I posted this in discord yesterday, but felt it was important enough to post here. Today we lost a bunny. She was a good bunny, but fell victim to second life weirdness. She did not come out of her cradle properly, and was a blank bunny with a script error. I’ve not worked out what the issue is exactly, it seems to happen only occasionally (this is the first time).

XS-Pets store since i returned in late 2022 has always been in the Samoa region in Second Life. Although I owned various parcels over the last couple of years, they were all in the same region. Well, it’s time to move on. I decided I wanted one big 2048m2 parcel instead of a 1024m2 parcel with the store on it and two 512m2 parcels for extra prims. I also wanted something that looked a little bit more professional.

Since open sourcing my quails in 2010, a few people have had a go at extending the scripts, or even just being inspired into making their own breedables. Some have even reached out and have become good friends. One such friend is currently working on a brand new breedable - one which has already taken Second Life by storm, even though it’s not yet finished. People are excited, and some - perhaps understandably - a little impatient (it’s hard when you’re excited!

Starting on the 10th of march, through to the 17th of march there will be a fishing event where you can catch 7 different special breedables at 3 locations! Xundra’s Stuff Special Xundra’s Garden Pot & Plant Special Shroomie Special Flutterbug The StoryWeaver’s Realm Special Frog Special Spider The XS Exchange @ Westone Special Bunny Special Turtle All the specials have a St Patrick’s day type theme and come in Shamrock Chests, which will be catchable via fishing as bonus catches.

Flutterbugs has launched! Flutterbugs are little forest sprites, there are no males and females, each flutterbug can fill both roles. They eat tasty turnips, which can either be bought or farmed. They also find interesting things which can be clicked on and toolbox points are rewarded. We had a special 30 minute fishing competition to celebrate the launch.. Lots of balloons (which I got for the shroomie launch) were set out to decorate the store!

It will be a year on the 24th of feburary since shroomies launched. It doesn’t feel like a year. Since then, I’ve made ducks and squirrels (now “retired”), turtles, bunnies, spiders frogs and now working on flutterbugs. I now have over 450 flowers available in my garden game. I’ve got more than 150 items catchable via my fishing game and dragonflies have a new mesh. I think that’s a pretty good effort.

Shroomies 4.0 has been released - this is a major update introducing a skin colour trait! There are (currently) 8 skin colours (Original, Tan, Dark, Bubblegum, Strawberry, Mint, Midnight and Pale). All shroomies updated from 3.5 (or earlier) will have “Original” skin. New 4.0 starter kits will give random skin colours. Specials may give a random skin colour, or it may be predetermined depending on the special. Shroomie’s offspring’s skin colours will always be the same as one of their parents.

These are the non-hidden starter traits at launch for the bunnies, spiders and frogs. More traits will be added as time goes on. The bunnies have 5 starter traits and 4 hidden traits. From left to right, they are: Fluffy Plain, Fluffy Spots, Fluffy Stripes, Fluffy Dark and Fluffy Brown. The spiders have 5 starter traits and 4 hidden traits. From left to right, they are: Red Back, Huntsman, Yellow Weaver, Blue Opal and White Spot.

It’s a new year, and a new logo for the site. I’ve been away for a bit, mostly burn out - while I kept my stuff going in my absense, I needed a break from creating. The OpenSim grid is gone, it was too expensive to run. New stuff this year: breedable bunnies, spiders and soon: frogs. Bunnies.. bunnies require food, it’s not too expensive, and there is also the option of growing your own with a carrot farm.

I decided to cancel my Alternate Metaverse region mentioned in the last post and have a go at setting up my own grid with hypergrid enabled. It’s coming along great, I have 3 regions on it: a welcome region, a farm region and a home region. Hosting is US$20 a month for a 4GB Vultr instance, I’m running in grid mode so I can attach more regions later if I want.