May Newsletter
Posted 5 April 2024, 16:40:34 EDT :: Last edited 13 May 2024, 23:12:53 EDT by Staryon
âĶ Bring on the May flowers, Sushi Rolls! âĶ
I bet you noticed the changes in the newsletter?
It's been upgraded for easier readibility and access to certain portions you may be curious about!
Click the buttons below to navigate to specific portions of the newsletter, or take your time reading all of it. Enjoy!
Bunny Hop Day Spring Blossom Festival Pet Contest
Site Updates Currency Changes Future Happenings
Bunny Hop Day Event Close
And with that, Bunny Hop Day is now over!
Thank you so much everyone for the great turnout!
We hope the eggs weren't too hard to find, and that the hints for the last few days helped everyone complete their hunts.
The eggs are now inactive and will be removed from their hiding spots.
The Bunny Hop Day Basket and Chocolate Nest items are now out of the Holiday Shoppe's rotation.
Lastly, what most members looked forward to:
Bunny Day Raffle Winners!
The raffles have been rolled and the winners of each raffle are below...
Pink Blossoms Bundt Cake by Tamurachii
Winner: PinkusDean
Flower Baskets Cupcakes by Alexdream12
Winner: TroubledFox
Rosemary & Eggs by Rocco
Winner: NaiKat
Cottontail Fluff Candy by linborghini
Winner: bunnyburrowco
Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you for participating in the annual egg hunt!
I really hope the new format was enjoyable for all members!
Spring Blossom Mid-Festival Updates
Raffle Prize Reveal
The grand prize for the Spring Blossom Festival raffle for this year is now revealed!
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1st Place will take home Secret Garden Cupcake by Tamurachii
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2nd Place will take home a Sooshapon Token with a Spring Seasonal Trait Box
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3rd Place will take home a Haute Potion with a Mushroom Log
Sub-Quests Now Live!
Check out the new sub quests to earn a few more petals and see how other NPCs are feeling about the commotion that, once again, keeps happening...
The Shroomis have inspired Sooshes to make some new decor, or find new hobbies! There's also another issue with the festival, and lastly, it seems like a new guy in town may know the real solution to satisfying the Shroomis.
Check it out!
Festival PromptsBunny Hop Day Items are now gone from the Holiday Shoppe!
Bunny Hop Day items are now out of rotation from the Holiday Shoppe. Don't fret - they are still available elsewhere! Just keep reading this news letter to find out more.
Just click on the image above to enter the shop. Thanks, Zero!
Return
Pet Contest Winners
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Congratulations to these three winners for winning the most votes in the community poll!
Bottle Slimes by PinkusDean
Catserole by PsychoPancake
Sweetles by Fluttershy
What's that? There's even more winners?
âĻ Bonus Winners ð
Staryon's Favorite: Dino Pet by Robotic-Sparks
Mod Choice: Cannoli Lobster by CookieCache
These pets just caught the hearts of our team, and we felt they would be a great fit on the site!
These winning pets will be redrawn by site staff to fit the asset art guidelines and then placed into the Community Pet Box item when finished.
Thank you so much everyone who entered - feel free to use unused pet concepts in designs, as one-offs, or maybe hold onto them! You could always use them as companions for a Soosh design in the future.
We would have loved to grant wins to many more entries. We loved the turnout and just hope everyone is proud of their concepts - it was hard to choose!
There are a few pet concepts we would still love to add to the site in the future, so if you are a user who did not place you may hear from Staryon soon. Thanks so much!
ReturnSite Updates (Features)
New NPC and Shop revealed!
Welcome Rowan! (he/him)
Rowan isthe local hobbyist; when he isn't working, his nose is in a book! This Soosh loves to learn and will know many random facts about varied topics. He also has a knack for sewing and tailors his own clothing for the fun of it. The best part of all? He is an absolute lover of any and all pets! You'll find him knowing many facts, behaviors, and theories regarding pets and their existence - so if there is any commotion with pets, he's your guy to go to!
Now that he is comfortable in Culario, he has been able to open up his shop:
Now Open!
His stock is limited to Treat Bags and pet-related goodies at the moment - great news for other features added to the site!
If you are after a rare or out-of-season pet, he'll be stocking them. They are higher than normal pets, but he works hard to lure them out during their inactive seasons!
It seems like he's heard the interest in his tailoring, so he may offer more in the future...
We are so excited to reveal this new NPC and Shop to coincide with some changes and new features added.
