Site News

★ General Species Updates

From prompt, to designs, to Discord, we are working at overhauling a good portion of our older areas of information to make things more clear to users, and to make sure no one is lead astray by any of our old information. After bringing on new mods, our admins now have more time to focus more heavily on these updates. If you're active in the Discord server, you have have noticed some of these changes already, and many of the updates in this newsletter are a result of these changes as well. Please be patient with us as we try to modernize everything!

★ Discord Server Rules Update

One of our first big updates this month is an update to our Discord server rules, as well as the addition of some new roles. The new rules are as follows:

★ General Rules ★

• • This is a PG-13 server. Any mentions of adult media (shows, species, etc.) is strictly forbidden and will result in your post being removed.
  • Be courteous to one another. Mods have the right to kick you for bad behavior.
  • Do not start or encourage drama. If you have a problem with another user and need us to know about it, please open a private help ticket in ⁠contact-us for staff to deal with accordingly. Further, drama regarding real-life or other species issues should not be topics of conversations either.
  • If anyone asks for a discussion topic to be changed, whether it's a staff member or another user, then the topic is to be changed without people asking "Why".
  • The above rule applies to spoilers as well if someone is requesting that an image is censored.
  • Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, P*dophilia etc. are topics that are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
  • Please understand this is not the appropriate place for you to vent about serious stuff, IRL or otherwise. This includes, but is not limited to, general discussions about mental illnesses, therapy, or medications. If you are in need of someone to talk to about these topics, you should speak with someone you trust in DMs or real life. Here is a really good list of Mental Health resources should you need it! https://bit.ly/2YVCDMJ 
  • Please keep ranting to a minimum. We discourage this behavior in our server and anything other than a brief mention is subject to message deletion.
  • Using pacapillars or snekkets without a masterlist entry in art or written pieces is not allowed. The only exception to this are Official and Guest Artist adopts, and Nokkelborth or Toripng customs as they are already official.
    • NOTE: Mod and Guest Artist customs still require going through the MYO approval process, and are not automatically official unlike Nokkel and Tori customs!
  • No repetitive self-depreciation of yourself or your creations or complement fishing. We don't condone making others feel guilty to like your work or give you complements.
  • Make sure you keep all language and posts Safe For Work [SFW]! Any adult media should not be discussed in this server under any circumstance!
    • This includes, but is not limited to:
      • Blood/gore (mild blood that's is a color other than red is ok in small amounts. EX - hot pink)
      • Sex/explicit imagery or language. This includes artistic nudity, pinups, and suggestive clothing.
      • Swearing (if you think it's inappropriate, don't use it!)
      • Prejudice behavior or language
      • Depictions of alcohol or drug use. Animal Crossing-like "drinks", such as "Vacation Juice", are fine.
  • Do not block staff members for telling you to stop doing something or enforcing the rules. (Personal issues are different). If you are uncomfortable with a certain staff member, you're welcome to request another staff member to handle your stuff.
  • Do not solicit trades/commissions/ads in the general channels.
  • Do not beg for privileges. Such as staff roles, Guest Artist, team lead roles, etc.
  • Do not beg for items, currency, or characters.
  • Cheating the game in ways such as using a second account for more rewards, purposely filling out incorrect criteria or adding rewards to prompt submissions is not allowed. Everyone must work for their rewards fairly.
  • Impersonation can lead to a ban.
  • Staff have the right to take action on anyone who has offensive material in their icon, status, name, nickname or links.
  • We appreciate any good intentions in helping out but please avoid any mini-modding to avoid spreading wrong information.
  • Staff members have final say on matters and topics should not continue after the fact. If there are issues with a staff member's decision, we will discuss it as a team in private to handle the matter.

★ Ad Board Rules ★

• • Do not advertise anywhere other than the channels located under Ad Board!
  • Do not advertise other servers or post invites.
  • You are allowed one post per advertisement channel every 72 hours. Once your older post is deleted, you're free to post a new one
    • NOTE: Deleting your advertisement just to post a new one (even if it's to advertise something different) is prohibited and will result in your new ad being removed. If you would like to advertise something else while you still have a post in the channel, please edit your old message.
  • Do not post the same advertisement in multiple channels.
  • Our species is a 13+ space, advertising 18+ seeking / trading species or art, or directly naming 18+ species will result in your ad being deleted. Please be aware if you disregard this rule repeatedly you may be suspended from posting advertisements.

★ Art / Writing Channel Rules ★

• • Before you post your own creative works in #⁠pacapillar-art, ⁠#paca-writing, or #⁠other-art, please make sure to acknowledge the art that's been posted right above yours. A simple sentence complimenting 1 or 2 things about the piece will do, (no emoji-only reacts), and it shows appreciation for the wonderful works others do! Please be aware that if you disregard this rule repeatedly your post may be deleted by moderators and too many warnings can result in being suspended from posting your own artwork.

 

★ Design Check Rules Update

More rules have been updated, and this one is specifically for the #design-check channel in our Discord Server. The new rules are as follows:

Design-check channel rules

• • Kindly use the forms below for your submission. It's okay if traits are not correct, but please try to add your best guess. 
  • We kindly ask you to be patient with our staff team, sometimes life can be busy which may result in some waiting times. We will review your designs as quickly as possible.
  • Please do not submit your design for design-check and on-site approval at the same time. If you decide to submit your design directly to the site, please make sure to remove your design-check request to avoid any confusion or duplicate mod responses!
  • Please avoid pinging mods, as it does not guarantee a faster response. It's okay if it happens accidentally, but we kindly ask you to disable pings when replying to mods.
  • Please keep your posts to one message unless you forgot to add something or have additional questions. Kindly avoid sending several WIP updates unless you made big changes that you would like to have checked.

