Twilight Carnival 2024!
Posted 1 month ago :: Last edited 3 weeks ago by NeonSlushie
Something is amiss in jurupa forest...
A species of small tree-dwelling animal faces a invisible foe. One that threatens to wipe them out entirely, unless...
★ Event Activity Summary! ★
Capture and heal Koronoks to help ARC save them!
Forage daily for mushrooms & other supplies!
Free gifts in the shop weekly!
Craft Baskets for fun surprises!
Earn tickets for our Mega Raffle!
Participate in our Discord Xingo! A Xero-themed Bingo with prizes!
Don't forget our Monthly Prompts & Limited Event Prompts!
This event updates weekly so please check back here! We will have more details scheduled to be released as the event goes on!
★ Click for full event information! ★
Free Gifts, Crafting, & Foraging!
Each week, all users will be able to grab one free Carnival Gift from Jackpot Planet with a chance at Astatine, Prestige, Orbits and more! Log in for the weekly turnover to claim your gift! Remember, if you forget to claim your gift before the weekly reset you will miss out! Gifts reset every Sunday at 7pm EST.
Each Gift Bag always contains:
Each Bag will also contain 1 of the following:
Crafting
The Crafting System and Blueprints make a return for this year's Twilight Carnival! Blueprints allow you to assemble your foraged items into bigger, better prizes using ARC Lab's MAKR Machine. In each basket you will find various items, such as limited-time Seasonal Produce, rarer gemstones, and everyone's favourite element: Astatine! Start crafting your baskets and see how luck rewards you!
Blueprints can be obtained for free in each weekly Carnival Gift.
A limited number of additional blueprints can be purchased in Jackpot Planet, and baskets themselves can be earned from certain prompts or even foraged!
❗️ We will not be able to restore items for those who use them mistakenly, so please be careful when crafting. ❗️
Returning Seasonal Fruit
Available all month in the Greenhouse and Jackpot Planet!
Hake Nut, Mult Fruit, Goodroop Berry, Spikul Fruit, Harvest Fairy, and Sugar Drop all make a return!
Users can purchase 1 of each fruit in the Greenhouse. Additional fruits can be won at Jackpot Planet or found in Baskets!
New Foraging Location!
To help you find the items you'll need to craft Baskets and other event items, we have a temporary Foraging location: Twilight Path!
This location only drops items needed for event crafting recipes and activities, as well as a rare chance for Baskets, Orbits, Comet Clusters, and even Koronoks.
Free gifts, blueprints, seasonal produce, and the Twilight Path location will no longer be available after
Saturday, November 30th AT 11:59 PM EST / 8:59 PM PST
The rangers need your help!
The Rangers Corp. has requested a special team for an on-planet expedition to ensure the safe capture and release of a species native to Jurupa Forest called the Koronok.
The Koronoks have suffered from unprecedented population decline over the last two cycles. Without a clear answer, things look dire. ARC Labs has agreed to help in finding the reason behind the decline and hopefully a solution to save the species so the Koronoks can be reintroduced. To help ensure the safe capture of many individuals, the Rangers Corp. is looking to recruit those with previous experience or interest in the following fields: animal handling, capture and release techniques, and familiarity with Jurupa's greater environment and ecology.
Interested in helping out the Koronoks' cause?
Consider visiting your local Rangers recruitment office to submit your application today!
Thank you for your interest and assistance. Together we can ensure the survival of this unique species!
Build traps and bait through the Crafting tab to get a chance at capturing a Koronok. Koronoks come in 3 color variants and using different baits in a trap will boost the chances of getting certain variants! However, be prepared to encounter sick Koronoks! Sick Koronoks can be healed by administrating medicine to them. Healing sick Koronoks also comes with a bonus of earning their Index page!
You can learn more about crafting traps & bait and healing Koronoks by visiting the Koronok Turn-in Prompt!
See you out in Jurupa forest! We need all the help we can get!
Mushroom madness!
Failure is a part of learning.
