Site News

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!

 

Berry Reset

The time has come! Be sure to save up your Leaflets and Gold Berries, the specialty berry restock is approaching quickly, more specifically on August 15th. Personal counters for Forbidden Berries, Dubious Berries, and Olera Berries will be reset back to 0, allowing you to purchase them once more to use on your designs! Reminder that these berries when bought with site currency can NOT be transferred to other users after purchase; if you are looking to buy a berry for someone else, you will need to either provide them with the appropriate site currency to purchase for themselves, OR purchase the berry yourself in our Cash Shop!

Shell Texture Retirement

After staff discussion, we have decided that we will be retiring the rare rarity Shell Texture. Any existing Pacapillars or Snekkets that currently have Shell Texture will have their Shell Texture traded out for Matte Texture + Extrusions. Please be patient with staff as we work through the masterlist to fix any affected characters accordingly, as well as alter our visusal guide. From now on, we ask that you please use the combination of Matte Texture + Extrusions instead of Shell Texture on your MYO designs.

 

Paca + Snekket Leg Sizing

For a while now, leg sizes for both Pacapillars and Snekkets have been very rough, and we had no way to depict when legs were too big, often resulting in stress for both users and staff members alike. After some discussion amongst the team, we have determined what is ok for leg sizes in either species, and what may be considered a bit extreme. Our staff member, TornPages , has created the below guides (click to go to a larger version) based on this discussion, depicting a generalized visual idea as to how big the leg to body ratio should be on both Pacapillars and Snekkets.
NOTE: We try to allow our users plenty of flexibility in their art styles, so in a case-by-case scenario we may allow chunkier or longer legs, however please note that staff have the right to request edits to the design or prompt submission's anatomy if we deem the legs as too big or too long. The below visuals are simply to provide a rough, generalized idea, and are in no way policing unique art styles.

     

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game nights will take place on August 17th at 2 pm CST for a standard game night, and August 24th at 2 pm CST 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

DTPAY Criteria Bonus

Though users have always been able to submit their DTPAY pieces for prompts, we decided to make this more rewarding by adding a small bonus amount of Leaflets for anyone who completes a DTPAY drawing within their time limit and submits it to the site as a prompt. Within your art criteria form, there will be a new switch titled "DTPAY Submission". Simply check turn this on to claim the new bonus on your artwork. You will have a bonus 125 added to your total rewards if your submission is valid.
NOTE: This bonus can only be claimed for art pieces completed for our Discord Server minigame, Draw The Paca Above You. Pieces must be completed within your given timeframe, and the bonus cannot be claimed if you missed your deadline or dropped out of your claim.
Want to play DTPAY? You can pick up the ping role in our #directory channel to get a ping whenever there's a character open for claims in the #draw-the-paca-above-you channel!

Claude... Real...

Congrats to our user, FluffyFoxOfFate for winning our NPC art contest, and providing our boy, Claude, with an official artwork for his masterlist entry to finally exist! With this official reference, you can now draw (or write) him with ease to include in your prompt submissions, rolling in a nice little NPC bonus in your criteria as well ;3 (This also includes all of our NPCs however, not just Claude! Go give our NPCs some love for some bonus profit <3 )
Check out his official masterlist entry here: https://play.pacapillars.com/character/NPC-0013 

Chikara's Internship

Last year, the pacapillar, Chikara, started an internship in hosting the newsletters, and we are pleased to announce that his internship was a success! He has been a huge help, but now it's time for him to move on to future endevors. Chikara will be retiring as an NPC, and instead, our NPC Mach will be covering his position in bringing newsletters to everyone every month. We thank everyone who read newsletters over the past year in helping Chikara achieve his goals!

 

Mirage Festival
~Continued~
July 5th, 2024 - September 5th, 2024

Mirage Festival continues, releasing a lore-based prompt with an interactive dialogue! We hope you're ready for a little bit of Paca drama, and who knows? Maybe even a cliffhanger~
Be sure to complete the previous 3 drawn/written prompts (with the exception of the crafting prompt being optional) to the event before submitting the new lore prompt or your submission may be rejected!
Remember to use your Monet Tickets at the Mirage Prize Stand in our shops to get some event-exclusive items! The Mirage Prize Stand will be open from the start of the event until the 12th of September. After that, all Monet Tickets will be reset to 0 to start anew for next year.

