SNOWFLAKES

As the first snowflakes slowly fall upon the land, Trovians hearts are once more invaded with warmth and their spirits seized by the melodic nostalgia of the season. The ornaments were carefully arranged, the lights blink enlight the short dark days as carols echo in the distance. The Snowfest is all around us and we wish you Trovians a great event.

From December 17th (3 AM PST/11AM UTC) to December 31st (3 AM PST/11 AM UTC), we welcome all Trovians in joining the Snowfest celebrations and to fight a new menace over Trove's world: Qubesly needs your help fighting the "Troval Warming"!

Snowfest

Snowfest returns for the holiday season with several adventures around fighting the Troval Warming. This adventure chain will earn you Snowy Seals, the event main currency, so you can craft your favorite Snowfest items. Additionally, three new NPC's joined Trove's Hub for this year's event edition! These NPC's will set you on the path of many adventures, as three new daily event Snowfest Adventures will be available rewarding you 2019 Snowy Seal and Adventure experience upon completion.

Hub

Oooh, Snowfest… *sigh*

The decorations, the lights, the fields covered in snow as more snowflakes gently fall from the sky. Trove’s Hub is definitely the place to hang out with your friends and to join the event celebrations. Almost everybody seems to be in a great mood these days… except the Horned Rumpfus!

These grumpy creatures are ruining it for us all. It seems like their spirits can be lightened up by playing some games, so dare to throw a snowball at them. Let’s see what happens next… it doesn’t hurt to try.

Snowfest Hub

The Snowfest Hub is in place so you can launch your adventures and cash in your beloved 2019 Snowy Seals earned during your event adventures. You’ll have wonderful items for crafting, and remember Trovian… you gotta craft them all:

• Itty Bitty Kitty can be crafted for 3 Seals;
• Giddy Gift can be crafted for 7 Seals;
• Rudolf Rocker can be crafted for 25 Seals;
• Extra seals can be used to create a Frosty Treasure Box that has mechanical rewards!

Snowfest New Items

• Itty Bitty Kitty
• Giddy Gift
• Rudolf Rocker

Dungeons

• Present Dungeons
• Tree Dungeons

Flamotrons

Flamotrons have invaded the geode topside and they are ready to rumble with their invincibility shields! Don’t worry though: attack them first with snowballs to remove their shield and you are back in business!

Clear your schedule, Trovians, it’s going to be a great event for you to enjoy during the holidays.

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8 new event adventures, daily login rewards, a jolly new Hub, and Horned Rumpfus enemies invading the Permafrost biome can mean only one thing: Snowfest is back!

Snowfest
By completing the new Snowfest adventures you can earn fantastic frosty freebies like the Tumbling Present ally and Frovious, the Snowsteed mount.

Take down gift dungeons (these are dungeons that look like wrapped presents) to earn Subzero Snowflakes. When you take down a present dungeon boss, there’s a chance for a Snowfest Mimic to spawn instead of a loot chest. Take down these rare spawns to earn extra Subzero Snowflakes in addition to the dungeon chest loot.

Use the collected snowflakes at the Snowfest table in the Hub to craft a massive amount of uniquely wintry items, including the Go Go Cocoa Mug mount!

Treat yourself to this cool annual celebration and stay frosty, Trovians!

8 new event adventures, upgraded daily login rewards, a jolly new Hub, and Horned Rumpfus enemies invading the Permafrost biome can mean only one thing: Snowfest is here!

Blocky Bonus
The Tiny T-Rex mount is a brand-new Blocky Bonus item available to collect in the Deals tab of the Trove Store for the PC, Xbox One, and for those with PlayStation Plus!

Snowfest
By completing the new Snowfest adventures you can earn sensational seasonal swag including the Angry Poop ally and the Blizzard Behe-Moth mount!

Take down gift dungeons (these are dungeons that look like wrapped presents) to earn Subzero Snowflakes. Use the collected snowflakes at the Snowfest table in the Hub to craft a massive amount of uniquely wintry items.

The chest that spawns after defeating this new boss has a chance of granting the Colorful Gift Carousel mount!

We’ve also added four winter-themed costumes to the Chaos Core Crafter during Snowfest.

The glorious G.R.Y.P.H. 3000 mount is now available on the Trove Store for a limited time as well!

Treat yourself to this bone-chilling bevvy of bargains as we get ready to ring in 2018!

Flakbeard

• Avast! There be dragons! The terrible and relentless Flakbeard has been spotted in the Treasure Isles! Yarrrrr!

