Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=111332&page=1#10 Author: Slytherin7 Time Posted: 6/11/2026 at 10:56 AM Were pets released after fest started but before the new board release supposed to be counted for release board? I swore I heard that somewhere but I can't find anything right now, so I'm not sure if that was the case or not. If that was the case, I have a lot of released pets that weren't counted for boards

Yea. I ran a script to manually parse them in. As long as the pet was created before the Spring Festival began, it should count.

If you think your counts are wrong, toss me a PM with the details and I can take a look through the logs for you.

Today is the FINAL day of this year's Spring Festival Leaderboard Contests! There are still plenty of uncontested (or very lightly contested) spots across various Contests! Let's get these boards filled up before midnight tonight!

Tons of prizes and Themed Pets await! I will be kicking off another Bloom Explosion here to run through the rest of today! Don't miss out!

Happy Father's Day! I hope everyone celebrating today has a great day!

Today is the FINAL official day of the Festival Zone: Astryl's Meadow! The zone will be closing tonight at midnight, UNLESS a Bloom Event is still active or pending in which case the zone will remain open! In celebration of today, I have triggered Bloom Events for all 22 species! I now leave the rest to all of you!

Today is also the last day for the Spring Festival Forum Games. If you have not yet already submitted your entries, do so before it's too late! There are some awesome participation prizes awaiting to be claimed!

Today is also the last day to complete the Festival Task Log Daily Tasks, however, you can still continue working on the Festival Tasks through the end of next week.

The rest of the Spring Festival festivities will remain open through the end of this week before fully closing after next Sunday, June 28th. As always, there will be the auto-complete applied to any unclaimed/unfinished plant that meets the following criteria:

-Plant was a Majestic Seed
-Plant was a Fabled Seed AND had any Fertilizer used on it
-Plant had at least 65% Growth OR had an Exceptional or Greater Fertilizer used on it

The Spring Festival is coming to a close, tomorrow, Sunday, June 28th. Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's festivities! I know it's a little late relative to its usual time, but there will be a Spring Festival Eggling Auction beginning tomorrow at 10 AM and running through Tuesday, June 30th, at 8 PM. And as always, there will be the auto-complete applied to any unclaimed/unfinished Sylesti Garden plant that meets the following criteria:

-Plant was a Majestic Seed
-Plant was a Fabled Seed AND had any Fertilizer used on it
-Plant had at least 65% Growth OR had an Exceptional or Greater Fertilizer used on it

In other news, the Patriotic Event will begin this upcoming Friday, July 3rd! I apologize for the back-to-back events, it's just how the schedule fell this year. There will be the return of the Patriotic Service feature, some new Avatar Items, maybe a new Themed Pet or two, and most everything else that comes with the Patriotic Event. Stay tuned for more information on Friday!

Beyond that, I have been furiously working on all sorts of new and exciting things behind-the-scenes for Sylestia. If you haven't seen, I have completely rebuilt both our Avatar and Pet Image Builder systems from scratch. They should now all load considerably faster, which now opens the door for me to display them at higher resolutions on the site and to do more complicated layering without having to be concerned with performance issues. I have also added a ton of new QOL features into the "old" pages (original Exploration Zones, Inventory page, etc).

I have also rewritten the entire suite of back-end scripts that powers the core of Sylestia's "living world". This has brought with it massive performance benefits that should have eliminated those "hourly" and "daily" lag ticks (or at least massively reduced them), in addition to opening the door to adding new features and fixing long-standing bugs. For example, players should have noticed a significant reduction in daily feeding if they have Farm Maiden Rosemary hired as a Stablehand and have lots of pets. Another example is that I should finally be able to add in those other "auto-release" options in the Hatchery. You can read about all of the recent changes in the 2026 Official Changelog.

Lastly, I am currently working on a brand new site interface that will finally bring Sylestia up to the modern era. I am aiming to release the first part of this update on the second or third week of July. This first update will include the core back-end infrastructure for a brand new login system, brand new login/account creation options (Google and Apple), proper two factor authentication, multiple themes the player can choose from (including Dark Modes), and so much more. After this initial release, I will then be updating pages and features one a time until the entire site is completely uniform and modernized. It is extremely exciting and I can't wait until I'm finished! I will leave you all with sneak peak of two of the new site themes, Dark Sapphire and Dark Amber, on the new interface.

No messages went out this year when we got outbid on an eggling. I'm assuming that wasn't intentional?

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=111332&page=2#15 Author: Elune Time Posted: 7/1/2026 at 7:45 AM No messages went out this year when we got outbid on an eggling. I'm assuming that wasn't intentional?

No, that would not have been intentional. I'll take a look and see what went wrong.

Sorry, I was out of town until just now.

Apologies, I believe now that I just hadn't been outbid. I forgot about the auction, then when I saw the final amount after it finished, I just assumed someone bid quite a bit higher than I did, as it seemed too high for the automatic increases.

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=111332&page=2#17 Author: Elune Time Posted: 7/3/2026 at 10:12 PM Apologies, I believe now that I just hadn't been outbid. I forgot about the auction, then when I saw the final amount after it finished, I just assumed someone bid quite a bit higher than I did, as it seemed too high for the automatic increases.

Ah. Hehe.

No worries. Thanks for the update.