Hope you're all having a great July! Got some cool news and a heads up for you all.

Moving Souls are now roaming around! These spooky beasts are popping up everywhere and they're loaded with good stuff. Kill one and you might snag some Lingering Souls - if you get lucky you could score up to 5 souls from one beast! Even if you don't hit souls, every Moving Souls drops a crafting bag with 1-2.5 million of each crafting resource. Pretty sweet deal for some beast hunting!

These are public beasts so anyone can jump on them, and they'll disappear after 5 minutes if nobody kills them - so when you see one, don't wait around! They'll be here until July 19th, so plenty of time to hunt them down and grab some souls while I'm dealing with moving.

Speaking of moving - I'm in the middle of moving this month, so things are gonna be hectic on my end. If you order anything from the store, it might take up to 24 hours longer than usual. I'll get to everything as fast as I can, just bear with me!

Go kill some Moving Souls and grab those resources!

In other news, I don't want to potentially miss the mid-month boosting of the Store Credit beast. As such, even though its 3 days early; All Shadow Minion drops have doubled with increased chance of receiving at least something from them! This resets monthly. 

Don't forget too! Our #1 killer of Shadow Minions will receive 2 free [name pending] Fireworks and a Dimensional Firework [or $25 Store Credit if owned already]

And another thing! Before I head out, I've moved the Undead Assassin from the old beast system into the new beast system (note: I did not add any emojis to it). With this change, I've adjusted the drop table while leaving the mechanics of the beast the same including the Thieve's Pouch chance at a Grabbag drop from it. Below is the new drop table, enjoy!

5% - Nothing - The monster had nothing on its corpse
5% - Store Credits - 25¢, 50¢, or $1.00 store credit (randomly chosen)
8% - Lingering Soul - 1 lingering soul
10% - Primal Essence - 1-3 primal essence
12% - Specific Essence - 1-3 of one specific type (Wind, Earth, Fire, Ice, or Strange)
10% - Mixed Random Essences - 1-3 amounts of 1-3 different random essence types
15% - Stat Boosts - 3-8 digit value boost to EXP, Credits, or Skill Chance (Currently replaced with Auto Attacks due to a bug)
10% - Auto Attacks - 1, 5, 10, or 20 auto attacks (randomly chosen)
7% - Grab Bags - 1, 3, or 5 grab bags
5% - Dust - 1 shard dust
5% - Cash Credit - 1 cash credit
8% - Credits - 100,000 credits

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Congratulations on another amazing month everyone!! We had a killer month between all the dying shadows, the crazy amount of votes y'all have voted, and our wonderful community helping each other progress in the game. I've been beyond thrilled to see everyone working together to ease each others experience.

As a token of my appreciation for the wonderful community engagement - all existing players have received 25 Auto Attacks permanently for free!

Speaking of free - y'all Rich Shadow killers really turned free this month murdering every one in sight! Let's take a moment to celebrate our Top 3 killers!

#1 with 567 kills is UnholyRider earning themselves $100 in Store Credit
#2 with 397 kills is Kaez earning themselves $75 in Store Credit
#3 with 371 kills is Dylan49 earning themselves $50 in Store Credit

With all of the beasts dead and every killer having a raffle ticket for the drawing; we'll pull the lucky raffle winner from our corpses... woodendoor - Congratulations on your $25 raffle win!

All winners have had their Store Credit added to their account already!

During July we're going to be seeing these shadow figure's Shadow Minions roaming around the game... it seems they've robbed their masters and carry cash on them. Kill them for easy money! We're going to run a Top Killer event again this month though with a unique prize. Next month we'll be releasing a new Firework that's similar to the Dimensional Firework though it'll stack for better rewards, be obtainable shop/in-game, and have more rewards for you! Our Top Killer will receive 2 free [name pending] Fireworks and a Dimensional Firework [or $25 Store Credit if owned already]!

Stay tuned for more information!

Since we're doing so amazing as a whole - I'm leaving Double Skill Gain and Chance on for the month of July too! Enjoy faster skilling everywhere this month! Thank you all again for your votes!!

