More Store Items and Gen 4 Horses (May 26th, 2023)

- Three new horses to tame with Clint: Amber Champagne Horse, Bay Roan Horse, Buttermilk Buckskin Horse

- Horse armors to buy for the Amber Champagne Horse, Bay Roan Horse, and Buttermilk Buckskin Horse at Ye Cloud King's Cumulonimbus Menagerie Cloudland store

- Fixed the graphic for the Epic Summer Cape, Epic Autumn Cape, Epic Winter Cape not showing the back

- Better organized the order of the Tailer merchant's store items

- Increased the requirement for the "Flower Power" achievement from 20 to 22, to include the two new flowers add in this year's Spring Garden event

- Fixed the new Blue Rose and Pink Daffodil flowers being unable to be placed in pots for the Spring Garden event

- Added [!!!] icons for the Freshwater Crab and Flying Piranha quest spawns in the Cera Altepetl Boundary for Freshwater Crab Critter Capture and Piranha Critter Capture quests

- Can no longer start the Catching A Cactus quest line when working on a quest hub other than the Cenote Site in the Salt Desert

- Updated the graphic for and changed the name of the Sandstone Sundial to Stone Sundial ranch item

- Changed the name of the Sundial ranch item to Sandstone Sundial

- Added 6 new achievement tiers, 2 more for each of the Amicus wandering merchant achievements in the shopping achievement category. They are: Gilded Gold Purse, Mr. McDuck, So Many Shinies, Gem-my More!, Premo Purchases, Big Buck Buyer

- Added a whole whack of new store items to the following stores…

General Store:
- Fancy Fork
- Gilded Telescope
- Green Quiver
- Wing Shield

VIP Store:
- Arcane Scroll
- Gilded Fountain Pen
- Purple Battle Banner
- Red Star Banner
- Silver Wing Shield
- Blue Rune Blade
- Wand
- Golden Morning Star
- Platinum Fork
- Feather Parasol
- Star Wand Companion
- Flappy Book Companion

Flux Store:
- Drill Wand
- Status Screen

Alchemy Shop:
- Display Potions
- Purple Glass Cauldron
- Green Glass Cauldron
- Orange Glass Cauldron

Casino:
- Stocked Display Case
- Green Star Banner
- Fountain Pen
- Golden Pickaxe
- Fabulous Feather Parasol
- Gold Fork

Amicus Island Token Store:
- Patchy Panther Plush
- Wolf Puppy Stuffy
- Potted Hibiscus Flowers
- Chalkboard
- Blue Barrel
- Big Donut
- Pink Umbrella

Tailor:
- Dancing Shoes
- Heavy Armor Stand
- Ratty Indigo Cape
- Plain White Tee

Stylist:
- Costume Makeup Kit

Botanist:
- Wall Clippers
- Spider Plant Vase
- Potted Shrub
- Potted Pine Bush
- Potted Pine
- Withered Flower Pot

Furniture Salesman:
- Star Banner Post
- Shovel
- Pitchfork
- Stable Gate
- Red Bucket
- Ladder
- Water Trough
- Timber Archway
- Neglected Display Case
- Inn Key Board

Pet Saleswoman:
- Hay Trough
- Hay Barrel
- Plant Barrel

Mechanic:
- Catapult Model
- Chainsaw
- Steam Light

Pawn Stars:
- Magic Wand
- Fountain Pen
- Battle Axe
- Ancient Ice Sword
- Wood Bow
- Star-ish Wand
- Morning Star
- Fork
- Rusty Broadsword

Mad Hatter:
- Black Bear Hat

Contractor:
- Boom Gate
- Toll Booth

Burglary Boutique:
- Crystal Fireball
- Ruby Chunk
- Alien Flower
- Morphing Wall Butterfly
- Chocolate Razor Donut
- Large Loaded Display Case
- Wonder Wand
- Pixel Pickaxe
- Ultra Bopper
- Pitchfork Companion
- Ruby Gem Companion
- Tea Cup Companion

Spring Garden Event (May 12th, 2023)

- Updated Spring Garden Event
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Added 6 tiers of VIP event rewards
- Added !!! icons to the rock and tree spawns for the bee quests
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Added Blue Rose and Pink Daffodil growable garden decorations
- Added new garden items: Stone Path, White Bench, Log Bench, Wood Bench, and Long Wire Fence
- Added 3 more bee pets to choose from at the end of Joel’s bee helping quest chain: the Golden Tail Bee, Green Sweat Bee, and Purple Orchid Bee

- Fixed gifting VIP memberships being unavailable after the 50% off deal in 2021

- Moved Snow Block and Witch Hat ranch items from the Plants category to Misc Outdoor

- Moved Sports Bed and Pet Bed ranch items from Plants category to Beds

- Fixed the Pasture unlock quest chain being incorrectly unavailable for some players

A Peaceful Pasture

Howdy there, Bush Whackers! Take a gander at an all new zone, the Pasture; complete with a Barn that will train your pets for you, earning them XP while you're off on your adventures! Not only that, you can decorate this zone much like your House, Golf Course, and Island.

