December 2023 newsletter:

Hello! We have a lot in store for this month, we hope you guys enjoy it!

PLEASE READ THIS NEWSLETTER IN FULL. MOST THINGS SHOULD BE ANSWERED IN THIS. IF YOU ASK SOMETHING THAT IS ANSWERED ON THIS NEWSLETTER WE WILL REDIRECT YOU TO THIS AGAIN.

December Monthly Uncommon Myo Raffles:

You may now self-enter into the uncommon MYO item raffles! To do so simply go to the “Raffles” page (under the browse dropdown on the navbar), click the raffle you’re interested in joining, and click the self enter button!

Each MYO is 1,000 Cloud Coins if you win!
Please remember to have the Cloud Coins before entering! If we are forced to reroll you because you did not read this, you will be getting a strike. Thank you.

You will be able to self enter until 12/2 23:59:59 site time, and the raffles will be rolled on 11/3!

Secret Santa:

Our secret santa form has closed and we will be contacting everyone with their partners soon!
As a reminder:
All art will be due on the 31st of December! Please make sure you're able your art done by then before signing up! If you sign up and at some point something comes up and you're unable to finish the art please contact a mod by the 26th so we can find a backup for you. If you do not finish the art and do not contact us by the 26th to let us know you won't be able to finish you will receive a strike.
If you sign up to be a backup artist you will be contacted if someone drops! the due date for backup artists will be the 10th of January.

All art submitted, regardless of how much of the character is drawn, must be colored and cleanly lined. Fullbodies don't need to be shaded, but headshots must be.
You must submit your secret santa to the prompt located here

Holiday Item Advent:

Later on this month we’ll be hosting an item advent calendar!
From December 26th through the 31st there will be an item claimable every day! You will be able to view this calendar via the navigation bar or sidebar underneath 'quick links' starting on December 26th!

Character Warnings:

You may now add content warnings to your characters! This will add a popup to the character, along with censoring their icon. You may turn this off in your user settings.

User Shops:

You may now set up your own shop on site! Here you can sell your items to other users!

You may decorate your shop as you please, however your shopfront must be SFW and not contain any gore or other inappropriate imagery. Swearing is alright, however slurs or any offensive language is not.

Keep in mind making your shop name too long may result in users being unable to purchase items from your shop, please try to keep shop names 32 characters or under!

World Information:

This section is still a big WIP, however you can view some information about the world Space Station species are from here! Make sure to check out the sidebar links as well, as some will include more information! These will be slowly added and updated as time goes on.

December Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is Snowed In! Draw and/or write about your Spacestation character experiencing heavy snowfall!
The December monthly madness will last till December 31st!

Misc:

• We have created a page for all the advent designs to be viewed! Designs will be added to it as they’re revealed. You can view the page here!
• You must now list what has changed in the comments section when redesigning characters! If you don’t we’ll cancel the submission.
• Character pronouns have been added! These will be viewable on your character's profile page! If we find you putting anything aside from pronouns in this box you will be given a warning or banned, depending on what is put there.
• Character names are now limited to 32 characters, the abundance of incredibly long joke names has been difficult to moderate for a while now (along with causing issues for those on mobile and those with screen readers), and after discussion we have decided to place this limit. Trying to make a character’s name longer than 32 characters long will cause an error to pop up.

Over the Clouds Event:

This is a multi-part lore based event! The first part will start today (12/1), the second will start on 12/12, third on 12/23, 4th on 12/30, and epilogue on 1/7 ! Each part will include a couple of art prompts, new crafting recipes, raffles, encounters, foraging, and a dialogue event! Please read on to learn more :]

Story art prompts may only be completed once, and must be completed by the character's owner. NPCs cannot be used for this event, however we will have a FTO shop set up to allow users without any characters to participate.

Event prompts may be completed multiple times, and may be done by other members for you (but they must include your characters in them if done by other members).

Story prompts must be completed in order. Any previous ones must be completed before moving on to the next one.

Status effects have been added to the site, characters can roll status effects from prompts. If a character has a mild status effect, they have a slight chance to bring back nothing from whatever prompt you submit to, if they have a severe status effect they have a larger chance to bring back nothing! Make sure to heal your characters before doing more prompts for the event! This does not apply to Monthly Madness, art redemption or the story prompts.

