Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
missbballer
Debowski
Carlyy95
missbballer
bellcatsmeow

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Luck of the Draw - Available at the House of Luck in Badgeria!

I appreciate all who joined in to try to help the Aliens Spike and Poof get home! AS this was the first Event of this kind, I did I know it wasnt perfect and it had issues! I would definately appreciate if you told me what you thought so I can take this input to make the events better in the future <3

In other news we are now in the season of love! When you log in you will get ingredients for Valentines which you can then send to other users!

Craft supplies + Crayon Box + Lovely envelope + Construction paper = Valentine


You can find the ability to send valentines on a users profile ^^
So please have fun sharing love with your fellow atrocitians!

We are still working on things I promise! I know this is a short news post but I prpmise more things are being worked on and I will have more to update with soon <3

~Till next time my darlings!

February Monthly Items CWP Shop Dye Heartflow Dye Heartfelt Fill Dye Heartfelt Postal Service Postcard Vintage (Sparra) Postcard Stamp Vintage Desert (Sparra) Postcard Stamp Wajaw (Sparra) Postcard Beach (Sparra) Postcard Mountains (Sparra) Postcard Desert (Sparra) Postcard Classic (Sparra) Postcard Sunflowers (Sparra) Postcard Poppies (Sparra) Stamp Cancel Waves (Sparra) Stamp Cancel Circle (Sparra) Stamp Sunflower (Sparra) Stamp Poppy (Sparra) Stamp Butterflies (Sparra) Stamp Rosy Maple Moth (Sparra) Stamp Apollo Feather (Sparra) Stamp Artemis Feather (Sparra) Wallpaper Shop Foggy Road Vintage Wallpaper (Sparra) Foggy Road Vintage Flipped Wallpaper (Sparra) Joshua Tree Desert Sep

Last week's round of What Am I has ended.

The item description was: SSSFTWOMGLOLWTBBQ?
The answer was: Snowflake Shaped Shuriken.

6 out of 6 Ichuans answered correctly.

A new round of What Am I has started. Good luck!

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: HappyHollow2016


If you want to have a chance to win next week, make sure to keep your Snapz! updated and current for the season.

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 7668

There were NO winners.

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Mega Money Madness under the GAMES icon.

A celebration is in order...
Nearly 500 food items have been made wearable!

The foods in question are the Non-Festival foods available in our shops. (Burritos, nanners, herrings, cans, drinks, and more!)

To celebrate I am holding a contest with some juicy prizes, including an Opal Orb as the grand prize!



Click the link below to check it out! I look forward to seeing your creative food entries!

[ Flourish and Feast - Food Display Competition! ]

Enjoy!

The votes have been tallied, and it's time to announce the winners of Member of the Month (MOTM for short)! For this month's Yet to Win MOTM, everyone congratulate...

@chu2

Thank you for making IcePets a better place!



Next up, the winner of the Free for All MOTM, please congratulate...

@Cibola

Thank you for your continuing contributions to our community!



Both of these fantastic members will receive 100,000 IcePoints and either the exclusive Member of the Month Avatar, or, if they already have it, the Honoured Member Trophy.









While member votes were tallying for MOTM, Staff votes tallied for SOTM, and this month's winner is...

@Nexinhah

To acknowledge their contributions to the team, we've created the following Item in their honour! You can get this Item once a day by visiting the Staff Page every day this month.


Evil Flokie





As we move into February, new Items can be found in the I.C.E Shop for the duration of the month! Head on over to pick up the new Red Snow Jar Figurine and Bottled Candle Stamp, along with the returning Struf Your Stuff. Each of these is priced at 500 IceCash (or 450 IceCash for Gold Members)!



Low on IceCash? Don't fret -- we have something for you as well! Consider stopping by the Toy Trunk for the Basics Trading Card! It'll also be rewarded by the Plushie Quest, and a week from now, the Space Quest will begin requesting it. We're also rolling out the new After the Igloo! You can find it at the Ralph's Page Turners. You can get it as a reward from the Weapons Quest, and a week from now, the Book Quest will be asking for it.

Featured Lythian This month's Featured Lythian is...

Zola - 990 Owned by: Breebee
Congratulations!

Gifting Gacha Increased Rates Items with increased rates in this month's Gifting Gacha are:

Old Coin

Assorted Seeds

Harb

Heart Glasses

Tiny Feather

Gold FAKER

New Monthly Contest A new monthly contest has begun. You can read more on the Monthly Contest: Visual Art page!

Congratulations to the winner of last month's Monthly Contest!
"Snow whipped around, Cyren's scarf clinging to her neck for dear life, secure enough in its position but ends fluttering in the wind as though it was attempting to escape. She would usually morph into something like a Kikitsu in these temperatures, something with fur at the least. But something took priority over the biting cold. An ice sculpture. She'd been fiddling about with temperature magic. And she could already manipulate water a bit. Why not? And what better subject than someone who she knew the look of very well, whose appearance could constantly be checked and re-checked in..."
Read more
Submission by: XxSTARL1GHTxX

A brand new month has arrived, which means we also have a new Premium Gift!




