News and Updates

Greetings everyone! We’re about a week away from opening the Vampire RP area and initial Quests, and we are going to have an event to celebrate.

Come Friday to our event area to relax with your fellow Families and Legends and enjoy music, a costume contest and rare giveaways.

There will be a Summoning Station (that will eventually be moved to the Vampire Islands landing area) where you can summon a copy of the new Islands Explorer Satchel.

When: Friday May 1st, 12pm-3pm SLT

Suggested Attire: Anything vampire, creatures of the night, medieval themed

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Fawn | Decor: Fawn Madrigal | Host: Lord Halostar

Linden Labs recently released a new feature that allows you to change your legacy name. Bloodlines detects your legacy name by reading the name reported by the Second Life region that you’re on when requests are sent to our server by your HUD. Because of a SL server bug that has existed for some time, if your legacy name changes, your old name will continue to be cached and reported by some regions for an unknown amount of time. For avatars that have had their names changed by Linden Labs for various reasons before this feature was available (such as people who created objectionable names), we have seen some regions continue to report the old names for over a month.

Bloodlines was updated to account for changing legacy names over a year ago, but because of the bug mentioned above, if you changed your name, some sims might report your new name, and some might report your old name. Your account was still being identified correctly by your UUID, but your name might have been getting changed back and forth between your old and new name depending on how it was being reported to us by the region.

We’ve just made an update to all of our HUDs that attempts to implement a workaround for this problem. If you have changed your legacy name, and you don’t see your new name reflected on the Bloodlines website, please get a redelivery of your HUDs from the update terminal and wear them, and it should update your name correctly, but may not work for some people. If it doesn’t work for you, please file a support ticket, and we will get your name corrected.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, another in the Angel Havens RP area, with a little crossover to Mortal Crossroads.

Vincent Montague has lost touch with a close friend, but when he sends you to investigate you end up getting wrongfully accused of murder! Work to clear your name, solve the mystery and help the people of Angel Havens.

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer. This quest starts with Vincent Montague in Bloodlines Midland.

Greetings Legends! We’ve made a few small additions that should add fun going forward: Hidden Quests and Randomization.

Hidden Quests will be smaller tasks or adventures that may not show up in your Quest Journal, but will give repeatable rewards for those in-the-know. The first of these has been launched today. In the Telescopic Troubles quest where you craft the mesh Root Elixir bottle and create a Root Elixir resource to heal a tree, afterwards the tree reports to you that, “if you try the elixir on random trees in the world, sometimes it will work and they will reward you”.

The first tree has been activated on Angel Havens. You must use wand-waving to reveal it, and then use a crafted Root Elixir to heal it, and it will reward you. This hidden quest is repeatable occasionally, and we will likely add a few more trees around once we’re sure this new mechanic is working smoothly.

Which brings us to the second small update: we’ve added randomization of loot to the reward that the tree offers, so that it varies how large or small the rewards is based on a random spin. Thus far in Legends the rewards have been predictable, and we’ll still have many quests where the reward is consistent. However for various things – damage, loot, some conversations – we’re hoping some randomization will make the adventures even more interesting and realistic.

So feel free to wander the forests of Angel Havens waving your wand, with a Root Elixir at the ready – and keep an eye out for more Hidden Quests and randomization mechanics in the future!

A few days ago we made a couple of adjustments to the way attacks on fresh victims work. It became apparent that some players were logging in thousands of alts a day to game fresh victim achievements and farm free blood. This presented a risk that a) the achievements would become meaningless and b) metrics would be come worthless. As always we commend people on their creativity and motivation in getting these achievements, but we obviously have to take the measures we can in order to prevent cheating, gaming, and exploits.

The two changes we’ve made are as follows:

• Without Payment Info Used (not just “On File, but “Used”) in a profile, that player will be unable to gain metrics from attacks on fresh victims. All other attacks and achievements will continue to work fine for these players.
• While any player with Payment Info Used will be able to make as many attacks / achievement attacks a day as they like on Fresh Victims, they will get a max of 50 attacks worth of metrics for that day from fresh victim attacks. Normal attacks on non-fresh victims will works as normal.

