Flight Rising's eighth year in operation starts with blast¢or in this case, some blasting powder¢as the dragons of Sornieth flock to assist Velya and the Dragonhome Preservation Guild wind their way through ancient caverns just recently unearthed...

Eight Years? Eight Years?!

It's hard to believe another year has gone by, but our eighth anniversary celebration is upon us. Flight Rising is as strong as ever, with a whole ton more in store. We can't thank you enough for all the stories and laughter and artwork and creativity you've shared with us. Here's to a great eight!

Let's take a trip down memory lane and reflect back on some of the cool stuff that expanded Flight Rising last year:

• We launched the Silhouette Scroll, which applies a permanent toggle to a dragon that allows it to change its pose to the other artwork available for its breed.
• At long last, the Hoard and Vault were revamped, adding many new functions and increased usability.
• Our newest ancient breed, the tiny tricksters of Shadow, the Veilspun, came out of hiding.
• The World Map Revamp was launched, improving and expanding the world of Sornieth with rich, animated artwork and brand new locations to discover.
• The revamped Marketplace was deployed, bringing us ever closer towards our goal of refactoring the Flight Rising codebase and improving features in the process.
• After feedback from the Flight Rising community, we made adjustments to the Eye Type system, allowing natural eye types to be acquirable both randomly via breeding, and also as eye vials in the Marketplace.
• Boreal Wood turkeys changed their migration pattern and now appear year-round in the Coliseum.
• We had a great time with another Item Caption Contest.
• Multiple new feats were added to Fiona's Fantastic Familiars.
• Redrock Cove, Sandswept Delta, and Forgotten Cave saw revamps, adding more varied enemies and loot to their rosters.
• Pinkerton's Plundered Pile received a visual makeover.
• Several new familiars, scenes, apparel items, and vistas were released.
• We expanded the number of dragon slots in the Lair and Hibernal Den.

The following genes were launched:

• Mosaic
• Breakup
• Koi
• Braids (Gaoler)
• Stained (Gaoler, Banescale, Veilspun)
• Underbelly (Veilspun)
• Laced (Gaoler)
• Edged (Gaoler)
• Tapir (Banescale)
• Striation (Banescale)
• Clown (Banescale, Gaoler, Veilspun)
• Eye Spots (Banescale, Gaoler, Veilspun)
• Falcon (Banescale)
• Peregrine (Banescale)
• Ripple (Banescale, Gaoler)
• Current (Banescale, Gaoler)
• Giraffe (Banescale, Veilspun)
• Hex (Banescale, Veilspun)

A number of quality of life improvements were implemented, including:

• After exalting a dragon, players now have the option to return to the lair (the exact lair page the dragon was on) or view the exalted dragon.
• Dragon apparel selection has been updated. Category tabs have been scaled down to make room for more search results. To aid apparel browsing, without loading excessive items, each search page will now include up to 120 results - a 5x increase.
• You can now search for familiars by nickname in the Bestiary and Familiar Select pages. The Bestiary also displays nicknames.
• The Higher or Lower Fairgrounds game has been updated. In addition to many behind-the-scenes improvements, game button placement has been modified so that it's easier to progress through rounds.
• You can now choose whether attaching an item to a private message or Crossroads trade will automatically select a single item or a full stack. This option is listed as Item Select Quantity under account settings.

Sitewide Effort: Dustcarve Dig

As the main attraction for this year's festivities, we've kicked off a limited sitewide event called the Dustcarve Dig. This event is unlike any that we've run on Flight Rising before, so without ruining some of the surprises around the corner, we'll detail a bit about how it works.


Premise

Velya (first featured in our Ancient Fascinations lore story) and the Dragonhome Preservation Guild have had enough on their plates with the sudden influx of visitors and adventurers to the Colonnades of Antiquity, but now they're grappling with a seismic issue that may upend Sornieth life as we know it. In order to unearth the secrets surrounding this recent event, they've kicked off a massive collaborative project called the Dustcarve Dig, and are going to need the help of every flight to see it through.


How it Works

Working through a series of planned milestones (phases), Flight Rising players will be asked to find and contribute vital supplies to help Velya's dig team tunnel deep into the earth. These supplies will drop randomly any time players perform normal tasks on the site. Almost every feature has a chance to yield these important items, and the dig team will need vast amounts of them to make progress. Thankfully, there are a lot of you!

