We’ve Moved!

Hello, Liodeners!

This is just an announcement to inform you all that we have relocated to a new blog, which you can find here: https://liodensim.tumblr.com/

We will be continuing off from that blog - look there for all our future news posts and art spoilers!

We’re also adding in something a bit more “fun” on our new blog!  Every so often, we will be doing developer Q&As, where you guys can send in questions and we’ll answer them for you! :D

Thank you guys for following us throughout everything! <3

Update for Conveniences and Tweaks!

New stuff omg

* The main Explore link on the navigation bar, as well as the page itself, has been renamed to "Crossroads" due to possible confusion over Explore and Exploring as two separate areas/features within the game. *Edit by Abbey* Breadcrumb links will be updated periodically. * We have expanded the links underneath the Crossroads map to be more organised and descriptive - the links are now in 3 columns (on big screens) and we have tried to organise them into Primary Features, Sales and Trading, and Social and Miscellaneous columns.

* Burying and digging up multiple items using your Hoard Organisation, will now log your actions in the userlog. * There is a new toggle to collapse the Equipped Decorations panel on lion pages. If you have this toggle enabled, there will be a link to be able to show the decorations again, but it will be defaulted to hide. If you have the toggle off, you can temporarily hide the decorations list. Suggestion * Scrying Stone now shows a prediction of cub stats alongside possible cub appearances (finally adding a suggestion from 2013 ;D). Suggestion * Wardrobe can now switch between the two different types of dropdown menus - searchable and the old, regular dropdowns. Click on the settings button in the Lion Base panel to toggle between the two. (Edit: we're aware some people are getting issues, we're trying to find a solution <3) * Member and lion search now includes the full list of mutations to search, along with the new options of "any" and "none". Suggestion * Search results for members will no longer display any member inactive enough that they have lost their king's name (over 1 year). * You can now search for pride lions owned by a specific member by providing their ID in the Owner ID field - you can also provide your own ID to search within your own pride. (yay!) Suggestion * Noses can be searched for in the Trading Center. * Discarding an item will now create an entry in your User Log. Auto-Level In Oasis, a new auto-level feature has appeared. When bought, for 30 days you will receive a button located in every Cave (unsorted excluded) that will let you level up all lions inside it with a single click. Suggestion That tool allows you to level up multiple times in a row, meaning a level 1 lioness which earned few thousand exp, will level up instantly to level 5 and so on.

Bug Fixes & Tweaks

* Searching for fertility in the game search should no longer bring up male lions. * Searching for fertility in the trading center will no longer have the fertility selection wiped when you go beyond page 1. * When auto-breeding, it should no longer warn you of insufficient lion space if you have space for cubs. * The CAPTCHA on the contact form should be working again - apologies to those of you who have tried to contact us previously.

New Admin?

Some of you noticed in past few days that Baroness had a yellow paw for a while. She was in training to become an Admin, because we really need her skills now that Katze is going into labour (OMG GOOD LUCK POP THAT BABY). Baroness will be taking over her duties, but Katze will hang around in general until she can come back in full force!  She might also forward some PM's to Baroness if you PM her out of habit, so don't be surprised if you PM Katze and Baroness replies sometimes! :D

New Manes

Chartreux and Redwood are new custom mane colours!

Remember that June event will end on June 30th at 11:59 pm and all your currency will be stored on your account until next year. Shad added new tags - Misc. exclusively - and the ones week ago turned out to be June and Appreciation :D

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Iter (#109797)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Simien Mountains BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D it's a small tribute to Baroness he he

Polls and Dev Notes

Woop Nightjar feather decor results are smashing! So, new poll LINK - Next lethal mutation you'd like to see?(Note: if you're googling those, remember about disturbing images)

New RR Level, Jet and Topaz, Art Bug Fixes, etc!

New Reptile Roundup Level!

Shrublands level along with Boomslang skin will unlock if you reach 4500 or more points in Liomemo anytime (in 1 game)! That snek skin is a bit slimmer than others :D The level will contain prizes with minimum points as follows: Rock 20 (Easy only) Twig Snake Carcass 25 Herald Snake Carcass 25 Dried Ferns 30 Falling Petals - Soft Pink 38 Concealed Boomslang 42 Falling Petals - Rainbow 46 Dry Bush 50 Red Bishop 55 Shrub Formation [Dry] 70 Snake Scent 80 The Veld BG 100

New Bases!

Both are available in Base Applicators and Oasis: - Jet - Black Dark Solid Common - Topaz - Gold Medium Solid Special (applicable special like Onyx)

Art Updates!

NEW! - Anubis Mask is now available in Gorilla Enclave for 25 MT!

NEW CRAFTABLE DECORS!

First craftable beetle set! Augosoma centaurus corpses can be now crafted into decors! For these species I chose two big beetles to show off with your lion, however future decors can include ornaments from beetle wings and so on. (obviously like everything else, you need 30 of that colour to craft the decor)

ALSO!

30x Nut Grass can be crafted into Shrub Formation [Green]!

Fixed Art Bugs

- Foreground Roots showing a line on the edge - Tailless mutation showing tails on Zarbanu-Zer bases - Some mane clipping on Ravage Body Paint - Rabbit carcass overlapping a fang on Evil pose - Pink Lei not erased properly on Neutral pose - Snarky pose not showing Eager Golden cub - Jolly pose clipping Radio Collar through her head - Males showing some see-through pixels on feet - Neutral pose not showing a line around hind leg on Carving marking - Primal male not showing spotting on both hind legs on Vitiligo 4 - Cub Young having Feline 6 and 7 swapped for Ebony and Auburn colours - Evil pose needed some smoothing around belly and facial areas for Undershine markings - Dwarf Female showing some clipping on feet when displaying a lot of markings - Panther marking never showing on default female's tail - this has been fixed for all marking recolours + mutations It's a fix but also an addition - BLACK DAPPLE (custom) - was announced as added but turns out I never added it to database - this has been fixed and the marking is now showing up properly.

UPDATED FILES

Mutations up to date currently: - Tailless - Overgrown Fur - Primal - Bobbed Tail - Smilus - Maneless - Female Manes (all) Useful Mutation File Status page Decors updated for Poses and Cub Stages: Infernal Spikes, Demon Horns, Herb Pouch, Ancient Lion Mask.

Bug Fixes & Tweaks

* account options being turned off/reset, when trying to update account options, it displays with "you must enter a player name" * secured cubs being sent to enclave * ultrasound bat is displaying the number of cubs from a lioness's previous pregnancy * raffles being duplicated * June Bug: "Your presence caused a commotion in some nearby human settlements, and some goats escaped through a broken fence!" - "Investigate" displays +-1 karma received when it should be -1 karma * June Bug: All gems being found in Explore (as a note, the new gems only display as "Found 1 x exploring." instead of displaying what type of gem the user received in their User Logs) * June Bug: Crocodiles not being found in all biomes in Explore * June Bug: Rising Water décor not appearing on lions during Massive Floods * June Bug: Nudging Zebra out of water gives negative karma instead of positive karma (just a display error, it was giving positive karma it just showed negative)

We want to remind everyone that once you own a lion, it is yours (well unless you're conducting a promise-based transaction I guess). No player has a right to tell you what to do with offspring their stud had with your lioness. The cubs are yours. Please don't let players scam you - you're welcome to approach us in Modbox anytime if you get yourself entangled in fishy situation, we'll take a look and provide advice or action.