Food and Tools can be crafted during the event, along with a few turn in items for extra rewards. We have also added healing items! Tools will be more clear during the 2nd part of the event

Food gives users more energy to use during encounters and healing items heal status effects.

We originally thought this went without saying, but we have to make this clear upfront now - we do not tolerate any sort of cheating in these events. This includes multi-accounting and getting friends to join for the sole purpose of giving you all of their items. If we catch you (which, trust me, we will), then we will be banning you from participating in events for an entire year, and any items accumulated from the event will be removed from your account without refund.

Dialogue Event:

As stated above, this event will be in multiple parts! The first dialogue event can be seen here, and each part will have a new newspost, including links and new info!

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing!

Foraging:

Similar to October’s event, we will have foraging for this event! Currently, there is only one location to forage at, but with each part, you will unlock a new place to forage at!

Foraging may drop:

• Crafting Materials
• Cloud Coins
• Raffle tickets for premade designs

Crafting:

Like before, foraging will drop crafting materials!

Most of these recipes are focused on food, which gives you more energy for something very specific…

Exploring (Encounters):

With each part of this event, more exploration areas will be unlocked! You will have a single location you can explore at first, with the next being unlocked at the next part!

With exploring, you will have a variety of encounters from the perspective of the NPCs during the lore event, with the chance to gain items!

Art Prompts:

We will have two art prompts with each part of the event, able to be completed at any time until the event ends, but the story prompts MUST be completed in order! Non-story event prompts rewards will be rolled on characters, so any rewards will go to them instead of your inventory! From there you can transfer the items out of your character's inventory into yours.

For your character to get rewards you must select them as the "focus character"! You can also only submit prompts that include your own characters. If you were to do an event prompt that includes two of your own characters, and one of another member's for example, you'd be able to submit the prompt for your two characters, and the other member would need to submit to it with their character as well.

Story Prompt:

Show your Space Station character doing what they would do in the scenario presented in the first part of the dialogue event!

Rules:

• If drawing for this prompt, it MUST be at least a shaded fullbody with a simple scene background!
• If writing for this prompt, it MUST be a minimum of 750 words!
• This prompt MUST be completed by the character owner
• This prompt can only be completed once!
• Your piece MUST be submitted to the event gallery AND Event prompt! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)

Rewards:

• “Routine Check” Patch
• 500 Cloud Coins
• Broken Communication Device
• Empty Fuel Tank
• Bronze Egg

Event Prompt:

Routine check-in time! Show your Space Station character checking up on and visiting a new planet!

Rules:

• If drawing for this prompt, it MUST be at least a shaded fullbody with a simple scene background!
• If writing for this prompt, it MUST be a minimum of 750 words!
• A maximum of 3 characters can be in one scene, this may be changed in the future.
• This prompt can be completed by someone else for you, so long as it depicts your character! Rewards will be given to the person whose character was drawn or written about!
• Your piece MUST be submitted to the event gallery AND Event prompt! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)
• The person who completed the piece will be the one to upload to the gallery, not the one who owns the character!

Rewards:

• Random Crafting Materials (1-5)
• Chance at any type of Syrup/Sugar
• Chance at any rarity of Sodacat/Guppymander MYO slot
• Chance of status effect
  • Frigid (Mild)
  • Frostbitten (Severe)

Character/User Levels:

We now have character and user levels! While these are only cosmetic at the moment and have no effect on doing things on site at the moment, they do give you rewards for leveling up!

You gain EXP from doing prompts!

Weapons/Gear/Pets/Skills/Stats/Classes:

Most of these are not yet functional! At the moment, the only things that have use are pets and stats.

Pets can be gained from encounters, each pet has a “drop” that gives you an item every set interval! You can view your pets here or via the "Home" dropdown on the navbar.

Character stats are just that! While at the moment they don’t affect anything, they will in the future! You can up a character's stats by leveling them up.

You can view all this on a character's profile!

Event Shop:

Our event shop will be open until the event concludes! Here you can buy food items and items to heal your status effects you can get from completing the event prompts!

Part 1 Raffle Designs:

Seen below are all 3 of this part’s raffle designs!

