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Fathiyya walks up through the forest, looking as she always does: having just finished a recent battle. She looks at you with some mild annoyance; as if you should have already known what she is going to say.
Fathiyya points to the dark forest behind her.
"The magic of this place has become stronger. It beckons new explorers to challenge its denizens." Fathiyya looks at you, debating whether or not you will survive the forest. Either way, it's really no concern of hers. "The Spooky Forest is ready for you."
She turns to walk away, but stops as though she remembered something. She produces a strange item from somewhere out of your sight. She holds it in her hand, holding it up. It appears to be a potato with a ghost costume on. "I found these while exploring, I have heard Rowan call it a 'Bootato'. Perhaps you will have a use for them."
Yes, welcome the new vegetable of the season, the Bootato! Much like the Icicle currency last year, these non-items are the seasonal currency for use in the Seasonal Shop when it opens. These are non-tradable at this point, and will not last beyond the closing of the Seasonal Shop (the date of which will be in a later news post).
Not only will you find Bootatoes in the Spooky Forest, but also some old and new site colorations! New ones will be added over the season, so be sure to keep your eyes open for some new spooky colorations to add to your collection!
Please note however, that the pet and item submissions for this season are still open! You can find them linked below!
Halloween 2018 Item Submissions
Halloween 2018 Pet Submissions - Adventure/Shop
Halloween 2018 Pet Submissions - Cauldron, etc
Halloween 2018 - Clothes!
Deadline: October 15th at 11:59 PM AST for all above threads
As you may have noticed, our Halloween Hub is now findable under the 'Community' Tab! Here you will find links to the Pumpkin Patch and Minerva's Garden which is now open!
The Candy Apple Basket October Premium item is now able to be opened! You will find 5 super delicious apples in here that have a variety of different effects. This basket will magically restock itself every day until the end of October!
This isn't our last update about Halloween or the Spooky Forest. Our usual feature favorites, such as the Cauldron and Lab, will be coming (but not until the closure of the above-listed threads).
Happy Haunting!
Posted by Hiiro
(#755) on Sun Oct 7, 2018 6:03pm
- Hrīm ❄
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Posted on: Mon Oct 8, 2018 4:45pm
Hiiro (#755) I started out not using a clover stone, activated a Platinum License and was gathering pets. This is the first Halloween event I've been on the site for. Once I'd caught everything Very Rare (60) and below, I applied the Clover Stone. Before that, I was not getting the 'Speed' events noticeably, but after activating it, the number of times that I encounter a 70+ creature has remained the same - the only difference is that all the encounters that would have involved a lower rarity creature turned into 'speed' events. Normally, I could activate a Clover Stone and use a Pet Flute, and while I might not find a creature I hadn't already collected, it would be extremely rare to get a 'Speed' event - going by past experience. Now, I have both active, and may encounter one or two creatures during the 'fifty steps' of activation. Rarely, I even encounter as many as five creatures in fifty steps, but I frequently encounter none - only 'Speed' events. Therefor, it is absolutely the Clover Stone and its restriction to rarety 70+ creatures, but those happen to be the creatures I don't have yet - so there's no reason to explore without it, until new creatures are released. Of the fifty Book of Regeneration that I used yesterday to try and collect Legendary Rare creatures, I also noticed a distinct penchant for the same few creatures to show up. I think I managed to collect ten different Legendary creatures, possibly less, out of fifty books.
- Hiiro
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Posted on: Mon Oct 8, 2018 4:52pm
Zinjifrah 🎃 (#78417) Ok, that's what I was suspecting might've been occurring since I basically nerfed the "something speeds past you" event to occur (regardless of Clover Stones/Equips) yesterday. It should've only very very rarely appeared.