We hope you guys are just as excited as we are!
Soosh of the Month is back!
Yes... again!
But this time with a far easier way for staff to update and for all members to easily spot the new Soosh of the Month.
River Lily Cake owned by Kyasarinn
The first Soosh of the Month with the extension was won via a surprise raffle in the Sushi Dog Park discord!
You can enter the prompt twice each month, and a random participant will earn the chance to have their Soosh displayed next month.
SotM gets rolled the last day of each month to allow users time to reply with a Soosh they want featured, so please keep that in mind when submitting!
Collections Added
Are you a completionist? Want something to show off when you gather a bunch of rare pets from an event?
The wait is no more - collections are here!
There are now 10 Collections live for you to complete to your hearts content.
To complete or see what you are missing for a collection, go under My Stuff â Collections!
You may have noticed the Cheeps collection be active for a while. If you get all Cheep variants from the Chocolate Nest but didn't get lucky in finding the elusive rare Cheep, completing that collection will grant you it!
It's a small reward for the price you pay in attempted gambling.
Daily Added
Are you just too busy to draw? In an art slump? Or just like hanging around with characters and were never actually an artist or writer? Or maybe you just love being on the Soosh site every day?
Why not get some currency for it?
We now have a daily for you to check into every day for some!
The rarity drops are listed for an understanding of your luck and mostly for fun. Have you been having good drops lately? Or really mediocre ones? Either way, if you keep at it, you'll find yourself with some pocket change for other site activities!
Maybe pet boxes to complete some collections would be a fun start... but you didn't hear it from me!
Selected Character on Profile
Ever wanted to feature a specific Soosh above your regular row of displayed Sooshes? Now you can!
Simply go to My Stuff â Characters and head to the bottom to select the Soosh you want displayed. The more the merrier!
Navigation Bar Adjustments
Yes, it's not just you - the navigation bars have been adjusted!
With new additions to the site, we felt the links needed to swap and change to allow room for everything.
Sales are now a standalone link alongside Daily - this is to help newer members get started in either getting a new Soosh or gaining currency!Â
Queues has been added and moved to the righthand side where personal affairs are. Queues just encompasses everything that requires moderator approval - like submissions, claims, transfers, etc.! This helps clarify for newer members that transfers need approval.
The footer navbar has also been adjusted to remove our deviantArt link and to change the Contact link to an on-site report as it used to link to noting our dA group.
Things may change again in the future, but for now, we hope these changes make sense!
toyhou.se linking
Gone are the days of relying on deviantArt accounts to have an account. Now, like most users still in art communities, you most likely have a toyhou.se account! You'll be able to link one in your settings under aliases.
No worries, just click here to be taken there!
You'll also be able to set your toyhou.se alias as your primary, so users will see that on your profile instead.
On a smaller but more heartfelt note, the deviantArt group has finally been fully updated to gesture users to our site and discord instead. We have not used dA actively in a long time, and with their current policies, we have made the decision to no longer continue activity on dA.
It's a very bittersweet update for us. It was our home for many years, after all.
It was a long time coming, and we just hope everyone understands why we officially stepped away.
Live Clock
Noticed the little clock above your user? That is the time our site runs off of (which is Eastern Time, if you were curious!)
The most helpful thing for this extension is awaiting sales or posts to go live!
Many of them are queued automatically, so if you are awaiting a special posting, be sure to keep an eye on that clock. It's also just fun to watch.
Get it?
Site Updates (Currency Changes)
Goodbye Carats and Welcome Cookies!
After a lot of thought, the mods all agreed we actually fell in love with the simplicity of... well, Cookies!
Everyone who suggested Cookies or its adjacents have been granted their carats.
The design of the cookies are based on Sugar Cookies - similar to our NPC, Cookie!
Not only that but the colors chosen for the frosting and sprinkles are actually the colors used for our 10th Anniversary - wow!
That also ties Sprinkles (our special anniversary currency) back to our main site currency. It all comes together!
Cookies will be denoted by CO, so be sure to keep that in mind when seeing it in prompts.
*If you do not see the changed images, make sure to clear your cache for the site!
New Mirror Currency
Yes... we know, the mirror already has a currency. We all love Mirror Shards, but aren't you tired of the mirror rejecting your sweet offerings to rescue a poor trapped Soosh?
Worry no further - Treats are here!
Don't they look familiar?
As we were discussing the new Cookies currency, we had ticket after ticket of failed mirror purchases come through. silver looked through the code and we realized the fix was going to be a very complicated ordeal.
