-LOCKED - August Development Update #71!
Posted on 2024-08-09 23:09:11

Event Update


New Shop Items

Spider Warning - New Beetle Nemeses!
We're adding two new Beetle Nemeses to each shop - Beetle Nemesis: Galeodes arabs in The Destroyers and Beetle Nemesis: Pelinobius muticus in The Preservers! Below the spoiler is the artwork for the nemeses, and some blurred images for them in the shop table. If you're arachnophobic or just don't want to see spiders, please do not open the spoiler! If you have access to uBlock or AdBlock, you can enter galeodesarabs and pelinobiusmuticus within the blocked elements to avoid seeing the images site-wide. You can also follow the Lioden Wiki Guide to Blocking Images!


Beetle Nemesis: Pelinobius muticus
Beetle Nemesis: Pelinobius muticus
The Preservers
Nubian Ibex Calf
Nubian Ibex Calf
The Preservers
Beetle Nemesis: Galeodes arabs
Beetle Nemesis: Galeodes arabs
The Destroyers
Burned Destroyers Bodywear
Burned Destroyers Bodywear
The Destroyers



New Encounters

Four new encounters have been added to the game!



These encounters introduce some new items, so let us explain!

- A weak antelope encounter might drop a Kob Horn. This item is similar to the way Roasted Vultures and Shamanic Stews work, except it boosts the Agility stat. Only one of these items can be active at one time during a breeding.


- A new Mysterious Stranger encounter (albeit less rare than the one that drops Solaris) might drop a Mushroom Brew. Using this item on a stud will use 1% less energy per breeding until the breeding is successful. You cannot stack multiple uses of the item on one stud—only one Mushroom Brew can be active at one time on a stud.


- Oh, and this? Road Cone. It's just a hat toy.



New Crafting Item

During the month of August, you can now craft Korobela.

You can use this item when in the claiming screen to reroll an NCL. A brand new NCL will be created when this item is used. It will not reroll an NCL into a chased NCL, nor will it roll a chased NCL into another chased NCL.

This item can only be used once per claim, and only before you start making moves to impress a lioness. It also cannot be used when claiming Wenet or her cousins.

Recipe: 25x African Cucumber, 20x Aloe Leaf, 15x Stripped Cacti, 10x Water Root, 5x Herb: Marula Fruit.


New Mane Colours

Three new mane colours have been added to the game: Ruffian, Scoundrel, and Ukame! These mane colours can only be achieved through breeding to a Savage Stud with the relevant mane colour.




Addressing Savage Studs

As some of you may have noticed, a Scoundrel stud was released today (9th August) despite us stating in the August event news post that Bandit and Scoundrel would not be included in the Savage Stud lineup.

We polled this past week to gauge feedback from the community about whether you all would like to see more than 6 Savage Studs during the event, and the responses were so overwhelmingly positive towards more studs that we implemented a new stud system to give more flexibility, therefore allowing more to be created!

This comes with a caveat. We will be releasing more than 6 Savage Studs, and Bandit will be included in the lineup as well; however, we will not be cycling through previous studs this time around for the rest of the month. This means that through the remaining days of August, every day will have a different Savage Stud. Once the August event ends, we will release another poll to collect feedback on the system, and see if any adjustments may be desired for future years.


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New Markings


Feline 10

We are finishing off the Feline set with Feline 10!

Tier 2 (Raffle) *
- Feline 10 Black
- Feline 10 Dark Brown
- Feline 10 Fiery
- Feline 10 Ginger
- Feline 10 Gold
- Feline 10 Lilac
- Feline 10 Noctis
- Feline 10 Onyx
- Feline 10 Silky
- Feline 10 Silver
* These are introduced as Tier 5 in order to prevent them from being applied early via RMAs/Total Shuffles until the raffle lioness with the first marking is delivered to her owner. Once the raffle lioness is delivered to her owner, the marking is then set to Tier 2!

Tier 5 (Applicator/Enclave) *
- Feline 10 Auburn
- Feline 10 Decennial
- Feline 10 Ebony
- Feline 10 Elysian
- Feline 10 Maroon
- Feline 10 Orchid
* These are available straight away within their respective marking applicators!



Eye Rims

A new way to customise and accent your lions!