MYO Design Form:

• • • Image
    • Specific questions/comments you have regarding the design
    • Items being used for this MYO (optional)
    • List of traits and their rarities
      

      • **Subspecies:**
        -# only if applicable
        **Texture:**
        **Head Feelers:**
        **Cheek Nubs:**
        **Tail Feelers/(Wings for Snekkets):**
        **Extra Traits:**
        -# add more as needed
        **Mutations:**
        -# add more as needed

Redesign Form:

(for redesigns, adding elixir forms, upgrades, etc)

• • • Image of new design
    • Link to Masterlist entry of old/current design
    • List of changes being made, if any
    • Specific questions/comments you have regarding the design update

 

★ DTPAY rules update

Due to reopening our second Draw The Paca Above You channel in our Discord server, we have also modernized the rules in there to hopefully provide a better understanding of the game. If you would like to get the ping role for DTPAY, head over to our #reaction-roles channel to pick the role up!

How to play:

1. 1. Optional: You can get the @DTPAY role here.
   2. Simply make a "claim" in either of the DTPAY channels to join the game. Only one person can play the game per channel at a time. It cannot be claimed if the person above has not finished their artwork yet.
   3. After your claim you have 72 hours (3 days) to complete your artwork. While we do not grant any extensions you may ask for a few more hours if your artwork is nearly finished.
   4. Once you finish your artwork, post a new comment with the completed piece and the form filled out below:

      • **Next Pacapillar:**  
        **Owner:** 
        @DTPAY

Please do not forget to attach your artwork and ping the DTPAY role!

Rules:

• • Art Requirements: The artwork must be a clean colored fullbody and may not look too sketchy. Drawings that lack significant effort or do not follow the requirements or anatomy guidelines will be asked to be corrected. The edited version should be posted in the pacapillar-art channel. If too many art pieces require corrections, it may lead to a participation restriction.
    • You can find some helpful guides here.
  • Dropping out: If you are not able to finish your claim within the given time, you will be subject to a 1 month probation period where you are not allow to play the game. If you fail to complete the game several times, you may be restricted from playing for an extended period. Repeated offenses can result in a ban from the game.
  • Cooldown: After you have finished your artwork you have to wait until 3 separate claims have been finished in the initial channel you claimed in until your are able to play again. Please note that it is not allowed to claim in the other channel while you are on cooldown.
    • Example: Person 1 (you) claims and finishes their artwork in channel x. Person 2, 3 and 4 claim and finish their artworks after each other in the same channel. NOW you are able to play in either channel again.
  • Character Options: If you post a character that may be considered as complex, kindly provide an alternative simpler option for users to draw. If your character stays unclaimed for over 24 hours please provide more character options to draw. This should help with keeping the game moving!

 

★ Prompt Updates

Some major updates to prompts now, the more activity we see with them and the more events we have consistiently:

• Miscellaneous Pacapillar Submissions will now be limited to 15 submissions per user per month.
  • Though we want users to be rewarded for their work, we have noticed how some users have userd the Misc. Submissions prompt as a quick cash-grab, not putting as much effort into their misc. submissions as they would a standard prompt or commission work. As a result of this, it has put a lot of workload on prompt staff members to sort through all of these submissions in a timely manor. 
  • A further result of this is that ALL prompts will have a daily limit of 5 submissions to minimize queue flooding. This means if you submitted 4 Misc. prompts, and 1 Lovely Gift today, then that is the total amount of prompts you can submit today and will need to wait until tomorrow to submit any more, regardless of the prompt title.
• Level of Finish mini-guide
  • Further on the above issues mentioned above, we have created a level of finish mini-guide. Though in the past we have allowed users some sketchier linework, we have noticed a large amount of users abusing this freedom, and creating pieces that lacked effort in favor of making things more quickly. Though effort is determined user-by-user and not by comparing users to each other, if you submit a prompt that's really loose and sketchy, then post a cleanly lined commission piece in the server, we're going to notice. 
  • To make sure everyone is putting effort into their pieces, we have created the below guide for what we will be accepting for prompts moving forward. This level of finish will also apply to DTPAY pieces.
    
• Half Body VS Fullbody mini-guide
  • By popular demand, we have created a mini-guide for what is acceptable as Half Body and Fullbody counters.
    • Anything before the green line is just a headshot and will not count towards rewards
    • Between the green and pink lines is what would be considered acceptable as a Half Body grading
    • Anything from the pink line and further is fine to mark as a Fullbody
      

 

★ New Staff Members

Amongst all the chaos of updates, you may have noticed some members who have joined our staff rankings! Please give a warm welcome to our new moderators, Maharaja , and Broken Bottle Chandelier who will be handling Discord monitoring, as well as Broken Bottle Chandelier helping out with prompts alongside Plague1010 and maarblecakes ! Please be patient with our new staff members as they are learning the ropes, and be gentle if they make mistakes. We have brought them on during a very chaotic update stage of the species, so they are trying to learn both our existing systems, and our new ones.

 

★ Alley Shop Update

To adapt to the new standard mutation items, the Alley Shop has had some price adjustments to balance things out a little bit better. The price changes are as follows:

• Psidium Berry:
  • Was: 15
  • Now: 10
•  Fragaria Berry:
  • Was: 20
  • Now: 15
• Ultra Mutation Items
  
  • Was: 30
  • Now: 35 (Increased to accomidate for standard mutation items)
•  Ripe Olera Berry
  • Was: 60
  • Now: 50 (Still has a shared stock)

Following this update, with the seasonal rotation of Ultra mutation items, ONE  new standard mutation item will be rotated in alongside the existing two. The standard mutation items will be priced at 25 , and will not have any stock limitations. Any standard or snekket mutation items that are not included in the seasonal stock rotation will be featured in one of our Event Shops.
The first of our standard mutation items to be featured in seasonal rotation is the Mixed-Berry Dango, which applies the Split (Standard) mutation to an existing Pacapillar or a Pacapillar MYO slot.

