-LOCKED - September Development Update #72!
Posted on 2024-09-14 01:25:49

Treasure Hunting: September


Starting automatically on 20th September at 00:00am Lioden time and lasting until 30th September at 11:59pm Lioden time, a new Treasure Hunting event will begin! Moving forward, events of this type will always occur during the last 10 days of the month, which includes January's Treasure Hunting event (21st to the 31st). We hope this gives the community enough time to prepare for the events, while we announce them and show new content in the usual Development Updates!

We have decided on three Treasure Hunting events in a year, each with its own theme and alternative shop. The third event will have a fun twist and is aimed to be released in 2025, balanced nicely in a gap between the January and September events.

To match the omens and the upcoming spooky month, the theme for September's Treasure Hunting is The Drowned!

Inspired by some famous games and movies, September's Treasure Hunting will circle around ghost ships, drowned shipwrecks, the famous Kraken, and hints of Lovecraftian vibes.


How Treasure Hunting Works
You can choose from four *new* maps to send a submale out Treasure Hunting. The hunt lasts 15 minutes and rewards a small prize at the end. Each standard hunt has a chance of discovering a Treasure Map, leading to a much bigger reward if you follow the directions and discover the right place to send him next!

The return of Treasure Hunting means that Doubloons are coming back as well! Every Treasure Hunt rewards some Doubloons, but following a Treasure Map will give a bigger amount.

The Treasure Cove is makings its return, too, with a creepy overlay.

In addition, all current shop items can be found (rarely) when completing a Treasure Map hunt!

New Items from Treasure Hunting
- Universal: Rusty Iron Grenade, Rusty Sextant, Sea Urchin, Spyglass - new random items that can be sold, kept for potential future crafting, or played with (does not apply to all).
- September-Only: Siren's Call - slightly increases the chance of getting the current month's event battles/encounters in Explore for 15 minutes (works during all monthly events)
- September-Only: Pickled Roe - used on a pregnant battle beetle to have them instantly birth a clutch of larvae
- September-Only: Beetle Nemesis: Tubuca urvillei - a special Beetle Nemesis token



Unique in the Drowned Shop
Kraken Attack
Kraken Attack
Master of the Depths
Master of the Depths
Haunted Shipwreck
Haunted Shipwreck
Trapped for Eternity
Trapped for Eternity
Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship
Drowned Coral Infection - Body [Grey]
Drowned Coral Infection - Body [Grey]
Drowned Coral Infection - Face [Grey]
Drowned Coral Infection - Face [Grey]
Drowned Coral Infection - Body [Red]
Drowned Coral Infection - Body [Red]
Drowned Coral Infection - Face [Red]
Drowned Coral Infection - Face [Red]
Drowned Coral Infection - Body [Blue]
Drowned Coral Infection - Body [Blue]
Drowned Coral Infection - Face [Blue]
Drowned Coral Infection - Face [Blue]
Pirate Beard - Scrawny [Drowned]
Pirate Beard - Scrawny [Drowned]
Pirate Beard - Thick [Drowned]
Pirate Beard - Thick [Drowned]
Drowned Cutlass
Drowned Cutlass
Drowned Captain Hat
Drowned Captain Hat
Drowned Bracelets
Drowned Bracelets
Drowned Belt
Drowned Belt
Drowned Collar
Drowned Collar
Drowned Pirate Eyepatch [Right]
Drowned Pirate Eyepatch [Right]
Drowned Pirate Eyepatch [Left]
Drowned Pirate Eyepatch [Left]
Drowned Marked Boulders
Drowned Marked Boulders
Drowned Marked Rock Arch
Drowned Marked Rock Arch
Drowned Chest
Drowned Chest
Drowned Fishnet
Drowned Fishnet
Drowned Sunken Sail
Drowned Sunken Sail
Drowned Shipwreck Remains
Drowned Shipwreck Remains
Drowned Ship Hull Remains
Drowned Ship Hull Remains
Drowned Anchor
Drowned Anchor
Drowned Steering Wheel
Drowned Steering Wheel
Drowned Tentacles
Drowned Tentacles
Big Tentacles
Big Tentacles
Skin Applicator: Growth
Skin Applicator: Growth
Sanafica
Sanafica
Eye Applicator: Drowned
Eye Applicator: Drowned
Coffee Beans
Coffee Beans

You may have noticed a new item in the Drowned Shop - Sanafica. Using this item will disable beetle larva encounters in Explore for 15 minutes.

Enjoy the bounty!


