Fall Composting!

The Recycle Beast needs your help composting all of those beautiful items you've been collecting over the years (.... and is concerned you've had gourds collecting for years 😬).

Head over to the Recycle Beast Composting Heap (say that five times fast...), and read further here for how this works.

The Recycle Beast is taking a lot of items, and you can easily browse and see what items you can expect the recycle beast to take. Hopefully this level of detail makes it easier for you to jump right in to features like this (and we'll continue to do this going forward!)

There are two trackers on the main composting page, the 🥇 solo and 🌎 community tracker. Each item you compost (maximum 50 per day) will count toward both of these trackers.

The composting heap prizes are also split into the two categories.

🥇 solo prizes are items, and you can choose the same item with each tier (50, 100, 250, 1000), or choose a different item. You can choose the book each time! I'm particularly excited for the 🌽

🌎 community prizes are attached to your account, and each redeemable once, but you can choose the order! Things like title bundles, avatar borders or a new category of cosmetic: Reactions!

You can use reactions on the new Kumos site on news comments, forum posts, and avatars. We'll be introducing it to further places soon and hope it's a fun way to further use NPCs during events as prizes.

This iteration of composting will be open until November 17, so you can get rid of any leftover pumpkins and ToT treats!

October 28, 2024, 8:16 pm by Flame
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The search doesn't seem to be working right, it says there are results, but I can't see them. The icons are also bunched up really weird unless I zoom out to 50 percent or less, and I'm on a laptop, not a phone.

October 28, 2024, 8:15 pm by -HyperBlossom-
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thank you for the info. Let me go in my vault and look for other items. :) I hope this new feature becomes a permanent one here on the site!

October 28, 2024, 8:12 pm by BoaConstrictor
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Thank you, Keith, for trying to help! I can change the theme, which will only alter the top bar, but the background stays black and I see no way to change it. Naturally l miss all my widgets on the sidebar...

Where is the explanation to all this? Costs of the items? How much is the book? It says: Available Community Prizes 2 prizes available to claim. How, why, from what? Hesitant to click on anything, because I might loose a fortune. I've hardly slept in 2 days, because too much life but want to do my dailies and Morostide here... I don't have time nor wish to need to do something off site...

"These are the items that the Recycle Beast will take for composting in 2024. Showing 1 to 100 of 1616 results." Are you kidding me? I'm supposed to (account) search 1616 items, if I have them and want to recycle them?!

No hovers on the items shown except name, no account search... So I need to account search here? And then, what? I'm just lost and I am out. If only I didn't need 20 of those books...

I really don't have the time to read for hours or try to figure it out on my own... still need to do almost all quests and haven't battled AT ALL YET. Bad timing during an event. Not funny.

October 28, 2024, 8:11 pm by Sirensong
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I'm trying to be patient here, but it's clearly not my strong suit. :P. I have done 50 items, but my progress says 2/50 items to next solo prize, and I am unable to claim anything, and unable to compost any more items.

October 28, 2024, 8:09 pm by Keith
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a screenshot would be 🙏 really useful 🙏, otherwise I'm not sure how to resolve what you're talking about!

October 28, 2024, 8:09 pm by Bliss
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I have. I recycled all my battle goodies and selected my prize for today, which was the blacklight corn

October 28, 2024, 8:08 pm by Damon
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Managed to donate before it went down.

October 28, 2024, 8:07 pm by Amber
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There a lot of other items you can donate [@-HyperBlossom-] if you don't want to compost your pumpkins! Fantine will still ask for pumpkins come Fireside, and we thought about that when setting up all the foods the morostide compost would accept!

October 28, 2024, 8:06 pm by Frenchi
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urgh still not quite vibing with having to use the new site. everything is squished to the right of the screen instead of taking advantage of the whole page width... maybe once the layout is improved to be less claustrophobic and anxiety-inducing...

as for this feature in particular, i think clicking anywhere inside the item box (including the image) should select it, not just the item name or checkbox itself. also a way to see how many out of 50 you've selected that stays with you as you scroll the page, since it took until i got to the bottom to realize i'd somehow selected 52...

October 28, 2024, 8:06 pm by Keith
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This is separate from regular recycling, have you done 50 composts through this feature today?

October 28, 2024, 8:04 pm by Keith
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  • 🆕 select all button (will select up to the number you have remaining for the day)
  • 🆕 reset selection button
October 28, 2024, 8:04 pm by Bliss
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It says you can onky recycle 50 items per day, which I already did, but says I can recycle 50 more.

October 28, 2024, 8:04 pm by -HyperBlossom-
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Interesting new mechanic, but I'm kinda against it. Do you give the Beast other items or just the pumpkins on the vine? I'm upset about this because I save all my pumpkins during Morostide, so I can give them all to Fantine for Fireside.

