-LOCKED - JULY EVENT!
Posted on 2021-07-07 18:09:04
The July event launches on July 8th at 00:00am LDT, and will end on July 31st at 11:59pm LDT. All unused event currency will be stored on your account until next year. In future years, it will start right away on July 1st at 00:00 LDT.


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Previous July Event Information


As had been mentioned within the July event news for 2020, all mechanics relating to July's past storylines and quests have been retired. The Firefly Shop is retired, and the Firefly currency is retired as well. We are debating on creating a conversion system to convert Fireflies to Silver Beetles. If one is added, we will announce it this weekend.

All items that we could shuffle have been moved from one shop to another, and all previous storyline items were added to Tefnut's Temple (now Tefnut's Memories). We listed some items in July 2021's development update, but here's an extra list.

* The following items have been relocated from the Firefly Shop to Tefnut's Memories: Abaddon Skies, all sets of "Celestial Wings", Apollyon's Grace, Menhit.
* All items that were removed from Tefnut's Memories (listed in the July 2021 development update) have been added to the new Draco Demiurge Exchange: Celestial Horn Crown, all "Celestials" decors, all Shard Growths, Interstellar Wing Bands.
* The Frivolous Apedemak decor has been relocated from the Oasis to Tefnut's Memories and is now available for the duration of July at a price of 4000 SB.
* All generic Celestial-themed backgrounds and decors from the Firefly Shop have been relocated to the Draco Demiurge Exchange. Any backgrounds and decors left from the Firefly Shop that are African-themed will be introduced to the game through other sources within the next development update.
* Tefnut's Memories no longer uses Meteorite Shards, all Meteorite Shard prices have been converted to Silver Beetles. All items in Tefnut's Memories cost Silver Beetles except for the base, mane, and marking applicators, which still cost Meteorite Shards.
* All future special items and unique applicators will appear in the Draco Demiurge Exchange instead of Tefnut's Memories.


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July Event - Premise


This year, we're laying down the foundations for the new Celestial event. You can still gather Meteorite Shards while you explore the African lands. These Meteorite Shards become a new special form of "energy".

Starting immediately on July 1st at 00:00am LDT in future years, you will be able to access Celestial Explore, where you can use the charged Meteorite Shards to move across the space-time. A new map will open, which we will expand upon every year or so to add in new zones. This year, you will be able to access the world of the Draco Demiurge - the Draco Constellation.


A mockup of the Celestial Explore UI.



Celestial Explore is not affected by Earth's day and night cycles, nor is it affected by dry and wet seasons.

Each explore step in Celestial Explore costs 5 Meteorite Shards. You can battle and encounter alien beings native to this zone in order to collect a new currency, Axion Cores. Battles use normal energy and do not deplete your Meteorite Shards.

Speaking of battles, there's something a little special this month. Each normal alien enemy that you encounter in Celestial Explore can count towards a hidden bar. When you defeat and win against 10 alien enemies, you will then encounter a boss enemy. This boss enemy cannot be skipped—even if you click past them, the next enemy encounter you get in Celestial Explore will always be a boss.

You can use Lucky Feet on normal alien enemies, but not boss enemies. The bosses are powerful, but they do give out better rewards. Whether you win or lose against a boss, the counter will restart again. You can build this counter up and cycle through it endlessly throughout the duration of the event.

The battles do not have to be sequential, either. If you win against a normal enemy, then lose, then win again, your counter will still go up and will not be interrupted or affected by your loss. You do not have to win 10 battles in a row to encounter a boss.

Going back to the new currency, Axion Cores can be spent in the Draco Demiurge Exchange shop, which also unlocks upon reaching Tier 1 of the Meteorite Shards collected bar.

This currency is also necessary to enter the Celestial Raffle, which is available when the Meteorite Shards collected bar reaches Tier 2.

There is no new lore or storyline this year. We needed to introduce new mechanics and refresh the event's premise first. We will slowly build upon this world each year, like we used to do in the old days of Lioden.


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July Event - Tiers of the Meteorite Shards Bar


The bar is a global collective of all players gathering them on the site.


Tier 0

As soon as the July event starts, Celestial Explore is unlocked, which is available on the Event page.

Tier 1

Tier 1 unlocks the Draco Demiurge Exchange, which can also be found through the Event page. This new shop contains both new and old backgrounds and decors. There are no tiers to this shop, everything is available to purchase as soon as it unlocks.


A screenshot from the Draco Demiurge Exchange shop.



Tier 2

Tier 2 unlocks the Celestial Raffle, which is unchanged from last year. The mechanics are identical to previous years.

