Friday, March 5

Happy surprise update, everyone!

° Club Edits

We see quite a few of you have already begun creating your own crossbreed! In total, we now have 11 Crossbreed Campaigns active with an array of wonderful names and breed pairings. We have added a few requested changes to clubs as well.

• There is now a ¢My Clubs¢ tab that shows which clubs you own or are registered in.

• Clubs are now ordered by how many members are registered. Those with more members will appear first in the list.

• Club owners may now kick horses or members. If a horse is kicked and that is the only club the horse is registered in, the horse¢s stars will be removed.

• Club owners may now close registrations for new members.

• The club directory and club page banner should now look correct when viewed from mobile.

° Breeding Edits

We have also edited a previous rule to game-recognized crossbreeds where if you bred a parent breed to a crossbreed, you would produce that crossbreed. Ex. Appaloosa bred to an Araloosa produced an Araloosa. Now, these crossbreeds all must be 50/50 in their DNA % to display as the crossbreed. Ex. Araloosa must be 50% Appaloosa and 50% Arabian. This will only affect horses bred from this update onward.

This change also allows for crosses who do not have pure parents but also still have the required 50/50 DNA to show up as recognized crossbreeds.

°¯¸ Road Map

We hope you are as excited as we are about the changes we're making so we've linked the road map on the calendar page for easy access. The road map is a timeline of expected development for 2021 and can possibly change. Any changes will be noted in news posts.

Enjoy the rest of your day and we hope you enjoy the small update!

Cheers,

The Dev Team

As spring draws near, more areas of IcePets have been cleaning up with some crisp new artwork; next in line is these six profile skins! If you own the Love Traptur, Woodland Friends, Party Animal, Default, Pirate Life, or the Plushie Collector Profile Skins, you're sure to love these revamped designs.



A new companion has been spotted in Terrafrost; say hello to your new best bud the Spud, funded by @LollyX. This goofy tater-themed companion is the perfect friend for you and your Pets! They'll be restocking at Jacobi's Companion Reserve, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for them.



Starting this weekend, the Candy Quest will be doubling the daily limit of quests and prizes! You'll want to get as many sweets as you can, because this opportunity will be ending on March 7th, 23:59:59 IcePets Time.

The Inventory page has been updated with a new filter widget that's lighter and faster than the old one, and works better on mobile. The new filter looks very similar to the old one, and you can still filter by type, tag, quantity, and name. The old "filter by specific item" dropdown is gone however, since populating it mean downloading the over 6,000 items we now have on the site. Downloading those took a while, and even worse caused the inventory page to fail on some mobile browsers, so the new page should make for a better experience all around. One slight difference is how the quantity filter works. By default it matches quantities greater than the number you enter, but you can click on the glyph to change it to if you want to search for items with less than the entered quantity. UPDATE Mar 6 Bulk trading with the Raccoon King once again returns you to inventory remembering your previous page and filter criteria.

The poll booth has a new poll available for you.

This time, we would like to know:
How many friends do you have at PoCo Center?.

Go There: Poll Booth

Thanks for participating!

This month's upgrade statues have been released. We hope everyone who kept their account upgraded enjoys their free monthly item.

To be eligible for next month's item, make sure to keep your account upgraded in the Upgrade Center

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
mistyeyes
catlady167
WolvenChild
barbchin
Debowski

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

THIS IS OVER Hello, hello! First off, just wanted to note, all prizes excluding Herman's have been sent out from the live. Thank you everyone able to attend, I do hope to have another this month, but we're going to play this one from ear since my nephew is due any day now. If you haven't noticed yet, there's a poll up for users to pick their favorite name for our Festival of Frost NPC. HERE is the link, you've got a few days to vote. Finally, it's time for a very quick minigame! This time it's a word search. Everyone who completes it correctly will receive 2 doodlecorns - Julius and Romeo. These are the ones done for our FriendFest, and this will be the last game where they will be available until next time around. You have until 3/5 @ 12:30 PM to get your answers in. Please send all answers to account 4591 with your ID in the title. The words are all Wajas related things. This time I'm offering the word bank as a separate thing,

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

The item description was: A tasty strawberry flavored muffin with heart candy on the top.
The answer was: Love Muffin.

13 out of 15 Ichuans answered correctly.

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

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: Iluvtrolls


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: 8898

There were NO winners.

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

Good Afternoon, CE players!

March is here and we are thrilled to announce our theme for the upcoming month; Rainbow Space! We are continuing our monthly origin world spotlight to ensure CE's fantastic themes and original breeds get all of the love they desire along with ensuring all players have access to fun, free, and new genes. For those of you who are new to CE, a CE Original Breed is a breed released by the game for player creation. The genes associated with the breeds are available to be registered in player crossbreeds, so we find it to be very important to continue building upon these foundation breeds to ensure you all have the ability to create interesting, new crosses.

With that being said, this month's spotlight breed is the Nova! This is one of our all-time favorite breeds and originally released in the first version of CE, also known as Marvel Horse. The Nova received a new set of wings, mane/tail, feathering, and a horn; WOW! Ellastasia sure was busy! A handful of colors will be available on the Nova moving forward, but additional recolors will be circulating throughout the month of March in the Magic Shop. For those of you interested in a spotlight package containing all of the March genes - we will have a package available starting March 1! This package will include all of the new Nova genes, March body colors, and the new Splash Body Marking recolor.

Next up, we have beautiful new genes and wearables available in the Cash Shop! These genes also follow the "rainbow space" theme and will be available through the month of march as packages and individual items.

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Onto development! We are hard at work setting up a new interactive new player guide to help ensure our new players have a thorough understanding of the many features CE has to offer. This is our primary focus before moving onto our remaining plans for Q1 (March).

Remaining Tasks
- Continue tweaking tradeboard/gift process for holding barn spots
- Expiration time for trade lots, including offers
- Expiration time for gift offers
- Horse creation updates
- Misc admin updates

As a reminder, CE is currently in live development and bugs are to be expected. We do our best to balance the resolution of bugs while also focusing on improving upon current features and continuing to brainstorm new features for upcoming release!

We have also finalized development goals for Q2. Many of them will remain a secret until their official release, but here is a preview of a few things we intend on releasing:

- Additional interaction options in companion forest
- Modification of companion forest to allow hourly turns rather than daily
- Adjustments to the notification system
- Elder Quest modifications
- *2 secret, larger features*

Our development plans are subject to change depending on bugs, important suggestions, and player feedback. At the end of the day maintaining current features will always take priority over new areas to ensure CE remains as bug-free as possible!

Thank you for reading today's update. Be on the lookout for further announcemens!

CE STAFF

Congratulations to Tim, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 65,500 iP and the item prize was Sanlord Stamp!

This week's item prize will be Faw Egg! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

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 Josie, who is a very mighty kitty! -- (read the blog to find out more)

For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner CNikki a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zoneand 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.

The bait has been hooked, fishing line cast and we have caught k8k 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!