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game night will take place on April 19th for a standard game night, and April 26th for a game of Frankenpaca! Both games will happen around 3pm EST. There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #reaction-roles channel in the server!

Discord Server

NPC Prompts

Further delays expected for the NPC prompts. Please bare with us while we work through setting everything up for these as they are intended to be permanent one-time prompts for users to participate in. The ones that were intended to release already will likely all go live around the same time. Please pick up the Species Updates ping in our Discord server in the #reaction-roles channel to be notified when these are released.

APril Flash Prompts

To celebrate April Fools, we have decided to release two flash prompts for users to participate in! The first being Inconvenient Artistry, where you are to create a written or drawn piece of media that may not be common in your standard arsenal of supplies or methods. The second being Partner Pokémon. Pacapillars has no affiliation with Pokémon, though this prompt is just for fun! If your Pacapillar were in the world of Pokémon, what would their team look like? Both of these prompts will reward additional Eggies to use in the Eggs Giving event shop!

Submit the Prompts

New Discord Roles + Role Channel

With the update to our server's rules, we've also cleaned up the #directory channel, which means reaction roles are no longer hiding above the listed channels! We now have a channel dedicated to picking up new roles called #reaction-roles. In this channel, you can react to the bot's messages to pick up any of the following roles: (new ones have a Shhroom next to them!)

∘₊✧───── PRONOUNS ─────✧₊∘
You can have as many roles from this section as you please!

• • She / Her
  • He / Him
  • They / Them
  • Neopronouns
  • Any Pronouns
  • Please Ask My Pronouns
    
    

∘₊✧───── OWNERSHIP ─────✧₊∘
You can only have one of these roles!

• • Already Owner [AO]
    • You currently (or previously) have owned a Pacapillar or Snekket before.
  • First-Time Owner [FTO]
    • You have never owned a Pacapillar or Snekket before.
      
      

∘₊✧───── PINGS ─────✧₊∘
You can have as many roles from this as you please!

General Updates:

• • Species Updates
    • Notifies you whenever there are updates to the species, including, but not limited to, monthly newsletters, trait updates, prompt updates, general updates to the community, etc.
  • Event Watch
    • Notifies you whenever we have new events or Flash Prompts being hosted
  • Design Watch
    • Notifies you whenever we have a new official design up for grabs either here in the server, or on the website!
  • Raffles
    • Notifies you whenever we host a raffle in the server!

Server Minigames:

• • DTPAY
    • Notifies you whenever the "Draw The Paca Above You" minigame chats are open for a claim
  • Game Night
    • Notifies you whenever there's an ongoing Game Night, or in regards to any updates regarding the monthly Game Night.

Secret Shop Pets

The 2022 April pets have been added to the Secret Shop! Head on over there to pick up a Confetti in the Box, Quesito, Wormhole in the Box, Rawrmutt, Sproinkle, or Sillymera!

L.E.A.F. 2025 TOur Dates

L.E.A.F. is late to release their tour dates this year, oh no! I'm sure their shows will sell out regardless of the short timeline however. L.E.A.F. will be touring various places of Chrysalopolis in the months of May, September, and November. Rumor has it they plan to set up a merch shop and sell new trinkets too!

Seasonal Rotation

We say goodbye to Winter, and hello to Spring! Winter seasonal prompts and mutation items have rotated out, and their Spring counterparts have been rotated in! Remember that if you completed both of your Winter prompts, submit a claim with proof of both your submissions having been approved for an award! This same idea will apply to the Spring prompts as well; if you complete both of this year's Spring prompts, submit them in a claim to get an award!

Fintastic Flakes to Fish and Ships conversion

As mentioned in our February Newsletter, Fintastic Flakes will now be used solely for the Fins ultra mutation, the new item, Fish and Ships will now give Octo Body. If you originally bought Fintastic Flakes for the purpose of using it for Octo Body, this will be the last month that the window to exchange it for a Fish and Ships item instead. You have until May 2nd, 2025 to exchange your Fintastic Flakes. After the mentioned date, you will not be able to swap your item for free any longer, and will need to purchase Fish and Ships, a Ripe Olera, or a Wondrous Gift  to be able to obtain Octo Body for your MYOs and redesigns.

Eggs Giving
March 3rd, 2025 - April 30th, 2025

Eggs Giving returns, and Snekkets are entrusting Pacapillars with their precious Glistening Eggs all across Chrysalopolis to raise as their own!  After the influx of Pacapillars swarming Monet last year for information, he has decided to turn it into an annual event, much like Mirage Festival, simply calling it Eggs Giving. Through this event, Monet, and his companion, Claude, hope to spread information about the elusive Snekkets better, and aid Pacapillars in raising their new noodle friends, all while having fun with it! This year's festivities have the theme of "Festival of Fools"; what a perfect time to play with your Snekket and be silly!

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game night will take place on March 15th for a standard game night, and March 22nd for a game of Frankenpaca!There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #directory channel in the server!

Discord Server

NPC Prompts

Due to unforseen circumstances in February, both Mach and Sachet's NPC prompts will be releasing this month. We apologize for the delay for anyone who had been waiting on Mach's prompt last month.

Guest Artist Changes

We've altered the terms for our guest artist applications; now, to make things simpler, 15% of any monetary sales is to go to the Pacapillar account, and artists keep 85% of their profits. We've also added sections for your site username and discord username to be filled in so that we can contact you more driectly, as well as add you to our guest artist channels in the server.
We are in need of plenty of guest artists in the near future for our monthly features. If you've ever wanted to be a pacapillar guest artist and sell your designs to the community, you can find a button to the application form below in our design schedule section of this newsletter!

