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We've got a few things to share with today's pre-Halloween The Bell Tree Direct! Check it all out below:



A Bid Farewell

After a little over a year of modship, Ben (Gandalf) has decided to take a leave from the staff to focus on his personal life. Please thank him for his hard work on the site over the past year, including moderating the forums, helping with this year's Easter Egg hunt, and running a contest in last year's TBT Fair contests. We wish him the best. Happy green life buddy! :)


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i would like to be remembered for hoarding pokeballs and never losing mafia while on the scum team




The Bell Tree Spooktacular

Can you feel it in the air? The best holiday of the year is creeping up on us with our new Halloween event... The Bell Tree Spooktacular! With three contests, including a new unique event never seen on TBT before, this just might be the best Halloween yet.

Here's an excerpt of the introduction to this year's event:

The nights had grown colder as autumn crept in. Rain batters against your window so violently you fear it might break, and the wind howls through the trees. You lie awake in bed, the blanket pulled up to your nose, attempting to count sheep for what feels like the umpteenth time this night.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Goosebumps prickle your skin. You strain your ears, trying to identify the sound, but you hear nothing over the rain beating against the window pane. After a few moments you sigh and roll over, restarting your count.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

That sound again. You push back the covers and are at once hit by a rush of cold air. Rubbing your biceps through your pyjama shirt as you walk, you make your way over to a wooden door. You stop there a moment, simply staring.

KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.

Head over to the official The Bell Tree Spooktacular welcome thread for the rest of the introduction and a look at the events on offer this year!



Halloween Collectibles

While we're on the topic of Halloween, here's a quick run down on the Halloween collectible situation for this year!

In the past years, we offered four colours of candy in the Shop for purchase. This year, only the Yellow and Red candies will be available to purchase in the Shop. The Yellow Candy is for sale as of today when the Shop restocks, and the Red Candy will be for sale next weekend. While stock is not technically unlimited, we expect plenty to be available now through Halloween.

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The Green and Blue candies are set to be distributed exclusively as rare prizes in the Sugar Stash Counting Contest hosted by LaBelleFleur and Oblivia, so be sure to check that out! And if you happen to perform exceedingly well, there may be a special bonus prize as well...

And on top of the candies, THREE brand new unique Halloween collectibles will be available this year. What will it be? That's up to YOU! Since the collectible creation contest hosted back in Summer 2014 was such a success and well received, we're bringing it back this year for Halloween with the 'Spell'ectibles Creation Contest as there are endless ideas available for more Halloween collectibles.


In the 'Spell'ectibles Creation Contest, you can create your own original collectible you'd like to see and then just maybe it will become a real collectibles on the forum! Be on the lookout for the winning 'Spell'ectibles to be available for purchase in the Shop near the end of the month just before Halloween.

There are currently no plans for a return of the Ancient Lantern, Dusty Scroll, Spooky Toothpaste, or Weird Doll collectibles this year.



Fruit Restocks

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Be on the lookout for a small fruit collectible restock in the Shop later tonight at 7:00PM Pacific Time. Keep in mind the Shop will go down 10 minutes prior, so get your bells out of the ABD before then.



PM Mailboxes Feature Update

And now for something completely different! We have two minor, yet important updates today to the mailbox system on TBT.

First, we're enabling a new Buyback feature on the Mailbox add-on items available in the Shop. What this means is that you can now sell back your mailbox add-ons to the Shop for a small percentage of the price returned to you. Using this feature, you can upgrade your inbox size between different mailbox add-ons without feeling like you're completely wasting your hard earned bells. I'm hoping this minor yet important change will improve the experience of upgrading mailboxes.

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Second, a notice banner will now be displayed on the forum when your inbox is full, or nearly full reminding you to either delete some messages or upgrade to a larger mailbox in the Shop. As many of you know, the forum will block messages sent to you if your inbox is full so this should help you get ahead of that to prevent it from becoming an issue. This feature comes from a user suggestion I've heard a few times over the years, but I'd like to give a particular shout out here to the user Kaede who sent me a PM about it back in August.

