Krittles are known for their love of hoarding valuables, and the shiny new Crystal Krittle is no exception! Enamoured by their beautiful, glossy appearences and rich colours, these Krittles surround themselves with only the highest quality gems they can find. While they may be protective of their finds, they'll also love showing off their collections!



If you have an eye for the finer things in life, the Crystal Krittle Morphing Potion can now be found restocking in the Snow Jar Igloo. It is also available in the I.C.E. Shop for 500 IC (450 for Gold Accounts) until the end of the month.

It's that time again! Take a peek at our latest work in revamping the Hoard and Vault, including major improvements to searching, navigation, organization, and item usage.

Hoard/Vault Revamp

Today's Developer Update will focus on our revamp of the Hoard and Vault systems, both of which are receiving significant improvements from top-to-bottom!



Improved Searching and Filtering

One of the top suggestions in the Suggestions forum is a search feature in both the Hoard and Vault, as it would enable you to find easily and efficiently find items. As you may have noticed, we've implemented robust and comprehensive search options to many previous revamps, and this addition is a continuation of our long-term design goals.

So, with that said, let's get down to it! We're excited to share with you the different ways that the Hoard and Vault will soon support in narrowing down your item searching, including:

• Searching by name
• Filtering by stack size
• Filtering by item subcategory
• Filtering by item rarity
• Sorting items alphabetically

Searching for the term "slime" filters the results to only items with the word "slime" in their name.

Item Interaction Window

While the legacy Hoard allowed for simple functions for only a few types of items (e.g. opening chests, applying genes and vistas, etc.), the revamp will expand the amount of available functions you can perform on a single stack of items.

We handle this through our new item interaction window, which appears when you click on the icon for any stack of items (the term "stack" meaning anything from 1-99). Each item¢s interaction window will display a custom array of buttons that will allow you to perform several actions, including (but not limited to):

• Converting food items to food points
• Opening container items
• Previewing items like familiars, apparel, skins, vistas, and scenes
• Transmuting a single item from the stack at Baldwin's Bubbling Brew (provided his cauldron is empty)
• Selling the selected item
• Selling all duplicates of the selected item, should you have more than one stack of it
• Listing the selected item for auction
• Storing the item in your Vault or withdrawing the item to you Hoard

You'll be able to dismiss this window by clicking or tapping anywhere else on the page.

The item interaction window for the food item Armored Catfish, showing the array of new actions that can be performed on the stack.

Opening Chests with Random Contents

To expand upon the new actions available in the item interaction window, we've made some improvements to the act of opening chests that have randomized contents.

In the legacy version of the feature, it was only possible to open these items one-at-a-time (1). In the revamp, we're increasing that count to ten-at-time (10). This should make cracking open stacks of these chests a little bit easier!

A dialog window asking if the player would like to open ten (10) Iron Treasure Chests at the same time.

Locked Items & Favorites

At the very bottom of the item interaction window, you'll notice two toggles:

Lock

This toggle will lock all instances of the item in your Hoard from being able to be sold for treasure. If you're holding onto some items for a special purpose, objective, or sentimental value, this is a great way to safeguard them. Locked items will be denoted by reduced opacity for the item container.

Favorite

This toggle will favorite all instances of the item in your Hoard. While this toggle doesn't prevent using or selling the item, it can provide you an extra way of classifying items that you like or are important to you. Favorite items will be denoted by the yellow star in the top right corner of the item container.

The location of the lock toggle on the item interaction window, as well as evidence that selling the item has been restricted due to the toggle's state.

A selection of items in the Hoard, some having been locked or favorited by the player.

Both toggles also have accompanying Quick Filter buttons in the top right corner of the Hoard that, when activated, will show you only items that have been toggled into that state.

The locked items Quick Filter is enabled, showing only those food items that have been set to a locked state.

Additional Hoard Options

In addition to everything listed above, we're launching the feature with a few expanded options that you can enable by clicking or tapping the gear icon in the top corner of the page.


Virtual Stacks

Like to keep a tidy Hoard? It will be possible to collapse identical items down into what we're calling "virtual stacks".

Even cooler, this option affects items that don't typically stack above one (1), like familiars and apparel. We hope it's useful for people who like to keep their inventory concise and orderly.