Here are the features that will yield event-related items:

• Starting a new nest by breeding two dragons.
• Hatching a fully-incubated nest.
• Performing any type of gathering skill.
• Collecting a transmuted slime/goo at Baldwin's Bubbling Brew.
• Exalting dragons.
• Performing swaps at Swipp's Swap Stand.
• Trading items for gold at Crim's Collection Cart.
• Answering trivia questions correctly at Tomo's Trivia Tablet.
• Bonding with familiars.
• Claiming an item from Pinkerton's Plundered Pile.
• Battling monsters in the Coliseum.

Once the requisite number of items have been turned in for the active milestone, it will be considered complete, and the dig team will take a much needed rest to prepare for the next phase. At that time, players who participated in the milestone will be able to collect rewards for helping.

(NOTE: You can identify when the event is accepting items by checking website's main page banner, which will indicate whether the dig is in an active state (green flag) or a rest state (orange flag with ZZZ).)


Participation & Rewards

It is purposely very easy to participate in the event, and the Dustcarve Dig will reward players in two ways:

• Per Milestone: If you turn in at least one (1) item during a milestone, you will receive a reward for participating in that milestone. There are five (5) milestones for this event, so if you turn in an item for each, you'll get five (5) milestone rewards in all.
• Event Conclusion: If you turn in at least one (1) item in at least one (1) milestone during the entire run of the event, you will receive a reward for participating in the event when it has fully concluded. We encourage all players to participate in at least one (1) milestone, because the event reward is very special!

Event Pacing

While the act of collecting and turning in items in a milestone will update dynamically, and milestones will conclude on their own, the act of kicking off new milestones is a manual process that the development team of Flight Rising will be controlling. This is primarily so that our team can be present for support, monitoring, and the fun of the event without necessitating any of our team members needing to stay up at odd-hours to watch milestones changeover or the event rapidly conclude. As we've said before, we don't exercise crunch at our company, and prefer our employees work fairly standard hours for their own well-being. This is part of that promise.

While we won't be able to give a definitive time that milestones will begin, you can expect that they'll likely be sometime early in the day when the majority of our team starts work and is present.



Anniversary Gift

As a way of saying thank you and celebrating Flight Rising's anniversary, Galore will be giving out the following scene to all players, which will be collectible until Monday, June 14 at 23:59 server time.

It will also be possible to brew extra copies of this scene at Baldwin's Bubbling Brew for the same duration.

The bait has been hooked, fishing line cast and we have caught ralmap for this weeks aquarium contest winner!

....Congrats!

¢¢Remember, make sure you feed and care for your fish/tank and collect your nessies bonus daily, if you want a chance to win next week!

It's time to head over to Miles Magic Box and see if you can figure out which item is depicted by the artistic rendering. If you do before next week, you'll win a cool prize!

Tomorrow (June 9th) we will be holding our monthly 500k Dicey Challenge. Each challenge will be 500k and if you are lucky enough to beat a staff member, you will also receive a vault code for a special item on Thursday.


This time around it's a bit special. Since it is Sweetfire's birthday (aka AlwaysMyFault while she is on a short hiatus) - winners won't receive just another dicey stuffy, you will receive a Dutch Sweetfire Stuffy!

In order to allow everyone a chance to win a stuffy, we are asking players that if you have already won a stuffy, please don't challenge staff again. Your co-operation is much appreciated.

Good luck!

Good Evening, CE players!

Today's news post will cover the following updates

- June Breed Expansion
- New Gene Releases
- Lore Release


Keep reading to learn more!


GRUELE BREED EXPANSION
In honor of our June Tropical Ruins theme, we have chosen the Gruele breed for our monthly breed expansion. The Gruele received a brand-new mane/tail set, new horns, 3 body colors, and additional CE markings + eyes. Did you know the Gruele is the 40th breed to be released on CE? Head on over to the horse creation area to create your own!

JUNE RELEASES
Recolors of the new Gruele genes have also arrived! You can find these beautiful genes stocking in the Magic Shop. In addition to recolors, the Magic Shop also has an exclusive variation of the new horns featured on the Gruele - Check out this beautiful deco add-on! As usual, these genetics are only available throughout the month of June. We will provide a spotlight package for those of you interested in stocking up on exclusive genes!

To compliment our June genetics, we have also released brand-new wearables to the Celestial Market!

LORE RELEASE
After a long hiatus, the Royal Family is back! Will Nyssa and Ingrid join forces and journey back to the Royal Palace together? Check out the latest chapter of Lore and find out!

If you are new to CE lore, check out the lore area to start Chapter 1!

Thank you for reading today's update! We will post another update this Friday to cover development, a new contest, and more!


CE STAFF

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
-tiger-tiger-
barbchin
-tiger-tiger-
-tiger-tiger-
misty-dreamer

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

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 6673

There were NO winners.

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

Raffle Result

This weeks raffle was won by shaylmesse.

