Here is the official announcement thread for the 2026 Spring Festival!
Festival Begins: Wednesday, May 20th at 12:00 PM
Forum Games End: Sunday, June 21st at 11:59 PM
Festival Soft Close*: Sunday, June 21st at 11:59 PM
Festival Full Close: Sunday, June 28th at 11:59 PM
* = Astryl's Meadow, Daily Task Log will Close at this time
The Spring Festival is when all Sylestians celebrate the end of the cold winter and the start of new growth - both figuratively and literally! Take time to enjoy the outdoors and enjoy everything the beautiful world has to offer as it begins a new cycle for the next few seasons!
The Spring Festival also marks the return of the Aeridini! Throughout the Spring Festival, these elusive pollinators can be found throughout the Festival Zone. So be sure to catch as many as you can before they return to their nesting grounds for the remainder of the year!
Diamond Sale and Bonus Events
https://www.sylestia.com/shops/diamondshop/
Start Time: Wednesday, May 20th at 12:00 PM
End Time: Monday, June 7th at 11:59 PM
Double Experience Boost Event
During this time, all battles will award Double Experience!
Themed Encounter Rate Boost Event
During this time, there will be a Themed Encounter Rate Bonus and all Wild Themed within the Lost Grove will have a doubled base rate of being encountered! This is a doubled increase chance on the base rate. This bonus stacks with all other Themed Encounter Rate Bonuses.
Restricted Wild Trait Boost Event
During this time, all Restricted Wild Traits within the Lost Grove will have a doubled base rate of appearing!
Extra Treasure Boost Event
During this time, all naturally respawning nodes within the Lost Grove will respawn twice as fast. Additionally, during the Endless Mode for Lost Temple Dungeons, all nodes will have doubled the chance of spawning after each battle.
Stable Purchase: 400  (20% Discount)
Diamonds: Receive 20% Extra Base Per Purchase!
[Exceptional Genetic Test Kit]: 1,000 (33% Discount)
[Exceptional Genetic Scanner]: 1,000 (33% Discount)
[Exceptional Infertility Kit]: 1,000 (33% Discount)
[Masterful Snare Trap]: 300 (40% Discount)
[Perfume of Themed Attraction]: 100 (Limited Item - 33% Discount)
[Philter of Trait Disruption (Themed)]: 200 (33% Discount)
[Philter of Expedient Learning]: 200 (33% Discount)
[Greater Genetic Mutator]: 160 (20% Discount)
[Greater Pet Dye]: 120 (20% Discount)
[Perfume of Themed Attraction (Lost Grove)]: 80 (20% Discount)
[Philter of Infertility]: 80 (20% Discount)
[Magical Pie]: 80 (20% Discount)
[Philter of Gender Swapping]: 80 (20% Discount)
[Prismatic Philter]: 60 (25% Discount)
[Trait Disruptor (All Species - Spring Blossoms)]: 400 (20% Discount)
[Divine Aeridini Essence]: 1,000 (50% Discount)
[Mystical Aeridini Essence]: 750 (25% Discount)
[Spring Festival Mega-Bundle]: 10,000 (Limited Item - Limit 1 Per Player)
[Spring Festival Fun-dle]: 3,900 (Limited Item - Limit 1 Per Player)
[Garden Bloom Bundle]: 2,600 (Limited Item - Limit 1 Per Player)
[Majestic Seed Pouch]: 1,200 (Limited Item)
[Fabled Seed Pouch]: 800 (Limited Item)
[Regular Seed Pouch: 400 (Limited Item)
[Fabled Seed Pouch (Aged)]: 400 (Limited Item)
[Regular Seed Pouch (Aged)]: 100 (Limited Item)
[Premium Fertilizer Bag]: 60 (Limited Item)
[Bag of Miracle Grow]: 500 (Limited Item)
[Box of Gardening Supplies]: 600 (Limited Item)
[Large Basket of Enrichments]: 30 (Limited Item)
[Retired Avatar Item (Spring)]: 100 (Limited Item)
Diamond Sale Event Progressive Bonus
During the Diamond Sale, any Diamonds spent (excludes Currency Exchange) will award you points towards six tiers of bonus rewards. Again, these are Diamonds spent - not purchased. Only Diamonds spent during this event will count towards these Progressive Bonus prizes.