And of course to celebrate these updates, the Purple and Super Gold mailboxes will be restocked with the fruit at 7:00PM Pacific Time. Keep in mind the Shop will go down 10 minutes prior, so get your bells out of the ABD before then.



The One Million Bell Giveaway

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Recently, the traders of Re-Tail made their one millionth post! Re-Tail is now the first board to reach seven digits. Which board will be next? In celebration of this one million milestone, we will be giving away one million bells! That calculates to about 13 bells per member, so be sure to get your celebratory 13 bells by clicking here. After a couple days we are melting the remaining bells into golden mailboxes to add to the shop, so be sure to get your share now!



Wi-Fi Rating Feature Update

While the feature was initially introduced back in 2013 for online interactions with Animal Crossing: New Leaf, it's been used as a rating for forum bell transactions as well for quite some time now. For that reason and and thinking to the future, we're renaming the rating system to Wi-Fi / Trade Rating to reflect that evolution to tracking both Animal Crossing gameplay and trading, as well as non-Animal Crossing trade activities.

This change also acts as a precursor to our upcoming Animal Crossing amiibo card trading board launching soon. Speaking of, we'd like to hear your feedback on a two matters in relation to the board. Please fill out our survey here if you can see yourself using such a board in the future!

Also, the edit period for regular users has been increased to a full hour from the previous 15 minutes. This is the period of time after making a rating where you can edit it yourself without a moderator's assistance. This should decrease the need for moderator help with accidental ratings.

We have now enabled display of the Wi-Fi / Trade Rating in the TBT Marketplace and Museum Shop boards now as well.



Follow and Like Us!

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Follow our social media pages for quick updates on our activities throughout the Halloween event, and future events later this year and beyond! You can follow us on Twitter here (@thebelltree) and like our Facebook page here. Don't worry, we keep (and will keep) Facebook posts to infrequent fairly important updates. (such as a new event/voting going live or closing soon)



That's everything we have for today's update. Be sure to keep an eye on The Bell Tree Spooktacular as it unfolds over the next three weeks remaining until Halloween!

One final minor note is that the TBT welcome bells have been removed and new members will no longer gain any free or bonus bells upon or near new registration. We've made numerous changes to the system over the years to help reduce the amount of abuse, but unfortunately many people continue to abuse it repeatedly with alternative accounts and other methods for their own illegitimate gain. It sucks, but after avoiding it for years, it finally needs to be done.

We hope to implement an replacement system in the future to help new members to the community get a headstart on the Shop in a different way.
 
Yaay no announcement of the direct

Ah bye Gandalf :(
 
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RIP Bendalf - no one expected an engineering student to last
 
There are currently no plans for a return of the Ancient Lantern, Dusty Scroll, Spooky Toothpaste, or Weird Doll collectibles this year.
u didn't mention dark candy!! anyways
PM Mailboxes Feature Update

And now for something completely different! We have two minor, yet important updates today to the mailbox system on TBT.

First, we're enabling a new Buyback feature on the Mailbox add-on items available in the Shop. What this means is that you can now sell back your mailbox add-ons to the Shop for a small percentage of the price returned to you. Using this feature, you can upgrade your inbox size between different mailbox add-ons without feeling like you're completely wasting your hard earned bells. I'm hoping this minor yet important change will improve the experience of upgrading mailboxes.

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no wonder u ignored me

are you guys adding refund prices to collectibles from now on
 
Bye Gandalf it was great having you here

There are currently no plans for a return of the Ancient Lantern, Dusty Scroll, Spooky Toothpaste, or Weird Doll collectibles this year.


...does this mean the dark candy will return?!?!
 
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Oops... got distracted working on things, so missed the 7PM time! Shop is going down now and will be up with restocked items at 7:15PM PST. Sorry.
 
Oops... got distracted working on things, so missed the 7PM time! Shop is going down now and will be up with restocked items at 7:15PM PST. Sorry.

THERE WAS ME NOT STOPPING REFRESHING.
Silly Justin strikes xD
 
meh i didnt want a group restock anyway
 
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