WAIT. Skin: Growth?!
Yes! This skin grows outside of the usual lineart. If you enjoy the concept, we'll consider adding more supernatural skins in future!


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New Combo Base!


Plague is a new combo base that we are implementing from this suggestion topic. Thank you, Svalbard [Haze RLC] (#129703)!

Per the suggestion, this combo utilises bases released through the Harbinger's shop and September's craftables. This base can be bred year-round and is not limited by time of day or season.


Genetics: Red Dark Solid Special, tied to Black skin.
Factor 1: Augur, Harbinger, Haruspex, Seer
Factor 2: Gregarious, Locust, Swarm


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Wardrobe Overhaul!


This update comes packed with a lot of new changes under the hood, and also some shiny new toys to boot! Not only has the interface been given a bit of a facelift (although we tried to keep it similar where possible), but it should hopefully no longer be a nightmare to try to load.

Here's a quick rundown of what's new and what's changed:
* New Settings
   * Include custom decors
   * Enable Floating Preview
   * Ask Before Leaving (where supported)
   * Show Owned Items also includes backgrounds
* Download your design straight from the wardrobe (also available from lion pages)
* Reset the design and start over
* No more drag and drop markings or decors
* Revealed hidden markings are displayed
* Show up to the maximum of 25 decors
* Set opacity for all markings at once
* Save the whole design, or just the outfit!
* Save up to 40 designs
* Item effects now work properly!
   * Chameleon Skin
   * Eye of the Fierce Roar
   * Eye of the Kitten
   * Eye of the Youth
   * Tigers Eye
   * Lab Test Frog
* Import the weekly Special Lioness directly from the Import menu!
* View the Nesting pose in the wardrobe!

Performance Issues

One of the biggest issues with the old Wardrobe was the marking & decor selectors. Each time a new marking or decor got added to the game, it slowly decreased the performance of the page. This is due to how the browser renders standard dropdown menus. Every option in a dropdown is what's called a DOM node, essentially an object the page has to keep track of and draw. The more DOM nodes on a page, the worse it becomes. Especially so for lower end devices.


For those more technically inclined, loading the old wardrobe up would start you out with just under 73,000 of these nodes (1 per marking per dropdown, 1 per decor per dropdown, plus all of the other elements on the page). If you added 10 more marking slots, that bumped you up to around 102,000(!!) nodes. And that's without being able to add any more decor slots. Again, each new marking or decor would add 1 more node for every dropdown on the page.

The new wardrobe uses our custom selectors. These help manage the DOM nodes and keep them much more reasonable. If you were to check the number of nodes in the new wardrobe, it sits around 25,000. Add 10 more marking slots? Still around 25,000. Add 15 more decor slots on top of that? Still around 25,000!

New Settings



A couple of the new settings deserve a little explanation. Enable Floating Preview gives you the freedom to view your design while you scroll through the list of appearance options. It stays affixed to the top of your screen while everything runs behind it. This works especially well with the new "Enable Layer Highlighting". Hover over a marking or decor selector, and watch as the respective layer lights up.


You also have the option now, when saving your designs, whether or not to save the entire design or just the outfit (including background). This way you can import an outfit onto another lion to see how it looks.

There are bound to be some issues cropping up. So if you experience any bugs or oddities, please report them directly to the Bug Board! Be sure to include what operating system (Windows, Mac, Apple, Android, etc.) and browser you're using, just in case it's a device-dependent issue.

Please note that the Wardrobe is currently not working in older browsers. The following is a chart of browser versions that are currently compatible.



We are working on accommodating older browsers, though it may take us some time. Additionally, we are aware of the current Import issues and those are being addressed as well. Thank you for your patience!


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Updated Custom Decor Creation Form


The Custom Decor Creation form is also being updated. While this is a minor update, it will hopefully alleviate some issues when attempting to submit a Custom Decor for approval. One thing that we have noticed is incorrect layering for a number of submissions. Whether it's not selecting the correct type (Universal, Age Specific, or Age & Mane Specific), or not filling in the correct fields for the proper layer.


You will now be greeted with far fewer options, helping to guide you through the appropriate settings. As you change the "Type", the more options that become available:


This should go live sometime later today!