Secret Shop Pets

The 2022 March pets have been added to the Secret Shop! Head on over there to pick up a Squacky (Spring), Catlog, Foliage (Spring), Blue Punch, Lucky, or Queen Been!

Eggs Giving
March 3rd, 2025 - April 30th, 2025

Eggs Giving returns, and Snekkets are entrusting Pacapillars with their precious Glistening Eggs all across Chrysalopolis to raise as their own!  After the influx of Pacapillars swarming Monet last year for information, he has decided to turn it into an annual event, much like Mirage Festival, simply calling it Eggs Giving. Through this event, Monet, and his companion, Claude, hope to spread information about the elusive Snekkets better, and aid Pacapillars in raising their new noodle friends, all while having fun with it! This year's festivities have the theme of "Festival of Fools"; what a perfect time to play with your Snekket and be silly!

Prompts for this event will begin on March 3rd.

New Octo Body Item

Fintastic Flakes will now exclusively be for the fins mutation, and Octo Body itself now has a unique Item called Fish and Ships. Due to this change, we are allowing a 3-month grace period to trade out your Fintastic Flakes for the new Fish and Ships item if you originally purchased Fintastic Flakes in the intent of using it for Octo Body. Until May 2nd, 2025, you may submit a claim on site here to have your item changed. Simply add "Fintastic Flakes Exchange" to your comment, and add your existing Fintastic Flakes to the "Add-Ons" section under the "Your Inventory" dropdown (this is so that the item gets automatically removed upon approval).

Secret Shop Grand Reopening

Our ARPG pet shop, the Secret Shop, has officially reopened! Stock now holds every pet that's at least 3 years old (or older), and prices have been drastically altered from the original 100 per pet, to now be 10 for common pets, 30 for rare pets, and 50 for super rare pets. To get Shhrooms cycling back into rotation, all 3 pet prompts (Companion Galore, Creature Feature, and Critter Spotlight), will reward 2 each upon approval. We've also added bundles to the Cash Shop where you can purchase 10 for $5, 30 for $15, and 50 for $25. Additionally, until the end of February, there is a free gift that can be claimed by all users in which you can get 50 to use freely in the Secret Shop to show our appreciation to all users, and celebrate the store reopening! (Note: Please only click the claim button once. Due to site lag, if you click it more than once you may end up with unfair distribution.)
If you wish to gain even more Shhrooms, please pledge to Nokkelborth 's patreon to gain the ability to trade your Golden Berries for Shhrooms! LINK

Addressing Site Lag

We are aware of the massive spikes in lag affecting the site currently making using the site quite difficult. This has resulted in some submissions getting duplicated, staff tasks being duplicated, or simply soft locking users from accessing pages. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about this, so all we can really do is wait things out and hope that the speed of the site increases sooner rather than later. We've experienced these lag spikes in the past, and how long they would last has always been varied. While the site is having issues, we ask that you are just patient with it, our staff members, and other users alike, as this is something that affects all of us.

Mutation Items

Almost all of our standard mutations officially have items now. Admins are still discussing how to properly get these into circulation, but until then, please resume your MYO approvals as normal, using either an Olera Berry for mutations, or one of the items that had already been released in the past. Multi-Texture (Standard), Split (Standard), and the Snekket mutation, Wyvern, still need to be completed at the time of this newsletter being posted, however those should be completed soon and added to the site. (An update will be posted in the Discord server when the last three items have been uploaded.)

DTPAY Updates

We've reopened the second Draw The Paca Above you minigame channel in the Discord server, so we can now have 2 games running at once, making the wait much shorter, and opening the game up to more users. We've also increased the DTPAY criterion payout when submitting your final piece for rewards, this change hopefully making the activity more engaging to our users.

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game night will take place on February 8th for a standard game night, and February 22nd for a game of Color-To-Adopt Frankenpaca! Both games will take place at 2pm CST on their respective days. There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #directory channel in the server!

Discord Server

Boreal Wishes Wrap-up

Boreal Wishes 2024 has been concluded, and the shop will remain open until the 7th of February. After that, the shop will close until this year's rotation, and all currency for the event will be reset. How did you feel about the collection of prompts lasting the full 2 months instead of having something different for each month? Would you like to see more events handled like this, or would you like prompts to change with the month for every multi-month event? Feel free to give us feedback in our Feedback Form (you can remain anonymous), or in our #suggestion-box channel in the Discord server. We want to make sure everyone is having fun with our activities, so your thoughts are important to us!

Typing on Bank + Inventory Transfers

You can now make bank transfers and inventory transfers by typing the recipient's username directly, making it much easier to send things to others instead of scrolling through hundreds of usernames. We're still trying to make this a possibility on pets currently however. 

Mach NPC Prompt

Sometime this month, our NPC, Mach, will be receiving his own ARPG prompt following Hero's NPC prompt. This will not have a time limit to complete, however you must complete Hero's prompt first to unlock the ability to do any of our other NPC prompts upon their release. An update will be posted in the Discord server when Mach's prompt has been released publicly.

♡ Corewarming ♡
February 1st, 2025 - February 28th, 2025

It's February, which officially means it's the season of love in Chrysalopolis, however this love isn't exclusive to couples! Love for everyone you care about, whether it's a partner, a friend, a family member, or even a pet are all valid forms of love and are to be celebrated in this time. How does your Pacapillar express their love for Corewarming? Did they treat their partner to some expensive candy? Maybe they're having a platonic "date night" with their bestie and watching silly movies with them? Perhaps they're having a competitive game of Uno with their family members? Or maybe they're just staying at home and dressing their pets and Snekket up in little nub-made bowties! No matter how you express your affection for others, it's important to let your loved ones know how much you do care about them!