So I thought about it and realized... why not another currency? One that honors our former main currency?
Thus, Treats (TR) were born!
How does this new currency work?
Our new shop, Rowan's Haberdashery, stocks Treat Bags.
They are purchaseable with 500 Cookies or 1 Mirror Shards 
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You'll need at least 4 Treats minimum to win over a Soosh in the Enchanted Mirror. This means you need to buy at least 4 bags.. the treats are quite small.
This means a minimum of 2000 Cookies or 4 Mirror Shards are needed to save a Soosh - just like before.
The fun part is, now you can mix and match currencies to save a Soosh! Short by 1 ? Try earning 500 instead to buy the remaining Treat cost for the Soosh you're eyeing.
We sincerely hope this change makes it easier to adopt desired Sooshes from the Enchanted Mirror. Both currency-wise and actually purchasing-wise!
Not only that, but now there is a handy price guide to let you understand what values a Soosh. The old value guide was very outdated, so the new guide now includes Seasonal traits and non-Magic Affinity Specialty traits!
Enchanted Mirror 
Koinpeito Shop Prices Adjusted 
Many prices of items in the KP shop have been adjusted!
Changes are noted as the following: Previous Price â New Price
KP Shop Costs
- Premium Bell: 60 KP â 30 KP
- Premium Potion: 20 KP â 10 KP
- In-Season Seasonal Trait Box: 30 KP â 15 KP
- Out-of-Season Seasonal Trait Box: 40 KP â 20 KP
- Decadent Tonic: 15 KP â 5 KP
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One of the main things we looked at as a team was the overall price to create MYOs with different traits or a species change. To create an all-staple Sushi Cat meant spending 95 KP - that's $95!
Over the years, we have tried to make the species far more accessible, but still needed to keep some ratios aligned.
Halving the price of bells was the biggest change but we felt it was necessary. Since Bells went down, that meant Potions also had to go down! In the past, Gourmet Traits were the only "upgraded" traits available which meant they were highly desirable. With the new inclusion of Seasonal Traits, we felt it was okay to finally shift Gourmet down to be more affordable and shift up Seasonal Traits slightly cost-wise.
What does this mean for those who recently bought KP or items with KP?
We do not offer refunds on KP as stated in the shop and invoice. However, the price changes should mean that if you were aiming for traits you'll have more to choose from!
For those who bought items with KP, there are a few options.
If you bought and used an item on a Soosh: Please send a claim and let us know if you want a refund of KP.
If you wish to keep the old values, you do not have to send a claim in!
You'll be given an appraisal at time of claim to reflect the adjusted values.
For example: I recently made a MYO with 1 Premium Bell and 2 Premium Potions.
Option 1: I request a refund.
The Soosh is appraised for the cost of 1x MYO Slot, 1x Premium Bell, and 2x Premium Potions with the new prices.
This is $35 + $30 + $10x2 ($20) = $85 appraisal value. I am refunded 30 KP for the Premium Bell, and 10 KP from each Premium Potion for a total of 50 KP refunded.
*You must send a claim to have this done!
Option 2: I want to keep the old values.
The Soosh is appraised for the cost of 1x MYO Slot, 1x Premium Bell, and 2x Premium Potions with the former prices.
This is $35 + $60 + $20x2 ($40) = $135 appraisal value. I am not refunded any KP.
*You do not have to send a claim if you wish to keep the old values!
Any Soosh design approved with items before May 1st 2024 will be defaulted to the old item values.
We will value any of these requests as long as the items were used between January 1st 2024 - April 30th 2024.
If you bought and have not used an item from the KP shop: you can send in a claim for a refund of KP or simply ask for the old values when you appraise a Soosh in the future.
For refunds, please link your inventory in the claim and state any items purchased via KP.
If you want to keep the old values, just state so when you send a future appraisal.
The items used on your Soosh have to have existed in your account before May 1st 2024 - we will check your logs!
If you have any other questions regarding KP price changes, please contact ModMail in our Discord server, ask in our #ask-a-soosh channel.
We will do our best to make this transition smooth, and appreciate your patience!
Future Happenings
ðĻ Upcoming GA Sales ð
May 4th: Duo Auction
by Miizue and linborghini
ðļ âïļ âĻ
May 11th: Flatsale
by Tamurachii
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May 18th: Duo Auction
by linborghini
ðŋ ðļ ðą
Discord Game Night
May 14th @ 5pm ET
Don't miss it!