Snowfest

• Snowfest has ended - but the Crate 'O 150 Gears and snowflakes will remain for a limited time. Craft something with your remaining Subzero Snowflakes, because they will melt soon (ie - you will permanently lose any you don't use!)
• Holiday Tree dungeons and Present lairs have been removed.
• The hub has returned to its normal Winter version.

Costume Updates

• The Dracolyte Plum Fairy costume now has a new ultimate form, pet dragonling, and burnt offering.
• The Pirate Captain Rat Royal costume now has a new parrot skin.
• Candy Barbarian costumes, Frigid Fiend and Shaggy Yeti, now have more appropriate VFX.
• Changed the name of the helm for the WInter Waker costume to "Winter Waker Helm".

Additional Updates

• Fixed bug where Knight's ultimate VFX didn't appear.
• Fixed bug where using Neon Ninja ultimate and basic attack at the same time could crash the client (and probably fixes similar ability crashes as well)
• Fixed bug where Ice Sage's Frozen Ward absorbed damage and was removed for all attacks.
• 4 new animal head styles have been added to the Stash Exclusive category! Enjoy your new Mouse (Mouseketeer), Rhino (Discount Unicorn), Panda (Emo Bear), and Rabbit (Booplesnoot) hats!
• Duplicate Trovian Trawler removed from collections.

Additional Updates

• Fixed bug where using Neon Ninja ultimate and basic attack at the same time could crash the client (and probably fixes similar ability crashes as well)
• Snowfest has ended - but the Crate 'O 150 Gears and snowflakes will remain for a limited time. Craft something with your remaining Subzero Snowflakes, because they will melt soon (ie - you will permanently lose any you don't use!)
• The hub has returned to its normal Winter version.

Originally Posted by Evilagician

save snowfest!

Quoted for truth. Also, we'll have more specifics on what exactly needs to happen when we hit Snowfest Phase Two (we're not really calling it that). That's when the Snowflakes will become super important so definitely save them up where possible.

Trove’s Get Crafty update is bringing holiday cheer to Trovians everywhere! Enjoy better tools for storing materials, tons of new items to craft, and the biggest Snowfest celebration ever!

Let’s talk about Snowfest.

• Get daily login bonuses for each day of the celebration. These gifts rotate daily but will include (for players with Mastery Rank 20 and above) a stack of 10 new Chaos Chests and a one day Patron Pass. In addition to those daily rewards you can also receive 10 Dragon Coins, 5 Gem Booster Boxes, a Minor XP Coin, a Ninth Life Booster, and more!
• We’ve added a brand new Snowfestivus quest chain, with rewards like Chaos Chests and Gem Boosters, as you strive to unlock your very own Snowfestivus Log mount.
• While you adventure you’ll find Holiday Tree lairs to clear out. Take down the bosses in these festive facilities to collect unique Snowfest items like Snowflakes that can be crafted into Enchanted Snowballs (you’ll definitely want to hold onto these).

• If rare seasonal mounts are your jam these Holiday Lair bosses also have a chance of dropping two mounts: Bouncing Bauble and Plethora o' Presents
• Enemies out in the world may now drop Snowfest Mystery Boxes. These loot boxes drop seasonal crafting materials like Chestnuts as well as Snowballs, winter recipes, Snowfest themed items, and the very rare Snug Snowman mount or Laden Sleigh mag rider.

When we mention the winter what is the first thing that pops into your mind? That’s right, dragons!

Well, this year we’ve got a dragon for the ages; Tannenbomber, the Harbinger of Tidings designed by Skyrider3217.

This seasonal serpent’s egg can be crafted at the Snowfest table using materials picked up in your many holiday adventures.

The Trove Store has some limited time items available this holiday season as well!

• Pick up the Santa Barbarian Costume or the Rudolph Raptor and Revelling Reindeer mounts while you can.
• The Snowfest Pack includes a Tannenbomber Dragon Egg and a bundle of wintry costumes created by players to keep you warm on these cool Snowfest adventures. Check out our patch notes to see the names of the artists behind these gorgeous creations.

Getting Crafty

The Snowfest holiday is a massive undertaking all by itself, but we’re not done yet. In fact, we’re just getting started!

• A new crafting inventory tab is here. This new tab allows you to stack all your crafting materials up to massive amounts which means you won’t have to worry about inventory space. If you have any crafting materials in your inventory just right-click on them to send them into the beautiful new crafting inventory.
• Use the Worldspring crafting station to create the tools needed to design your own minigames. Minigames are challenges that put your racing or coin collecting skills to the test in quick matches. When our Challenge timer starts at the top of the hour you’ll find a Minigame Portal in the Hub that you can hop into to test your mettle against players everywhere.