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game nights will take place on July 13th for a standard game night, and July 20th for game of Frankenpaca hosted by JacyFox for their birthday! 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!

Times games are hosted will be up for vote shortly to see what works best for the community.

Discord Server

Art Fight 2024

It's officially Art Fight season! Request your team colors in our #art-fight channel in the Discord server, or post your finished works and pieces you've gotten (with the appropriate credits) in our #art-fight-art channel ; Staff participating in Art Fight this year will also have role colors to display their team, but they have a lighter color tone so that you can still tell us apart! You can also get an additional 150 when submitting a prompt  that was an Art Fight attack you did on someone else; this button has been added to the Art criteria form (please remember to submit your pieces to our on-site gallery here or Toyhouse so that we can still review your piece in the event that the Art Fight site goes down from the traffic.)

Reminders

As the community settles back into a comfort zone, we need to remind everyone about the following list. This is so that staff can manage everything easier and keep everything running smoothly for everyone!

• Remember to always include criteria in your prompt submissions! We want to make sure everyone is getting their proper rewards when submitting a prompt. Exceptions that do not allow for criteria to be claimed will mention that in their rgeneral rules for the prompt
  • Staff can NOT add criteria from our side, we don't have a button for it. We can edit your filled out sheets, but otherwise the adding of a criteria form can only be added by the person submitting the prompt!
• Prompt rules change from time to time! Though many of our prompts use the same list for rules, some prompts may alter these (whether it's a standard prompt or event prompt), and reading these rule alterations could be the difference between an approval or rejection!
• Do NOT use Discord image links when submitting through prompts! Discord recently changed their system to cause any images linked from their servers to automatically stop displaying on external sites after a certain amount of time; some cases images have expired after 12 hours, while others they expired after 48 hours. It's an extremely varied time frame, but there is always the chance that an image may expire before our staff can get around to your prompt! Though we encourage use of our on-site galleries, external sites such as Toyhouse, DeviantArt, Cara, etc. are all fine as well so long as the image has some sort of public permissions.
• When submitting a MYO design or redesign, if submitting to our #design-check channel, please do not submit your design to the site until after a staff member has gotten back to you with feedback. If you submit a design to the site, then we ask that you please do not submit that same design into our #design-check channel. Submitting to both does not speed up the process any, and instead creates double the work for our design mods.
• Be sure to always read the pins in our Discord server channels if you are unsure about something. You may need to jump directly to the pin in some cases since mobile now cuts off pins after a certain point, not letting people see the entire post otherwise. With the abundance of Discord updates as of late, this feature may have slipped past a lot of people, including some of our staff members!
• If you would like to DM a staff member for assistance, please open a private help ticket in our #contact-us channel in the server. This can be to have a voucher or appriasal approved, to report problematic things that may affect the community directly, or to ask for help in a private setting.
• Sometimes staff will post announcements without pings, so be sure to keep an eye on our #announcements channel. These no-pings may not require a big ping, but they are still just as important.

 

NPC Masterlist Art Contest

Judging for the NPC masterlist art contest featuring our Snekket NPC Claude is now underway! Staff will need  a few days to properly look over each submission and decide on a winner and runner ups. We appriciate everyone for entering! Please join our Discord server to be updated when a winner is chosen.

Rainbow Bat DTE

Thank you to everyone who entered for our guest artist DTE raffle! Everyone had such wonderful pieces! The winner of the raffle has been rolled, and congrats to CryMeARiver for winning this baby! The masterlist for them will be transferred to you shortly, and you can collect the art pieces for the bean from the gallery here: https://play.pacapillars.com/gallery/22 

Mirage Festival
July 5th, 2024 - September 5th, 2024

Our annual Mirage Festival is back! Join Monet and his Snekket companion, Claude in all the activities and have some fun with your own Snekket companions! This year's theme is Crystals, just like our lovely city of Chrysalopolis. There are 4 prompts in the first half of the event (Snack Time, Snekket Bonding, Dress to Impress, and Bedazzled Crafts), then a 5th lore-based prompt will drop on the first of August that will require all 4 of the main event prompts to have been completed.
Remember to use your Monet Tickets at the Mirage Prize Stand in our shops to get some event-exclusive items! The Mirage Prize Stand will be open from the start of the event until the 12th of September. After that, all Monet Tickets will be reset to 0 to start anew for next year.

