News and Updates

In an effort to make the intro to the game smoother for new players, we did an overhaul of the Crossroads Tower Training quest. There are several new steps, teaching a wider range of things (crafting, spending coins, using the Compass, etc.) and there’s a new ingredient (Bubblegum Mushrooms) and a new crafting recipe (Minor Stamina Potion) presented in the quest. The potion recipe can be learned at the Research Station as well.

We also added a Tutorial HUD to the Legends crate. The Tutorial HUD has moving gifs that illustrate various operations of the HUD and help guide the path through the training quest.

We also moved the freebie mesh rewards (and updated / added to them) to a reward box delivery at the end of the Wizard Training quest.

The new Tutorial completes by sending the adventurer down to the new Crossroads Notice Board at the base of the tower. This board has most of the Midlands quests on it, divided up into “Novice”, “Middling”, and “Advanced” (Expert is there but no quests on it yet).

Try the board out! In addition to making it clear where to find quests, it vends the Quest Flyer to show the rewards. While we do want to still have some quests that people can just ‘find’ in the RP areas, it seemed a good idea especially at Crossroads to give an easier path for new players to find things to engage with.

If you’d like to get the HUD and check it out, you can redeliver your Legends HUD (or other BL race HUD) and it should be in the Legends HUD crate.

We’ve also opened up the Crossroads Tower Training quest for repeats until the end of the week, so if you’d like to be informed so that you can explain it to new players or family members, give it a try!

*Note: as a result of the new Notice Board however, the Rumor Mill quest is a bit obsolete. We’re going to take that quest down temporarily and update it with some new hints and quests, and then will re-release that likely around the first week of April. Thanks for your patience.

UPDATE: There will be no scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, 3/30. Maintenance has been rescheduled for Friday, April 2, 1:00-1:30 AM SL time.

The Bloodlines system will be down for approximately 30 minutes on Tuesday, March 30 from approximately 1-1:30 AM SL Time (Pacific). We hope that the maintenance that needs to be completed will go much faster than this. We will have the Bloodlines system up again as quickly as possible. Please refrain from making purchases from vendors, and interacting with all Bloodlines items during this brief maintenance window. We will be announcing in the official in-world groups when the maintenance begins and ends. Thanks for your understanding.

Sláinte! It’s that time of year again, when you must don some kind of green clothing or else suffer the pinching, spanking, and ridicule of your peers. The upside is that you also get kisses and booze! Join us this Friday for a cheerful evening of music, costume prizes and Rare giveaways.

When: Friday, March 19th, 2-5pm

Suggested Attire: Anything green!

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Candi | Host / Decor: Fawn Madrigal

There’s luck in the air and adventure afoot! Charlie the Leprechaun banker at Angel Havens finds himself every year aglow with extra magic during the month of March, and he’d like to share the wealth. He’s got different Rare Luck events for you:

• Clover  Hunt – There are patches of clover all of Angel Havens, touch them and collect a 4-Leaf Clover to turn back in to Charlie’s Chest at the event landing to collect Leprechaun Gold.
• Map Hunts – Use Gold Coins or Stamina to purchase treasure maps that Charlie has hand-drawn. There are 25 randomized maps and each depicts a crude drawing of a specific spot somewhere in the 5 regions. If you can find that spot and wave your wand, a pot of gold should rise up, rewarding you with anywhere from 5 to 50 Leprechaun Gold.
• Gacha & Prizes – Head to the Piper’s Plunder mobile pirate ship store behind Charlie’s home to use Leprechaun Gold to take spins on Rare Container Gacha machines as well as use Leprechaun Gold to purchase mesh holiday items.

In addition:

• Seasonal Treat Quest – Find 50 (!) Stamina-building treat drinks scattered over the 5 regions. They’re hidden in random objects and decor, you just need to touch the right thing to find the drink. See the previous blog post.

A new landing has been created temporarily for this event here at Angel Havens.

The event will run through April 1st, so if you want any of that loot you’d best get hunting!

You notice a small envelope slipped under your door! Opening it up you find the following message scrawled in strange cramped writing:

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Hello friend,

—This has been my favorite time of year since I was just a wee spright of a fellow. I always feel my magic flowing strongly through my veins and as such I decided this month (and only this month) I will share the wealth, so to speak. I’ve hidden some of my favorite potions throughout the lands, ten in each area. They’re mostly outside, hidden away in little places, I hope you can find them all!

Yours in Magic and Mirth,

Charlie

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Wow! Sounds like a really nice guy, you better get out there and start looking for the potions he shared, it doesn’t sound like they’ll be around for long!