Remember that June event will end on June 30th at 11:59 pm and all your currency will be stored on your account until next year. Shad added new tags - July and Misc. - and the ones week ago turned out to be June and Appreciation :D

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Talos (#42508)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Rainforest BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D

Polls and Dev Notes

Looks like you guys are interested in auto-rejecting feature if lioness stud request is of unacceptable fertility. We also paid attention to comment that it'd be disabled if Black Stallion was attached to the studding. Noted down :D So, new poll LINK - Should we redo Nightjar Feather Decor? Players mentioned looks a bit blurry compared to modern art. Our plan is to update that + make extra craftable upgrade.We'll do Crafting 30x Nightjar Feather Decor into bigger ornament either way - but it'd be great to know if we should improve old art with it! :o

RMA Markings, Liomemo and Huge Bug Fix Streak!

Liomemo!

Do you like the old-school "Match 2" game? If so you might enjoy our small and chill minigame called Liomemo! We find it a very nice time filler between hunts and something to practice your memory with ;D It is located in Games section in Explore. The game is pretty simple - Turn over pairs of matching cards. For the best score, use as few moves as possible, while not taking too much time. There are 10 levels of increasing difficulty. Your performance is based on time and amount of mistakes! After completing all levels you can submit your total score. There are leaderboards for daily and all-time scores. You can submit your score as many times per day as you wish if you want to beat your own score - there's no rewards right now, we didn't intend for them to be there for such a small chill game, but maybe you guys will have some nice suggestions for future?

RMA exclusive markings!

(RMA = Random Marking Applicator)

Just like we promised, and based on user votes in a poll, this is a first batch of RMA-exclusive markings! It means precisely: - Every time you use RMA you have small chance to get a marking that comes ONLY from Random Marking Applicators. - The chance is much bigger than the rare markings from RMA, but still pretty rare. - Markings can pass onto cubs. Markings are: - Nimravus: Gold, Henna, Onyx, Red, White - Quagga: Clay, Copal, Ginger, Henna, Onyx - Zebra: Clay, Copal, Ginger, Henna, Onyx, Red

To keep things fresh in a year, there will be more markings added in future, such as Okapi and many more!

Nimravus marking is inspired by extinct cat ancestors that are often depicted with bizarre rosettes. Figured it's a nice excuse to introduce a bi-colour spots! Note: Due to us having to launch news post early, the few Poses are still being updated with art for the markings. Please don't report them as missing or bugs until Sunday morning. Obviously as previously stated, Mutations are being updated separately.

Bug Fixes & Tweaks

Fixed - Lions that run away will no longer have their bases reset to Golden Solid genetics - and all currently borked lions had their genetics fixed. Fixed - Hippos not counting for quests. Fixed - Broken link in beetle death notifications. Fixed - Gender-specific Adult Mutations were wiped during a sex change - but the Falcon scry mutation info stayed. Fixed - Males showing up in Overview when looking for lionesses in heat. Fixed - Being able to nest same lioness multiple times. Fixed - Protective personality displaying energy error when trying to Preserve a lion at 0% energy. Fixed - Ochre Saltlicks not passing manes properly to entire litter. Fixed - Rocky Hills encounter awarding SB despite the SB cap. Fixed - GMO chicken not boosting mood and hunger via dropdown feeding. Fixed - Nurturing personality displaying wrong amount of max cubs on description. Fixed - Mozambique Mountains missing from WAS prize list. Fixed - Lab Frogged males trying to show male-only decors while being females. Fixed - Loner personality kings making pride members lose 10% mood instead of 5%. Fixed - May Personality Changer should be applicable to any male now. Fixed - Clan admins can now pay monthly renewal fees.

NEW - Added a new button - Suggestion Link - import lion to wardrobe from the page. This works ONLY for your own lions.

Art files Stuff from Xylax

Firstly, you should be able to see Cloudburst markings in wardrobe for all not mutated lions. Secondly, I am moving out, my lease is ending soon - and this means my days are very clogged. I do my best to catch up with files daily although slowly, but for now at least I can announce here that Tailless mutation is fully up to date. This also is a reason why Felis is not out yet - I do really want to launch it soon. If it doesn't happen on June 23rd, July 7th will be my other window. This is also why I didn't touch male poses yet - I'd rather start when I no longer have my head stuck in paperwork and packing. And to be honest, I would like to re-launch the polls for poses and add few new designs - hope you guys won't mind!

Remember that June event will end on June 30th at 11:59 pm and all your currency will be stored on your account until next year. Shad added new tags (I THINK?) but forgot to tell me where, so I will edit this later.. xD Testers, thank you VERY much for all your help this week

Raffle Lioness

Congrats King) Angavu (#29399)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Wilge River BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D

Polls and Dev Notes

Looks like you guys (with SMASHING confidence) chose craftable marking/base applicators. Sure, gems work like that already but that'd be something entirely different and I need some brainstorming first :D thanks for letting us know your thoughts! So, new poll LINK - Small idea for stud fertility requirements - simple yes or no!

Art Update: Crafting, New Beetle, Artist Library?

Two New Bases!

Redwood - Red Dark Solid Common - this is a Custom Base available in Oasis or Base Applicator. Dinar - Golden Dark Countershaded Special - this is Breed Special Base available via breeding - for example, Ebony or Cinnabar work the same way.

Craftable Items!

Hippo Skull Decor can be now crafted from 30x Hippo Skulls. Hyena Kingdom can be now crafted from 30x Hyena Lands. Guernsey Lily [2] can be now crafted from 30x Guernsey Lily [1].

Wait, what's that last thing? You can now find Guernsey Lily in explore as a droppable, 1 use flower decor! It is possible to find it in all zones, but only during Wet Season (lucky it's June, right?)

Decors Caught Up

Poses and Cub Stages had following decors updated:

Flesh of the Unworthy + black + white versions (holy crap that took 18 hours alone) Derpy Hyena, Goat Pelt, Ripped Chin, Violet Garland, Bloody Feast, Warthog Piglets, Cold Breath, Claw and Teeth Necklace, Flamingo Feather Decor, Little Whisper

Exciting, only a handful of decors left to update, really ;0;

New Beetle!

Metopodontus mirabilis is a new Rare Explore beetle.

Colours are: Common - Brown, Orange Uncommon - Red, Yellow Rare - Opalescent

Art Thread had an Update!

Firstly, we added Custom Decor .psd for Smilus AND we updated Mane Specific .psd for upcoming July mane - Blade Mane.

Secondly, the Art Thread has following new big files:

BG Southern Wetlands - NEW Aging Aardwolf - NEW Hungry Egg-Eater - NEW Angola Colobus - NEW

May Storyline Stuff, as Promised

Stages of drawing Vashkartzen Decor - NEW Drawing Vashkartzen Banner - NEW Sketches for May Chaptes - NEW May Storyline Chapter 1a - NEW May Storyline Chapter 1b - NEW May Storyline Chapter 2 - NEW May Storyline Chapter 3 - NEW May Storyline Chapter 4 - NEW

But.. WAIT! Artists! That's not all!