There's also new Gamer Goal patches for participating in game nights - if you already have played any in the past, feel free to submit a claim to receive a patch!
Just do note they do not have images, so maybe wait if you don't want blank spaces on your profile.
Mod Batch & Mod Customs
Did you know: Mod Batches are posted on the last Saturday of each month?
With our newly expanded team, we felt a small adjustment was needed to not pressure every mod to meet a deadline.
Mods can now take on Mod Customs in lieu of participating in the Mod Batch.
Mod Customs work very similarly to Mod Batch Sooshes, but I bet you also don't know the details - so let's clarify!
Mod Batch/Custom Sooshes are allowed to have either:
âĒ 3 Gourmet Traits
or
âĒ 1 Gourmet Trait and 1 Seasonal Trait
Mods price these Sooshes as they feel fit. If they decide to tackle a Mod Custom instead of participating in the Mod Batch, it just means you'll be paying a price for a custom Soosh with the above choice of traits; no slot necessary!
Of course, if you want more traits or a Sushi Cat, you will have to provide those items.
We hope this makes sense, and we can't wait to see more Sooshes come to fruition each month!
ð Our Annual Summer DTE is next month! ðŽ
Looks like a new set of Sooshes are approaching and ready to go home with a few lucky winners...
Be sure to keep your drawing skills ready for a chance to take home a new Soosh!
What's that? The turnout is a little lower this year? Wait - what do you mean technically?
Does anyone have any idea as to what is happening? There's a big commotion by the ocean!
ðŧ Site Changes ðąïļ
Here are the notes regarding site changes in case you get confused or notice new things!
From now on, when updates are made it will be placed into the current month newsletter with the appropriate date listed.
This helps the team not feel crunched to meet deadlines - now, when things are done, we'll just upload it when ready!
Feel free to check back here and see what new has popped up as we continue to add to the site. Every note is under a spoiler, so just click on the date to expand them. Thank you everyone!
- Added "Fashion Boutique" item category for Pommelraie's Salon
- Renamed Rainbow Tonic to Simple Shampoo
- Renamed Pristmatic Tonic to Prismatic Dye
- Renamed Redesign Kit to Makeover Kit (pygmypear)
- Renamed Chic Tonic to Chic Bracelet
- Renamed Nostalgic Tonic to Nostalgic Wristwatch
- Renamed Snapshot to Pocket Mirror
- Renamed Simple Tonic to Stylish Beret
- Removed Split Tonic (combined under Stylish Beret)
- Moved numerous new items to "Fashion Boutique" item category
- Changed descriptions of every item to fit their items better
- Changed color of Haute Potion to match color of Gourmet trait label
- Changed color of Enchanted Bell to match color of Felidae trait label
- Renamed Angelic Wings to Small Angelic Wings
- Renamed Devilish Wings to Small Devilish Wings
- Added "Antennae" trait to differentiate from "Small Horns"
- Added "Trailing Bandana" trait to differentiate from "Large Bandana"
- Created Pet Boxes item category and moved appropriate items to the category
- Uploaded new pet box item: Plush Box
- Uploaded new Plush pets: Bearloved, Kloth, Scrappy, Yeown, Zipz
- Created Cheeps Collection
- Created Ultimate Cheep Collection
- Created Winter Pets Collection
- Created Spring Pets Collection
- Created Summer Pets Collection
- Created Autumn Pets Collection
- Created Shroomi Collection
- Created Stargem Collection
- Created Plush Pets Collection
- Created Achievements patch category
- Created Gamer Goals patch category
- Created descriptions for Patch Categories
- Created numerous Patches for participating in site-activities
- Created numerous Patches for participating in game nights
- Created numerous Patches for certain Pet collections as a reward
- Values are now left on Soosh's masterlist entries by default. Appraisals are still needed to turn on resale of Sooshes however
- GST category now only holds Guest Artist Sooshes. Previous mod-made designs are now in the MOD category
- Added Treats currency
- Replaced Carats currency with Cookies
- Remade the Magic Questline prompts and Oodles of Doodles prompt to align with newer prompts
- Added Selected Character extension (silver)
- Added Daily extension (silver)
- Enabled Daily with shown percentages so members can see how lucky (or unlucky) they have been
- Added Featured Character extension (silver)
- Adjusted The Enchanted Mirror's page for full clarification of what values a Soosh and how to purchase one using the new Treats currency
- Remade Newsletter coding to make it easier to navigate and read
