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mspaint scribble of DM_LAB7

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throwback to the silly tigerstar pencil case idea

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Writer Applications

I am looking for people to help write quests and story-lines for the Shifting Stars RP. Shifting Stars is a Warrior Cats based Minecraft RPG server. For quests, we use the plugin BetonQuest. Shifting Stars has the main four Clans from the books (ShadowClan, RiverClan, ThunderClan, and WindClan) on completely new territories, other than that there is currently no set lore.

If this sounds interesting to you, join the Discord to apply (the form link is in #announcements)! Anyone is allowed to apply as long as you have a Discord and Minecraft (Java) account and are at least 13 years old. Applications close on January 1st, 11:59 pm PST

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Shifting Stars - Weather & Seasons

Global weather conditions can affect your stats and movement. Weather changes have a chance to occur about every 20-30 minutes. The current weather is displayed at the top of the screen.

In addition to weather, there is a seasons system. Each season lasts 21 real-life days, or about 100 in-game days (which are 5 hours long). Seasons affect weather, herbs and prey spawn rates. Some herbs can only be found during specific times of the year.

During Leaf-Bare, prey numbers decrease dramatically. You will be able to preserve prey during this time, lowering its quality (so it fills less hunger), but preventing it from rotting.

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When it's raining, hygiene decreases faster and there's an increased chance of catching Whitecough or Greencough. Standing under cover will negate the negative effects of rain.

Rain also washes away scent trails over time, so storms can be advantageous if you're trying to cross Clan borders without getting caught.

It can start snowing in late Leaf-Fall all the way until early Newleaf. In the warm and hot temperatures, snow starts melting. After Newleaf day 7, all snow is automatically removed.

Snow can fall through leaves and covers any one block tall plants. Using your claws, you can dig up snow one layer at a time, and have a chance of getting a snowball which can be used for making potions (with a high enough Medicine ability) or just to throw at people.

During blizzards, snow will fall about twice as fast. Too much time spent outside during a blizzard will give you the Freezing condition, which may kill you if you're not careful. But you can warm up near light sources or by being surrounded by other cats.

When the temperature is Cold or Freezing, energy decreases faster, while in Warm and Hot temperatures, thirst decreases faster. Average temperature has no effect.

Burning is a temperature which only occurs during droughts, a weather event which has a small chance of happening in Greenleaf. During droughts, thirst decreases extremely fast, and staying outside too long can give you the Heat Exhaustion condition. You can cool down by staying inside dens or in water, or by using Soaked Moss.

Wind can push living entities and items around. In extreme winds, it can become incredibly difficult to move. The direction of wind only affects where entities are pushed, it otherwise has no effect. (For clarification, the direction displayed in the HUD refers to which way the wind pushes you.)

In Strong or Extreme wind, players and mobs get pushed. Standing behind blocks, being underground, inside buildings, or under large trees can prevent the wind from hitting you, so you won't get be affected (this effect only applies to Players to prevent lag).

Item weight is taken into account such that heavier items (or stacks of items) will move slower than lighter items.

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my goal for 2025 is small simple and clear: change my whole entire life

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Shifting Stars - Weather & Seasons

Global weather conditions can affect your stats and movement. Weather changes have a chance to occur about every 20-30 minutes. The current weather is displayed at the top of the screen.

In addition to weather, there is a seasons system. Each season lasts 21 real-life days, or about 100 in-game days (which are 5 hours long). Seasons affect weather, herbs and prey spawn rates. Some herbs can only be found during specific times of the year.

During Leaf-Bare, prey numbers decrease dramatically. You will be able to preserve prey during this time, lowering its quality (so it fills less hunger), but preventing it from rotting.

[More info under cut]

When it's raining, hygiene decreases faster and there's an increased chance of catching Whitecough or Greencough. Standing under cover will negate the negative effects of rain.

Rain also washes away scent trails over time, so storms can be advantageous if you're trying to cross Clan borders without getting caught.

It can start snowing in late Leaf-Fall all the way until early Newleaf. In the warm and hot temperatures, snow starts melting. After Newleaf day 7, all snow is automatically removed.

Snow can fall through leaves and covers any one block tall plants. Using your claws, you can dig up snow one layer at a time, and have a chance of getting a snowball which can be used for making potions (with a high enough Medicine ability) or just to throw at people.