I want to announce something important. As an artist who came to be thanks to a sim game and internet, I always am looking to pay back that karma to the world. We value all artists on Lioden, and we do our best to provide a welcoming community for all that wish to earn assets or money using our boards. We've noticed there's many raising talents of commission market that I myself once was a part of. I started in 2010 as a humble artist for a (no longer alive now) sim game. I was noticed, met people, worked hard on my commissions, many other games, and it all led to Lioden. That's the dream - pay for your food with your art.

What I want to say, is that my mind is always open, and we as the team are open for future and whatever it brings. We are proactive about it, though, and we're on a lookout.

Send me your portfolios - for keeps, we're not really looking for anyone right now, but we want to make a library of people who want to put themselves out there. I will store them in a special folder and when days arrive when any of Lioden owners (or their friends) needs an artist for whatever reason, let it be Lioden or any other project, we'd like to always be sure that hey, this person needs commissions, and we need a specialist in ___ area. You can't really lose anything here, only potentially gain a commission!

Send me your gallery links, most preferably - but if you have .pdf portfolios etc I am open too. You can be a human art designer, background painter, logo designer, dragon specialist (well, we'd rather not browse xxx artists...). We want to store everyone! If you like that idea of an artist library with link to your portfolio and contact being stored in my hands - hit me up.

Email

Summary - Put yourself out there - send us your portfolio link for any time in future we'd ever need an artist for a project or big commission. Future might cover years, of course, we're not a big tycoon here but we do have many, many projects, and we have many friends too.

Bug Fixes Summary

* Rejecting trade offers will no longer cause the items offered to disappear. * Currency will now properly return to your account if you have offered currency on a trade, then bought out the trade with your offer still up. * Energy will no longer reset to 80% when not doing energy gaining/losing actions. * Energy will also no longer fail to regenerate when your king is fed properly. * +0 SMR will no longer display when amusing/feeding your lions through their pages. * Helper Paws will now display properly in Inboxes and PMs.

Reminder to Players

Please remember if another player is saying something like “Please send this to my friend, I cannot transfer this, I have some internet issue” it is most likely a lie to bypass embargo on their account - do not assist. Best way is to inform moderators to make sure players don’t try to bypass restrictions put in place for breaking rules and if a player is having some issues for real, the team can come and check out a glitch/problem in person. Please, report players if you see rule breaking asap in general, specially in chat - moderation (a bit like police) relies on reports. Sometimes they are around in chat but maybe at that minute they're replying to a PM or handling a ticket and won't notice a chat rulebreak. Do not hesitate to report problems - we strive to have comfortable, pleasant community. One last bit. Please do not get Lioden involved in personal issues from other websites and real life. We will ONLY react to rulebreaking on site - harassment, scams and lies, for example - provided we have evidence to back it up. We really can't step in if you broke up with your boyfriend and he has all your lions. Sorry.

Remember that June event will end on June 30th at 11:59 pm and all your currency will be stored on your account until next year. Pssst hey. Yeah. Missing mutation files will be updated almost daily from now on - couldn't fit into this update. Shad added new tags in June, Appreciation and Misc., check them out as usual! 

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Allóthriskos (#35103)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Sunset over Entabeni BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D

Polls and Dev Notes

Looks like you guys decided to see the manes being rewards for storylines! Thanks for your thoughts :D So, new poll LINK Idea: Craftable marking or base applicator? :O 30x of something (we'll figure that part out later), craftable, into, for example, Red Lace..?

JUNE EVENT

June Event!

Despite dry seasons, the storms have been relentless and kept on bringing heavy fronts and rainy days all over Lioden lands. Rainfall won't stop, it is even worsening now, and tribal shamans decided to help out nature and conjure animal spirits to stop the storms before they produce massive floods! At the start of every hour, Sangoma shamans will invite you to join a ritual - you need to give them a rawhide for drums! You can acquire one from any carcass that is warthog size or bigger - upon using it, you will notice the option to turn it into rawhide.

With this gift, you will be able to participate and donate goats for sacrifice. You don't have to, but the more goats, the better the effect of the ritual :O As more lions enter, the ritual progress will change and you will see the Sangoma dancing and calling the spirits. If the ritual is complete, you will receive a reward, and the floodmeter will slow down. If the ritual fails, the Sangoma will decide to help animals that floods and storms have hurt instead, and you will have to wait another hour until their services open up again! You will also see a message that the water levels are rising!

Rainmeter will grow slowly every thirty minutes. When it reaches the end, a Flash Flood will appear and you will receive a message! You have 10 moves to find some cool stuff in that area before it floods completely. Just click on the image! BROKEN DRONES AMIRITE? If the Flash Floods keep repeating, the Floodmeter will raise, and that's a serious scare! When it maxes out, terrible things will happen in explore for some time, and a ton of encounters will be very difficult, specially battles! :O your lions will also be drowning! - their image will show water! Every Flash Flood should also reshuffle Floodpit (June shop) items.

The season will stay wet for whole month! You can also find more goat herds around as humans want to enjoy the greener, wet grass all around and get the fattest milk. ;D The currency you're gathering are Dive Beetles. You can see them on the sidebar. You can access shop nonstop, but there's a thing: With each flood the shop's items will randomize, simulating otters gathering loot - and only shows 5 at any time.

CRAFTING

After you complete 200 rituals total, a Crafting Area will open for lions in Sangoma area. The human shamans will let you bring things here every year in June to get exclusive decors! From previous year: 30x Lion Skull - Skull Pauldrons 30x Pangolin Scale - Pangolin Ornaments 2017: 30x Rawhide - Seer's Hood

FLOODPIT

Floodpit received a tweak this year: It will remain open as before, but items will be now showing as unique randomized set to each player, just like Boneyard items in January. They will reshuffle with each flood (You have to ask the Otter what new items appeared, first). They can also be reshuffled with special Reshuffle Tokens.

Sangoma Oya

Per your voting and poll results, we have added quests without lore in 2017. New banner with Sangoma Oya will give you access to a small area with new NPC that will offer you a choice of three difficulties for daily quests. Each difficulty will grant the same experience payout for completing the quest alone (it adapts to your level), but depending on your choice, the currency reward (Dive Beetles and Reshuffle tokens) will be more abundant as the difficulty grows.

Oya will ask for items such as Drowned Hyenas, Goat Carcasses, Rawhides or Phantom Quartz (new item found in Explore, solely for this quest), etc, sometimes she will ask you to defeat hard enemies or to participate in a Ritual. Just like in May, the daily quests reset at rollover. You can also pay 50 SB to change a quest you got into another one from same difficulty. From what I heard, the lucky feet won't really work with the Defeat Enemy quest type. You gotta do it with your own paws, man.

Summary + 2017 tweaks:

- Shop stays open nonstop, items randomize each flood. - Reshuffle tokens are stored as player's currency useful for reshuffling the items in Floodpit! - Floods are harsh. While animals suffer in real life, you won't really suffer from gameplay, but some food items might get swept away by the flood upon every rollover. - New items such as Cloudburst Stains and new decors will appear as the month progresses, as there are no tiers. The dates they will unlock are shown in the descriptions. - Flash Flood image will randomize, we will add an illustration every year! Microburst Flood added this year. - June is a month where Gems are being washed away by floods and thus not really able to be found in Explore. - Explore gets two new goat encounters to supply you with needed goat carcasses. One of the encounters, depending on your choice, has special chance of producing a random domesticated carcass type, including GMO chicken! - Cloudburst Markings will be a new addition to the usual Applicators. You will receive one of four random markings in your chosen slot and opacity. The Cloudburst markings are cutout from non-existing base that looks like this:

The base is not planned to be in game other than a colour for June markings, but maybe we'll change our minds in future. The markings will appear in wardrobe at later time, The event starts on June 1st 00:00 am and will end on June 30th, 11.59 pm. Currency carries over to next year.

