Overview

• Sale Extension to 8.15.2021
• Arena is now live! 
• Levels and Stats integrated into website 
• Changes to activity loot drops and functions 
• Patchnotes

Sale

The summer sale is being extended to 8.15.2021. You can virw and make orders in the sale here, including to the auctions for the three advent dragons! The Midsummer Solstice event will not be extended. We have made the recipe pages cost 2 fragments, and adjusted the MSS shop accordingly. Tarot and Zodiac chests will be obtainable at a later date when the Grand Hunt activity is released.

Arena

The arena activity is now live! You can find it in the prompt lists and the rollers for the arena in the drop down of rollers. With the arena came a variety of items added as well as skills. You can find all these in the changelog. To obtain the new skills you currently need to add them to your dragons with skill tokens. 

On August 1st we will host our first Celestial Season, where everyone who submits arena rolls will get double arena XP! It will last throughout the whole month!

Levels, Stats, and Trackers

We've added an extensions to allows us to have levels and stats tied to accounts and dragons. This means we can track dragon health on the site, and you can see what your dragon's stats are. This also means that the way do Tracking MP/PP is changing. From now on, your MP and PP will calculated automatically when you submit an activity. Primal Points that are for "character sheets" or otherwise non-activity art will need to be submitted as Primal Point prompt and will be totalled that way. 

If you have dragons, or yourself, in need of leveling up to the new system, please submit either a MP or PP prompt and include the information. Please do one prompt per dragon, and for your own account, please see our updated MP calculator and update the counts! We have greatly increased the total of MP you get for playing the game, and have even added bonuses you might not have had before. These MP counts are retroactive, so you will obtain them retroactivley, so update all your counts please! 

We are doing away with the old method of tracking, so you will need to update to get your EXP and levels. You can view these in the levels area of your account for MP (activities drop down -> Level area) or the level area on your dragon (go to dragon profile, level area on the left hand side).

In addition, we are in the process of adding "prestige" ranks for users to level up to, as well as characters!

Changes to loot drops

Activities, and the arena, now give different amounts of loot that drop. Now when you gain loot, free rolls will give you 2-4 items, while "entry" rolls will give you 3-6 items. We've changed the items that give 100% chance pass rates to find rarer items, such as the activity charm or the newt familiar, to be a percent chance. All items now stack, including items that gives you extra items. These items will always give you an extra item, except for the Hoarder skill which is still percent based. 

The Midsummer Solstice event is live! You can find it in the prompts list under activities! 

Refer a Friend is live! We will get this added to the drop downs for activities! 

The Summer sale is live! You'll find a bump notification on the navigation bar! 

All of our advents and our new special starter have been posted as well. Make sure to clear your cache to see updated images!

Overview: 

• June 19th to June 30th Patch Notes 
  • Includes July 1st Release Features.
• New Annual Event  (July 1st Release) 
• Imports Retiring 
• Refer a Friend Event (July 1st)
• Story Event Announcement (Release date TBA) 
• Summer Sale Announcement (July 1st release)
• New Features 
• New Bug Fixes 

Annual Event: Mid Summer Solstice

The Mid Summer Solstice will arrive tomorrow on July 1st and end on August 1st! With it brings:

• Three new prompts to celebrate the summer
• A new currency (Cowrie shells)
• A new event Shop
• 22 New Tarot Card Items 
• 12 New Zodiac Artifact Items 
• 1 new Familiar with 6 variations; The Celestial Feline! 
• 1 New Zodiac Chest
• 1 New Tarot Chest
• 3 new event Recipes
  • Celestial Feline (Grants 1.5x Primal Point bonus to art or literature, so long as the feline is present in the art/literature! Be warned though, crafting this strange feline costs quite a few specific materials and you have to unlock the recipe!)
  • Zodiac Chest 
  • Tarot Chest
  • All event recipes must be unlocked with Event Recipe Fragments turned into pages. 1 page = 1 random recipe you do not have.
• 3 New Raffled Advents, tickets earned by submitting at least prompt to the respective advent. 
• 1 New Ancient Starter carrying Dominant Agouti. 
  • Agouti overrides the base coat in design - if you have an umber base, you still pass umber; but if your Agouti is vanta, your dragon's base coat is picked from vanta sliders! 
  • Like Radiance, if your dragon has Agouti - Azure and Azure gene, you can design as if you had dominant Azure! 
  • Simply put though: Agouti overrides the base coat and the base MUST be the color of the Agouti! 

