Exhibitions Report

The second exhibition has ended. 309 Beastlords have applied their pets to compete for the prize.

Now it is time to announce the winners!

1. birdlove (#1485)
2. NightbaneWolf (#3555)
3. Zedh (#7946)
4. Dreamss (#9437)
5. hollahollaget_$ (#1239)

We apologize for a wrong Gryphon color (Snow Leopard) that was possible to apply for exhibition for the first 10 minutes. The application fee was refunded to users who have applied the pets with this color.

Exhibitions Report

The first exhibition was a huge success. More than 300 Beastlords applied their pets to compete and thousands of visitors came to watch on this spectacular event.

Now it is time to announce the winners!

1. SeverinDragonaz (#1898)
2. Karakurt (#14332)
3. Shigeru1992 (#12700)
4. NightbaneWolf (#3555)
5. Vythalax (#345)

Deviant colors - double deviants

Association of Breeders has published the result of their research after comprehensive analysis and a number of experiments. According to their research, the only way to breed a pet with both deviant color and pattern is to choose very specific parents. One of the parents should have deviant color and the second one should have deviant pattern. The chances of getting a deviation on each color parameter still remains 1/10 so the babies with double deviation are extremely rare and valuable.

As a side product of research, breeders have updated Unicorn color catalogue. Now anyone may visit Skin Library to see the possible deviant colors.

Hello fellow BeastKeepers,

There was a small issue that caused the wrong display of genetic tests for pets with deviant colors. Alchemists in genetics labs used a wrong serum to test samples for the mutant factor, so lab reports for pets with deviant colors always contained color gene marked as a deviant, and never included deviant patterns. In fact the pets with deviant patterns were born too. Laboratory technicians are very sorry for this oversight. The problem was handled and now the deviation star is displayed correctly. There's a total of 11 pets who had wrong marks in their genetics charts.

Savannah and Jungle Biotopes

The further development of portal technology brought new brilliant results today. Portal receivers now able to detect the energy flows from tropical areas! Maybe you can benefit from the wisdom of the odd folk living there?

Here are 4 new structures that you can find while exploring tropical biotopes:

Copper Idols
For a payment of 10 random gems, 1 breeding point and 1000 the spirits will swap one base characteristic of your pet to another.

Shaman Hut
For a payment of 10 random gems or hops and 1000 the shaman will predict you your quests for tomorrow.

Dead Tree Altar
For a payment of 10 random gems and 100 random food your pet will restore 1 breeding point.

Forest Alchemist
For a payment of 10 random gems or hops and 1000 your pet will taste a potion that causes random color mutation.

Beware of the monsters inhabiting the new areas!

The ferocious creatures of the new areas (excluding Quezal and Tatzelwurm) were brought to life by Hayley Dubay thegallopingstallion.deviantart.com

Inventory limit

Unlimited storage of resources in barns and warehouses started to cause detrimental consequences. Buildings and equipment wear off too quick and sometimes even corrupt. Vermin feast over the enormous piles of food and even nightcats fail to deal with them. Unhealthy conditions cause the spoil of food and materials. To deal with this situation, the housekeeping authority decided to introduce a limit of 999 resource units per warehouse slot.

The maximum amount of each item type in inventory is limited to 999 units. If you have more than 999 units of any item, you can still use it but you won't be able to collect more of the same item until the amount drops lower than 999.

We have a couple of updates for today.

Pet Titles

Now you can create Titles and assign them to your pets for easier tracking of your breeding projects. You can reserve up to 5 titles through Manage My Titles link located at the top of your Pets page. Titles are unique; it's impossible to create two titles with the same name.

You can assign any of your titles to any pet that you own. When you sell or gift a pet with your title, another player can remove this title or change it to their title freely.

Titles are displayed below the pet name in the pet profile, pet list, trades and arena. You can view all the pets with a certain title by clicking the title link in one of these places.

If you wish to reserve more than 5 titles, please visit Premium Shop and purchase Title Scroll.

Beast Codex

We added a new info page with descriptions of the current pet species. Please visit it if you would like to learn some facts about the origin of the pet species, their biology and ecology.

The gathering of Glittering Sand is now over!

The Warlock Exchange Station remains open for 3 more days until April 25th 23:59 to collect the leftovers from adventurers who didn't manage to exchange the collected sand yet. Don't miss the opportunity to trade it until the station closes!

Please welcome abcde as our official writer!

We're very happy to finally see a writer among our staff members :) The world of BeastKeeper will get a lot more new colors and details soon!

Desert Biotope

The best engineers of Europa with the support of Conclave of Warlocks introduce a revolutionary portal upgrade that allows you to travel to significantly larger distances. Don't be surprised if you find yourself among the desert sands when coming out of portal gate! Now it’s possible to reach the chain of isles to the south that have arid climate. Who knows what new discoveries and forgotten technologies are waiting there? Though be careful as there can be new dangers too.

Engineers keep working further on this upgrade and promise new enhancements very soon!

Conclave of Warlocks is looking for Glittering Sand!

Glittering Sand is a valuable substance for potions and magical devices. You can collect it on Desert islands. Once per 20 years a comet approaches Europa and scatters the stardust that drops at the equatorial zone of the moon. It visited Europa a few days ago, so it's time to collect Glittering Sand for this cycle. Look carefully under your feet, you may be walking upon a treasure that isn't so easy to notice!

We don't buy just any sand from the desert, only Glittering Sand has the right properties! Here's a sample:

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Visit our exchange station to trade Glittering Sand for special rewards.
Offer is valid until April 22th, 23:59!

Food System Minor Update

Taking care of a flow of new edible items from the recently discovered desert islands, architects have optimized the structure of barns. Now when you find some food on island, it will be stacked by type to save some space. You're already familiar with these food types: Animal Proteins, Animal Carbs, Animal Fats, Plant Proteins, Plant Carbs and Plant Fats. Old food units are automatically converted to new food items.

Heartbleed Awareness

BeastKeeper.com is unaffected by Heartbleed security vulnerability. We’re safe, you don’t need to change your password! Our payment platform Xsolla is protected against Heartbleed, so all your transaction data are safe too.

Support us by voting!

It's important to keep game community healthy and growing. Help us promoting BeastKeeper in the web game directories by voting. You can vote once per day on each site. You will get 500 for every vote!

The poll about game content is closed now. Thank you for participating and for your opinions! It's very important for us to know the likes and dislikes of our players to adjust the development priorities and directions.

The final results are the following:

Explore expansion and new species have scored almost the same number of votes. Although explore has 3 more votes, so it becomes our priority for this moment. The development of expansion has already started.

And a few player requested updates for today:

• You can add descriptions for your pet groups. Use Edit Group button to see the description field.
• It's possible to exchange one pet for another. To do this, go to the profile of your trade partner's pet and click new "Exchange Offer" button.
• Pet gender is added to the Pet Children list.
• You can use WASD keys in explore along with arrow keys to control your pet.
• It's now possible to search the forums with Google Search. Search link is available on the Boards main page.

And a small update for skin submission rules: now player who submits a stolen / copied artwork will get the ability to submit custom skins blocked instead of the global account ban.