June 1st

Remember about June 1st, international Child's day! Exclusive decors are baby cubs and they will be in Monkey Shop whole June 1st.

Art Updates

We have updated some really bad outdated art from 2014:

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New Gems, Tweaks, and Side Account Links!

Tons of new tweaks!

Main page had a small revamp!

* Fancy new front page with adorable Play Now button.

* Gorilla Enclave quests will now log everything in your User Logs so that you can see where rewards have been given and what was requested.

* You can now link your side account to your main account. You will find a new link in the "Edit Your Details" panel on your den page which will lead you to a "Link Accounts" page. If you log in with an alternative account's login details you will then permanently link those two accounts. Once you've linked them a button will appear at the bottom of the sidebar underneath the Social Media section, you can use it to easily switch back and forth between your accounts without having to log out and in again. We do not have any plans to allow accounts to share assets (currency, hoard, etc).

(this Switch Account button will appear AFTER you link them! Under the Chat for mobile) NOTE: THIS IS JUST INSTA-RELOG. IT DOES NOT LINK ROLLOVERS OR ANYTHING ELSE. * If a trade involves Food items, it will now pick the item which is due to rot the soonest and will expire on the day that item is due to rot. * User forum activity page had a small visual clean up.

*Item page will now show awesome item details! You can access it from main page where items are randomized or by clicking item names in item catalogue.

Bug Fixes

* Updating your account info should no longer give you the error message that no name has been provided. * Embargoed members should no longer be able to participate in each others' raffles, or buy from each others' branches. * May Event Arenas should no longer delay 30 minutes with rewards. * (+0 SMR) food stat issue has been fixed. Rollovers are queued for any online users in a row system. It starts at 2:05 am and usually ends around 2:30am Lioden time. We will see what we can do to squeeze that in near future.

Antler Base Antler is a new Custom base found in Oasis and Base Applicator. The genetics are Cream Light Countershaded Common.

New Mane Colours New Custom Manes - Nacarat and Flint are available in Oasis and Mane Colour Changer!

NEW GEMS! 6 new gems are launching today and will start appearing in explore whole year round just like the other ones, in same fashion. Remember that during June gems tend to be swept away by floods so you might not be finding them. That's why we decided there won't be enough time to add new gem apps in July yet, so the new Apps will appear in November first. They will be available ALONG with the old gems, nothing is replaced! As you can see, it will go like this: November 2017 - Nuumite (base) and Fire Opal (eyes) February 2018 - Rhodonite (base) and Garnet (eyes) July 2018 - Labradorite (base) and Peridot (eyes) + obviously any ornament decors our team can come up with! This July will however include the Moonstone Shards (mane) option to craft to match other months! :D

Remember that May event will end on May 31st at 11:59 pm and all your currency will be stored on your account until next year. Looks like Felis will wait a bit with release to after we launch June Event - not too long though! Shad added new tags in May and Misc., check them out as usual!

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Valor (#111159)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Simien Mountains BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D

Polls and Dev Notes

Looks like you guys decided to have romance and non-romance options in August :o I have something in mind already, thank you for your input (and making me work more >:C). I would never suspect that we'd ever do a dating sim. Well it won't be a dating sim. Just some. Dating stuff. Fuck. So, new poll LINK do you have some ideas on how we could introduce celestial/skyward/sidereal mane colours? :D Of course some choices make them more rare, so I thought maybe community thinks in advance on how to make profit on selling Apps or maybe just cubs?

Mutation Variations, Regent Mane and More!

Mutation Variations!

That's right! You can now have a variation of mutation of same type! We're releasing now a first project with excitement to see how you guys like it and maybe bring some spice to common mutations. Our first project is Primal - we didn't really intend for this mutation to be rare, but we also didn't expect for it to become so popular. Players complained the value dropped and everyone has a primal now. Well, why not make it fun again? Primal males can pass on Primal trait, we can agree on that. You either get a normal cub or a Primal, unless that rare chance kicks in and you get another mutation. Now, in addition to usual cubs, Primal males can now produce a variation of Primal mutation called Smilus. It will show up on any male cub as Primal (Smilus). It will look exactly like normal Primal, but the male adult has a small visual change.

This is how Smilus looks like all grown up! How exciting! Primal (Smilus) is still a Primal, meaning it breeds just like it, has same passing chances etc. That's why it's a variation - only visuals change in this situation, and only for adult males. You can consider Leopon generation system to be of something similar - it's still the same Leopon but it has different trait when it shows (1st generation). We find it a nice first addition to test out the field! That means, using Buffalo Scrotum and Red Cock will give you better chances of breeding a Smilus! We have also added a special item in Oasis for just 1 GB called Pennyroyal that will boost chances of a mutation variation if fed to Primal stud.

- Primal (Smilus) can only be bred from a Primal parent. - Primal (Smilus) is a male-only mutation, and will show up since birth. - Primal (Smilus) has exact same genetics and breeding data as normal Primals. - It can be bred naturally at a low chance, but the chance can be boosted with an item. - Primal (Smilus) can become a stud and breed, but the Smilus trait is not higher than in normal Primals. - It will affect cubs only bred after this update. - Mutie on Demand: Primal will NOT give you the variation type, only the basic Primal.

Now be aware they are not as rare as Leopons, at all. It's just something 'rarer' to aim for or surprise you with! What about the future? :D In next week or more, depending on workflow, Primals will get another mutation variation that we planned alongside called Felis. The breeding will look a bit like this:

Primal (Felis) will affect male and female adult Primal stages both. It will work just like Smilus meaning it will have Primal genetics [meaning females can't pass the trait], and will be passed ONLY from a Primal father (no matter if the father has a variation or not) and I feel happy to show you a spoiler right away!

I wanted to show in Lioden lore how Primal variations look different from usual lions. Primal is very large, muscly, robust. It has short hind legs, thick fur, elongated face and sabre teeth, as well as bobbed tail and very fluffy mane. Females are fuzzier as well. Smilus looks more like a lion and is slightly smaller than Primal. It is very muscly and has long fur, but not as thick mane as Primal. It has longer tail than Primal covered in long hair, as well as long sabre teeth. I perceive them as very aggressive, but you can roleplay anything! Felis would be almost the size of a normal lion, is very elongated and lean, however very muscly. It has arched back and shorter, sturdier hind legs, along with bunny-like tail. It also has shorter sabre teeth and scarcer mane, but it has lynx-like fuzz on sides, females as well. The ears are tufted and body fur, where it's not sticking out, is very short. Of course as usual, mutations do NOT have matching decors. Decors match only to universal lions, if you want a dynamic decor that fits a mutation, feel free to make a custom decor with title/description that covers "For X mutation". Remember I am 100% fine with you drawing one of our own Decors for mutations as long as it's drawn completely by you! Example "Opal Jewelry for Dwarves" :D Also the battle portrait is moved down to match where head is. Decors on den portraits are always suited to how universal lions work so they might look shifted. This cannot be avoided. Cons of mutations. Future plans for variations cover refreshing mutations such as Folded Ears or maybe even Achromia! I also have something in mind for Dwarves (which you can suspect what it is if you watched my art stream! :D) Hope this new mechanic will bring joy to everyone and will make everyone excited. Let's not lie to ourselves, mutations turned out to be a huge part of Lioden, and I think I will celebrate that with everyone. Curious how the art looks like up close to see how I shade or any other reason? Check out the large .jpg files! Smilus Felis M Felis F Now, for those who aren't as much into mutations we have much more in this update to smile about!

