Blocking System Adjustments

We've patched a few minor holes with the blocking system in regards to site event features.

* You can no longer PVP with players who have blocked you.
* September: you can no longer chase or stomp locusts within dens of players who have blocked you.
* September: you can no longer find the Horses of the Apocalypse on dens of players who have blocked you.
* October: as you can no longer PVP with blocked players, you can no longer infect players who have blocked you with rabies.
* December: you can no longer build snuhlions on dens of players who have blocked you.
* December: you can no longer give gifts or poops on dens of players who have blocked you.

We hope that this fully covers all event features that involve player-to-player interactions.

New Gems!

Every two years, we add a new set of gems to refresh the event crafting pool. A pair of gems matches one of the presented events—they have unique recipes and appear more often in Explore during that event! The matching applicators for these new gems will appear in 2021. For now, start collecting!

November - Cat's Eye	November - Bloodstone	February - Kunzite	February - Tanzanite
July - Star Ruby	July - Howlite

New Event Markings!

We've added a new crafting recipe for an applicator called Gregarious Swarm. This applicator will let you add one of four random Gregarious markings to your lions! It requires 25 x Locust Wings to be crafted, and can apply these four markings:
* Gregarious Brindle
* Gregarious Glaze
* Gregarious Reverse Vitiligo Mash
* Gregarious Undersides

New Combo Mane Colour!

The Soul mane colour is now possible to obtain while breeding for a Soul base!

To refresh your memory on how combo mane colours work...
When breeding Ebony x Ivory, you have a chance of spawning a Soul-based cub. When a Soul-based cub is produced, there is a 50% chance that the cub will also pop up with a matching Soul mane colour! This is the only way to produce this mane colour without at least one parent having it.

If a lion already has the mane colour and wants to breed, there's a normal mane colour passing chance, so you can pass the beautiful Soul mane colour onto any future cubs. The cubs do not need to have the matching Soul base in order to pass the Soul mane colour. Already having the mane colour itself is enough to potentially pass it onto future offspring!

Gorilla Enclave

The gorillas are introducing a new theme from around the world: Cambodia! Here are the new background and decorations!

[GE - Cambodia] Angkor Wat	[GE - Cambodia] Rumdul Flower	[GE - Cambodia] Painted Stork	[GE - Cambodia] Indochinese Tiger
[GE - Cambodia] Greater Mouse Deer	[GE - Cambodia] Banteng	[GE - Cambodia] Hog Badger

Reptile Roundup

As promised, we continue to update Reptile Roundup's old levels with fresh content. This time, the lucky levels are Underground Tunnels and Woodland! One more update left.

Gang of Meerkats [Underground Tunnels] 80 points	Yam [Underground Tunnels] 60 points	Naked Mole Rat [Underground Tunnels] 40 points	Golden Mole [Underground Tunnels] 35 points
Decollate Snail [Underground Tunnels] 30 points	Congo Peafowl [Woodland] 80 points	Red-Chested Owlet [Woodland] 60 points	Ackee [Woodland] 40 points
Emerald Starling [Woodland] 35 points	Obô Land Snail [Woodland] 30 points

Serengeti Shuffle

It's time to shuffle some Madagascar wildlife into the mainland of Africa! We have some new rewards in Serengeti Shuffle.

Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko	Flowering Crown of Thorns	Madagascan Flufftail	Helmet Vanga
Blue Vanga	Madagascan Fish Eagle

The Flood Pit

New decors have been added to the Flood Pit!

African Bullfrog

Eastern Olive Toad

Strong Skimmer

Abbott's Skimmer

We are also re-introducing retired Explore Zimbabwe decors from the July event into the Flood Pit!

South African Shelduck	White-Backed Duck	Spur-Winged Goose	Sitatunga Female
Sitatunga Calf	African Spoonbill	Slaty Egret	Dwarf Bittern Pair
Hamerkop	Vundu	African Sharptooth Catfish	Tigerfish

Art Updates

The following encounters have been refreshed or completely redrawn!
Karma encounter - Baby Giraffe
Karma encounter - Barbary Lion
Karma encounter - Cheetah Cub
Karma encounter - Dama Gazelle
Karma encounter - Running Gazelle
Karma encounter - Hyena Cub
Random encounter - Dead Zebra
Random encounter - Escaping Hyena
Random encounter - Cub
November encounter - Tsavo Lion
Battle encounter - Saharan Cheetah
Battle encounter - Gelada

Art Issues

The following art issues have been fixed:
African Wild Ass missing for Evil Pose
Event Scar: Protector stray pixels for Cub Newborn
Event Scar: Machete missing pixels for Wavy Mane
Event Scar: Bruised stray pixels for Neutral Pose
Newest mane colours missing for: Ferus, Primal
Qahir base missing for Polycaudal Female
Leonid base missing for Dwarf Adults
Cloudburst mane missing for Folded Ears Teen Male
Slithering Demise and Slithering Terror missing for Kind Pose
Monolithic Paws [Red] broken file for Cub Newborn (male)
Tropical Pitcher Plant missing for female cub stages
Malayan Pitta Flock stray shadow for Adult Male
Expressions: Anger, Fury, Delight, Sadistic, Fear, Determination, Smirk - adjusted all to match all mane shapes.
Lion pelts missing pixels for Barbary Mane

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Aleksandra Ivanov (#205946)! You have won last week's Snowflake lady, woo!
A new Sphinx lady with Dim Lilac, Leonid Smoke, and the second Lake Tanganyika background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

Tags!
Shad has added 17 new tags this month in the Beetles, Breeding, Miscellaneous ➜ NPCs, and September categories!

Poll Results - Looks like Wolf theme won! ... But, we see that Black Panther was close second - how about we make Wolf theme the main Black Friday decors, and Black Panther accents in Oasis, like we did with some other special Decors for Black Friday in the past? :D

NEW POLL - Will you check out Wolvden once it comes out next month? :O

Next Update: Community Update - September 18th!
Next Development Update: October 9th!!