Good very late evening and welcome to another edition of Bell Tree Direct! In tonight's Direct we have several announcements about our forum shop system including new features to spend your bells on. We'll also talk about a few other things such as our final staff favorite winners from our TBT Summer Build Event. Speaking of events, there's something big coming this Sunday isn't there?
Introducing Backdrops
To introduce this new feature and help get us ready for The Bell Tree Fair at the same time, we're selling three Fair-themed backdrops that will last for one month after purchase. They will be sold for the low Fair-discounted price of 149 Bells each for the rest of the month. Our Fair theme may not be officially announced yet, but you'll find out soon enough if you haven't figured it out yet!
Here are our three starter backdrops, designed by @dizzy bone and @Laudine:
Starry Sky, City of Dreams, Lunar Haze
You can find these awesome looking backdrops in the shop now! Check the new Backdrops category.
Introducing Thread Title Styles
We're referring to our first thread title style items as "beta" because we want to test this feature before deciding exactly how it will work going forward. You can buy them for 30 bells each and they'll expire one week after purchase, but you can change the thread it affects any time during that week. Check out the Addons category in the shop to see the three colors we're currently selling.
Seashells Are Back
The seashell system is finally back after being down for the last four months! The seashell currency is distributed to new members and to members who have been registered for at least two years. You'll receive 10 seashells for each of these milestones. Their purpose is to give members a way to change their name for free without spending bells.
Name changes cost exactly 10 seashells, but you can also spend them on other forum add-ons if you don't think you'll ever change your username. For now, only the the animated avatar and user title color change items are available, but there will be more in the future. You may also want to consider saving them in case you decide to change your name in the future! Visit the Seashells category of the shop to see the available items.
Inventory Filtering and Mass Editing
Making these changes one at a time can still take a while if you have a lot of items though. That's where the second part of this update comes in: mass editing. Simply check the checkbox near each purchase you want to alter and you'll see the edit bar show up at the bottom.
Log Updates
The shop's logging system has also been upgraded. First, we have a dedicated Item Log. This displays your purchases, discards, gifts (collectibles sent), and other things that affect your collectibles and other items.
The standard transactions log has also been updated to include direct links to the posts, items, or other events that triggered the logged action.
Shop Fixes and Other Changes
Finally, we have a few miscellaneous changes to announce in addition to all of these shop updates:
- The User Title Color Change item now works properly. Feel free to hide it in your inventory because it simply needs to be active to affect your user title.
- Loading issues on the inventory page have been reported by users with an extremely large amount of items. This has been addressed by breaking the inventory into multiple pages when necessary.
- Hovering over collectibles has been updated. The look is slightly different, but it also displays what the name of the item is again. This is something that was missing after we moved to XenForo.
- Since moving to XenForo, all items have a designated owner. They have all been set to me, but we have not actually used this feature. We will start moving these to our NPCs accounts. For example, the new Summer Shell collectibles will be listed under Pascal.
TBT Summer Build Event Results
Our Summer Build Event is now officially over. Both waves of the event had almost 300 entries each! Thanks to everyone who participated and special thanks to the staff who ran two big events right before The Bell Tree Fair! Staff favorites were picked from the entries and the winners were awarded the rare Pink Summer Shell collectibles. Let's take a look at the staff favorites from both waves.
Click here to see the winners of wave 1: build a campsite
Click here to see the winners of wave 2: build a café
All prizes will be completely distributed on Saturday and an update will be posted in this thread.
Updated FAQ Thread
Pinned at the top of the Bulletin Board for more than half a decade, gathering dust and out of date, was our old FAQ thread. We have now created a new version of it based on the old one, which you can find here: Frequently Asked Questions About The Bell Tree. Thanks to @Mairmalade for compiling it together and to the new and original writers. We hope it helps!
Additional Turnip Board Changes
In our last Direct we focused on several updates related to trading including the introduction of our new Turnip Stalk Exchange Board. After seeing the new board in action, we decided to make a few modifications. First, we're getting rid of the Buy and Sell prefixes because their meanings aren't always clear to users. Buying from Daisy Mae is also rarely posted, so threads will now be for selling turnips to the Nooklings only.
Daisy Mae's prices can be posted in our new thread instead: General Turnip Discussion & Buying Thread. This thread is for general discussion about turnips, Daisy Mae's Sunday prices, and "looking for" posts. If you're looking for a place to sell your turnips, please use this thread instead of making a new one in the board. New threads should only be made for listing prices on your own island.
Free Bells!
We couldn't have a shop focused Direct without a bell giveaway! That's right, our famous TBT Direct bell giveaway is back, so click the link below for a free 75 bells. Feel free to use them towards one of our new items or perhaps you'd rather save for the upcoming collectible market spike. It's up to you, they're your bells now!
Click here to receive your 75 Bells!
The Bell Tree Fair is Starting Soon!
Tonight's announcements may now be over, but the excitement is only beginning. Our biggest event, The Bell Tree Fair, is starting this Sunday! This is our first TBT Fair since 2017 and it's looking like this could be our biggest event of all time. It will be running for four full weeks, so get ready for it!!
👁” as soon as i saw free tbt LMAO