Mid Summer Solstice Dragons feature 2 of the new backgrounds we commissioned from Banzz! 

Imports Retiring

The Stalker version 1 and Warden version 1 lines will be retired tomorrow, July 1st. Currently submitted designs or genotypes with the old lines are still fine to be submitted - however all new designs submitted will need ot be on the new lines! 

The new Warden lines will be released tomorrow, July 1st! 

Refer a Friend

You can view details about the Refer a Friend here! (May take a moment after the posting of this news post to be filled out!)

This event will run from July 1st to August 1st! 

Story Event Announcement 

Some time after our Annnual Event we will have our next Story event ready! This may take a month or two as we get together materials and work on the event's plot and activities, so the release date is TBA. Keep an eye out though for teasers, including the two new backgrounds found on the new advents!

Summer Sale Announcement

A summer sale has been posted and will be live for comments on July 1st! It will end August 1st and has 3 Advent auctions! 

New Features 

 Various new features have, and are, making their way into the game! 

• Occupations for Dragons and Accounts 
• Shop Features Extension that lets us have coupons, or lock shops behind needing an item (perfect for story events!) 
• Mini Clock Extension 
• Vortex Updates - The Vortex will allow players to replay old events at your liesure. The rewards are not as grand, but still worth the effort and you can earn the old trophies too! 
• Pearl Necklace is now a combat item that increases your magic attack pass rate! 

New Bug Fixes 

A variety of bug fixes were made! You can view many of them in bug reports! 

NEW: Patch notes updated on the forum! 

Our Change log will be posted to the forums during the weekend! Here's a quick recap though!

General News 

• Summer Sale will start July 1st and run until August 1st, we will utilize the Sales section of the site to give it a spin! 
• Dragon of the month readded, check out the forums! 
• The Vortex is a new activity coming to the game, allowing you to play previous events! You won't gain the big rewards from these activities, but you can earn rare loot and the trophies! 
• Ravagers and Stalkers are now on the new size formats. 
• Changes to backgrounds, flights, and level up perks (See change log once posted_

As of July 1st, the Old Stalker Wyvern import will be officially retired and unable to be used. Same goes for the Warden import, with the new warden being completed by then!

We understand some members like the old imports, however they do not reflect the quality of art for our imports we wish to strive for and they will be removed as an option. 

Here's a preciew of the Feathered Warden! 

Apologies for the unexpected downtime of the site - we encountered an user error and had to spend some time fixing it! Everything should be restored. 

If you go to the Dragon's Gifts shop you will find that an extra maintenance package is obtainable! We apologize for any inconvience this may have caused! 

Hello everyone, I have lots to go over in depth in this news post! We've been hard at work with getting things up to date and new features functioning. 

You can read the patch notes here. You will find a variety of bug fixes and enhancements listed here that are not listed elsewhere.

Old World Genotype Uploads

You can now upload your "old world" genos without an image. To do so submit a claim and please only submit 5 per claim! We will work through the log as quickly as possible! 

Crafting

Crafting is here! With it is a lot of changes from our original crafting system - for those who remember. You won't level up in crafting anymore, instead you will need to find the recipes by particpating in daily activities. To access Crafting, select the Activities drop down and select Crafting! You can view all recipes by selecting Recipes on the left hand side. The main page will show you what recipes you have unlocked.

The blueprint, and newt familiar, which previously effected "crafting pass rate" will now effect daily activities. Using them makes it much easier to find the recipe fragments, which you will craft together to make recipe pages. These crafting recipes for Recipe Pages are a free recipe. Recipe pages are considered a "box" that you can open in your hoard. Recipe pages and fragments can be traded between players.