Every 12 hours, a new lioness will appear with a base, eye colour, and a marking that are unique to this month! You can pay 5 Axion Cores for a chance to impress her.

There will be a 50/50 rotation of Type 1 and Type 2 Celestial lionesses. There is no set order, it is random which type will be generated.

Type 1 will have the Dawn base (new for 2021), Stellar eyes (new for 2021), and a random Celestial, Leonid, Sidereal, Skyward, or Sunset marking in any slot.
Type 2 will have the Celestial, Leonid, Sidereal, Skyward, Stratosphere, Sunrise, or Sunset base, Dawn, Draconid, Galaxy, Starshine, or Sunglow eyes, and a random Stratosphere marking (new for 2021).


A mockup of a Dawn-based lioness with Stellar eyes.



Dawn is a Red Light Countershaded Special base and is tied to Dusky skin. It is from this suggestion—it fits the subtle Celestial lioness theme as well as the new colour palette of the Draco Constellation. Thank you, Dal 1st Gen Heavy F1-F9 (#149529), for the design!

Stellar eyes are a new Celestial Raffle eye colour. They have been added as a factor for Cosmic eyes, on the same side as Dawn (so to get Cosmic, you must breed a Cosmic/Galaxy/Jasper-eyed lion to a Cosmic/Dawn/Draconid/Starshine/Stellar/Sunglow-eyed lion).
Stellar Genetics: 50% Stellar, 20% Sapphire, 10% Saffron, 10% Tyrian, 5% Dawn, 5% Galaxy

Stratosphere markings are the new Celestial Raffle marking set. The shapes are as follows!
* Stratosphere Feline (4)
* Stratosphere Lycaon (Heavy Inverted)
* Stratosphere Undertone
* Stratosphere Vitiligo (5)


Tier 3

Tier 3 unlocks the "Murder Stone"—or, as we will call it from now on, the One-Way Portal. Mechanic-wise, it is unchanged from last year, and is identical to previous years.

When you give up a lion, you will receive a wonderful reward for sending the lion to the Celestial world. Rewards are the same as they have been, and are randomised as usual. Remember that we cannot bring back a lion you've sent on accident. There are many confirmations, though. It's best to give special names to lions that you intend to send through the portal.

To send a lion through the portal, they cannot be pregnant, nursing cubs, in a reverse breeding, set as a broodmother, offered in a trade, offered in a raffle, on a trade cooldown, cannot be frozen, cannot be secured, cannot be hunting, and cannot be patrolling. Cubs cannot be given up. Even if you chase a lioness's cubs, the mother is still considered as nursing until 5 days of cooldown pass.

The One-Way Portal does not affect your pride leader's karma.


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General and Extra Event-Related Content


New in the Oasis
The new background in the Oasis this year is M87* Supermassive Black Hole, inspired by the recent data flow.

Crafting and Gems
Under Decor Crafting in Monkey Business, crafting will be available right away. This month's favoured gems are Celestite, Jasper, Labradorite, Meteorite, Moonstone, and Peridot.

We have not expanded on gem crafting in 2021 due to the event rehaul workload. We will focus on this area next year, with a new base, eye colour, mane colour, and new decors based on the new gems (Howlite and Star Ruby).

The new Comet Shard, Prismatic Scale, and Space Rock items will be craftable next year. For now, you can sell them for SB to Monkey Business, or just collect them!

Wiki Information
Our Wiki Team will be updating the July event wiki page with all new content and information as soon as possible.

The Wiki Team has also created a new Retired Events page, which hosts a link to the retired July event, if any newcomers or older players alike would like to reminisce on older times.


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A Reminder of July's Combo Base
This is your yearly reminder that the Pulsar base can be bred again! What's unique about Pulsar is that it can ONLY be bred during the month of July, with the following factor bases.

Base Factor 1: Arctic, Pulsar
Base Factor 2: Anjeer, Blazing, Inferno, Prune, Pulsar

Outside of July, you can only breed Pulsar x Pulsar to produce more Pulsar lions.

Keep in mind that Pulsar is not technically affected by or tied to the event. Whether you participate in the event or not, you can breed for Pulsar using its factors starting immediately on July 1st at 00:00am LDT up until July 31st at 11:59pm LDT. Again, outside of this timeframe, you can only achieve Pulsar by breeding Pulsar x Pulsar, or using Crunchy Worms on Pulsar lionesses.


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Another Look at Interstellar


A mockup of an Interstellar-based lioness. It is a Black Dark Solid Special base.


As a reminder, the Interstellar base is applied using the Interstellar Remnants applicator. This applicator can be found while exploring in normal African biomes, and only if you come across a successful Meteorite Shard encounter. It is a very rare drop, so if you find it, congratulations!