But hold your horses; You have to unlock it first!

Unlocking the Pasture

There are two phases to unlocking the pasture: the community phase, and the individual phase.

Community Phase

Before each of you can unlock your own Pasture zones, you'll first have to complete a community quest to save derelict barns across Bushwhackia at risk of condemnation by winning a legal battle in Commons Court!

Let the barn battle begin!

Unlocking Your Pasture

The requirements to start unlocking your own pasture zone are the following:

- Level 110+
- Have owned 10 pets
- Have owned 4 mounts
- Progressed to the Deep Swamp or farther

Once you meet these requirements, you'll be able to start a quest chain at Clint or the Town Crier that, once completed, will unlock your own Pasture.

Note: If you skipped the Lower Evergreen Forest zone, you will eventually need to go back and complete it to finish the Pasture quest chain.

Pasture Features

Like your other zones, you can decorate your Pasture to your hearts content and your friends can come visit!

What sets the Pasture apart from your other zones is the Barn!

A Battered Barn

Inside the Barn is room for several Training Pens which you can purchase. 2 pens can be bought for Gold and Gems, another 2 for Bush Bucks, and 2 more for Gold and Gems after you've upgraded your Barn.

Training Pens

Training Pens allow your Pets and Mounts to earn XP while you're away adventuring! This means, among other things, you can keep your high level pets and mounts equipped to optimize your bush whacking, while leveling other ones at the same time. This can help you raise Pets for to release at PAGAS for rarer DNA!

CAUTION: Check in on your mounts regularly if you're raising them for certain bonuses. You'll want to feed them the desired Feed (alfalfa, beans, etc.) between levels.

There are two kinds of Training Pens, ones for Pets and ones for Mounts.



To use a Training Pen:

1) Click on it to open up the Training Pen pop-up
2) Set the occupant
3) Add some Training Kibble.

It's that easy! You'll need to top up a pen's feed at least every week or so. You'll receive a notification on the bottom right if a pen is occupied and out of feed.

If you have enough Training Kibble in your inventory, clicking the "Fill" button will top up the Pen's stockpile to its maximum. Otherwise you'll see a "Buy" button that will take you to the "Ye Tutelage Paddock Supplier" to purchase more kibble.

Training Kibble

There are 2 kinds of Training Kibble you can purchase right from the Training Pen: Training Kibble for Gold and Nutritious Training Kibble for Bush Bucks. Nutritious Training Kibble yields DOUBLE the XP of Training Kibble. Nutritious Training Kibble is a more efficient use of your Bush Bucks compared to buying levels at Hank the Farmhand or Clint, but you have to wait for the results.

The Training Pen popup will tell you the projected XP gains given the current amount of Kibble in the pen.

Barn Embiggening

Some time after having unlocked the Pasture you'll get the opportunity to upgrade the Barn! The requirements for upgrading the Barn are:

- Level 320+
- Have owned 50 pets
- Have owned 20 mounts
- Leveled 25+ pets to level 40 (released pets included)
- Leveled 15+ mounts to level 40 (released mounts included)
- Purchased 2 training pens
- 10 Pasture expansions
- At least a day since you unlocked the Pasture

An expanded barn has room for 2 more Training Pens and has a fresh coat of paint to boot!

Giddy Up!

Post your comments and questions here on the forum!

Change Log

FAQ

Can I place an expiring Pet or Mount into a Training Pen?
You can! It will gain XP like a normal Pet/Mount. It will automatically be removed from the Training Pen when it expires.

I cannot start the quests but meet all the requirements!
If you're unable to start the Pasture unlock quests, check your active quests in your Quest Bar/Quest Dialog for any that might involve expanding your ranch house, buying the private island, or building the cottage. Any quest chain that at some point requires Jim's lumber quest cannot be done at the same time as another. This means if you've got the house expansion, private island, or cottage quest chains active you won't be able to start the Pasture quest chain.

Will Pets and Mounts in Training Pens still get XP when I'm not logged in?
Yes. Your Pets and Mounts in Training Pens will still get XP when you're logged off or not actively playing the game, so long as they have enough Training Kibble in their pen. When you next log in to the game, the Training Pens will still count time you didn't have the game open.

