Development Update #34

Development Update #34
Posted 1 day ago (edited) #1532293 New NBW Exclusive Markings We are introducing two new marking shapes and a new marking colour that you can find on NBWs (and of course, the Random Marking Applicator and Total Shuffle as well!). These marking shapes and the colour were voted on in past polls! New Shape - Chipmunk Back Stripes This comes in Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Gold, Honey, Shell, White, Yellow, and their respective combos. New Shape - Chipmunk Head Stripes This comes in Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Gold, Honey, Shell, White, Yellow, and their respective combos. New Colour - Magnolia This comes in the following marking shapes: * Magnolia Arapawa Coat * Magnolia Bottoms * Magnolia Dilution * Magnolia Grizzle * Magnolia Inverted Agouti * Magnolia Inverted Manicou * Magnolia Inverted Opossum * Magnolia Irish * Magnolia Low Bottoms * Magnolia Neck Band * Magnolia Points * Magnolia Sallander * Magnolia Shaded * Magnolia Smoke * Magnolia Soay Unders * Magnolia Underbelly * Magnolia Unders * Magnolia Undersides * Magnolia Whitetail Spots * Magnolia Wolverine New Eye Colours We are introducing new eye colours as well! Common - available on any wild wolves, within the Grove, and in the Eye Changer Gray Blue (genetics: Gray Blue, Gray, Blue) Gray Green (genetics: Gray Green, Gray, Olive) Ice Blue (genetics: Ice Blue, Ice, Blue) Pale Gold (genetics: Pale Gold, Yellow, Gold) Grove - available within the Grove and in the Eye Changer Ice Green (genetics: Ice Green, Green, Ice) Gold (genetics: Gold, Yellow, Pale Gold, Amber) Pale Red (genetics: Red, Pale Red, Orange) To expand future special eye fail genetics as well as add more NBW variety, this new set will be quite common all around. Some of the old eyes were updated to have new colours as fails. Blue: Gray Blue Ice: Ice Blue Green: Ice Green Olive: Gray Green Red: Pale Red Yellow: Pale Gold Amber: Gold Gray: Gray Green, Gray Blue Quality of Life Updates * The size of a wolf's biography box has had its maximum height increased. This means there is more room to view the contents before the scrollbar kicks in. Suggestion by 🕊️ ELEVENELS! * On the breeding page, you can now see the prospective litter's predicted COI value. This should assist you with determining whether or not a litter will be inbred, and how closely related the puppies would be. Suggestion by Blitzy! * Hunting parties now display in the dropdown whether they are out of hunts or don't have enough energy to start a hunt. Suggestion by Ryos! * Crafting recipes now have filters for crafted item type. You can click on one of the icon buttons to only show that type of item, and click again to remove the filter. Suggestion by Heru! * When changing the personality of a wolf using the Personality Changer, the current personality of the wolf is indicated and disabled as a selectable option. Suggestion by ༺⛦𝔸𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕪𝕠𝕟⛦༻️‍! * In shops, a yellow star badge has been added on each item to indicate that the item is on your Wishlist. Suggestion by Cherry🍒! * More titles have been added for your Lead Wolves and for Featured Wolves. Suggestion by Eelai! * When assigning pups to a pupsitter, the chosen pupsitter is displayed after the action has been taken. Suggestion by Evil 💀! * We have also rearranged the order of the name and number of slots left under the pupsitter menu so it's a bit easier on the eyes. Suggestion by 🍀 LoboSong! * COI and Generation number has been added to Enclave puppies. Suggestion by Thistle ⭐ [He/Him]! * New puppy death messages have been added - and they're biome specific! Enjoy a variety of new ways in which your puppies have fatal accidents! Suggestion by MuttonMaw! * Marking Applicators now allow a chosen opacity to be set between 20% and 90%. Suggestion by TheLostLioness! * A stud request reminder has been added to den notices, reminding if you have any pending requests. Suggestion by OleanderOmen [Prev. Ori]! * Footnotes should now be preserved when a wolf dies. Unfortunately as we didn't save the data previously, any wolves that have died before this news post haven't had their footnotes preserved, so this will only work for wolves that die going forward. Suggestion by WantedKar! * You can now mark all of your notifications as "Read". Suggestion by Raquiin! External Links Starting today, all links that lead off of domains controlled by Wolvden/Lioden Ltd will be met with a notice. This additional security measure ensures you have the chance to see a full URL before visiting a link, and will help prevent people from inadvertently ending up on a site they may not wish to visit. This applies to any clickable links that get posted, whether in the forums, messages, profiles, biographies, groups, etc. This gives you the option to continue to the site, or to remain on Wolvden. If you do come across a link that directs to content that is inappropriate, malicious, or otherwise goes against our Terms of Service or Code of Conduct, please be sure to report it so that it may be looked into! Suggestion by mercurie! Regarding Dwarfism and Future Non-Lethal Full Body Mutations For the first time in Wolvden's history, we're working on a mutation that has 5 stages - Pup Newborn, Pup Young, Pup, Adolescent, and Adult. This was a difficult project to discuss, as it affects future years in an unusual way. If we are to add more mutations like this in future, our decor artists (who are very few) would have to spend their entire time on Wolvden catching up on decors for every stage and would never draw any new decor for any event or update. This is just not reasonable. We do our best to hire new artists from time to time, but the budget is not unlimited. We're still a small studio, and due to the limits of our capabilities, we've come to a decision: * Full body mutations will only have their final, adult stage updated with dynamic body decors (example: Celtic Cloak, Foxglove Necklace). * Static decors, such as flowers, trees, etc. will work no matter what, and will even be properly positioned. * We will work on a system where it will very clearly state a decor is not compatible with a variant or stage, so that you will not waste a use by mistake. Custom decors will of course work no matter what. Lethal mutations and adult poses/variants will work normally with decors as they do now! Official Wolvden Raffle! Our latest weekly raffle is out! Each person can purchase 1 ticket at maximum to have a chance at winning a neat prize for the amazing price of 5 SC per ticket! Good luck! You can find the official raffle here! This raffle will automatically end on 2025-05-30 at 00:30. Raffle Stud Winners and New Raffle Stud! Congratulations to the players that won a breeding with last week's raffle stud! You'll know if you won, as you'll have received a Game Notification in your inbox informing you of such! As a reminder, the previous raffle stud's exclusive attributes were the Beige Orca, Dark Brown Leopard Shark, and Honey Wings Heavy markings! Dark Brown Leopard Shark is now able to be applied via Random Marking Applicators and Total Shuffles. Our newest weekly raffle stud has been released! His special attributes are Storm eyes and the Nocturne Lupos, Nocturne Wings Heavy, and Pumice Leopard Shark (NEW!) markings! Enter for a chance to win a breeding with him by clicking here! Poll Results! Thank you all for voting on the previous poll! Having friendly encounters that look like Wolvden wolves seems to be the most popular option. We'll keep this in mind! For our new poll: What is your preference for the next NBW-Exclusive markings theme? Let us know by clicking here! Bug Fix * Bug fix confirmed for „Your garden has finished growing" showing after end of event. * Bug fix confirmed for Explore Encounter Misspelling. * Bug fix confirmed for Background that isn't supposed to be on Raccoon wares??.