There will be SIX prizes:
2,000 Spent = Free Stable
4,000 Spent = [Fabled Seed Pouch]
6,000 Spent = Custom 3-Visible Themed Pet of Choice*
10,000 Spent = Event Category Avatar Item of Choice*
15,000 Spent = Custom 3-Visible Themed Pet of Choice*
20,000 Spent = Custom 3-Visible Themed Pet of Choice*
* = Some restrictions apply. See below.
Custom 3-Visible Themed Pet of Choice
You are eligible to receive a custom 3-Visible Themed Pet of your choice! You may choose from any Themed Pet in the game (with a few exceptions), its Gender, and its Traits. The following restrictions apply:
1. The Themed Pet must have been released in game by May 20th, 2026.
2. If you choose a Restricted Themed Pet, it can only be a max of 2-Visible Traits.
3. All Traits will be Visible Traits only. No Carried nor Hidden Carried allowed.
4. Restricted Traits cannot be selected for non-Restricted Themed Pets.
5. If selecting a Restricted Themed Pet, only valid Restricted Traits that naturally appear on that Restricted Themed Pet can be selected.
6. If selecting a Lost Grove Themed Pet, you may choose a maximum of one Restricted Wild Trait. The Restricted Wild Trait must naturally appear on the Themed Pet. Restricted Wild Traits cannot be selected on non-Lost Grove Themed Pets.
7. The following Themed Pets cannot be chosen: Dawnbreaker Aeridini, Frostkeeper Aeridini, Mistwarden Aeridini, Nightrider Lily Faelora, Bright Star Lily Faelora, Starlette Lily Faelora, Winter Grasp Ferrikki, Summer Scorcher Ferrikki, Spring Showers Ferrikki, Faerina's Praetorian Ferrikki, Malgorus's Tyrannical Ferrikki, Raith's Ravaging Ferrikki, Saphryn's Desecrating Ferrikki, Vaeluna's Archangel Ferrikki, Wruen's Soothsaying Ferrikki.
Event Category Avatar Item of Choice
You are eligible to receive an Event Category Avatar Item of your choice. The following restrictions apply:
1. The Avatar Item must have been released in game by May 20th, 2025.
2. The Avatar Item must be from the Event Category. Event Category Avatar Items are Avatar Items obtained from Events and Festivals. You can filter the Wardrobe by this Category.
3. The following Avatar Items cannot be chosen: Mythical Quality Avatar Items, Sylestia's Anniversary Items, Sylestian Service Items.
Themed Pet List
https://www.sylestia.com/festival/festival_spring/themed_list/
Visit the page above to see all of the available Themed Pets from this year's Spring Festival!
Login Rewards
https://www.sylestia.com/festival/login_rewards/
Throughout the duration of the Festival, players can visit here every day to claim a free reward! After claiming a day's reward, players must wait until 12:00 AM daily to claim the next day's reward regardless of when they claimed today's reward.
Players also have the option of unlocking the Premium Login Rewards for a one-time fee. Once purchased, players can claim additional, more premium, rewards with each day's claim! Additionally, each day's rewards will be unlocked automatically for you, even if you missed a day! However, you will still have to visit the page to manually claim them. If you do not unlock the Premium Login Rewards, you will have to manually unlock and claim your rewards for each day.
There are lots of awesome rewards available, including an exclusive Avatar Item: [Spring Nomad's Watcher (Mossopher)]! Be sure to check them out and claim them all!
Festival Exploration Zone
https://www.sylestia.com/explore/newzone/?zone=astrylsmeadow
This zone is recommended for players using pets of Level 10 and above!
Astryl's Meadow has returned! This map is very large and hosts a total of 12 different Named across 6 different spawn locations! There are over 40 treasure nodes hidden around the map as well! There are also 34 different Themed Pets able to be found in Astryl's Meadow which includes 17 brand new Themed!
Astryl's Meadow is also the only place to find and capture Wild Aeridini!
The Egg Hunt has returned! There are two variations of the Egg Hunt available this year. In order to begin the Egg Hunt, find Justinia Aurorelius just to the East of the entrance to Astryl's Meadow.
Basic Egg Hunt: Available to everyone and can be enjoyed completely free of charge. However, there is a 6 Hour waiting period between hunts while we move around and hide all of the prizes each time! Prizes available from the Basic Egg Hunt include Decorated Eggs, Mystery Seed Pouches, Garden Supplies, unique Avatar Items, and even Themed Pets themselves! However, the more premium prizes are quite rare from the Basic Egg Hunt.
