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 Deirdre, who has now gotten used to the robovac. (read the blog to find out more)
For having an up-to-date blog with pictures, they have earned their owner jamileigh17 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.

Geek month is almost here! May 1st is the start of Geek month every year. At midnight tonight it will be officially starting. New items will be added on the weekends during the month and some fun gifts will show up during month as well!

During this festival we celebrate the geek in all of us! This month we are honoring the huge puma favorite, Pumanji and Board games! Pumas LOVE games and no pumas den is complete without several games to play!

This festival doesn't have profile games or gifting stump, however you will see a number of new items in the shops with the Game playing theme and exploring / jungle theme.

And, as customary we will also be celebrating Towel Day this month with some fun items there as well. So, be on the lookout for some new items arriving on the weekends this month and some activities in the forums as well!

ALSO!! TE SALE starting tonight at MIDNIGHT Puma Time!!
Buy 5 get 5 ! Such a DEAL! :)

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!

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
michelle2244
michelle2244
michelle2244
-tiger-tiger-
Equinox

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, we¢re excited to launch our upgraded skin & accent submission system, now with accelerated order processing and the debut of a highly-requested instant reprint feature. Rebuilt from the ground up, the submission process puts more control into artists' hands!

Skin & Accent System Revamp

Today we have implemented our new skin & accent submission system, which has been broken down into clear, player-driven steps that provide skin creators with critical feedback earlier. With this implementation, artists who complete a new skin or accent submission will already feel very confident that their art meets our image size, coverage, and formatting requirements before they reach the final step. With new tools to create your own icons and instantly reprint orders, the wait for skins will be shorter than ever!



More Feedback Up Front

Prior to this revamp, the time spent waiting order fulfillment (or rejection feedback) could take upwards of a few days. Because art now move through smart, automated review passes before orders can even be made, you¢ll have a chance to make any necessary fixes and alterations before it reaches us at all. This should improve the fulfillment time for skin item creation.

The systemic checks we have integrated directly into the submission process will check that your artwork:

• Is the proper size in pixels (350 x 350).
• Is of the correct document format (.png).
• Whether your art extends beyond permitted sections on the selected dragon sprite. If it does, a preview will prominently highlight all the locations where it¢s out of bounds.
• In the case of accents specifically: a coverage check will analyze the percentage of the official dragon sprite your art is covering. If the coverage percentage is too high for an accent (>30%), an error will provide you information for how much.

These player-facing changes will hopefully mitigate many of the most common reasons that submissions are rejected and sent back¢barring rule-violating content drawn directly into the artwork (remember, there are still humans reviewing it).

On the back end, we have improved the tools for our skin moderation team, which we¢re confident will further improve turnaround time, reduce player confusion, and make the skin and accent submission system experience more pleasant and streamlined for everyone.

Below is a shot of the automated evaluation system in action:





Your Item, Your Icon
Another improvement we're including is allowing the author of a skin submission to design their own item icon, directly in the order flow. This concept bears fruit in two major ways:

• Artists get to choose which part of their skin they want to highlight in the actual item's icon, which is what all other players see.
• It entirely removes an external, time-consuming process from our skin moderation team.

Once your artwork makes it through the evaluation checks (mentioned in the section above this), you're presented with an interface where your skin art is layered beneath the skin or accent icon template. This template has a transparent cut-out that reflects how the final item icon will display.

Easy-to-use controls on this page enable you to pan and zoom the uploaded artwork, giving you full control for showing off which section of it will best represent your design to other players.

Below is a shot of the icon editor in action:





Oh, We've Got Receipts

Forgot when a specific skin order of yours was fulfilled? Want to check on the status of all your orders waiting in the queue? You¢ll now be able to view a complete list of all orders you¢ve ever made in the new system.

Orders can be searched, sorted, and filtered by:

• Order number
• Order type (new order, reprint, legacy reprint)
• Quantity (in # of copies)
• Skin/Accent Name
• Existing skin and accent item IDs
• Item type (skin or accent)
• Breed
• Pose

You can even see orders that you started filling out, but haven¢t yet finished and can easily pick up where you left off in the submission flow.

If an order you've submitted has not been fulfilled yet, you have up until that time to cancel it yourself. Canceling an order while it's in the queue will wipe the order itself away and refund the associated blueprint by way of your private messages.





Instant Reprints are Here

We're thrilled to announce dedicated reprint support to the skin and accent artist community.

Here's how it works:

• You submit a skin or an accent order and have it fulfilled by our team.
• Skins produced from that fulfillment (because they've passed evaluation and have been created as site items) are immediately flagged as eligible for reprints.
• The Reprint Past Orders page displays every skin you¢ve submitted that now exists as an on-site item. As long as you have the appropriate blueprint(s) in your inventory, you can initiate an automated reprint on the skin of your choosing. The truly exciting part? This process is practically instant.

Now, there are some caveats and limitations:

While we would have loved for the reprint flagging to work retroactively, eligibility has been granted to many (but not all) player-created skins, and we¢ll go into why:

• With thousands of skin and accent items, making any sort of global data change to all of them is complex and carries data-related risks.
• Over Flight Rising's 10-year history, there have been changes to player conduct rules and the skin system itself. A skin ordered and fulfilled seven years ago may not meet today's system qualifications.

