discobiscuit

that took a dark turn from "hang in there!" didn't it?

At first, I thought this Candy design was kinda meh, just looked lazy and like a different form of a Jelly or Gold Chomby with a stick. But, now that I see the little bugs in it, I think it's pretty neat! Those scorpion / spider lollipops were always so mystifying to me as a kid lol! I do wish they made them look a little bigger, it'd make the design a little more eye-catching in my opinion. But I like the connection to animals being encased in amber, fitting for a prehistoric Pet!
And another addition to the museum set! This one is really nice, although a bit spooky...
The fire spikes are cool, kinda give the Chomby a neat kind of mohawk haha. The cactus ones are adorable, and probably my favorite of the whole set! The little flowers really bring it all together. And the balloon ones are nice and colorful! I thought they were gummies at first though
A really awesome day, Chombies!

I did! Mintyfish is at level 503, with strength and defense just above 750.  I did move HP up to 1008 but I don't think I'm going to push it to 1500.
There's no increase in multiplier after 750 for strength or defense so one could safely stop at level 375, but because I had put HP at 840 on my own, I had to bring level up to at least 420 in order to do anything with strength/defense.  Once I did that, I made a goal of getting to level 500 to be able to get the last level of faerie abilities.  I'm collecting my bottled faeries for it now.
I should mention that by the end, I'd invested into Faerie Quest Fortune Cookies, so I spent the last few months doing a faerie quest every day (sometimes twice - thanks faerie festival!) and upgraded randomly for much of the way and trained to even things out.  To be honest, the FQFC path was more fun than the full-time training grind, but you might have to spend real life money for it.  There have been in-game gifts of NC lately and I happily spent it all on fortune cookies.

Thanks for adding your confirmation to the conversation @discobiscuit! So did you finally max out your Strength and Defense, so you could focus on HP? All that training of nothing but level, man I can imagine how frustrating that must've been!

@discobiscuit  That was exactly what I was concerned about.  Thank you!  I know it was annoying when I got a couple faerie quests that put me from 4 codestones to 5 because my strength was too high, so I can't imagine doing it with the reds.  I'd likely cry.  Of course I'm also a girly little thing, so it's a bit understandable.

This is 100% true.  If you're at level 100, you can train your strength or defense (or movement) up to 200 and your hit points up to 300.   However, once you go over 2x with hit points, you can only train hit points further (up to the 3x level maximum).  No more strength or defense while you're doing this. 
I did do this, thinking I wanted it, but I was wrong.  In my humble opinion, you should increase HP to 3x at the end of your training journey not the middle!
I kept strength, defense, and hit points 2x my level up until about level 280 when I noticed for the first time that one could up the hit points to 3x the level, so I went wild and got my hit points to 840 before I realized I could not train my strength or defense until I reached level 420.  All I could do for 100+ days was to train level and nothing else. 
I have done the math (after doing all this, not before like a sensible person) and depending on where you stop training strength and defense (there's no reason to go higher than 750), it's between 11 and 14% cheaper red codestone-wise to train everything up 2x until you hit level 500 and then increase hp as much as you want. 
Realize that no matter what, you're in for finding 1200 to 1500 red codestones.  Not having to buy 200+ extra codestone is obviously cheaper and will take several weeks less to complete, but that's not why I'm warning against going 3x early.  I can tell you the sad grindy-ness of level day after day made me hate the game:
If I got to do a faerie quest that gave me 3 HP, I got mad!  You should be happy something that would cost 300K np to do cost nearly nothing, but my joy had been ground down to a nub.  In those days and days of grinding level out, I passed the Adept and Advanced levels of training, so once I reached the 2x limit, all my progress on strength and defense cost 3 red codestones.  I had to skip over the 2 codestone cost entirely.  I felt that I'd missed out on the cheaper tier even though mathematically it was only for 14%, it still made me grumble. Maybe if I'd chosen the path purposefully at the start, I wouldn't have felt that way, but all of a sudden realizing I had to level up about 200 times before I could change anything else wore on me.  And, of course, some players are going to be fine with it, but I think you're better off knowing what you're up against beforehand.
(I'm better now that my pet's levels and stuff are properly aligned)
 

