Mukombero Storyline Update

We've been working on the Mukombero storyline for the past few months. We're 80% done with the art and coding, and will move to the testing stage very soon. There isn't a specific day in mind, but the storyline will most likely launch towards the end of March, and you will be able to take the storyline until the end of April. Thankfully, the storyline doesn't need to launch in March this year as it has dedicated encounters. In future years, the storyline will be available to take every March, just like how the Journey to Vredefort Crater is available every July - with a twist!

We have noticed after years that Vredefort's story payout is less exciting to some players. For the Mukombero storyline, we've taken the time to prepare a different payout system: storyline currency. You will be able to purchase applicators or items that you unlock by completing specific storylines, and you will be able to repeat some of these annually. If you do not wish to purchase storyline items again, you can save your currency for a future storyline, although you will still have to complete it in order to unlock the items.

The Mukombero storyline has two moral choices about halfway through that have different outcomes, and each of them result in you unlocking unique items.

We'll be posting a dedicated news post about the storyline when it's ready to launch!

(There are no "500 den visits" anymore - we've got you!)

New Oasis Decor

A new aging decor has been added to the Oasis! Like the Aging Injured Persian Fallow Deer, this one is also exclusive to March's event, and will be available annually from March 1st 12am Lioden time to March 31st 11:59pm Lioden time.

Aging Ethiopian Wolf

New Gorilla Enclave Set

Looks like the gorillas brought fauna and flora to your lions from a new part of the world - Singapore!

[GE - Singapore] Bukit Timah	[GE - Singapore] Pheasant-Tailed Jacana	[GE - Singapore] Oriental Darter	[GE - Singapore] Estuarine Crocodile	[GE - Singapore] Reticulated Python
[GE - Singapore] Lesser Mouse-Deer	[GE - Singapore] Singapore Orchid

New Glam Boutique Items

We have a GORGEOUUUSSSS new fairy wings design, and our artist prepared some beautiful colour variations! You can find these within the Glam Boutique, in exchange for your Glam Garnets!

Fairy Wings - Iridescent [Top]	Fairy Wings - Iridescent [Bottom]	Fairy Wings - Sunset [Top]	Fairy Wings - Sunset [Bottom]	Fairy Wings - Crimson [Top]
Fairy Wings - Crimson [Bottom]	Fairy Wings - Ice [Top]	Fairy Wings - Ice [Bottom]	Fairy Wings - Moss [Top]	Fairy Wings - Moss [Bottom]
Fairy Wings - Nyx [Top]	Fairy Wings - Nyx [Bottom]	Fairy Wings - Pink [Top]	Fairy Wings - Pink [Bottom]

New Serengeti Shuffle Rewards

We're shuffling in some new Madagascan fauna and flora into Serengeti Shuffle!

Giant Leaf-Tailed Gecko	Gold Dust Day Gecko	Madagascar Jasmine	Madagascar Poison Frog	Nelicourvi Weaver
Yellow-Bellied Sunbird-Asity

New Common and Custom Markings

Common

A new recolour of Under 1-8 has been implemented today: Bone! You can find these markings on NCLs in explore, and through customising in the Oasis.
* Under Bone 1
* Under Bone 2
* Under Bone 3
* Under Bone 4
* Under Bone 5
* Under Bone 6
* Under Bone 7
* Under Bone 8

Thank you for your suggestions, grassman 🌱 | albino (#282830) and ❄️ Icey ❄️ (#44765)!

Custom

Two new custom marking shapes have been implemented today!

Tint is a brand new full body marking shape that is meant to add a colour overlay to lions. It's a solid layer of colour that covers the entire lion base at a very low opacity.
* Algae Tint
* Blue Tint
* Cimmerian Tint
* Coral Tint
* Gold Tint
* Heather Tint
* Noctis Tint
* Red Tint
* Spice Tint
* Tangor Tint
* White Tint

Thank you, Verridith [g1 stellar/panda] (#407), for your suggestion!

Badger Face is a brand new marking shape that adds cute badger stripes to your lion's face!
* Black Badger Face
* Cimmerian Badger Face
* Dark Brown Badger Face
* Henna Badger Face
* Noctis Badger Face
* Onyx Badger Face
* Seal Badger Face
* Spice Badger Face

Thank you, TrollBerserker[PFM] ⚡ (#110675), for your suggestion!

New Raffle Markings

All of the markings below are released through weekly raffle lionesses and weekly raffle studs. They are introduced as Tier 5 in order to prevent them from being applied early via RMAs/RMRs/Total Shuffles until the raffle lioness with the first marking has a winner chosen. Once the winner of the raffle lioness is chosen, the marking is then set to Tier 2, and will appear on the following week's raffle stud in a new slot!

The community voted for these as the final Feline 1-10 marking recolours, and we decided to add in one additional colour for some variety.

* Feline 1-10 Cassis
* Feline 1-10 Cimmerian
* Feline 1-10 Rhubarb
* Feline 1-10 Senegal

New Feature: Raffle Studs!

