The Herald
Updates, new recipes, release notes and community notices — published on the forum and mirrored here. Every card opens the original discussion.
A fishing system is on its way to SL Colonies: over a hundred real species across the realms, a fight you play from your own HUD, rare fish that move from realm to realm each week, and record boards for the heaviest…
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Every field now remembers how it was looked after. While a crop grows, you can water it, feed it, test it and mulch it, and how well its soil was kept over the growing week decides the harvest: more of the crop, a Fine…
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The Chalk Pit is here: the first piece of the vineyard update, and the place the Farmer’s lime starts. Dig it with a small basket and you come away with chalk, which the Compost Bin turns into garden lime , the kind…
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Four of our crafting stations have new apps, live today: the Cooking Station , the Alchemy Station , the Mash Tun and the Fermentor . Touch any of them and the new app opens; you don’t need to do anything. Updated…
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You asked, and they’re in. Nettle, star anise, wormwood and hyssop now grow in the herb garden, alongside the fifty-odd herbs already there. (Fennel was on the list too, but it has been in the garden for a while; you’ll…
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Grafting at the Grafting Table is about to get hands-on, and it will need things only you can make. Cooks, Smiths and Woodsmen each have something new from today. Cooks: beeswax and grafting wax Makes Takes Time Level…
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The Compost Bin has changed today, and Farmers can start stocking up now for the vineyard update that is on its way. Fertiliser now comes in packs of ten Every field recipe at the bin now makes ten a batch, packed in a…
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This is not live yet. It is being built and tested now, and it will roll out in stages over the next week or two. The chalk pit comes first. The new tools, the soil test kit and the vine assay kit, still have to be…
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If you have used My Recipe Book on the meter site, you know the shape of it: a list of what your character knows, a pop-up to read a recipe, and a separate page to edit the things you invented. It did the job for years.…
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Continuing the discussion from The Guilds Open Their Doors: CXP, levels, ranks and the Trainers : Two days ago we told you what was coming . Today it is here. The switch-over has run, every character has been carried…
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The old market sold everything, everywhere, from one bottomless pool. That’s gone. Every realm’s market now keeps its own stock and its own prices , and the goods have to be carried from one to the next by the people…
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We have been rebuilding how you grow in SL Colonies Roleplay, and it is nearly ready. CXP, profession levels and stats are all changing, and each profession now has a Master you can visit. This post walks through what…
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Your colony just got a lot closer. The Scrying Stone is live: open it on the website, from your phone or your computer, and every crafting station, tree, vein, reed, beehive, farm animal and field your colony shares is…
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Three things changed this week, and all of them come down to the same idea. Work you put in should be yours, whoever happens to be standing there when it finishes. Update your stations and fields with your [SLC] Updater…
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We’ve added one optional cookie to the website, and we’d like to tell you before it goes live. When you arrive through one of our promotional links (for example from a club we sponsor or a group notice), the site will…
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Your vendors have had their biggest update since they launched. Everything you can do in-world still works, and now there’s a whole shop manager on the website, plus a new way for players to trade with you. Run Your Own…
Read on the forumTen new achievements for things you already do in-world, and a rebuilt Colonists page to see who’s climbing. It’s for every colonist, whether you’ve crafted once or a thousand times. There’s nothing to claim and nothing…
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We’ve started one of the biggest rebuilds SL Colonies has had: a new Marketplace, closer to how trading works in EVE Online, and alongside it a new home for CXP — Crafting Experience — and levelling. No date yet, and…
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SL Colonies Roleplay is hiring a Promotions & Event Manager. If you are looking for a job in Second Life that pays in L$ and believe you have what it takes to bring SL Colonies Roleplay to the next phase of growth, read…
Read on the forumSL Colonies Roleplay is free to play and stays that way. The HUD and meter cost nothing, and everything in the economy is gathered or made by players. Members are what keep it running. The servers, and the work of…
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Colony leaders, your colony page just gained a way to recognise the people who keep your colony running , and to reward them. Standing: who shows up for the colony Every member now has a standing with their colony,…
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A quick update to the Colony Management System — and one thing to do first. Update your crafting stations. Grab a new updater from the store and update them. Until you do, none of the bench features below will appear…
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Continuing the discussion from New Herb Additions : As requested by our community member @ladypsappho.breen - we have added the following herbs to the herb garden, which you can now plant and harvest! Vanilla Blue…
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We have released some new recipes for the Carpenter as part of the new Crate Making system we have announced. There are now 12 different types of crates you can craft as part of that system as a Carpenter. There are 3…
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Hey All! I am almost done with the work on the new colony management system, and most of what I have already done has gone live! Though if you read to the bottom, you will see a new feature that I plan to implement in…
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