It has come to ARC's attention that the outbreak of non-native fungal spores present in Harbor two cycles ago, assumed to be contained then, has in reality established a troublesome population in Jurupa Forest. The moderate year-round climate and heavy precipitation has made this an ideal location for their growth- but their establishment is disaster for the local Koronok population.
Koronoks are primarily fungivores so it is imperative ARC collect specimens to learn more about these alien mushrooms and the similarities and differences between the invasive and native species and how they are effected.
Every day, you can attempt to collect a mushroom by Foraging!
These mushrooms are necessary ingredients for creating medication to immunize the Koronoks against the invasive, poisonous fungi and they are of great interest to ARC's scientists for study. There are 9 fungi foragables in total; collect a set of all 9 by the end of the month and submit them to the Mushroom Turn-In Prompt!
Get out there and start foraging! The Koronoks' fate depends on it!
The Wild Indoors!
ARC is requesting tools to minimize stress for both lab staff and the Koronok patients alike.
Building enrichment, cooking food, and donating extra medicine to help care for the Koronoks in ARC's care ensures success. Koronoks are delicate and temperamental and the stress of being removed from their natural habitat can take a huge toll on their recovery. ARC knows bringing the familiarity of the woodland to their temporary enclosures at the lab will make the stay much easier.
Similarly, having familiar fresh foods provided to the Koronoks seems to help improve their recovery times greatly. ARC has access to their favorite mushrooms but they are cultivated varieties, which lack critical mycorrhizal nutrients these mushrooms receive growing in the wild. Donations will help supplement a balanced pellet diet.
Finally, ARC looks for volunteers who can afford to synthesize medicine. Vaccinating the captured population can help those that fall ill to fight through their sickness. Combating a bottleneck in the population would be difficult. So even if it doesn't cure them outright, it is important to prioritize stabilizing a large population to solidify genetic diversity.
You can use the Crafting tab to cook Koronok food, build a Log Nest, and synthesize Medicine to donate to ARC through the Enrichment Turn-In Prompt. Remember these items must be submitted together as a bundle to be eligible for rewards!
Forgot how to craft something? Try checking your recipe book!
Fertilizer Frenzy!
An old friend, Tilly, steps up to run a donation drive !
Tilly, the ever-curious Korso, pokes her beak in to learn about the Koronok's Rescue, Rehabilitate and Release efforts. Perhaps because of her proclivity to chase excitement in life, she jumps at the opportunity to help out!
Tilly is calling for donations of Fertilizer and Premium fertilizer on ARC's behalf. They will need a lot of it as they plan to medicate it and spread it over a large testing area to hopefully eradicate all the invasive mushrooms, stopping the spread and retuning balance to the forest. This area will serve as a release site for the Koronok so they can be monitored to see the effectiveness of the vaccine and reestablish a stable breeding population.
Items needed for creating Fertilizer or Premium Fertilizer can be found through Foraging!
Once obtained, check the Crafting tab to create the required items needed for the Fertilizer Turn-In prompt.
Eww, dirt and poop again? Well, the Koronoks are cute enough to make all the work worth it in the end!
Event Prompts
Participating in these two limited-time prompts to gain Orbits, extra raffle tickets for our Mega Raffle, and other special prizes!
In this prompt, draw or write about your Xero participating as a Ranger in the Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Release program.
How does your Xero interact with or observe the Koronoks? What is your Xero's task in helping with the program? How would they safely do so while being careful to not stress the animals? Do they bring special tools to assist them with this task? Clothing or gear?
Participating in this prompt awards 1 Twilight Carnival Badge, 3 Orbits, 1 Advanced Trap, 1 Seasonal Basket, and 10 tickets to our Mega Raffle!
For those that are new here, every once and a while we like to get the community together to donate to a charity to help a cause out and get the community some special rewards to boot!
Did you know that black-footed ferrets were thought to be extinct until a small population of them was discovered in the early 1980s? The surviving population of just 18 animals were brought into captivity for a breeding program.