Once per week, you can spend 20 SB to enter for a chance to win a breeding with a raffle stud! The studs will contain a similar spread of traits as raffle lionesses, although raffle lionesses will still have priority on new traits being released.

* Tickets cost 20 SB and can only be purchased once per account per week.
* You can only enter if you are a Dreamboat - same as with the weekly raffle lionesses.
* 50 winners will be pulled every week.
* If you win, you will receive a game notification with a link to breed to the stud in question.
* Winners get a single breeding to that week's stud, with any eligible lioness that is in heat on their account.
* The winners will get 7 days to complete the breeding from the date of the winners being pulled. This counts down by real life days, not rollovers!
* Breeding to a raffle stud bypasses your lioness's fertility. Breedings will be successful on the first attempt.
* All litters produced from a raffle stud will contain 4 cubs (8 cubs, in the case of Double Uterus lionesses). This is to make up for breeding items not being able to be used on raffle studs.
* Breeding items can still be successfully used on lionesses that are bred to raffle studs. This does include Cotton Root Barks, so be careful you don't CRB a raffle stud litter!
* Unlike raffle lionesses, there isn't a cooldown on winning. If you win a breeding with a raffle stud, you can enter the following week's raffle stud as well.
* Raffle studs come with randomly-generated names.
* All raffle studs have Fatherly (Kind) personalities, to mirror all raffle lionesses having Nurturing (Good) personalities.

The page to enter can currently be accessed via the Special Lioness link in Crossroads, or via the Special Lioness link on the News page in its own page tab called "Raffle Stud"!

In terms of designs, you can expect them to be somewhat similar to August's event studs. This means that raffle studs can come with a variety of traits, but the focus will be on breed-only/raffle traits. You won't find applicable bases or mutations on raffle studs, but you may see common, custom, event, RMA, and applicable eyes, mane colours, mane shapes, markings, and skins. Raffle studs may resemble the previous week's raffle lioness, or be completely different and unique—this is a new feature for everyone, including us, and we'll be testing things out for a while until we get comfortable! Just like with raffle lionesses, however, raffle studs will only have markings in slots 1-10.

As mentioned above, raffle lionesses will still be the first ones to receive brand new raffle-tier traits (bases, eyes, markings, etc.), but these traits will then be released on the following week's raffle stud. For example, if a raffle lioness is released with a brand new marking on Friday March 14th, that new marking will then be put onto the raffle stud released on Friday March 21st, but within a different marking slot. We will be releasing traits that are requested on the Raffle Lion Attribute Requests topic through raffle studs as well, so even if there are no new traits to release, we'll still focus on nonexistent marking slots and rare/hard-to-find traits!

Small Quality of Life Updates

* Daily Rollover Summaries and user logs now include the bases your cubs are born with.
* Edit: This was an error and bases should not have been displayed in Daily Rollover Summaries, only in user logs. This has been fixed!

* User logs now include the bases of your cubs, as well as the sexes of your cubs when they are birthed via Instant Cub Delivery. They also indicate whether an Instant Cub Delivery has been used.

* The "Nursing Cubs" table on lioness pages now show the sexes of the cubs your lionesses are nursing, as well as direct links and names to the father(s) of the cubs.

* When managing offers on your trades, the "Accept This Offer" button will automatically be disabled if you enter text in the Optional Rejection Message field. Clearing this text will re-enable the button. This should hopefully help prevent inadvertently accepting an offer instead of rejecting it! Thank you, Terrinthia [G1] (#97101), for your suggestion!

* You can now remove offers on trades directly from the Manage Trades page. This is useful for players that were blocked prior to this update while having pending trade offers. Previously these would be stuck in limbo until the trade owner either rejected them or the trade was canceled or completed.

Art Bug Fixes

* All Foreshadow marking files have been fixed to have tail tips for Adult Female Jolly
* All Pelage marking files have been fixed to remove colour bleed for Adult Female Default
* All Siamese marking files have had the tail tip softened for Adult Female Default
* Fixed Cabochon Pelage for Mane Succubus
* Fixed Epicene eyes file missing for Adult Male Default and Adult Male Ennedi Vossoko
* Fixed missing mane lineart for Teen Male Polycaudal
* Heads Up: We've started working on unifying the Supernal base design with a more modern work template, so the colour and pattern won't differ so much between mutations and poses anymore. This may end up changing the look of some lions, albeit very slightly. We'll let you know in a future news post once it's live!
* Fixed multiple issues with the Nether base:
— The head has been darkened on Adult Female Neutral.
— Bellies have been fixed on Adult Female Jolly and Nesting to match other poses, and more texture has been added.
— The chest spot on Adult Female Neutral has been gently adjusted to be more intense so it goes through the lineart shading a bit more.