You can also earn this applicator by completing the Journey to Vredefort Crater. This epic quest can only be taken during the month of July via the Adventuring page within Crossroads. Once you take this quest, you can finish it at any time of the year. There is no time limit for finishing the quest. However, once you complete the quest, that's it—you cannot take it again, it is once per account.

Check out the Journey to Vredefort Crater guide on our official Lioden wiki!


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Extra Information


In the following days, we will upload the Dawn base mutation files and fix various art bugs, including the new Draconid eye files that seem to have been overwritten with the old version for various stages. We will include that list of fixes in the August news post as a summary, but the work will be done this week.



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Edited on 08/07/21 @ 04:27:39 by a Moderator

Eifiekat (G1 sunset
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Posted on
2021-07-08 05:23:58
I thought the cost of MS was to make up for the fact that you don't use energy. But now you need it to fight to get Axion Cores. Soo basically if you want the applicators you're kind of screwed. That just seems really unbalanced. I appreciate the changes but at the same time, it's like 2 steps forward and 1 step back. I think the "sweet spot" would have just been giving us the increased MS chances and the fail encounter make up.

You definitely can't have your cake and eat it too is what I'm learning from this event.



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Jules (#184120)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 05:40:20
I just wanted to say that I enjoy playing Lioden so much. I look forward to waking up to see what cub's I've bred, exploring, and decorating my lionesses. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into this site which is completely FREE! I hope the naysayers never get you down. People are way too quick to say mean things from behind their screens. So I thought I'd let the admins knows that we appreciate this site every day!



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✧SandTiger✧ (#19265)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 05:54:38
Gorgeous event! I love it!



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os 🌈 (#70812)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 05:55:49
I've put hundreds of dollars into this site (possibly a couple thou, tbh?) because I believe in supporting developers. That said, I think that puts me well within my rights not to mince words about how poorly this non-event has been rolled out. The art is always stellar, but everyone's criticisms about the mechanics, exchange rates, and dull lore is valid. It's just a joyless grind for either MS or AC. You can't do both, and there's no fun in it.

Listening to folks about changing the currency in Tefnut's Temple was a good start. You could heal a lot of hurt by compensating people for their lost fireflies.



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Halloween | Fizzy (#35678)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 06:21:41
The new event is gorgeous, but the lack of story makes me sad tbh.

Could we be compensated for our fireflies?



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pluto [side] (#58766)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 06:26:00
Thank you for these changes. Like a lot of other people have said, using MS when it's used to collect Axion Cores isn't the best, but I'm just glad to see that it's gone a step in the right direction.



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Rae [G2 Frostbitten
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Posted on
2021-07-08 06:31:57
Thank you for the considerations but core issues still remain. The prices because there are no event occurrences are still too high especially considering the MS are also explore currency. 400 MS for an applicator or mane and 500 MS for a base would be wholly acceptable



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Rhaegar - The Raven
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Posted on
2021-07-08 06:39:13
Thanks for listening and the corrections but I'm still disappointed by this whole thing.

We'll never be able to do both which for me is not really an issue since I'm not interested in anything in the Demiurge shop and I don't bother with the raffles because the chance of getting one of those lionesses is non-existent. So I'm just going to be exploring in the normal way and spend the entire day grinding for hopefully a single Sunset app, maybe two?

And yeah, considering I was able to get six apps for my king last year, I'm disappointed.



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Posted on
2021-07-08 07:07:10
The sweet spot has still been missed by a very large margin, sadly.



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Eve |G2 Croupe
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Posted on
2021-07-08 07:09:00
Thanks for listening to our concerns and adjusting how you see as fair. I greatly appreciate that you all listened and did adjust to what everyone is concerned about.

I am still a little concerned about how MS will be used as event currency and for steps but maybe with the change in chances to get the shards will make me worry less as time goes on. The price for apps (though I am glad they are back to MS) still seems high and I’m not sure how I’d make enough MS if I still want to explore the new encounters for axion cores. Fingers crossed the up in explore encounters will negate that fear.

Thanks Lioden team!

I’m sure the story and lure will grow every year so long as this is the July event. It’s always hard to make changes to something so large. So I am starting to look forward to lake lore as time goes on.



The edit was just to fix spelling



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Edited on 08/07/21 @ 09:07:41 by Wayward|CleanArcticTripRoseCB (#217746)

StarShine (#170786)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 07:13:48
I just want to say thank you for the change back to the MS. It took a huge sigh of relief for me.

I do greatly appreciate all that you guys do!

