-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)

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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:48:55
Let’s pretend I’m first



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Taka (#472350)

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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:50:40
newsssss



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DawnStar (#166818)

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Posted on
2024-08-10 08:51:48
I'm on the lets make two to three studs. Per day so we can get rerolls, Maybe lower the cost. I just hate the new implementation atm and I know not everyone breeds to the studs or cares. But theres a lot of us who were planning on breeding twice or a few times after we see everything. But now they removed that. They haven't shown us any of the other studs. So I am gonna just not breed this year which sucks. Its very sad that it wasn't communicated day one for studs. Cuz I wouldhave bred to that nomad had I known. I was planning on breeding to the nomad his next time around and nothing. I think I might set up a suggestion. I dunno.

That and waiting for the end of the month to collect data is frustrating😭



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Edited on 10/08/24 @ 08:56:34 by Wolvesofthenight (#101070)

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Posted on
2024-08-10 09:30:28
thanks for the updates, i've already found 2 of the new encounters :)



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Posted on
2024-08-10 09:42:56
WOOOOO New encounters plus stuff yeah!



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2024-08-10 09:51:47
Something I really liked from the Raffle Lioness news discussion post was that filler comments that are just "NEWSSSSSS" would get deleted, allowing actual comments regarding changes and potential changes to show up and not get buried. Maybe something like that could be implemented for development updates? (The other 3 community updates each month wouldn't need to be changed)

I do like that all of the maneater studs rotating daily will promote greater marking and trait diversity though. 6 studs wasn't enough for sure. Though I do agree that picking and choosing which ones to actually spend CB and DB on will be harder now since you won't really know what's going to appear for the rest of the month. Cost reduction would be nice, or a selection of 2-3 males per day like someone else suggested earlier!

Mushroom Brew seems kind of worthless in my opinion ;-; 1% energy per breeding attempt on ONE lioness until she's bred is really... lackluster lol. If she takes 10 attempts I guess you can save 10% energy which is now enough for 2 more attempts, but it just makes more sense to buy a chasteberry for 100 SB and not have to do that many attempts in the first place. If it worked for a full rollover when applied to your male, mass-breeders would likely actually want it! The Mysterious Stranger encounter is too rare for this item's current iteration.



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Edited on 10/08/24 @ 09:53:04 by Terrinthia [G1] (#97101)

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2024-08-10 10:23:33
The savage stud manes are SO GOOD. Hope to see bandit, vagabond, etc next year. I do wish the CB cost was lowered as I will be scraping by with both forms of currency and carefully having to choose which studs to breed to going forward this month but I appreciate the compromise! Xy you'll have your work cut out for you!



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Posted on
2024-08-10 10:24:13
I KNEW THERE WERE NEW ENCOUNTERS. I KNEW IT.



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2024-08-10 10:26:03
Newssssssssss



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Posted on
2024-08-10 10:42:25
@Terrinthia [G1] (#97101)

has more use then one of the other new item which I personally feel is pointless (Korobela)

but I do agree it needs improving, either making it so it lasts for the day/multiple breedings or makes it like a 5% reduction.
unless of course its gonna be a really common item, but I don't think it is.



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2024-08-10 11:15:32
The Korobela crafting item seems like it COULD be a good item in certain instances for event NCLs, people looking for combo factors, etc. but it seems far too expensive for an item that isn't going to have much use for the majority of players?

I understand that there's a need for more items that use herbs up since there are a lot of users who frequently battle beetles dozens of times a day, but 75 herbs seems like an absurd number to reroll a basic NCL ONCE.

As an Asiatic breeder, I see the potential in it, but let's go for numbers here:

Ignore special bases for a moment: There are 31 common NCL bases, if the system works so you cannot get the same base again...that's a 3.3% chance(1/30) you're going to get the base you want. So realistically...only 75/2250 herbs are going to be legitimately useful to me if I'm rerolling trying to get a Cream NCL.

There are only 3 NCL bases that can be used year-round for combo breeding(Dusty/Cream/Caramel), so even if someone is breeding all of them, each Korobela still has a 3/30(1/10) chance to give you something you want, so 75/750 herbs will be "useful"

I get that many herbs are fairly useless right now, but if I can get 20~30 claiming chances per energy bar with a catnip, it's going to cost me 1500~2250 herbs to reroll all those lionesses, and that's not even guaranteeing that I successfully claim an NCL when it finally rolls to the base I need.



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Posted on
2024-08-10 11:33:42
The only hard part about questing is the giant leaves, rocks, and underbrush



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Posted on
2024-08-10 11:38:33
Hi guys I joke woke up. PLEEEAAASE TELL ME THE OAD CONE IS GONNA BE A CRAFTABLE DECOR PLEASSSUH

I would kill for a cone hat. That's all



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2024-08-10 12:25:38
What is the purpose of karobela if it cannot be used to reroll into chaseds?



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Posted on
2024-08-10 12:50:59
As someone with arachnophobia, I super appreciate the blurring and the link to the guide. I didn't even know there was an image blocking guide! A huge thanks to whoever's idea that was and to the lioden team as a whole for being as considerate of their players as they are



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