Welcome back to Rexalia!

As of the posting of this journal, our hiatus is over! We have tons of cool new things to show you, so without further ado...

Design Changes

All of our design guides have had a big overhaul! They should be easier to read, more consise, and have more examples of the things you can do!!

These guides have only three tabs: The Overview tab, where you can read the rules and ranges, the Special Interactions tab, where all special interactions with each marking is listed, and the Examples tab, where any extra explanations and examples are shown!

With these changes, some markings have changed rarity, a few have been merged, and all markings are now considered "DOM!" We know the rarity change might have affected that of your Rexals! You will find in your inventories that you've recieved Marking Crystals and Deposits for any Rexals who used to have DOM markings, markings that lost rarity, or had "duplicates" of merged markings! You can find the breakdown of what all you recieved in your Communications!

Here is a list of changes made to Design! If you'd like to read ALL changes made to the markings themselves, you'll have to read their guides!

• Breeze, Brushed, and Pigment were made Common.
• Tears was made Uncommon.
• Lamia and Small Scratches were made into Free Markings.
• Sundry's base import has been retired.
• From now on, all Rexals with Sundry should be submitted on the regular Base Import! You can still use Sundry's "base import" for your line edits though!
• Dust and Daub have been merged.
• Swathes and Squall have been merged.
• Petal and Pursuit have been merged.
• Most of Pursuit's former abilities now fall under Daub- But Pursuit's edge modifier effect is now allowed as a Special Interaction between Petal and Frontier!
• Pink Sheen, Latro and Free Gradient have been retired as markings. They are still allowed to be used freely on the import.
• Rain is now allowed to use the Grey slider alongside Pastel and White.
• Remissus is now allowed to be White OR Black.
• Breeze now adds the allowance for a second Adjacent slider to be used for ANY marking.
• Natural sliders are now allowed to be used as ANY base coat's Adjacent slider.
• Pigment, Arcane, and Breeze are now allowed to affect as many markings as you'd like. They cannot affect the basecoat.
• Frontier and Delphic are now allowed to affect as many DEFINED-edged markings as you want. They cannot affect the basecoat.
• Fade and Varnish are now allowed to affect up to 100% of the design.
• Laurel is now allowed to affect up to 40% of the design.
• Gradients are now freely allowed on ALL markings, regardless of edge type.
• Soft, Semisoft, Hard, and Textured marking edges have been retired. Everything is now Defined (Edge should be hard enough to be clearly visible when the import is zoomed to 100%), Undefined (Edge should blend into other colors when the import is zoomed to 100%), or Free (Edge is allowed to freely verge between the two).
• Pangare and Laevis have had their Premade layers updated!
• All markings are now allowed to use their previous DOM ranges, all ranges have been cleaned up, and some have been expanded to cover more of the Rexal! We reccommend that you re-download all Marking Ranges if you have downloaded them previously!
• Import Edits have had some big changes! Read the New Edit Items guide to learn more!
• Reset Rocks now only reset the design! No more MP consequences for deciding you don't like the way an old design looks.
• Marking Crystal limits have been removed!

Alongside those changes, we have updated the Base Imports to include the Lamia layers, and change some little things on the legs that were bothering Vuek!

MP/AR Changes

Judico team has been hard at work trying to make sure everything is easy to read and understand!

Now all Ascensions and ARs are located in their own pages, and Quests have their own rules listed in their new guide!

All Ascensions, ARs, Quests, and Events are submitted through the MP Counter and their bonuses are applied when they're submitted! Quests have also had their MP bonus increased to +20 MP and Ascensions now recieve +25 MP!

Here is a list of changes that we have made to MP, ARs, Ascensions, and Quests!

• New Ascension prompts have been added!
• Ascensions are now allowed to be Monochrome. ARs, Quests, and Events still must be full color unless otherwise stated.
• Deep Diving has been retired, along with Diving Levels.
• The Posian Trench is now an available dangerous location for Scouting.
• Ways to achieve the Planes background standard have been expanded for indoor images.
• Walls, Ceilings and Floors can now each count as a plane providing the following criteria is met:
• The plane is sufficiently detailed (eg. a brick wall, a wooden plank floor, a stalactite cave roof).
• OR
• The plane is defined by an element (eg. A door in a wall, a rug on the floor, a chandelier on the ceiling). Elements used in this way cannot count towards the elements part of background scoring.
• The MP counter now automatically adds MP for Shading, Personal Rex, etc based on the Body Sections count given!
• "Risky" and "Safe" routes have been added to Scouting and Drudgery for every location. This is part of the AR form and purely mechanical.
• Risky: increased injury chance (ignores rank) but +1 loot item guaranteed.
• Safe: normal injury chance and items.
• Dolmades no longer require Regal IV to use. You can send any below-ranked Rexal to a Dangerous location as long as they have Dolmades.
• Healing now rewards loot!
• Bases now award full MP.
• BUT they can only be for MP. Reused art cannot be used for ARs, Quests, Events, Ascensions, or Courtships.
• MP Card cap is staying at 50 per month. You may only submit a maximum of 150 MP per card.
• Up to two alternate versions of imports can be listed in your rexals attainments tab. These are legal for art and can be used for child/old man injury/pre injury marking pre marking etc.
• You must use the appropriate items to add an import here (eg Charmed Items, Paint, etc.).
• Literature collabs and roleplays no longer have separate rules. All words are scored for both Rexals.
• "Icons/Pixel Art" (Rexes under 150x150px) bonus has been retired.
• "3D Models/Physical crafts" bonus buffed to +25 MP.
• Personal Lit no longer caps at 1400 words!
• "Other player-owned Rex" bonus is no longer personal-only. All Rexals must still be linked!

Please note: MP will not be recounted to account for new rules. Ascensions have had their bonuses adjusted.

Breeding

Breeding has recieved a complete overhaul! From now on, all breedings result in Semi-Customs!

All breedings now result in one egg, with a minimum of 8 "Mana points"! You may use a Courtship/Loutrophoros or a Love Stew to add 1 more Mana Point each (for a total of 10) and/or make the egg Sterile for an extra +3 Mana Points!

Here's a list of things that have changed with Breeding!

• Courtship art no longer requires a background.
• Courtship literature's minimum word count has been changed to 300 words.
• Sex has been removed.
• Love Stew now adds +1 Mana Point.

And finally, our re-opening Event!

As a last thing:

Please keep it civil in the discord. You are free to voice your opinion, either for or against these changes, but you are not free to get rude. Again, we would love to please everyone, but we have to make sure we are creating a game that we enjoy as well.

Know that many of these changes have been freshly made, and will require bug testing by you all! Please feel free to report any and all bugs you find in the Bug Reports forum in our discord!

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