Tier 1 (Custom)
- Algae Eye Rims
- Black Eye Rims
- Bone Eye Rims
- Brown Eye Rims
- Cream Eye Rims
- Dark Brown Eye Rims
- Gold Eye Rims
- Henna Eye Rims
- Noctis Eye Rims
- Onyx Eye Rims
- Pistachio Eye Rims
- Red Eye Rims
- Royal Eye Rims
- Shell Eye Rims
- Silky Eye Rims
- White Eye Rims

Tier 2 (Raffle) *
- Lilac Eye Rims
* This is introduced as Tier 5 in order to prevent it from being applied early via RMAs/Total Shuffles until the raffle lioness with the first marking is delivered to her owner. Once the raffle lioness is delivered to her owner, the marking is then set to Tier 2!

Tier 3 (NCL Exclusive)
- Marigold Eye Rims

Thank you for the suggestion, TrollBerserker[PFM] ⚡ (#110675)!



Feralis, Maofelis, and Nimravus

We've added in some additional recolours for Feralis, Maofelis, and Nimravus markings!

Tier 6 (RMA Exclusive)
- Feralis Cimmerian
- Feralis Doubloon
- Feralis Pistachio
- Maofelis Cimmerian
- Maofelis Doubloon
- Maofelis Pistachio
- Nimravus Cimmerian
- Nimravus Doubloon
- Nimravus Pistachio

Note: We'll be slowly updating files for Feralis, Maofelis, and Nimravus. A lot of older mutation .PSDs for these marking shapes are lost, and we're trying to recover the files to recolour them! It looks like some of the markings need to be recreated via selections as they are lost completely, but we hope they won't differ too much from originals (e.g. Adult Dwarfism).



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Following Up on "Discussion: Raffle Lionesses"


Thank you to everyone who participated in this discussion topic! Many of you gave very helpful comments with a lot of insight. We will be taking this week to summarise feedback and construct polls to see how the majority prefers to move forward, and we aim to release these polls next Friday.


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Coding Bug Fix


* The mane colour field in Search was being overridden by some browsers/extensions; this field has been renamed and should function properly in all browsers now

Miscellaneous Adjustments


* Added a Monkey Business sale price for Bohor Reedbuck Carcass
* Adjusted item description grammar for Roasted Vulture and Shamanic Stew
* Fixed a typo in the item description for [Raffle] Kyambura Gorge
* Gaining a stat from eating the beetle larva in explore will now display the stat gain as well as create a user log entry for the stat gain (the stat was always applied to kings, but did not show that it was gained in explore/user logs)
* The GB sales confirmation prompt now includes the amount and total value of your GB (e.g., "Are you sure you want to list 1 GB for sale for a total of 1200 SB?")


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Raffle Lioness


Congrats to the winner of last week's raffle lioness!
A new Nadir lady with the first Aegean eyes, Feline 10 Silver (NEW!), White Crackle, and the third Lopé National Park background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

There are no new tags this week! Shad may be looking into adding them in a near update.

Poll Results - Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! We addressed the overwhelming votes to have more than 6 Savage Studs above!

NEW POLL - Did you enjoy the Jaglion Adventure? Let us know in this week's poll!


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Next Update: Community Update - August 16th!
Next Development Update: September 13th!!




Where's the official raffle and Friday comic?
Community raffles and Friday doodles are only released on community updates. This is a development update, so no raffle or doodle will be released this week, sorry!



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Edited on 10/08/24 @ 00:05:11 by Katze (#3)

mantisbeans (#476250)

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Posted on
2024-08-10 07:44:21
NEWWSSSS RAGGHH



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Posted on
2024-08-10 07:48:26
yippee news! The spiders are cute :3



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Vixxie | G1 13bo
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Posted on
2024-08-10 07:50:02
Love seeing new BO mane colors! Would love to see even more soon, we have a big lack of them compared to applicators



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Posted on
2024-08-10 07:52:10
I love the new encounters!



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ℜuki | HIATUS (#93596)


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Posted on
2024-08-10 07:56:33
Thanks for the update as always.
However, being honest, there's something I don't quite understand the point of, and that is Korobela? I might understand if it had a higher chance of rolling a chased compared to explore (for example), but as is it, I don't really see the benefit of spending resources on crafting it instead of just slapping and continuing exploring and/or using catnip (much easier imo). Just my two cents.



