Important Note: Leaf Day activities will become available at midnight.
This update was posted early (before the start of the event) as I do not typically stay up that late.
Special Leaf Day Item Drops
Special Leaf Day-exclusive vegetable and starball resources, clothing, decor, and snacks are dropping for this week in Gathering, Daily Scenarios, Adventuring, Starball, and the Post Office. These items will return every year.
NEW Starball Clothing
Returning Items
Leaf Day Stamp Mini-Currency
Get Leaf Day Stamps through your dailies, or by playing the Starball mini-game. Leaf Day Stamps can be redeemed for resources, collectables, and snacks at the Leaf Day Harvest Market.
Coloring Contest Winners
Thank you to everyone who colored leafducks - we loved looking at and admiring all of them! Congratulations to the 16 winners!
@Loki (Terrarium Pilot Leafduck)
@smores (Get your Leafducks in a Row)
@wyrm (Pigeon Leafduck)
@holohero (Lavender Lemonade Leafduck)
@Circus (Speedy Racer Leafduck)
@zir (Blobject Leafduck)
@cometcats (Sand Art Leafduck)
@borpman (Fizzy Leafduck)
@moonatomizer (Fairy's Pet Leafduck)
@TVtheTV (Harmonic Leafduck)
@seventeendeer (Growth Serum Leafduck)
@Tin (Strawberry Milk Leafduck)
@MarshSiren (Overcast Leafduck)
@spaghettidoodle (Pawcorn Bucket Leafduck)
@minim (Librarian's Leafduck)
@Veil (Dollhouse Leafduck)
Since choosing is so hard, we did choose an additional 12 "honorable mentions." We'll be sending a small number of essence fragments over to these users as a bonus treat! Special shoutout to these users!
@Sharada (Lovebird leafduck)
@skysplash8 (Misty Leafduck)
@Bluebell (Weather Leafduck)
@beankibble (Mandarin Leafduck)
@silt (Whistling Leafduck)
@Kishinyu (Apricot Leafduck)
@shrimp (White-tail Leafduck)
@FiveApples (Bumbling Leafduck)
@Hweatus (Postal Leafduck)
@Kieren (Lovely Leafduck)
@rio (Arcade Leafduck)
@Nautilus (Pixel Leafduck's End)
All of the users above will get a PM from me tomorrow (April 21st) with information about prizes.
Note: The leafducks will be soft retired after this week.
Soft-Retired Leafhogs
The Leafhogs from the First Leaf Day will be returning this week with very, very low odds (you may or may not get one). These odds have been set at 1:400 for most drops. (They are much more rare for starball since people starball so much).
Leaf Day-Themed Dailies
For this week only, many activities will have special flavortext and events.
- All cats have a 50% chance of bringing a Leaf Day item home during their day job. Additionally, the Garden-Group (Gardener, Herbalist, Farmer, & Garden Helper) day jobs will yield a
x3 resource multiplier when returning items.
- There are 20 Leaf Day-exclusive social scenarios which drop Leaf Day items.
- There are Leaf Day-themed letters at the post office and users are guaranteed to get at least one Leaf Day-themed letter a day.
- A crate event has been added to adventuring where Leaf Day items are dropping.
Event Hub Activities
There are two activities over at the
Event Hub. Make sure to check them out!
Starball Mini-Game
Play a little game of starball with four of your cats to win lots of Leaf Day stamps and other items! Traveling Cats will participate too!
Starball uses the same animation and text settings as adventuring and costs 8 snack points to play (as it makes the cats very hungry!)
More information on how to play Starball is available in the
Starball Tutorial!
Leaf Day Harvest Market
RNG not cooperating? You can purchase all of the Leaf Day-exclusive items at the Leaf Day Harvest Market. Clothing and decor are available for notes. Resources, snacks, and collectables are available exclusively for Leaf Day Stamps.
Leaf Day Harvest Market Exclusives
Pinecone and kittens have been baking all kinds of tasty treats in preparation for today. If you have extra Leaf Day stamps from playing way too much starball, you can get some tasty new decor for 16 stamps each. These will return every year as a shop-exclusive item:
Thank you???!????
Thank you so very much to those who have supported the site in the last couple of weeks. The volume of support has far surpassed my expectations and I'm so very appreciative of all of you.
I hope you all have been enjoying your time on this silly little not-cat not-game and I am so excited to bring new exciting things to the world of Not-Earth in the future!
Custom Decor Print Cost
I will very soon be decreasing the cost of printing custom decor items from 25 Essence Fragments to 15 Essence Fragments. This will be taking place tomorrow morning (April 21st).
Decor items are much, much quicker and easier to review than clothing is - and they just aren't as popular as the clothing items, especially at this price point. My hope is that by lowering the cost, more people will be interested in making custom decor for their scenes.
If you have a custom decor item in the queue now or you have printed or sold a decor item in the past, you will be refunded the difference! 10 EF will be added to your account for each sale and submission up to the time of the change.
After Leaf Day
We are so, so close to the end of beta now. No date yet for the event/party but things really are starting to wind down. I'd still like to migrate the forums before the end, but otherwise I am primarily working on finishing up mercats and prepping the launch event!
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where users were getting soft-locked when doing nothing in battle after the update
- Fixed issue where tool dice weren't working after update
- Fixed issue where kick was still animating when animations were off
- Moved the new auto-focus behavior to a toggle
- Stripped a number of extra pauses and delays out of adventuring animations
- Moved alt text for Cat BBCode to the updated alt text
- Moved alt text for offspring in the Beans Sandbox to the updated alt text
- Beans from Nestor placed into litters with shared parents were not appropriate flagging as littermates and instead were flagged as not-littermates. Not-littermates is reserved for beans that are not in the same immediate family. The problem has been fixed and all relevant relationships have now been updated accordingly. If two not-littermates were siblings, they should have been littermates from the start.
- Art fix: catmint garland (removed stray pixels extending into the pose below)
- Art fix: leaf cloaks (cloak on longhair adults clipped over the fluff)
- Using sprint to pick up a chest now appropriately displays confirmation text when animations are off
- Some starball bugs were cleaned up as it was moved to the new system adventuring is on