Hopefully for most of you these changes will not affect you at all. We do realize that by preventing the extremely bad actors from being able to game the system, this will affect some who did not intend to harm the community. All we can say is that in order to protect the integrity of Achievements and the value of metrics in the system, we have to shut off avenues where exploitation is possible.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this policy change, please file a ticket in our support system and we’ll respond: http://slbloodlines.com/support

Hello All! Ahh Spring…The sun is shining and birds are chirping! Do you feel the warm breeze and smell the blooming flowers? Come to our Spring Fling this Saturday and dance the day away! Great music and giveaways throughout the event!

When: Saturday April 11th, 1pm-4pm SL

Suggested Attire: Formal attire, Spring attire, anything that makes you feel spring has sprung!

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Candi | Decor: Fawn | Host: TBD

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, another in the Angel Havens RP area.

The Angel Orion, Steward of the Observatory, uses his enchanted telescopes to find and help people in need around the Angel Havens. He could use an extra hand with some of the more challenging adventures, and the citizens you help will be grateful!

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer. This quest starts with Orion  on Bloodlines North.

*UPDATE 3/31/20:

We had some players reporting issues with getting the Glow Bulb Seedlings to appear out of the ground. At first we thought this was due to the mesh not appearing correctly. We uploaded new higher resolution Seedlings, as well as recommended upping LOD settings to 2.5 on your viewer.

While we always recommend seeing SL as beautifully as your machine can handle, we think we tracked down the actual source of the complaints:

Apparently there was a misunderstanding that the Bulbs were to be found near the bases of the full-sized Glow Bulb Trees. While a few of them are in this area, the rest of the Seedlings are spread out around a much wider area. See the below image to see the zone to look for the Seedlings in:

Also, we had some tickets stating that the last tree, Horvac, was not responding to wand waves. We believe we’ve tracked this complaint down to a misunderstanding about how the wand waves work. Just in case you are not aware, there are 3 strengths of wave – Weak, Medium, and Strong. These can be chosen from a blue menu after touching the Wand itself, or (easier) they can be triggered by touching various spots on the wand icon on the Legends HUD.

Below is a graphic illustrating the 3 different types of wand waves. In addition, since we are starting to incorporate more Skill Checks in quests based on the various Wand attributes, included in this graphic is a reiteration of what parts of the wand are dictating the various attributes:

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, another in the Angel Havens RP area.

Veronica St. Claire is the owner of the local tavern on Angel Havens, she’s been thinking about starting to offer food options at her bar. If you agree to help her work through how to improve a recipe she’s offering you coin and her famous eggs and bacon. You can’t lose!

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer. This quest starts with Veronica  on Bloodlines North.

We’re happy to announce the release of Crafting Station Set 4! This includes the Tincture Table and Potion Station.

These stations already have some function for current Bloodlines Quests, and we’ll be adding quests, resources, and recipes as we go forward. They also have the ability to deliver mesh items with certain recipes, and we plan to add this perk to some recipes across all the stations so keep an eye out for those!*

We tried to keep the stations low land impact while still being an item well crafted enough to use as just rustic decor for your castle, clan land or roleplay area.

The stations are available in our stores at Bloodlines North, Bloodlines South, Bloodlines Midlands, Bloodlines East and Bloodlines West, and will shortly be available on the MP as well as in our affiliate vendors, with a refresh.

Happy crafting!

*Note: As crafting, recipes and quests develop over time, we must reserve the right to alter, add to or subtract from the current resources lists in the stations. We will try to do this only when it’s apparent that something is out of balance.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, one of the first in the Angel Havens RP area.

Pylades, Steward of Knowledge in the Angel Castle, is troubled by an Evil Rune he found. Concerned there are more, he wishes to recruit you to help him track them down and dispel them, and he’ll reward you for your efforts.

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer. This quest starts with Pylades on Bloodlines North.