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game nights will take place on June 8th at 3pm CST time for a game of Frankensnekket that will be given out to the community  for first-time-snekket-owners as a free-to-enter raffle on June 18th, and June 22nd at 3pm CST time for a regular 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!

They also have heard your feedback about their game nights, and will be increasing rewards for players from 300 to 500 for big rewards, and 150 to 250 for Smaller rewards. This will make playing the games much more rewarding to players! Chao will also be allowing users to vote on games to play, so if you want to play Wrong Answer Trivia one game night, you can vote on that!

Discord Server

Character Pronouns

Our amazing coder, Sweetstuff , has added a new feature that allows you to give your character pronouns that will display under their name, just like how they do for us users! Every character can have their own unique set of pronouns on their profile, and the best part is? They are completely user-customizable! No drop downs limiting pronouns to just the basic ones or a few neopronouns, which means you can also have multiple pronoun options listed! Every character pronouns box allows up to 100 characters (as in letters, numbers, spaces, etc.), so split pacapillars don't need to worry if all their pronouns will fit!
To edit this feature on your characters, simply click "Edit Profile" on their masterlist entry like you would when changing their name, and the customizable pronouns box will be right at the top!

Donation Shop Icon

After having the donation shop for a hot minute, we finally have an icon for it instead of the default image thanks to ChaoChild! We are still working on making pets a donatable feature, but in the meantime we hope you like this beautiful new asset!
 

Pride Pins

To celebrate pride and allow users some personal flare, TornPages has created 23 new 'collectables' that you can obtain and have proudly! These pins will not be a part of a specific collection  that will affect future collections, but instead you can just have whatever ones that fit you best.  These will be handed out as rewards for our June event prompts, but they are not ccount locked and can be donated, so if you got more flags than you have a use for, then you are more than welcome to donate them or trade them to other members of the community! You can see the full collection of Pride Pins HERE, and a free-to-use base will also be released in the Discord server.

🏳️‍🌈 Paca Pride 🏳️‍🌈
June 1st, 2024 - June 30th, 2024

It's time to express yourself and be you! Our Pride Flags event prompt and Pride Color Palette Challenge have finally returned after hiding away for a few years, now with an additional prize for completion of both! Upon approval of your piece, you will be given a new item; Sealed Pride Pin. This Sealed Pride Pin is a choice box, which allows you to pick one of 23 Pride Pins to display on your profile upon opening it! How does your Paca express their pride? Be sure to do the prompts to show us! We can't wait to see all your colorful flags!

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game nights will take place on May 4th at 3pm CST time for a game of Frankenpaca that will be given out to the community as a DTE raffle, and May 18th at 3pm CST time for a regular 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!

Discord Server

Trait Updates

Our lovely design mod, Echoklang is currently working through all the existing traits to update their wording to fit our traits in a more modern sense, and hopefully clear up any confusion regarding the current system having so many outdated clarifications. This is a slow process, so please be patient with her as she goes through these. Whenever she updates a trait, she will be posting in the #paca-patch-notes channel in our Discord Server.

New Staff Members

We'd like to welcome on our two newest staff members, 0lliever and cowboy ! They will be assisting us with prompts and you may have already even seen them working on some submissions! We request that you please be patient with them as they learn the ropes. We would also like to announce ChaoChild will be working with the design mods as well, helping them with design approvals and masterlist uploads. We're very thankful for all  of our staff members, and we hope everyone will love our newest additions!

May/June Event

Due to unforseen circumstances, there will be no major event for the durration of May or June. L.E.A.F. Tour returns however for the month of May, and we will be having some pride-themed prompts for June for people to participate in as well, but otherwise there is no lore-based events for these two months. Mirage Festival is still on for July and August though! :3c

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!

 

Design Mod Applications

We are seeking to bring on new staff members! We are currently looking for Design moderators to join our team. Experience is not required as long as we feel you can do the work. Any applicants must be of 18 years or older. Read more about the requirements and apply with the form linked below!