Fireplace (Spacecat)
by kavvee

Hot Chocolate (Sodacat)
by Infinitelygray

Narwhal (Guppymander)
by crashingtides_

You can obtain raffle tickets to win these designs from Foraging!

Event Art Credits:

• Story concept by Digimon, written by GalacticRing
• Foraging/encounter art by Lobcorp
• Item/pet/dialogue art by Digimon
• Shop art by macross

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the Space Station, and we hope you guys enjoy this event as much as we do! See you in about two weeks!

PLEASE READ THIS NEWSLETTER IN FULL. MOST THINGS SHOULD BE ANSWERED IN THIS. IF YOU ASK SOMETHING THAT IS ANSWERED ON THIS NEWSLETTER WE WILL REDIRECT YOU TO THIS AGAIN.

Hi everyone! Monthly news for you all. :]

November Monthly Uncommon Myo Raffles:

You will now be able to self enter into raffles without having to get the ticket item from shops. Simply go to the “Raffles” page (under the browse dropdown on the navbar), click the raffle you’re interested in joining, and click the self enter button! 

Each MYO is 1,000 cloudcoins if you win!
Please remember to have the cloudcoins before entering! If we are forced to reroll you because you did not read this, you will be getting a strike. Thank you.

You will be able to self enter until 11/2 23:59:59 site time, and the raffles will be rolled on 11/3!

November Breeding:

Due to being unable to get the raffle to pay form out yesterday, November breeding FCFS slots will open tomorrow! Timestamps can be seen in the discord server with the exact time everything will happen!

Raffle to pay Form

Winter Advent Calendar:

On 11/15 our winter advent calendar will go live! Each design will be $15, and designs will start getting revealed on 12/1!
We will not be revealing which species is for what day, however we will confirm that all of them have a mostly equal amount of designs!

Guest Artist Opportunities:

As mentioned above we will be hosting an advent calendar for December! 
 We'll need a few guest artists to fill in some days on it. 

Form Link

Use the form above to apply, this is a different form from the normal one! You must have a paypal to apply and be 16+.

This form will end on 11/5, and GAs will be chosen on 11/6.

Halloween Event End Reminder + Update:

You may now sell crafting supplies for candy!

The doors and art prompt will be going away tomorrow 23:59:59 site time! We have decided to extend the event by a day due to adding the ability to sell supplies for candy. The candy shop will be closing the day after, make sure to spend your candy and use your supplies before then! 

Adjustments to the Mutations trait:

We have decided to split the mutation trait into two traits, small mutations (rare, for smaller things like feathers or scales) and large mutations (myth, for things that change the characters anatomy drastically, something like making them look like an object)

Trait Additions/Changes:

All new trait info can be found in the encyclopedia under "All traits"!

Sodacats:

• Small Mutation - rare
• Large Mutation - myth
• Metallic Parts - rare
• Big Cat Subspecies - myth
• Wild Cat Subspecies - myth
• Missing Head/Face - myth
• All Soda - myth
• Less than 25% Soda - myth
• All Foam Tail - rare
• Food Parts - uncommon 
• Energized Soda - myth
• Breed Specific Body Type - common
• Curled Ears - uncommon
• Flat Soda - myth
• Crystal Growth has been renamed Gem/Rock Growth
• Extra Limbs (Less than 4) has been renamed Extra Limbs (4 or less)
• Extra Limbs (More than 4) has been renamed Extra Limbs (5+)
• Fur Ear Tufts has been renamed Fur/Soda Ear Tufts
• Exposed Bones has been renamed Exposed Bone

Guppymanders:

• No Horns - myth
• Shark Tail - uncommon
• Small Mutation - rare
• Large Mutation - myth
• Missing Head/Face - myth
• Food Parts - uncommon
• Crystal Growth has been renamed Gem/Rock Growth
• Extra Limbs -4 has been renamed Extra Limbs (4 or less)
• Extra Limbs +4 has been renamed Extra Limbs (5+) 
• Exposed Bones has been renamed Exposed Bone
• Hooves has been renamed Paw Mutations
• Tri-Horns has been renamed 3+ Horns
• 3+ Horns now work like multiple tails, you need the relevant horn shape traits on top of the 3+ Horns trait.

