🎁 Mysterious Melody Returns!

Melody, holding a package closely and looking outward

This year, Melody has revamped her holiday gift exchange to bring even more festive cheer and fairness to the season! We heard your feedback about previous years' one-to-one matching and are excited to introduce group exchanges with a sprinkle of Melody magic. Here’s how it works:

What’s New This Year?



  • Group Matching: Instead of being paired with one person, you’ll join a group with four other real users and Melody herself! This helps ensure the gift exchange stays lively and fun, even if some participants are less active.

  • Melody’s Magic: Our beloved Luminaire NPC, Melody, will actively add items to the gift pool throughout the day by purchasing from user shops. This ensures there’s always a little something extra for everyone, and you might see her in your shop logs!

  • Daily Resets: The exchange resets at midnight Subeta time every night. You can join one group per day, and you’ll be matched as soon as four other participants are ready.

How It Works



  • Contribute Gifts: You can add up to five items to your group’s gift pool each day.

  • Quality Counts: While price matters, Melody also values how useful and unique your items are, as well as how often they’re used in the community.

  • Gift Distribution: At midnight, Melody will distribute all the items in the pool randomly, ensuring fairness by making sure you don’t receive any of your own gifts.

A Few Notes for the Best Experience



  • Think Fairly: To keep things fun and avoid disappointment, consider balancing your contributions. Adding extremely high-value items every day may not result in equally valuable gifts, simply because of the nature of the exchange.

  • Everyone’s Different: Remember, users have varying access to items and points. This is about embracing the joy of giving, not just the value of receiving.

Looking to the Future


While we’re not using it yet, Melody is keeping track of the quality of gifts you contribute. This score might influence future groupings, so your generosity (or lack) could help you match with equally enthusiastic participants in the future.

We hope this new format makes the exchange more inclusive, festive, and fun for everyone. Let’s embrace the Luminaire spirit together! 🎄✨

Happy gifting! Click here to navigate to Mysterious Melody!

December 31, 2024, 2:02 am by Blueberrii
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even with all the bugs n hicups i am so impressed and loved this addition! First runs are always wonky its to be expected. This was so much fun thank you Subeta Team ♥

December 21, 2024, 10:01 pm by NoCuteNameForMe
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This needs a lot of work. Am unable to see all of my items available to donate, and keep getting 404 errors when I try to view another page of items.

December 20, 2024, 12:09 am by Lighthouse
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Same. And my results just now, 2 of the 5 members didn't send anything at all...I don't think they should receive anything in this case. :/

December 19, 2024, 9:53 am by Kaje
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Can we link MM somewhere? I have to scroll back in the news for the link, unless I am missing one!

December 15, 2024, 1:22 pm by Banana
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I agree, some people really put in no thought. Since posting my original comment I've definitely had better groups but there's still always that one person putting in like only fairies lol. I don't even think that's just having less to contribute, to me that just screams "I don't give a shit" and that's what grinds my gears. I'm def having fun and enjoy this MM much more than the old one, I've gotten a couple wishlist items and when I get stuff I don't need I just put it back in the pool instead of selling it because I don't want the profit, someone else will appreciate it for free. I just don't think there will ever be a way to get around people taking advantage and it's sad people are like that.

December 15, 2024, 9:44 am by KayKayB
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Question: how do I get this MM achievement ? Mysterious Melody Enter in the Mysterious Melody!

December 15, 2024, 7:34 am by Rienquish
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I'm actually extremely happy with this MM, maybe I just keep being very lucky but I feel like every day there has been one or two people who put in very good items and most days one of them has put in extremely good stuff and I keep getting a nice variety of things back, makes me want to put in more and more valuable items to pass the generosity of others forward. I'm so happy with what I've gotten so far that I would not mind even if I got just junk for the rest of the month. I also keep getting mostly 6 out of 28 items when everyone donates, but usually there's at least few items with so good value/from my WL that I don't really mind someone else getting a few more. Definitely prefer this over the old MM.

December 15, 2024, 5:37 am by Chezzerai
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I am officially done with MM. Everyone contributed but I still only got 6 items out of the 28.

