- Fixed an issue where Nodes in the Lost Grove were failing to properly spawn upon entering a new instance of the Zone.

- When encountering a Festival or Event Themed Pet inside The Ancient Temple of The Lost Grove, the chance of it being either Epic or Legendary has increased by 33%.

- Overhauled the spawn mechanics for the Easter Event Ferrikki Themed Pets (Winter Grasp Ferrikki and Summer Scorcher Ferrikki) while Exploring in The Lost Grove.

(Note: Previously, it was just a static chance per Sylesti encounter to spawn an Easter Event Ferrikki Themed Pet with a higher chance in the Ancient Temple Dungeon. This promoted the behavior of running away from as many battles as possible to increase the frequency. This was not intended and this was a poor spawn mechanic, so the entire system was overhauled.)

The starting Base Chance of encountering an Easter Event Ferrikki Themed Pet has increased by ~300%. However, there are now several mechanics for Players to increase this chance all the way to over 99% chance-to-encounter via their Encounter Bonus Tracker. The Encounter Bonus Tracker is a direct increase to the Base Chance and can be increased through the following methods:

Enemies Defeated: For every Enemy defeated within The Lost Grove, Players increase their Encounter Bonus Tracker. Enemies defeated within The Ancient Temple increment the Encounter Bonus Tracker by 300% of the amount.

Hourly Increment: At the top of every Hour, if a Player has increased their Encounter Bonus Tracker within that Hour, they will receive an additional Encounter Bonus Tracker increment equal to 10% of the Base Chance. This Hourly Increment can occur only a maximum of 6 Times Per Day and resets at Midnight.

Daily Increment: At Midnight of every day, if a Player has increased their Encounter Bonus Tracker within that Day, they will receive an additional Encounter Bonus Tracker increment equal to 33.34% of the Base Chance.

Tracker's Hut Bonus: Enabling the Tracker's Hut Bonus for the Ferrikki Species now directly increases your Base Chance and accurately reflects the Rank Boost of your Bonus. This provides a 10%/20%/40%/60% bonus to the Base Chance.

All Other Bonuses: All other bonuses, which includes the Themed Pet Encounter Boost Event, Rank 5 Tracker's Hut Passive Bonus, [Artifact - Ancient Grove Eggling], and [Perfume of Themed Attraction (Lost Grove)] also apply their respective bonuses to the Base Chance after the previous bonuses have been calculated.

The Encounter Bonus Tracker will reset upon each encounter with an Easter Event Ferrikki Themed Pet.

(Note: While the starting chance to encounter an Easter Event Ferrikki Themed Pet has increased, there are now many ways to increase the encounter chance significantly beyond what was previously possible. Two of the methods just simply require basic activity where a Player is actively battling in The Lost Grove on a per hour and per day basis. This means that Players will eventually reach, in at most every 3 days, a guaranteed (99%) chance to trigger an encounter.

Additionally, I built entirely new back-end support for this system so that I can easily make future adjustments and easily apply similar systems to other encounter mechanics in the future. The previous systems that I have been using over the years have all been independent hard-coded systems and very difficult to manage and adjust.)

- Fixed an issue where some Restricted Wild Traits were unable to be Extracted using a [Trait Extractor (Restricted Wild)].

- Fixed an Artwork Issue where the Wind Serpent Eyes (G1) Trait was not loading correctly on the Perennial Tail (M1) Trait for the Aeridini.

- Fixed an issue where the Referral Email system was not working. It should now be fully operational.

- The Aeridini Trait, Lunar Runes (G1 - HH), has been renamed to Fairy Runes.

- Fixed an issue where the Bubbling Stream Aeridini Themed Pet was not able to be encountered from Diamond Mythic Egg Maze runs in Astryl's Meadow. (Note: As compensation for Players trying to find one, I awarded a free 2-Visible Bubbling Stream Aeridini Themed Pet Eggling to Players for every 4 Diamond Mythic Maze Runs that they had purchased.)

- Improved the Rewards from Assisting other Players' Plants in the Sylesti Garden feature. Players can now receive [Mystery Seed Pouch], [Regular Fertilizer Bag], [Enchanted Water], or [Decorated Eggs].

- Added a Region Chat Announcement for when a Player successfully Captures a Spring Blossom Themed Pet.

- Added more Region Chat Announcements for the start and end of a Garden Flower Bloom from the Shared Garden Events in Astryl's Meadow.

The new and improved Festival Leaderboard Contests are finally here! For those unaware, they have gone through a major overhaul from how they have operated for many years now.



Major Changes:
- The entire interface and back-end code for the Festival Leaderboard Contests Page has been completely rebuilt and modernized.

- There are now separate Battling Contests based on Zone Difficulty. Tier 5 is now its own Contest and is separate from the Tier 1 - 4 Contest.

- Every Top 10 Placement in every Contest now awards a Themed Pet for that Contest's Species (Used to be just Top 5).

- 1st Place in every Contest now awards a 4-Visible (was 3-Visible), 2nd and 3rd Place now awards a 3-Visible (was 2-Visible).

- Total Placements has been reduced to 10 (was 15).

- Total Rounds has been reduced to 2 (was 3).

- All Contests and Rounds are now viewable whether the Contest has yet to begin, is active, or has ended.

- Players can now see more information regarding their current standings on each Contest, including their Placement even if they are not in the Top 10.


- Reduced the Amounts Required to Complete the "Earn Contest Reward Pouch from Contests" Festival Tasks from the Festival Task Log to 1, 4, 12, 20 (was 1, 5, 15, 30). Also, Increased the Reward Quantity of the second task to 2 (was 1).