The Get Crafty update is a great way to end out 2016 and a jumping off point for the exciting adventures that await us all. Happy Snowfest, Trovians!

Chaos Chest Changes

• Chaos Chests and Golden Chaos Chests now drop sometimes from dungeon chests. There are advantages to farming fast for these, but even more casual players will be able to earn them at a reasonable rate!
• All Chaos Chests acquired following this patch cannot be traded. Existing chests are still tradable. Tradable and non-tradable chests have separate karma bars.
• Chaos Chest common and uncommon tables have been randomized and the uncommon table now includes Chaos Cores.
• You can use Chaos Cores along with other resources to craft classes, new costumes, and Chaos Chest specific collectibles.
• The Chaos Chest rare table has been expanded to always include all previous Chaos Chest only collectibles at a low rate.
• Any chest specific collectibles gained from opening chests are now are not tradable, and loot collect into Chaos Cores. Previously acquired collectibles remain tradable, but cannot be loot collected.
• Added the new Chaos Workbench to the Novice Crafting Bench.
• Crafting at this bench unlocks directly into your collection and prevent you from crafting anything you already have collected.
• The chaos crafter includes the following awesome new costumes: Blastcap Builder (Boomeranger) by Evilagician, Mesozoic Meteomancer (Ice Sage) by Evilagician, Strife Sage (Ice Sage) by Celeress, Guardian Golem (Revenant) by Evilagician, Chimeric Cubist (Candy Barbarian) by Dusty_Mustard, Alchemancer (Chloromancer) by Jusiv, Crystal Cultivator (Chloromancer) by 3motions, ATMOS C-TAC Armor (Gunslinger) by B_Y3LL0W, Shadowscorn Saboteur (Lunar Lancer) by Screamheart, Inferno Infiltrator (Neon Ninja) by Flowey, Modish Marksman (Shadow Hunter) by TeeKayM, Royal Ranger (Shadow Hunter) by Rosain, and Everdark Emissary (Tomb Raiser) by FriedSushi.

Crafting Inventory

• The crafting inventory tab is now live!
• Any crafting materials collected now go to a separate tab in the inventory and can stack up to very large numbers.
• Right click any crafting materials in your adventure inventory you want to move into your crafting inventory.

Challenges and Minigames

• You can now craft the materials required for Racing and Coin Collect minigames using the Worldspring!
• New challenge maps have been added for these minigames! The Kitchen racing map from Scytheplays with help from KieraDescent and Fatal_L3gacy, and the Fountain Island collect map from Zez.
• Challenges now award a new lesser dragon cache that isn't tradable but always contains at least one dragon coin at common and at rare gives 25. It also has an extra fast filling Karma bar. This should increase the amount of dragon coins it is possible to earn for playing challenges.

Snowfest

• Complete the Snowfestivus quest chain to earn your very own Snowfestivus Log, a new rig where you run backwards on a log to go forward! Also has great prizes like Chaos Chests and Dragonite!
• Log in every day 12/20-1/17 to get fantastic login bonuses, ranging from Patron Passes to Chaos Chests to Gem boosters to Experience coins! (See below for a full list for those of you who like spoilers)
• Check out the new Holiday Tree lair! The lair for the Neon City biome was made by Meowsifer; all others were made by stedms.
• Bosses in Holiday Tree lairs drop Snowflakes, which can be crafted into Enchanted Snowballs, which can be used to bop a friend on the noggin, or maybe, someday, debuff the fire shield on a holiday-stealing mechanical monster? Nah, we don't even have those.
• These snowflakes will automatically be looted to your crafting inventory after you break open the chest dropped by the boss.
• The new Bouncy Bauble and Plethora o' Presents mounts are rare drops from bosses in Holiday Tree Lairs.
• The Snowfest Mystery Box now drops from vanquished enemies here and there.
• Limited time items are now in the Store! the Santa Barbarian Costume, and the Rudolph Raptor and Revelling Reindeer mounts will deliver that holiday cheer.
• Tannenbomber, the Harbinger of Tidings, flies into Trove. This dragon spreads good cheer at any time of the year!
• The Snowfest Pack is now available in the store! Get the Tannenbomber dragon egg plus a wintery collection of mounts and costumes that are sure to make you look cool (get it?). It's because cool can also mean cold.
• The dragon egg for Tannenbomber, Harbringer of Tidings can also be crafted in the Snowfest table. So can the Floating Snowflake by FuzzyDerp.
• The Snowfest Pack contains all the following player-made mounts: Tannenbomber, Harbinger of Tidings by Skyrider3217, Permataur by Zoe, Delicious Direwolf by Digiwolf, Wayfaring Warbear by Screamheart, and Weyrfir, Winter's Rest by Fizzinc.