I wanted to throw in the idea of lowering the cost of the apps, to maybe 500-1k shards. Kind of like you guys do for February event shop. The prices are super cheap, but in turn those items are still pricey. I think that would be super great to help with due to us using shards to explore as well. That way all of us still have the chance to check out the new explore zone and buy the apps we look forward to at this time of year.

As for the players who have the old event currency. I would do a poll, see if they want that transferred into sb, or if they would prefer it to be transferred into shards. Let them pick so that they know what they are getting themselves into.

Again I thank you guys so much! And you guys are doing a great job!



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Quantas (#114368)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 07:17:00
I’m super glad the SB got turned back to Meteor Shards for the apps, but what about for the other items, like decor?



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Posted on
2021-07-08 07:35:59
I'm literally so obsessed with this new base!!



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Pan! {Sutekh Ferus} (#15435)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 07:46:47
I wanted to chime in with a vote of appreciation that concerns were listened to and addressed, and reasonable changes were made. Thank you guys for understanding and making a change!

As a few have mentioned above, though, there are still some deep-rooted issues with the rolling out of this event, namely the MS versus AC conundrum, and the prices remaining (if we are to aim for items in Tefnut's Memories, it means we essentially can't partake in the new side of the event, for instance).

I do realize that there may be a method to this- that people perhaps aren't supposed to get to fully enjoy both? Pick one or the other? I personally don't see that as a manageable nor terribly fair way to go about it, and again would hope to see some measure of compensation either way (such as the decrease in MS cost for either traveling in the new event, buying in Tefnut's Memories, or both), but I do wonder if it's deliberate.

Anyway I'm starting to ramble, but that's my perspective.
Cheers for the initial changes though, it was a step in the right direction for your playerbase <3 I do hope the above can be given a look as well.



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oliver! [G2 🥧] (#163090)

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Posted on
2021-07-08 08:26:18
this looks like it has a lot of potential and i like the art and the look of the new shop, but there still seems to be a few things that could be approved upon during this launch (and i'm sure that there's not a whole lot right now, just because it's new).
firstly, i was thinking that this should have been better planned out; we had to wait a week for the july event to start, and now that it's here, it's not really an event more so than a grind to get either axion cores or meteorite shards. the decor is cool and all, but it seems very pricy, especially the decor in tefnut's memories; 4k for a frivolous apedemak seems ridiculous to me. i was going to speak about the applicators, but as of current they were removed temporarily (hopefully fixing the prices!).
this seemed a bit rushed, and if the mod team was going to completely change the july event, i think they should have done so in a way that didn't totally shock the community; a warning last year would have been nice, even if it was just giving a teaser or something, and a chance to say goodbye to tefnut, meinhit, apollyon, and apedemak would have been nice.
as well as a conclusion to the former july event, i definitely think there should have been at least a little bit of lore given, even if it was just a baseline idea. we have no idea why our lions can suddenly walk in the cosmos, so that definitely was a shock!
secondly, i would like to see more information on the boss characters, and why they're considered bosses/their role in everything! especially since i've seen a lot of people are upset about getting beat up by the bosses.
thirdly, the meteorite shard per step issue. you have to have at least 10% energy if you want to do the celestial explore, and the things in the demiurge exchange cost a lot of axion cores.
my suggestion would be to have the meteorite shard cost of exploring be like the normal explore! 1-3% energy is used per step in explore, so it would make sense to have 1-3 meteorite shards be spent per step, instead of 5. as well as that, i think it would be good if the empty explore steps were taken out- you're spending currency to explore, and it's unfair if you don't get anything out of your steps.
i don't get having to have 10% minimum in case of celestial being battles, especially since you can fight in normal explore when you have <10% energy; i think that needs to be revised!
another idea i had, would be having your lion finding meteorite shards and axion cores in the celestial explore, like you can find silver beetles in the normal explore. it just makes sense in my brain, and it would reimburse players for their meteorite shards spent exploring!
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that's all the suggestions i have for now; thank you in advance, if you guys read this! i know there's a lot of upset going on right now with the community, and i'm sure there was no ill intent for this launch.
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EDIT: i posted this before i saw the 8:20am update! i'm glad a few of these things have been done already, haha.
another thing i wanted to add, fighting the interstellar beings doesn't give you that much exp! i got 157exp from a stellar drake, and the difficulty i had fighting it was about the same as fighting a hippo, rhino, or elephant in explore....
think, if you were a knight and went to slay a dragon for your queen, and she gave you a pat on the back and a gold sticker. that's what the reward felt like.
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blessed be <3



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Edited on 08/07/21 @ 08:58:52 by elisheva ☀️ (#163090)



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