Unfortunately, some things could not be adjusted, and we'd like to provide some feedback in response to concerns with the base:
* "The hip on kind/neutral seems quite light compared to the other poses like a different shade of black was used. Also noticeable on the tail."
— The actual dark colour hue doesn't change, it's just affected by the lineart's shading and highlights. It's not possible to fix this with the current lineart.
* "Chest spot/chin spot intensity, on some, it is more solid and on others, it is more blended, it varies quite a bit, especially on the chins in the default female poses."
— This has been slightly adjusted for Adult Female Neutral, but this is the same issue as above with the lineart shading and highlights.
* "Jaglion base has crisper, darker colours that work better, and the grey is better blended in [this could be down to the lineart itself, older poses are covered in whiter highlights that may make darker bases appear more greyed]"
— This is the same issue as above with older linearts. The lineart on more modern stages affects Nether's colours much less.

Coding Bug Fixes

* Patrol After last week's Patrol update, stat & item gains were not being properly recorded on lion pages. This has been fixed and the missing gains have been retroactively updated to display properly.
* Patrol Selecting an heir that is patrolling will no longer break your patrol page, and will automatically clear upon visiting the patrol.
* Patrol The "Crossroads" breadcrumb on the main Patrol page is no longer broken.
* Portraits Some posed mutations were causing female lion images (or Lab Test Frog'd kings) to not display decor correctly.
* Portraits Lion images are no longer completely invisible in older browsers (e.g., pre Firefox 89).
* Portraits Other issues affecting lion images being stretched, clipped, or displaying as white in battles have been fixed. If you come across any still broken, please report them to the Bug Board with a link to the page!
* Portraits Custom Decors on Primal (Ennedi Vossoko) were not exactly aligned when viewed on den pages.
* Wardrobe Mane markings will now properly clear out when switching to a non-mane marking (either through randomising or manually replacing a mane marking in the selector).
* Wardrobe Importing an adolescent aged exactly 12 will no longer import them as a cub.
* Wardrobe Removing an extra marking or decor slot will now clear the selection as expected.
* Several explore encounters that gave ambiguous karma results have been updated to show that they give positive (+) karma.
* Lion names using special characters will no longer cut off when moved to the Dynasty.
* When previewing custom decors, all unlocked marking slots will now be displayed rather than only the standard 10.
* Blocking a player will now automatically cancel any trade offers on trades owned by the blocked player as well as any trade offers on your own trades made by the blocked player.
* As mentioned in the Quality of Life section above, you can now remove offers on trades that were stuck due to being blocked via the Manage Trades page.
* Using Przewalski Coat will now show available marking slots on your chosen lion as expected.
* Attempting to impress the raffle stud when the feature was first released would give you an error if you had less than 50 SB on hand. This was corrected to match the actual fee of 20 SB.
* Raffle stud backgrounds should no longer disappear at random.
* Battle beetles that are up for trade or in a trade offer will no longer appear in the Battling dropdown.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

* Adjusted the item description for Honeybush Flowers.
* Disabled the Augrabies Falls, Busanga Flood, Livingstone Falls, Lorian Swamp, and Saloum Delta backgrounds from being able to be sold to Monkey Business.
* Enabled the crafting recipe for Murex Legwraps: Siratus Alabaster.
* Fancy Mouse [White Self Astrex] is no longer categorised as a craftable item as it is not currently used in any crafting recipes.
* Fixed the item names for several Pride-themed decors to be consistent - Lion Pride Accent [Pink and Purple] was renamed to Lion Pride Accent [Pink and Orange], all instances of [Pink and Purple] have been changed to [Blue and Purple], and all instances of [Blue and Pink] have been changed to [Light Blue and Pink].
* Renamed Herb: Honey Bush to Herb: Honeybush and Honey Bush Crown to Honeybush Crown.

New Raffle Lioness

Congrats to the winner of last week's raffle lioness!
A new Frost lady with Phase eyes, Feline 1 Cimmerian (NEW!), Whisper Crumbing (NEW!), Whisper Panther (NEW!), and the tenth Wan Caza Dunes background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

Marking Note: Lilac Ocelot is now possible to apply via RMA/RMR/Total Shuffle!

New Raffle Stud

Our first raffle stud is here! A Flint stud with Feline 10 Lilac and Lilac Ocelot is up for impressing in the Raffle Stud area linked here!

Tags

Shad has added 17 new tags this month in the Breeding, Event ➜ February, Event ➜ March, Miscellaneous ➜ Landscapes, Miscellaneous ➜ Lions, and Miscellaneous ➜ NPCs categories!

Poll Results

Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! "Explore drops" and "trash" were the highest-rated options for us to focus on for crafting updates. We'll keep these in mind!

NEW POLL - May Event: Would you like to see groupie-exclusive markings cut out from groupie bases (e.g. Wine Margay - similar to July/August markings) instead of a new groupie base this year? Let us know in this week's poll!

Next Update: Community Update - March 21st!
Next Development Update: April 11th!!



Where's the official raffle and Friday comic?
Community raffles and Friday doodles are only released on community updates. This is a development update, so no raffle or doodle will be released this week, sorry!