Bloodlines: Domain series: The Haunted Domain!
If you remember the early days of Bloodlines, it spawned out of our original store of mesh avatar accessories and sim decor “The Crypt”. Those items were great for their day, but as mesh eventually arrived they became dated and we retired them. We get frequent requests for those items to return (particularly around Halloween) so we finally decided to dive in and release a new set.
We’ll be releasing items all through the month of October, so check back here to see the latest release. Some of the sets will tie-in to Bloodlines Legends quests will be also coming out with regularity during the month of October.
There is a brick-and-mortar store in our Demon Badlands sky plaza (near the Torment store) and the items will also shortly appear on MP and in the old Crypt affiliate vendors.
Happy decorating!
Hello Legends! We’re happy to announce that two local blacksmiths, Baxter Trank and Bendis have released two new sets of tools, Silver and Gold. These tools not only have greater durability for more harvesting ability, but also have the ability to harvest a few new Ultrarare and Legendary resources from harvesting stations.
They can be purchased with Gold Coins and repaired with either Silver Ingots or Gold Ingots respectively. The tool vendors are scattered around on the Legends RP sims.
We also lowered the stamina costs for smelting ingots and repairing tools; they were 10 stamina each and now are 2 stamina each. They are still 10 stamina per strike.
Happy harvesting!
It has come to our attention that some claimed regions in Legends have become inaccessible for one reason or another. In order to address this, we have added a feature where you can move Legends Claim Flags off of regions that are no longer accessible. If you have flags that can be moved, you will see a link at the top of your Legends Land page that will take you to a form that will let you move your flags to a different region. To get to this page, make sure you are logged into slbloodlines.com, navigate to your profile, and then click on the Claim Flag icon in the Legends section of your profile. You are not required to move flags off of inaccessible regions, you can leave them there if you wish. Current discoverers of inaccessible regions are not affected by this. Sovereigns of regions and region levels are updated when flags are moved.
Right now, the only situation in which we’re facilitating the moving of claim flags is if the region the flags are on can no longer be accessed. You can’t move flags that you placed on a region that is still accessible.
Regions that are marked as inaccessible can still be browsed to on the website, and you can still use your Legends HUD on them if you are somehow able to access them. They just will not show up in the region search that you access through the compass button on your HUD.
Regions can only be marked as inaccessible manually by us. We won’t know if a region is inaccessible unless someone reports it to us. If you discover a region in Legends that is missing, private, or otherwise can’t be accessed, please report it to us by creating a support ticket, and we will investigate it. Likewise, if you discover a region that is currently marked as inaccessible that has become accessible, please report that to us as well. Happy adventuring!
We put out a new gacha set of rare textures for the Iron Prism today! None of the textures have ever been available before. There are two versions of the gacha machine, one that take Lindens and one that takes Legends Gold Coins, earned via Questing. *** Note: on the Legends machines, you will get a paint bucket but it will be empty, you’ll need to manually load the texture from your Library into it.
These machines have a timer on them and will explode (and disappear) 21 days after release.
The machines are rezzed on 4 sims so if one set is busy you can try another location:
Lycan Woodlands Gacha Machines
Vampire Islands Gacha Machines
If you’d like to read our original Rare / Gacha release post, it’s here.
In April we made an update to Bloodlines to try to prevent gaming of the stats through the use of alts. We noticed that some people were obtaining unlimited metrics by registering thousands of alts and using them only for the metrics obtained from the first attack on a fresh victim. Obviously, this is grossly unfair to everyone who plays the game honestly without farming alt accounts. The metrics obtained from fresh victim attacks are meant to be a reward that you get for hunting, not something that gets farmed from alt accounts. In April we made it so that in order to get the metrics from an attack on a fresh victim, you had to have payment info used on your account (used as an indicator of a real, unique account and not an alt), and metrics from fresh victims were limited to 50 attacks per day.
We’ve realized that these limits have been inadequate, and alt farmers continue their practices despite these limits. So, unfortunately, in order to keep the game fair to everyone, we have removed the above limits, and put in place a different limit. We’ve just issued an update so that attacks on fresh victims don’t provide metrics to the attacker until the soul is transferred. When the soul is transferred from a new person to an attacker (either the first attacker, or the first attacker after a Wormwood potion is used), the metrics from the first bite are also transferred at that time. If your metrics are full at the time that this transfer takes place, they will go into your metric reserve instead, and can be obtained from a refill station. This has the additional benefit of removing the previous arbitrary limits. Now, your payment status is no longer a factor, and there is no limit on the metrics you can get from fresh victims in a day.
Ideally this will be the last change we need to make. Thanks for your patience while we’ve struggled with these bad elements. The game should now be more fair for everyone.
We put out a new gacha set of rare textures for the Ether Vessel today! None of the textures have ever been available before. There are two versions of the gacha machine, one that take Lindens and one that takes Legends Gold Coins, earned via Questing. *** Note: on the Legends machines, you will get a paint bucket but it will be empty, you’ll need to manually load the texture from your Library into it.
These machines have a timer on them and will explode (and disappear) 30 days after release.
The machines are rezzed on 4 sims so if one set is busy you can try another location:
Lycan Woodlands Gacha Machines
Vampire Islands Gacha Machines
If you’d like to read our original Rare / Gacha release post, it’s here.