ARPG NPC Prompts

With our NPCs getting more spotlight as of late, we wanted to help the community get to know them a little better. To do this, every month of 2025 we will be releasing a new, permanent ARPG prompt until we have an interactive activity for all 14 of our NPCs. By completing these prompts, you will gain an NPC plush collectable that you can either keep or trade with other users, but you will also get an account-bound Friendship Charm based off of the NPC linked to the prompt you are submitting that will count towards progress of a unique award that will be featured on your profile, "Friend of Chrysalopolis". These prompts will have no time limit, much like our farming prompts, and you can complete them at your own leisure, but remember that you can only do each of these prompts once, and you will need to complete Hero's prompt to unlock all of the others (regardless of release date).

New Monthly Prompt

Since we originally starting having Creature Feature each month, we have gained a lot of new members to participate and have fun in the species, however due to the rise in users, we realize that not everyone will have access to pets we've already had featured in Creature Feature, or, existing users may wish to collect more of these pets themselves. To remedy this, we have brought back what was originally a flash prompt titled "Pet Pageant", and given it a new coat of paint, renaming it as "Critter Spotlight", and it's more generalized now instead of revolving around dressing a pet up (you're still more than welcome to do that however!) This prompt will be a new permanent monthly prompt, and will cycle through pets that were featured in the previous year's month. Any pets from 2023 will be cycled back into the normal Creature Feature pool first due to their original descriptions being lost to time, and any 2024 pets will cycle back in through Critter Spotlight starting immediately this month.

Gold Berry Subspecies Berries

Following suit with subspecies berries being featured in the Cash Shop, we finally are selling them in the Alley Shop for Gold Berries. You can purchase up to 2 Dubious Berries per year for 100 , and you can purchase up to 1 Forbidden Berry per year for 150 . The items in the Alley Shop however will NOT affect your purchase history in Barrie's Berry Shop, so if you save up enough currency, you could get up to 4 Dubious Berries and 2 Forbidden Berries a year for pacapillar currency (more if you purchase them from the Cash Shop). The Gold Berry subpsecies berries are currently stocked as of this newsletter, but will reset on our next subspecies berry restock.

Olera Berry Reset

In roughly 2 weeks following this newsletter, Olera Berry stocks will reset, and you will be able to purchase them once more in both Barrie's Berry Shop and the Alley Shop.

Monthly Guest Artists

We are reviving our Guest Artist applications, and hoping to bring on at least one Guest Artist per month starting in February. If you have ever wished to try your luck at being one of our featured Guest Artists, now's your time to apply! We have remade the original form, so if you have applied in the past, we ask that you apply again so that we can see results only from users who are both active and interested. If you're interested in becoming a Guest Artist, you can apply HERE!

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game night will take place on January 18th for a standard game night! There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #directory channel in the server!

Discord Server

Wish Granting Wrap-Up

Wish Granting 2024 has been concluded! Pinch hitters have been contacted to cover any pieces that were not completed, and you're free to share your submissions finally. If you haven't claimed your rewards yet, please submit the Wish Granting prompt linking your finished piece as the submission. If you do not submit this prompt, you won't get your rewards! It's known that there is an error with the button being visible for some users, so if the button isn't there for you, please submit your entry though the "Submit" button in the navigation bar at the top of the site.

New Staff Member

As some of you may have seen, a new staff member has joined our team. Please give a warm welcome to Doozie , who will be helping us with the prompt queue moving forward. As always, please be patient with our new mod as they learn their way around things.

Seasonal Prompt Awards

As mentioned in last month's newsletter, as of December 22nd, you can now claim an award for completing BOTH seasonal prompts for a season. This only starts with this cycle of the winter prompts, Cup of Warmth, and The First Snowfall, any seasonal prompts that predate December 22nd, 2024 cannot be claimed. If you have completed both of these prompts however, you can submit a claim on site here linking both your approved submissions, and a staff member will reward you with the appropriate seasonal award to display on your profile. You can only claim this award once per season, but you can also claim it yearly. So if you claimed the winter award for this year already, you can claim it again next winter.

Art by TornPages

Boreal Wishes
December 3rd, 2024 - January 31st, 2025

As winter rolls into season, Chrysalopolis drifts into the north, causing the floating city to become rather cold, snow even falling from clouds higher than the city and creating a frigid, yet beautiful blanket of snow over the land. Pacas are starting to move indoors more where it's warm, often enjoying things like cuddling under a blanket with all their pets, or experimenting with different flavors of hot cocoa! The holiday season truly nears however pacas start to see stunning rainbow lights dance across the night sky, marking the start of Boreal Wishes, a season in which pacas gather together and put aside their differences, often giving gifts to each other to celebrate, and throwing huge parties in the middle of the season to ring in the new year. The Boreal Wishes season is most certainly the most joyous time of all.

Awards

We now have an award system in place. Many awards still need to be created, however starting on December 22nd, 2024, you will be allowed to claim an award for completing both of the prompts for the featured season moving forward. You can claim these seasonal awards once per season cycle.
Further, if you recall in the March / April event of Eggs Giving. it was mentioned to save the links to your approved submissions if you completed all 4 Eggs Giving 2024 major lore prompts, and this is exactly what that was for! If you completed all 4 Eggs Giving prompts, please submit a claim linking your 4 approved submissions in the comment, and a staff member will grant you the new award, Paca's Best Friend!

Soulbloom Compensation

Until December 15th, 2024, due to one of our event prompts not launching, there is a compensation period in which you can submit a claim with the comment "Soulbloom Compensation" and receive 9 as compensation for the prompt not going live. You may only claim this compensation ONCE, and it will only be available until the 15th. Afterwards, the Halloween event shop will close until next year, and all Treats will be removed from user accounts to start anew next year.

