4 Year Anniversary!
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4 Year Anniversary!
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Posted 2024-10-19 10:15:37
4 Year Anniversary!On the 19th October 2020 we opened Wolvden to the public. Today we're celebrating our 4 year anniversary.It's been another great year and we're happy to celebrate what we've released, and what's coming next! Before we get into it, we'd like to state that going forward, our future anniversary celebrations will include EXP boosts, and any development updates planned around this time of the year will be held back to be launched with the anniversary. This year, we are celebrating with an EXP boost, our last festive anniversary decor set, a development update, and our usual updates of how the year has gone. Alright - let's jump in!  The RundownAs we'll be covering a large amount of content in this news post, we've broken it down into sections so you can quickly scan through to find what you'd like to read first. Looking Back - an overview of updates and new features we've had over the past year. Roadmap - addressing plans for the future and what we have in store! The Meat - all of the stuff in today's massive update! Anniversary Gift - a bundle you can claim! Anniversary Raffles - special raffles in honour of today! Thank You - as always, we must extend our thanks to all of you.  Looking BackBelow are links to all the development updates we've had in the last year, including the full month events, with links to their respective news posts: The Lunar event has had monthly updates and expansions of content with dozens of new encounters and enemies, as well as shop content. This is spread out in multiple posts across the year. Event: Coigreach Update 25: Codebreaker and Roadmap Update 26: Achievement Expansion, Nesting Pose, and Advent Calendar Update 27: Explore Expansion and New Marking - loads of new encounters, enemies, and prey to find, as well as the release of the Orca marking shape Event: The Matchmaker - new dateable NPCs were added Update 28: Quality of Life Updates and Server Migration Event: Springtide Howl Fayre - brand new June event, launching again in April 2025 Event: Cataclysms Update 29: NBW Exclusive Marking Expansion Event: Halloween Spectacle - the storyline for this event launched this yearRoadmapWe're not planning an official roadmap for this coming year and are instead going to list some projects that we are working on. We find that setting an expected time for projects seems to tempt delays in the form of unexpected events - server issues, illnesses amongst staff, and other personal matters. This leads to a lot of pressure on what is otherwise a small team, so instead of a targeted roadmap, here are the projects that we currently have planned:Coding Focused ⌨️ Our long-awaited groups update - this was heavily delayed by the server switch, which is still ongoing to an extent, and we hope to bring you the groups update within the next couple of weeks Hunting expansion - king of the hunt (POKOT) Enclave shop General quality of life updates and bug fixesArt Focused 🎨 Themed seasonal Raccoon Wares updates 2 new mutations Possibly a new variant More encounters added to each existing event More wolf encounters and battles for regular explore Raven and Crow traders in exploreThe MeatNew MarkingsToday, we have added in 176 new markings, 3 new marking colours, and 2 new combo colours!New Marking Colours* Nocturne* Pumice * Shell New Combo Colours* Iridium - Black x Gray* Lily - Aspen x Red Nocturne Back Nocturne Cape Nocturne Cape Ticking Nocturne Dilution Nocturne Dorsal Nocturne Elbow Patch Nocturne Half Cape Nocturne Half Cape Ticking Nocturne Half Socks Nocturne Mantle Nocturne Shepherd Nocturne Shepherd Heavy Nocturne Shoulder Patch Nocturne Tail Tip Pumice Agouti Pumice Back Pumice Blanket Pumice Blanket Ticking Pumice Bottoms Pumice Cape Pumice Cape Ticking Pumice Dorsal Pumice Half Cape Pumice Half Cape Ticking Pumice Half Dorsal Pumice Half Saddle Pumice Mantle Pumice Neck Band Pumice Saddle Ticking Pumice Sadle Pumice Underbelly Shell Back Heavy Patch Shell Back Patch Shell Blaze Shell Bottoms Shell Cape Shell Cape Ticking Shell Chest Shell Elbows Shell Grizzle Shell Half Cape Shell Half Cape Ticking Shell Half Mask Shell Half Socks Shell