February 2011 News Archive

TNT have announced on the New Features that the Daily Dare is to begin at midnight NST:

Get your gaming gear ready! Veteran Neopians probably already know it's that time of year, but for the newcomers: Daily Dare is coming soon! Daily Dare will start at midnight tonight (that's March 1, 12:00:00 AM NST). Once the Daily Dare page is live, there should be links on the homepage and Games Room, so keep an eye out!

Edit: The Daily Dare is now active!

Our Daily Dare guide is now updated! Today's game challenge is Top Chop.


Update: The Daily Dare is here!

The Daily Dare is back! Pick a challenger and best their score for a prize! Each day in March take on a new game challenge, to earn Neopoints, win prizes, and a shiny Trophy!   Visit the FAQ for more information.

There are also NC Challenges, TNT Staff Tournaments and a new Team Challenge to look forward to. Check out their Daily Dare Rules for more information.

There's another new MiniMME selling in the NC Mall. It's the MiniMME6-S1: Golden Wand of Wonder this time:

It was announced on facebook that they have now reached the 50,000 fan mark. Great news for all, as it brings with it a Special Surprise to be announced later this week!

Great news, everybody! It looks like we now have over 50,000 fans on Facebook! Yay! As usual for these types of milestones, we do have a special prize planned for you. Please check back this week for a redemption code! Thanks for helping us reach 50,000! :) ~ Neopets

You can find the Neopets Facebook page here: Neopets Facebook

We will be updating and adding the code for the Special Surprise as soon as we recieve it!

If you log in at Monkey Quest Beta (another Nickelodeon Virtual World, like Neopets and Petpet Park) you will gain 25 free neocash (or nickcash).

CONGRATULATIONS BETA TESTERS! To show our gratitude (but really so you can help us test some more) we've added 25 free NickCash (NC) to your Monkey Quest account. NC can be used at the NC Mall & certain vendor shops to buy special premium items like trail keys which grant you access to exclusive trails, costumes to customize your monkey, special potions that can heal you faster-and other exclusive & rare items! During this beta we have priced all items at 1 NC so you can test them out and tell us what you like! At the end of our beta test, all NC items will be wiped from your account and prices will go back to normal. Thanks for all of your help and don't forget to tell us what you think by taking our survey. Happy NC Shopping!

You can log in at Monkey Quest with your Neopets account, you do not have to make a new one. You also dont actually have to play the game to get the free neocash, just logging in is enough. Thank you christian_boy_cookie for the heads up!

We don't know if items purchased with the neocash on Neopets will also be removed after the trial period. We have sent a ticket about this. We will post more if we get a response.

It's almost time for Spring, so the Winter Shop is closing at the NC Mall. The following Winter items and NC Collectible will retire at 11.59 pm NST tonight:

Bringer of Night Collectors Staff
Snow Queen Superpack
Snowbeast Key Quest Token
Snowflake Glasses
Snowy Gates Background
Warm and Fuzzy Ice Skates
Winter Gazebo
Winter Breeze Shower
Winter Hair Flower
Winter Rose Foreground

We've added a Wheel of Mediocrity game guide to our Games Room.  We've included the prizes currently available at the Wheel, good and bad, but mostly mediocre.

Also, here are a few unreleased Daily Dare prizes. We expect the Daily Dare to start really soon, usually it starts in March!

AAA Host Cane

AAA Host Shoes

AAA Host Trousers

AAA Host Shirt and Jacket

TNT have informed us that some site maintenance is happening soon (as mentioned on the New Features page):

NOTICE: The site will be down for maintenance tonight for about an hour sometime between 9 PM and 12 AM NST. This is preventive maintenance to install new Meepit detection gear... just in case. *shifty eyes*

So don't panic if you can't login during those times!

Get your JubJub Bower Bounce tokens ready, because new JJPB items have been released. Go on and try your luck at JubJub Power Bounce.


Check our JJPB guide for all new and old prizes.

Today is the last day to visit the Faeries for a random Quest and daily reward. If you visited the Faeries every day during the Faerie Quest Event, you would receive a bonus item: Sassy Fire Faerie Wig.


Check our Faerie Quest Event guide for more info.

A new MiniMME, MiniMME5-S1: Sparkling Magic Rainbow Wand, is selling in the NC Mall.

Somewhere over the rainbow would be such a common quote for this...

We've updated our MME guide with this new MME and will keep you updated when it morphs!

Winter isn't over yet, so we've made some new winter themed graphics! Check out the Winter Graphics Page to see them. Perhaps you'd like a snowbunny cursor or a wintery themed layout? And don't forget; if you've got any ideas for graphics you want us to make, don't hesitate to fill in the Graphics Request Form.