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As we land upon our halfway point of the month, our Rich Shadows have stashed more store credit in their pockets! We've doubled the credit drops from Rich Shadows as well as made the lowest drop more likely to be found (60% chance to get 0.02 instead of 48% with 40% chance to get nothing instead of 52%)

Don't forget! Our top 3 Rich Shadow kills during the month of June will receive a boost of store credit as a reward! You can knock out the shadows, collecting Store Credit, and still gain even more once the month ends! 

* Our Top Killer will receive $100 in Store Credit
* Our 2nd Top Killer will receive $75 in Store Credit
* Our 3rd Top Killer will receive $50 in Store Credit

We're also going to have an additional opportuntiy of a raffle reward for this event too! One random Rich Shadow kill will be selected and receive a $25 bonus in Store Credit. If you are already a Top Killer and are randomly selected, your bonus will add to your existing reward.

Where do you stand?

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Y'all! This is crazy! I don't know who our voter is but kudos to everyone for continuing to vote for us on Top Web Games (Apex). This week we're at 128 votes in game and 359 votes on TopWebGames which has us placed at #3rd this week!

While every single vote brings bonuses to everyones gameplay - I think y'all greatly deserve a round of applause alongside a Thank You for your voting efforts this week.

Until Apex Votes resets in 4 days, we have enabled Double Skill drops alongside Increased Skill Gains as temporary events. This should hopefully make skilling a lot easier for a lil bit.

Thanks again to everyone who continues to vote for us on TopWebGames!

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At this time, the debuff that has always been meant to be applied in the Nether is now applied properly. In the past, it was broken, but when I fixed it - I accidentally made it only apply if you had the Debuff Immunity applied (me smart).

If you're having trouble fighting in the Twisted Nether now, you'll need to catch that debuff drop to make life easier there.

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Happy June everyone!

Thank you for all of your feedback and insights over the recent weeks. Our server migration went over perfectly and with no instability following the migration itself. I'm confident that we'll be able to resume updates now! I apologize for the delay in the Guilds update though I've broken it in a few unexpected ways that weren't caught during testing - I'm continuing work on it in my available time and hope to have it out soon. 

If you have encountered any bugs, please report them on the Discord in the Bug Reports channel so I can easily refer to them when doing bug fixes. I know I have a bunch of stuff to fix but unfortunately it's scattered in written notes, phone notes, chat logs, DM history, and beyond which makes it difficult to accurately keep a mental track of everything I need to address. Please help me keep log of everything by posting bugs either for yourself or others in the appropriate Discord channel - Thank you so much!

With a new month comes a new beast, new event, new sale, and a new shop item for sale. The Goldfingers have departed for better less violent lands though their Rich Shadows have stuck around carrying loose change even now! Beat them up for a chance at Store Credit and join in our latest event!

New Event

Our top 3 Rich Shadow kills during the month of June will receive a boost of store credit as a reward! You can knock out the shadows, collecting Store Credit, and still gain even more once the month ends! 

* Top Killer will receive $100 in Store Credit
* Our 2nd Top Killer will receive $75 in Store Credit
* Our 3rd Top Killer will receive $50 in Store Credit

We're also going to have an additional opportuntiy of a raffle reward for this event too! One random Rich Shadow kill will be selected and receive a $25 bonus in Store Credit. If you are already a Top Killer and are randomly selected, your bonus will add to your existing reward.

Fresh Item Mall sale!

All Item Mall items (except the Attack Speed Boosters and Reborn Charms) are now 25% off until the end of June! We've also added the Reborn Charm to the store for $25/each (permanently) or 5x for $100 (a limited time deal) - these are stackable up to a limit of 250 and add to your reborn count everytime you reborn (after any multipliers/bonuses except the Universe Shard apply). 

Now is a great time to stock up if you're diving into Rebirth Mode. We'll continue implementing reborn increasing items and bonuses within the game too. Stay tuned for our next new item which will be similar to the Dimensional Firework with some exciting twists and stacking abilities!

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As we land upon our halfway point of the month, our Goldfingers have stashed more store credit in their pockets! We've doubled the credit drops from Goldfingers as well as made the lowest drop more likely to be found (60% chance to get 0.02 instead of 48% with 40% chance to get nothing instead of 52%)

Our Goldfinger Hunters are just mowing them down this month! 