Spacecats:

• Companion Growth has been renamed Companions
• Extra Limbs (4+)  has been renamed Extra Limbs (5+) 
• Starless - myth

Trait Reminders:

Please remember to add notes to traits that have multiple things fall under them (ex: small/large mutations, aquatic parts, insect parts,ect.). 

For example, if your MYO has feathers/the small mutation trait make sure to list feathers in the “Extra” info section of the trait! For randomized MYOs, you will have to add this to the “Comments” section instead of the “Trait” section.

From now on if you do not include this your MYO will be sent back!

Rule Update/Reminder:

From now on you may not use typing quirks in any “official“ channels in the discord server or in the comments section of design/redesign approvals. This also goes for prompt submissions. 

This is for accessibility reasons, please keep in mind that typing quirks cause issues with screen readers.

Bashing other Closed Species is not allowed in the discord server or on the site, ESPECIALLY Space Station ones. We know that people can have favorites, and that's fine, but saying that you do not care about a particular species or complaining about getting items for a species is unacceptable. If you do not want an item that you have received from this event, simply make a post in the appropriate channel or donate it. Any further discussion of this type will warrant a warning.

November Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is FAMILY! Draw and/or write about your Spacestation character’s family! This prompt is vague so feel free to interpret it as you wish! This prompt does include found family.

The November monthly madness will last till November 30th!

Misc:

• wysiwyg comments have been added, this will make it easier to format your comments on site!
• The images for the new traits for sodacats/guppymanders are currently being worked on! These should be done and on-site in the next few days.
• Trait descriptions have been added to all sodacat/guppymander traits!
• Default theme has been reverted!

Thank you all for tuning in!

Hello, and Happy Halloween! It's time for our yearly Halloween event.

This year we have a few things planned! 

New Default Theme:

To celebrate the holiday, we have a new default theme that's Halloween themed! We hope you enjoy it!

Dialogue Event:

To celebrate Halloween we have a short dialogue event! Please read it to get the necessary items to participate in our Event! 

You can read the event here! We hope you enjoy it!

Trick or Treating:

This will work somewhat like last year’s event, with a few key differences. Everyday at site reset you will be able to knock 3 times at one of the doors listed on the activities page. This will start today, as the first time you do an activity you will be limited to 1 time a day. These doors will be available until November 1st.

Doors may drop:

• Crafting Materials
• Treat Bags
• Candy
• Raffle Tickets for premade designs
• Myth Items

Crafting:

As mentioned above the doors will drop crafting supplies! There are a few event specific recipes you can craft. To obtain these crafting recipies you must complete the dialogue event!

Treat Bags:

These function as random item boxes!

• 4 random crafting materials
• 20 candy

Uncommon MYO items:

Uncommon MYOs for all 3 species

• 8 random crafting materials
• 40 candy

Uncommon Trait items:

Uncommon Traits for all 3 species

• 4 random crafting materials
• 20 candy

Rare Trait items:

Rare Traits for all 3 species

• 6 random crafting materials
• 25 candy

Random trait MYO items:

Random trait MYOs for all 3 species

• 6 random crafting materials
• 25 candy

Event Crafting Patch:

A special patch you can craft just for this event!

• 2 random crafting materials
• 10 candy

Raffle Tickets:

A raffle ticket for one of the premade designs our mods made for this event!

• 5 random crafting materials
• 25 candy

Art Prompt:

Draw your character dressing up for halloween! This prompt can be submitted multiple times and will close on November 1st.

Rules:

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a Fullbody! There is no background required for this prompt.
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• You can draw your character cosplaying for this prompt! However if your character is already a cbc you cannot draw them cosplaying as their source. An in-canon costume is fine, but it cannot just be cosplaying the base character.
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the Event Gallery AND Event prompt! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)

Rewards:

• 5 random crafting materials
• 15 candy
• You will receive the Dress Up 2023 patch the first time you complete this prompt

If you do not have your own spacestation character you're free to draw the npcs in their costumes! They can be seen below:

Design Raffle:

This year premade designs will be given out via raffle! You can self enter for free here!

To earn more raffle tickets you must participate in the event! You earn one from completeing the dialogue event, and you can purchase one from the candy shop. You may also craft extra tickets! :] Make sure to open the ticket item from your inventory! Otherwise you will not be entered into the raffle. 