Mythic Egg Hunt: Available to everyone who is willing to pay the Entry Fee. The Entry Fee can be paid with either 400 Diamonds, 800,000 Gold, or 2,000 Decorated Eggs. You can purchase entry into the Mythic Egg Hunt at any time and as many times as you wish. There is no waiting period! Prizes available from the Mythic Egg Hunt include Decorated Eggs, Majestic, Fabled, Regular, and Mystery Seed Pouches, Premium Fertilizers, Root Strengtheners, Large Baskets of Enrichments, unique Avatar Items, and Themed Pets! The premium prizes are much more common from the Mythic Egg Hunt compared to the Basic Egg Hunt. Additionally, there are more Sparkling Easter Eggs, twice as many Mysterious Keys, double the encounter rate of Themed Pets, and you get an extra 40 Steps to find all the goodies!
Diamond Purchased Mythic Egg Hunt: If a Player purchases an entry to the Mythic Egg Hunt using Diamonds, they will have a chance of encountering a legendary Verdant Mazerunner Ny'vene during their hunt! This bonus is in addition to everything else that the Mythic Egg Hunt offers.
The rules for either Egg Hunt are the same. Once you enter, you will be placed at a random starting location within the designated maze area. You will have a limited amount of steps to take; so travel carefully! Your goal is to find as many of the hidden Easter Eggs as you can! There will always be a minimum of 20 Easter Eggs hidden within the maze.
Additionally, keep an eye out for the Mysterious Key hidden within the maze. This key can be used to unlock the Mysterious Temple within the maze where you can battle a Treasure Boss! If you manage to collect all 20 Eggs and defeat the Treasure Boss, you will receive a worthy Title!
Shared Garden
The Spring Blossom Themed Pets are now available and the Shared Garden Event has gotten a little bit of an overhaul! Firstly, let's take a look at all of the new Themed Pets:
You can view the Themed Pets in more detail via
the Themed Pet Codex or the Festival Themed Pet List
Enchanted Water: Players can collect Enchanted Water by doing virtually anything inside the Festival Zone, Astryl's Meadow.
Using Enchanted Water: Players have the option of visiting any of the 22 Flowers in the Shared Garden. This area is located directly to the West of the Zone In of Astryl's Meadow. You will be able to speak to Sadie Wildflower at any time to ask her some questions regarding the Shared Garden.
Each of the 22 Flowers represents one of the Regular or Fabled Garden Seeds. Players can choose which one that they want to use their Enchanted Water on. Each Flower is a community shared Flower. This means that if I use enough of my Enchanted Water on, say the Faelora Flower, then it will finish and start an event for the Faelora for the entire community!
To actually use your Enchanted Water, just simply interact with the Flower you want to work on and use the available buttons to add your Enchanted Water to the Flower. You can do so in increments of 5 or 25.
Fully Grown Flowers: As more Enchanted Waters are used on a Flower, it will continue to grow. Eventually, it will reach 100% and be ready to Bloom. At this point, no more Enchanted Waters can be used on it until it resets.
Once a Flower is ready to Bloom, it will schedule a zone-wide Event. If there is already a pending queue of Events, it will be added to the bottom of the list. If there is not a queue, then in 30 minutes (or 1 hour for a Fabled species), the event for this Flower will begin.
There will be a server-wide message in Region Chat once an Event is scheduled. Additionally, players can track the current schedule at any point by looking at the Zone Progression area. An announcement will also be sent out from the Event Notification Channel in our official Discord Server.
Shared Garden Bloom Event: Once the countdown has finished and a Garden Bloom Event has officially begun, players will have 20 minutes (or 30 minutes for a Fabled species) to roam around the zone and reap the benefits of the Garden Bloom. The benefits are as follows:
1. All default Wild Themed Pet encounter rates are increased by 50% (150% if Bloom Boost is active). This effect does stack with a [Perfume of Themed Attraction].
2. If a Themed Pet is encountered during a Garden Bloom Event, there will be a chance that instead of a regular Wild Zone Themed Pet, it will instead be of a Spring Blossom Themed Pet of the species (yes, even Ny'vene, Puffadore, etc) that is currently in bloom. These Spring Blossom Themed Pets can either have 1-Visible, 2-Visible, or 3-Visible Traits. They will always come with the Spring Blossom Trait. Exploring at a higher Zone Difficulty Tier will not only increase the chances of encountering a Spring Blossom Themed Pet, but also the chance of encountering one with more Visible Traits. Be warned, Spring Blossom Themed Pets will be tougher enemies than the other Sylesti in Astyrl's Meadow!