Posted 1 day ago (edited)

#1532293

New NBW Exclusive Markings

We are introducing two new marking shapes and a new marking colour that you can find on NBWs (and of course, the Random Marking Applicator and Total Shuffle as well!). These marking shapes and the colour were voted on in past polls!

New Shape - Chipmunk Back Stripes
This comes in Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Gold, Honey, Shell, White, Yellow, and their respective combos.

New Shape - Chipmunk Head Stripes
This comes in Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Gold, Honey, Shell, White, Yellow, and their respective combos.

New Colour - Magnolia
This comes in the following marking shapes:
* Magnolia Arapawa Coat
* Magnolia Bottoms
* Magnolia Dilution
* Magnolia Grizzle
* Magnolia Inverted Agouti
* Magnolia Inverted Manicou
* Magnolia Inverted Opossum
* Magnolia Irish
* Magnolia Low Bottoms
* Magnolia Neck Band
* Magnolia Points
* Magnolia Sallander
* Magnolia Shaded
* Magnolia Smoke
* Magnolia Soay Unders
* Magnolia Underbelly
* Magnolia Unders
* Magnolia Undersides
* Magnolia Whitetail Spots
* Magnolia Wolverine

New Eye Colours

We are introducing new eye colours as well!

Common - available on any wild wolves, within the Grove, and in the Eye Changer
Gray Blue (genetics: Gray Blue, Gray, Blue)
Gray Green (genetics: Gray Green, Gray, Olive)
Ice Blue (genetics: Ice Blue, Ice, Blue)
Pale Gold (genetics: Pale Gold, Yellow, Gold)

Grove - available within the Grove and in the Eye Changer
Ice Green (genetics: Ice Green, Green, Ice)
Gold (genetics: Gold, Yellow, Pale Gold, Amber)
Pale Red (genetics: Red, Pale Red, Orange)

To expand future special eye fail genetics as well as add more NBW variety, this new set will be quite common all around. Some of the old eyes were updated to have new colours as fails.
Blue: Gray Blue
Ice: Ice Blue
Green: Ice Green
Olive: Gray Green
Red: Pale Red
Yellow: Pale Gold
Amber: Gold
Gray: Gray Green, Gray Blue

Quality of Life Updates

* The size of a wolf's biography box has had its maximum height increased. This means there is more room to view the contents before the scrollbar kicks in. Suggestion by 🕊️ ELEVENELS!

* On the breeding page, you can now see the prospective litter's predicted COI value. This should assist you with determining whether or not a litter will be inbred, and how closely related the puppies would be. Suggestion by Blitzy!