Candy Shop:

Our event shop will be open from today until November 2nd. Here you’ll be able to spend your candy and purchase items! To access the Candy Shop you have to read through the dialogue event. Most items will be in this shop! However to encourage crafting some are limited to 1-2 per person.

SCAVENGER HUNT:

We have some trick-or-treat pails hidden around the site on the masterlist!! Check out the hunt here to get started!

Art credits:

• Treat Bags, Pails, and Ticket Items by uhe
• Crafting Material by astral-lotus
• Banner, Candy Pass, and Candy Shop art by Lobcorp
• Dialogue art by BUSTERSW0RD (with help from Lobcorp)
• Talksprites and NPC costume refs by Digimon (with help from Lobcorp)
• Activity page art BUSTERSW0RD
• Dialogue event written by GalacticRing
• Special thank you to redcrowz for helping out with coding issues!

We hope you all enjoy this event!

Hi everyone! Monthly news for you all. We’ll be having a Halloween event this month! Continue reading to find out more :]

Changes to Daily Rewards:

We have switched from using an advent calendar to a dedicated daily rewards extension. You will now be able to claim a random item box on every 30th day you log in, and your progress will not reset if you miss a day!

October Monthly Uncommon Myo Raffles:

The raffle tickets can be found in the shops. Please remember to read the item discription before purchasing! If we are forced to reroll you because you did not read it, you will be getting a strike. Thank you.

You will be able to grab these tickets from the shop until 10/2 23:59:59 site time, and they will be rolled on 10/3!

Crafting:

Crafting is now available on-site - at the moment the only thing you can do with it is convert Essences/Syrup to Vouchers/Sugar and vice versa. It will cost 100CC to do so.
There will be more uses for this feature in the future!

Halloween event:

From October 17th till November 1st we will be hosting a Halloween event! There will be a short dialogue event, design raffles, an art prompt, and more! We will be posting another newsletter on October 16th that includes all the event details!

Birthday Box Clarifications:

After this month we will no longer be giving out birthday boxes to users if they do not recieve one.

If you did not receive a birthday box, check to make sure you have at least your birth month set to members only. You will not get the birthday box otherwise, this is to respect the privacy of those who don’t wish to have their birthday publicly seen.

October Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is FEARS! Draw and/or write about your Spacestation character’s fears! This prompt is vague so feel free to interpret it as you wish! 

The October monthly madness will last till October 31st!

Misc:

• GalacticRing is now a co-owner!
• paolumu and Inkhearthusky have stepped down.
• macross is now a helper!
• yugioh has made visual trait guides for both Sodacats and Guppymanders! You can now view them on site.
• Aquatic parts has been detraited for Guppymanders

Thank you all for tuning in!

Hi everyone! Monthly news for you :]

SEPTEMBER MONTHLY MADNESS:

This month’s theme is Education! Draw and/or write your SpaceStation character going to school or learning something! 
The September monthly madness will last till September 30th!

SEPTEMBER MONTHLY UNCOMMON MYO RAFFLES:

As stated on last month's newsletter, the uncommon myo items have been changed from FCFS to a raffle to pay system! The raffle tickets can be found in the shops. Please remember to read the item discription before purchasing! If I am forced to reroll you because you did not read you will be getting a strike. Thank you.

You will be able to grab these tickets from the shop until 9/2 23:59:59 site time, and they will be rolled on 9/3!

Thank you all for tuning in!

Hi everyone! Monthly news for you :]

August Breeding:

We will be having a breeding opening this month! We will be hosting the raffle to pay today (8/1) and rolling the raffle/opening the FCFS slots tomorrow (8/2) !

All SpaceStation species are able to be bred, however crossbreeding the species is not allowed at this time! So your breeding pair would have to be the same species, at least for this batch!

The form for the raffle to pay, along with information on when the FCFS slots open will be posted in the discord server!

August Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is Vacations! Draw and/or write your SpaceStation character going on a Vacation!
The August monthly madness will last till August 31st!

