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.

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!

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!

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!

An old friend, Tilly, steps up to run a donation drive !

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!

To celebrate Twilight Carnival, we have some pretty spectacular prizes available this month; you don't want to miss out on this!

 

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!

As I'm sure you have heard by now, there has been an outbreak of non-native fungal spores in Harbor and the timing could not be worse. To help contain the outbreak, we're recruiting individuals with with previous experience or interest in the following fields: foraging, fungus identification, or mycology.

While the initial contamination has been contained, the existing fruits must be collected before they are allowed to produce more spores and succeed our containment capacities. Please report to the address below and await further instructions.

Thank you for your interest and assistance. Together we can ensure that this outbreak does not become a full-fledged spread of an invasive species!

Every day, you can attempt to collect a mushroom from our new site feature: Foraging!

There are 12 new mushrooms in total; collect all 12 by the end of the month to gain a Twilight Carnival 2022 badge and 10 Raffle Tickets in our huge Twilight Carnival Mega Raffle! Please check out our Discord's Twilight Carnival section to trade your duplicate mushrooms and submit your completed collection for rewards.

Get out there and start foraging! We need all the help we can get!

To summarize, the 300 MYO is too low of a ceiling currently and makes it too difficult to properly divide prompt or game rewards and item resale prices within it. We are scaling up the system entirely, including costs of items, resale prices for items, and rewards for prompts.

KEY POINTS:

• Prestige will be increased from a scale of 100s to a scale of 1,000s.
• Almost all items will be able to have a resale value, with a minimum of 1 P
• Prompt rewards will be increased to reflect the new scale.
• Trait item prices have been increased from their original price to reflect the new scale.
• Prestige MYO price has been increased to reflect the new scale.
• We are ready to add several new game/site features to help give users more ways to earn currency with this economic change and use the items they have gathered.

We believe for the future of the site and species, these changes will improve QoL for both our new and established players. As Project Xero enters its third year, we have always made a point to communicate with the community that things they are used to may change and scale as time goes on. This is a substantial change compared to the proposed update last year, but we are certain that users will be able to adapt quickly.

NUMBERS BREAKDOWN:

Before you look at these large numbers and panic, Prestige earned from prompts & activities are being scaled up as well.

This number increase is PURELY to have a higher Prestige ceiling. Our goal is to keep the process of earning your MYO(s) roughly about the same as current, just with an overall better economic system for the rest of the games and items. Hopefully, this makes sense to you all!

Current MYO Price: 300 Prestige
Proposed MYO: 30,000 Prestige

Current Standard Trait: 5 Prestige
Proposed Standard: 500 Prestige

Current Unusual Trait: 10 Prestige
Proposed Unusual: 1000 Prestige

Current Notable Trait: 15 Prestige
Proposed Notable: 3000 Prestige

Current Anomaly Trait: 25 Prestige
Proposed Anomaly: 5000 Prestige

Seasonal Trait: Limit of 1 per person in-store, additional free ones can be earned for a limited time in decent amounts by participating in event activities.
Current Seasonal: 25 Prestige
Proposed Seasonal: 7500 Prestige

In addition to the scale changing, there is also a bit of an increase in some of the trait’s rarity. Standard and Unusual trait items will remain very common and fairly easy to get by playing the game normally. However Notable, Anomaly, and Seasonal traits will now be more rare and will require frequent engagement/effort/time to obtain. Just like in Neopets or other similar games, part of the appeal of playing is to save up to get the rarer customization options. We feel if all options remain fairly equal in rarity and obtained in abundance, interest in continued interaction tends to drop a lot.

Currently, MYOs and most trait items are extremely abundant. Part of this is because of the current scale being so low, but the other part of this comes down to the need for more ways to spend Prestige. These are issues we are aware of and actively working on rectifying! We understand these changes may sound intimidating at first, but we have put in tremendous effort to ensure our changes are balanced to the best of our ability, including reaching out to community members for feedback. 

We are certain this economic update is the best way forward for ProjectXero at large. 

 

If an account-bound ‘starter character’ is no longer desired by the owner, it can be voided or donated to the Admin Account to be raffled off as a prize in the future. Users who donated their starter MYOs will be given 5 Orbits for Jackpot Planet. If a user (new or old player) decides they are not interested in having an account-bound character, they are free to save up for the other MYOs or trade/purchase other characters instead, they don’t have to get the account-bound MYO. Other than the cheaper price and easier obtainability and the account-bound status, the MYO is the same as any other basic MYO and can have any traits added to it.

The other yearly Prestige and Wish Shard MYOs will still be available to everyone and will refresh every year, but they will require more time/effort to get, which should help increase the desirability of MYOs and Xeros in general.