Inverted Agouti Shell Irish Shell Low Bottoms Shell Mask Shell Neck Shell Neck Band Shell Nose Bridge Shell Nose Line Shell Throat Shell Throat Patch Shell Underbelly Shell Underfur Shell Unders Shell Undersides Nocturne Cheek Fluff Nocturne Cover Nocturne Limbs Nocturne Paws Nocturne Snout Nocturne Socks Nocturne Tuxedo Nocturne Undercoat Pumice Butcher Pumice Cover Pumice Cross Pumice Full Rump Pumice Half Cover Pumice Inverted Cross Pumice Muzzle Patch Pumice Rump Pumice Rump Edge Pumice Rump Patch Pumice Trim Shell Carnage Shell Cheek Fluff Shell Ear Tips Shell Eyebrows Shell Gentle Unders Shell Heavy Husky Shell Highlights Shell Inner Ear Shell Light Husky Shell Medium Husky Shell Muzzle Shell Muzzle Patch Shell Patchy Unders Shell Predator Shell Socks Shell Toes Shell Trim Shell Tuxedo Shell Undercoat Shell Urajiro Nocturne Sallander Pumice Points Pumice Shaded Pumice Vixen Points Shell Arapawa Coat Shell Soay Unders Shell Whitetail Spots Shell Wolverine Nocturne Panda Nocturne Wings Nocturne Wings Heavy Nocturne Wings Scarce Pumice Cougar Shell Inverted Panda Shell Merle Shell Orca Note: Raffle markings will not be available to apply through RMAs and Total Shuffles until after they are released through raffle studs! Shell Tamaskan Unders Lily Carnage Lily Dilution Lily Elbow Patch Lily Highlights Lily Inverted Cross Lily Inverted Panda Lily Lupos Lily Orca Lily Patchy Unders Lily Points Lily Predator Lily Sallander Lily Spectacles Lily Tamaskan Unders Lily Undercoat Lily Underfur Lily Unders Lily Undersides Iridium Arapawa Coat Iridium Back Iridium Back Patch Iridium Blanket Iridium Blanket Ticking Iridium Cape Iridium Cape Ticking Iridium Chest Iridium Cover Iridium Crawl Iridium Cross Iridium Forehead Iridium Full Mask Iridium Half Cape Iridium Half Cape Ticking Iridium Half Mask Iridium Half Saddle Iridium Inuit Unders Iridium Inverted Cross Iridium Mantle Iridium Mask Iridium Neck Iridium Neck Band Iridium Notches Iridium Patchy Unders Iridium Points Iridium Saddle Iridium Saddle Ticking Iridium Sakiz Mask Iridium Sallander Iridium Shoulders Iridium Smoke Iridium Smudge Iridium Smudge Heavy Iridium Undercoat Iridium Unders Iridium Vixen Points Increased Dynasty SlotsDynasty slots have been raised to a maximum of 800 (from 400).Bug Fixes* Bug fix confirmed for Halloween Spectacle: Manifest -spell not giving free vigor.* Bug fix confirmed for Events achievement displaying Challenger icon during popup. * Bug fix confirmed for active pupsitters regenerate energy while training pups. * Bug fix confirmed for Snake won't accept healing times. * Bug fix confirmed for Wrong number of hunts currently hunting. * Bug fix confirmed for Cannot Assign New Scout. * Bug fix confirmed for Wrong/swapped hunting party name. * Bug fix confirmed for Deceased puppies showing in Den. * Bug fix confirmed for Corrupted Abomination can be corrupted?. * Bug fix confirmed for Hunting Party missing a hunt. * Bug fix confirmed for Hunting Party Name Is Not The Correct Party Name. * Bug fix confirmed for stack items in weird order in pup training. * Bug fix confirmed for Weekly Fishing prize rewarded impossible weight for species?. * Bug fix confirmed for Brook Stickleback weight does not make sense. * Bug fix confirmed for Rarities in the fishing game. * Bug fix confirmed for El Niño weather art not appearing. * Bug fix confirmed for Spells Inaccessible During Story Quest. * Bug fix confirmed for Diana base missing from lunar shop. * Bug fix confirmed for melvin mission still breaks with mood/hunger spells. * Bug fix confirmed for No image for Ashen Oath Storyline. * Bug fix confirmed for Typo in Ashen Oak: Missing period Chapter 3 Step15. * Bug fix confirmed for Ashen Oath: Chapter 1 typos. * Bug fix confirmed for Pupsitter trained adolescents didn't gain their stat boost. * Bug fix confirmed for A few Halloween explore typos. * Bug fix confirmed for Public Enemy No. 1 Achievement not recieved. * Bug fix confirmed for Error message at the bottom of wolf equipper, but only on newborn and young puppy. * Bug fix confirmed for Traveler can't be recalled because nursing puppies but isn't nursing anything. * Bug fix confirmed for Wardrobe Adding Marks That Shouldn't Be Added. * Bug fix confirmed for Missing image in event storyline. * Bug fix confirmed for Having 99/100 vigor