Pasture Zone! (May 5th, 2023)

- Added Barn Battle community quest to make Pasture zone unlock quests available

- Added quest line to unlock Pasture zone

- Added new Pasture zone:
- Can decorate and visit, similar to House, Course, and Island
- Has Barn which can be outfitted with Training Pens
- Can assign pets and mounts to Training Pens to have them earn XP automatically
- Read the blog for details: http://codenameentertainment.com/?page=bw2&post_id=1539#blog

- Added 4 new tiers to the Pet Whisperer achievement category

- Added a Mount Whisperer achievement category with 5 tiers

- Added 1 new tier to the pet hatching achievements category

- Added the Prairie ranch style to the Contractor merchant (Requires Pasture unlocked)

- Added a filter/search bar to the ranch store

- Ranch store remembers what category you were in last the next time you open it

- Added categories tab to ranch inventory

- Added Pet, Mount, Food and Drink, Lights, and Mini Golf ranch categories to ranch inventory/store

- Removed Crates and Barrels ranch category

- Changed Misc Indoor ranch category graphic from lamp to stove

- Changed which categories some ranch items belong to

- Permitted more ranch items on the mini golf course

- Ranch categories are now sorted alphabetically

- Allowed the following ranch items on the mini golf course: Love Mailbox, Easter Mailbox, Spring Mailbox, Lucky Mailbox

- Renamed the second Tulip Planter ranch item to "Tulip Tow Planter"

- Renamed the second Tulips ranch item to "Tulip Vase"

- Added surfaces to the following ranch items: Rocking Chair, White Rocking Chair, Easter Bench

- Changed max description of VIP Energy Pack from 10 to 1, as the Perpetual Motion VIP power won't add any if you already have one

- Corrected a typo in "The Flungeon One" achievement description

- Reduced number formatting of your Gold on the Purchase Ranch Expansion popup

- Reran Doc Tan's Delorean limited-time quest (April 21 - 24)

- Reran Endangered Species mini event with 3 new pets (April 28 - May 2)

Spring Garden Event & Flungeon Improvements (May 18th, 2022)

- Updated Spring Garden Event
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Added Orange Rose and White Sunflower growable garden decorations
- Added new garden items: Blue Watering Can, Birdhouse, Blue Birdhouse, Heart Birdhouse, Garden Fence, Green House, Bee Box, Bee Hive
- Added 3 more bee pets to choose from at the end of Joel's bee helping quest chain: the Blue Banded Bee, Neon Cuckoo Bee, and Green Carpenter Bee
- Can now rotate roses, sunflower, daisy, and buttercup ranch items
- Can now reset the cooldown on the garden critics for 1350 Seeds or 12 Bush Bucks if they're all on cooldown and you have 100% or more completion of the event, by talking to the first critic on the left and choosing the "Judge Now" chat option.
- Critics will skip walking through your garden if your progress is past that judge's threshold (like how the kids will be too afraid to enter the Haunted Mansion in the Halloween event)

- Flungeon Improvements
- Improved and added more varied rewards to the depth chests in the Flungeon 20.0. If you’ve completed 5 or more depths, you’ll find a retro-active rewards chest outside the Flungeon 20.0, which will yield random better rewards based on the number of depths you've completed.
- Boss depths have better choices for chest items
- Path reward signs in the Flungeon 20.0 no longer indicate the amount. The amounts are now varied, so it’s a surprise when you open the chest in the next depth! You'll know what type of reward you'll get, but not how much or why sub-type. Eg. Gems, but which gems and how many?
- Boss rooms except for the final room will typically have better item choices than normal rooms
- Added a Flungeon 20.0 Terminus zone at the end of every tier you complete in the Flungeon, which is where you turn-in trophies, fish, and unlock things based on your highest tier unlocked.
- Moved the Glitchkeeper from the Flungeon 20.0 Fountain Depth to the Flungeon 20.0 Terminus
- Added a Glitch for the fishing quest in the Flungeon 20.0 Fountain Depth
- Flungeon puzzle images are now randomly selected from all puzzle images in the game
- Dungeon Area popup now shows cost reduction to the 1st decimal place
- Dungeon tier progress doors also show the reward icon, for clarity
- Clarified the "Walking the Key Path" achievement can only be done on tiers 5 or higher in the Flungeon
- Fixed the sliding image puzzle never appearing

- Miscellaneous
- No longer have to wait for your last friend to fade out before you can start your next Friend Whack
- Added sound effects to the jigsaw puzzle popup
- Added tooltip over gold amount on bottom right UI that shows full gold amount (instead of abbreviated amount)
- Currencies on the "Low Energy" pop up are now formatted with tooltips, and Jade is included
- Fixed the quest complete popups not showing during Nate's Agrabush Adventure
- Hid the debug lines on the Dog House Mini Golf Piece ranch item
- Fixed the area progress tooltip on the bottom right UI
- Fixed Red Couch ranch item not being placeable flush against the back wall
- Changed ranch store category for Volcano Lamp from Misc Indoor to Misc Outdoor
- Fixed the ranch store’s gem currency list
- Formatted the gold and bush buck values on the Build Mode display
- Formatted the costs on the ranch store items
- Renamed "Beehive" ranch item to "Bee Box"
- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!

