The votes for the Poetry Contest have been tallied. Each and every poem we received was amazing -- the IcePets community is simply bursting with creativity! It was a very close call, but now, it's time to reveal the winners!





In 3rd place we have @Tchaikovsky! You will receive the Bronze Contestant Trophy, 100 Amourok Shop Points, 1 random Heart Breaker prize from 2020, a copy of Passionate Poetry, and 75,000 IcePoints. Nice work!



Up next in 2nd place, we have @Wooziness! You will receive the Silver Contestant Trophy, 200 Amourok Shop Points, 1 random Heart Breaker Prize from 2020, a copy of Passionate Poetry, and 100,000 IcePoints. Great job!



And finally, 1st place goes to... @MidnightHour! You will receive the Gold Contestant Trophy, Golden Competitor Stamp, 300 Amourok Shop Points, 1 random Heart Breaker Prize from 2020, a copy of Passionate Poetry, and 150,000 IcePoints. Congratulations!





Everyone who submitted a poem will be featured in the Passionate Poetry book! If you'd like to get a copy, check the shelves of Ralph's Page Turners; it'll be restocking periodically. It will also be rewarded by the Weapons Quest, and requested by the Book Quest in one week.

The winners should be able to find their prizes already awarded in their Inventory. Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's poetry contest -- we hope you had fun and will join us again next year!

Our little family has been saddened these passed few months with the deaths of Poetrist and catlegs. To honor both of these lovely and kind ladies, we had a stuffy made for each of them. Both can be found under Player Stuffies in the Upgrade Centre. You will be forever missed by many.

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!

Welcome to March! We have so many valuable members of our community, and every month we like to shine a spotlight on two of them. Starting this month, there will not be any quoted testimonials attached to our amazing winners. Why? We have had many months when Users didn't know what to say in their nomination, and sometimes were hesitant to even put a nomination through if the User wasn't well known on the forums. It is our hope that this small change will allow members to nominate people they genuinely feel should be given a spotlight for the month, even if that person's kind acts and loyalty to IcePets may be in methods other than posting on our forums. We don't want members to think they don't stand a chance if they aren't comfortable making a lot of posts. Just be kind, be yourself, and your friends here will notice! Without further ado I give to you our regular news post.

Tables have been put away, signs are being taken down and the Voting Booths are closed until next month. Of course, this can only mean one thing! It's time to announce the winners of Member of the Month (MOTM for short)! This month, both of our winners fall under the Yet to Win MOTM category! Everyone say congratulations to...



@Fluffy123 and @Maelittles



You both will receive 100,000 IcePoints and this exclusive Hidden Avatar:



Thank you both for being part of the IcePets community. We couldn't be the place we are without members like you!

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

@Silvy


Allpacker





As we move into March, 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 Cherry Blossom Petal Stamp and Cherry Blossom Staff, along with the returning Bug Feast. Each of these is priced at 500 IceCash (or 450 IceCash for Gold Members)!



Additionally, a few of our resident shopkeepers have added some new Items to their stock! The Cherry Blossom Snowglobe can be found at the Toy Trunk while the The Little Troot That Could can be found at Ralph's Page Turners. The Cherry Blossom Snowglobe is now rewarded by the Plushie Quest and will be requested by the Space Quest in one week. The Little Troot That Could will be rewarded by the Weapon Questimmediately and requested by Book Quest in one week.





The plants across Terrafrost are slowly becoming more green, and the Token Booth has changed its stock accordingly. You can now find Bonsai Tree Stamp, Daffy, and Honeycomb Ice Cube stocking for Tokens until the beginning of Summer. The Spring Goodie Bag has also been rotated back in, containing spring-themed Items from previous years.

The long-awaited update to our world map is complete! Explore familiar locations and discover entirely new ones, all illustrated with completely refreshed artwork, effects, and animations.

As of this post, the revamped world map has launched! Sornieth comes alive like never before thanks to entirely new artwork, effects, and animations. Below, we'll go over some of the upgrades and changes you'll be seeing as you navigate the new map.