Since Valentine is over, there's no use of having a Valentine Shop at the NC Mall anymore. The following Valentine items will retire at 11.59 pm NST tonight:

Baby Valentine Blankie
Floating Heart Valentine Mystery Capsule
Flower Heart Vine Tree
Gigantic Pink Hair Bow
Golden Harp Wings
Huggable Happiness Faerie Plushie
Hypnotic Swirling Hearts
Intricate Heart Sculpture
Ornate Valentine Garland
Shining Heart Candle
Steam Engineered Heart
Valentine Delivery Mini-Pack
Valentine Flower Cake
Valentine Sunset Beach Background

Today is also the last day to buy the Sweetheart Grams. For all who sent at least one gram during the Community Challenge, you will also get a bonus item, which is currently unknown.


Edit: Bonus item was released. If you sent a Sweetheart Gram, check your inventory for the Sweetheart Gram Dressing Room!

Tonight at 11.59 NST the Valentines Gift Box Mystery Capsule will retire at the NC Mall. So get those Neocash Cards ready and start spending (trading is an option too of course)

Update: The auction has ended! The last recorded unsuccessful bid was 174,016,666np. This means the stamp was sold for more than this amount. 

If you're as news savvy as we are at Sunnyneo, you may have noticed that TNT has promised to deflate r101 stamps. They will be doing this by putting one r101 on the Neopian Auction House for everyone to bid. Since these stamps haven't been released in awhile, they will be selling for multi-millions. These stamps are being auctioned by the staff account: dr_sloth

In the news today they said:
 

We have some good news and some bad news, everyone! The good news is, we're finally going to be slowly releasing some old r101 stamps back into the economy. The bad news is, our shipment of stamps was lost in transit. Oh, it looks like Dr. Sloth has found an old crate of stamps though! What an odd coincidence. It seems he'll be auctioning a stamp off once a month in order to fund his plans for his 'Grundo Reeducation Center'! Isn't that nice of Sloth to educate Grundos? And here we thought he was entirely evil. Way to go, Dr. Sloth!

Currently on the Auction block is the Commander Garoo Stamp, which is part of the Virtupets Stamp Collection. Click to find out more about the current bidding, or for more information on stamps, at our Stamp Guide.

Watch as I single-handedly destroy the value of the Neopoint. Muwhaha.

We know that everyone loves the Neopian Faeries, so we've made some gorgeous Faerie Doll Adoptables. They are perfect for decorating user lookups, pet lookups, petpages, shops, galleries and so on. All you've got to do is copy the premade code and paste it into a coding area on Neopets, it's as simple as that. What are you waiting for? Adopt a faerie doll today!

So, who's your favourite faerie? Something tells me that Jhudora won't take it well if your answer is "Illusen"...

"It better be me, or I'll turn you into a mutant slorg!"

"Behave, child! Speak no evil!"

Hey there! I’m Tuva, and I’m a new staff member at SunnyNeo. My area of expertise is graphics, particularly pixel art. I’ve been making pixel art for more than twelve years, and I’ve been playing Neopets almost since the beginning. I love gnorbus, draiks, meepits and slorgs, and I’ll never say no to a cup of tea. Chocolate is never wrong either. I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, and… *is kidnapped by masked meepits* Ahem, you can read more about our staff members on the About Us page.

A lot of new Valentines themed graphics have been added to the Valentines Graphics page. Make sure to check them out! If there’s any graphics you would like us to make, don’t hesitate to visit the Graphics Request page.

Along with the seasonal prizes, a new KeyQuest board, Sweet 3, was released. This board features a unique setup, including a very different way in which the portals connect.

You can find out more about this board and KeyQuest in general at our KeyQuest guide.

The Valentines Gift Box Mystery Capsule has been released in the NC Mall. This new capsule will give out random items and at least one Gift Box. To find out more about Gift Boxes and how you can use them, have a look at our NC Gift Boxes guide.

As you could read on the News page, some new features have been added to the P3 Habitarium:

*UPDATE* - Habitarium players will be pleased to know that we have released a new build with bug fixes and added new features such as pop ups and a profession toggle as well as a selection of NC items. If you wanted your P3 to be dipped in chocolate, today is your lucky day. Please go take a look at what is new!

Our P3 Habitarium guide has been updated with all the new items and info about the profession toggle.

The Hearts Valentine Goodie Bag that was found as an unreleased image earlier this week has appeared at the NC Mall. You can claim it at the mall for free. Inside it, you find a Heart Balloon Arch. This means you can collect on your side account too.
Our NC Mall Freebies guide has been updated with previews.


Also our Faerie Quest Event guide has been updated. Everyone who completes four Faeie Quests will receive a bonus Quest from the Crafting Faerie.

The 3rd and last Sweetheart Gram has been released at the NC Mall: Flower Sweetheart Gram.

Our Gram Guide has been updated with previews of all the items including the LE Mosaic Flower Wings:

The Faeries need our help rebuilding Faerieland, so they're hosting a Faerie Quest Event. You get a free item every day when you visit them and you can even complete a random Faerie Quest. If you visit them every day during the whole event, you will even get a special reward.

Don't forget, since this event awards neopoint prizes, you may only participate on your main account.