Update 4/2/21: We have heard a lot of feedback from the community that the new Detective / Investigator Achievement is too difficult, when trying to find another player of a very specific race / status. We have updated the possible targets to be limited only to a given race, not a specific status. This should make this achievement much more doable, and we hope less frustrating.

Update 3/26/21: Because of the updates in version 5 of the Haunts, the current Voyager / World Travels achievement will be retired to a Legacy Achievement and replaced with Voyager 2 / World Travels 2, which will work identically. Retired achievements are now being referred to as Legacy Achievements, a previous version of this post referred to them as Honors.

Original post follows:

The following changes to Bloodlines achievements will start on 4/1/2021:

1. All of the Tempter / Summoner achievements (a total of 10 achievements) will be retired and become Legacy Achievements. See below for an explanation of what this means.
2. Detective / Investigator will also be retired and become a Legacy Achievement. It will be replaced with Detective 2 / Investigator 2. In order to earn counts of Detective 2 / Investigator 2, you will need to find and scan players with certain statuses and races in a certain order. For example, your first target may be to scan someone who is a vampire. Once you find and scan a vampire, you’ll get a message letting you know what your next target is. It may say that you need to find and scan an Archangel, and once you find and scan one, you’ll get your next target.
3. In order to count towards Voyager / World Travels, all Haunts will need to be updated to Version 5. Soon we will be releasing and auto-distributing an updater box that you can use to update your Haunts to version 5. You should have plenty of time to update your Haunts before the change on 4/1. After 4/1, version 4 and earlier Haunts will still work fine, but if they are checked by your visitors, they won’t count towards the Voyager / World Travels achievement for that visitor.

Legacy Achievements are old achievements that can no longer be earned. So, if you have earned badges on Detective, Investigator, Voyager, World Travels, or any of the Tempter / Summoner achievements, those badges will be permanently moved to the Legacy Achievements section of your profile on 4/1. This will change the total number of achievements that it is possible to get, so you will see the top number of possible achievements drop to 79.

Why are we making these changes?

In short, because the level of exploitation of these achievements is so egregious that they are essentially meaningless. We’ve observed that the challenges of these achievements are being circumvented by the use of large numbers of alts. We’ve tried various measures to try to suppress the incentive to use alts, but these have not been effective, and our last resort is just to retire the achievements. We apologize to everyone who made honest attempts at doing these achievements.

NEW MESH CRAFTING + NEW DEFAULT RESOURCES & RECIPES
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We added a new mesh crafting recipe, “Gift Boxes #1”, which can be learned about a the Research Station.

To build it we also opened up some new default recipes on the Paper Press and Tincture Table:

– Fine Cardboard
– Wrapping Paper
– Straw Paper
– Gift Ribbon
– Palm Wax

WIZARD TOWER BACK DOORS
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We added ‘back door’ TP shells to the bases of all the wizard towers. Now if you’d like to craft a wand but don’t want to deal with climbing stairs, you can touch one of these shells (usually somewhere outside the tower by the ground or on a wall) and it will zip you right up to the top:

POCKET ADJUSTMENTS
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To create less confusion (and free up space in packs and chests) we’ve decided to make the pocket stack situation much more uniform. Unless something is money (Copper Coins, Tokens, etc.) or a Stamina Pack (Humanity Pod, Ichor Ember, etc.) then items should have a stack size of 25.

This means that dozens of resources will be more stackable (iron cauldrons, buckets, idols, figureheads, etc.) but also mean that a few resources came down in stack size (Dust, Holiday Cookies and Treats, etc.). We hope that having things a uniform 25 will create less confusion for players and our quest-writers going forward.

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 warmly announce a gacha event for this season! With the exception of a few of the Tank textures, most of these have not been made available before.

We have put out both types of gacha machines this time – one that takes Linden dollars, and one that takes Legends Gold Coins. Reminder: the Legends machine does deliver a paint can, but the textures will not automatically load, you have to choose “Load” in the can menu to load the texture that you won.

There are machines at all 5 of our regions, locations below. This set will be available until midnight of February 28th, 2021 at which time the machines will explode.

Happy gacha-ing!

.:[ Gacha Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines Midland

.:[ Gacha Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines East

.:[ Gacha Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines South

.:[ Gacha Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines North

.:[ Gacha Machines ]:. ~ Bloodlines West

It’s the season of love and what better way to celebrate than to hang out with the people you love the most? Won’t you join us for an evening of great music, rare texture giveaways, and awesome prizes?

Mars promises that he’ll be releasing a new set of Gacha textures as well!

When: Friday, February 12th, 2-5pm SL

Suggested Attire: Burlesque, cabaret, french opera house, Moulin Rouge

Where: Bloodlines West

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