and not allowed to sacrifice rat carcass (1 vigor). * Bug fix confirmed for "Heal" option overlaps. * Bug fix confirmed for All quest encounters are half conpleted in user log. * Bug fix confirmed for Stud needs a min of 50% hunger to breed. * Bug fix confirmed for Ashen Oath Unbalanced Paths. * Bug fix confirmed for Inconsistency with vigour sacrifice requirements and items able to be sacrificed. * Bug fix confirmed for Illness auto diagnosed. * Bug fix confirmed for Can't Finish Melvin Mission Because Spell Doesn't Count. * Bug fix confirmed for Cure Spell does not provide Immunity or heal any HP. * Bug fix confirmed for Inconsistent capitalization Tala and Egg. * Bug fix confirmed for Wolf boosted to 110% mood?. * Bug fix confirmed for Training Text slight overlap. * Bug fix confirmed for No event title for Halloween. Minor Changes to the Event* Kora's quest changed from healing 10 to 3 corrupted opponents.* Reduced the number of Effigies required to open both Tier 2 and Tier 3 of Mohkra's shop. Addressing the BugboxWe've noticed some concern over the Bugbox having a backlog. We wanted to address this today.We have four years' worth of backlog at this point. Over 1300 bugs are waiting to be fixed. As we've tried to tackle this backlog, we've run into a number of issues: * The bug is very old and we can't reproduce it ourselves, meaning that we likely have fixed it at some point in the past. * The bug has very limited information. * We are unable to reproduce it, and it has very few people other than the reporter experiencing it (in some cases, only the reporter). * The bug seems related to server lag or some other one-off instance that we cannot reproduce. * The report contains links to wolves that no longer exist, meaning we can't check the effects of the bug. * Screenshots provided have been removed from their image hosts (particularly with the recent changes to Discord). * The reporting player has become inactive in the interim time since reporting the bug. Amongst these we find perhaps 1 in 10 bugs that we can actually do something about, and a lot of the times those bugs are small typos ("lihgt" instead of "light", or "the the") or display issues (something is configured weird on mobile, or something has the wrong colour in Dark theme). We're not saying this to downplay the importance of typos and display bugs as they are essential building blocks of a functional website, but they don't hold the same weight as pages that are inaccessible or game features that don't work how we say they should. When we come to try and fix bugs, wading through these is very much like swimming upstream - it's not an efficient use of our time. So we have decided to do a (hopefully) one-time purge of the Bugbox: Any bugs that are at least 1 year old and that have 2 or fewer players saying they're experiencing it will be set to "Needs More Information" with an auto-close of 30 days. If your bug report is caught by this and you are confident you're still experiencing your bug, you just need to reply to the bug report and it won't auto-close. This is targeting over 1000 of those 1300 bug reports, so we hope that it'll really help us with refocusing on bug fixes going forward. Why does it matter that only 1 or 2 people are experiencing a bug?Bugs don't tend to happen in isolation. All players are affected by the same code, so in 99% of cases we would expect the bug to affect all players, or at least all players with a specific condition applied to their account (for instance, a specific Talent picked). If a bug is only being reported by 1 person and nobody else comes along to upvote it, we begin by assuming that there is a misunderstanding, or it was a weird glitch that happened because of something outside of our control (player's device acting up, player's internet connection being particularly slow, server lag, etc.).How are we going to prevent another Bugbox purge?Well, nothing is guaranteed, but we have some plans for updates to the Bugbox to make it more functional for us as developers. This involves tagging bug reports for the areas of the game they affect, as well as a list of bugs that have been claimed and are under investigation but are also waiting for a developer response.We hope that these developments will help us with organising the bug reports in a