Banescale dragons get a new coat of paint in today's update



[Image Caption: The banner image reads "Banescale Gene Expansion: New parallel genes, familiars, and puzzles!". This image is in shades of purple and blue, and features a Banescale dragon with large horns and spikes sporting the newly released Ribbon & Eel gene, which long parallel bands of color across its body. In the lower right is a hairless cat familiar with metallic wings.]



We have many new additions to implement tonight, and we¢re putting them up live! The live update is now complete! All of the following content should be available:


Banescale Parallel Genes
Additional genes are now available on for Banescale dragons! Each of these genes has a chance to appear where their modern counterpart is available. This means that if the modern version of the gene was available in the treasure marketplace, the Banescale version will be too. Tide and Foam trades are available through Baldwin until our upcoming gene swap shop is available.

Familiar Sights
The following new familiars have a chance to stock in the treasure marketplace:

Those who befriend some of the newest familiars may find their feats rewarded!

Greenskeeper Gathering Skin Contest
The tenth annual Greenskeeper Gathering will begin May 28, 2023, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Click here for more information!

Jigsaw Additions
There are 5 new puzzle possibilities for Jigsaw!

Additional Updates

• Secondary Gene: Daub for moderns and Gaolers will have their gene rarity changed from Common to Uncommon. This change will happen on or after July 24, 2023.
• Tertiary Gene: Gembond for moderns, Aether, and Undertide will have their rarity changed from Limited to Uncommon. This change will happen on or after July 24, 2023.

Congratulations to jenboop20, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 41,500 iP and the item prize was Magical Demon Danemue Mirror Shard!

This week's item prize will be Lycan Biscuits! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

White Friday Sale is happening now! REMINDER Click to buy! CWP is now buy one get one! Deal lasts from May 22nd, Start of Day - May 29th, End of Day. Get it while it's hot! Also, don't forget that our newest mutation Kelpie Hair 's DNA leaves the CWP Shop once the month is over. If you were holding off on grabbing one or ten, make sure to buy before the month is up! Pearadise Fest Credits: Sparra Miami the Plush Wajaw Participation Prize Shell Eggs Washed Up Kelp Seashell Garland Sassafras the Seagull Seafoam Steps Sea Urchin Pampas Grass Oceanic Eye Shadow Oceanic Cape Giant Clam Shell Carnival Dock Wallpaper Carnival Beach Wallpaper Ghost Crab Bamboo Torch Anchor Spot the Difference SM Game Art Find the egg game: Hosted by: Bluee and Sparra Images by: Bluee, Averan, Sparra, Admiral Dressup Game: Idea: Admiral Hosted by: Sadi Guide by: Sparra

Congratulations to the winners of the Easter Egg Design Contest 2023!
ariel, jenboop20, Lunaflo, SkyRabbit, Tim, whiteice. Winners have received their egg item in their toybox. Everyone else will have to wait until next year to find these new eggs hiding somewhere in Ichua!

What makes up some of the coal-est collections around? Rocks! Be they oddly endearing pets or part of a tub of stones for shale, let's show these compressed minerals that we don't take them for granite.

In other words, it's time for a showcase! Be it a crystal you've had for years or a neat piece of gravel you find outside ten minutes from now, show us your favourite rock so that we may all marble at its glory.

This is not a competition (all rocks are augite to us)! Everyone who participates will receive the following prizes:



- A Snow Contestant Trophy
- One Token Bag



There are just a few rules to keep in mind:

Rule 1 - Your submission must be a photograph.
Rule 2 - Your photograph must be of a rock (or crystal, mineral, etc--basically, a feather isn't a rock*).
Rule 3 - Your username must be in the photograph (ex. writing it down on a piece of paper that is also in frame).
Rule 4 - All entries submitted must be considered appropriate under the Terms and Conditions of IcePets.

Please be sure to post your photograph in this news post by May 29th, 23:59:59 IST.

As long as your submission follows these rules, you're guaranteed to receive the participation prizes!

* Unless its imprint is fossilized in one. Then it's very sedimental.

We are having communication issues with Paypal. This means for the time being credit purchases in the upgrade center will be processed manually so they can take up to half a day to come through.

The grooming parlor has been reactivated. Fairly soon we will be releasing all fur tonic and cream rinses again in the areas they were originally found, except for those that were in giftpacks will be available for purchase in the upgrade center.

Sharkfather Quest and Shipwreck quest temporarily do not ask questions, so all they need is some items and they'll reward you.

Unfortunately pet zone blogs were lost, however we have fixed the Blog and Image section so you can add in the information to your pets again.

30 Petpedias have been added and can be read again.

Cilantro knows a whole bunch of level 1 and 2 recipes again, and Fred is starting to get smarter as well.

While PF properties were saved, the inside of houses were lost, this means everyone has to rebuild their kitchens, workshops and hydroponics rooms. Make sure to ask your mayor to restock the proper items.
Since the site was not back up until after Mayor Applications were closed, current mayors will remain in charge for June.

Progenitors!

Raffle Result

This weeks raffle was won by tarshaan.

They received 2,074,500 IP!

Trivia Result

Trivvy has a new question for you! Click here to try question #202. Trivia #201 was answered correctly by 24 people!