Every 10 USD donated to the charity gets you a Premium Produce item, as well as 1 Orbit! We are capping the donations to 30 USD a person! You may receive up to 3 items and 3 Orbits in total! You may donate more, but you will not receive any additional rewards!
Each prompt may only be submitted once per user!
These event prompts END on Saturday, November 30th AT 11:59 PM EST / 8:59 PM PST
Games & Prizes
To celebrate Twilight Carnival, we have some pretty spectacular prizes available this month; you don't want to miss out on this!
It's Xingo time again! Join us in our Discord (18+) for Xingo - a Xero-themed Bingo game that lasts all month!
Every day new words are called and when you get 5 in a row, you get a prize! You can even get a prize by getting Patterns & Secret Words!
Each line, pattern, or secret word will earn you 1 Orbit & 1 ticket to our Mega Raffle! You can learn all about it in our Xingo prompt, which is where you'll go to claim your prizes!
Xingo is OPEN for sign-ups now! Click HERE to sign up!
Spaces are limited!
✨ A Special Prize awaits after the event...
Save your Orbits! A limited-time special Blueprint will be available to purchase only for event participants from December 3rd through 6th.
It looks like a Blueprint chip from ARC's MAKR Machine, but why do you get the feeling the Curator has something to do with this eerie-looking card? What instructions does it contain?
Twilight Carnival Mega Raffle
The Twilight Carnival Mega Raffle will run the entire month! There will be 30 winners with different prizes!
Raffle tickets can be earned by participating in the Event Prompts and getting Xingos in our Discord!
Note: The MYO prizes will be given as already-opened slots with a sale value of $0.
x1 Special Free Xero Giveaway!
x4 Standard MYO
x3 Unusual MYO
x2 Notable MYO
x1 Anomaly ORB
x3 5 Orbits
Regular Monthly Prompts
Finally, as always, we still have our monthly repeating prompts, XOTM & ARC Survey!
11 2024 XOTM: DuskPupDesigns' X-1038!
What is XOTM? Each month, a new Xero will be picked at random to receive a plethora of gifts from the community! Draw, write, or create some mixed media crafts for the featured Xero and win a Mysterious ORB and a chance for your Xero to be featured next month!
ARC Survey: 030
The sights are one thing, but to most, the best part of the Twilight Carnival is the food. From all corners of AREZ space, people come and bring the tastes and smells of their homes, culminating in a huge street festival full of sharing and new experiences.
This year we are curious about foods from other planets... maybe even your home, Earth!
★ Click for Twilight Carnival Event FAQ ★
General Event Questions
★ How do I participate in the event?
★ Will certain event items be removed from my inventory after the event?
★ How do I access the MAKR Machine to Craft?
★ How do I get materials to craft?
★ What are Orbits? How do I redeem them?
★ How can I join the Mega Raffle? Is it free?
The Mega Raffle is free to join and will have 30 winners. You can earn Mega Raffle tickets through Prompts, activities, and the Xingo. Raffle tickets are automatically added to the raffle page when they are awarded. The Mega Raffle and the number of tickets you have earned so far can be viewed HERE.
★ Why does the Donation drive cost real money? What are ✨ Special traits?
Our event donation drives are partnered with accredited wildlife foundations and focus on connecting our events to real world issues. By donating you are helping real animals. Project Xero does not see these funds as they are always given to our foundation of choice directly by players. With proof of purchase, we award Premium Produce that will result in traits with the ✨ Special rarity.
★ My question isn't answered here, where should I ask it?
Lore questions
★ What are the Koronoks? Where do they live?
Koronoks are mammal-like noodly little vertebrates that spend their days hiding in small crevices and hollows in the giant trees of Jurupa forest. Their many limbs have dexterous paws for grasping branches and their extremely long tails helps them stay balanced, even when navigating the narrowest of twigs. Koronok emerge at night to feast on the bountiful native mushrooms found throughout the forest.
Size: 20-25 in / 50-64 cm
★ Who are the characters in the story?
★ Does my participation impact the story?