Dev Logs

All users who submitted prompts from before the new submission system was implimented have recieved the amount of Opals they would have gotten with the new system!

View the January 2023 Prompt Compensation Summary

If you believe your prompt was overlooked, please check the table linked above; if the missing prompt is there, but listed as "0" under the "Granted" column, it means the rewards you previously recieved were greater than or equal to the amount the new system would have granted.

In addition, all users who sumbitted prompts through the old system have also recieved a Party Favour box-item, which can be opened in your inventory for a few goodies!

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment on this Dev Log!

Update 2: The maintenance is now complete! Thank you all so much for your patience!

With the update, we've overhauled our prompt bonus system to hopefully improve the user-expierence! No longer will you need to pull out your calculators and textbooks; instead, simply fill out a set of fields and the site will do all the math for you!

• Still confused? We've also updated the prompting tutorials to reflect the new system (although images and examples are yet to be added).
• If you encounter any bugs, do let us know via a bug report!

In addition to the prompt-form redesign, we've also updated our bonus-reward amounts to more fairly reward you for your hard work! And if you submitted a prompt using the old system, never fear! You can expect to recieve a mod-grant of Opals to compensate for the system updates sometime later in the day on January 2^nd.

Thank you once more, and we wish you happy prompting!

Update 1: Prompt submissions are now closed!

Prompt submissions will be temporarily closing at 9:45 PM CST for maintenance. It's suggested that you refrain from submitting prompts last-minute. This is to avoid forms closing in the middle of your submission, although should this happen, you would simply need to re-fill and re-submit the form after maintenance is completed.

All other site activity may continue as normal during this time. Prompt submissions will reopen shortly after maintenance is completed!

It was brought to our attention that there was no mention in our Designing a Safiran tutorials that if a Safiran has a required trait, we request for it to be visible in the main Masterlist image. We have since added a notice to both our "Creating a Safiran" and "Creating an Aqualox" guides.

Along with it, we realized that there was no mention of Safira Island's take on copy-written characters/designs. We have since updated our Submission Guidelines on our Terms of Service to elaborate on this subject.

With this update, we offer a friendly reminder that you can update your Safiran's design at any time, without the need for any items. This means if you no longer like the square soul stone your aqualox has or it's many octopus tails, you can simply submit a design request!

A bracket was overlooked at some point in the site's code, causing a 500 error to return when attempting to submit prompts. This has now been fixed, and we apologize for any inconvience this may have caused!

There was a known issue where users could not upload avatars if they were accessing the site via mobile. This has been fixed, although the visuals are not perfect. The "Choose File" button still does not show, but if you click the empty box above the submit button, it will still allow you to choose a file!

Update: breifly forgot this error also occured in galleries! This has been fixed, as well.

For the next subject, we've just created a new item type: potions! Although we are still working on the item art, potions will change your Safirans stats, and are one-step closer to allowing the site shops to open. Keep an eye out for another Dev Log on the launch of these new items, or a News Post for when the shops in the Bazaar officially open!

On a side-note, we've also updated the footer to separate "Socials" and "Contact" and subtly restyled News Post headers.

Elaborate stats are a fancier version of your regular stats, which require elaborate stat points to level up. The addition of these special stat points is yet to-be released, but (for the sake of the database) elaborate stats are required to be listed on the masterlist database. This allowed users to level their elaborate stats with regular stat points.

An update was just applied that should now prevent that from happening. Safirans who have leveled their elaborate stats with regular stat points have kept their levels, should there be any such cases. (Consider it a gift!)

If you notice any issues with your stats, do let us know through a bug report, but otherwise enjoy prompting!

You may have noticed a few new items, badges, and pages appear recently; consider them to be teasers for the upcoming event! With the exception of the designs to be released later in the month, all preparations are now complete! We hope to see you this Sunday, December 18^th.

As for our site tutorials, these silly things are proving difficult to create, and have had their dates pushed back once more. After a second time of moving the date, we've decide to not give a hard-date for when they'll all be completed. But, there is good news! We will be working hard to release all event-essential tutorials before Sunday. This includes the tutorials on Creating a Safiran, Prompting, and Galleries. They may not look the prettiest, but all necessary information will be there. A million thank-yous for your patience on this one!

You can view all available tutorials here!

Some downtime was experienced yesterday while the Safira Island website went  through the largest step of it's overhaul. Many changes have been made (including the addition of these very dev logs!) which will all be discussed in an upcoming news post, which you can expect to see sometime later tonight or earlier tomorrow. 

Although there are a handful of minor display hiccups for mobile users, all features -- new and old -- should be ready for use!

If you ever encounter any bugs, please feel welcome to file a report; your feedback is immensely appreciated!