December 15, 2024, 12:07 am by Lighthouse
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All of my bunches have been duds. You can tell no thought was put into any of the items. They were basically just randomly tossed or someone wanted to ditch their junk. Tonight I literally donated everything I got. I don't care about value, but at least put a little thought into it, don't just toss a bunch of faeries or random dice(Just examples of the types of items that I been getting, not these actual two items) into the pot and call it a day.

December 14, 2024, 7:02 pm by forcryinoutloud
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I'm really enjoying this version of MM.

One thing I noticed though is that on the mobile version, the join page didn't reload after I was added to a group, so ended up missing a day, as I kept waiting for it to tell me I was added to a group & after about fifteen minutes got distracted & forgot all about it. Now I refresh several times after five minutes to make sure I don't miss again.

December 13, 2024, 12:41 pm by Sheap
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Could I add a little insight? The misterious Melody link at Melody's page https://subeta.net/explore/melody.php Send youto an error page. What if, you redirect it to send you to the actually (and functional!) Misterious Melody at the Kumos site?

December 13, 2024, 7:49 am by Tofu
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Mysterious Melody IS FUN and I mostly put items from 200k to 3m as I'm not super rich, but seeing people join to put only junk under 10k sP is kinda sad.

December 13, 2024, 12:54 am by Rienquish
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So something I've wondered for the past 2 rounds, if you give no items in this MM, do you still get items in return and more importantly, can you get some of the items others have given? For the past 2 days there has been 1 person in my groups who gave 0 items and both times I got 6 items back. If everyone else who gave items also got 6 back, there would've been 5 left in the pool as melody added 8, were those 5 given to the one who gave nothing? To me that would be unfair as no matter how broke you are you can always afford to give something, especially since you're getting something in return.

December 12, 2024, 8:48 am by orgasmic
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The link for MM from Melody's cottage and artic frost are not working. Only way to get to MM is through this post

December 12, 2024, 1:41 am by Stigs
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mysterious melody not resetting and i already bought items for the next group, halp

December 12, 2024, 12:46 am by RaiChan
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Can we wither get a side spot on the news page for MM, or update the link on Melody's page for it? It redirects to saying it's closed still from there

December 12, 2024, 12:40 am by Wolfmyth
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My group from yesterday (12/11) gift's have not been distributed...I've gotten no notification, and I can see the items I put in when I click the link. I also can't join a new group.

December 11, 2024, 3:36 pm by Okiama
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Yesssss, fingers crossed I get some good groups. :)

December 11, 2024, 2:59 pm by Stocking
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I really like it so far!

December 11, 2024, 1:56 pm by Banana
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my exact feelings atm. First night I did cash shop and subq items and learned my lesson lol last night went a lot lighter and got an even worse group. But I’m nervous about adjusting what I spend because of the data that’s being collected, I want fun groups but I also don’t want to feel taken advantage of x____x

December 11, 2024, 11:32 am by Skull
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The page also won't scroll for me.

December 11, 2024, 11:05 am by Nicole
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I was having that problem too and then adjusted my page to not be at 100%. I think at 50% I could see it.

December 11, 2024, 10:53 am by Adina
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Ok first day... my gifts were just ok. Today I got some bomb stuff. I'm having a hard time finding the right balance of how much to spend on this. LOL

December 11, 2024, 10:53 am by Adina
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Ok first day... my gifts were just ok. Today I got some bomb stuff. I'm having a hard time finding the right balance of how much to spend on this. LOL

December 11, 2024, 7:28 am by Kinky
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I literally can't scroll to either enter another MM for today or see what I got yesterday.

December 11, 2024, 6:50 am by Envy
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Anyone else here who literally can't use the Kumos site at all? After a few seconds every page I load just crashes or something and google chrome gives me a "STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION" error. Any way to fix this?

December 11, 2024, 5:39 am by Bauble
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I really love this feature, I also like seeing what I get. xD It's nice to know some of what I'm getting and having other things a mystery. I hope this feature stays for a long time.