Game Trophies

The latest trophies have been awarded, and the leaders are as follows:

First Place, with a score of 254:

Cowpro
Second Place, with a score of 88:

CLC
Third Place, with a score of 77:

Kamisheru14

First Place, with a score of 50150:

Kamisheru14
Second Place, with a score of 37400:

CLC
Third Place, with a score of 15040:

BlitzOByte

First Place, with a score of 15760:

Kamisheru14
Second Place, with a score of 10070:

LuckyDucky
Third Place, with a score of 7740:

CLC

First Place, with a score of 160:

Kamisheru14
Second Place, with a score of 80:

CLC

First Place, with a score of 1520:

LuckyDucky
Second Place, with a score of 1133:

Kamisheru14
Third Place, with a score of 992:

Scarj

First Place, with a score of 83:

emanresu
Second Place, with a score of 78:

Kamisheru14
Third Place, with a score of 48:

Viky

First Place, with a score of 3850:

Kamisheru14
Second Place, with a score of 2040:

CLC

First Place, with a score of 135:

Kamisheru14
Second Place, with a score of 132:

Cowpro
Third Place, with a score of 102:

CLC

Anne won last week's Battle Royale with a time of 95 seconds! All who completed the Battle Royale have been awarded their cP prize and first, second, and third place have also won trophies for their profiles.

Sign up your Ichumon in this week's Battle Royale Contest!

You will need to kill 18 Whisper in the Battle Royale Map as fast as you can. The quickest user to complete the battles will receive the top prize of 25,000 cP!

We are still heavily into recovery mode.
As everyone returns to the site, there will be lag. The next few days we will work on adding indexes to the database to resolve any areas where lag may be common.

The following are known issues that we are still working on.

If they are listed here, no need to report them!

Things we cannot fix:
PROBLEM: Rooms inside PF houses are gone.
SOLUTION: Rebuild your rooms

PROBLEM: Things are missing from my pet. Fur Tonics, Recipes, Workshop and Hydroponic knowledge.
SOLUTION: Reapply fur tonics. Complete Desi, Cilantro and Fred's quest to relearn lost knowledge.

PROBLEM: My mini lost all of its rinses
SOLUTION: Reapply mini cream rinses to your mini

PROBLEM: My clothes collector is empty
SOLUTION: Collect clothes and resubmit them to the stocker - though we recommend waiting until rewards for collectors are available again.


PROBLEM: My bots vanished
SOLUTION: Go to the exploration center and click the blueprint, they will reappear.

Items on the To Be Fixed list:
PROBLEM: Stories inside books in my bookshelf are not there.
SOLUTION: We will be adding a new book author section. Once that is done, you'll be able to submit stories for books and we will add them as we go.

PROBLEM: There are no PF Stories
SOLUTION: Resubmit your stories

PROBLEM: Runa's Quest disappeared
SOLUTION: Questions for cuddlies need to be added in again.

PROBLEM: Kyla no longer gives me knowledge
SOLUTION: Kyla's knowledge needs to be restored

PROBLEM: My fish and aquarium aren't losing any health.
SOLUTION: We are waiting a little while to give everyone a chance to get their fish back to full health before we reactivate this feature.

PROBLEM: King Cobra's Dojo and Battle Stages disappeared.
SOLUTION: Battle stages are offline and awaiting a full recode.

PROBLEM: Environments just show a number, not a name
SOLUTION: Environment names need to be input again

PROBLEM: No lockers in locker wars.
SOLUTION: Locker wars needs an admin update so we can recover lost locker images and resume this feature.

PROBLEM: I cannot find the grooming parlor
SOLUTION: The grooming parlor is being recoded to resolve past issues.

PROBLEM: None of the stocker/collector games have rewards.
SOLUTION: Rewards need to be added again. We recommend waiting to add anything to your stockers until this data is added again.

PROLBEM: Ambassador Segue doesn't know anything.
SOLUTION: Ambassador Segue information needs to be added again.

PROBLEM: Farnox is a little messed up and gardens are not working
SOLUTION: Farnox needs a review, some data rebuilt before we reactivate the automated features that update fields, farnees and ants.

PROBLEM: Help section is empty
SOLUTION: Staff will work on readding all the help/wiki information

PROBLEM: Desi, Fred and Cilantro know nothing or very little.
SOLUTION: Staff is working on adding recipes, plans and hydroponics information

PROBLEM: Barkchem Secret Doors does not work
SOLUTION: Code needs to be fixed

Games Problems* Dicey mice won't load
* Bingo won't load
* Scratch 4 Power - Requires rewrite
* Tux Luck currently disabled
* Dog catcher arrows not functioning
* Barkchem Chomp doesn't work
* Venom doesn't save final result
* Slime Time doesn't work
* Mini catcher works, just shows 0 score on final screen even though the payout is correct.
* Dassie's Dizzy Dust Devil and other "Wheel" games don't work

We have been losing our marbles over marble!
Thankfully the pumas found them for us.

[ We Found Your Marbles ]

A new theme shop for MARBLE!



I hope your pence pouch is heavy, these are a bit spendy!
Over 70 new marble wares have been loaded into the new shop!



Marble all the things!



OMG so much marble!



-hoards all the marble-
My precciiooouuuuusssesss


Enjoy!

1st: whiteice won a Corek Puzzle Piece 16.
2nd: Natsu won a Red Cute Female Hair.
3rd: portia14
They have each also won 21,920 iP and trophies for their profile!


A new Restock Race has begun!
You will need to purchase 11 Twin Headed Throwing Axe from the Mushroom Shops before next Saturday. The Ichuan with the fastest time wins. Remember your timer starts with your first purchase of the item, Good luck!

Morning folks! I'm working today to try and round up all the judging / ID collecting for our Spring event we had at the end of April. My hope is to have it all taken care of by Tuesday. This includes all on site and SM games/events, so if you've not received anything yet, it's because I'm still finishing up tallying / collecting stuff. That said, it's been a bit since I've done an on site news post game, soooo...lets do that while I finish up my brekky! Tell me something good. I will RNG ten random winners to receive 1x CWP. At the end of the contest I will staff only this post. Please keep all entries PG-13. This will end at 11 AM Wajas time. I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!