News and Updates

We’re thrilled to announce the release of new achievements for Angels, Demons, and Humans that support them. There are over two dozen new challenges with multiple levels, each of which can earn you badge icons for your profile, and the envy and esteem of your fellow players!

We’ve made an update to our Rarity calculation as a result of the new achievements. There are certain achievement requirements in order to reach certain soul rarity levels, such as that you need 7 or more achievements at level 5 in order to reach Ultra-rare soul status. Before this update, there were four frenzy and berserk achievements, but now there are eight. Only four frenzy and berserk achievements will continue to count towards the rarity requirement, in order to maintain the same level of difficulty for the rarity levels. So, any four out of the eight total frenzy and berserk achievements will count for rarity.

We made a similar update to The Soul War medal award system. There are medals you can win in soul war for getting certain numbers of achievements to certain levels, such as getting 5 different achievements to level one to get the Wooden Star. Only four out of the eight Frenzy and Berserk Achievements will count towards Soul War Medals. You can still do all eight, and they still count for Soul War Progress and rankings. You just won’t be able to use only Frenzies and Berserks to get the Wooden Star and other medals, you will have to get other achievements as well.

Again, the goal of the above two updates is to maintain the same difficulty level of getting medals and rarity, while just expanding the number of achievements that there are to choose from to get medals and increase rarity.

And finally, this month we’ll be releasing a completely new style of Soul War Rare textures! Details on that are to come, but the gist is that we will be retiring the previous Soul War Rare design and replacing it with a new one. Also, the way in which textures are delivered will change; currently if you win a Soul War category, you get a texture for multiple container designs. Since we’ve added two containers, delivering 5 different versions of the same award texture (especially when not everyone owns every type of container) seems a bit overkill.

Starting on April 1st, if you win a Soul War category you will be delivered just one rare texture, and it will be in the container type of whatever your dominant race is on the 1st. So if you are demon-dominant, you’ll be delivered an Urn Soul War Rare texture for your winning category, if you’re angel-dominant you’ll be delivered a Vessel Soul War Rare texture, and so forth. More details on the new style of Soul War Rare texture will be released soon, so stay tuned to this blog!

For more information on achievements, check the Wikia, or the Achievements Guide pages:

Achievements Wikia Page   Achievements Guide Page

Do you ever have one of those days you feel like you need to get out of here? Like off of this planet out of here? Well come on down to Bloodlines and party extraterrestrial style with us this Friday! Join us for an interstellar evening of music, costume prizes and Rare giveaways!

When: Friday, March 1, 3-6pm

Suggested Attire: Aliens, Spacesuits, Cyberpunk, or anything you’d wear on your next space adventure

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Lord Halostar | Decor: Lilahceleste Belar | Host: Aimee Novaland

Rare Texture: Hosea Whitfield | Event Organizer: Aimee Novaland

We’re happy to announce the release of the Ichor and Ether vials! They work just like our other range of vial products, except of course with these you can use precious ether and ichor metrics to fill them.

***Note: these vials will need to be rezzed on the ground at least once, in order to make them transfer.

You can read more on the Ether Vial and Ichor Vial gear pages. You can buy the Ether Vial at Bloodlines North, and you can buy the Ichor Vial at Bloodlines South.

Happy vial trading!

We are pleased to announce that the Ether and Ichor refill stations are live. They should work just as the other refill stations do, and there are info notecards available at the sites.

Thanks for your patience on these, and stay tuned for more Angel and Demon developments coming soon!

Locations:

New Ether Refill Station ~ Bloodlines North

New Ichor Refill Station ~ Bloodlines South

We’ve just released the Ether and Ichor Siphons! Now you can more easily and quickly transfer large amounts of Ether and Ichor between your Vessels and Urns.

If you’re familiar with our other siphons, we’ve updated these to be easier to use. There are fewer menus to click through, you only need to select ‘siphon’ on the siphon menu, then press the select button on your source container, then press the select button on your receiving container, then select the amount.

You can read more on the Ether Siphon and Ichor Siphon gear pages. You can buy the Ether Siphon at Bloodlines North, and you can buy the Ichor Siphon at Bloodlines South.

 

Attention all Lords and Ladies, the honor of your presence is kindly requested at the occasion of the Bloodlines Event this Friday. There will be bards and minstrels aplenty, who knows maybe a dragon will show up. There will be costume contests and prize giveaways, be there or a pox be upon ye.

When: Friday, February 8th, 4-7 pm

Suggested Attire: Medieval garb, Knights, Dragons, Princes, and Princesses

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: Lord Halostar | Decor: Fawn Madrigal | Host: Aimee Novaland

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.

This Friday we are entering a world of magic and enchantment! This magical wonderland is perfect for acting out all your fairytale dreams. Please bring your best paintbrush and  join us this Friday for a night full of costume contests, rare texture giveaways, and awesome music!

When: Friday, January 18, 4-7pm

Suggested Attire:Alice in Wonderland, decks of cards, mome raths, anything fantastical !

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Syn | Decor: LilahCeleste Belar | Host: Aimee Novaland

Update 1/31/2019: some people have asked for more reasoning for why we’re making this change, here is the explanation:

Many people have trouble with this achievement, we get several support requests every day asking for this achievement to be reset because they failed to log in. Sometimes HUDs don’t connect when people log in, and they have to go through the process in our blog post where they check the website to make sure it counted up. We can’t send a message to people about this every time they wear their HUD without sending a message every time everyone wears their HUD. This way, we can give an explicit update message to people when they touch the well, and they have to take an explicit action to update the achievement, instead of something that people assume happens automatically, but sometimes doesn’t.

Now, instead of the procedure being: look at the website, log in, look at the website again, reattach until it counts up, it’s: go to the sim, click the well, see a fun magic particle effect, and get a message tell you exactly what your status is.

Original post follows:

We’ve made an update to the sims which will affect the Determined achievement. This update should create more reliability with the achievement (for some users who were having difficulties) and add some interactive fun for everyone!

At the center of each main store is a Determined Well. If your avatar is within 10 meters and you touch the well, it will register your Determined point for the day as well as trigger a particle and sound effect. The locations of the wells are below:

• Lycan Woodlands Determined Well
• Mortal Crossroads Determined Well
• Angel Havens Determined Well
• Demon Badlands Determined Well
• Vampire Islands Determined Well

Until February 1st, the Determined achievement points will register the normal way (via HUD check-in) and via touching the Determined Wells. At the end of the month (February 1st, 2019) we will turn off the HUD check-ins and all Determined points will need to be registered via touching the wells.

This update will help make getting the Determined Achievement a bit less mysterious, because after touching one of the wells, you’ll get a message letting you know the exact status of your achievement, and you should no longer need to follow the procedure that we outlined in our previous Determined post here.

Thanks for the great suggestions, and stay tuned for more updates!

It’s the first Bloodlines Event of the year and we are back with a vengeance! We’re ready to dance and party like it’s 1999…. just 20 years too late. Make it your resolution to join us for a night of dancing to a live DJ, best costume contests, and Rare Texture giveaways.

When: Friday, January 4, 2-5 pm

Suggested Attire: New Year’s hats, glasses, whatever you’d wear to a New Year’s Eve celebration!

Where: Bloodlines West

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