Greetings! Sacre bleu! This weekend we feel like doing some french… dancing. Can-can you join us on Saturday and dance the day away? Great music and giveaways throughout the event!
When: Saturday May 30th, 12pm-3pm SL
Suggested Attire: Burlesque, cabaret, french opera house
Where: Bloodlines West
Music: DJ Lord Halostar | Decor: Fawn Madrigal | Host: Aimee Novaland
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.
We’re happy to announce the release of the Elder Amulets. As with the other Amulets, they protect against various degrees of the nightly Curse.
We’d like to remind everyone that if you own one of the Infinity Amulets, you have Curse protection across all races – you do not need to purchase an Elder Amulet if you change from another race to Elder and wish for Infinite protection. You can find the Amulets for sale at our store on Bloodlines Midland, or in affiliate vendors.
We also want to announce that we’re opening quests that allow for the crafting of the various Infinity Amulet meshes (and activation of profile icons) if you already are an owner of one of the Infinity Amulets. The first of these is detailed here: The Elusive Amulet. More to come soon for the other Amulet meshes!
Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, another in the Mortal Crossroads RP area.
Pastry maker Patrick Sawyer has a new love interest, but to fit in better with her Elder clan he needs the appropriate Amulet to wear at family functions. Help him research how to build it and learn the recipe yourself in the process.
The quest rewards are listed on the flyer.*
This quest starts with Patrick Sawyer in Bloodlines Midland.
* The Elder Infinity Amulet mesh is only craftable by a player who already has an Infinity Amulet of one type or another. Crafting this item does not give Infinity Protection, just the mesh and the icon for your profile. The Amulet mesh is no-transfer (like with normal amulet meshes) so you can only craft it for yourself. You are free as always though to sell / trade the resources necessary to craft it to other avatars.
** The main reward on this quest is the Infinity Amulet mesh. The quest does not return the ‘normal’ amount of coins, Elementum or other rewards per the stamina spent. If you do not have an interest in having / crafting this amulet mesh, you may want to consider doing other quests instead!
We made an update to the Granite Mine today that we wanted to elaborate on. Originally the mine only had 7 possible resources in it. Now that the Forge and Transmogrifier crafting stations are out and soon to be released for sale, we’re about to start releasing more quests and craftable mesh items that require metals and ore.
There will be another Mine coming out soon, and between the two we’ve spread out all the new minable resources. These include a lot of rock and stone, some gemstones, and semiprecious and precious metal ores. All told there will be around 60 new resources, 30 or so of which will be now on the Granite Mine.
While we do always reserve the right to update harvesting stations with new resources, we realize this is a large drop compared to the one or two that we add occasionally to the Knolls or the magic map. The original 7 have retained their rarities and it should still be fairly easy to get key ones like Coal and Salt Crystals. And we promise to make good use of all the new resources in Quests and Recipes coming soon!
One final note: there is Copper, Silver, Gold and Platinum Ore in the new mines. This ore will soon have recipes for crafting into ingots, however we have no plans to ever have it craftable into Coins. Coins are hard-earned resources through Questing and we are going with the RPG logic that coins must be minted by official governments and currency-creators in the world, and ore that is mined will strictly be for ingots and crafting. Having said that, we’ve still made sure to make the precious metal ores Rare and Ultra-Rare, because it ought to be valuable!
Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, another in the newly opened Vampire Islands RP area.
Barkeep Lunita Price is considering entering the Rum business, and is in need of some help sourcing a recipe and testing it out on the local populace.
The quest rewards are listed on the flyer.
This quest starts with Lunita Price on Bloodlines East.
We’re pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 12th Anniversary Haunt Contest. Thanks to everyone who participated! The 3 Winners will get the Gold Rare Textures, the 20 Runners Up will get the Silver, and anyone who participated will get the Participation Rare. Textures will delivered automatically to your Rare Library so look for it on your profile, or rez a Paint Can or Bloodlines Container and look for the texture in the menu to download.
Thanks everyone for making our last 12 years a success!
Gold Winners
Silver Winners
We’ve updated our gacha machines with timers, and when time’s up they explode!
We’ve gotten feedback in regards to the way Bloodlines has handled gacha in the past. The two main areas of complaint / request are A) that we release gacha sets more often and B) that we take the sets down in a specific amount of time so as to preserve their value and rarity for trading and selling purposes.
We hear you! As for the first part, we have a lot going on with the releasing of Quests and other updates but we’re going to try hard to get out more gacha sets this year – both Rare Textures and some Rare Mesh item sets.
As for part B – we are going to get more strict about when we put up and take down the machines. To help this, we’ve created an exploding gacha machine with a timer. The timer shows in hovertext over the machine how much longer the set will be available, and when the timer is up the machine will explode in confetti and disappear.
We still (as always) reserve the right to sell or make available items or textures in the future, however generally when we take a set down we do not put it up again, sometimes for years (and sometimes never again) so rest assured – we are aware of the importance of value retention for trading and selling, and will try to safeguard that.
So please come visit the sims, check out the new machines (and the timers!) and we’ll post again here when we have new sets out.
Happy gacha-ing!
We’re excited to announce an official grid-wide Bloodlines Event – The Bloodlines 12th Anniversary Party! It’s been a wild 12 years and we’d like to celebrate.
You can tp to the party here: Anniversary Party!
The event starts now (April 21st) and runs through Saturday May 9th. We’ll immediately be connecting participating Haunts via the website and the HUDs, so that you can easily travel from event to event, while discovering new Bloodlines-friendly locations. In the last week before the party, Mars and Lyle will be visiting participating locations to help with the final judging of the top Haunts, and we hope to see you there!
For Haunt owners, this event means a chance to raise awareness of your clan land, club, bar or RP area! The Anniversary Event will provide an influx of new visitors, as well as give you a chance to network with other Bloodlines friendly locations. Players will be able to vote on their favorite Haunts they visited during the week. On the final day (Saturday May 9th) we’ll be having an event on the Bloodlines sims, and we’ll give away the prizes.
To vote on your favorite Haunts, all you need to do is press the ‘Vote’ link next to the 12-year anniversary icon on the profile of participating haunts.
Prizes:
Anniversary Participation Rare – Given to anyone who opted-in their Haunt to the event. (Limit one per avatar)
Runner-Up Rares (Silver Crown) – Given to the best 20 Haunts (may be more or less depending on the quality of entries)
Top Haunt Rares (Gold Crown) – Given to the top 3 Haunts. These will also receive a banner on the Bloodlines homepage for a week following the event.
Getting involved is simple:
Location Owners – If you already have a Haunt, just log into your profile, Edit Haunts, and opt-in via the radio button for the 12th Anniversary Event. Make sure to use the Haunt Events calendar to schedule specific times for your events. We’re keeping the theme wide open – as long as your space is Bloodlines (or Legends) themed in some way, we’re excited to check it out!
Bloodlines players – The 12th Anniversary Event will automatically generate locations in your HUD, under the Haunt button. We’ll also make it clear on the website which locations are participating, so you should be able to easily find the next great location to visit!
On May 9th, we’ll wrap it up with an official party / awards ceremony on the Bloodlines sims where we’ll deliver all the prizes, so be sure to stop by. See you there, and thanks to everyone for making Bloodlines a vibrant RP community for 12 years running!
Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, one of the first in the Vampire Islands RP area.
Mayor Velorina Hargrave is seeking adventurers to assist the denizens of Bridgetown, an island stuck in the middle of various warring families.
The quest rewards are listed on the flyer.
This quest starts with Velorina Hargrave on Bloodlines East.