way that makes it easier for us to handle them. How can I help?If you want to help us with bug reports (thank you!) then the best thing you can do after the purge is go through our Bugbox search, pick any bug report, and try to follow the instructions given by the reporter. If you experience the same problem, upvote the bug, and add your own comment if you feel you have additional information to give to our coders.When is this happening?We plan to purge the Bugbox on Monday 21st October 2024. After this, we welcome reporters commenting on their own reports if they are still occurring.Thank You, ReportersWe just want to carve out a section of this news post to say "thank you" to those of you who have reported bugs in the past - especially those who regularly report bugs, and those who help to respond to bug reports in the case of misunderstandings around game mechanics.Anniversary GiftWe are releasing an Anniversary Bundle with some special Anniversary items which will be available to collect from today, the 19th October 2024 up until the 23rd October 2024. It will be one bundle per member, and the items will be bound to your account. The place to collect this will be on the main News page!This is our fourth and final set of festive decor for your wolves! Future anniversaries will not include these sets or further seasonal sets, as we have now covered every season.   - Anniversary! Festive Rainbow Springs - Anniversary! Festive Back Baubles - Anniversary! Festive Ear Fascinators - Anniversary! Festive Leg Weaves - Anniversary! Festive Neck Weaves - Anniversary! Festive Tail BaublesEXP Boost WeekendStarting NOW until Monday 21st October 2024 at 11:59pm Wolvden time, there is a 25% boost on EXP gains throughout the game! This boost affects all wolves and nets them a little bonus EXP for completing activities!Anniversary Raffles!We're launching a handful of special raffles for the Anniversary celebrations! Anniversary Raffle - GC - be in for a chance of winning some GC! Anniversary Raffle - Grove - fancy some special Grove items? Anniversary Raffle - Lunar - or how about Lunar applicators? Anniversary Raffle - Event - the site events are worth celebrating, too! Anniversary Raffle - Black Friday - the chance to win some items exclusive to Black Friday is always fun!Customiser Contest!We are giving away 5 fully customised wolves! You can design your dream wolf and submit it for a chance to have that wolf join your pack!Entries are free, you can submit one entry (but you can change your entry as you wish). You must have a territory space free at the time of the contest draw to be eligible to win the wolf. Enter the Customiser Contest here!Winners will be pulled on 24th October 2024 - winners are chosen by a random script, but the action is done manually. We will get as close to 11:59pm on that date as we can for closing time.Thank YouWe really appreciate each and every one of you who plays our game, provides feedback, posts joyful comments, and contributes to the lifespan of this game. This allows us to keep working on it and enrich it. Big hugs from the art team, who are always scurrying around and brainstorming ideas together to make wolf scenes incredible, encounters fun, and storylines entertaining. A big squeeze from the writing team, always polishing descriptions and encounters, and creating the stories you read. A huge cuddle from the coding team for your support, your amazing suggestions, and your patience. Lastly, a giant bear hug from our admin and voluntary moderator team, built from players like yourself, who are always happy to help you and keep this place as comfortable and cozy as is possible for everyone.Without your dedication, comments, and engagement, this game would not exist. It's heartwarming and encouraging to have this community always be the main foundation of what makes Wolvden a true fun online experience. We're very grateful and blessed to be part of this community. We will always strive to keep making your time here a fun escape from the world that you will want to visit and see it grow. We all look forward to what the future brings, together. Storyline Rewards UpdateWe've added in more rewards based on the storyline's outcome - you'll see them once you've finished the story!
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