August 2024
Posted 5 months ago :: Last edited 2 months ago by Slayer49Welcome to August!
August 2024
⛺ Community/site News: ⛺
We have a new team member onboard, please welcome Slayer to the team. They will be doing some coding/bug fixing for the site! They've actually helped us a lot through the month of July as well, so thank you!We are currently looking for someone to help us with prompt approval for art and activities. Optimally looking for someone with good communication and dedication to the species and who is self-driven and good at keeping on top of daily site checks.
QOL:
- Characters can now be tagged with Trigger Warnings. Old characters can be submitted with the same image via design update where the user adds the TW, themselves, if they would like to TW older characters for anything specific like self-harm scars, smoking, clowns, holes, etc, otherwise, any newly updated or uploaded characters have a user-friendly interface where you can tag them as you submit them for approval.
- Characters can now be "tagged" as IP or imported previously made OC that you turned into a Cloakat. I believe you can submit a redesign request with the same image to edit this, if we haven't already taken care of it for you.
- OPEN ALL FORAGE BAGS BY THE END OF AUGUST 1ST AS THESE ARE GOING TO BE DELETED When foraging, the areas will now directly drop the 3 intended loot tables, ridding of the need for a "foraging bag" in the process. The icons of the items you receive will also now show when you successfully forage. Please note the loot tables intend to drop 1 goodie, 1 material, and 1 food, but it is entirely possible to drop, for instance, 2 of 1 table, and 1 of the other, sometimes opting out the 3rd loot table option. This adds a more random element to the outcome of your forage and sometimes increases your chances to drop more materials/foods per each foraging turn. We hope you enjoy!
Guest Artist Info:
- Guest Artist position is open. Apply between August 1st and August 14th to get a spot for the September adopt drop! Read the Artist TOS above before applying, please! Please note that GA's cannot apply multiple months in a row to give others a chance to apply! 2 positions are open.
- GA's that apply in August will release their adopts on September 15th!
🧬 Species/companion News: 🧬
Many New traits have been added! Some are traits that needed separating for clarity, if this is the case, these traits retained the rarity that of which the original trait had before separation outside 1 exception.- 🟢Glitter Claws
- 🔵Cinnabun Tail (Separated from Curled Tail)
- 🔵Coiled Tail (Separated from Curled Tail)
- 🟣Pin Teeth
- 🟣Jagged Tail
- 🟣Tusks (Separated from Saber Teeth)
- 🟡Foo Dog's Teeth (Separated from Saber Teeth)
- 🟡Serrated tongue
- 🟠Prehensile tendrils
- ⚫Petal Wings (spring)
- ⚫Web Wings (fall)
- Rake Claws has been renamed to "Nightmare Claws" and now has more clear visuals as it previously got confused with "Razor Claws"
- Nubby Bite's rarity has been adjusted in exchange for the new amounts of teeth split in the rare section.
- Animated Fur has been reduced by 1 rarity to even out the amounts of traits per each rarity in the skin section.
- Rapunzel Tail has received more clear art to show the length of the tail more correctly.
- "Floating Fascinators"has been renamed Levitating Objects for clarity.
- Fat Tailed (the standard tail type) has received some updated art for clarification on tail size/width.
📖 Lore News: 📖
- Darling's Pet Emporium Shop is officially open! Please read the information below for more info as it's based on lore!
- It seems like the Arcade Corner is setting something else up, I wonder what this could be?
- It also seems there is some commotion around Thistle Townlet. Hopefully everyone is doing okay.
🎪 Current events: 🎪
NEW MECHANIC! PETS, GIFTS AND LEVELING UP!
- Darlings Pet Emporium is officially open! This shop allows users to purchase companion MYOs and their potions in one unique place.
- Darling also sells "collectable pets". (Which gives you free stuff occasionally when owned)
What Is this?
- Darling sells collectibles, namely called a "pet", which works similarly to the mechanic present in Flight Rising, where you can attach this pet to a Cloakat you own and interact with it once a day which helps "level it up". These pets can also level up over time and may have a "grand prize gift" they award you with for maxing out their friendship. These pets can "stack" on a single Cloakat, so you can give 1 character multiple pets if you so wish. Certain species of collectible pets will also have unique drops specific to them that of which they might randomly "gift" you over time, so be sure to check in with these pets daily for possibly new things!