This is 100% true.  If you're at level 100, you can train your strength or defense (or movement) up to 200 and your hit points up to 300.   However, once you go over 2x with hit points, you can only train hit points further (up to the 3x level maximum).  No more strength or defense while you're doing this. 
I did do this, thinking I wanted it, but I was wrong.  In my humble opinion, you should increase HP to 3x at the end of your training journey not the middle!
I kept strength, defense, and hit points 2x my level up until about level 280 when I noticed for the first time that one could up the hit points to 3x the level, so I went wild and got my hit points to 840 before I realized I could not train my strength or defense until I reached level 420.  All I could do for 100+ days was to train level and nothing else. 
I have done the math (after doing all this, not before like a sensible person) and depending on where you stop training strength and defense (there's no reason to go higher than 750), it's between 11 and 14% cheaper red codestone-wise to train everything up 2x until you hit level 500 and then increase hp as much as you want. 
Realize that no matter what, you're in for finding 1200 to 1500 red codestones.  Not having to buy 200+ extra codestone is obviously cheaper and will take several weeks less to complete, but that's not why I'm warning against going 3x early.  I can tell you the sad grindy-ness of level day after day made me hate the game:
If I got to do a faerie quest that gave me 3 HP, I got mad!  You should be happy something that would cost 300K np to do cost nearly nothing, but my joy had been ground down to a nub.  In those days and days of grinding level out, I passed the Adept and Advanced levels of training, so once I reached the 2x limit, all my progress on strength and defense cost 3 red codestones.  I had to skip over the 2 codestone cost entirely.  I felt that I'd missed out on the cheaper tier even though mathematically it was only for 14%, it still made me grumble. Maybe if I'd chosen the path purposefully at the start, I wouldn't have felt that way, but all of a sudden realizing I had to level up about 200 times before I could change anything else wore on me.  And, of course, some players are going to be fine with it, but I think you're better off knowing what you're up against beforehand.
(I'm better now that my pet's levels and stuff are properly aligned)
 

And don't forget (like I ALWAYS!!!! manage to!!!!) that the snowager is hibernating this month ❤️  

At around 8am NST this morning players were experiencing some concerning account issues. It was allowing users to see information from accounts that were not their own such as other player's site themes, pets, inventory, SDB, bank accounts & more. Whether users were able to actually DO anything with the data they were seeing is still unknown. It's not confirmed whether people were able to pull NP from bank accounts or send items to themselves from the inventory data they were seeing for example. There was also issues with multiple pages throughout neopia giving a 404 Page Not Found error. 

The site was put into maintenance around 8:56am, you will not be able to access Neopets till TNT has solved the issue and has brought the site back online.

If this was really a Charity Corner event, limits would make no sense since the point was to clean up our excess safety deposit box clutter.  Were we shown what perks or prizes we could get ahead of time?  I don't remember donating to the Charity Corner to get to a specific prize level. 
To me, this event is really a Faerie event (free quests!) but with a recycling side event to win valuable prizes and that's different.   The limits seem to be there to keep players with deep SDB's from snarfing up a billion valuable stamps or battle dome weapons. 

If this was really a Charity Corner event, limits would make no sense since the point was to clean up our excess safety deposit box clutter.  Were we shown what perks or prizes we could get ahead of time?  I don't remember donating to the Charity Corner to get to a specific prize level. 
To me, this event is really a Faerie event (free quests!) but with a recycling side event to win valuable prizes and that's different.   The limits seem to be there to keep players with deep SDB's from snarfing up a billion valuable stamps or battle dome weapons. 