Prompt Cancellations

Now, just like our design system, prompts can be cancelled and returned to the user as a draft instead of getting the harsh "Rejected" text all the time. This should make it easier to communicate changes, as well as request that criteria forms are added to submissions lacking one. Of course, some rejections may still happen if a prompt doesn't meet criteria, was submitted to the wrong prompt, or other situations of the sort, but we hope that returning your prompts to you without needing to redo everything you did have correct will be much less of a struggle for everyone, and possibly make the prompt submission process more engaging.

Character of the Month

An update to the Character of the Month prompt is that any users wishing to participate in the raffle to have their character featured MUST join our Discord Server. This is so staff can easily reach out to you on a short timeframe to get your character's information. Another rule being added is if we do not get a reply from you in 24 hours or less of us reaching out to you about winning, the raffle will be rerolled and someone else will get the featured spot.

Birthday Pet Update

As of last month, it has officially been one year since we installed a feature that hands gifts out to users on the first day of their birth month, and as a result, we have changed the pet featured in the gift bag. Due to there being no proper announcement for a grace period after installing the automatic birthday gifts last November, if you have a birthday in November or December, and you had an account on our site last year for those months, but you did NOT get the automatic birthday gift, we will manually grant you your birthday goodies from last year. Please submit a claim on the site and simply put something in your comment along the lines of "2023 November / December birthday claim". We will be checking accounts to verify birth month and if you got the gift or not. This claim is to get last year's Support (Birthday) pet, and not this year's Cake Pop pet.

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game nights will take place on December 7th for a standard game night, and December 14th for game of Frankenpaca! Both games will take place at 5pm EST. There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #directory channel in the server!

Discord Server

Wish Granting

Reminder to anyone who signed up to our wish granting event last month, (see details HERE), to get your pieces completed. We have a prompt running currently that allows you to submit for your rewards already, but all submissions are kept private until the event is over. Alternatively, you can open a private ticket in our Discord Server, or send a message to JacyFox ( jacyfox on Discord) to be marked as done, and submit your prompt after the reveal date.

"Super Supporter" Role Retirement

The Super Supporter role is officially being retired. It hasn't been obtainable for a while now, and has caused issues in being broken, but after this newsletter is posted, any users who have this role currently will have their roles reverted into the standard user one, and the role will be permanently removed from the site. This will NOT affect anyone's patreon standing, but instead will simply get rid of something that has been causing issues for the site, in turn being a small step in inproving the site.

Log Icons

Inventories, pets, and awards now have little icons in their logs! This will help users and staff alike see these logs at a glance much more clearly.

Art by TornPages

Boreal Wishes
December 3rd, 2024 - January 31st, 2025

As winter rolls into season, Chrysalopolis drifts into the north, causing the floating city to become rather cold, snow even falling from clouds higher than the city and creating a frigid, yet beautiful blanket of snow over the land. Pacas are starting to move indoors more where it's warm, often enjoying things like cuddling under a blanket with all their pets, or experimenting with different flavors of hot cocoa! The holiday season truly nears however pacas start to see stunning rainbow lights dance across the night sky, marking the start of Boreal Wishes, a season in which pacas gather together and put aside their differences, often giving gifts to each other to celebrate, and throwing huge parties in the middle of the season to ring in the new year. The Boreal Wishes season is most certainly the most joyous time of all.

Chrysalopolis Lore Gallery

As we share more of our world lore with everyone, we wanted a place to also keep all this information readily available and easy to refer back to for everyone. To do this, we have created a new gallery for staff and official artists to submit to that will have imagery for various locations around Chrysalopolis, as well as written pieces to describe the scenario or event more in-depth. Written pieces may take longer to be added, but in due time, will be added to the literature sections on their appropriate drawn pieces. You can view this new official gallery HERE !

NOTE: 
We still allow users to have their own creative freedom and will never enforce these lore segments too strictly unless stated otherwise; if a prompt should stick to canon lore more tightly, it will be mentioned in the rules / requirements of the prompt.

The first lore piece we have is by TornPages focusing the Tree of Souls during the month of November. Written lore still needs to be added to this piece, but a follow-up message will be posted in #paca-patch-notes in the Discord server when that has been added, (as well as being mentioned in our December newsletter.)

Wish Granting (Secret Santa) Sign Ups

We are happy to introduce a new hoiday tradition to Pacapillars, Wish Granting! This is essentially a Secret Santa exchange just with a different name. A followup news post will be posted shortly with information on participation rules and how to sign up. Sign ups will be open starting today, and will close on November 10th, 2024, so be sure to submit your form in time if you wish to participate!

Visual GuideS

The following visual guides have been added to the official guides gallery:

• Subspecies:
  • Winged Unnatural Subspecies

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game nights will take place on November 2nd for a standard game night, and November 23rd for game of Frankensnekket! There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #directory channel in the server!

Discord Server

DTE FrankenPaca

Last month's Frankenpaca result is still running for entries, but only until tomorrow! Be sure to get your submissions in to the Prompt and Gallery in time to be entered into the raffle!

 

Creature Feature Rules

Our prompt, Creature Feature, has had the below rule added. Please know that this has always been a rule for this prompt, but due to staff error that information did not originally end up as public as we intended. With this now being written however, we will adhere more strictly to this rule when approving submissions.
NOTE:
This rule only applies to Creature Feature for the time being. You are still allowed creative freedom for other prompts unless specified otherwise.

• • Pets should follow canonical sizing (See HERE) but should be no smaller than 1/5 of the Pacapillar's height, and no bigger than the height of the Paca.

    • This rough sizing applies to Standard Pacapillars; pets will always be much smaller in comparison to Subspecies Pacapillars and Snekkets.

    • This rule only applies to this prompt and we allow creative freedom on other prompts!