This Premium Gift is available until the end of the month for all upgraded users. Head to your Index Control Panel to accept this month's gift whenever you are ready! Don't forget to open it and see what is inside. :)


Not yet Premium? CLICK HERE for more details, or head to the TE Items Shop to buy an upgrade item! Enjoy!

This month features some amazing limited items.



Get tickets for the Vending Machine from the Cash Shop and try your luck!

Every week, we will be selecting a random pet's blog from the Pet Zone. Only up-to-date blogs will apply for this.

This week, the award goes to Jadis, who just became a mama and loves her babies.(read the blog to find out more)
For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner troublemaker22 a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zone and ADD/keep UPDATED BLOGS to your pet images, so you have a chance to win!

Who knows, they might win the next weekly Pet Zone contest.

Here are your new mayors for February!


Labrador City - SkyAllStars
Kuvasz City - -CL-
Pony City - No Mayor
Collie City - RainbowGlass
Sheepdog City - Carlyy95
Dolphin City - RedMist
Wolfox City - jandjmom
Eagle City - fifercats
Gecko City - No Mayor
Polar City - No Mayor
Somali City - RoseC

New ARPG Submission Formatting

We have completely revamped the ARPG submission page with an all new format! This new format will now allow you to readily add titles, descriptions, and tags to your pieces right as you upload them, instead of after approval! Furthermore, this new system has some very important backend changes that will make it much easier to implement certain features reliant on art in the future.

Please note: the URL associated with the ARPG submission form has been updated as well. As of now, the old URL will redirect to the new page, but we recommend updating bookmarks to the new URL as needed.

Additionally, alongside some backend changes, the following updates to Realm Familiarity and Origin Story quests have been implemented:
- Realm Familiarity quests may now have background characters tagged on submission. The Lythian listed in the first tagged slot will be the one who receives quest completion credit.
- Origin Story quests may now only be completed for one character at a time. As with Realm Familiarity quests, background characters can still be featured and tagged on submission. The Lythian listed in the first tagged slot will be the one who receives quest completion credit.

Finally, you are now able to tag companions and NPCs in your pieces, now making it all the easier to keep track of who is in your art! Companions and NPCs cannot earn things like badges or experience, but the ability to tag them pairs with the next following change.

Art Galleries for Companions and NPCs

Companions and NPCs now have their own on-site index galleries! When tagged in a piece, it will now show up on their pages, much like on a Lythian's index entry. You may also go back and tag previously submitted pieces with NPCs and companions!

Note: NPCs will always visibly display all submissions they are tagged in, regardless of other visibility settings.

Removal of "Commissioner/Artist Cut"

Due to a multitude of factors, such as the updated implementation of realm familiarity experience and attempts to streamline manual tasks, we have decided to remove the Commissioner/Artist cut previously applied to commissioned works. Going forward, all art will solely give currency to the person who submits the piece! This additionally means that experience will always be in full to the featured Lythian(s).

Moving forward, distribution of currency earned by submissions should be discussed between users involved in the commission exchange, and we will not be intervening unless given proof of an individual not carrying through with deals (ie, promising Loonoles from a piece but not following through on it, which would be considered scamming).

Lost Bells Prize Expansion

The plushie and frame tier prizes (Bell Plushie and Arcade Frame) have been added to Lost Bells. Additionally, the score requirement for the Chime Fish Sticker prize has been slightly lowered to accomodate the new prize tiers.

There is no version update associated with this; Lost Bells v.1.4.0.0 remains current.

Spring Events

Our next event is scheduled for March this year. Some recurring event features that happen February, such as Cupid's Helpers, are also scheduled to happen alongside the March event, and will not be ocurring in February. Thank you for your understanding and we hope you enjoy February's upcoming updates!

Known Issues

There is a known issue after this update wherein some pages of the art gallery load exceptionally slowly. This is our top priority to fix as quickly as possible.
 - UPDATE: This should be noticeably improved.

Reminder regarding site contests Before we dive into the winners and end credits for the FoF, we'd like to remind all of our users who participate in any of our site contests that you need to read the rules of the contest. Not just skim them, really read them. In particular, you should be keeping in mind the following rules (these rules carry over to all site contests, so reading and understanding them will really benefit you). "Entries must relate to Wajas in some way, you may explain how when you post your entry." You don't have to be an artist, you don't have to draw a Waja, you can do something as loose as a color scheme that follows a specific Waja (and explain that's what it is / who it follows), or even around an item we have on site. Either way, it is mandatory all entries relate back to Wajas in some way. Going forward, any entries that don't clearly relate to Wajas will not be eligible for any prizes, including the participation prize, without notice .