I mean don't get me wrong I love all the community events and challenges, plus there's like 10 different pumpkins floating around Subeta we can just catch.

Just sharing my thoughts.

[tot=-hyperblossom] and [tot=-rollingbubbles-]

October 28, 2024, 8:03 pm by Rat
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yeah disregard my post im just dumb >_>

excited about this fearure!!!

October 28, 2024, 8:02 pm by jKat
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Wow, this is exciting thankyou. I'm really not a fan of the kumos site though, it's so hard to navigate around.

October 28, 2024, 7:59 pm by Bliss
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Thank you so much! I look forward to recycling, instead of fragging for crystals! Haha

October 28, 2024, 7:59 pm by DryadGurrl
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- I don't have a facepalm gif big enough for this. I could swear up down and sideways that I'd done that already, but apparently not! Because now I'm in. Thank you!

October 28, 2024, 7:59 pm by Rat
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or maybe im going crazy and i actually only had 2 pumpkins cause now its displaying them as individual items. maybe i just thought i had the whole stacks out

October 28, 2024, 7:58 pm by Rat
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not sure where to post this and havent read all the comments yet but im pretty sure having stacks of items for composting it takes the whole stack and doesnt count them all. I had around 8 pumpkins in my inventory (two different kinds) and clicked each pumpkin on the composting page, my initial thought was oh man will i have to do them one at a time because the UI didnt display it was a stack. but instead both the stacks gone and it says i only donated 2

October 28, 2024, 7:57 pm by Keith
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There might be more items added to the pool (right now it's likely broken in our new admin panel for this, but I'm fixing user bugs first!) but for now you can assume that the items it's asking for now will be asked for the entire time, and there might only be NEW items asked for

October 28, 2024, 7:57 pm by Tammynoneed20
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I got my Loame minion thank you thank you I love this

October 28, 2024, 7:57 pm by Amber
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You can donate up to 50 items a day and they can be any of the items that are on that list. We didn't want to limit people to like... just pumpkins and have them all bought up. :)

October 28, 2024, 7:56 pm by Keith
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Have you tried resetting your password? It mentions it on the page itself, but if you haven't reset your password in the last year, it's using an old encryption method that needs to be updated.

October 28, 2024, 7:54 pm by Bliss
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I don't know if this question was asked, but, will the items change daily, or will the item remain tje same? :)

October 28, 2024, 7:54 pm by DryadGurrl
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I still only get 500 Server Error whenever I try to log in on the new site, and I know we'll be moving over there eventually, and it'll be sad that I can't go too because it doesn't work for me (on chrome or on firefox OR on my phone)

October 28, 2024, 7:53 pm by Faune
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You can't blame a girl for trying xDDD I must say the spread of prize "types" is very nice and does a good job of having something for everyone.

October 28, 2024, 7:52 pm by Sirensong
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Is there a problem with the cache? It said I had 15 items left to do. Gave it 15 more pumpkins, and it still says 15 to do. :(

October 28, 2024, 7:52 pm by Keith
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I'm bringing up an additional kumos server, it wasn't easy to anticipate what this traffic was going to look like. Another thing we have to do for now is reset the cache every ~15 minutes because it gets out of sync with the main site. At some point, we'll be able to reverse that, and it'll be a huge speed boost!

Anyway: Enjoy choosing your prizes, and remember that these are composting prizes! The recycle beast is likely going to need composting of specific other holiday items in the future, and the prizes available will most likely only grow ;) This just gives us another tool in the toolkit for getting out items for a sink.

I promise I'm working on a 'check all' (up to 50)!

October 28, 2024, 7:50 pm by Amber
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okay but you can have a small army right now with the various ways we have pet slots available! small army is still army

October 28, 2024, 7:49 pm by Brian
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but some of us are out here trying to build an army! ;)

October 28, 2024, 7:46 pm by Amber
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omg i am not giving out more pet slots!!! We've used that consistently for quest-a-thons and other stuff, that it was nice to hit up other parts of the site (and also god so many pet slots available already).

also yes the art is A+++++

October 28, 2024, 7:45 pm by Faune
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Also this art?!

October 28, 2024, 7:44 pm by Faune
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I love this! Love having both solo and community parts to the event and having the "pick the order of your prizes" thing! Would totally love to see pet slots end up released through something like this ;) Kumos is moving a bit slow atm, just fyi. It all went through for me though :)

October 28, 2024, 7:44 pm by Keith
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It's where the new code is, and where we'll be directing users from this point forward. I'd recommend shifting to feedback on how to make it less jarring, or what you'd be looking to bring over from the existing layout as the move is already in motion

October 28, 2024, 7:43 pm by Mightyena
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I really enjoy this - so far. It's a bit difficult since the other site's links and whatnot is like... HUGE and takes up a lot of space and website acts broken. It's taking in the pumpkins just fine but it's hard to claim the two community prizes. Slowness I'm sure is cause of the traffic so that's not too bad. (On Firefox if needed.)