Art Redemption Reminders:

• Gift Art and Staff Art bonuses are not stackable!
  • Staff Art only refers to cats on the Staff and NPC page viewable here !
• Art trades can be listed as gift art!
• The only types of art that cannot be redeemed for cloud coins are:
  • Any art that was commissioned (for IRL currency, any sort of in-game currency, or cloud coins)
  • The initial image of your MYO that was submitted to the site.
  • Base fills and YCHs
  • Event based art prompts (unless otherwise specified)

Trait Changes:

• Bubbles/Foam at the tip of the tail are now required for sodacats! (You can view Fizz’s tail tip as an example of what we mean! )
  • We will go back and adjust already approved cats to have an illegal trait (You are not required to redesign your character no worries! You may continue to use them as is, however if you ever choose to redesign them you will be required to fix any illegal traits!)
• Big cats and wild cats may now have any features that appear on the irl animal added for free to your MYOs. (So for example you may give a lion based big cat the mane trait for free, or a tiger based spacecat rounded ears without the need of an item, caracals may be given long standing ears, ect.)
  • The only exception to this is shaped tail, which still requires a rare trait addon!

Misc:

• A dming feature has been added on-site! You may now DM other users, either by clicking the “Message User” button on their profile or by clicking “New Message” in your inbox!
  • On the same topic as above you can access your inbox either by clicking the link on the navbar under “Home” or by clicking the link on the left hand sidebar!
• We have removed the myth limit from all cats!
• kssz8 has made a few random generators for the species! You can view them here if you’d like to mess around with them! Sodacats , Guppymanders , and Spacecats !
• Starting next month (September) Pulsars, Blueberry Sodas, and Silver Eggs will be changed to raffle to pay instead of FCFS!
• We are converting all leftover candy to cloud coins! This has been on the backburner for a while but we finally have time to sit down and take care of it.

Thank you all for tuning in!

Hi everyone! Here's July's newsletter :]

ART FIGHT BONUS:

All art submitted to art fight currently gets a 2x cloud coin bonus! Make sure to check the art fight box when submitting to art redemption to recieve this bonus :]

CHANGES TO ART REDEMPTION:

Instead of adding a critera per character, we have added a number input box allowing you to add how many characters fit the critera filled out!

EX: You drew a simple scene with 3 characters, 2 of the 3 are fullbodies and 1 is a bust. You'd fill out a total of 3 criteras, 1 for the background, 1 for the two fullbodies, and 1 for the bust!

The art redemption guide will be updated to reflect this shortly!

UPCOMING JULY GACHA:

This month we're having a Gacha! The theme will be reveled on the 14th, along with a raffle to pay form for 5 slots. The rest of the slots will be FCFS. This will take place July 15th at 5pm CST! This announcement will be placed in the discord server, please make sure to join it if you havent already! 

JULY MONTHLY MADNESS:

This month’s theme is Heat Haze! Draw and/or write about your Spacestation Species attemping to beat the summer heat! Feel free to get creative :]

The July monthly madness will last till July 31st!

MISC:

• Other Cat Breeds has been renamed Breed Specific Body 
• As a reminder New Horizions closes on July 14th 23:59:59 site time!

Thank you all, and we hope you're greatly enjoying the site! 

Hi everyone! Here’s part 2 of the June newsletter - it's a long one as we have a special event and some other exciting announcements! Please be sure to read through entirely.

Merging with Sodaplanet:

As some of you may already know, Digimon has been gifted Sodacats/Longyu by C-Side, and as of today the species will be merging together! Spacecats, Sodacats, and Longyu will all be a part of the same universe, and we plan to have some lore revolving around how the three species are related, along with eventually adding some actual ARPG elements to the site soon.

While a big change, we hope you guys end up enjoying it. An announcement has been made in the Sodaplanet Discord server on how to get your inventories onto your on-site accounts - please read it over for more information!

Changes to Sodaplanet:

