Hi everyone! Sorry about how quiet it's been lately. Custom content and mercats are under active development and they're both pretty large projects. While this update was mostly back-end, there are a few front-end changes and bug fixes!

Snowmelt Preparation!

- The odds of encountering special chests in adventuring during Leaf Day and Snowmelt have been doubled.

- The odds of receiving a soft-retired item during Snowmelt and Leaf Day have been tentatively set at 1:500. I suspect this is going to be much too rare and that it will need to come down, but it's hard to predict how much people are going to be grinding for stuff until the week starts. The exact number will very likely be adjusted throughout the week.

- Snowmelt card notifications will now merge together at the top of the page like expired listings, rather than sending an individual notification for every one.

- You will be able to view your send-history for Snowmelt Cards


Status of Custom Content

Custom content is coming along quickly! My goal is to get the whole system up and running by early January. When custom content launches, essence fragments will not be purchaseable with USD, but they will be purchaseable not too much later.

- Currently the queue and submission system is 100% complete and the Artisan's Market itself is around 10% complete.

- I have implemented custom buildings, so you don't need to split your decor into pieces anymore. The submission cost will be 50 essence fragments and you'll get the whole 400x400 space to work with!


Status of Mercats

Mercats will release with the end of beta and a big launch party. I don't have a date for this yet, but it will be the next thing to appear after custom content.

- Mercat base art (colors, patterns, lineart, white markings, etc.) is 100% complete

- Mercat clothing is around 10-15% complete, but is going quickly


Miscellaneous Updates

- You can now use the item's full name in bbcode or the ID. Your choice! Example:




- Inventory and Safekeeping now have the start to a very simple search function

- Cat decoration, scene decoration, and trinket addition have been moved to the new search-box system

- You can now put 12 clothing items on each cat, 10 cats in each scene, and 40 decor in each scene

- The auto-sort buttons now have a confirmation window


Bug Fixes

- Fixed bug where categories didn't work on trade response page

- Fixed bug where back arrows were going the wrong spot in snowmelt card area

- Fixed bug where windy weather conditions were displaying as partly cloudy, this existed on the weather rollover itself so it will take 5-6 days to show the changes


Art Fixes

You may need to clear your cache to see the changes:

- Fixed applied to Bark Pendants and Swords (Original items were not adjusted to properly fit longhair poses)

Yay! Thank you!!

nice!

Yay!!!!

yay!! super excited for mercats

THANK YOU SQUID!! So excited for the new changes and status update on Mercats!!


Edit: And the new silly under Market and Trades

POGGERS

Thank you! This is very good news!

Yay! Awesome, very excited for everything (especially mercats~)

THANKS SO MUCH!!! i’ve been really needing a search function for my inventory :D and I’m excited about the progress on the bigger projects too