Festival of Lights

March 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025

Summary

For their first Festival of Lights on Aerius, Keir and Vincent planned to celebrate by unveiling a display version of Creation of Maquette that they had purchased.  Unfortunately for them, their celebration was ruined by the reappearance of the Trash King, who decided to lead the Observer on a merry chase across Aerius...

Awards

For locating all the vandalized volumes of Creation of Maquette (aka The Harvesters), users could acquire the Book Restoration award via the collections feature.

Links

Festival of Lights
Welcome to April!
Observer's Notebook - Festival of Lights
Observer's Notebook - Festival of Lights, The Hunt

New Pets

The Festival of Lights introduced our first Maquette pets, the Teatoise and the Toasty, as well as the elusive Banuki.  The only banukis available during the festival were given to nitro boosters, as the mechanic they will be available by would not be ready by the event, but they were featured as characters in it.

New Characters

This event introduced Kat, a newly manifested lockette who accidentally wandered into Aerius through a portal.  Don't you wonder where she's going to wind up eventually?  It's not like her design has any clues on that or anything...

New Items

New Ingredients & Dishes

For the event, we introduced some... interesting and slightly meme-y recipes and ingredients.  Beans on Toast, Salmon Mousse, and Banana Cream Pie were the dishes, and the new ingredients were a very okay fish and mayonnaisse.  We also added a covered dish to Verdant Castle, in case you want to take a gamble on whether you'll get Dubious Stew or Heartwarming Stew...

Anything Else?

In March, we launched the Regional Trait Contest, offering users the chance to suggest new traits for two unintroduced nations - the Golden Steppe and the Silver Rift.  Although the continent containing these two nations is magically sealed off, you will be able to find dextroluma across Aerius who have traits from these areas... once they're chosen.