A selection of familiar items; some that have duplicates have been collapsed into "virtual stacks".

A specialized view of a "virtual stack" of plant food items showing that it is comprised of six (6) individual stacks.

Useful Items for Other Features

This next one is one we're particularly excited about. Once this option is enabled, items that have multiple important uses in other site features will have that usage case denoted at the bottom of their container in the form of colorized bars and icons. Mousing over those bars will tell you what the items is useful for.

A screenshot depicting the multiple uses for the item Sizzling Phosphorous. The colored bars and icons indicate it is useful in Baldwin's Bubbling Brew and for a Hibernal Den task.

Items Per Page

When we first developed Flight Rising, we designed a lot of our features to work well within a screen resolution that simply isn't that standard anymore. Now that mobile browsers and huge desktop/laptop monitors are commonplace, we wanted to give players more options for showing items per page.

It will now be possible to show up to fifty-six (56) items per Hoard/Vault page!

With 56 items shown per page, those that don't vertically fit on the page have been partially obscured by a gradated horizontal bar of item actions. A pair of downward arrows indicate that the player can keep scrolling to see more items.

Self Service: Item Restoration

The launch of this feature revamp will also include a brand new option in our Self-Service support menu. If you make a mistake in hoard-selling an item or multiple items, it will be possible to buy them back (for a markup) using this option.

A screenshot depicting the Self-Service hub, including the new option for Item Restoration.

That's all we've got to show you today; thank you for reading! We're putting the finishing touches on this feature, so look out for the Hoard/Vault Revamp launch soon!

Hiya Faenarians! Just a quick note. The research feature has undergone a bit of a change. The minimum and maximum you can get has been reduced. The minimum used to be 100 with a max of 2000 each turn. It is now 1 with a max of 1000. This is after some great thought and debate that it was just far too easy to get massive amounts of WS. There is still no limit as to how long you can research, though, that may change later as well. I hope you all do understand! Happy researching!

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Raffle Result

This weeks raffle was won by Pluto.

They received 1,930,500 IP!

Game Trophies

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

First Place, with a score of 365:

wheresmydog
Second Place, with a score of 355:

Neomysterion
Third Place, with a score of 289:

Kimmi_Cutie

First Place, with a score of 44380:

RedSloth
Second Place, with a score of 38120:

Kimmi_Cutie
Third Place, with a score of 30000:

wave

First Place, with a score of 431:

Neomysterion
Second Place, with a score of 355:

Kimmi_Cutie
Third Place, with a score of 319:

Wooziness

First Place, with a score of 240:

Tetsam
Second Place, with a score of 230:

Wooziness
Third Place, with a score of 200:

wheresmydog

First Place, with a score of 317:

Mimoso
Second Place, with a score of 301:

Neomysterion
Third Place, with a score of 263:

Tetsam

First Place, with a score of 82:

Thor
Second Place, with a score of 64:

JaniceRuth
Third Place, with a score of 49:

Neomysterion

First Place, with a score of 24700:

Neomysterion, Wooziness
Second Place, with a score of 14960:

Kimmi_Cutie
Third Place, with a score of 3850:

Estarine

First Place, with a score of 241:

Thor
Second Place, with a score of 179:

Neomysterion
Third Place, with a score of 170:

wheresmydog

Wraetlic won last week's Battle Royale with a time of 83 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 19 YinYang 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!

Pirate day is back, and the scallywags of Sornieth continue their plunder!

Seaspray Apparel be Back!

It's that time again - the seaspray apparel set is back in the Gem Marketplace!

You can now have an entire crew's worth of pirate dragons in their own unique garb! ARRRRRRR...! The seaspray sets will remain in the marketplace until 22:00 September 25th.

Brew some Crew!

A captain isn't much without a crew! Novice and Veteran alchemists alike can head on over to Baldwin's Bubbling Brew to concoct some friends to man the deck! These recipes are available until 22:00 on September 25th when they cycle, so brew fast, ye landlubbers!

A Deserter

Fiona has befriended a deserter, but has hidden them away until she can find dragons who have a true love of macaws and will not turn them over to their irate crew!

Galore's Glorious Gifts & Coliseum Booty!

Galore has new gifts for worthy dragon clans. Stop by for a visit with Galore between now and September 25th at 22:00 and pick up tasty gifts for your clan! Galore is also offering a new scene in the spirit of Talk like a Pirate day!