Caving

Caving has been released! Caving is a new daily activity where you can depict your dragons exploring caves and cave like structures. Here you will find precious gems and materials used in many recipes. The Duffel bag has been added to the game, as well as the caving charm. 

Diamond bug familiars now also have a use - they will increase your caving pass chance!

Fishing Update

Fishing has been updated with all new loot tables! It is now in line with the rest of our activites where different items may appear in different regions. 

Daily Activity General Updates

We clened up the loot tables for the daily activity prompts, you can better read these now using spoiler tags! 

In addition, we are releasing a new feature where you can submit Four "Free" Daily activity prompts a month. Once dragon master rank, you can submit a 5th! These free rolls do not require art/lit entries but can still fail, and you cannot use the sinister no fail buff on them. You can however use any of your dragons, and any items you may have otherwise. Submit the prompt as usual, but where it has a link for "entry" put "1/4 Free roll" etc. 

Activity pass chance numbers increased:
Beginner: 65%
Stable Hand: 75%
Dragon Tamer: 85%
Dragon Master: 95%

Design Review Changes

We have started uploading images directly to the site, so now you will do the same in design review. Please still include the stash link in the form for now! Make sure you disable the crop feature and simply reupload the image as the thumbnail. 

Frog eye's "pupil" may now mimix the dragon's eye trait.  

Vignette (nVi/ViVi) renamed to Filigree (nFi/FiFi) - if you own a dragon with this marking, please submit a claim to get the geno/pheno updated!

Pale eyes' pupil are now allowed to be lighter than the iris without being blind but cannot be white. They can still be slightly darker as well.

Import Extras and Effects has been created! The link has also been fixed. This is missing images, but those will come soon! This covers things like eye color, flesh color, etc. We've loosened up a lot of the rules, such as wing membranes, so be sure to give this a look! 

Fourms// Primal and Mastery Point Trackers

Primal Point creation and maintenance guides have been created. You can now begin porting/making your trackers on the forums. https://www.soulsbetween.com/forum/3/~5
Master point creation and maintenance guides have been created. You can now begin porting/making your trackers on the forums. https://www.soulsbetween.com/forum/2/~6
Forum guidelines set up https://www.soulsbetween.com/forum/5/~1
Forum Patchnotes set up (not backlogged, you are here!) https://www.soulsbetween.com/forum/5/~2

Next Updates

We are going to focus on Arena/combat Roller next as well as the TLC of the Wardens. On the side, we are also gearing up for our next world event! 

6 new Backgrounds have been ordered for the game as well! 

Summer Sale Schedule 

We will be hosting our summer Sale on the start of July 1st! We intend to have a few special advents this year as well up for auction in this sale! 

Site Maintenance has concluded! Please refresh your cache as we cleaned up a few stray CSS errors.

•  Forums now have boards you can post to! I am completing the administrative guides currently.
  • We have added many things from dA to the forums including trackers, leasing permissions, etc. Essentially: All of our processes are now on site!
• Galleries are now set up and can be posted to!
  • I have opened all past events for you to submit to - though only submit your artwork/literature! Do not post someone elses' work!
• Reports are live and you can now submit bug reports directly to the site!
• Donation shop is live!
• Dragon's gift shop includes both the new player gift box (Everyone can claim!) and the Maintenance Package gift!
  • New player gift box will give you the beginner award. Staff will be going through and removing the old award system so that we use the current one and not log awards as items, but as awards!

We are still aware of the Text editor having too light of text to make it very hard to see - we are working on a solution to this! 

Hey everyone! I have a few updates for the site as a whole so take a seat and enjoy the patch notes (Which are the best, don't @ me.) 

Lorekeeper Update

We are updating our website on May 26th to get it up to date with Lorekeeper features!  We will make an announcement on the day around 2 hours before the update as well.  Please do not interact with the site during this t ime - such as submitting claims/etc.

