The names have been tallied and filtered through for our lil guy currently known as the "Tempion". That will change soon though! Four names have survived internal voting and now it's time for you to decide the fate (name) of the Tempion!

What better way to do that than a Neo Poll!
Yup, the old style neopets polls are back and in Moderneopets and we're kicking off with this!
Simply go to the front page and vote now!

Though it's encouraged to celebrate who you are all year around, this month is especially fun and important to all of the LGBTQI+ and other minorities out there! We've prepared a BIG update for you... I'm not kidding when I say BIG. It increased the total pet images on site by a whole 50% and had over 12,012 files to upload!

Lets hope things don't explode. If they do, blame Hazer.
This update is so massive that fitting it in a news post would not work. Instead, visit the Pride Event Page by clicking the text, giftbox or banner below your sidebar!

We at Moderneo love you all for who you are, and are happy to get the opportunity to celebrate with you!
We hope you enjoy this update as much as we enjoyed making it!

Turns out the issue wasn't the passwords... it was if you'd ever made a PIN or not in the past as they use the encryption.
All PINS have been cleared, please re-set a PIN when you can (if you want one)

If you didn't have a PIN to begin with, you can safely ignore this announcement.
No one needs to reset their passwords either, and you can ignore the -e-mail that was sent out to you (if you received it)

Hazer is a derp and overwrote his environment key which deals with encrypting passwords and other things.
Since this is one of the files that isn't kept on backup as it differs from server to server, I cannot reclaim it.
I have reset all your passwords and sent e-mails out! Sorry about the trouble but the encryption errors were making half the site unusable until people updated.
Sorry again for the trouble and I will definitely make sure this doesn't happen again.

(No, don't worry. Your accounts weren't compromised it was just me fucking up something)

-- It's taking some time for the e-mails to send out so if you haven't had one yet, you'll have it soon!
(( If for some reason the script fails half way through, you can always manually request a password reset ))

Now that the April showers have come and gone, here we have our May 'flowers'! Several pets can now be painted Woodland for a fun, foliage-filled new look!




The scent of fresh blooming flowers has also attracted the attention of the butterfly winged Faerie Ginko-- and what's this? A new alt for faeries seems to have emerged! That's right! Some of the older faerie pets are being rejuvenated by renewed Faerie energies and will be coming out with Fanciful new looks!


This month is full of fascination and wonder, the moment you think the excitement is over a splash of magic hits you! Oh, it was just some new Maraquan pets playing in the water! Enjoy the new Chia, Ginko and Motere Maraquans!

It seems like a bunch of broken lamps have been thrust out of magma vents into the seas recently. Our good friend and scavenger Iris has been on the lookout for them; adding them to her collection and her shop!


You will now be able to find these old rusted lamps in Iris Pearl Paradise for a low price of only 500 Golden Shells!

They're in a bit of a beaten up shape but who knows, maybe someone with expertise in fixing and mending items could come to your rescue and make these lamps glow beautifully like they were always meant too!

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Motere lovers out there will enjoy this colour update! It features Five new fuzzy little friends for you to admire and play with!


This update will be a hit with the Ogrin lovers out there - these pets rarely get treated to new colours so having 3 new colours including 2 alts being released will hopefully make your day!

We haven't got a system automatically set up and running for pet days; so we haven't really celebrated them. Eventually this will change in the future. For now Admin has thrown in 300 Cybnuuys (Cybunnies) into the Create-A-Pet page! Grab them before they're gone!

Hello everyone! We have an important announcement regarding an overhaul on which the art team has been slowly working on for a while now.

You may have noticed that the Island pets have been put under construction (image seen above); this is a temporary notice and our artists are working on a simple basic recolour to replace the islands soon. The recolours will also be a temporary state of the island colour whilst our art team works diligently with the Consultants team we have to create a more culturally uplifting and appropriate island experience for you.

What is the Consultant Team?

If you're not on the discord you may not know this - but we have a consulting team regarding the racially insensitive material that is unfortunately prevalent in Neopets. It's been slow moving trying to gather people who are suitable for giving the feedback and who are personally affected by the state of things; but our ducks are in a row and we've been making considerable progress recently! That being said we always need more opinions! Though we're not ready to open the Consultants Team to public applications just yet, it will be open soon!

The Consultants Team will be a system in which Moderneopets players who are added to the team will be asked for their valuable cultural experiences in order to better reinvent certain aspects of the site (be it art, functional lands like Mystery Island or Shenkuu, items or neopets lore). Users who have relevant personal experience will be encouraged to apply to the Consultants Team if they wish to work with our artists in order to realize a more accessible and more sensitive vision of Moderneopets. A position on the Consultants Team may require users to engage with sensitive subjects, as well as creative thinking, flexibility, and collaboration with other users and the Moderneopets Art Panel in order to come to the most viable solutions with what resources we have available.

Why has it taken so long?

Given the sensitivity of the material we want to make sure that it's done right; that we don't repeat the same mistakes as Neopets. We've been discussing and working on guidelines to follow to make sure the Island colour is appropriate and inoffensive, but that has taken time.

Though, I (Hazer) should have replaced the Island pet images with a placeholder long ago, and I apologize for not doing so sooner.
I hope we'll be able to bring Moderneopets into a more inclusive and accepting site and hope you will enjoy what we have in the works!
It might take some time still, but now the ball is rolling we can't be stopped.

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Please note you may still see the old island images, in this case you will need to clear your cache!

The rain seems to be pouring down over Neopia and it seems like some pets are feeling the burn from it, these grey pets are perfect for those rainy days. (I'm sure they're enjoying the weather in their own way). Though the rain and upcoming higher temperatures will lead to...


When the clouds part the sun will shine down and the flowers will blossom; A truly joyful time for the spring and sun loving pets of Neopia. They bounce and bound around in joy -- their colours reflecting the colourful time of Late Spring and Early Summer! We have THIRTY NEW POLKADOT PETS!


That's not just all - there are a bunch of pets with a Pastel Alternative to the Polkadot colour!

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