Application Form

Site Development Pause

There has been some issues showing up behind the scenes for our coder, Sweetstuff, and further development for the site is on pause while they try to figure out solutions to the issues at hand. We request that you are patient in this time and enjoy the features we do currently have in the meantime where Sweetstuff is only one person  and can only humanly do so much! Error reports will still be tended to, we're just pausing on new features for a little bit is all.

Donation Shop 

Got any items you no longer want but don't want to sell or trade? You can now donate these very items to the community to claim and use to their hearts content! To donate, simply go to the item you no longer want in question, tick the box on it, open the "Donate Item" dropdown, and then finally click Donate! That's all! Each user can also claim up to one free item from the donation shop once every 24 hours. 
Pets that are not in your inventory cannot be donated just yet, however we are hoping to make this possible when we can resume site development!

Donation Shop

Trait Info Update

We are very aware that our traits are really out-of-date and may be confuising for some users with this information being incorrect, so our lovely design moderator, Echoklang , will be going through and updating information on all the traits to get things organized once more. Please be patient as she works through these things over the next few days, but soon our traits will all have proper descriptions to correctly align with the current system.

Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's DIscord game night will take place on April 20th at 3pm CST time! 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!

Discord Server

Prompt Reminders

A reminder to everyone that Discord and DeviantArt links do not work for prompt submissions any longer due to both sites changing the way their images are linked on external websites. You can still use Toyhouse and Stash to a degree, but we would highly prefer if users continued to use our on-site galleries for ease of access to staff members. 

Please also remember to add criteria to your submissions. There is a banner on the submissions page that mentions this, and every prompt has it as a requirement, We can only edit criteria forms from mod-side, and cannot add them from scratch. Please be weary of this to avoid your prompt being rejected!
Further, many users have been submitting art pieces alongside stories, which is perfectly fine, just please remember that any literary works must have a minimum of 1 character featured + 300 words at base, OR a colored halfbody Pacapillar/Snekket for art pieces. These are our base requirements for our Miscellaneous submissions, so anything less than these base requirements will not count towards extra rewards!

New Gallery Submission Layout

When submitting to the gallery, we noticed a lot of users were getting confused over the description and literature boxes where they were never really clear in the default layout, so  we've cleaned up the submission page to now show the title, description, content warning, and other user inclusion  at the top, and the image, literature, and character sections are now at the bottom before the submit button. With the encouragement of submitting to the galleries nowadays, we hope this new layout makes the process much simpler!

Item Sub-Categories

With the growing selection of collectables, we wanted a way to keep things more organized until we can split collectables off into their own thing, so in the meantime we've added item sub-catergories. This, unfortunately, does not affect how items are displayed on your profile, however in the Encyclopedia you can see what items belong to what categories, HERE!

🥚 Eggs Giving (Parts 3 + 4) 🌸
March 1st, 2024 - April 30th, 2024

After the confusing events of March only for Sachet to not really be much of a help, Monet is finally home from vacation. so you go and have a chat with him to get any information you can about Snekkets, however your glistening egg has hatched already! Hopefully Monet is able to help you before too much chaos ensues  with your new Snekket hatchling!

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This event will feature 5 prompts in total; 4 of which you will need to complete to unlock the next part of the story, and one that you can do in both March and April! March will release parts 1 and 2, and April will release parts 3 and 4. Parts 1 and 2 will NOT expire on March 31st, instead running in to April so anyone who missed the March half can still participate in unlocking parts of the story. Completion of part 1 will unlock part 2, and the same will be said for parts 3 and 4, requiring completion of the other parts prior to  unlocking the next part. All of these prompts will require a complex background OR 1000 words, so please make sure to not push your parts completion until last minute so you have time to do all 4!
These story-based prompts will put usage to our interactive dialogues feature!
The smaller prompt that you can do in both March and April requires just 2 fullbodies (one snekket, and one paca), and is much more lenient than the story prompts!
Anyone who completes part 1 will be given a surprise basket that has an account-bound snekket MYO inside! If you've ever wanted a Snekket, but couldn't use the Cash Shop for any reason, now's your chance to get yourself your very own noodle!