• Longyus have been renamed Guppymanders, since there is already a real animal called Longyus - we’ve decided it's best the name is changed!
• Some traits have been shifted around, removed, or added!
  • Normal Eyes has been split into two separate traits, Standard Iris and Dark Pupils
  • Overgrown Fangs has been renamed Saber Teeth
  • Glowing has been renamed Bioluminescence
  • Rings have been split into two separate traits, Rings and Halo
  • Point Ears have been renamed Standard Ears
  • Tuft Ears have been changed to a modifier trait (as in they are now not an ear type of their own, they need to be stacked on top of another ear trait) and renamed Fur Ear Tufts
  • Long Ears have been renamed Long Standing Ears
  • Colored Sclera has been split into two traits, (Rare) Dark Sclera and (Uncommon) Colored Sclera
  • Colored Pupil has been added as an uncommon trait
  • Extra limbs has been split into two traits, (Rare) Extra Limbs (Less than 4) and (Mythical) Extra Limbs (More than 4)
  • Stitches have been detraited
  • Heterochromia has been detraited
  • Decorations have been detraited (Although your sodacat still requires one, there are just no rarity tiers anymore.)
  • Smooth/Layered Soda has been removed as a trait
  • Standard Bubbles has been added as a trait
  • Sodacats now require bubbles throughout their soda
  • Shaped Eyeball has been detraited, as a team we feel this is more a stylistic choice than anything.
  • Stream Tail has been renamed to Cat Tail, as we noticed most end up just looking like regular cat tails.
  • Fountain Hair (hair made of soda that is unstyled or flowy, akin to the Spacecat wispy/loose hair traits) has been added as a common trait
  • Fur Hair and No Hair have been added as a trait
  • Shaped Hair (Hair made of soda that is styled) has been added as an uncommon trait
  • Bubble Tail has been renamed Bobbed Tail
  • Flop Ears has been renamed Long Floppy Ears
  • Fins have been renamed Aquatic parts. This is now a common trait on Guppymanders (for any aquatic traits outside of the gils, whiskers, and fins that the species requires) and an uncommon trait on Sodacats.
  • Antenna has been renamed Insect Parts and can now be any insect features.
  • Transformation has been renamed Shapeshifting
  • Multiple forms has been renamed Multi-form
  • Companion Growth has been renamed Companions, and bumped down to rare instead of mythical
  • Hooves have been renamed Paw Mutations and can now be any unusual paw shape.
  • Long/Short fish tail has been merged into one single Fish Tail trait
  • Rarity colors have changed
• Event traits have been merged into other existing traits, or simply detraited.
• Pearlcoins have been converted to Cloudcoins at a rate of 1PC:10CC
• Butterfly Pea Syrup has been renamed Rainbow Sweetener
• Straw has been renamed Silly Straw
• Sparkling Soda has been renamed Refreshing Tonic
• Blueberry, Strawberry, and Golden Sugar have been added as items, these items will add an uncommon, rare, or mythical trait to a pre-made Sodacat or Guppymander. Syrups can now only be used on MYOs.
• Shaken sodas have been added - randomized Sodacat MYO slots! It can have any traits, regardless of rarity, however all of the listed traits must be used! Guppymanders now have a similar MYO called Scrambled Eggs! These items are currently only purchasable via the USD shop and occasionally obtainable during events.
• Diamond Soda has split into 2 items, Diamond Soda (for sodacats) and Golden Egg (for guppymanders)
• Mini Soda has split into 2 items, Mini Soda (for sodacats) and Small Egg (for guppymanders)
• All Sodaplanet items (minus myth items) can be found at the Sea Breeze Shop! This shop does not currently have an image, however it will soon!
• Snowball has been renamed Fizz!
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SODAPLANET MERGE EVENT (NEW HORIZIONS):

This will be our first lore drop event - you can view it here! Make sure to check your settings and adjust your text speed as needed as well!
This event is a short visual novel styled event, and at the end of it you can claim 1 Small Star, 1 Basic Soda, and 1 Bronze Egg for free, along with the New Horizons patch! Instructions on how to do so will be at the end of the event page! The MYO prizes will be claimable until July 14th - you have one month to read through the event and claim your rewards! Afterwards the MYOs will be removed from the event, and the visual novel section will be archived! The New Horizons award will stay claimable, however.

If we find out you have made an additional account to claim more rewards from this event, you will be banned.

NEW HORIZONS ART PROMPT:

PROMPT:

Draw your Spacecats and Sodacats/Guppymanders interacting - this can be either your characters or a friends’. Drawing the NPCs works as well!

Rules:

• Approved designs only.
• Must be uploaded to the on-site event gallery AND the New Horizons prompt located here!
• Characters must be interacting in some way.
• The minimum requirement for this prompt is 2 cleanly lined and colored, minimally shaded, halfbodies with props as the background OR 500 words.
• Make sure to fill out the criteria rewards in the prompt submission menu so you can earn cloudcoins for this prompt!
• This prompt can be completed a total of 1 time per person.

