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January Rollover!

It's that time! January is here and rollover has officially been completed.
Make sure to check out last month's winners at the Winner's Showcase!

This month we have something special for Midveiler of the Month ... Mod Appreciation Month!
Each mod has chosen a Midveiler to feature, which means more opportunities to draw gift art for crumbs!
As usual, please make sure all gift art is also delivered to the owner!

Signed up for the Snowball Fight yet?
If not, get in on the action and earn some tokens!
The prize shop will open in February and we hear there are some cool items planned!

Searching for The Great Pet Rescue pets?
Then you'll want to change up your typical hunting grounds ... the pets are now hidden around the site!
Find pets hidden on specific pages around the site and click on their image. This will lead you back to the Activity page where you can see your progress! Find all 8 to claim your prize!

Edit to Add: To clarify about the locations for Pet Hunt pets on the website: They can appear on any general page or sub-page that every user (regardless of content they have unlocked) can see that is not user-dependent.

For Example: The Diving Pool is fair game because all users can view this page, even if they have not unlocked it, it would show up regardless of unlock status. The Binx Daily unlocked by the Binx Doll is not, because only users who have unlocked it can access the page in the nav.

Another Example: The create/edit your shop page would be fair game, but a specific user's shop would not be. Page 4 of the Strudel Masterlist? Okay. Strudel 1506's individual page? We wouldn't put it there!

Hopefully this provides some relief to users who are ancticipating having to comb through every shop, gallery, and masterlist entry on the site!


ARPGs are getting a small adjustment to lessen the amount of work required!
Drawn ARPG memories will now require >50% of the character visible (instead of our previous "3 visible limbs" rule) and literature items are 750 words per part, down from 1,000!

A couple of small things to note:
If you missed our recent announcement: The farm is now FREE to all users! If you haven't yet unlocked your farm, mosey over to Green Acres and simply click the button to Get Started Farming!

A note on items: Elixir of Ick and Charred Pepper are merging. Because they essentially do the same thing, we are combining the two into one item: Elixir of Ick. If you have any Charred Peppers, you will soon see them become Elixir of Ick but no worries, they will work just the same! The Charred Pepper item art we have future plans to reuse in another way. Look for the Elixir of Ick replacement to happen later in the day!

And that's all for this month! Next month, however, we have an exciting Valentine's event planned...
You might want to squirrel away a few crumbs, because Lottie is going to need them!


By The Strudel Team | Posted 2020-01-04 16:41:29

Happy New Year!

It's almost the end of the decade here in Midveil, so we have some announcements for you!

First things first! With the end of the advent, it's high time we get moving with our new event! We're having a SNOWBALL FIGHT! Users will be divided into two teams... Team Slime, and Team Goom! Throughout the whole month of January, performing site actions will give you a random chance at collecting snowballs! The team with the most snowballs at the end of the month will receive a special gold border on their stamp, and bragging rights, of course! Both teams will receive a profile skin and a stamp of their respective team! (And snowball tokens can be redeemed at the end of the month for goodies as well!)

 

Take a moment to sign up for your team! Are you a Slime or a Goom? 

Find out here!

 

And yet, that's not all! We've read through user suggestions, and come up with a few changes based on responses from some newer users! The first of which being something that will come in handy during this event! We've decided to reward all new users with the Green Acres farm, to help new users start earning currency and get a good start in the game! To get started with your free farm, head to Green Acres via the navigation, and clicked "Get Started Farming!"

 

For new users who have just unlocked their farms via the ARPG, no worries! If you've unlocked your farm in the past month, we will pay that forward by unlocking your barn for you! You will receive an unlock notification in the next few days, so hang tight for us! We will be making some more changes to the game in the next couple months, the first of which being Quests! Questing will be temporarily taken down while we work on the new system! We hope these new changes find you well, and if you have any more ideas on how we can improve the website experience for you, let us know via the suggestion box!

 


By The Strudel Team | Posted 2019-12-31 23:11:17

Winter Is Here!

It's officially winter. Bundle up, because snow has fallen across Midveil and even blanketed Green Acres. The orchards have been cleared and there are even a couple of new saplings to be planted, hurrah!


By The Strudel Team | Posted 2019-12-21 00:07:36

DECEMBER Rollover!

Yes, yes, it's that time of the month already! I hope everyone's ready for a month full of fun, because there's certainly no shortage of things to do in this merry month of Midwinter! Before we go over what's new in Midveil, take a look at our winners from last month! 

 

The Midveilers of the Month have been chosen for this month, but there will be no Midveiler of the Month chosen from this month's activities! Instead, I will be using January as a Mod Appreciation Month! The staff have been working extremely hard all year, and deserve a lot of loving! Since a MotM will not be picked from this month's activities, instead, we will be using Lottie's Luck as our featured activity this month! 

This month's Lottie's Luck features a PRESENTATION CHALLENGE! These challenges are an add-on to the monthly baking activity, where you do your best to style your treats up all pretty! This month's baking theme is FUDGE! Fudge is a type of sugar confection with a smooth and creamy consistency! It comes in dozens of different flavors, from peanut butter to cotton candy! This confection also lasts quite a while at room temperature, making it a perfect gift to give to loved ones! Flex those giftwrapping muscles, and package up some yummy candies for someone you love! Five winners with the best presentations will receive a Gingerbread Pupcake! 

A brown dog-like creature with a cream-colored icing mane. It has a cupcake wrapper on its rump.

If baking isn't quite your forte, no worries! We have reset all other activities, including adding a couple new prompts to Kindness Counts! Part-Timing has also been updated, and this month you can win a Giftbox Mimic if you complete all four jobs! Part-timing is reset ever THREE MONTHS so you have exactly that amount of time to get your paws on one of these trouble makers! Part-timing has been moved to the Activity Hub page! This means it might take us a couple days to get the submissions back up and running, but you are free to get a head start on your drawings!

We have also changed the prizes for Behr's Beauty Contest! The candy pets have been discontinued, and we will now be rewarding PET POTIONS depending on the seasons! For the winter season, we will be awarding the SNOWY POTION to our top winners! These potions can be used on any applicable pets! The crumb and stamp rewards remain unchanged!

Activities aside, this month features our first ever WINTER ADVENT! Visit the Giving Tree every day this month, and receive a bunch of prizes, including some new pets, potions, skins, etc! This advent is designed to give you a little bit of everything, and is great for members just getting their foot in the Strudel Cafe door! It's not too late to join the advent, so if you have any friends who'd like to join the cafe, now's the time to do it! 

 

So that just about covers this month... but what's coming up next month?

A dreamy city in the sky awaits you... as well as a metric ton of snowballs.


By The Strudel Team | Posted 2019-12-07 22:27:43

Midwinter Advent

Winter is almost here, and this year, we're going ALL OUT! 

This year's Midwinter celebration will be...... a full 31-day advent calendar!

Each day you will be able to visit the Giving Tree to pick up a special prize, including items such as exclusive Green Acres pets, recipes, profile skins, etc! We're giving y'all a week's heads up to get started on your ARPG prompts so you can cash in on those sweet winter goodies. 

And because this event is so chock full of goodies to use on the site, I will be hosting a FTO free raffle on my account this weekend, so new members have a chance to get their paws in the door!

Check out the new memory here!


By The Strudel Team | Posted 2019-11-22 13:03:08