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As stated in our last announcement, any guilds with more than 3 members have had their bonuses disabled. Once your guild is below 3 members, you'll automatically have your bonuses returned to you and your members.

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As planned between 2-4pm, I've updated the guild Presidents as per the announcement! Everyone who requested a guild namely got what they wanted and I hope it turns out to have been a great choice for everyone!

With this phase complete, I've updated every guild to a max member limit of 3 and locked out upgrading the member limits. I'm aiming for a release of the updated guilds next Saturday mid-afternoon. If your guild is above 3 members, please encourage folks to leave or kick them as we'll disable Guild Bonuses if you have more than 3 members starting on Wednesday. You'll automatically have your bonuses re-enabled once your member count reaches 3 or less. 

Below is the event history for record sake

Successfully resynced member counts for 45 guilds: Pink Ponies (from 10 to 8), DarkRiders (from 1 to 0), Assassins (from 2 to 1), ArkhamAsylum (from 2 to 0), FinalFantasy (from 1 to 0), Ces Anym (from 11 to 9), SNS (from 1 to 0), Immortal Souls (from 1 to 0), Battle Toads (from 2 to 1), A.D.D. (from 50 to 41), Eternal Lotus (from 3 to 2), Dark Asylum (from 50 to 29), Exile (from 3 to 1), Shire (from 1 to 0), Apex (from 2 to 0), GriM (from 10 to 5), Littlefoot(: (from 7 to 3), OTF (from 4 to 1), TheHustleGang (from 1 to 0), Helms Deep (from 25 to 23), Oppai! (from 2 to 1), [GLOBAL] (from 1 to 0), the monkeys (from 1 to 0), Baby Jesus Club (from 1 to 0), Shadow Riders (from 1 to 0), Scarlets (from 1 to 0), Newb (from 2 to 1), Undead horde (from 2 to 0), DeathEaters (from 1 to 0), Wof TnT (from 1 to 0), pie (from 1 to 0), The Worst (from 1 to 0), Heaven (from 1 to 0), Necromancers (from 10 to 9), Drowning Fish (from 1 to 0), Ancient Order (from 1 to 0), ninjaz (from 1 to 0), xXDarkMoonXx (from 1 to 0), Scarface (from 1 to 0), MapleStory2 (from 5 to 4), PhilipGuild (from 1 to 0), Werebeasts (from 4 to 1), Valhalla (from 14 to 13), Developers (from 3 to 2), Lovely Ones (from 2 to 0)

Zyak is now the president of Littlefoot(:  
Successfully set Kaez as president for guild: Helms Deep (Changed from PiCKeT).
Successfully set unholyrider as president for guild: Demons Of Death (Changed from Drakius). Player was moved from guild 'Necromancers' to 'Demons Of Death'.
Successfully set bob_storm as president for guild: crazy (Changed from helsminion). Player was moved from guild 'Helms Deep' to 'crazy'.
Successfully set Xyvex as president for guild: Black Hearts (Changed from Sevion).
Successfully set Motodragon as president for guild: Necromancers (Changed from BloodGood).
Successfully set Dylan49 as president for guild: Jedi Council (Changed from Yoda).
Successfully set ErisDyscordia as president for guild: A.D.D. (Changed from Famine).

Successfully deleted 43 empty guilds: The Unwanted, SoE, DarkRiders, Manson Family, FUJIMO, The Guild, PartyAtMyHouse, Team Uber, Fide Obscura, Chav, -{Pro Skill}-, ArkhamAsylum, FinalFantasy, UFOP, Paragon, SNS, [CoW], Immortal Souls, Rabid Dogs, Shire, King, Apex, Dark Wolves, TheHustleGang, The Almighty, [GLOBAL], the monkeys, Baby Jesus Club, Shadow Riders, Scarlets, Undead horde, DeathEaters, Wof TnT, pie, The Worst, Heaven, Drowning Fish, Ancient Order, ninjaz, xXDarkMoonXx, Scarface, PhilipGuild, Lovely Ones

Successfully removed 169 inactive members from all guilds (inactive for 14+ days)

This brings us down to 51 guilds whether ownership is active/inactive (not deleting empty guilds after the purge [yet])

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