Luminaire: What is it?
Each day throughout the month, Melody will be giving out new treats. There are two achievements regarding Melody’s Cottage. If you visit every day through the 25th, you’ll receive an Essence of Melody, which is essential to making a Nostalgic Pet! If you make it every day of December, you’ll get the Melody Regular 2020 achievement. We haven’t added an item prize yet, but there will be one before the month finishes.
How do you get ornaments? You can donate sP to Melody after visiting her cottage for the day and receive an Old Box of Ornaments. When you open the box, you’ll find a random selection of ornaments. If you are missing ornaments, please file a ticket.
Only want friends to leave your gifts under your tree or maybe no gifts at all? You can adjust your Luminaire gift settings here.
Luminaire ends at 11:59pm on December 31.
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Delirium
I also came to ask about the fairies. I've only received them from forum posts so far. :C
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Les
Is there a list of missing Lumi ornaments? I don't know if I've lost stuff or not because I only see my ornament inventory every Christmas season.
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Sunshine
hahaha, this year i was planning to actually visit melody's cottage every day and i managed to miss december first in its entirety, *whoops*!
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Frostseraph
My tree and only my tree is not showing up, and neither clearing cache or switching to another browser helped. Was looking forward to decorating my first ever luminaire tree :(
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SilverScreen
Thank you so much for the explanation! Super excited to get involved. Thanks for all you do, staff! <3
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Moonbeam
Hopefully the fairies will be showing up on we are done throwing things into the Bonfire! I'm so excited to start gifting and lurking forums!
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heartshaped
I painstakingly decorated my tree and saved it, only for it to not save my decorations. :| My tree is nakey.
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Reaper
I forgot that December meant Melody and Lumi until I went to do my dailies today. This has been a long year, but thank you to staff for all the work y'all have been doing and for making sure we have something festive to enjoy ♥️
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KimC
I guess my tree will just not be decorated this year. Nothing I've done so far will make it show up for decoration.
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ennui
thank you for taking the time out to explain the event for newcomers! <3 side note, my tree doesn't seem to be appearing on my profile. is there a way i can make it appear? :V
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Lighthouse
The only bad thing about mysterious melody is that sometimes the person expects you to be on all night.
And receiving messages through items, is kind of hard to decipher, I have no clue what my MM was trying to tell
me today.
And receiving messages through items, is kind of hard to decipher, I have no clue what my MM was trying to tell
me today.
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Bug
@JujuPi That's okay - it is not for everyone. I find Mysterious Melody is best to approach with a pure spirit of giving, since there's no guarantee that your partner will send anything at all; you can only control what you gift. If you're in it to get stuff, or struggle to not compare the values of what you gave versus received, 99% of the time you're gonna find it stressful and disappointing instead of enjoyable.
We used to have a separate Gift Exchange feature in the Arctic Frost, that you would've liked more I think - it was a feature where you can put an item in, and it would match you with someone else who put an item in of roughly the same value, and swap them. So then you had more of a guarantee to get a similar value to what you put in. (At least.. I *think* this is how it worked. It has been down for a few years - unfortunately, we had to take it down because someone found a way to use it to dupe items D: And the code was too gnarly to be fixed; we will need to rewrite it entirely. We do want to bring it back someday though - it was a fun feature.)
We used to have a separate Gift Exchange feature in the Arctic Frost, that you would've liked more I think - it was a feature where you can put an item in, and it would match you with someone else who put an item in of roughly the same value, and swap them. So then you had more of a guarantee to get a similar value to what you put in. (At least.. I *think* this is how it worked. It has been down for a few years - unfortunately, we had to take it down because someone found a way to use it to dupe items D: And the code was too gnarly to be fixed; we will need to rewrite it entirely. We do want to bring it back someday though - it was a fun feature.)
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Luck
Do you have to know the names of the ornaments you're missing when you make the ticket? Until someone mentioned they were missing the toppers from melody last year I forgot I was supposed to have them too but they're gone. I don't know what else is.
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Shinko
Can I get some clarification abot Mysterious Melody? I'd love to take part in a secret santa type deal, but the description sort of implies o're meant to rapid-fire spam gifts at the other person and "let them know when o go offline", which sounds a little overwhelming to commit to all month.
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Phoenix
Thank you for the info! I was working it out over time, but as someone who joined in the middle of the year, I was just thinking last night while mildly mystified by Melody's merriments that it was the first holiday that wasn't entirely straightforward. ^^;
And a happy Luminaire to all!
And a happy Luminaire to all!
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JujuPi
I stopped doing Mysterious Melody years ago. Mostly because I end up sending great gifts and the other person sends garbage. :/
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Snuggle
I think it's really kind that you took the time to make this post for all the newer members.
This is my favorite holiday on Subeta and I hope everyone new here enjoys it. I remember my first Lumi was so much fun and opening up the gifts at the end was such a treat. And remember, it really isn't about the sP. If you've got the means to spend a lot, great! If you don't, small but thoughtful gifts are so wonderful to see. It doesn't matter how much you have, everyone can participate and be included - that's such an important part of Lumi. Seeing old faces taking the time to stop in just for Lumi, getting to know the new users that are experiencing their first Lumi, and seeing all the people posting on the Lumi forums that you don't normally get to see... It's all so special and unique only to Subeta.
Happy Lumi to everyone new and old! :)
This is my favorite holiday on Subeta and I hope everyone new here enjoys it. I remember my first Lumi was so much fun and opening up the gifts at the end was such a treat. And remember, it really isn't about the sP. If you've got the means to spend a lot, great! If you don't, small but thoughtful gifts are so wonderful to see. It doesn't matter how much you have, everyone can participate and be included - that's such an important part of Lumi. Seeing old faces taking the time to stop in just for Lumi, getting to know the new users that are experiencing their first Lumi, and seeing all the people posting on the Lumi forums that you don't normally get to see... It's all so special and unique only to Subeta.
Happy Lumi to everyone new and old! :)
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Hadaya
I'm so excited I'm here for this! Came back to the site right in time :D
Happy Luminaire everyone!!!
Happy Luminaire everyone!!!
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Derelict
Happy Luminaire to everyone! We’ve all earned some spoiling of ourselves and each other after 2020. Enjoy yourselves!
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Lumberjackalope
How exciting! This holiday is just what everyone needs to lift their spirits right now. :>
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Damon
This is wonderful and I hope it helps anyone who needed a little background info on such a wonderful holiday!
Merry Lumi to you all~
Merry Lumi to you all~
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