Gather all your friends – the Friendship Festival has returned! Valentina HeartSong is back in the Shopping District with your favorite February items. If you search the Spiral’s waters, you’ll also find a familiar friendship mystery fish lurking below.
Be on the lookout - Festive Friendship Festival items will be making their return to the Crown Shop through February and many community events will be kicking off!
You can also bring the Friendship Festival to your desktop with this awesome wallpaper! Click the image to download the full 4K size (will fit on a 1080p monitor as well):
Recent Holiday Activities:
JAN 4: New Charity Hippogriff Mount
JAN 5: New Fossa Pet
JAN 11: Artwork contet winners announced
JAN 11: New Shiver-toothed Tiger Mount
JAN 18: New Mecha Rex Mount
JAN 19: Game patch resolving quest blockers
JAN 20: Abracadoodle is back with #208
JAN 25: Pet Promenade Begins
FEB 1: New Auspicious Tiger Pet
FEB 3: Friendship Festival is back PvE Roundtable
Keep updated on the latest news for next month on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, including special announcements from community fansites! Read on for more fun happenings with the community and their Spiral activities.
KI LIVE: HAPPY NEW YEAR
The first KI Live of 2022 was super fun! We gave updates to both Wizard101 and Pirate101, shared our holiday stories, gave away more Superfan Outfits to Wizards AND Pirates, presented the 2021 holiday artwork contest winning entries, and answered some of your great questions.
Missed the show? No worries! You can watch the recording on YouTube:
It's always a blast hanging out with the community, so let us know what you most like about KI Lives so we can continue to make them even more fun to watch.
Secret Reader Bonus - The giveaway code was also changed up a bit with an exclusive Pirate101 code provided this time. As of this newsletter's announcement, for those who didn't get a chance to redeem the KI Live giveaway code yet, we opened it up again (KILIVESUPERBOOTS) for another 500 redemptions!
A great gameplay tip submitted to KI Live comes from MzDreamfire:
"If you have favorite outfits from bundles, holidays, or Scrolls of Fortune craft mannequins so you can dress them in your outfits and store the corresponding wands on the wall right behind it. This way it makes it easy to find and the display of different outfits can create unique rooms in your home. Doing this also frees up space in your bank, backpack, and gear vaults." - MzDreamfire
We received so many amazing entries that showed the community's wonderful holiday spirit. This year’s contest theme was all about heroes and companions. Entries had to show either a Wizard101 hero or a Pirate101 companion as the player’s favorite character to draw.
With hundreds of entries received and only a fraction able to win in the contest, if yours did not make the list, you can still share your entry on social media for all community members to see! Use #Wizard101Art or #Pirate101Art.
Adam has been busy in the new year creating even more cool concept art! Check out his latest on Twitter that compiles several pieces from late 2021 into 2022 about the new world of Lemuria:
“Here's Moth Amon, who's based on Thoth Amon and Thulsa Doom.”” - Adam Roush
“Here's Morg the Merciless, the evil watermole. He's based on Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon.” - Adam Roush
“Here's The Shadoe concept. This was one of my favorite characters to design for this world.” - Adam Roush
“Here's The Bantam, who's based on the Phantom.” - Adam Roush
“Here's the concept for Buck Gordon, who's a mix of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon in an Atompunk suit.” - Adam Roush
WIZARD101 ON INSTAGRAM
Did you know that Wizard101 has an Instagram page and that we spotlight community artwork there too? In January we presented not just one but three amazing Wizard101 art pieces from @penhosts, @emperyia, and @alicekarou!
If you create art inspired by Wizard101, message us or post it using #Wizard101Art on Instagram (or any other social network!) to have a chance at being featured in this monthly spotlight.
Thanks, Wizards!
NELSON EVERHART’S MUSICAL TOUR
Check out this latest round of videos about the music of Wizard101! Produced by Nelson Everhart, Composer for some of the greatest Spiral hits, he continues his Musical Tour of the Spiral with a new soundtrack from the new world of Lemuria – Tour #18: Lemuria 3 Heap Theme!
“Fresh off of Test Realm, it's Lemuria: Heap Theme! We did it! Three (sort of) rapid-fire videos in one month!“ - Nelson Everhart
“Let me introduce Grace Stormsong. She was chosen to be part of the School of Storm, a Diviner. After being greeted and trained a bit by Merle Ambrose, The Headmaster, in a few beginning lessons, he ported her to his office in Ravenwood. Headmaster Ambrose suggested that some real-life lessons rather than classes would be of some benefit first of all and asked Grace to go help on the streets of Unicorn Way. This very young wizard traveled to Unicorn Way with her pet, a Peace Dove named Deputy Cleo.
Going through the tunnel into Unicorn Way, the first thing she saw was the wondrous Unicorn Park straight ahead. There were the Mistborn brothers, Jordo and Brandon on the sidewalk. They seemed to be a jewel vendor (Jordo) and a clothing vendor (Brandon). When Grace is a little bit older and has more gold, she would be able to buy goodies from them both. Around the area to the right, The Duelmaster, Diego was waiting patiently for higher level (Level 5) wizards to teach them how to use Advanced Combat and the Player versus Player arena.” - Humble Misty
Ultimate Speedster presented on his YouTube channel an excellent getting started guide in Wizard101. Even if you are an experienced Wizard, this guide is worth reviewing or giving to a friend to learn a little more about the game. Check it out:
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COMMUNITY BULLETIN
Community art by: Swordroll
Keep updated on what’s happening in the community right here in our community news section. For every newsletter, we receive direct from the community links to new gameplay guides, exciting upcoming contests, and much more. Thanks to the following fansites and other community leaders for their contributions this month!
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