The Wide World of Sornieth

One of the biggest changes you'll notice is that rather than eleven small maps (one per region), everything has been combined into a singular large map. We're able to do this thanks to some new options.

Caption: A diagram depicting the old collection of maps above the new world map with downward arrows indicating that they have been combined.



Zooming/Panning

Because the map is so large, we've added a few options to help you explore the new artwork. You can, of course, view the whole realm at once in a smaller, more generalized zoomed-out view, but you'll also be able to zoom in and see the finer details. While zoomed in, you can hold down your finger or mouse button on the artwork and drag to pan the map around.

Caption: A short video showing usage of the zooming and panning functions.



Full Browser View

For those that want to dive headfirst into the map, we've also added the ability to expand the viewable area to your entire browser window. In this mode, the site UI will disappear, and the map artwork will take up the whole window. This is an incredible way to immerse yourself in the new map and see a lot more at once.

Caption: A screenshot showing the world map in full browser viewing mode, in which the rest of the site UI is hidden and the map artwork extends to all edges of the window.



Map Layers

Because the dragons of Sornieth live above and below the waves, we've added the ability to move between terrain and underwater layers. Right now, this mainly applies to the Sea of a Thousand Currents, but the system allows us to possibly do some interesting things in the future!

Caption: A short video showing what it looks like when a player moves from the terrain layer to the underwater layer. Because only the Sea of a Thousand Currents exists on both layers, it is the example used.



Places of Interest ("POIs")

In the legacy version of the map, special locations in each elemental territory were represented by icons and flavor text below the map, but you never got a true understanding of their exact placement. With the revamp, we've plotted these locations on the map with POI (Place of Interest) markers, and you can click or tap them to read the flavor text.

Caption: A screenshot showing what it looks like when the POI (place of interest) marker for the Oculus of the Eleven has been selected. The marker window includes an icon and description of the location.



Animations & Visual Effects

In addition to new artwork, we've tried to bring extra vibrance and life to the map by way of animations (like floating islands, grass waving in the breeze, and wiggling spikes) and visual effects (like embers, snow, and light beams). For our players who are sensitive to flashing or moving graphical elements, you can turn them off on the bottom right corner of the map. Also available is the ability to toggle off the POI map markers, if desired.

Caption: A screenshot displaying the toggles that will enable or disable POI map markers or animations and visual effects.



Relocate Your Lair

With this update, we've doubled the number of locations for every elemental region and it is now possible to modify, officially, where your lair exists. Each lair tier (e.g. Lesser, Mighty, Venerable, Ancient) now unlocks two (2) locations, and you can choose to move your lair to either one, or to a location in any of the lower tiers you've already unlocked.

There is no limit to how often your clan can move within your current flight/element, so don't feel tied down to any one location! You can access the lair location options by clicking the small gear icon next to your current lair location on the clan profile.

Caption: A screenshot from the clan options page, displaying a list of all possible lair locations that would be available to a wind player with a "venerable" tier lair, as well as highlighting where their lair is currently located.



Sharing POIs and Custom Locations

An additional feature we've included with the launch of the revamped world map is the ability to share POIs and custom locations within forum posts. Using new bbcode functions, these will be represented by a widget that others can click to be taken directly to the spot you wanted to share!



Sharing POIs

To share a POI, click or tap the small share icon in the top right corner of a POI's flavor text window. From there, you'll be able to copy the bbcode necessary to share the POI in a map widget on the forums.

Caption: A screenshot indicating where the share button is located on POI location windows. The button itself is in the top right corner.



Sharing Custom Locations

To share a custom location:

1. Click or tap the marker button in the top right corner of the world map window.
2. Click or tap the spot on the map you want to share to drop the marker there.
3. Click or tap the marker you just placed.
4. Highlight and copy the bbcode in the share window that appears.
5. Paste it in your forum post!

There are also a few parameters you can modify in the copied code to customize your shared custom location a bit more. You can change the following parts of the code to edit the height (minimum 200px, maximum 480px) and width (minimum 200px, maximum 480px) of the widget, as well as add your own custom text.