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2024-08-10 07:57:08
Newwwwwwwwwwwssssssssssss



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Posted on
2024-08-10 07:58:51
Devs, I hate to say it but you missed this one.

Lots of us were waiting to see the studs that would cycle through before trying to breed to them - I only managed to get two breedings with the Nomad boy, when if I had known he wouldn't pop up again I would have bred to him more.

It would have been better if you gave us warning and actually communicated - which we have had talks about in the past as not being your strong suit - may I redirect you to this newspost dated 15th December 2023, where you were all for the "spirit of open communication" when it came to the accusations regarding a staff member being colour blind as well as the plans for the base pack/jaglions - but why do you insist on not communicating about basic game changes in advance? So people can prepare?

The game feels so unstable I dread opening news, I've poured a LOT of $$$ into this game for a disabled person, but you're pandering to the wrong people with this "change". It's impossible for the average player to gain 200DB a day to breed to *checks notes* the next 21 studs - that's 4,200DB in a month when the highest dry bones you can get from an encounter is +5 dry bones in a grand total of 3 encounters - disregarding the "mysterious stranger" who I have seen once in countless energy bars over 11 days who gave me +20 Dry Bones, but has a chance to drop 20-50 if you encounter him.. This means the average player exploring every 2.5 hours (when energy refills) would have to encounter the mysterious stranger 20 times or one of the +5 encounters 40 times a day in order to afford one studding to the new daily savage males.

I get it, the events get stale, but this was not the change we asked for.





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Edited on 10/08/24 @ 08:15:33 by Fraekinn [Semi Hiatus] (#57572)

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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:04:11
newsssss love all the new things



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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:04:36
newssssssssssssssssssss



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Nani (#303087)

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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:06:15
All of these new additions are so cute!!!!



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MorningStar -G1
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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:06:36
@fraekinn
I get this, having set studs for the month helps you know what your dealing with, and allows you to save currency accordinly,

I also feel the 200bones/600bugs fee is really high if your gonna have so many diffrent/new studs going around, especially with how expensive backgrounds are and things.

its gonna suck if you waste your bones/bugs on one stud to find the next random one generated is so much more amazing but theres zero chance you can earn enough bones/bugs in under 24hours.




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Fraekinn [15BO
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2024-08-10 08:09:23
@Morningstar - precisely, especially when there are other big ticket items people need in order to get through to February - Buffalo Scrotums & Grains of Paradise for example.

Scrotums atm are going for 17GB on average right now and cost 600DB, that means if we convert to GB 200DB is about 5.6GB - which lets be honest, most of us won't get cubs worth 5.6GB from the studding, making it a waste - especially now.



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🌙 Morrígra
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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:18:22
Agreed with Fraekinn and Morningstar

I love the idea of a new savage stud....maybe every THIRD day. Or they rotate back again once through. My biggest thing that I would support? A massive decrease in studding cost with this change. Should've been a no brainer. Who the fuck has that many bones or beetles??? Ive been daily rolling this whole month (ANDD have over 800 of my bones and more than half my beetles saved from last year/the years before that!) but with working full time? And SLEEPING? I'm at just under 900 beetles and 1350 bones. I can afford 7 studdings MAX after TWO YEARS of saving! That's ridiculous. I haven't bred to any of the studs yet because I was waiting to see who else was coming knowing I only had 1 studding with beetles before dipping into my buffy bones - everyone that did that just wont get to breed to the double scoundrel and nomad boys I guess.



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Edited on 10/08/24 @ 08:20:34 by 🌙 Morrígra 🌙 (#33027)

Square (#485374)

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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:25:41
Wow great news update! Thanks!



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2024-08-10 08:36:15
I agree with you guys about the lack of communication. Had this been communicated in advance, that's one thing. But it wasn't and I was prepared for these studs to return and breed to them again. Heck, I even aged up a cub to breed back to her dad when he came back around, only to find out that he will NOT be coming back around.

If the cost was lowered, it would help a bit, but there's still the issue of FOMO... what if tomorrow's stud is better? But then, nope, yesterday's was ACTUALLY better so now what's the point of even breeding to any of them?

I usually don't play much in August because I'm too busy, but I've done my best to set up my accounts to keep one rolling throughout the month PURELY to breed to the Savage studs. They make this event for me, and again, I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.



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Edited on 10/08/24 @ 08:38:02 by vermax | G2 Ebony Smilus (#78309)



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