It's April Fools! That means it's time to play a prank on your friends and loved ones! With this flash prompt, you have one week to create a piece of your Pacapillar or Snekket pulling a prank on someone else! Everyone who completes this prompt will be entered into a free raffle for a very detailed poison Pacapillar design by TornPages , and though the raffle is random, every user who participates in the prompt will get a randomized Silly Little Friend that has a playful theme to them!

Discord + Deviantart Linking

If you have been following other closed species groups, you may be aware of a new issue that has arisen ; Discord and DeviantArt no longer allow for image linking to external websites, and though Discord has a timer for 24-48 hours before their links are inaccessable, DeviantArt, unfortunately, seems to have their links inaccessible almost immediately. This has proven to be annoying to deal with both as someone to submit prompts, and to those of us on staff who rely on these websites for a lot of our images. Due to this update, many of our on-site images will be broken until further notice. We need to track down all the files we had and add them back to the site in a different way, and we are asking that you please remain patient with us during this time while we get everything fixed.

Alongside this, users prompt submissions from these links also will be affected, so we are asking that any users who rely on DeviantArt and Discord linking for their prompt submissions to please migrate to using our on-site galleries found HERE. This will ensure your links are safe and staff can view them easily.
To our knowledge, Toyhouse, Imagur, and other sites still work for now, but just to be safe in case any other sites follow, we are requesting that submissions are posted to the galleries.

We have added warning banners to the top of the prompt submission page to remind anyone of this issue before they submit.

Prompt + Design Mod Applications

We are seeking to bring on new staff members! We are currently looking for one Prompt moderator and one Designs moderator to join our team. Experience is not required as long as we feel you can do the work. Any applicants must be of 18 years or older. Read more about the requirements and apply with the form linked below!
Application Form

Game Nights Return!

Our newest Discord mod, ChaoChild has been making plans to bring lots of fun back into the community! They have been working steady to have some games lined up for everyone to participate in! Upcoming for March, they will be hosting a game of Franken Paca on March 9th at 3pm CST. A Discord-based game night will be hosted March 16th at 3pm CST as well. Be sure to join our Discord server and pick up the Game Night role in the #directory channel to get pinged whenever a fun game is being played!
Discord Server

Discord Rule Updates

Due to the large amount of insincere complements art pieces have been getting, we have updated our Discord server rules to try and fix this issue. All users must now say at least two things nice about the piece above them before posting their own work. It's not cool to put time into a piece, only to get posted over by someone who doesn't seem to care; be kind. Encourage people's art journey, everyone starts somewhere afterall. 

We also would like to remind the community that 18+ species may not be advertised in our server. Our community is 13+, and we would rather keep those kinds of things out of our spaces. If you would like to trade something from an adult-orientated species, simply mention something along the lines of "check mutual servers" or "please DM me for other species  I'm interested in."

Minor Submission Page Edits

With a large number of users forgetting their criteria rewards when submitting their pieces,  we've added a banner to the submission page, as well as highlighted the "Please add the proper criteria to your submission" part of the standard prompt rules in red to emphasize the need to include criteria in your submission. We also have made the "+ Criteria" button a solid color so that it stands out easier on the submission page from all the other outline buttons. 

Staff can not add criteria forms to submitted prompts, but instead we can only edit user-filled out forms. Please remember to include your criteria to get your full rewards for your submission, especially if you are prone to last-minute submissions with little time to resubmit if needed.

Prompt Edits

• We've changed the layout of prompts to no longer have everything hidden behind spoiler boxes. Everything is now put in boxes directly visible to anyone clicking on "More Details"  so that everyone can check  the requirements much quicker.
• Now only prompts with bonuses or key notes have the "Extras" section. No longer will you have to wonder "Is there actually extras to this prompt or not?" If the Extras section is there, then there are extras to keep note of!
• All prompts now feature a new General Requirement that permits you to  create crafts instead of standard art pieces or writing submissions. This has always been permitted, however it was well-requested by the community to include this, so we hear you guys! Prompts are now much clearer on this feature!
• NEW unlockable prompts: Thanks to our coder and moderator, Sweetstuff , we can now set prompts to require another prompt before you unlock another. This means you can properly complete the Sowing Friendship prompt in order before Barn Pursuit or Coop Miracle to properly unlock the farm. We plan to utilize this feature in the future with some events as well as further ARPG prompts.
  