If this was really a Charity Corner event, limits would make no sense since the point was to clean up our excess safety deposit box clutter.  Were we shown what perks or prizes we could get ahead of time?  I don't remember donating to the Charity Corner to get to a specific prize level. 
To me, this event is really a Faerie event (free quests!) but with a recycling side event to win valuable prizes and that's different.   The limits seem to be there to keep players with deep SDB's from snarfing up a billion valuable stamps or battle dome weapons. 

The two buttons represent stacking and unstacking the items. The one on the left keeps them stacked, so if you had, let's say, 3 Thornberries, they would all be taken up by one block in your Inventory, with a little circle on it showing the amount you have. If you have the right button toggled, there would be 3 separate blocks for each Thornberry, as they are all unstacked. This goes for any item in your Inventory that has more than one.

After many weeks of spending several lab ray cookies, color, gender and species changes I finally have a (male) Ice Hissi! Context: I got Kaskafil (his name) on Hissi day and wanted to get him ice since he'd look cool and like the Snowager, which is my favorite neopian monster. But since I didn't have the money for a potion to do that I tried my luck with the lab ray. When he (or she at the time) became a species that couldn't become ice I used a Starry Grarrl Potion to raise the ice-zapping chance. And finally after quite a (long) while my pet turned ice and I used a premium perk to change him into a Hissi. I am VERY happy that my patience and effort has paid off in the end. Just wanted to share this with you all.
 
Now to decide what to paint my Chomby...

I had to log out and then log back in again to get the message that I got free NC.  I didn't notice my NC balance change until the the next day, although I wasn't looking especially hard.

when you click on the bag in your inventory but don't open it, this is what comes up in the box: This was the Free NC Goodie bag given out to celebrate Neopets 23rd Birthday! And while youre at the mall, make sure to use the limited time Discount Code! Only available through November 30th, type the code Y24BIRTHDAY into the discount box at checkout and receive 150NC off any purchase of 1000NC or more! Happy Birthday Neopets!

The text from the free goodie bag from the NC mall mentions it.  I opened it already, but I think it was "Y23BIRTHDAY". 
It gives you 150 NC off a 1,000 NC or more order.

Pro tip: if you want to use your birthday discount at the NC Mall and you're thinking of adding some fortune cookies to your order, be sure you do it from inside the NC Mall and not from Noda's fortune cookie shop.  At Noda's, you conveniently buy the cookie right then and there and it never goes into your shopping cart and the cart is where you type in your discount code.  Just do a search for fortune cookies at the main mall page and then you can do your shopping cart magic.

The text from the free goodie bag from the NC mall mentions it.  I opened it already, but I think it was "Y23BIRTHDAY". 
It gives you 150 NC off a 1,000 NC or more order.

Pro tip: if you want to use your birthday discount at the NC Mall and you're thinking of adding some fortune cookies to your order, be sure you do it from inside the NC Mall and not from Noda's fortune cookie shop.  At Noda's, you conveniently buy the cookie right then and there and it never goes into your shopping cart and the cart is where you type in your discount code.  Just do a search for fortune cookies at the main mall page and then you can do your shopping cart magic.

Hey @GrandNana that wasn't a response, its just the "signature" for the post. That means it comes up at the end of the person's post, just like underneath mine will be my wins for the Runway contest. It's not directed at a person 🙂

If you can't find your birthday bag, check the NC tab of your inventory!

If we're to assume the heads from the Von Roo plushies went to the kougra plushies, what happened to the kougra heads?  Does some evil Neopian villain have a trophy wall of plushie kougra heads in his mansion?
 

AHH!  AHHHH!  AAAHHHHH!!!  I probably did the ctrl+left click trick a few thousand times, but I FINALLY GOT ONE!  Oh my goodness, I'm in shock right now!  The funny thing is I didn't even catch the screen I finally managed to get it on because I was closing a hundred or so tabs waiting to try again!  **does happy dance**

The default for the forum software TDN uses is 10 reactions/day.  They may have it set higher (or lower) but I was curious and did some googling.

The default for the forum software TDN uses is 10 reactions/day.  They may have it set higher (or lower) but I was curious and did some googling.