During blizzards, snow will fall about twice as fast. Too much time spent outside during a blizzard will give you the Freezing condition, which may kill you if you're not careful. But you can warm up near light sources or by being surrounded by other cats.

When the temperature is Cold or Freezing, energy decreases faster, while in Warm and Hot temperatures, thirst decreases faster. Average temperature has no effect.

Burning is a temperature which only occurs during droughts, a weather event which has a small chance of happening in Greenleaf. During droughts, thirst decreases extremely fast, and staying outside too long can give you the Heat Exhaustion condition. You can cool down by staying inside dens or in water, or by using Soaked Moss.

Wind can push living entities and items around. In extreme winds, it can become incredibly difficult to move. The direction of wind only affects where entities are pushed, it otherwise has no effect. (For clarification, the direction displayed in the HUD refers to which way the wind pushes you.)

In Strong or Extreme wind, players and mobs get pushed. Standing behind blocks, being underground, inside buildings, or under large trees can prevent the wind from hitting you, so you won't get be affected (this effect only applies to Players to prevent lag).

Item weight is taken into account such that heavier items (or stacks of items) will move slower than lighter items.

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Shifting Stars - Health Mechanics

On top of Minecraft's base health and hunger, Shifting Stars has 3 extra stats to keep track of: Thirst, Energy, and Hygiene.

Stats are shown either above the hunger bar or on the scoreboard on the right side of the screen. Which display is used can be configured in settings.

All 3 are a number out of 20, just like hunger, they will decrease over time.

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Thirst

Thirst is increased by right clicking water, or using certain items such as Soaked Moss.

Thirst decreases faster in hotter weather. You can negate this by staying inside or under blocks.

If your thirst reaches 0, you will start taking damage until you die.

Energy

Energy decreases faster in colder weather unless you're near a light source (torches, fire, etc.) or while swimming (unless you're Riverclan level 6).

You can sleep to increase your energy by right clicking on a Nest (beds). Nests come in different colors which mean different things:

Green: Clean, sets energy to full

Brown: Dirty, reduces Hygiene, deals 2 damage. Right click with Dry Moss to clean

Gray: Infested nest, spreads ticks.

Lime: Healing nest. Sets energy to full, cures bleeding and infection condition.

Magenta: House cat bed. Sets energy to full, never gets dirty or infested

When you sleep, you are teleported to a random Dream World. In dreams you can run around and explore as usual, but cannot use items or interact with anything. If you die in a dream, you wake up and don't lose any items. To leave the dream, you use "/wake"

If your energy hits 0, you pass out and lose about half your items.

Hygiene

Hygiene goes down faster while it's raining, and very fast if there's a storm.

Having less than 7 hygiene (3.5 stars) increases your chances of getting Whitecough or Greencough. At 0, you get ticks.

You can increase your hygiene by grooming yourself. To do so, use the Swap Item keybind while holding your claws, then hold Right Click.

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staying silly despite the odds !!!!!!!!

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OH MY GOD I FOUND IT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR AGES

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My dogs are really begging for liquid hot molten fucking magma

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Are your kits texting about code-breaking?

LOL - Loving Outside Laws

STFU - Starclan's Trust Fails Us

IDK - I Date Kittypets

LMAO - Lamenting My Ancestors' Oath

IDC - I Despise the Code

OMG - Obey Mapleshade's Ghost

TBH - Trespassing Borders is Hilarious

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Chapter 8 of Place Your Bets on Winning Hats is up!

As usual, mind the content warnings

I'll reblog w/ all the artwork later today when its not 6am (up all night oops) and when i write out all the img IDs properly

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it's genuinely insane just how much queer infighting starts and ends with people being mortified at the idea of having to Share.

share words, share experiences, share spaces, share the internet.

at least kindergartners are fighting over physical toys that Exist. people on this site are going blue in the face fighting over sharing Concepts. Ideas. things that will literally never, for as long as anyone lives, be in short supply.

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so fucked up that alliums exist in Minecraft but not onions or garlic or anything. STEVE YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON A CULINARY BREAKTHROUGH JUST DIG DOWN A LITTLE FURTHER

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I finally finished all the prey item textures!

(From left to right) Frog, toad, lizard, carp, trout, minnow

rabbit, weasel, mouse, pheasant, squirrel, sparrow, rat

Plus the server has an actual icon now lmao

It's temporary and low effort, but it's a lot better than the previous icon (which was just a random screenshot of the in-progress map from like 3 years ago).