All the Faeries got a makeover and there are now two new Faerie Quest members: Battle Faerie and Crafting Faerie. And even the Earth Faerie now gives out different rewards. If you want to read more about this event, please check out our Faerie Quest Event guide and updated Faerie Quest page.


The Crafting Faerie gives out Neocash wearables, so why not check out our Crafting Faerie Quest page for previews and info.


We're still collecting data of the Battle Faerie Quests, so if you completed this quest, you can send the amount of stats you received to Crowprincess so we can add it to our guide.

An image of an unreleased Valentine Goodie bag has been found. It seems this goodie bag can be expected to appear in the NC Mall anytime soon.
For more information about goodie bags and other NC Mall freebies, have a look at our NeoCash freebies page.
Credit goes to the people on the NC Mall boards for finding this image.

Tonight at 11.59 pm the following NC items will retire at the NC Mall:

Jail Bars Foreground
Stone Faerie Wings
The Sinking Clouds of Faerieland

All these were related to the The Faeries' Ruin Plot. If you want to know what this plot was all about, be sure to check out our plot guide.

Pretty your Shop and Gallery with these new Valentine layouts! Just in time for Valentines Day!

First of all thank you to everyone who applied for our Daily Puzzle / Daily Crossword Updater job opening. We enjoyed reading your applications, but we could unfortunately only pick one person for the job. We're sorry if you didn't get picked!

Then, we have reopened two a job openings today! The first is the Graphics Searcher job in which you will be adding and tagging images in our database. We're looking for more than one person for this job.
Update: We got so many applications in, we're now going to choose some people.

The second new opening is Paint.net Tutorial Writer, in which you can write tutorials on this great freeware graphics program.

Sounds interesting? Check out our Apply for Staff page to read more about the jobs. We also have several other job opening such as PHP Programmer, Graphics Maker, CSS Layout Stylist, Game Guide Writer, Battledome Expert, General Guide Writer, Artist and tutorial writers for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and GIMP.

A New Game Challenge has been released: Shenkuu Warrior II.
Our Game Challenge Guide has been updated with prizes and tips on how to play.

At the moment Jubjub Power Bounce is not functioning. We've notified TNT about the glitch and hopefully it will be resolved soon. The game loads but will not start or allow you to shoot your first Jubjub Ball, thus making it unplayable.


And JubJub Power Bounce is not the only thing glitched today:

As you've probably noticed, New Features hasn't been updated today. We're having some issues that prevent us from updating the site... at least that's what the Server Meepits say. They will be working hard overnight to fix this, so we hope to have a double dose of New Features for you tomorrow. We know it's Zafara Day today, so we apologise to Zafaras everywhere for missing their special day and forcing them to celebrate with Jhudora. (We don't think she has anything to do with these issues, but you never know. We'll be sure to investigate.) Sorry for the inconvenience. - The Zaffy/Jhudora Peace Treaty Team

While you're waiting, why not check out the newly released items in our JubJub Power Bounce Guide.

As per today's news, TNT has released a new wearable, the Lunar Cape. This item is available as a prize from Shenkuu's Lunar Temple.

We've updated our guide to show these new changes. Check out of Lunar Temple Guide for more details.

The Seasonal Chocolate KeyQuest prizes have been released. You can find out more about them in our KeyQuest Chocolate prizes page; and, as always, feel free to neomail me with any prizes I might have missed.

The second and third Sweetheart Gram images have been found. The first one seems to contain more gothic related wearables (or we can hope). Read our Neocash Grams guide for more information about grams.


Thanks to splenetic and pikakeet for finding the images.

To see what items the new Heart Broken Sweetheart Gram contains, just click the link below.

Spoiler

Thanks to starlightpixie for posting this info

Edit: our Grams guide has now been updated with the items from the Heart Broken Sweetheart gram!

TNT has posted a message regarding 'Filter Change for User Lookups and Petpages' on The Official Neopets Team Message Board:

We've recently updated our filters on Pet Pages and User Lookups so that they are the same as the filters on shops. If you have added any extra html to those pages to make them more interesting and more unique please make sure that you go and look at your code as you may need to make a few changes.   -The Fun Neopets Code Filtering Team

A new unreleased Ink Dropper for the P3 Habitarium has been discovered!
You can find out more about the Habitarium in our P3 Habitarium Guide.

Many people are also experiencing a glitch when playing p3 Habitarium which seems to affect harvesting and gaining any experience points, unless you refresh the game. Here's a response from TNT regarding this glitch:

Dear anuarisa, Thank you for your patience and understanding! We are experiencing a bug that is preventing normal gameplay in Habitarium. Unfortunately we are unable to determine exactly when a bug will be fixed but we do our very best to prioritize them and get them resolved as quickly as possible. If we have any more information or updates to share with you we will update or re-open your ticket accordingly as it has been categorized with the specific issue that you are reporting. Thank you! Yelena Z. The Neopets Team