3. Players can encounter Flower Fairies. Flower Fairies will be challenging enemies to face and will drop much better rewards on higher Zone Difficulty Tiers. Flower Fairies can drop an assortment of rewards including the following items:
(Tier 3+ only)
- [Tamed Aeridini]
- The Garden Seed of the current Blooming Flower
- [Composted Seed (Majestic)], [Composted Seed (Fabled)], [Composted Seed (Regular)]
(All Tiers)
- [Premium Fertilizer Bag], [Regular Fertilizer Bag]
- [Root Strengthener], [Blue Tree Sap], [Pink Tree Sap], [Genetic Bonding], [Genetic Splicer]
- [Large Basket of Enrichments], [Small Basket of Enrichments]
- [Enchanted Water]
- [Decorated Egg]
4. Bloom Boost: When adding [Enchanted Water] to any of the available Shared Garden Flowers, Players will receive progress towards their Bloom Boost. Once the Required Amount has been used, the Bloom Boost will activate and grant that Player an increased Encounter Chance for Themed Pets during any Shared Garden Bloom.
The 1st Bloom Boost will have a Required Amount of 150 [Enchanted Water]. The 2nd Bloom Boost will have a Required Amount of 300 [Enchanted Water]. Every additional Bloom Boost will have a Required Amount of 600 [Enchanted Water]. Every day at midnight, this tracker resets.
Bloom Boost progression always carries over. However, it can never exceed twice the current Required Amount. For example, if a Player uses 300 [Enchanted Water], they will cap out at 300 Bloom Boost (150 x 2). Their Bloom Boost will be Active, but any additional [Enchanted Water] used will not increase the Bloom Boost until they trigger a valid Themed Pet Encounter. Once they do, their Bloom Boost will be be reduced by the Required Amount (150) and the new Required Amount becomes 300. The Player's previous Bloom Boost progression will carry over and already be at 150 / 300 (50%) Bloom Boost. At this point, the Player can use up to an additional 450 [Enchanted Water] to reach the cap of 600 (300 x 2).
Unlimited Chances: Once the Blooming Event begins, the Flower will have been reset and ready to receive more Enchanted Water.
Once the Event ends, if another is already queued up, it will begin.
Players can continuously trigger Events however they want for the remaining duration of the Festival.
Sylesti Garden
https://www.sylestia.com/festival/festival_spring/sylesti_garden/
The much renowned Sylesti Garden is back! All players will have access to two Planting Pots at all times. You can purchase additional one-time Planting Pots if needed up to a maximum of 30 Pots at one time. Once you have a Planting Pot available, interact with it to fill it with Dirt for a small amount of Gold. Once filled with Dirt, you can plant one of the 47 Seeds available this festival. Seeds can be found throughout the Festival Zone or by purchasing Seed Pouches from the Diamond Shop or Festival Shop. They can also be found from Contest Reward Pouches.
Once you've planted a Seed, you can now watch it grow! Frequently, your growing Plant will require nurturing, such as being Parched, Wilted, or Overgrown. You can cure these ailments by using Enrichments on it. Enrichments include: Enriched Water, Sun's Glow, and Weed-B-Gone. Every time that your Plant is Enriched, it grows 1 Hour faster. Through the course of its growing time, you will have the opportunity to decrease its growth time considerably! So be sure to Tend your Plant as much as possible! Enrichments can be obtained from the same methods as Seed Pouches.
In addition to Enrichments, you can also give Fertilizer to your Flowers. Adding Fertilizer will increase the amount of Traits that your Flower Pet will hatch with. There are 3 types of Fertilizer: Lesser Fertilizer (1-Visible*), Greater Fertilizer (2-Visible*), and Exceptional Fertilizer (3-Visible*). Fertilizer can be obtained through the same methods as the other Garden Supplies. Lastly, if you have excess Lesser Fertilizer or Greater Fertilizer, you can combine a bulk amount of them and upgrade them to the next level.
* = This applies to the Regular and Fabled Seeds only. Majestic Seeds use the following system: Lesser Fertilizer (2-Carry), Greater Fertilizer (1-Visible), and Exceptional Fertilizer (2-Visible)
Lastly, you can now use Additives on your Flowers to further enhance them! The following Additives are available:
Blue Tree Sap: Guarantees that the Pet will be a Male.