Regent Mane

This is a new Oasis mane that you guys invented, suggested and voted on through past months. It should be ready with 95% of decors onsite and is ready for any custom decor updates you guys have :D I will update the .psd files in the art thread this weekend!

New Nose and Eyes

New Custom Eyes - Cucumber! Passing rates - (45% cucumber, 10% emerald, 15% green, 20% olive, 10% jade) - they will appear in groupies as well! :D New Custom Nose - Sanguine! not much to add here, it's not tied to any specific base yet so feel free to use Nose Changers :D

Bug Fixes and Tweaks

* May Event - New cute encounter tied to tier 3 and the Brotherhood storyline will appear in explore. Have fun hunting >:D * Fixed for future - Exclusive NCL markings/eyes/nose turning off when Event NCL's are launched. * Fixed - Peach Nose not appearing on exclusive NCLs * Fixed - Tree cubs showing wrong base genetics - will fix all existing cubs tonight don't worry! * Fixed - Vulture Egg stack not giving karma * Fixed - Groupies having both Poses and Mutations at same time (wowza that luck) - if yours is still showing that just PM Katze or Xylax for a fix. You deserve that mutation. * Fixed - Beetle skins not sorting in hoard * Fixed - removed hunger drop text when breeding lions * Fixed - wardrobe not pulling piebald info * Added subforum in stockpile for Gorilla Cub interest! * Added Userlog tweak - it will now show which slot and marking you used RMA or Marking Removal on. * NEW - You can now expand frozen and submale slots forever (no more restriction!), but the frozen slots price will grow automatically and we can't really tweak that ;'D hey at least submale slots will stay at same price as the current top one!

Remember that May event will end on May 31st at 11:59 pm and all your currency will be stored on your account until next year. After we're done with Felis I should catch up with pending mutation markings, sorry for wait! Don't worry, next huge update (there might be smaller ones first) is Explore Expansion :D we're on a roll! Thank you so much testers for all your help!

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Dawnsoul (#22310)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Rainforest BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D

Polls and Dev Notes

Looks like you guys decided in the last poll that community wants to have June daily quests and NPC to talk to, remember that in 2017 there will be no storyline yet! So, new poll LINK August Storyline thoughts? Help me decide if I should give you guys romancing option or maybe that's too cliche? Or, why not be nice and make three options instead? Halp

Gorilla Enclave, How Exciting!

It's Here... Gorilla Enclave!

Gorilla Enclave has been released! You can find it in Explore where a gorilla sits with a cub. If you cannot see the text, just hard refresh the Explore page:

When you enter the page, you will meet a very handsome gorilla who wants a seemingly endless supply of young cubs. His family wants kittens to pet, you see. They grow up so fast. Once every 24 hours you can accept a new quest from the gorilla and it will give you some criteria to fulfill. You can choose the difficulty of your quest from Easy to Difficult, and each difficulty gives a higher reward. The hardest difficulty can spawn a random super-hard criteria with extra payoff! If you don't make it on time to bring a cub to the Gorilla until cooldown ends, the quest will be failed and you can take a new one. - Cubs with trading cooldown can be given to Gorilla - Giving your cub under gorilla care won't make the mom lose mood

A new currency, Monkey Teeth, will be awarded to you through these quests. You can spend them in the Gorilla Enclave for a vast variety of items - many which have already been on Lioden for quite some time, others which are new and exclusive to the Gorilla Enclave. TAKE NOTE - GORILLA ENCLAVE IS A CUB "DUMP" - YOUR CUB WILL BE DELETED FROM THE GAME IF YOU GIVE IT TO THE GORILLAS. Gorilla Rewards: There's many rare and Oasis items you can find there which you can grind Monkey Teeth for daily and obtain them by just playing the game! - Ankh Scar - Egyptian Makeup - Feline Applicator: Auburn (from a user suggestion) - Feline Applicator: Ebony (from a user suggestion) - Eye Applicator: Nebula (from a user suggestion) - Eye Applicator: Zoisite (from a user suggestion) - Eye Applicator: Midnight (from a user suggestion) - Background: Herb Grove at night (from a user suggestion) Keep in mind we'll be adding plenty of new, unique stuff to Gorilla Enclave during updates. Example of planned future Gorilla Enclave rewards: - Unique Beetle battle Critters - Mantis, Scorpion, Spider, etc - Body Types - Chubby, Muscly, Skinny, etc! - Unique Poses! - More Ancient-Egypt inspired Decors! - Non-African Decors! - More Apps! EDIT - BUG FIXING AND ISSUES - if you experience Skipping Daily Cub Quest and it didn't work - PM #4 for a fix. It is fixed for future. Anyone who currently has minimum stats as a requirement will be able to submit with just any stats - we're dropping that option for now until we find a solution.

Now, let's cover those new markings and eyes!

Zoisite Eyes - 40% Zoisite, 30% Mint, 30% Pink Nebula Eyes - 40% Nebula, 20% Red, 20% Crimson, 15% Blue, 5% Sapphire Midnight Eyes - 40% Midnight, 15% Aqua, 15% Crystal, 29% Blue, 1% Crimson

Feline 1-8 Auburn and Feline 1-8 Ebony - these Applicators will be updated every time we release new Feline shape! Note about new Markings: Just like I mentioned during last art update, mutation markings (+ now eyes) will be updated through the month! Thank you for patience!

Bug fixes and Stuff

* May Event - issue with switching NPC sides caused battling quests to bug out. If you are experiencing this we need you to PM #4 Xylax and let him know - he will fix you for today. * Lionesses should no longer become hungry when autobreeding. * The Challenger achievement "Flawless Female" should now correctly be awarded. * Rollovers randomly skipping days or showing up twice/three times in same day - we think we nailed it with a train force - looks like lions did not age or anything, just some features lost extra days. We believe most of you contacted us via modbox and we'll give out missing days.

Remember that the event ends on May 31st at 11:59 pm, and all your currency will be stored in your account until next year. (tokens, repution and beetles, all of it!) May Event notes: We are considering adding something extra for tier 3 to spend your stashed reputation on, for V'Kai's side. We did hear you say that you can't spend as much as you earn with the cooldowns. INPUT NEEDED: Price Checks - we'd like to hear input from community on how should Price checks be posted on Lioden, and all issues connected with them - LINK There are new avatar Tags made by Shad for May - check them out as always!

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Nux (#7237)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Wilge River BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D

Polls and Dev Notes

So, new poll LINK - Since July storyline will be huge, June might not get any while we prepare. Unless you don't mind something small, I'd like to hear your opinion!

Inboxes return!

This is just a short news post to inform you all of some good news, if you haven't noticed already. Working hard on this, Michael managed to retrieve the data from our corrupted file and has managed to restore a good 4.7 million inbox messages! They should all be in your inboxes now. Some people may notice a few missing as we weren't able to get absolutely ALL of them, but the vast majority are there. Yay!