  

Pronouns

You can now have your pronouns displayed on your profile, making it easier for everyone to address you! Your pronouns will display underneath your username on your profile, and beside your username in comments! To add these to your profile, simply fill out the new box in your settings page! (Pronouns are custom input, so they are not limited to a list of designated pronouns, and you can instead set whatever you're most comfortable with!)

🥚 Eggs Giving (Parts 1 + 2) 🌸
March 1st, 2024 - April 30th, 2024

All over Crysalopolis, mysterious gift baskets are showing up without warning on Pacas' doorsteps containing Glistening Eggs among the contents! No one has stated that they are the one leaving these gifts around, but Pacas everywhere are confused as to why they were chosen to be given a snekket egg. While some Pacas are hopeful to raise the eggs into hatching to become a Snekket to match their own appearance, some eggs have hatched early, pairing Pacas with baby Snekkets that look nothing like them! While some are quick to just accept things the way they are, others want to get to the bottom of things and find information to who would go around Crysalopolis and just leave baby Snekkets on strangers doorsteps for just anyone to raise. Luckily the baskets come with some very basic  things to tend to Snekket needs!

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This event will feature 5 prompts in total; 4 of which you will need to complete to unlock the next part of the story, and one that you can do in both March and April! March will release parts 1 and 2, and April will release parts 3 and 4. Parts 1 and 2 will NOT expire on March 31st, instead running in to April so anyone who missed the March half can still participate in unlocking parts of the story. Completion of part 1 will unlock part 2, and the same will be said for parts 3 and 4, requiring completion of the other parts prior to  unlocking the next part. All of these prompts will require a complex background OR 1000 words, so please make sure to not push your parts completion until last minute so you have time to do all 4!
These story-based prompts will put usage to our interactive dialogues feature!
The smaller prompt that you can do in both March and April requires just 2 fullbodies (one snekket, and one paca), and is much more lenient than the story prompts!
Anyone who completes part 1 will be given a surprise basket that has an account-bound snekket MYO inside! If you've ever wanted a Snekket, but couldn't use the Cash Shop for any reason, now's your chance to get yourself your very own noodle!

Our staff have been very busy working on updates in the background, so be sure to keep an eye out for those! In the meantime, please give a warm welcome to our newest staff member, ChaoChild ! They will primarily be watching over the Discord Server and will help us in getting some things in there checked more regularly, such as the DTPAY minigame. Please be patient with them while they are still in training!

Boreal Wishes has officially come to a close for this year! We hope you had fun with this little Christmas + New Year's combined event. The event shop will remain open for 1 week so be sure to get all your snow crystals spent! Once the shop closes, we will reset everyone's balance for next year's round. We are looking to improve on events and make them engaging and fun for users, so if you have any feedback about the Boreal Wishes event, please feel free to share your thoughts either in the suggestions channel in the Discord Server, or in our feedback form  found under the "Help" section of the site here (You have the option to stay anonymous on the feedback form if you would like.)

💖 Corewarming 💖
February 1st, 2024 - February 29th, 2024

Love is being felt all across Chrysalopolis ,and Pacas and Snekkets can't help but share the love with one another! Whether it's directed at their friends, a crush, or even a partner, everyone has someone they care about! The former classic prompt, "Core Hunt!" has made a comeback and has had a little bit of revision to make it more adapted to our modern prompt system. Coming along with it are two new Corewarming prompts, "Corewarming Cards" and "Feel The Love!". There will be no event currency or event shop this month where the event is smaller than our Halloween and winter holiday events, and there will not be a breeding event this year as we are still trying to figure out a way to organize it better than we had in the past, we do know it is a popular demand though, so fingers crossed we can have it again in the future!

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 new 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!

With the updates of criteria rewards being added, as well as the gift art notification feature, a popular request we've gotten is to make the Character of the Month prompt much more rewarding and engaging to encourage people to draw and write about the month's feature, and we just want you all to know that we hear your suggestions! Now, when you are submitting a prompt, you will have a switch option  that you can activate that will reward you 1000 bonus leaflets if you include the Character of the Month in your piece. You will still need to do the base prompt to be entered into the raffle to have the chance at your own character getting featured, but we hope with this bonus being implemented that it will encourage people to make lovely pieces of the featured character more often!