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Coding Bug Fixes & Miscellaneous Adjustments


* Search no longer breaks if you attempt to use a "/" in the keywords - go forth and find fractions!
* Some outdated item descriptions have been adjusted. This includes the item descriptions for Cheetah Skin, Crocodile Scale, Damp Log, Four Leaf Clover, Locust Wing, Porcupine Quills, and Speckled Pigeon.
* The custom selectors have had a couple of issues worked out, including "ghost" selections and trying to select ranges sometimes breaking the list.
* The inbox has been slightly updated with regard to deleting messages. The buttons to "Delete All", "Delete Checked", and "Delete Notifications" have been changed to red for visibility. "Delete All" and "Delete Notifications" now have two confirmation popups asking if you are sure you want to delete your messages. A confirmation popup has been added to the "Delete Checked" buttons in both the regular inbox and the Game Notifications folder.
* The Mocha base has now been renamed to Latte.


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Raffle Lioness


Congrats to the winner of last week's raffle lioness!
A new Squall lady with Ocean eyes, Feline 10 Onyx (NEW!), Lilac Burmese, and the fourth Mauritania background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

Marking Note: Feline 10 Fiery is now possible to apply via RMA/RMR/Total Shuffle!


Tags!
Shad has added 22 new tags this month in the Doodles, Event ➜ September, and Miscellaneous ➜ NPCs categories!

Poll Results - Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! It looks like many of you would like to see a few more Feline recolours, leading us into this week's poll...

NEW POLL - Out of the following options, which one recolour for Feline markings would you most want to see added to Lioden? We will be implementing the top three results. Let us know in this week's poll!


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Next Update: Community Update - September 20th!
Next Development Update: October 11th!!




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!

Our apologies for the late news post! Better to have a small delay than more bugs. We appreciate everyone's patience!



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Edited on 14/09/24 @ 02:37:08 by a Moderator

🎄⛄ leon (#208511)


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Posted on
2024-09-14 05:39:06
I am screaming and crying and throwing up with excitement for treasure hunting again. Thank u thank u thank u thank u

Cinnabar feline definitely isn't winning, but I'll be excited to see what does!

Super sick wardrobe updates too!!

ETA: I'm really not that bothered by the ochre powder complaints, but I can see the sentiment. Maybe January and September items like that could be swapped? Ochre powders in September and idk I forgot what was added here. Sanafica in January or the other month?



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Edited on 14/09/24 @ 05:51:50 by 🤎 leon (#208511)

KatTheFool (#164619)

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Posted on
2024-09-14 05:39:42
This is all so cool!! Amazing work as usual lioden team



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🪷🌿🪻Lele🪻
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Posted on
2024-09-14 05:58:38
Love these mods sm! Ty!!!



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Dr. House (#205524)

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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:02:28
AHHH AS A HEAVY WARDROBE USER THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER



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🌠Rowan
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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:14:32
NEWSSSSSS???? THESE UPDATES ARE INCREDIBLE!!!



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crosschop (#126475)

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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:15:47
Chonky update yay!



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Shadow 1k ST (#346482)

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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:19:10
I LOVE THE NEW SKIN OMG

AND I GOT MY ACHIEVEMENT TODAY



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Edited on 14/09/24 @ 06:19:40 by ShadowMan (#346482)

Caprini Inkcap
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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:20:51
Oh so no powders
Do yall even want whales to keep coming back because encouraging that playstyle is not something yall are doing by making powders an item that actually allows 15/15 bo combinations to be made only available for 10 days out of the year. Everyone was so excited because of POWDERS COMING BACK. Deeply dissapointed.



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2024-09-14 06:24:42
Yessss pirates!



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🌲Stanakin
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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:33:48
Growth looks amazing!! Would love more skins that go outside the typical lineart!!!



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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:35:50
STILL not talking about jewel beetles encounter rates. Look, we appreciate that you lowered the prices of everything except what we really wanted (breeding items), but instead of making an even bigger fuss about that now, increasing encounter rates would have done the trick. I don't think you've noticed but this year's september encounter rates are shit compared to last year's. Its funny you don't notice that there's a literal whole thread with more than 5 pages of different people being frustrated about this. We'd like to see the encounter rates being buffed, or just the breeding items being lowered to 100 jb instead. Very dissapointed and this time I'm not writing a full essay because I know you wont see it.



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Crymsiin_1 (#475681)

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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:40:19
I KNEW THERE WOULD BE A NEW SKIN APP I KNEW IT



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Ken (#485232)

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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:40:26
Growth looks amazing



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Kenny (#261409)

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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:42:08
Oh, these look so cool!



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Mesozoic Malarkey (#248608)

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Posted on
2024-09-14 06:48:00
YESSSS MORE TREASURE HUNTING I LOVED THAT IN JANUARY



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