News and Updates

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.

We are pleased to announce the release of Seasons! Here’s how it works:

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.

WEBSITE ADDITIONS

Everyone will also have a new progress page linked from their profile where people can track their progress, which rewards they have unlocked, and what their progress is on all of the challenges. The website will also be updated with a new profile section on the right column, one that can be sorted in the profile editor. There is a new Season Guide page here, which will give a broader explanation of some of the aspects of Seasons, as well as list the point-earning challenges for the current season.

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 One, will run from noon* on October 6th to midnight on November 30th, 2021.

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’ve just updated the rarity requirements to include all of the new Angel and Demon items. Rarity will probably not change for most people except those who only own Angel and Demon items.

The update was done in a way to make sure that it is fair to everyone. For example, if there were two items available in a given category for two rarity points, and now there are four, there are still only two possible rarity points available in that category, even if you own more than two. So, someone who owns the Spike and the Absolver previously only had one rarity point for the Spike, but now will have two in the Enhanced Metric Collection category, and someone who previously had the Spike and Rampage Claw will still have one point for each of these in that same category.

For more details on how the new rarity points are totaled, please see the rarity section of the game guide.

We wanted to let you all know that we’ve set up caching for the families section of the Bloodlines website. This means two things:

1. The families listing and family profile pages should load faster.
2. Any stats on the pages are going to be temporarily cached. This means that any stats you view in the family listing or on the main family profiles may be up to 5 minutes old. If you notice that a stat isn’t updating on your family profile, just wait about 5 minutes and refresh the page.

If you want to view live non-cached stats for achievements, you can go to your family’s achievement or soul war progress page by clicking on the ‘view progress’ links on your family’s profile.

We’ve made a few changes to the achievements rankings on the website that we wanted everyone to be aware of. The changes are explained below.

1. Soul War player medals rankings for current month added:
   We realized that the player medals and family medals rankings were not showing medal rankings for the current month, they were showing all-time medals progress. We’re keeping both of these rankings, and we have added rankings for player medals for the current month and family medals for the current month. Ties in these rankings are broken by all-time medals progress.
2. New ranking for top achievements players:
   We’ve added a new ranking called Top Players Combined. This ranking combines overall achievement progress with current Soul War medals. It ranks players in the following order: overall achievement progress, total achievement levels, current month soul war medals, all time soul war medals, then total achievements. We have updated the top players ranking on the home page to this ranking. We believe this ranking more accurately reflects current players efforts towards achievements.

Introducing THE SOUL WAR! The Soul War is a monthly contest where you can challenge other players and families in a contest of Bloodlines achievements, and collect and win all-new medals for gaining achievements! You can view the full rules of The Soul War in the Achievements Guide, and you can track your Soul War progress on your profile. The Soul War provides new monthly rankings on total achievement progress, single achievements, and medals collected. You can also cooperate with your family to see if you can beat other families in the monthly achievement contest, and collect the most medals! We hope you have a great time playing The Soul War!

(No, this is NOT an April Fool’s joke :))

Announcing the release of five new achievements! Now you can get achievements for collecting Blood Vials, Lumen Vials, and for holding souls that you obtained through the Blood River, Moon River, and Blood Doll Collector achievements. You can read the specifics on these achievements in the Achievements Guide. We’ve also made some minor updates to the display and organization of the achievement rankings, and the individual achievement progress pages that we hope make them easier to read and more user-friendly. Have fun

Today we made an update to the way that account names that have been deactivated by the Garlic Necklace are displayed on the website. The Garlic Necklace is an item provided by Bloodlines that allows people to deactivate their accounts if they wish, so their avatar names no longer appear on the public site at slbloodlines.com. Every person who is under Garlic has been assigned an automatically-generated “secret identity” name, and this is the name that will appear in lists on the website such as soul and minion lists. So, deactivated accounts will no longer appear as “(name removed)” on the website, they will appear as the auto-generated secret name. The secret names will appear in “Firstname Lastname” format, and you can identify them because they will have one of the following five last names: Immortalus, Maleficus, Damarchus, Grimm, or Miasmador.

There are several purposes to this:

1. You can now specifically identify a soul you own that is from a deactivated account, and trade it with the Soul Reaper, or use it for ransom in an Electrum transfer. When selecting deactivated souls for transfer with the Soul Reaper or the Electrum, you can use either the legacy name format (such as “Lyle Maeterlinck” or “Firstname Resident”) or the secret name. When you’re transferring a deactivated soul, both the secret name and the legacy name will show up in the soul reaper messages, such as “Secret Name (Legacy Name)”.
2. We’ve heard that some people don’t like owning souls that show up as “(name removed)” on their profile. Also, it’s possible to obtain or trade for a soul that later gets deactivated, and some people have been disappointed by this. Now, deactivated souls will show up as the secret identity name, which looks the same as a legacy name on your profile.

Every account is assigned a single secret name only once. If you go in and out of garlic, the secret name remains the same, you don’t get a new secret name each time. If you own a soul that belongs to a deactivated account, you can view the legacy name of that soul by logging into slbloodlines.com and look at your own profile, then hover your mouse over the secret name, and you’ll see a tooltip with the legacy name displayed. To clarify this, ONLY the soul owner can see the tooltip with the legacy name of the deactivated account, and ONLY if they are logged into the website and looking at their own profile. Legacy names of deactivated accounts still will not be publicly displayed on the site. If you have any questions about this, please don’t hesitate to contact Lyle Maeterlinck directly.

Introducing a new game feature: Family Allies and Enemies! Families are now able to form alliances with other families, as well as designate those families that they are feuding with.

The family profiles on the website are updated with the means for engaging in this new aspect of the game. Family leaders are able to send ally requests and respond to invitations to ally with other families. In order to be allies, both families have to agree to do so. Enemies however may be set unilaterally – you don’t have to get the agreement of the other clan in order to designate them someone you are unfriendly towards. If both families set each other as enemies, it’s considered mutual and listed as such in their profiles.

There is a limit of 10 allies and 10 enemies per family, so choose wisely! Your friends and enemies are out there now, waiting to hear from you!

To learn more about allies and enemies, see the Allies and Enemies section in the Bloodlines guide.

Now you can view a list of Bloodlines players whose soul is in the Abyss in the stats section. This list is ordered by last login date, so people at the top of the list are players who have logged in recently. This is a new way to find souls that are floating around in the Abyss that only need a Hemlock to get them out.

The Abyss might be a scary place to go, but there are souls there for the taking if you decide to rescue them. (Just don’t tell them that the Hemlock potion tastes like black licorice and paint thinner!)