Coppers of the Creature Collector

The eccentric Creature Collector has returned to the Commons, this time with a trio of plumedragon pets!



Head to the event area and choose one to train. You have until noon on Wednesday June 2nd to complete the collector's four daily quests, level up your chosen creature, earn Creature Coppers to spend in their store, and get another page to your Creature Collector's Compendium!

The Compendium Page will be given after the event ends. If you don't have the Creature Collector's Compendium ranch item, you'll get it when you get your first page.

After the event, the collector will be taking their creature back unless you adopt it by purchasing its corresponding mount pack, available starting Monday May 31st.

Train hard, Bush Whackers!

The training quests unlock at noon on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Those busy on the weekends can still catch up!

Notes
- The VIP "Quest Reset" power does not reset these mini event quests, and they are not affected by the Time Turner and Timey Whimey Watch.
- Swapping your event mount with a higher level mount doesn't count towards event progress.
- These three pets earn double the experience compared to other pets for the duration of this mini-event!

Ye Olde Creature Collector's Galleria - Pets

When you speak to Tanela Tiva in the event area, you can select the "What past pets are for sale?" chat option.

This will open a new store, which will contain 3 non-event premium pets you have never owned! They cost Bush Bucks, like in event stores. The selection will change next time Tanela Tiva visits to event area.

We've done this in response to players asking to see old premium pets they've missed out on, to help you fill out your pet collection. Snag those old-school mounts you're missing out on!

Read the Release Notes!

Creature Collector - Plumedragon Pets! (May 28th, 2021)

- Rerunning Coppers of the Creature Collector mini event with 3 new pets and custom items.

- Worked on the next major area content update!

- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!

Spring Garden Event (May 14th, 2021)

- Updated Spring Garden Event

- Added new customization and ranch items

- Added new ribbons and 100% reward

- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event

- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event

- Added Sunset Sunflower, Yellow Rose, Hedge, and Pink Hedge growable garden decorations

- Added better Spring Fruit II and Spring Vegetable II crops for players level 400+

- Now show if you’re in the top 10, 25, 50, or 100 on the screenshot contest summary page

- Can now stack ranch items on the Hay Bale ranch item.

- Worked on the next major area content update!

- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!

Are you tired of hearing endless talk of 'Endless Dungeons' by the devs? Roll your eyes no more, as a mini-event demonstrating a lite version of Endless Dungeons is here! Delve into the Lost Woods!

What are Endless Dungeons?

'Endless Dungeon' is the technical term for a new system, where you enter the dungeon, complete puzzles in a series of small areas, and collect a special reward at the end, where you return to the entrance and can enter again.

When you click the entrance of a dungeon, you'll see the following popup with some details about your progress in the dungeon. Click the big arrow/doorway button to enter the dungeon!

Runs and Tiers

Each of these can be called a "run". Each run requires you complete an increasing number of areas to complete. The first might be 3 areas, the next 6, then 9, etc. These goals are called "Tiers" of the dungeon. You start at Tier 1, complete its 3 areas, and claim its reward to complete it. You can then enter it again at Tier 2.

Each area has a small reward in a silver chest, and each tier has a more unique or greater reward.

Some dungeons will have a maximum tier (like the Lost Woods), and some will not. And some dungeons will have increasing bush whacking costs (bush energy and mana whack), and some will not (like the Lost Woods).

Areas and Effects

Each area of a dungeon is randomly generated. The field, the decorations, visitors, where you enter and leave, and the 'Area Effects'.

What are Area Effects? There modifiers like what your trinkets, pets, mounts, and runes give you, but apply only when you're in the area. These could be positive or negative. Maybe increase energy odds, decreased power odds, or maybe something more weird.

If an area has effects, you can see what the area effect is by mousing over the 'E' star near your mana bar.

What are the Lost Woods?

The Lost Woods are an Endless Dungeon with a maximum tier of 9 and no increasing bush whacking costs. These limits are added so it can fit in the limited time period of a week long mini-event.

To accommodate the different bush whacking skills of early and veteran players, you can complete the event by Tier 3, but can continue on for unique rewards if you're able.

In the Lost Woods, you whack bushes to solve field puzzles, area by area, in search of lost fairies and earn rewards as you delve deeper and deeper! Enter it via the entrance in the Commons event area.

This mini event runs until noon on Friday May 14th. Chat about this mini-event on the forum!

Lost Woods Mini Event (May 10th, 2021)

- Running a new mini event which demonstrates a lite version of the new Endless Dungeons system to be used in future permanent content. See Lost Woods blog for details.

- Updated admin tools.

- Changed Gnomevelopers 2 achievement to be tier 2 of the Gnomevelopers achievement.

- Worked on the next major area content update!

- Fixed various reported typos and quest descriptions. Keep the reports coming!