Caption: A diagram indicating the variables that can be changed in the new bbcode to customize how a shared custom location widget appears in the forums. The variables highlighted are height, width, and custom text.

Using the bbcode above, it will create a widget that looks like this:

Caption: A screenshot showing what a custom location widget created with the variables in the previous diagram would look like embedded into a forum post.


We want to thank everyone for waiting patiently while we worked on this feature. When we first unveiled it, we certainly had intentions of releasing it far sooner than now. Game development can be an unpredictable process sometimes, and as many of you witnessed, there were urgent or much needed demands on our engineers' time (ex: server migrations and critical backend updates) as well as bringing other awesome or highly requested features to you. We also remain committed to being anti-crunch and maintaining healthy work/life balances. This included adjusting for our team's overall well-being through the events of the past year.

This update is our labor of love, we're overjoyed to share it with you all, because it's been a monumental team effort. This revamp is easily the most massively ambitious art and engineering-heavy thing we've created, and every single developer we have has touched it in some way.

Denizens of Sornieth, here's to you and its ever-expanding glory!

Hope you all got your entry prizes and special extra prize and enjoy them!

Peppermint Pageant
Winners! Please get your choices to me ASAP! Thanks and Congrats!!

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

HA21 Name
Owned by: Dantaku
Congratulations!

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

Rose Petal

Omiom

Mossy Stones

Red Feather

Tiny Feather

Stumpy

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

Congratulations to the winner of last month's Monthly Contest!

Submission by: Dantaku

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

HA21 Name
Owned by: Dantaku
Congratulations!

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

Rose Petal

Omiom

Mossy Stones

Red Feather

Tiny Feather

Stumpy

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

Congratulations to the winner of last month's Monthly Contest!

Submission by: Dantaku

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!

Tim was awarded the User Title: Restocker

Tim was awarded the User Title: Quester

Leesh was awarded the User Title: Pro SBer

Tim was awarded the User Title: Most Active

Anne was awarded the User Title: Top Battler

Leesh was awarded the User Title: Loved

Tim was awarded the User Title: Blogger

Zaerix was awarded the User Title: Gamer

Tim was awarded the User Title: Champion

Here are your new mayors for March!

Labrador City - BearCatSparkles
Kuvasz City - Newtatious
Pony City - -Twixy-
Collie City - No Mayor
Sheepdog City - TiquiOBrat
Dolphin City - RedMist
Wolfox City - steenbokker
Eagle City - fifercats
Gecko City - No Mayor
Polar City - delight
Somali City - Petpet321

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
Debowski
barbchin
barbchin
bumpergirl89
SC

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: 4615
Congratulations to the following player for winning the $1615924 PB Jackpot

-tiger-tiger-

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

End of Festival coming up!

Raffle Result

This weeks raffle was won by shaylmesse.

They received 2,698,200 IP!

Trivia Result

Trivvy has a new question for you! Click here to try question #145. Trivia #144 was answered correctly by 29 people!

Game Trophies

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

First Place, with a score of 341:

Mikasa
Second Place, with a score of 319:

wheresmydog
Third Place, with a score of 233:

Fransis

First Place, with a score of 108240:

Suyai
Second Place, with a score of 105060:

tishybug
Third Place, with a score of 33400:

rotundusbat

First Place, with a score of 111:

Mikasa
Second Place, with a score of 76:

Fransis
Third Place, with a score of 7:

Tchaikovsky

First Place, with a score of 155:

Mikasa
Second Place, with a score of 125:

RedCervidae
Third Place, with a score of 95:

Fransis

First Place, with a score of 210:

Mikasa
Second Place, with a score of 207:

Fransis
Third Place, with a score of 73:

Tchaikovsky

First Place, with a score of 21:

Tchaikovsky
Second Place, with a score of 8:

Mikasa

First Place, with a score of 17850:

MidnightHour
Second Place, with a score of 14960:

Wooziness
Third Place, with a score of 3850:

Tchaikovsky, Lumiklyde

First Place, with a score of 178:

Mikasa
Second Place, with a score of 166:

Fransis
Third Place, with a score of 160:

wheresmydog