 

Reminder: Direct Messaging Staff

Reminder to all users to not DM staff members regarding questions, concerns, vouchers, or character appraisals. If you would like to speak to a staff member privately regarding the species, please open up a help ticket in our #contact-us channel in the Discord server, otherwise we ask that all questions are directed to our #✅questions-and-answers channel. Alternatively, you can submit something to our feedback form (found under "Help" in the navigation bar) with the option of remaining anonymous, or submit a claim here on site.

SoulBloom Feast
October 1st, 2024 - November 30th, 2024

It's officially Soulbloom Feast once again! All the souls of those no longer with us are being drawn into the Tree of Souls, causing it to illuminate and glow within the dark forest, but new candies that appear to be different from last year's seem to be blooming on the branches of this great cherished piece of nature.  Pacas from all over are flooding into the forest with their costumes and friends, not a worry in the world about the rumors of Monsters and Poison Pacapillars living in the forest, too interested in the fun festivities. 
You can read more about the lore for this event in last year's newsletter HERE

There will be 10 prompts in total for this event, allowing users a chance at 40 in total to spend at the Creeping Thyme Stall. Both October and November will have lore-related prompts linking back to August's lore prompt about Thyme and the Chrysalis Shards. If you missed that event, you can read the dialogue for the prompt in question HERE. October's prompts will run through November as well for anyone who missed them during October, but all prompts for this event can only be submitted once per year per user and will not refresh on monthly rollover.

There are 10 new candies to collect this year from Candy Bags! All new candies will be account bound until after the event has concluded. Once Boreal Wishes begins, all of this year's Candies will be tradable and donatable, but will no longer be sellable. Will you get the super rare Licorice Monster that has a 2% chance to roll?

        

Gallery Sorting

Followup from our September 2024 Newsletter; all galleries have been properly sorted and parent galleries have been locked. Please post any future submissions in their appropriate sub-gallery. Instructions on how to do this can be found in last month's newsletter.

Visual GuideS

The following visual guides have been added to the official guides gallery:

• Subspecies:
  • Poison Natural Subspecies
    
    

Trait Visuals : Feelers

Visual examples for Head Feelers, Cheek Nubs, and Tail Feelers have gotten new example images added to their descriptions. Though the visual guides show various examples for shapes, these visual examples instead show what lengths determine whether a feeler is Common, Rare, Super Rare, or in the case of Ultra Tail, Mutation.
NOTE: Only the visual examples have been updated! The text on the traits is still outdated and currently in the works of being updated.

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game nights will take place on October 12th for a standard game night, and October 19th for game of Frankensnekket! There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #directory channel in the server!

Discord Server

DTE FrankenPaca

Last month's Frankenpaca result is still running for entries, but only until October 5th! Be sure to get your submissions in to the Prompt and Gallery in time to be entered into the raffle!

 

Item Updates

• Last year's Halloween event currency has been renamed from Candies to Treats so that they won't be confused with candy collectables anymore.
• TornPages has updated his visuals for the Treats world image as well as the Halloween Candy surprise bags. If your browser is still displaying last year's artwork, you may need to hard refresh by either pressing "Shift + F5" on PC, or clearing your cache on mobile.
• Last year's Halloween collectables are now available in the Creeping Thyme Stand for leaflets, and the 2023 Candy Bag has been turned into a collectable that can be purchased for 4 Treats
  NOTE: Only the current year's Candy Bag will give randomized rolls for collectables. Previous years are strictly collection items.

 

Seasonal Prompt Icons

All seasonal prompts now have icons so that they can easily be picked out in the list of prompts. These serve no purpose other than to separate the prompts more clearly, but we may turn them into items in the future!

   

 

Prompt Permissions

Since what is and isn't allowed in prompts can sometimes be lost in the general rules of a prompt, we have added a color-coded permissions section to each active prompt. These display clearly whether commissioning someone else to draw your piece, collaborations with other users, or crafted pieces are permitted on a prompt. Separating these makes the general rules easier to read in the case of any changes being made, while also making it clearly visible whether these other variables are permitted.

Extended Character Of The Month

Due to being late last month, September's COTM will bleed into October for a few days to give the owner of last month's pacapillar more spotlight time. If you draw both last month's and this month's featured characters, you will get a bonus entry into the COTM raffle. This will be a new permanent feature if we are late with updating the monthly rollover, and after the extension time, the character from the previous month will be removed, and only the current month's feature will have the spotlight. 

SoulBloom Feast
October 1st, 2024 - November 30th, 2024

It's officially Soulbloom Feast once again! All the souls of those no longer with us are being drawn into the Tree of Souls, causing it to illuminate and glow within the dark forest, but new candies that appear to be different from last year's seem to be blooming on the branches of this great cherished piece of nature.  Pacas from all over are flooding into the forest with their costumes and friends, not a worry in the world about the rumors of Monsters and Poison Pacapillars living in the forest, too interested in the fun festivities. 
You can read more about the lore for this event in last year's newsletter HERE

There will be 10 prompts in total for this event, allowing users a chance at 40 in total to spend at the Creeping Thyme Stall. Both October and November will have lore-related prompts linking back to August's lore prompt about Thyme and the Chrysalis Shards. If you missed that event, you can read the dialogue for the prompt in question HERE. October's prompts will run through November as well for anyone who missed them during October, but all prompts for this event can only be submitted once per year per user and will not refresh on monthly rollover.

There are 10 new candies to collect this year from Candy Bags! All new candies will be account bound until after the event has concluded. Once Boreal Wishes begins, all of this year's Candies will be tradable and donatable, but will no longer be sellable. Will you get the super rare Licorice Monster that has a 2% chance to roll?