December 11, 2024, 2:10 am by Freakshow
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Anyone having issues with the page only showing half of Melody's head and not loading or scrolling fuether? I can't access the page at all :c It was working just fine yesterday...

December 10, 2024, 11:33 pm by Garis
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The link isn't working

December 10, 2024, 8:58 pm by Bro
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i made up for yesterday with today's gifts.. sorry to yesterday's group (fell asleep) LMAO

December 10, 2024, 8:25 pm by pinkbee
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fixed

December 10, 2024, 8:16 pm by pinkbee
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500 server error

December 10, 2024, 8:15 pm by twishu
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Ywyayayyayayay

December 10, 2024, 7:52 pm by Corrupt
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Loving this but weirdly got one of my items back. I did the night before in the testing groups too so maybe there is a slight chance?

But its still fun and I'm enjoying the surprise ^.^

December 10, 2024, 7:45 pm by Rogue
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Any chance you can update https://subeta.net/explore/mysteriousmelody.php to redirect to the new MM? Right now it shows the 'MM is currently closed' message.

December 10, 2024, 6:41 pm by glir
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I suggest to add the category "currency" in the list of item "uses" :)

December 10, 2024, 5:41 pm by Net
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I know but from the comments here and the forum feedback some people did. It was mostly a joke, the items I put in were not hard to get so I am happy for someone else to save their currency and have them instead! :)

December 10, 2024, 5:12 pm by Asellus
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several of us did get our own back though, I went and double checked to make sure I was the only one who put it in and despite that I did get one back :)

December 10, 2024, 4:02 pm by Rat
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My group last night was lovely! I think i put in more expensive stuff, but i mostly used currencies like Blue building/quest points so they were still "free" to me. Today I put in slightly cheaper ones (but still in the 100k-1mil range) which was more the speed of what I got last time. It is nice to have a place to send some stuff thats been accumulating, be it currencies or items sitting in my shop all year

December 10, 2024, 3:17 pm by NoCuteNameForMe
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Thank you for this! I have desperately missed this feature. 🤗💛🤗💛🤗💛

December 10, 2024, 3:16 pm by Inknote
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THE WAY I SCREAMED YES WELCOME BACK MM!!!

December 10, 2024, 1:49 pm by Theatre
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Could we get the Mysterious Melody link added to the sidebar of the news page OR could the link to Mysterious Melody from Melody's Cottage link to the new Kumos MM? It still currently just takes you to the "this feature is broken, there will be a news post if it unbreaks" error message. Once this news post is buried by a few other news posts, there's not a convenient way to find MM again!

December 10, 2024, 1:41 pm by BoaConstrictor
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This new MM is on Kumos, not the regular site. Just like the pumpkin composting.

December 10, 2024, 1:12 pm by Aimee
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it says you won't get your own items back:

Gift Distribution: At midnight, Melody will distribute all the items in the pool randomly, ensuring fairness by making sure you don’t receive any of your own gifts.

December 10, 2024, 1:03 pm by Theatre
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the site is shifting over to kumos, the new website, bit by bit as Keith reprograms aspects of the site. So new/updated features like MM will be over on the new site. You must be logged in on Kumos to participate. It is your same subeta login.

December 10, 2024, 12:11 pm by LadyTamarwen
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December 10, 2024, 11:52 am by Danny_Sadler
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The rules indicate that the algorithm will at some point begin to group people automatically by the average value of their offered gifts, so that people who consistently contribute low-value gifts will be grouped with other people who do the same, in order to disincentivize that kind of thing.

December 10, 2024, 11:14 am by Rainstorm_Witch
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how come I click on the link in the news area and it sends me to the new site log in page???? Why I am logged in here, not making any sense..... can't get into the MM at all Can someone explain this please.

December 10, 2024, 11:06 am by Net
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Interested to see what happens at midnight! I actually threw in some wl items of my own just in case I get my own items back lmao

December 10, 2024, 10:44 am by Holly7465
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I think I saw a feedback thread earlier but am not seeing it now. I received two of my own gifts back as a heads up.

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