The December event launches on December 1st at 00:00am LDT, and will end on December 31st at 11:59pm LDT. All unused event currency will be stored on your account until next year.

December Event - Winter, Giving and Pooping

It's the Season of Giving! You can smell visit other players' dens and choose what you want to leave: a nice gift or a smelly poop! Gifting and pooping can be done every day. The gifting and pooping cooldowns will reset each Wednesday and Saturday at rollover allowing you to gift (or poop) the same players again! A real gift (currency and items) will push the Gifting Bar towards unlocking the tiers of the Guelta, as well as raise your karma by +1 with each gift you leave. A poopy gift will raise the Poop Bar towards unlocking the tiers of the Wallowing Pit and lower your karma by -1 with each poop you leave. Receiving poop isn't so shitty! You'll see why later.

Both bars can be fully unlocked, so don't worry - one does not exclude the other! However, there is a third bar below them, and it requires both bars to reach Tier 1 in order to open! This bar also has 3 tiers in total - it's the Mantis Shop! Yay!

Goodie Bags are disabled from gifting - you cannot leave them in other players' dens.

Remember that you can open your den gifts starting on December 25th 00:00am LDT and ending on December 31st 11:59pm LDT! Any unopened gifts will roll over to next year.

Note: You cannot ask for gifts or poops in any chat channel. You can advertise gifting/pooping threads in Sales Chat only.

Stink Bugs?

Explore encounters this month have our typical poopy Lioden humour - we just go extra silly this month!

Stink Bugs are the currency for December's event. You can gather them from event-related explore encounters. Some of the encounters do affect karma, but not all of them! Poop bundles also have a chance of producing a Stink Bug when you open them!

You can spend your Stink Bugs in the Mantis Shop on all the fancy applicators and decors it contains, as well as the Pose: Jolly [F] applicator.

Event Specials!

The Advent Calendar
The two sets that we had available between 2013 and 2016 have already rotated twice, and we believe the decors are fairly available year-round via the market. In 2017 and 2018, we've added new sets that rotate as well! Previous years' decors may reappear in the game within a special shop if we see that there is a demand for them. This means that this year, the 2018 set is rotating again! The 2018 set will appear in 2020!

The Advent Calendar decors are completely free - you just have to log in and claim your prize under the EVENT tab! You are required to open them in order of release, but if you miss a day, don't worry - you'll be able to collect all of your prizes as long as you click them in order.

The Advent Calendar runs from December 22nd 00:00am LDT up until and including December 29th 11:59pm LDT, but we will leave it up until December 30th to make sure everyone gets a chance to collect their gifts.

Melanistic Caracal	Merry Gray Wolf	Zephyr	Frozen Branches
Frozen Tree	Pointsettia Flower	Albino Hyena	Frozen River

* Albino explore encounters are a theme that we wanted to put in to celebrate winter, as most of our playerbase is from the northern hemisphere.
* The muddy/poopy encounters we've kept in year-round were added in this event a few years ago (Dirty Warthog, Elephant Dung, and Lion Scat). They're nothing new, but they're how this event started!
* The Wallowing Pit items are still mostly smelly and useless... but, you can find some treasures as well!

Something Builds Up...
The winter in Africa is... not really wintery. It's summer there, actually. But most Liodenians (Liodeners? ) live in the northern hemisphere and we all love snow time! To somehow mix lion and player fun, something fluffy and white will appear very slowly, so as to not disturb the African feeling of the game. The more tiers that you open, the more of this white stuff will appear in Explore and in other places, but not too much, and not yet. And then the Snuhlions will appear in the dens.

Remember that the Wet Season lasts for the entire month of December!

New in 2020
1. More Stink Bugs! We had a poll where you guys voted for more Stink Bugs from Explore. We've decided for all encounters that already give Stink Bugs to give +1 extra. We will consider adjusting the encounters that don't do much to have new text and buttons next year.

2. New encounters! Four new Explore encounters, two when Tier 2 of snuh in explore opens, and two when Tier 3 opens! Thank you for voting for the poll options as well!

3. New Wallowing Pit stuff! One new decor can be found in the Wallowing Pit, as well as a new rare Event Beetle token! It's a unique situation... the beetle species is not from Africa, but its name is "Christmas Beetle". Come on, we had to.

Muddy Slopes Tier 1

Event Beetle: Lamprima aurata Tier 3

4. Festive Gift! The Festive base that you guys voted for as well in 2019 will be granted to you if you give 888 gifts this month to other players! It does reset this year, so you can give it a try again!

5. More decors! Many new decors will be added to the Mantis Shop!

6. Refreshed art! A few older encounters have had their images revamped:
- Albino raven
- Lion in the dung
- Folded Ears lion
- Magnificent mantis

7. New base, mane colour, and matching markings! These are all themed around Reindeer and can be found in Tier 3 of the Mantis Shop. Thank you {Shamhna, 𝕋.ℙ.ℚ}🎃[S] (#9102) for your suggestion! We're breaking away from the blue theme for now, sure... but who knows what will happen in the next update? Anyway, genetics are a bit below!

Here are the details for the new base!

The genetics for the new Reindeer base are Cream Dark Countershaded Special! The nose colour is... Red.

Here is the list of all new Mantis items!

Tier 1

Icicle Fangs 10 Stn	Christmas Berry 13 Stb	Garland Tailwrap [Green] 15 Stb	Garland Tailwrap [Festive] 15 Stb
Piles of Snuh 18 Stb	Small Yule Cat 22 Stb	Yule Goat 36 Stb	Caroling Animals 60 Stb

Tier 2

Christmas Rose Garland 19 Stb	Fir Leaf Skirt [Green] 19 Stb	Fir Leaf Skirt [Festive] 19 Stb	Christmas Bells Cape 19 Stb
Willowmore Cedar 35 Stb	Badalisc 42 Stb	Jack Frost 42 Stb	Giant Yule Cat 42 Stb
Leucistic Fox 45 Stb	Koliada 60 Stb

Tier 3

Reindeer Base 150 Stb

Reindeer Mane 100 Stb

Reindeer Markings 75 Stb

Beetle Nemesis: Empusa fasciata 9 Stb

Koliada is a personal gift from the Polish artist, let us share more snuh and some of that lore with you.

But wait... there's more! We're adding two recipes to craft from Wallowing Pit trash! They will be available year-round.

Recipes:

Antelope Hoof Earrings 15 x Antelope Hoof 2 x Snake Skin - Dark

Rotting Log Pile 15 x Rotting Log

Reptile Roundup Level Information (From 2017)
Starting from December 1st at 00:00am LDT, we are counting your generous actions made during this year! Based on your actions, the Reptile Roundup level and skins may unlock!
* Snuhlands - give a combined total of 666 gifts or 666 poops
* Albino Snake Skin - give a total of 666 gifts
* Mole Snake Skin - give a total of 666 poops

Enjoy butt.

Be sure to utilise our official Wiki to the fullest during this month!

NOTE: Reindeer files for mutations will appear in wardrobe a little later into the month as we work towards Friday update as well! Base, markings and mane for normal lions however all can be previewed without an issue.

*** Also, this year, gifting and pooping will record in your user log so keeping track will be easier. The same goes for Advent Calendar rewards! ***

Winter Cub Challenge?
We'll post more information about if it comes back this year or not on December 11th!