We are frighteningly behind on many updates, and this should get us back up to speed with the current stable branch updates! With it comes a lot of cool features like comments, gallery submissions that support both art and literature, bug reports, and many of the extensions we use now as just built in functions of Lorekeeper! 

In addition to  to this update, we are adding in a few extensions we feel the site could use! Below is a list of the changes coming to the site! 

• Comments (
  • On profiles and select pages 
• A credits page which will list every extension built into Lorekeeper + added outside of LK. 
• Gallery submissions
• Forums - we plan to use this for a variety of things such as:
  
  • PP/MP Tracking 
  • A conversation hub for all members both on / off discord 
  • Leasing Dragons 
• Crafting - while installed, I have to sit down and actually fill this in, so while it will be here, it will need some set up! This is on my todo list as high priority! 
• A sales page to notify everyone when a sale is open
• Bug Reports - yo ucan report bugs directly on the site! 
• Birthdays - with privacy so you can select if others can see it or not. 
• A donation shop for players to donate and take from freely. 
• A theme manager so we can have multiple themes to pick from! 
• New character Lineages 
• Custoim profile values for characters

More that I'm probably forgetting, it's a big update! This also fixes a lot of the bugs we have run into, and Draginraptor has even fixed our genotype pages so that they show all our genotype information to include lineage/etc like our designed Dragons have! 

Public Changelog

The following things were added/changed/etc and are on the public changelog: 

• New Admin Account and guide forguide for Adoption Center
  • https://www.soulsbetween.com/user/Adoption_Center
  • https://www.soulsbetween.com/info/_AC
  • Designed dragons can now be donated 
  • Small tweaks to AC Payout to include a bonus for donating vs wild release 
  • Base coat price is calculated differently 
  • Designed dragons gain a bonus of 10 + 5 for every marking on the design. 
• New CSS courtesy of Thundercat ! You will need to clear your cache to view it! 
• New icons on the "home page" that shows your hoard/dragons/etc. 
• Our DeviantArt Group page was finally updated with updated links. 
• Dragon's blood is now set up as a box and will reward rarity vouchers for various traits instead of specific traits.
  • You will be able to sell unwanted trait vouchers to a shop for crystals on may 26th.
  • Dragon's blood vials were removed from the emporium, you can purchase them in claims for 5 Dragon soul coins until the 26th - after that they will need to be crafted or obtained in activities/events. 
  • The dragon's blood roller was removed fro mthe rollers drop down. 
• Aether Restoration prompts have added to the site with their forms. 
• Soul linking and its links fixed on the site, also now include their prompts! 
• Daily activities now have their missing forms! 
• Feather ears changed to "tuft ears" 
• Common coat changed to "Velour Coat" 
• All imports and rollers updated for trait changes - if you notice your dragon has incorrect traits please submit a claim! 
• Nesting slot token to starters added as an item and now a purchasable item from the Emproium using dragon soul coins! The price reflects USD price so no matter if use coins or USD it is the same. 
• Changed awards and meta icons 
• Removed Traveling Bazaar permanently 
• Added Dragon's Gift shop which will allow users to obtain free gifts from the site
• Fixed Dunstripe guide to show stalker duinstripe and not stalker blanket. 
• Fixed error with Greater Emperor range images not showing. 
• All Dragons on the website now have images reuploaded directly - we will no longer be linking imports from dA but instead will have them uploaded directly to the site. 
• All starters now have a  star emojo infront of their display names, with special starters having one at the front and end. Retired starters do not have these emojis. 

I have a few updates to share with the community so buckle up! 

Dragon's Blood Changes

Starting today, Dragon's blood will be changed so that it is rolled by the player as a "box" (Like loot chests or carcasses). You will get a voucher that is labeled a rarity and trait type. I.e. a "common marking blood voucher" or a "mythic eye trait voucher" will be possible from the dragon's blood. This does however mean a few things. 