Pink Tree Sap: Guarantees that the Pet will be a Female.
Genetic Bonding: Allows you to guarantee a Visible Trait in a specific eligible slot.
Genetic Splicer: Guarantees that a Visible Trait will have a hidden Carried Trait.
Root Strengthener: Boosts the Base Stats of a Pet by 100 Health and 5 Str, Int, Dex, and Agi. Can be used four times.
Miracle Grow: Increases the effectiveness of Hourly Growth and of Enrichments by 600% and Bonus Growth by 400%. This can only be used once that specific Themed Pet has already been harvest once by anyone on the Site.
Bonus Growth: For every Enrichment used on a growing Plant, it will receive a Bonus Point. After so many Bonus Points, the Plant will gain a Bonus Tier. There are a maximum of 2 Tiers to be earned. They offer the following rewards:
Tier 1: For both Majestic and Regular/Fabled Plants, they receive a permanent boost to their Base Stats.
Tier 2 (Regular/Fabled Plants): For Regular/Fabled Plants, they receive a bonus Carried Trait.
Tier 2 (Majestic): For Majestic Pets, they receive an even further permanent boost to their Base Stats.
As an added bonus to this feature, you are also able to Tend other player's Plants! Simply visit their Garden and Tend their Plant as you would your own, with exception to the use of Additives. They will be notified of your caring gesture and may even return the favor! You will also earn Decorated Eggs, and sometimes rare unique Avatar Items, for being such a friendly neighbor!
There are a total of 49 Flower Pets available: 5 Majestic Themed Pets, 16 Fabled Themed Pets, and 28 Regular Themed Pets! This includes 27 brand new Themed Pets and 22 Themed Pets from last year.
There are also 5 Titles available from the Sylesti Garden! They are as follows:
The Tender: Tend other player's Plants at least 25 times.
Green Thumb: Harvest at least 1 of every available Regular Garden species.
Fabled Green Thumb: Harvest at least 1 of every available Fabled Garden species.
Majestic Green Thumb: Harvest at least 1 Majestic Garden Pet.
Omniscient Gardener: Harvest at least 1 of all 22 available Regular/Fabled Garden Pet species and any 3 unique Majestic Garden Pets.
Premier Green Thumb: Harvest the very first Garden Pet amongst all Players. Will also receive a [Peerless Avatar Token]!
Task Log
https://www.sylestia.com/festival/festival_spring/task_list/
The Festival Task Log is back and is full of 30+ Tasks for all sorts of things during the Festival. How this works is just simply complete whatever is required of the Task and credit will automatically be tallied into your Task Log. Once you have completed the Task the required amount of times, you will receive whatever the reward for the Task is. It's that simple!
There are both Daily Tasks, which reset every day at midnight, and Festival Tasks, which can only be completed once per Festival.
Players who are able to complete every Festival Task will receive a [Peerless Avatar Token] as their reward!
Spring Contests
The Leaderboard Contest feature is currently being overhauled. At this time, they page is unavailable. While the concept of the contests will remain the same (battling, nurturing, etc), I am rebuilding the entire backend from scratch. In addition, I am separating the battling contest into two separate contests, one for Tier 5 and one for Tier 1-4. There will also be changes to the prize structure where every leaderboard placement will receive a Themed Pet.
If you were waiting to release a bunch of pets for the Spring's Release Contest, there still will be a Release Contest. It won't be active until I finish reworking the leaderboards, but if you do release your pet before then - but after the Spring Festival is active - I will retroactively award you points once the new boards are up and running.
At this point in time, I am planning on Round 1 beginning next Wednesday, May 27th.
Contest Schedule:
TBA
Festival Shop
https://www.sylestia.com/shops/holidayshop/
There are over 400 Avatar Items available from this year's Spring Festival, of which are 279 *NEW* Items! A chunk of these are exclusively available from the Festival Shop! Be sure to collect as many [Decorated Eggs] as you can to collect all of these new spring-themed items!
Players can also purchase various Festival Supplies from the Festival Shop, including items to use in the Sylesti Garden feature.
Decorated Eggs can be obtained by doing virtually anything related to the Spring Festival.
Participate in Forum Games
http://www.sylestia.com/forums/?forum=24
Throughout the Festival, we will be hosting many various Forum Games. Visit the link above and look for any stickied thread that begins with "Spring Festival".
Don't miss out! Participating in many of the games will guarantee you a prize. Others offer such great prizes for winning that you won't want to miss out! |
