Fire Festival (posted 9:25)

It's the Fire Festival (mark 2). For one night only buy unique items in the shops, send your Grophs to play with others and return with special Fire Festival items, and get the chance to lay your hands on this brand new avatar!

Fire Festival mark 2 (posted 2:24)

Due to service disruptions at our internet provider many members were not able to enjoy the Fire Festival this year. So as a special one-off we are holding it again! Fire Festival mark 2 will be on Saturday 7th of May ... be there while it's hot!

Fire Festival (posted 0:00)

It's Fire Festival night! Look out for crazed Grophs! If you dare let yours out to play ... if not keep them well hidden! This year Amadeus has a rare supply of Fire Owls for sale ...

New Themes (posted 4:21)

As a result of the heroic efforts of people in the Features forums to craft new themes, we've added two more.

Desert by qrulez, shows a desert view of Grophland, with a Khnaar Groph in the background and a warm mix of yellows and browns.

Nullibrach's Theme by Tommey is a dark and ominous theme in blacks and electric blues, featuring the skeleton of Nullibrach the wizard.

Mailbox space discounted (posted 1:52)

Feel claustrophobic when you look at the 20 message limit on your mailboxes? Think $5 for 30 more messages was too much? Well no longer! Extra mailbox space has now been changed to $1 for each 15 (so less than half the old price). Buy now!

Deadly Secret (posted 7:57)

Some jobs for the Shady Stranger are of exceptional difficulty! If you choose to take these, beware, you will most likely fail! If you do happen to succeed however you should get one of these.

Foxy! (posted 11:29)

Deep in the Undertown it pays to be cunning like a Fox!

Friend Notifications (posted 14:45)

From today, when a friend connects to Grophland, you'll see a little pop up notification in the bottom left corner of the screen. It will go away again after a few seconds. If you don't want to see these simply go to the Friends page (under the Grophnet menu) and uncheck the checkbox.

We've also had some requests for people to be hidden so that they don't appear in notifications and probably also in the active user's menu. We will likely add this to the user preferences in the fairly near future.

Skill search (posted 8:24)

Searching the grophlopedia for a skill, e.g. 'skill gardening', now shows all items that provide that skill. In addition clicking a skill name on an item description gives a listing of what provides that skill, along with the amount provided.

More decoration (posted 5:35)

Add some more color to your Dollshouse.

Blade of Mars and Venus (posted 5:49)

New at the Battle Tower for your delectation!

Zethac Tutor (posted 7:56)

Feel like learning Zethac? Alice the Sage can help! Visit her in the forest and try out her Zethac Tutor to practice.

Small updates (posted 6:19)

A few small updates today

• Green Secrets can now be placed in potion cases
• Containers such as Dollshouses and Fish Tanks now have empty buttons.
• Recipes on Minions (e.g. Chef) no longer incorrectly show tooltips for the Minion
• When typing a forum or Grophmail post you'll see a live preview of your message
• The Gardener will no longer ask for Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossom Festival Over (posted 3:27)

Here so quick and gone as quick, the Cherry Blossom Festival is over for the year it seems.

Recognizing a lack of magical blossoms your Mayor, Amadeus, has obtained a rare supply and placed it in his shop. Buy quickly!

Patchwork (posted 13:43)

New look for the spring?

Cherry Blossom Festival (posted 2:49)

Spring is here and the Cherry trees are in bloom, covering the Main Island with blossom. Better appreciate it while you can though, it only lasts till the blossoms fall.

Features Forum Open (posted 8:41)

The Features forum is open to see if anyone is up to the challenge of designing a new Theme!

Random Messages (posted 16:10)

Okay, maybe that last message was a little bit premature. We are seeing a lot of site errors in the random event system and in a large number of games. These are related but not easily fixed. We may well have to turn off the random events altogether till it's fixed.

Random Messages (posted 12:28)

The bugs should be fixed now. No more non-existent item drops etc.

Parlay Over! (posted 14:15)

And it's done! The brave parlay party has struck a deal with the cruel Pirate Captain ... the return of all the pillaged Grophs and items in return for a new Pirate port to be built on the Jungle shore.

Well done all!