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=== Space Snow Jar Update ===



The Space Snow Jar has been repriced from 4,000 QP to 1,250 QP! Are you one of the handful of people who purchased one before the price was reduced? Tough Luck! JOKING! Send me a PM with information on when you purchased and what you did with the item and I will send you the full 2,750 QP refund

You may only claim a refund if you purchased the Space Snow Jar for 4,000 QP from the Quest Store.

We will be allowing you to PM me (Nate) for the next 48 hours for a refund!

48 Hours from now the Space Snow Jar will reactivate in the Quest Store, and you will no longer be eligible for a refund - no exceptions.


=== Raffle Store Update ===

We have removed both the Rave Dabu Morphing Potion and Rave Ridix Morphing Potion from the Raffle Store. They are the worst selling stock of all custom stores! (They are still available via the Historian!)



The Rave Snow Jar has been removed from the Snow Jar Igloo and is now exclusively available in the Raffle Store for 1,000 Raffle Tickets.


=== Historian Update ===

All Special MPs that he hands out have been given a cooldown of 30 days. This means that when he has given one to someone, he will not give another of that same item out again until 30 days have passed.

We have also bumped up all items in there (other than basic MPs) to a 15 days cooldown.

To clear the confusion, I am going to post an avatar solution;

The avatar Frozen Marathon must be obtained by creating 60 different Ice Cubes from the Ice Box within any 24 hour period (EG, between 10am yesterday and 10am today).

To show you how many you have done within a 24 hour period, we have changed the times from text (10 hours ago) to exact times (10h, 31m, 14s ago).
We have also added a number under My Stats which shows how many you have created within the previous 24 hour period.

We have also added a list of which avatars you are left to unlock using this feature.

We also added a few.. extra little things to point you in the right direction when trying to earn another of the avatars

Hope this helps!

The following fantastic Custom Avatars have just been awarded to the following users:

LilacPajamas -


Luventas -



Gift from Wonderrabbit to Nyssa -



Gift from Keyara to Kintoshi -



Fashionpup -




These beautiful avatars were drawn by Read!

Would YOU like Read to draw you an avatar? You can purchase a Custom Avatar from the ICE Shop for just 1,400 IC (1,260 IC for Gold Members!)

A Member of the Month (or MOTM for short) is selected every month by the users of IcePets to receive 50,000 IP and this exclusive avatar:



Click here to place your vote!

Voting ends at 11:59PM May 27th!


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Freezer Clarification (For the technical-minded)

Some users have asked why the Freezer data cannot be transferred to the Ice Box, and have said that it is not fair that they have to freeze rare items that they have done previously.

Well, unfortunately, the only information that we logged about the Freezer was the total times each item had been converted. Please see the screenshot below:



On the left you can see the table names (Layman: table = folder within a database). You can clearly see there is only one table (folder) for the freezer content.

On the right, at the top you can see that we are selecting the content to show, and underneath it lists each item+cube item ID (item_from, item_to) number along with the number of times each has been converted (popularity).

Hopefully this sheds more light on this issue - basically we did not previously record how many times an individual had used this feature, hence we are not able to transfer it.


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More Ice Cubes

I didnt add these to the news post yesterday, and most of you have noticed already, however I would also like to announce that Hornbuckle has done a fantastic job of drawing the remaining Snow Jars and Jakrit Eggs as their Ice Cube variant so that we have full sets of content! Thanks HB!




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Shopping Ice Cube

To make sure that this midnight-awarded Ice Cube, I set the system to award to me to ensure that it was working correctly.

After a few tweaks yesterday, I can confirm that today it is working great, and will now award every day to the person who spends the most in NPC Shops. You will receive the following message:



Do you think we should add a message for the Flaming Ice Cube and the Rainbow Ice Cube? Say so in the comments!

We are proud to release our newest permanent feature; the Ice Box!


Drawn by Hornbuckle

You can select an item from your inventory to place into the box and if the item can be made into an Ice Cube (hint: Check your cube collection!) you will get the Ice Cube version.

If there is no Ice Cube variation you will get a good old:


Melting Ice Cube

Each time you freeze an item, there is a wait time while the box refills. You can choose to wait until the timer gets to 0, OR you can pay Ice Points to speed it up
The wait time increments by 60 seconds each time you freeze an item, however it resets back to 0 at midnight.


There are 6 new avatars that can be earned from this feature!



Drawn by Read

Avatars from left to right are:

Box Basher, Cube Activist, Cube Explorer, Cube Professional, Frozen Marathon, I..See Cubes..Everywhere


You can find this feature added to the Games Page (or you can just click here)

We have just updated 80 Ice Cubes. The changes can be simple things such as a value change, to more complex things such as completely changing the name, or location where it is obtained from.

For those interested, you can view/download the text file here.



The reason for this is to make way for an unreleased feature, and to ensure that Ice Cubes are available in a fair, but challenging way for everyone.

We have only done what is on this list.
Every other Ice Cube (or things that have not changed) are not listed.

Say hello to the new Space Sharshel!


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Wonderrabbit funded some content in 2012, however as development changes, unfortunately this content kept getting pushed back. Instead we have come to an agreement to put her fundings towards funding some pets instead!

This amazing pet+potion was drawn by Hornbuckle!.


Space Sharshel Morphing Potion

It is available in the Snow Jar Igloo for 23,500 IP or from ICE Shop for 599 IC!

Thank You Wonderrabbit!

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You should also see the ability to start requesting pets opening soon. We have developed an entirely new system for handling this content, and hope to have it live soon!

Thanks for your patience!

Raffle Result


This weeks raffle was won by Luventas.


They received 3,075,300 IP!

The latest trophies have been awarded, and the leaders are as follows :-

First Place, with a score of 438: Korn

Second Place, with a score of 432: icantfocus

Third Place, with a score of 356: SaraDelaney

First Place, with a score of 721: icantfocus

Second Place, with a score of 444: deneze44

Third Place, with a score of 421: Dana

First Place, with a score of 300: icantfocus

Second Place, with a score of 270: Dana

Third Place, with a score of 225: Pierre

First Place, with a score of 340: icantfocus

Second Place, with a score of 320: Chigakure

Third Place, with a score of 315: Korn

First Place, with a score of 86: Tokcando

Second Place, with a score of 80: Erikk

Third Place, with a score of 54: Wonderrabbit

First Place, with a score of 212: SaraDelaney

Second Place, with a score of 204: Chigakure, Raenis

Third Place, with a score of 187: Laurathon, Dana

IcePets Newsletter #1 will be sent out soon, but first we need you to subscribe here.

The newsletter features:

Questions From Players - Message Claws with any question you want to ask any staff member and it might get published.

Recap - You will get a brief recap of recent happenings.

Looking Forward - Info on what you can expect from IcePets looking forward.

Behind The Scenes - Some info on what's happening behind the scenes is shared in this segment.

Contest! - Each newsletter comes with a different contest for you to play in and win prizes.

Last but not least - you get a special prize for being awesome enough to read our newsletter.

Just a baby update for you all -

The following item has been released into the Raffle Store!


All thanks to the lovely roar!

If you happen to have 75 Raffle Credits to spare, head on down to the shop and pick yourself up a cool new weapon!