• Dragon's blood can no longer be purchased from the shops. 
• Dragon's blood will be craftable - but will retain its difficulty. 
• All other places you find the item (quests/loot box/events/etc) it will appear still, including the current ability to buy limited quanities in event shops per account. 
• Old Dragon's blood vouchers prerolled will not be changed to fit this new system. They still are the same, but you can trade them in a claim to earn back the dragon soul coins you used to purchased them. 

In addition to these changes, due to making the item more rare, we are going to make it so you can add more than one voucher per dragon, with limitations. 

• At every rank you can add an extra voucher to a dragon. (4 vouchers in total)
• No more than one rarity of voucher can be added (If you add a mythic eye, you cannot add another mythic trait or marking/etc) 
• Only two vouchers added can be marking vouchers with the same above rule. 

We hope this change eases the system and lets players have a little more agency in "upgrading" their dragons over time! 

Spring Sale

The spring sale ends on the 20th at midnight CST, so make sure you get your orders in! The next seasonal sale won't be until Summer! 

Website updates and Imports

We are behind a good chunk of Lorekeeper updates - so we have to do some house cleaning before we can do our update! We will be starting with our import images which will be uploaded directly onto the site so you will find notifications of your dragons being updated the next few days! It's just us cleaning up the images so they have an uploaded image and not just a link to dA (Which will remain!).  Because we have so many hand made content outside of LK we have to make sure we update properly and preserve our unique content. 

Public Changelog 

• All Eggs now have a random and species specific type option. 
• All marking guides have examples of current dragons added to Guides. 
• Agouti added to color mutation guide list. (Still no guide) 
• Fixed an error where Dusted was listed before Duo - tone in the genetics portal 
• Fixed Cloud (nCd/CdCd) label in the genetics portal (Was set to nCl/ClCl) 
• All color modifier sliders now have melanistic bars. 
• Various adjustments to links around the site
  • Genetics portal made into its own clickable link on nav bar 
  • Bread crumb trail fixes 
  • Site timezone chanfed to CDT (From EDT) 
  • "Official Registered Dragons" -> Official Dragons / My Dragons/Etc 
  • "Official Registered Slots" -> Genotypes 
  • Game and Guides changes to Misc and moved to the right of the nav bar. 
  • Nesting odds, hatchery ods, seasonal sales, and staff applications moved to misc. 
  • Home drop down removes, items in this tab were moved to the "profile" tab. 
  • Placeholder activity guide added to activity drop down. 
  • Claims removed from acitivty drop down. 
  • Design review removed from activity drop down. 
  • Primal and Mastery points moved to Activity 
  • Encyclopedia moved to Masterlist 
  • Shops moved to Activity. 
  • World Expanded moved to Lore
  • Prompts removed from Game and guides. 
  • Trades and Transfers moved to submit menu. 
• Slot Tokens now exist! This item is used to track nesting slots on site. You can read more about the item below. 
  • Item -> https://www.soulsbetween.com/world/items?name=Nesting%20Slot%20Tokens
  • How to write nesting slots -> https://www.soulsbetween.com/info/Nest_perms
• Skill charms and Breath potions now allow you to pick the skill/breath from the parents you want to potential pass down. 
• Nesting submission form updated to include more information for admins. 
• Food shop items now hav e been updated to include an item for every diet. 
  • Dragons who eat their specialized foods will gain more health than eating foods they don't prefer. I.e. A carnivore who eats a Rack of Ribs will gain 100 health, while if a herbivore eats it they will only gain 80 health.
  • All ingredients are considered "petty" food items and give very little health. Other food items rank in quality of Low, Medium, high, and Premium with the amount of health they give scaling up for both preferred and non preferred diet choices.
  • Omnivore species can eat ALL foods and have a specialized Premium food.
  • These items are not currently craftable - but can be purchased for crystals in the food shop. Once crafting has returned, the prices of these items will increase.
  • Petty food items should accuratly reflect their price and rarity details. 
• Healing Shrine prompt created and explains how to heal your dragon with items or art/lit.