They received 2,441,700 IP!

Trivia Result

Trivvy has a new question for you! Click here to try question #152. Trivia #151 was answered correctly by 6 people!

Scratchcards

First Place, winning 750,538 IcePoints:irissaSecond Place, winning 263,200 IcePoints:wheresmydogThird Place, winning 191,830 IcePoints:vauseman

Game Trophies

The latest trophies have been awarded, and the leaders are as follows:

First Place, with a score of 404:

Fearless
Second Place, with a score of 393:

smashburger
Third Place, with a score of 358:

SnoozySnore

First Place, with a score of 101000:

Pycody
Second Place, with a score of 65910:

tishybug
Third Place, with a score of 51140:

smashburger

First Place, with a score of 44120:

SnoozySnore
Second Place, with a score of 42845:

Pycody
Third Place, with a score of 39465:

Wooziness

First Place, with a score of 240:

SnoozySnore
Second Place, with a score of 170:

smashburger
Third Place, with a score of 100:

whereisthend

First Place, with a score of 1602:

Wooziness
Second Place, with a score of 1383:

inami
Third Place, with a score of 1356:

SnoozySnore

First Place, with a score of 20:

SnoozySnore
Second Place, with a score of 15:

wheresmydog
Third Place, with a score of 13:

whereisthend

First Place, with a score of 12400:

Wooziness
Second Place, with a score of 10150:

smashburger
Third Place, with a score of 5060:

SnoozySnore

First Place, with a score of 216:

smashburger
Second Place, with a score of 192:

Fearless
Third Place, with a score of 177:

SnoozySnore

Wraetlic won last week's Battle Royale with a time of 75 seconds! All who completed the Battle Royale have been awarded their cP prize and first, second, and third place have also won trophies for their profiles.

Sign up your Ichumon in this week's Battle Royale Contest!

You will need to kill 11 Evil Deathly Fluff in the Battle Royale Map as fast as you can. The quickest user to complete the battles will receive the top prize of 25,000 cP!

Congratulations to the following Card Game Trophy Winners:
First Place Card Player: Diosa
Runner Up Card Player: summerdaze

If you want to be a winner, play the card games bonus games!

Dicey Mice Badges

Dicey Mice Diamond Badge: Renimis

Dicey Mice Titanium Badge: lynxcat

Dicey Mice Leather Badge: SugarLily

Mini Match Badges

Mini Match Diamond Badge: fireheartone

Mini Match Titanium Badge: MizTik

Mini Match Leather Badge: AlwaysMyFault

Crash Extreme Badges

Crash Extreme Diamond Badge: AlwaysMyFault

Crash Extreme Titanium Badge: Selene33

Crash Extreme Leather Badge: Abbyss

Mini Bubbles Badges

Mini Bubbles Diamond Badge: -tiger-tiger-

Mini Bubbles Titanium Badge: lynxcat

Mini Bubbles Leather Badge: Abbyss

Bubbas Blocks Badges

Bubbas Blocks Diamond Badge: Selene33

Bubbas Blocks Titanium Badge: Buliwyf

Bubbas Blocks Leather Badge: May

When the heck did it become JUNE? I swear it was February only a few days ago. Time goes fast. Does it FEEL like halfway thru 2021 to anyone?

This month we have re-imagined an old favorite. We get asked for wings so often we felt adding some all time favorites in new colors would be fun.

It's time to team up! Starting today, you can now sign up for the upcoming Team Contest. As always, your team will be assigned randomly to one of our four teams - Blue Audril, Green Trido, Red Dovu, and Yellow Sharshel. Staff will make an effort to put past participants on new teams as well in order to unlock team-exclusive avatars and items as well. There's no limit to how many people can join!

Signing up is an easy process. All you need to do is comment on this News Post indicating that you'd like to join. Be sure to do this before June 9th, 23:59:59 IcePets Time, because that is when sign ups will close! If you have any questions about the Team Contest, feel free to post them under this News Post as well.

Rhowyn

1st: raptor won a Black Seahorse.
2nd: Axure won a Cherry Astro Star Popsicle.
3rd:
They have each also won 5,758 iP and trophies for their profile!


A new Restock Race has begun!
You will need to purchase 14 Demon Tectowl Plushie from the Mushroom Shops before next Saturday. The Ichuan with the fastest time wins. Remember your timer starts with your first purchase of the item, Good luck!

Congratulations to PicklePen, for earning $6624503 in POWEX this week.
You have been rewarded with a POWEX trophy!

Will you be the next POWEX Mogul? Earn the most profit by next Saturday at 3 PM PP Time, and you can show other Powerpets players what you are made of.