* Hunting parties now display in the dropdown whether they are out of hunts or don't have enough energy to start a hunt. Suggestion by Ryos!

* Crafting recipes now have filters for crafted item type. You can click on one of the icon buttons to only show that type of item, and click again to remove the filter. Suggestion by Heru!

* When changing the personality of a wolf using the Personality Changer, the current personality of the wolf is indicated and disabled as a selectable option. Suggestion by ༺⛦𝔸𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕪𝕠𝕟⛦༻️‍!

* In shops, a yellow star badge has been added on each item to indicate that the item is on your Wishlist. Suggestion by Cherry🍒!

* More titles have been added for your Lead Wolves and for Featured Wolves. Suggestion by Eelai!

* When assigning pups to a pupsitter, the chosen pupsitter is displayed after the action has been taken. Suggestion by Evil 💀!

* We have also rearranged the order of the name and number of slots left under the pupsitter menu so it's a bit easier on the eyes. Suggestion by 🍀 LoboSong!

* COI and Generation number has been added to Enclave puppies. Suggestion by Thistle ⭐ [He/Him]!

* New puppy death messages have been added - and they're biome specific! Enjoy a variety of new ways in which your puppies have fatal accidents! Suggestion by MuttonMaw!

* Marking Applicators now allow a chosen opacity to be set between 20% and 90%. Suggestion by TheLostLioness!

* A stud request reminder has been added to den notices, reminding if you have any pending requests. Suggestion by OleanderOmen [Prev. Ori]!

* Footnotes should now be preserved when a wolf dies. Unfortunately as we didn't save the data previously, any wolves that have died before this news post haven't had their footnotes preserved, so this will only work for wolves that die going forward. Suggestion by WantedKar!

* You can now mark all of your notifications as "Read". Suggestion by Raquiin!

External Links

Starting today, all links that lead off of domains controlled by Wolvden/Lioden Ltd will be met with a notice. This additional security measure ensures you have the chance to see a full URL before visiting a link, and will help prevent people from inadvertently ending up on a site they may not wish to visit. This applies to any clickable links that get posted, whether in the forums, messages, profiles, biographies, groups, etc.

This gives you the option to continue to the site, or to remain on Wolvden. If you do come across a link that directs to content that is inappropriate, malicious, or otherwise goes against our Terms of Service or Code of Conduct, please be sure to report it so that it may be looked into! Suggestion by mercurie!

Regarding Dwarfism and Future Non-Lethal Full Body Mutations

For the first time in Wolvden's history, we're working on a mutation that has 5 stages - Pup Newborn, Pup Young, Pup, Adolescent, and Adult.

This was a difficult project to discuss, as it affects future years in an unusual way. If we are to add more mutations like this in future, our decor artists (who are very few) would have to spend their entire time on Wolvden catching up on decors for every stage and would never draw any new decor for any event or update. This is just not reasonable. We do our best to hire new artists from time to time, but the budget is not unlimited.

We're still a small studio, and due to the limits of our capabilities, we've come to a decision:
* Full body mutations will only have their final, adult stage updated with dynamic body decors (example: Celtic Cloak, Foxglove Necklace).
* Static decors, such as flowers, trees, etc. will work no matter what, and will even be properly positioned.
* We will work on a system where it will very clearly state a decor is not compatible with a variant or stage, so that you will not waste a use by mistake.

Custom decors will of course work no matter what. Lethal mutations and adult poses/variants will work normally with decors as they do now!

Official Wolvden Raffle!

Our latest weekly raffle is out! Each person can purchase 1 ticket at maximum to have a chance at winning a neat prize for the amazing price of 5 SC per ticket! Good luck! You can find the official raffle here!
This raffle will automatically end on 2025-05-30 at 00:30.

Raffle Stud Winners and New Raffle Stud!

Congratulations to the players that won a breeding with last week's raffle stud! You'll know if you won, as you'll have received a Game Notification in your inbox informing you of such! As a reminder, the previous raffle stud's exclusive attributes were the Beige Orca, Dark Brown Leopard Shark, and Honey Wings Heavy markings! Dark Brown Leopard Shark is now able to be applied via Random Marking Applicators and Total Shuffles.

Our newest weekly raffle stud has been released! His special attributes are Storm eyes and the Nocturne Lupos, Nocturne Wings Heavy, and Pumice Leopard Shark (NEW!) markings! Enter for a chance to win a breeding with him by clicking here!

Poll Results!

Thank you all for voting on the previous poll! Having friendly encounters that look like Wolvden wolves seems to be the most popular option. We'll keep this in mind!

For our new poll: What is your preference for the next NBW-Exclusive markings theme? Let us know by clicking here!

Bug Fix

* Bug fix confirmed for „Your garden has finished growing" showing after end of event.
* Bug fix confirmed for Explore Encounter Misspelling.
* Bug fix confirmed for Background that isn't supposed to be on Raccoon wares??.

Posted 1 day ago (edited)

#1532294

Omg, i'm OBSESSED with the new eyes!!