Dragons may find additional copies of this scene in battle in the coliseum! All enemies have a rare chance to drop this scene until September 25th at 22:00 server time before it cycles away for another year!



Set Sail for Sweeping Vistas

Dragons may enjoy the change of scenery as they sail the coasts of Sornieth. Vista: Pirate's Life is available in the treasure marketplace from now until September 25th at 22:00 server time, at which point it will cycle away until next year.

Starfall Celebration Skin Contest
The seventh annual Starfall Celebration will begin September 27, 2020, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Click here for more information!

Coliseum Skin & Accent Contest 2020
The coliseum has grown over the years, and so have the many opponents dragons may face! We are running a new coliseum skin contest for 2020!

1st: tiger22g2 won a Magical Demon Dragora Mirror Shard.
2nd: Skitskat won a Market Shop Gnome.
3rd: whiteice
They have each also won 16,576 iP and trophies for their profile!


A new Restock Race has begun!
You will need to purchase 15 Balloon of Grins 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!

It be talk like a pirate day tomorrow! (TLAPD)
Th' pumas are gettin' an early start on thin's!
I hope ye scallywags have lots 'o pence to spend!

There be some new pirate loot in Catspawrilla's Cache

happy adventurin'

The Persona of the Week Contest has been judged! Congratulations to lavender133 on winning this week's competition.

This week's theme: Dreaming

You got it!

Birthday will officially end Sunday the 20th at midnight puma time. Enjoy!

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

The item description was: This plushie is filled with leaves!
The answer was: Leaf Sack Plushie.

10 out of 12 Ichuans answered correctly.

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

Ends tomorrow at midnight. I was surprised more people weren't asking for an extension! Has everyone gotten what they wanted?
Yes?

Congratulations to Patty, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 50,500 iP and the item prize was Magical Black Gryphix Mirror Shard!

This week's item prize will be Magical Inverno Aquellia Mirror Shard! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

Our newest specialty item, the Silhouette Scroll, is now live! When this magical scroll is applied to a dragon, it permanently unlocks a toggle that allows the dragon to swap between both adult artwork variants available for their breed.

Silhouette Scroll

It is now possible to swap a dragon's pose by applying our newest specialty item: the Silhouette Scroll. Unlike many specialty items, this magical scroll, once used on a dragon, unlocks a permanent toggle that allows you to swap back and forth between either variant of the adult artwork for their breed.

(NOTE: When we say "permanently", we mean it! Even if you choose to sell or trade the dragon, it will retain its Silhouette Scroll toggle forever.)

This item is now stocking in the Gem Marketplace.

The functionality this item offers has been a heavy favorite in our Suggestions Forum for a long time and we're glad to have been able to implement it.



Item Details

The first application of the item will automatically swap your dragon's pose. If you wish to swap back it back, the toggle can be found within that individual dragon's Customize page.

In order to apply a Silhouette Scroll, your dragon must meet the following criteria:

• Dragon must not be wearing a skin.
• Dragon must not be a hatchling.
• Dragon must not be part of a pending Crossroads trade.
• Dragon must not be listed on the Auction House.

Because this item modifies the artwork of a dragon, we understand there may be potential for scamming. To counter this, we've implemented the following conditions:

• In order to sell the dragon on the Auction House, the artwork toggle must be reset to its default.
• In order to trade the dragon in the Crossroads, the artwork toggle must be reset to its default.
• In many places where the dragon and its details are shown (Auction House, Lair, Search), the Silhouette Scroll functionality will be represented by a status icon. This icon indicates that the dragon has had the scroll applied to them, not necessarily that their artwork is currently in a swapped state.

Pinkerton's Plundered Pile

Those that visit Pinkerton's Plundered Pile today may notice that we've released a refreshed version of his artwork. Lookin' snazzy, Pinkerton!

Ava Apple was out shopping with Lucille Cupid. Lucille had bought a àPink Lipstickà and Ava an àApricot Lipstickà. When the looked up at the àPale Peachà sky, they saw a àUFOà. They were not worried for, àWhen They Fightà, Alice guards from the moon.

This month features 5 colors available from the "Random Monthly SB Colour" item in the Cash Shop.