October 28, 2024, 7:43 pm by Brian
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What's the little star indicate in the item list? ⭐ Maybe I just missed where that was already mentioned.

October 28, 2024, 7:43 pm by Keith
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It sounds like there might be a bug for you, but also if you go to https://kumos.subeta.net and browse to the bottom of the page, there is a selector, you can choose a different theme that might not load so poorly for you?

And yes, we're going to be (finally) starting to transition features to (yes, another) site. It's much, much easier to build on and you can see from the things launched on it just in the last few days:

  • New Outfits / Saved Avatars Page: A way to browse saved avatars from all of the other users (and your own), set a new privacy setting (with the default being unlisted now) and the ability to give hearts and thumbs up to avatars!
  • The work to get those avatar outfits touched up in the database let us build the new wearable item usage page that displays some interesting item details, that we can easily build on!

And this composting feature, where we can easily pop in a pool of items (https://kumos.subeta.net/details/location/1 and list them all!) that are being requested and, on a timer, give out items - this will be the foundation of rebuilding some of our oldest holiday features.

Some exciting things the kumos site unlocks:

  • Rewriting our old flash to very very basic javascript games becomes much easier
  • Quick building of most of our 'click and do things' pages because we've created the building blocks
October 28, 2024, 7:43 pm by Sekhmet
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  1. Kumos Subeta looks very jarring on desktop,

  2. There is no "select all" button so I have to click 50 TIMES,

  3. On Kumos Subeta I can only see a fourth of this wonderful new picture of the Recycle Beast because it's being squeezed by the format,

  4. Kumos Subeta looks very bare-bones and not ready for users - why force users to use it?

October 28, 2024, 7:40 pm by Floriography
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Okay now that it's loading lol I love the community prize option of Currency Bundle Forum: 5 Referrals: 2!

October 28, 2024, 7:40 pm by Skolletta
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Fun item sink idea! Keen for the 'select all' button.

Joining those hoping that these items are either rereleased or that there are ways to obtain multiples, as in more than 5 items total. The corn is already 2 slots and I would like as many books as possible, plus one of everything else! Happy to divest the site of many, many items to get them.

October 28, 2024, 7:39 pm by SYLVAN
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A little glitchy at the moment. Had to log out and log back in a couple of times to get it to work. And cosmetics arent loading, so even though i've claimed the new border I can't use it. The compost feature could be a fun way to get rid of seasonal junk piles when everything is working better though.

October 28, 2024, 7:38 pm by Bowie
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this is so cool!! im glad i saved up all my pumpkins hehe >:) ((side note, i tried to claim the 2 avail community prizes (i picked border and titles), but only the border says claimed, but it says i have 0/2 prizes left to claim? i know its new and working out the kinks i just wanna make sure i didnt do something wrong lol! ))

October 28, 2024, 7:36 pm by BoaConstrictor
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I don't understand a word... So the Recycle Beast has 2 places now? Why?!?!??? And I absolutely hate that black Kumos site/layout. Really don't want to do anything/be there. As well as have no desire to play on 2 sites? Can we not do that on Subeta proper?

October 28, 2024, 7:35 pm by Amber
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That's because it's an autumn-themed compost run right now, . Pumpkins, squash, and gourds are all accepted. There will also be lots of candy from Morostide, as a "leftover from the holidays" type thing.

October 28, 2024, 7:35 pm by misskass
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Right now we're around 8300 community donations, so I should have 2 community prizes, right? I've only claimed the Currency Bundle and it says I'm back to having 0 prizes to claim. https://imgur.com/a/0Xy0T1X

October 28, 2024, 7:35 pm by Marcus
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Oh this is a really cute way to create an item sink! It'd be cool to see this come back for Neugarten and Vesnali as well.

October 28, 2024, 7:30 pm by Keith
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Completely agree on making a select all button, working on that now 🫡

October 28, 2024, 7:26 pm by Haswari
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I'm only seeing Morostide items, maybe Fireside as well, but it's literally all holiday items.

October 28, 2024, 7:26 pm by Net
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error 500 when trying to claim forum titles?

and agreed is it possible to get a select all for selecting items to donate?

October 28, 2024, 7:25 pm by Foghawk
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This seems fun. The composting page desperately needs some sort of numerical input (or better yet a 'max amount of item' button), though; clicking fifty times is not much fun, and the multi-second lag on the 'items selected' counter makes it easy to go over the limit and have to scroll back and forth unchecking items.

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