Store

• Starter classes now permanently cost 250 Credits.
• Advanced classes now permanently cost 750 Credits.
• There are now three new packs in the store that contain varying amounts of 'Credit Pouches'. These pouches are worth 250 Credits each when consumed and are tradable.
• Due to the addition of tradable Credits, collectible store items are purchased for unlock rather than trade and some tradable items like Class Coins and Inventory Expanders are now obsolete and have been retired from the store.
• A new Chaos Chest weekly deal has been introduced and is live this week. The patron deal will return next week!
• The Dark Dungeoneer, Firey Fighter, and Celestial Champion packs are now only visible in-game for new players.
• The 10 pack of Chaos Chests in the store is now the 11 pack. The 100 pack of chaos chests now gives 110 and a Golden Chaos Chest.

Early Game Changes

• The makeup of (what used to be called) Novice to Uber-5 worlds has been changed, to "unlock" and feature one biome per world. The worlds are also renamed to the name of the biome that is unveiled. Uber-6 and up are unchanged.
• Since Dragonfire Peaks and Jurassic Jungle are restricted to U4 and U5, they will no longer appear as biome challenges.
• Trading, community and club chests, and the marketplace now require mastery rank 20.
• The Mastery Rank 5 and RAF class coins now only unlock starter classes.
• Due to the availability of classes through other gameplay means, the class coin awarded at rank 25 mastery has been removed.

Marketplace Changes

• Removed chaos chests, eyes, and glim from marketplace currency.
• Since we're increasing how much flux you can store, we figured we should increase how much flux you can charge for your Marketplace listings! The new maximum is 25 million flux.

New Dungeons

• New Frontier Dungeon from Keyser95!
• New Jurassic Jungle Dungeon from Player214!
• Added a voxelbusters seasonal battle arena to rotation!

Additional Updates

• Fix crash occuring when using Shadow Tower dialog when the client is using OpenGL on Mac or Windows.
• Multithreading fixes for fullscreen mode on Mac.
• Client no longer gets stuck trying to find the next item in the action bar after removing the active item from action bar within build mode.
• Due to the number of legendary tomes we've decided to reduce the experience required to fill them to half of what is now. Have fun!
• Leveling costumes are now 35 mastery and other costumes are 70 mastery.
• Since the value of these items are decreasing we have removed non tradable class coin and inventory expander from rare table of daily lockboxes.
• The Classy Kiwi ally has been added to the streamer dream chest.
• It is now possible to use RMB to move items from the Build Mode inventory to the Marketplace.
• Cracked gems now appear cracked once more.
• The game now handles the enemies killed stat correctly with regard to the Dracolyte's Burnt Offerings.
• Mastery is now awarded immediately when an XP coin is used.
• Better auto-selection of the first available recipe for the workbench.
• Handle near simultaneous equipping and trashing of an inventory slot.
• Revenant Costume - Super Magical now indicates creator in item description.
• Stacks of Credits have been renamed to Decorative Money to reduce confusion in the Marketplace.
• Fixed some cut-off text in the workbenches UI for French and German.
• Decreased the font size for claim titles to fix some cutoff text for French and German.
• Decreased the font size for category headers in the crafting UI to fix some cutoff text for French and German.

Login Bonuses 12/20-1/16

• Why stop opening presents on the 24th! Get a present every day through January 16th!
• 12/20: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 12/21: 10 Chaos Chests (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 12/22: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 12/23: 10 Dragon Coins
• 12/24: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 12/25: 5 Gem Booster Boxes
• 12/26: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 12/27: 1 XP Coin
• 12/28: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 12/29: 10 Chaos Chests (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 12/30: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 12/31: 10 Chaos Chests (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/1: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/2: 5 Lapis Luckbugs
• 1/3: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/4: 10 Chaos Chests (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/5: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/6: 10 Glittering Horseshoes
• 1/7: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/8: 1 XP Coin
• 1/9: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/10: 10 Chaos Chests (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/11: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/12: 1 Empowered Gem Box
• 1/13: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/14: 10 Dragon Coins
• 1/15: 1 day Patron Pass (to players with at least 20 Mastery)
• 1/16: 1 Ninth Life