-Lore-wise, Darling runs a shop in Balsawood Village, where she tames, breeds, and sells companions from around the island to those needing a friend. She also sells "pets" that of which seem to look like figures, toys, and stuffed animals that she insists are real. When purchased, these "pets" seem to actually sometimes move from their original position or sometimes are found with gifts at their feet, making one question if Darling has some sort of power related to these toys being seemingly sentient.
- New waves of "pets" will arrive in her shop monthly.
💥The Festival of Power is now ready for Cloakats to attend!💥
Festival lore: https://www.cloakat.com/world/events
Participating in the Monthly prompt, specifically will get you a unique item exclusive to this festival.
During festivals, we announce a list of activities that community members can complete for fun and turn in for festival tickets, a currency exclusive to completing these activities. This currency can be turned in at the Festival Booth shop for surprise "loot" boxes that have themes to them. Sometimes direct items can be exchanged for tickets as well, so please be sure to check the shop monthly as the stock can sometimes rotate. On the occasion that something new is stocked, it will be noted here in the news! Please note that most of these activities are quite easy so they can be fun and relaxing for community members to interact with, so please be sure to take your time and fave fun!
What Activities are available for this month? (clickable links)
- Cloakat of the Month Poll
- Monthly Art/Writing Prompt
- Monthly Festival-Related Art/Writing Prompt (Exclusive Item earned when completing)
- Art Challenge
- Palette Challenge
- WordSearch
- Crossword
- Maze
- Jigsaw Puzzle (Art by Ink! ) Give us time to complete this piece! It will be up soon! (1-2 days)
- Guess Who?
- Word Scramble
- Sudoku
- Species Quiz
❓ Fun Facts: ❓
- Cloakat all tend to favor a certain element, if not multiples. There are many elemental shrines all over the island that Cloakat go to, praying for various things to be bestowed upon them in exchange for offerings. Some of these shrines can sometimes be incredibly hard to get to, if not downright dangerous to reach. The most common ones that are prayed to are the 2 present in Balsawood Village.🌐 Social Media Updates: 🌐
- The DeviantArt Masterlist is still being slowly adjusted to have a large double watermark over it to still allow DA users to enjoy the species over there while making the consistent watermark make it hard for the design to be stolen by AI scrapers without having the watermark in some way shape or form on their output.
- The Toyhouse Masterlist is slowly being adjusted to a new format that links to the posts here for all information. Please stand by.
🔨 Site Tweaks: 🔨
- The Artist TOS has been visually adjusted so more information is on the screen at one given time. Information regarding rarity and amount a Guest Artist and Official Artist can create monthly has been adjusted.- There are 2 new items in the foraging pools, a large wallet and small wallet. An item that is generally found by the Cloakat that can be opened up to reveal a small or large sum of currency accordingly.
🏆 Patreon: 🏆
The owner has a Patreon for those who would like to help both the species and support its owner! You also get a Lot of good stuff in return as a thanks for your help!
https://www.patreon.com/Clarrisa
What do all Patreon supporters get?
| All Tiers: | Far Forest Tier: | Jungle Below Tier: |
|---|---|---|
| - Access to a Discord channel for early news. - Ability to claim early on adopts up to 24 hours before they release. - Access to WIPs of art, adopts, and non-species pieces. - Access to features before others can to help test things. (occasional) - Exclusive items like collectable pets, character frames, character background, and other goodies exclusive to supporters only. (occasional) |
- 200  - 3  - 1  - 1 Common Trait Potion - Plus everything mentioned in the "All Tiers" list. |
- 500 - 5 - 2 - 1 Uncommon Potion. - Plus everything mentioned in the "All Tiers" list. |
| Bungalow Tier: | Treehouse Tier: | Treetops Tier: |
| - 700 - 10 - 3 - 1 Uncommon Potion - 1 Rare Cloakat MYO - 1 Pet Potion of Oddities - Plus everything mentioned in the "All Tiers" list. |
- 1000 - 15 - 4 - 1 Picayune MYO - 1 Rare Trait Potion - 1 Epic Cloakat MYO - 1 Pet Potion of Oddities - Plus everything mentioned in the "All Tiers" list. |
- 1500 - 20 - 5 - 1 Picayune MYO - 1 Epic Trait Potion - 1 Legendary Cloakat MYO - 1 Pet Potion of Oddities - A set of Salon supplies (3 items) - Plus everything mentioned in the "All Tiers" list. |