NEW SERVER, Explanations, Some(brero) Update

Downtime Again?? This will be a bit technical, if you're not too bothered about what happened, please skip to the next header. On Friday 5th May at approximately 7am server time, Lioden started lagging very heavily. We initially thought it was just a small blip and that it would all sort itself out. Upon further investigation we discovered that our database had corrupted pretty badly, which we believe was caused by the disruption earlier in the week with the physical data centre migration. The admin team very quickly went into alert mode; we discussed a plan of action. We weighed up whether it would be worth a 24 hour downtime for DNS propagation or whether it would be quicker to wait for our host to diagnose and repair whatever was going on. We also had the option of a new database server. The database server was sold to us under the promise that it would take 8 hours - we asked to be fast-tracked as we wanted to get the game back up ASAP. We were then told 4 hours (this was after 4 hours of downtime already, after first thinking it was a temporary blip and then having to diagnose the problem ourselves). 20 hours later, we finally get the message that the server is up and running. Throughout this time we took turns in sleeping and staying up to see if the server would come up, so the communication between admins was unfortunately very disjointed for a time. Had we known sooner that our total downtime would be upwards of 25 hours, we would have switched hosts immediately. We are extremely unhappy with the customer service we received while trying to get our server fixed/moved. Since we are on a new server, expect some lag for first 24-36 hours of your gameplay as your data is being cached. What will happen next? We will be moving host. We do not want to give this company any more money. We are temporarily staying put until we can set up a server with another company. We will then be requesting a refund for all of our pre-paid services (we like to pay a year in advance). We will schedule game maintenance for later this month, on a week day, early in the morning (server time) so that we can switch hosts. In 5 years of Lioden's life (and in 15 years of having our websites hosted) we have never experienced something like this that was also handled so poorly by the hosting company, and we aim to never experience this again.

I lost out on time playing! If you go to the main News page, we have set up a Downtime Care Package for you! This bundle gives Food & Toy bundles and Nesting material based on the number of lionesses you own, along with a bunch more goodies (some GB items as well). We can't apologise enough for this downtime - it has been completely out of our control. Your lions should be also maxed out on happiness and hunger. This item will be available until Tuesday.

Have you lost our messages again? >_> Thankfully we were able to retrieve some messages. We only have from Tuesday when we came back up, up to a certain time on Thursday evening, but we have been able to restore at least a partial backup this time. If you purchased GB and your new GB are no longer on your account, please send a PM to Abbey #1 with your PayPal transaction ID and we will refund it for you. BACKUP RESTORATION TIMES: Rough Estimate on backup times, as depending on specific Lioden feature, they are stored at different hours: 4 and a half hours before rollover for main backups, 3 hours 50 minutes before rollover for lions, 4 hours 15 minutes for Hoard. This means userlogs, inboxes, lions and other things can be restored from different times and there might be some discrepancies. If you notice "ghost notifications" just delete them please, we tried to restore inboxes but the data was still corrupted a bit. What about May Event and our lost progress? What about the storyline? If you guys will struggle with the event tiers due to downtime we'll see about tweaking them as the month goes! May Storyline will help you gather some Tokens and Manticora Beetles! Unfortunately we were unable to code or work on it ... again. So we might launch it within a day or two and include it in May news post along with a notification that it was launched.

Friday Update

Unfortunately thanks to the downtime our Friday update was cut short. We were able to implement a couple of nice moderating tools, including a tool to make moderator posts stand out more when they want to get your attention ;)

We will be working very hard to bring you a much bigger coding update next week. Bug Fixes * Roasted Lamb notice showing on all lions when applied to king has been fixed - it will now only show on your king. * When cubs are born, the cub number given by the ultrasound bat will be removed - you will need to visit the bat for each new pregnancy to find out the accurate number of cubs. * Patrolling males are no longer chaseable, killable or reserve-able. * We have attempted a fix of aging lionesses dropping to negative fertility - please let us know if you still experience this bug. * We have also attempted a fix of lionesses not going into heat immediately for the tutorial. Terms of Service Change We have made a minor change to the Terms of Service based on a confusing situation that has arisen lately. In order to address this properly, here is the new rule regarding referrals which will apply from now. "While the referral rewards and monthly referral contests exist, referring a friend to the game should not be incentivised in any way. This includes, but is not limited to, offering in-game or off-site rewards for signing up and rolling over enough to earn the referral points. Anyone found to be incentivising referrals will have any referral points revoked."

Remember that the event ends on May 31st at 11:59 pm, and all your currency will be stored in your account until next year. There are new avatar Tags made by Shad, for May and Misc, check them out as always!

Raffle Lioness

We had to run the Raffle again as the progress from yesterday was wiped. Our apologies. Congrats Khorshid (#8241)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Sunset over Entabeni BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D She has first Margay marking!

Polls

Poll LINK - We plan to add a new Mutie on Demand item for 2017's Black Friday sale (don't worry, we're not replacing previous MoD, we're just adding new stuff), We had some ideas so maybe you can help us decide which exactly would go well on Lioden? Twin MoD - Another 6 piebald designs, completely new and unique to the new item. We'd call it MoD: More Piebald or something. Somatic Black Patches - basically what I'm linking below - would look like somatic breaks that you can see on horses etc. I am open to suggestions on their shapes. Visually it'd look a bit like Melanism cutouts. Real life black patch on a lion - LINK - Front leg :D

Today's Downtime.

Hey all. Thank you so much for your patience today regarding the downtime. What was the downtime for? We received an email last week notifying us that some time over the next few months our servers would be physically moved from one location to another, and they promised us ample time to prepare for this move. We then received an email a few days later stating that our servers would be moved the following day, and that a time slot of 12 hours was designated although they predicted only 2-3 hours of actual downtime would be needed. We were alarmed that it was so short notice and the window in which the downtime could happen was so long. We luckily managed to rearrange the servers to be moved on 1st May. This was the main reason for the downtime. So what happened? 1st May rolled around and we waited with anticipation for the servers to shut down. As both coders are in the UK we were hoping that they would take the servers down just in time for us to get online and handle the aftermath. What we didn't expect was just how messed up the aftermath would be. What should have been a simple 3 hour job turned into a nightmare day. The actual moving of the servers was over and done with early on in the day, but when we logged in we discovered that pretty much the entire database was corrupted. We investigated the logs on the servers to find that the host had started a graceful shutdown (to those who don't know, this means that they were closing everything down before turning the server off) but as time went on we believe they became impatient with it taking so long. The startup logs showed that the "Database was not shut down normally". We have seen almost an entire day of downtime not because of the initial move, but because we have been trying to restore all the data that was corrupted. What does this mean? We have essentially had to do a minor rollback of the game. We store regular backups of our most important data so lions, members and hoards are the most recent - although there may be some time disconnects as lions were backed up most recently, then before that was hoard, then before that was members, etc. Unfortunately the one table we were unable to restore has been messages. The inbox table was completely corrupted and we have no workable backup. We are continuing to try and restore everything, and the message system will continue working as it did before, but until further notice we are unable to retrieve your messages. We will be working through the night to try and get inboxes back together, but we have no guarantee that we can get this working. We’ll do our very best however! You may notice that there was no rollover today - this failed to run regardless as it was due to run in the middle of the time the hosts took our servers offline. Due to the large amount of downtime today, we decided not to run it again, so nobody will have a rollover until tomorrow, as you normally would. Here is a list of the backups and when they were taken to give you an idea of what data might not quite line up for you: * Lions may not be as 100% recent as you may have wanted if you were on and making changes to lions (claiming new, customising, breeding etc) close to when we went down. We imported a backup very close to the downtime, which was taken approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes before the server went down. * The same goes for hoard, which is a backup taken 25 minutes before the lions backup. * User logs were imported from a backup taken 45 minutes before hoard. * The rest of the database is imported from a backup taken 30 minutes before the user log backup. This means that any activity taken after these backups is now lost. We hope you can appreciate how close the backups were to downtime to avoid further loss. Lion counts may appear incorrect for those who had new lion activity between the main database backup and the lion backup (1 hour and 40 minutes gap), but this should fix itself on your next rollover. GB purchases are of particular importance, and any that do not show up in your purchase log on the game or appear to have been credited to your account should be reported. Please send your PMs to Katze (#3) regarding this and they’ll get recredited. Mention in the PM the time/date of purchase, transaction ID, amount bought and the email address you used via Paypal. We’d just like to reiterate that we will be spending a considerable amount of time and effort trying to get inboxes back for you guys, but we can’t make promises. We’d also like to apologise for all of this mess - sadly it was out of our control, but we’re doing our very best to rectify everything!