        

Voucher rules

Due to a large increase in voucher requests, we are unable to keep track of every user who gets a voucher approved by one of our staff members. Due to this, when advertising that you are looking for voucher offers on your pacapillars or snekkets, OR when transferring the character to their new owner, we are requesting that users include their ticket number as proof of approval in their advertisement / transfer reason so that we can keep tabs on everyone using this system fairly. 
Example:
     Ad: Vouchering my Paca xyz for $60! Voucher has been approved in the ticket #0023
     On-site transfer: Reason: $60 voucher, approved in ticket #0023

 

Gallery Sorting

After many years and several improvements, our gallery has remained relatively untouched, now finally we're working on a new sorting sytem for them! All submissions are currently being manually moved into their appropriate sub-galleries, but once everything has been sorted, we ask that you start to use these sub-galleries rather than the main gallery. When we are through sorting, you may notice the "+" button on the main page will be missing. You may wonder how you submit to galleries in that case. To do so, just simply follow the below steps:

• STEP 1: 
  Select a Sub-Gallery
  • When looking at a gallery's header, you will see smaller text links listed below the title. These are sub-galleries and where you will want to submit to. Click on one to be taken to the sub-gallery's unique link. (Be mindful of what gallery you click on to make sure everything stays sorted neatly.)
    
• STEP 2:
  Submit to the Gallery you have selected
  • On the left-hand side of the page (or on the side menu on mobile), you will see a list of galleries. This is all the parent galleries you can find on the main Gallery page you just came from. When you are in a parent gallery, this sidebar will show a list of all the sub-galleries within that parent gallery.
  • The title at the top of the page displays what sub-gallery/parent gallery you are currently sitting in
  • On the right hand side of the page, there is a submit button. This will submit the piece to the gallery you are currently sitting in. From there simply create your gallery submission as normal.
    
    

Visual Guide Gallery

All of our existing up-to-date visual guides have been added to the Guides + Resources gallery, hopefully making them easier for everyone to find. As time goes on and we make more guides, we will do our best to keep on top of adding them to this gallery to keep everyone in-the-know. The following guides are currently available in this gallery as of this newsletter being posted:

• Anatomy
  • Pacapillar Leg Sizing
  • Snekket Leg Sizing
• Mutations:
  • Snekket Mutations
  • Overlay Mutation
• Subspecies:
  • Gilled Natural Subspecies
  • Shelled Natural Subspecies
  • Monster Unnatural Subspecies
  • Upgrades VS Elixirs
• General Traits:
  • Textures
  • Common, Rare, and Super Rare Head Feelers
  • Common, Rare, and Super Rare Tail Feelers
  • Common, Rare, and Super Rare Cheek Nubs
  • Extra Traits
• Prompts:
  • Simple VS Complex Backgrounds
  • Shading Bonus Requirements

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game nights will take place on September 14th for a standard game night, and September 21th for game of Frankenpaca! There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #directory channel in the server!

Discord Server

Art Fight Criteria Bonus

Now being into the start of September, we are under the assumption any Art Fight pieces have received their bonus criteria rewards, so the criteria tick has now been turned off until next year. We love that people took advantage of this bonus, and created more pieces for one another during Art Fight season, and we're excited to see next year's turn out too! 

SHading Guide

For a while now, the question has been up in the air over what is an acceptable level of shading to claim the bonus, and this info not being clear has resulted in frustration, which isn't fun for anyone. Our prompt admin, TornPages , has created a guide to help with some clarity, displaying various tiers of what is accepted, and what will have the bonus turned off. Any past submissions that have been processed already will not be affected and are safe, but moving forward, we will be adhering to this guide to make things flow much more smoothly, making judgement on whether there's shading or not much easier.

Rejection Request Button

Since adding in criteria rewards and getting rid of the shading requirement on all prompts, we've been trying to pass prompt submissions more openly to allow everyones art to feel appreciated and accepted, however we have noticed that this has brought the issue of staff simply editing criteria forms to match our grading judgement as long as they meet the base requirements when users could have their piece rejected instead so that they can make edits and gain their full rewards. We've heard your requests and now on both writing and art criteria forms, there is a new button at the top of the form. This does not give any bonus Leaflets, but instead it lets our staff team know to reject your piece and make changes if your form isn't 1:1 with our judgement before we simply otherwise approve with edits to the form. We hope that this is more accommodating to everyone, and encourages people to participate in prompts more knowing for full certain that you will get your full rewards.

 

Ginjinka Time Return!

Get ready to bust out your humanoid anatomy skills, the Ginjinka Time flash prompt is making a return on September 8th, 2024, and will end on September 21st, 2024. More info will be available in the prompt when it's made live.

Craft Project Frankenpaca DTE

Last month's Frankenpaca result is still up to enter, but only until September 8th! Be sure to get your entries submitted to the gallery and prompt in time to be entered into the raffle to win this bean for your very own!
Prompt: https://play.pacapillars.com/prompts/prompts?prompt_category_id=2 

Mirage Festival Cleanup

Mirage Festival officially ends tonight, and we hope everyone enjoyed this year's event! The Mirage Prize Stand shop will remain open until (roughly), September 12th, 2024. After that date, all Monet Tickets will be wiped from user banks to start fresh next year. Be sure to spend your tickets before this date!

L.E.A.F. Tour
February 1st, 2024 - February 29th, 2024
May 1st, 2024 - May 31st, 2024
✰ September 1st, 2024 - September 30th, 2024

L.E.A.F. Is officially on tour! Along with them, they are bringing 2 prompts to participate in and get their collectable items, "L.E.A.F. Tour" and "Merch Drop"! Including the concert tickets that were only available as a free gift last month, there are 9 L.E.A.F. collectables in total to get! Will you be able to collect them all?
These prompts will repeat yearly during random months! This year, the tour is around for February, May, and September! Don't worry if you aren't able to collect all the items in one go though! You can always trade with other members of our community in the site-trading channel in the Discord Server!