Count Mirglin (posted 16:26)

Count Mirglin now awaits would be diplomats in the Castle Keep, ready to hand out ambassadorial missions to those willing to help the King. In addition the Duchess is willing to help out with the necessary skills. As a side note, apologies for the delay in updates, I've been ill

Purple Wings (posted 10:06)

In case the Duchess' desire for Flowers of Silence is not yet enticing enough ...

About time too (posted 16:28)

We've redrawn some venerable books

Conservatory (posted 14:13)

The Duchess is happy to announce that as of today visitors to her house will be permitted to visit her extensive Conservatory and, if they wish, try their hand at flower hybridization. Budding Alchemists should beware, however, it is a long and laborious process, requiring rare materials and considerable expense.

Here are some of the things you might make.

And of course there must be an avatar

Missing Passwords (posted 7:49)

If you still don't have your new password please mail [email protected] directly. For some reason I never got any of the mails to [email protected] So I've not been ignoring you, I just don't have them!

Dairy Day is Here! (posted 3:34)

It's Dairy Day time again on Grophland! The Showground is full of icecream and sweets, Heidi is happy to look over your snails and the annual Snail contest is open! Get your prizes! Get your pet items!

More redrawn items (posted 15:00)

If you've been checking the features forum you'll have seen we've been redrawing a load of items recently. Here's some more today, including a new one!

Who left these lying around? (posted 7:43)

Seems someone's been making a mess and leaving things around

Octothulhu Plushie (posted 13:29)

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Octothulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Better Looking Grophs (posted 15:14)

Although we create Groph images out of images with many thousands of colours we have always saved them as 256 colour GIF images for reasons of file size. Although this makes Grophland run faster, especially for those of you on mobiles and slow internet connections, it also creates pixillated images in many cases, making some combinations of clothing simply unusable.

Well no longer! Grophland now creates both lower-size and higher quality images of Grophs, and chooses which one to show based on whether it thinks you are on a mobile or normal browser. In addition you can visit your user settings to choose to override these defaults if (for example) you have a slower internet connection and always want to see the smaller images.

Features Forum Open (posted 8:15)

Thank you to everyone who contributed new Themes, I think the ones we have ended up with are brilliant pieces of work!

But now it's time to turn back to items. This time I'm looking for people who might be able to help re-draw some of our most out-dated art, clean up some blotches on the landscape (some mine) and improve the overall quality of item art.

Gardener's Theme (posted 6:50)

A last new theme has been added today, thanks to the irrepressible Hanzie

Garden

Collection quests (posted 9:03)

Small improvement here, but the collection quests (Gardener, Sea Witch, Librarian etc.) now show countdown bars displaying how much time you have left to hand in a quest or get a new quest.

Scarab Collecting (posted 4:23)

Tired of Splats? Got too many Scarabs sitting around? Well now you can collect Scarabs in the brand new Scarab Chest (thanks to GemmaZ for the art).

Just like Splat collecting, that means there are some nice new avatars to be had!

In addition you can now drag and drop splats to jars, and scarabs to chests, in your inventory.

Jungle Theme (posted 4:41)

A new theme has been added today

Jungle

Icons (posted 3:04)

The venerable icons on the map screens have had a small facelift, with smoother edges that look better on the darker themes

Chocolate Goodies (posted 10:02)

Can't get enough Chocolate? Well look no further, for here are some delights. Moreover eating sweets now makes a Groph increasingly bouncy. Bouncier Grophs get less miserable when left alone than Grophs who have eaten fewer sweets. Beware however! Eating too many sweets may permanently alter your Groph's nature!

Mansion Street (posted 4:40)

Today on Grophland, Grophtown has grown a new street, Mansion Street, where the grandest residences are to be found.

Naturally there are some new items, and some new secrets, to be found within.

Inventory Changes (posted 2:37)

When you drag items to containers they will now show an icon to indicate whether or not you can put it in that container. Hopefully these are self explanatory, but if not ... left is yes, right is no

New Cash and Member's Items (posted 17:06)

At last! New items in the Cash Store!

And for those of you who have already paid your dues (and become paid members), Amadeus has this to sell.