MAY EVENT!

MAY EVENT

It’s May! The annual Championship event starts and calls for all lions from the surrounding lands to come and participate! A battle Arena was organized in a giant dried gorge for all lions to enter and compete in hourly matches to win Manticora Beetles and other fabulous prizes!

CHALLENGES - earning Arena Tokens Arena Tokens are needed to enter the Arena and win prizes - To earn one, you go to Event Page. Here you can press a button - script will pick somebody that is online. Notified by the game, they have 15 minutes to defend - the fight will happen and the token will be granted to the winner. - If the challenge expires before the person defends, the attacker has a small chance of winning the token still by a surprise attack! - Anyone online in past 15 minutes can get challenged, even if they are in the kitchen getting a snack. - If you post in chat but not browsing the game you're still considered being online. - You can Challenge 1 player every 15 minutes. - One person can be challenged by multiple people at once. - Stats do not matter during Challenges, only for Arena. - Nobody loses any Tokens during challenges, the Tokens are generated for winners by the game. ENTERING ARENA The Arena is divided into weaker and stronger lions so you need to enter a proper Tournament based on your stats! You can enter 10 times per hour, as you’re allowed to fight more than one match! The Tournament is going on, and at the hourly peak, the closing ceremony is hosted by judge lions as they announce winners and send out the prizes, based on your score! Don’t worry if you lose, you will receive a consolation prize too! Some are toys or food, but some are just not usable trophies that you can sell (or maybe craft soon? :D). Every win or loss still grants you Manticora Beetles, just different amounts. *Clarification: During Arena battles, your stats matter and the score is generated using them as base. However, we made it so, with enough luck, a 25 stat lion can still win with a 50 stat lion, it's just less likely. - the more entries, the higher chance you'll win! but... you spend your tokens fast. - if you're the only one in your Tier, you still will win consolation prize. *ARENA TIMERS: You can enter after 15 minutes peak (ie 3:15 am for example) and you have 45 minutes to enter. At the Peak (4:00 am) the winners will be announced and the judge lions (Lioden server) needs time to count all the winners. Raising Bars All the Championship participants work hard to unlock a new Champion Shop where you can spend your Manticora Beetles on rewards! For every win, the special bar will raise by 5 points, and for every lost match the bar will raise by 1 point! Explore You can also meet Championship participants and fans in the Explore! Fun! They might give you Manticora Beetles if you win a battle with them! And maybe if you claim a lioness fan, she will give you some too? 2017 tweaks: - Show lion stats in the arena list - Suggestion - Enter number of tokens instead of 1 token entry at a time - Suggestion - You get listed first in the entries of the arena - Suggestion Things that will appear: - New tier 1, 2, 3 items in shop (not only decors!) - Tier 3 will fill up with Lion Scrotum and Red Bull items! TRAIN HARD, BOIS - Two craftable items from the Arena trophies! (tooth and claw) - High possibility of more crafting of trophy items appearing if artists have time! - Notorious Loser encounter art has been redone as the anatomy was bugging me [Keep in mind I want to catch up with adoring challenger, flesh and other decors for female poses, but because next fridays are coding fridays it might happen at the end of the month] Go forth, brave warriors, challenge each other, and participate in the Arenas!

MAY EVENT STARTS ON MAY 1ST 00:00 AM AND ENDS ON MAY 31ST AT 11:59 PM. All currency is stored on your account and unlocks annually.

MAY STORYLINE

We have LAUNCHED! May storyline is different from how April worked. Let me give you a summary!

Originally, Every new Tier (including Tier 0, before bar is unlocked), a new Chapter of a visual Novel will be accessible in new area in the Event Page - "Brotherhood of Zeal". The Novel will place you in a roleplaying story with first ever small branching choices.

Because of server delays we have decided that Chapter 2 will launch on May 10th instead of Tier 1 - however in 2018 it will match tier as it should.

Tier 0 - Chapter 1 Tier 1 - Chapter 2 (May 10th in 2017) Tier 2 - Chapter 3 Tier 3 - Chapter 4

Take note that if you start this later in the month, you will experience chapters one after another in a row.

How do Chapters work?

You will be presented with a visual novel with choices. As you click buttons, you will progress in the story and your choices marked with *'s will have special outcome or will affect your daily quests! (Do not worry the button will for sure tell you what is the outcome!) Some multiple answers do not have *'s - they are just for your personal roleplaying character preferences - the outcome will be the same.

This is the only time we're introducing *'s so that you guys get used to how things work for the first time we're doing branching storyline! In July the buttons won't reveal if your choice is important! Chapter 1 will introduce to you a first optionable choice that will affect your daily rewards. You will see what it is as you play the game - but we hope it's obvious enough and you'll enjoy the boost (or lack of it). In case you want to change your mind, in shop, tier 1, a cheap item will appear that will let you change the choice you made in Chapter 1. Again, we're making it so easy ONLY because this is the first storyline like that ever on Lioden and we want everyone to make sure they understand new mechanics and enjoy the exciting, new feature. Now, Chapter 2, 3 and 4 will give you some choices as well - if you regret your choice in Chapter 2, next two chapters will let you change your mind two more times as you progress in the Novel. Daily Quests There are 4 Daily Quests you can do for your Brotherhood bro. They can be taken each day, but they will reset at rollover no matter if you finish them or not. They reward you with reputation and Arena Tokens.

