Community Update

Aside from monthly event news posts and the 2nd Friday of each month being focused on art/coding updates, all other Fridays are centered around the community!

Official Lioden Raffle

LINK - This is our official community update raffle. Everyone gets a chance to win a rare prize, plus something extra for any runner ups. These raffles have a very minimal ticket price, and there is a limit of 1 ticket per account to make it fair! Good luck!
This raffle will automatically end on 2025-01-10 00:00:00.

New Years Reminder

Don't forget—you have until 11:59pm Lioden time on January 4th to craft and purchase the New Years-related items released within Community Update #249!

Crafting

Eye Applicator: Confetti 50x Rainbow Stones

Pelt Heavy with Sparkles 10x Comet Shard, 10x Natural Glass, 10x Prismatic Scale, 10x Rainbow Stones, 10x Shiny Stones

Spangles with Sparkles (NEW!) 5x Bottle, 15x Comet Shard, 20x Ionized Plankton, 10x Natural Glass

Monkey Business

Blue Confetti (NEW!) 200 SB	Confetti 200 SB	Expression: Heartbroken Tears [Gold] (NEW!) 200 SB	Gilded Confetti 200 SB	Gold Confetti (NEW!) 200 SB
Rainbow Icicle Crown 200 SB	Rose Gold Confetti (NEW!) 200 SB	Sakura Confetti (NEW!) 200 SB	Sparkler [Blue] 200 SB	Sparkler [Festive] 200 SB
Sparkler [Pink] 200 SB	Sparkles! 200 SB	Sparkly Antlers 200 SB	Happy New Year! (NEW!) 1000 SB	Blue Glitter Applicator (NEW!) 5000 SB
Sparkly Gilded Applicator 5000 SB	Sparkly Rose Gold Applicator 5000 SB

Oasis

Faux Mohawk [Sparkly] 2 GB

Jewelry: Kanga [Sparkly] 2 GB

Sparkling Beach 6 GB

Contest Reminder

Also announced in last week's Community Update, we have a bunch of contests still going on! All contests are open until 11:59pm Lioden time on January 9th. Voting will begin for the "Front Page Designs" contest on January 10th, and will last until January 16th. All other contests will be judged by our admin team. Winners for all contests will be announced on January 17th, and they will receive their prizes then!

Front Page Designs

We last refreshed Lioden's front page in September 2022. We loved the designs that were previously submitted, but feel that it's time to add even more diverse images to the images that cycle through our front page each month!

Details
* There are 12 front page design contests in total—one for each monthly event on Lioden.
* Each account can enter once per contest.
* Your entries must be themed around specific events (e.g. only submit January-themed arrangements for the January contest, etc.).
* To enter, you must copy the full, long wardrobe URL and paste it into the "Submit Entry" field. Entries cannot be modified once they have been submitted, so please double-check what you have before entering!
* Your entry does not need to have a lion present. You can choose to decorate a lion and theme all decors and backgrounds to an event, or you can go a more scenic route and set up a lovely background view with accenting decors!
* For contests themed to specific monthly events, you can use any background and decor for your design, it does not need to be limited to items from that month's event.
* Everyone can vote for whichever entries they like best! Each player can vote 5 times per contest, 1 vote per entry (so you cannot put all 5 votes into one entry), and you will get a bonus 5 SB per vote for participating.
* Votes cannot be incentivised. Do not ask for other players to vote for your entries, your friends' entries, etc. anywhere on Lioden. This includes in the chat room, on the forums, or in various other areas of the site. Incentivising votes can lead to actions being taken against accounts—we really want this to be fair and for players to genuinely vote for whichever entries they like best!
* If your design is chosen, it will be added to a pool of randomised images that will be shown on Lioden's front page when that specific event is occurring on Lioden!

Prize
There will be 120 winners in total—10 winners per monthly event, and each winner will get a prize of 10 GB!

Enter the January contest here!
Enter the February contest here!
Enter the March contest here!
Enter the April contest here!
Enter the May contest here!
Enter the June contest here!
Enter the July contest here!
Enter the August contest here!
Enter the September contest here!
Enter the October contest here!
Enter the November contest here!
Enter the December contest here!

Writing Contest

If we were to encounter your pride leader, or one of your pride members in Explore, what would the explore encounter say?

Prize
There will be 20 winners in total, and each winner will get a prize of 5 GB! The winners will also have their encounters added to Explore as filler encounters (alongside the previous winners of the last writing contest - we have not forgotten your winning entries! ). Please limit your entries to 50-70 words at maximum!

Enter the writing contest here!

Fan Art Contest

Create some amazing fan art of anything Lioden-related! It can be a digital drawing, a sculpture, a traditional drawing, a 3D print, a story, etc. of your favourite Lioden NPC or one of your own lions! All art must follow our Tree Carving Rules. This means no eyeballed, stolen, or traced artwork, no NSFW content, and no AI-generated content. Any entries that break our Tree Carving Rules will be disqualified.

Prize
This contest offers prizes to the top 3 winners - 50 GB, 25 GB, and 10 GB!

Enter the fan art contest here!

"Most Festive Lion" Wardrobe Contest

We'd like to see what you feel is a good representation of a lion that is celebrating Christmas/New Years festivities!

Prize
This contest has a 20 GB prize to the winner of the most festive lion design!

Enter the "Most Festive Lion" contest here!

"Equip to Distress" Wardrobe Contest

While we can't quite host "Ugly Sweater" contests, we would still like to see what you can come up with for the most horrific lion design ever made—something that would make even The Harbinger tremble with fear!

Prize
This contest has a 20 GB prize to the winner of the most horrific lion design!

Enter the "Equip to Distress" contest here!

Art Bug Fixes

* Fixed Jingle Bell Anklets not showing up on Adult Male
* Fixed missing Fomorian Beast for Spirited pose
* Fixed Protecting Stars decor covering eye on Spirited pose

Coding Bug Fixes

* Laharu was a little overeager and began helping out in battles before he was supposed to. He should no longer be assisting in battles until that part of the storyline has been unlocked.
* The counters that show you how many of an item you own in the site shops temporarily took a holiday break; they have since returned.

Raffle Lioness

Congrats to the winners of last week's raffle lionesses!
A new Mushroom lady with Auburn Roan, Feline 10 Onyx, and the eighth Mauritania background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

Poll Results - Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! It seems many of you would like to see medieval fantasy-themed decors added to the Glam Boutique. We'll inform our artists!

NEW POLL - Ennedi Dilali and Mngwa had very close results for the 2025 Black Friday mutation poll. Would you like us to poll sketches of the two mutations so you can pick one of them, or would you like us to just implement Ennedi Dilali and keep its appearance a surprise? Let us know in this week's poll!

Next Development Update: January 10th!


We unfortunately do not have a new goofy comic this week. Instead, let's look back on a relevant comic released in the past!