Rewards:

• 500 Cloud Coins (This is on top of whatever you’d get for filling out the criteria rewards section)
• 1x Random Item box
• 1x New Friends Patch

This prompt will be open until July 14th 23:59:59 site time!

JULY GACHA:

On July 15th we will be hosting a gacha! Designs will be $15 each, and all 3 species will be included! More info on this will be in the July newsletter! Stay tuned.

Misc:

• Sodacats and Guppymanders do not currently have trait images on their visual trait guide! We are currently working on them, sorry for the inconvenience!
• The current Sodacat and Guppymander item images are temporary! We will be making new ones whenever we have the chance!
• The site has been renamed from “Spacecats” to “The Space Station” since we no longer focus exclusively on Spacecats!
• Small Stars have been renamed Dwarf Stars
• Pulsars have been added - these are Spacecat MYO items that allow unlimited common-uncommon traits and one rare trait! There will be a limited amount sold in the Starstop Shop every month.
• The myth sale is still on-going! Golden Eggs and Diamond Sodas have been added to the post.
• The masterlist should now store full sized/unwatermarked images - these will only be viewable by character owners or staff! Older masterlist uploads will not have this feature.
• Item wishlists have been added to the site! You can add an item to your wishlist by clicking the green + on it!
• A few spacecat traits have been renamed/merged!
  • Abnormal body has been renamed Mutation
  • Melted mouth has merged with Mutation
  • Will-O-Wisps have been renamed Orbiting Objects
• LupineLeopard has been added as a perma GA!

Thank you all, and we hope you're greatly enjoying the site!

Hi everyone! We’re back and hopefully things will stay like this. Here's news for June!

June Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is Refreshment! Draw and/or write about your Spacecat enjoying a summer drink - like out on the beach in the sun or running a lemonade stand!

The June monthly madness will last till June 30th!

Misc:

• finn has stepped back up as a co-owner of the species!
• feathertouch has stepped down as a Helper, however he is staying a perma GA!
• venti is now a full mod!
• C-Side is now a Perma GA!
• We have several new helpers! Lobcorp, astrumnyx, Inkhearthusky, and Flaffy !
• There is now a dedicated staff page on site, you can view it by clicking the link on the footer or by clicking here! 
• A pronoun section has been added to account settings! These will be viewable on your profile page along with being by your username on any comment you may make! If we find you putting anything aside from pronouns in this box you will be given a warning or banned, depending on what is put there.
• A random character spotlight has been added alongside featured character! The random character changes everytime you refresh the page, and the character will always have gift art set to allowed or ask first!
• You may now change your username without assistance from staff! This can be done every 30 days. 
• There is a new logged out page! you can view this by either logging out or viewing the site in an incognito tab!
• The site default theme has been reverted !
• There will be a second part of this newsletter sometime after the last day of the easter event.

Thank you all, and we hope you're greatly enjoying the site! 

EASTER 2023 DAY 3:

Hello everyone! There are a total of 11 eggs to be found today. Of those 11, 6 are FCFS and contain spacecats! The other 5 are able to be claimed by everyone and contain items and/or cloud coins!

Eggs will be hidden all throughout the site, anywhere that members can access may be a hiding spot! This includes non-staff owned spacecats on the masterlist. Aside from the FCFS ones you will have 3 days to find each wave of eggs.

You will only be able to claim 1 design egg over the course of this entire event! So if you claimed a design on day 1 or 2 you cannot claim another today.

Today's item egg looks like this:

dAY 2 HINTS:

HINTS FOR DAY 3:

1.  Everytime you log onto this site you view this page! An egg is located here.
2. This character changes every week! You can earn extra cloud coins by drawing them. as a small note, this eggs placement was adjusted to keep this hint relevant. 
3. This egg is located on a staff members character!
4. This egg is on a page everyone should read before asking any questions!
5. This egg is located on a character with a name related to eggs!

Eggs from wave 1 are no longer able to be claimed.

As a little reminder the wave 2 eggs will be going away at 23:59:59 site time! Make sure you grab them from their hiding place before then!

You can track your progress on the non-FCFS eggs here , and the design eggs will be added to this post as they are found!

As of right now 6 out of 6 design eggs have been found!