DOWNTIME:
Monday 27th August we will be down for about 2 hours starting from 2.04 am LD time (right before rollover). This is to apply some upgrades to the database and systems to ensure everything is up to date and running smoothly.

The Last Art Update!

New Markings!
These are the last markings that were pending to be added despite being done a long time ago:

New Custom Markings:
Blue Dilution
Chocolate Dilution
Coral Dilution
Fallow Dilution
Gold Dilution
Heather Dilution
Henna Dilution
Onyx Dilution
Red Dilution
Silver Dilution
White Dilution

New Common Markings:
Black Vesture
Brown Vesture
Dark Brown Vesture
Fallow Vesture
Onyx Vesture
Silver Vesture

New Stuff!
New Fancy Mouse decors will drop from patrolling:
* Fancy Mouse [Blue Self Astrex]
* Fancy Mouse [Lilac Self Astrex]
* Fancy Mouse [Black Variegated Astrex]
* Fancy Mouse [Seal Siamese Astrex]

We know the Floodpit will start appearing after August, but since this is the last Art Update until the 14th, we thought adding some new stuff right away would be a nice idea!
Floodpit:

* BG: Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands
* BG: The Tornado

Monkey Business

* BG: Arch of Kamandjan
* BG: Night at the Beach

New Craftable Decors
20x African Wild Dog Skull crafts into Skull of an African Wild Dog
20x Cow Skull crafts into Cow Skull Decor
20x Lion Skull crafts into Lion Skull Decor
20x Caracal Skull crafts into Caracal Skull Necklace
50x Broken Camera crafts into BG: Hitchhiker's Road
30x Large Leaves and 20x Underbrush crafts into BG: Under the Tree

Reminder
The last Friday of August is actually the *last day* of August, and the following day, you would get event news. We've decided that August 31st will become the first community update without a coding update, so that we can give you more fun content for the September event.
Remember that starting September, aside from the monthly event news, every second Friday of the month will be the official update day, containing both art and coding news. The other Fridays will be Community Fridays and will contain raffles, comics, hotfix information, and other similar small things.

Art Tips!

The Art Style Tutorial Thread had an update! These are the following new things:

June - Step by Step Soul of Duat - Snake - NEW!
June - Sketching and measuring of Sagittarius - NEW!
June - Sagittarius - Wings on and off - NEW!
June - Ushabti - NEW!
July - Sitatungas - NEW!
August - Explore - Parched Golden Jackal - NEW!
August - Explore - Mysterious Stranger - NEW!
August - Explore - Dead Crocodile - NEW!
Casqued Hornbill - NEW!
Human Allies - Ranger (Female) - NEW!
Human Allies - Female sketch 1 - NEW!
Human Allies - Female sketch 2 - NEW!
Human Allies - Guardian (Male) - NEW!
Birthday Cubs - Dwarf - NEW!
Birthday Cubs - Leopon - NEW!
Birthday Cubs - Primal - NEW!
Birthday Cubs - Bobbed and Poly - NEW!
Glorious Manes - NEW!
Maritime Pine - NEW!
Mossy Branches and Mushrooms - NEW!

Raffle Lioness

Congrats PaladinLance (#20570)! You have won the last raffle lady!
New lady with the Moroccan Dunes BG up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Crossroads or in NEWS section under News Post List!

Tags!
Pre-made tags (avatars) are finally working again! Shad has uploaded quite a few of the ones that were pending from previous updates. Since they are no longer numbered, they might not appear on top of the list anymore. New tags are in Appreciation, July, Doodles, and Misc.!

LINK - New poll! With craftable decor from feathers, bones, etc., what sort of design themes would you like to see more of? We gave existing examples to base off of.

Next Update: Community Update! Next event update: Sept 1st! Next big update: Sept 14th!

Friday goofy doodle comic: