Updates, Changes, & Fixes since Update 8.0. This journal outlines additions and changes to the Isomara Island ARPG since the previous update. You may be familiar with some of the topics below. At times, we announce new features immediately in Discord, and we want to ensure the entire community knows the latest news and fixes.
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Website Updates

Updates

🥸 Player Privacy

• Player privacy is very important to us, as we continue to work on the site, we want to ensure players feel safe and that they have plenty of options to keep their information and game data visible or hidden based on their preferences. We would like to call out some previously implemented features and new features that align with privacy.
• New Features:
  • Currency Visibility is a newly added player setting that allows players to hide their currency balances from other players. The currency box on the player profile, along with any sidebar menu options, and the pages themselves will be hidden from other players' gazes if you so choose!
  • The Art Gallery has now been made private to only those who are logged in. The recent gallery submission box on the home page will remain public. 
  • The online player count on the footer of the site is only available to view to logged-in players.
  • The Discord widget located near the bottom of the home page is only available to view to logged-in players as this display's usernames.
• Current Features:
  • Player profiles and Player Shops are hidden from anyone not logged into the site. This includes information such as currency balances and owned items.
  • The Player's List on the community nav drop-down is also private to only those logged in.
  • Birthday Publicity is a player setting that allows you to hide either your full or partial age. You can choose to just display your day and month (While option 2 does say anyone can see your birth day and month, this is the same option as option 1 since we have privated profiles to only those logged in).
  • Online Visibility is a player setting that allows you to show or hide whether you are currently online, when the last time you were online was, or keep it a mystery. We understand some players just like to lurk and not have attention brought to them when they are online.

🤢 New Infliction/Ailment

• Added a new poisoned ailment that can be received during failed encounters with gooms, memoras, and queen memoras.

🐈‍⬛ New Items

• Hasha has developed a cure for poisoning. Cleaning Wax can now be crafted or purchased at her hut.
• Another interesting item by Hasha, the Boa Laquer can be applied to tamed memora and grant them the transparent boa special trait. Hasha seems to be safeguarding this recipe for herself for now, but it can be purchased at her hut.
• To remove the Transparent Boa or heal the Scarred Boa Special Trait, use a Boa Repair item. Available through crafting or Hasha's Hut.

🫧 Miscellaneous

• Added neopronouns Zey/Zem/Zeirs and Ze/Zir/Zirs to character profile options
  • You can edit your character's information, such as personal pronouns, gender identity, height, and general profile information, by selecting the "Edit Profile" button on the profile section of the character's masterlist page.
• An Event & Contest Log has been created on-site. We are continuing to work on bringing all past event information on DeviantArt to the site for preservation.

Changes

🏝️ Exploration

• Added the art and literature requirement information to the exploration prompt details
• Refined some wording on the exploration page for clarity

🥕 Hunger Mechanic

• Event submissions now reduce a character's hunger meter by 5 points (previously was 0)
• Reduced hunger points given by Ice from +1 to 0

🛍️ NPC Shops

• Increased Darwin's Donations cooldown to 1 hour (previously was 10 minutes)
• Pacings' Shop no longer sells goo, ectoplasm, and gem items (such as rubies, sapphires, and emeralds)
• Pumpkin Drops are now only available yearly between September 1st and November 30th at Carmen's Fabrication Station

🟣 Special Traits

• Players can now officially start earning special traits for their characters. 
  • Note that some goom and memora special traits are missing ways to earn. These will be added in a future update.
• Changed the No Scent perk from "-5% to encounter memics while exploring" to "+5 Modifier to flight when in a memic encounter". Memics are now more likely to lose the scent of the isomara while on the hunt!
  • Enemy encounters are a great way to earn items and are optional to respond to, so instead of a reduced percentage of encountering memics, we wanted to ensure these isomara will have a bit of a buff against them.

🐲 Island Inhabitants Page

• Updated the intro paragraph information
• Removed rule from Island Inhabitants page that listed Isomara can only have one large companion and two of each small companion
  • This was a leftover rule from the DeviantArt version of the ARPG. As staff would have to manually add companions to visual images, master list pages, and log these changes.,
  • This rule is still applied to any Isomara that is not ported onto this site as manual work on the DeviantArt version of the ARPG still exists in some ways,
• Added some missing images,
• Added Froelacanthis to the tertiary inhabitants sections,
• Added a small bit of text to each tertiary inhabitant,
• Fixed minor grammar and spelling errors

🫧 Miscellaneous

• New Isomara trait, Petite Ears, is now available (credit to player, Owliette, for the suggestion)
• New Isomara trait, Polydactyly, is now available (credit to player, OtterlyKath, for the suggestion)
• Moved Taming Companions info page from the activities dropdown to the Island Inhabitants page
• Renamed the Spikes Goom body trait to Thorny to avoid confusion with the spiked isomara horn trait
• Added a small snippet of text to the Care Drops tab of uncompanioned characters to mention how to companion them to an isomara
• Increased amount of Jumbo Skrill needed to craft Camo Scrub from 1 to 2
• Added option to use either goo or venom when crafting a Camo Scrub
• Increased amount of either goo or venom needed to craft Camo Scrub from 1 to 3
• Thank you for your patience on this update! Use code 5UMM3RH34T to receive some goodies.

🛠️Fixes

• Fixed Seashell Reward Calculation Error
  • We noticed an issue with the formula we wrote, which calculates how many seashells to give players for each gallery submission based on what they filled out. Most of the time, this error would give players more seashells than intended, but there were just over a dozen gallery submissions that were rewarded less than what they should have earned. We have compensated all of the players of these submissions with the difference in seashells they were missing.
  • All gallery submissions have been gone through to verify this
  • We will not remove seashells from players who received more than intended
• Fixed some MYO slot upgrade examples listed incorrect pricing (no one was charged the incorrect prices
• Egg Nurturing prompt is not properly linked under the egg hatching section in the Prompt Pavilion
• Dumb Love achievement image added in Prompt Pavilion
• Fixed full hunger status being at 77 instead of 76
• Removed the mochi image from the island inhabitant page
• Remove companions from the item consumption drop-down
• Fixed various isomara with the perked ear being listed as having the flop ears
• Fixed the duplicated Darwin's Exchange Center text
• Fixed avatar image on the nav bar not linking to player profiles
• Removed the chance of finding Jumbo Skrill having two rolls instead of one when exploring the ocean
• Fixed the exploration page listing and linked to Moss under the Forest section instead of Flowering Quince
• Added incorrect or missing links to the Beginner's Guide
• Improved usability and readability on 4k monitors and mobile phones

🐛Known Bugs

You can find the full list of known issues here. These are issues that have been reported by players or noted by staff and have not been resolved yet, but are on our radar.
New issues on our radar:

• Not all siblings are shown in a character's relation box on their masterlist page

DeviantArt Group Updates

Updates

• As mentioned in the previous update, we will no longer be cross-posting all update information on DeviantArt. There will still be status posts on both the IsomaraIndex Account and SlayersStronghold's account, which will link to the on-site update news post.
• The Event & Contest Log hosted on DeviantArt will not be updated anymore. A new Event & Contest Log has been created on-site and is referred to in the old DeviantArt Event & Contest Log.