February Monthly MiniPets
Posted by Mat on 1 Feb 2017, 2:30 am
February has come, and with it, the introduction of a new round of mini-pets for the FurDollar Emporium. These new monthly mini-pets follow a new system with the goal of retaining their value!
We have heard the concerns of customers who purchased FD mini-pets in the past and their disappointment that breeding has resulted in their purchase losing its value increasingly over time. We want our customers to feel confident that their purchase will retain its value, even potentially increasing in value. Therefore, we have decided that starting with the February mini-pets, FurDollar Emporium mini-pets will be unbreedable species, ensuring that the investment a customer makes will not decline in value due to breeding. Any past mini-pets released through the Emporium will remain as they were, as this change affects only new and future Emporium mini-pets.
Players can now obtain rarer colors for an Emporium mini-pet species by opening a box, found for each new mini-pet species in the Emporium. The boxes for each respective mini-pet have a 40% chance of opening into a common, 30% chance of opening into an uncommon, 20% chance of opening into a rare, or a 10% chance of opening into a super rare. Boxes are also priced at 250 FurDollars, a reduction from past prices.
The Aquaticat species is the first of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare. 
The Rapti species is the second of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare.
The Moth species is the third of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare.
The Chipmunk species is the fourth of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare.
The Caterpillar species is the fifth and final of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare.
These new boxes will not entirely disappear at the end of the month. We plan on putting all Emporium mini-pet boxes inside of a larger box called the Retired Box, which will dispense one random box from a past month. The Retired Box will be available at a higher price, but gives players the chance to obtain mini-pet boxes from past months if desired.
Save up your weapons, armor, and unwanted mini-pets, because the Serpent Festival is coming to town on February 14th. The Serpent Festival is Quetzal Palace's yearly special event. During this event, the serpent that carries the Quetzal Palace village on its back will land on the mainland of Furvilla. During this period of time, villagers from all over are welcome to make offerings to the serpent in hopes of being rewarded with something cool.
The upcoming festival will involve some new mini-pet species from the serpent, a special shop to purchase festival related items, new villager colors, new villager costumes, and last but not least... a mystery! Will you be one of the first one hundred people to solve the mystery and earn a trophy from the festival?
But that's not all! We have two weeks before the festival starts, and some other cool activities are coming down the pipeline. Sources say that Crafters will be getting a new type of item to craft, one that should keep all of you crafters busy! What could it be? Hm... we'll find out soon! ;)
@Admin-Deinmaar
Thank you for letting me know <3 That's a great improvement ^^
Thornes
From what I'm reading, retired boxes will be a higher price. We havn't 100% decided yet.
@Admin-Deinmaar I am very happy that the pets don't retire fully, that's one thing I really do like about this feature. It's like.. for example with chicken smoothie where they re-release pets each december 18th. That way pets don't really get out of circulation, but the 'rarer' pets are harder to get that if you buy them during the month they come out and that's a really nice feature! Are these retirement boxes the same price as the current boxes (250 FD) or are you planning on other rates?
@ADMIN-Furvilla Oh! I really appreciate that this has been changed, for real! A 1 out of 10 chance of getting a super rare is a lot better than a 1 in 100 chance and makes it a lot more worth it to actually buy the boxes. Thanks!
xarazura
chances were actually just changed =)
I'm excited for the next event, but it's such a shame about the new pets being completely unbreedable... I just recently got properly into AH. Wouldn't it make more sense to have breeding charges where the offspring can't breed or something similar? That way they're still very limited and will gain value, but it's more fair. 1% chance at SR for $2.50 is ridiculous :(
People are calculating all the money it's going to take to get all the pets without considering that... they don't NEED to buy all five of the pets?
They can trade with others???
No need to solo the whole game by yourself, there's lots of other players out there with the same goal! :D
Thornes
I can understand the frustration. I've spent a pretty penny on Minecraft Mystery boxes myself, just to try and get one of each, and then the boxes I've been trying to collect go out of production. We're trying not to completely take them away though, which is why we set up the retired box and made the boxes less expensive than they were.
Odds have been changed based off Thornes suggestion. Anyone who has opened a box and would like to take a shot at the new odds is welcome to send their resulting mini-pet to this account to receive a new box.
But yeah, perhaps the feature just still needs some testing out and I am overreacting, but I just don't like the fact that it is looking like you'll need to spend so many money if you are.. interested in the AH career and the menagerie.
Glad I resigned myself to considering my menagerie complete /without/ the FD pets back when they started the monthly thing, or this would be really disheartening. Now to decide if I want to buy any of these. Love the Aquaticat, but only the common and super rare version (the other's are great, but don't look like water which is the whole reason I'd want one). Do I risk getting an uncommon/rare color, and not wanting to trade down for a common, but unlikely to find anyone willing to trade up to a sr? Hmmmm decisions.
Loving the upcoming fest stuff though. I am so going to be on this mystery. My trophy collector heart demands it.