Hey everyone, happy Brighthollow Banquet! Apologies for the downtime submitting prompts, we had a lot of work to do! We have tons of new content and other changes though so please keep reading for the full patch notes.🧡

Happy Brighthollow Banquet, everyxyn! During the Brighthollow Banquet, there are large harvests of the fruits, flowers and vegetables unique to Lunerest. There’s often great banquets and balls to attend. Rogue spirits float through the air and give out tricks and treats during this time! Xyns tour through Lunerest, appreciating the pixyns’ work changing the seasons. Xyns dress up in costumes to celebrate their ancestors and the lost spirits drifting about. The sky and forests are often lit up with these little spirits!

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It looks like Starlit Forest has discovered a new pwigi variant, only available during the Brighthollow Banquet! They'd be happy to give you one, you just need to do them one little favour. Check out this limited-time prompt under "Event Prompts"!

In addition we've added the "Pwigi Lover" plushie achievement for those who have collected all of the variants of pwigi! Claim your plushie and additional prize under the "Plushie Cabinet Achievements" prompt category.

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Wehehe! There's been a strange surge of nature magic this year causing the pumpkins around Lunerest to go wild! A mysterious xyn is visiting this year, why don't you check out the "The Pumpkin Prince's Grand Arrival!" prompt located under "Event Prompts"?

Get to this prompt by going to World -> Prompts -> Event Prompts

Discord Icon and emoji contest

We've gotten a bunch o new players and the discord is more active than ever so the time is finally here!

RULES:

• Discord icon entries must be 512x512 or larger.
• Discord emojis MUST be 128x128 in size and 256KB or smaller.
• Animation is allowed.
• Emojis must be of Lunerest npcs/items/companions!
• You may reference other emojis/memes but all entries must be your own art and not traced. You may not use a base and you may not use meme/emoji generators.
• Up to 2 icon entries and 5 emoji entries per person.
• Please submit all discord icon entries and emoji entries to the appropriate galleries: Discord Icon Gallery Discord Emoji Gallery
• Lunerest will gain full rights to use winning entries!
• Contest runs from [OCTOBER 1st] to [DECEMBER 3rd] - prizes/winners will be announced in the following days depending on the amount of entries.

Usable NPCs: Yuhi, Ryu, Kiba, Ruin, Sooshi, Oberon, or any of the shopkeepers!

Misc Tips: Don't be afraid to keep an eye on the discord chat to see what kinds of emojis people like to use and make a lunerest version of it! Detailed art is beautiful but a lot of it won't show up well on emojis. When in doubt of what character to use, you can use our community moxyn, Kiba!

rewards and PRIZES:

Entries will receive 5 charms per emoji (max 5 entries) and 7 charms per icon (max 2 entries), please be sure to submit your entries to the appropriate galleries. The emoji/discord icon prompts are also located under "Event Prompts".

Icon and emoji that are picked will receive additional prizes! Check out the winning prizes in the link below. We'll be posting any updates in the discord announcements channel.

You can read more about the contest by clicking here.

New Traits

Limited:

Halo of Mushrooms:  A halo made up of any kind of or combination of mushrooms
Waxy: Allows all or parts of your xyn be made of wax, or have wax-like quality.
Trailing Spirits: Little ghostly friends trail behind your xyn.

Alchemy:

Glassy: Allows all or parts of your xyn to be made of glass. Glass can be regular glass, stained glass, vial-like bodies, etc. The vial body parts can be filled with liquid or objects, but no living creatures, gore or realistic horror, please keep everything pg13!

Rare:

Round Nose: A big, medium, or small round nose is now available as rare trait for all xyns

In addition to Revel's Shop update, Isis Moonstone Shop, Sprinkle's Resource Exchange and Calliope's Treasures has been rotated!

OCtober 2023 Raffle!

Enter to win this Leafy Jack-o-Lantern xyn by drawing giftart!
This raffle runs through October 31st.