That being said, we tried very hard to make even that particular flow less painful. With the above in mind, we're glad to say that as of late last year, we've been flagging recent skins submitted in the previous system, so many of you will have reprint options available to you starting right now.

For older skins (what we¢re calling ¢legacy skins¢), they will still show up on the Reprint Past Orders page, because they're real items. If you want to reprint a legacy skin order, one click will escalate it to our skin moderation team for reevaluation. Because these items already have real representation in the game's ecosystem, including names and icons, we anticipate that the vast majority of these evaluations will process very quickly.

Here¢s a preview of the reprint system in action:





Coming Soon to a Dragon Game Near You...

Our skin submission system has been a great way to share exciting and personalized designs for adult dragons, allowing you to share your craft with the Flight Rising community and bring even more customization to our already vibrant world.

We're not stopping there!

In the very near future, we're thrilled to announce that the custom skins system will be expanding its wings to embrace hatchling dragons under the effects of Eternal Youth, too! That's right¢soon, you'll have the power to unleash your creativity on those adorable little bundles of joy. It's a feature you¢ve been clamoring for, and we're ecstatic to finally make it happen.

So ecstatic, in fact, that starting today, we're giving everyone a head start. The image template files for hatchlings are now available to download, so you can dive in today and start preparing your designs before the integration is launched!

We can¢t wait to see what you come up with!

Hippity-Hop! Hippity-Hop!
Boy, am I hungry from all this hopping around my bunny trail.



Time to take a rest at digimon_tamer_'s peggscape and eat a carrot!

Congrats! You have just won a free account upgrade and a peggscape trophy for your profile!

¢¢¢¢Make sure to SIGN UP HERE for your chance to win tomorrow!

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 7145
Congratulations to the following player for winning the $3644079 PB Jackpot

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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 brokenribbon.

They received 1,534,500 IP!

Game Trophies

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

First Place, with a score of 241:

Quilladin
Second Place, with a score of 231:

Gothmike
Third Place, with a score of 99:

Kamisheru14

First Place, with a score of 91430:

Gothmike
Second Place, with a score of 91360:

kiaraleu
Third Place, with a score of 17500:

Thor

First Place, with a score of 16270:

Gothmike
Second Place, with a score of 2250:

qwerst
Third Place, with a score of 1910:

WildTail

First Place, with a score of 125:

Didii, Kamisheru14

First Place, with a score of 1472:

Quilladin
Second Place, with a score of 1142:

Amane27
Third Place, with a score of 895:

kiaraleu

First Place, with a score of 77:

Kamisheru14
Second Place, with a score of 25:

Gothmike
Third Place, with a score of 4:

babyalpha

First Place, with a score of 12400:

KatieShrimp
Second Place, with a score of 10150:

k_liandra
Third Place, with a score of 2040:

Dangerous

First Place, with a score of 178:

Dex
Second Place, with a score of 120:

Gothmike
Third Place, with a score of 117:

Kamisheru14

Natsu 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 9 Coppa 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: Pink-Steel

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

Dicey Mice Badges

Dicey Mice Diamond Badge: -CL-

Dicey Mice Titanium Badge: ilovelonchaney

Dicey Mice Leather Badge: tamemeimpala

Mini Match Badges

Mini Match Diamond Badge: goodwitchev64

Mini Match Titanium Badge: -tiger-tiger-

Mini Match Leather Badge: SweetFire

Crash Extreme Badges

Crash Extreme Diamond Badge: chiquitabonita8

Crash Extreme Titanium Badge: SweetFire

Crash Extreme Leather Badge: Bubbles2024

Mini Bubbles Badges

Mini Bubbles Diamond Badge: crys_4now

Mini Bubbles Titanium Badge: TheMetal

Mini Bubbles Leather Badge: digimon_tamer_

Bubbas Blocks Badges

Bubbas Blocks Diamond Badge: SweetFire

Bubbas Blocks Titanium Badge: SummerMaple

Bubbas Blocks Leather Badge: fireheartone

Hippity-Hop! Hippity-Hop!
Boy, am I hungry from all this hopping around my bunny trail.



Time to take a rest at Erath's peggscape and eat a carrot!

Congrats! You have just won a free account upgrade and a peggscape trophy for your profile!

¢¢¢¢Make sure to SIGN UP HERE for your chance to win tomorrow!

1st: osita won a Ichu Ramen.
2nd: Natsu won a Orange Iraknid Muffin.
3rd: qnb733
They have each also won 16,454 iP and trophies for their profile!


A new Restock Race has begun!
You will need to purchase 10 Chocolate Zirafa Cone 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!

The poll booth has a new poll available for you.

This time, we would like to know:
Are you participating in the Peggscapes contest for 2024?.

Go There: Poll Booth

Thanks for participating!

The slime purifier has a special new concoction. Take your easter basket daisy bouquet and a few other items to make Hot Cross Buns that your pets will love!