What is reputation for? Special Reward of course! Reputation is "currency" you gather by doing daily quests for the NPC. The reputation is separate for each NPC you can side with. Reputation you gained with V'Kai does not carry over to Vashkartzen. You spend the reputation points on Special reward each NPC offers. Since Chapter 1 introduces V'Kai exclusively for now, you can spend the reputation only on his reward - it has 6 hour cooldown and costs 8 reputation to activate each time. I hope the disclaimer about the reward is enough information for you, but if you have any questions I can update this section of news with more stuff! Special Reward for V'Kai details: By spending 8 reputation you click on a button that auto-claims a lion for you. You need territory space. Your claimed lion will go directly to your den. There is no "Claiming minigame" like in explore. Newly Claimed Groupies have similar generating script like NCLs, however: Unique groupies have a tiny chance of having a rare base (kimanjano is not included here) Unique groupies can have ANY eye colour and personality Unique groupies have a small chance of having a pose Unique groupies have a very rare chance of having a mutation Unique groupies have a small chance of being a teen male (if you chose a chapter boost the chance will be bigger) Unique groupies have 2 markings randomly chosen by script, including rare ones (Mottled Rosette is not included). Who are the NPC's? Now, for people who are into the storyline as much as our AMAZING TESTERS were, let me say that we are introducing two NPC's here, to a degree of missing detail. You still are left with a big void for your imagination to work - invent the rest of the story, or backgrounds, relations and aftermatch. The Novel ends with an open setting enough for you to imagine the rest. Both V'Kai and Vashkartzen are brothers for storyline and are not claimable, that's why this time I will share with you their wardrobe details: Vashkartzen details V'Kai details

If you want to fanart the May Storyline stuff, you're welcome to join the official fanart thread! At some point after all chapters are out I will also make a package of all doodles and sketches for may storyline and post it here on the bottom for you to enjoy :D

SATURDAY ART UPDATE! I am ded now bye

SATURDAY ART UPDATE

New custom markings -  available in Oasis and Applicators: Trotters - Cream, Onyx, Red, Shell, Silver, White Dorsum - Black, Chocolate, Coral, Dark Brown, Heather, Henna, Onyx, Red, White Underglaze - Coral, Cream, Quartz, Royal, Saffron, Shell, Silky, Silver, White Wavelet - Chocolate, Henna, Onyx, Red, Silver, White Gentle Unders -  Black, Chocolate, Coral, Dark Brown, Heather, Henna, Onyx, Red, White New raffle markings - available only via Lioness Raffle win and breedings (starting next Friday): Margay - Cream, Dark Brown, Ginger, Lilac, Onyx

Remember that Random Marking Applicator contains all new markings right away!

NOTE ABOUT MUTATIONS

Because this update gave me no notice and I had 1.5 days to prepare everything, there is no working markings listed above for any mutation. I will do my best to catch up after few days of rest and event art - will include every mutation batch update in coding news as well. Sorry, I had no other choice here! (Primals will be priority of course!)

New Bases - available in Oasis and Applicators: Wild Rose - Red Light Solid Common Mauve - Red Medium Countershaded Common Sorrel - Red Light Countershaded Common Going all Red this week! Just like my hands from drawing! Following markings were suggested by players - since a ton of suggestions have similar names or have names we don't want to use, we sometimes change them, but keep the design as close as possible: #14892 - Margay - original #123 - Dorsum - original

Craftable Background!

Maybe you noticed a bit above a lioness is presented on a new background. It's a craftable background called Brumous Cold Morning and needs 30 Underbrush items to craft in Monkey Business!

Explore Encounters Dropping Decors

Giant Poached Rat and Purple Starling are rare All Zone, non-karma encounters that will give you a decor each!

New Monkey Business Decors

Narrow-Banded Swallowtail, Giant Blue Swallowtail, Crimson Tip, Eyed Pansy, and Banded Millipede are in Monkey Business for 350 SB each. Thank you Deertush SO much for providing me with 7 amazing decors in such short notice. You are the best supporting artist in the world

PREVIOUS FRIDAY NEWS POST WITH WENET INFORMATION - LINK

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT MAY EVENT NEWS:

May Event new content (and only that) will be delayed by 4 days due to server migration issues and internet issues as well. We are unable to test and code properly, so we'll release the new content on friday along with the update. Everything will be described in the news and added to Event News as well.

- May 1st news will cover the usual + small tweaks you guys suggested last year. - We'll post a small spoiler what is coming in the special storyline!

Again, we apologize for the issues and hope that estimated downtime will happen like our host said, on May 1st. Please keep that in mind in case Lioden goes down for 1-2 hours, but we might have surprising down times until then as well. We do have multiple servers, after all, and they managed already to turn them off before without warning.

Poll

Thank you very much for your input on the Regent Mane. Looks like it will appear in may! New poll LINK - We plan to add a new Mutie on Demand item for 2017's Black Friday sale (don't worry, we're not replacing previous MoD, we're just adding new stuff), We had some ideas so maybe you can help us decide which exactly would go well on Lioden? Twin MoD - Another 6 piebald designs, completely new and unique to the new item. We'd call it MoD: More Piebald or something. Somatic Black Patches - basically what I'm linking below - would look like somatic breaks that you can see on horses etc. I am open to suggestions on their shapes. Visually it'd look a bit like Melanism cutouts. Real life black patch on a lion - LINK - Front leg :D

No Update for You! Wenet Claiming

This is not an update!

Okay Xylax what are you drinking Sooo... the coder who had no internet in past two weeks was screwed and had no internet today as well despite getting it installed. And this time I didn't have the info in advance as we all thought the internet would be fine today for an update u.u we were waiting in hopes a guy would fix it but he could not fix it, at least not in time. So what we're doing is posting special news today and... Art Update tomorrow, so I have SOME time to produce content for you guys. That means April 29th evening Lioden time you guys are getting Saturday Art Update. We apologize for the situation and with me slowly melting with my graphic tablet into one being by now, next 4 updates after this are meant to be coding updates to make up for the swaps (however there will be a lot of art content in some so don't worry!). We also apologize for downtime today - Unfortunately the servers were being physically moved to a new location by our web host, which is out of our control. As we were not given advance notice by the hosting company , we apologise for the lack of notice on Lioden. The downtime might reoccur in next 3 days as they keep being vague about the schedules Oh also, we're gonna do new poll tomorrow instead of today, but Raffle Lioness happens today as always! Bug fix though I received information that retiring is still not resetting Spring Usage ;0; oh no!! Since we had like an hour with proper internet, the coder managed to squeeze in a fix to do that. If you retired in past two days and didn't use Spring yet on new king, but are unable to drink, please modbox it or PM #4 Xylax - he will check userlogs and manually help you Why am I writing about myself in third person? Maybe I am drinking too much pepsi..

CLAIMING WENET!

OH MY GOSH so you CAN Claim Wenet? As promised, at the end of the month, she is claimable.

You will see Wenet change her mind on Sunday, last day of April:

- You have only 1 attempt at claiming her. If you fail, you won't be able to claim her this year anymore. - If it's any help - her personality is in Kind spectrum! (she does NOT keep the pose) - You can use 2 GB or leopard orchid to auto-claim her. It's only fair considering most of you guys have no boost with Kind personality ;'D - You... you can slap and battle her. But why? - She will hang around in same place for the rest of the day though so you can finish your daily quest! - She is claimable ONLY on Sunday April 30th, but if you miss it due to real life stuff, I am sure a lot of Wenets will appear in the marketplace for sale from other users :o - You need to finish Storyline in order to be able to claim her

Remember that the event ends on April 30th at 11:59 pm, and all your currency will be stored in your account until next year. May event will start automatically at May 1st 00:00 and appropriate News Post will appear a short bit before that.

There are new avatar Tags made by Shad, for April and Misc, check them out as always!

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Anuari (#86197)! You have won the last raffle lady! New lady with the Simien Mountains BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List! ;D She has a new Feline 8 Silky!