Get to the raffle prompt by going to World -> Prompts -> Raffles category

A reminder that users can participate in creating raffle designs in exchange for moonstones and special traits! Find the rules under the "Raffle Design Creation" prompt by going to World -> Prompts -> General Prompts category.

Rules/Item Changes

Lunerest has been busier than ever, thank you so much, everyone! With ARPG growth comes growing pains, so we're going to be issuing some balance changes:

-Knight Quest buff: backgrounds will now earn +3 charms instead of +2 charms
-Shading bonus: shaded pieces will now earn +1 charm (+1 festival currency for the monthly festival prompt)
-New rule for breeding: no inbreeding (this was an oversight on Key's part, it was meant to be part of the rules but was never added, xyns who are related to each other are not able to produce an egg together canonically)
-Jar of Vapour change: jars of vapour will no longer be earnable via prompts, they can be bought in the charm shop or moonstone shop with a monthly limit of 2 per month per person (breeding requires too little investment right now, so we're moving things around to see if we can take some of the strain off of Key)
-Removal of breeding prompts: vapour prompts are being removed since the jar of vapour will be available in the charm and moonstone shops now
-New general prompts: we're recycling "Connection" and "Dating Sim" into general prompts as well as adding "Profession"
-Plushie Buff: since the "Generalist" plushie now has more requirements to be earned, the bonus charms have been upped from 20 charms to 35 charms
-Knight Titles: Your xyn can now earn titles related to their knight status! You can put in a claim with the title you're looking to get added. Please list the titles you are claiming, you may only claim titles related to achievements your xyn has already done. For example, if your xyn is a royal knight, a scout and a royal knight captain, you may claim each title for that one xyn!
-Double Trouble: Reduced in price by 5 charms.

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Due to these changes, for charm-earning prompts submitted in the past month, you may retroactively claim the charms you would have gotten from the knight quest adjustment or shading bonus. We will not be manually hunting down every prompt, you must submit a claim with a link to each prompt you want to retroactively claim charms for as well as the amount of charms you are claiming. We will not be doing charm calculations for you this time. (This does *not* apply to retroactive festival prompts.)

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we continue balancing Lunerest to make it fun for everyone! ❤

New Extensions and Features

New Criteria feature when submitting certain prompts! We are rolling this out so it may not be available for all prompts yet. Click the "Add Criterion" button (right below the comment box) and fill out/toggle the boxes according to your submission! Try it out on your next Brighthollow Banquet prompt! ;D

Titles!

-We're adding earnable titles to Lunerest! We've added the knight ones as additional prizes for those who complete knight quests but we're also experimenting with adding limited edition ones! (Check out the "The Pumpkin Prince's Grand Arrival!" prompt for the opportunity to earn one of these limited edition titles this month!) Titles are still a work in progress, we are working on custom code to make them better.

Upcoming Events and Sales:

-Cozy Autumn Vibes Advent: THIS MONTH: October 22-31.

Schedule:

October 22: Warm Apple Cider by northfarer
October 23: Orchard Harvest by nopalrabbit
October 24: Piles of Leaves by Key
October 25: Grape Stomping by Key
October 26: Hay Ride by nopalrabbit
October 27: Scarecrow Friend by Key
October 28: Oktoberfest by Tav
October 29: Treats by the Bonfire by Herboreal
October 30: Hoard of Candles by Herboreal
October 31: Pumpkin Prince by Key

Key's designs except for pumpkin prince will all be preclaimable via patreon on October 21.

-Nightmare Before Christmas Advent: December 21-January 1.
-Random Other Key's design sales of chaos.

lunerest ko-fi memberships / Patreon Bonuses

Join to get monthly moonstones, event currency and a special monthly goodie bag at the highest tier!
See the membership tiers HERE

Join Key's Patreon for access to: Work-in-progress/Behind-the-scenes, Design First Dibs, Discount Commissions and more!