I'm passing this on to our coder to fix. Sorry for the wait in the meantime. We've had that issue repeatedly with Clover Stones, I'm not sure why the fixes don't stick. But I'm about ready to punt the Clover Stone into oblivion lol
- Hrīm ❄
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Posted on: Mon Oct 8, 2018 4:57pm
Hiiro (#755) Awesome to know it's being looked into - after all the clicking I did yesterday, my hand could use a break! Thank you. Don't boot the Clover Stone! It's invaluable when it comes to trying to track down those last few extra-rare creatures... still takes perseverance, but I'm down to just seven more HR's I don't have, and 13 LR's... For the first time I actually encountered LR's (2 of them) during standard exploration last night. Or at least, the first time I've realized it happened. Can't wait to see how many Bootatos I've managed to collect! Promised myself I'd go to bed after I got to 100 last night from the time I started counting, but then I kept loosing count around 50...
- Hiiro
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Posted on: Mon Oct 8, 2018 4:59pm
Zinjifrah 🎃 (#78417) Haha don't worry, the Clover Stone won't actually be going away. I just may use it as a pin cushion for causing headaches. Or as my dog's new chew toy. You know to teach it a lesson. XD
It's been handed to a coder so hopefully the fix is rolled out soon.
- LaTiDa
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Posted on: Tue Oct 9, 2018 7:33am
Hiiro (#755)
Aynip does not show all the spooky forest pets, Perridin and Sway are not in the drop down as well as many others so it's not just cloverstone that has an issue there.
- Flaming Catz
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Posted on: Tue Oct 9, 2018 11:02am
Zinjifrah 🎃 (#78417) I find with those speed event if you refresh them enough times they will resolve into a pet eventually. With the clover stone attached I was finding that it can take a dozen or more refreshes instead of one or two but I can always get something with the correct rarity to show up it just takes patience as the stone seems to be converting common finds into speed messages instead of making the rare pets more common. It's a pain but if you refresh enough you can get pets to show up with every step of a pet flute.
LaTiDa (#565) Hiiro (#755) I was having problems finding all the with aynip too. It seems to be set so that only the 2014 pets show up. If you try and summon a pet of the same genus as the 2014 pets only the 2014 ones show up. The genuses not used in 2014 don't even show up as an option in the aynip drop down menu.
- Hiiro
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Posted on: Tue Oct 9, 2018 11:23am
I'm reporting these to the coder as well, since it's something that can't really be fixed through just our ACP. LaTiDa (#565) Flaming Catz (#38339)
- Hrīm ❄
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Posted on: Tue Oct 9, 2018 12:35pm
Flaming Catz (#38339) Yeah, I stumbled on that with the Speed event and refreshing last night... but it was taking me 25-100 refreshes to get a creature to show up, and I'm sure that can't be doing good things for the site load! Besides, when I spend all my time refreshing, I'm not getting any Bootatoes.
I think that issue with Aynip is also effecting the Book of Regeneration - I mentioned it on the previous page, but I hadn't looked closely enough to realize the specifics.
Hiiro (#755) - I've also noticed that there are a few items that don't seem to be dropping in Spooky Forest. I think they're old, so I figured that was deliberate, but I thought I'd mention anyway. It's also possible that I just haven't encountered any of them yet, though I've got quite a few of everything else now: Treasure Keys and Love Letters are obviously probably disabled for there, but Spirit Figure, Broken Lantern, Crow Feather and Spiderweb also haven't turned up for me. I'm just going by the Item Database list of things found in that location! I don't think that's a major issue... I just bought one of each from shops to have, and figured they'd been retired, but I thought I'd mention it.
- Hiiro
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Posted on: Tue Oct 9, 2018 1:07pm
Some items we're also monitoring/holding off because the final uses of things or quantities (for features like Lab) also depends on when we close and finalize all pet submission threads :)
Posted on: Mon Oct 8, 2018 4:15pm
Zinjifrah 🎃 (#78417) I'll look into those issues. Have you tried not using the Clover Stone? And get the same result? I lowered the rate of the "something sped past you" event last night, so it shouldn't still be occuring that frequently. If it still is, it might be a conflict with the Clover Stone.