Next up, our seasonal prompts, Harvest the Best, Winter Cheers, Spring Party, and Beach Party have officialy been retired. We hope you all enjoyed these prompts in their run, but to make things easier for everyone, these prompts will be replaced with new seasonal prompts that have the same submission requirements as Autumn is Here, Cup of Warmth, Spring Flowers, and Heat Wave. Of course you are still 100% allowed to include 4 or more pacapillars/snekkets in your piece, but it will no longer be required to get both seasonal prompts completed. Our first of these new prompts to show up is the new winter seasonal, The First Snowfall! 

If you ever have suggestions for improvement of the species, we are keeping tabs on them more than ever, hoping to make things better for everyone overall. You can submit feedback and suggestions either in our Discord server in the #suggestion-box channel  or you can submit privately and/or anonymously through our Feedback Form found under our "Help" dropdown in the navigation bar on-site here!

Coming soon to theatres near you

Though December was very busy for everyone, we want everyone to know that despite activity picking up again, we are still tirelessly working on new features, events, and activities for everyone to participate in. We've been super happy about the engagement so far from all our updates, and we're hoping to push that activity further.

• As mentioned in last month's newsletter, NPCs will soon each have their own little ARPG prompts similar to the three existing farming prompts. We are still working out the finer details, but we know you guys love the NPCs just as much as us, and we really hope to encourage people into playing with them more often!
• Collections have their own custom organization in the works. We are still trying to figure out how to execute this in a way that is both easy to work with on user and mod sides, all while being easy on the eyes. We have yet to fully decide if we are going to be using an existing extension, or if we are going to create something completely new and custom to pacapillars, but in summary, your little collectables will only be compiled in one little ugly inventory section all mixed together for just a little bit. When we have finished with a collection feature to the site, we will make it so everything is sorted into their respective collection accordingly.
• Visual guides are closer than ever! We know this has been teased for... well, years, but we will just be cleaning up some loose ends over the next little bit, and we're hoping to get the guides publicly accessable sooner rather than later. We understand users getting frustrated over the wait, it is important information everyone needs to know after all, but it shouldn't be more than a couple months now if luck is on our side!
• We almost have a full run of reoccurring events to take place through every month of the year. We wont give too many details for planned events yet as to keep things a surprise, but we have been learning from past events what people like, and what they don't like, so we are hoping to keep these events fun for everyone. Themes for each reoccurring event will change anually, but if you ever have ideas for event themes, feel free to send us a suggestion in our discord server or in our feedback form (details about leaving feedback can be found in the above "Updates" section of this newsletter!)
• Over the next few days, you can expect to see a new little comment in prompts mentioning that you can create crafts for the prompt in question! We saw how much everyone loved making crafts for Halloween, so we just wanted everyone to know that crafting is always an alternative option to most prompts so long as you still follow the base requirements to the best of your ability.
• The toyhouse world and shelter storage are going to be facing a small face lift as far as their main page layouts. I, ( TornPages ), must admit, my old codes for either one of those are a bit clunky and hard to work with, making them rather unfavorable to edit on a regular basis. My goal is to keep the basic information provided on the main pages, all while trying to make the overall layout look cleaner and making it a million times easier to edit from our side. 

Boreal Wishes
December 1st, 2023 - January 31st, 2024

Boreal wishes is still ongoing for the month of January! The December prompts have rotated out, and now some fresh prompts surrounding the event have released for the duration of January. You can read more about Boreal Wishes, the event shop stock, Sachet's interactive dialogue, and the prompt schedule HERE! 

L.E.A.F. Tour
~Check in next month for dates~

Our NPC singing group, L.E.A.F. are going on tour! They will be visiting Chrysalopolis at random times serving as a pop-up prompt of sorts. The event will have the duration of 1 month during their specified tour months. Rumor has it you will see them making their first appearance in February, but for now you better head on over to Free Gifts to claim your concert tickets so you can see them live when they are in town! In the meantime while we wait for their tour to go live, why not show us some love for your favorite L.E.A.F. member in one of your prompt submissions? (you can click on their individual little images to be taken to their masterlist entry!)