It seems Krin made some error, and the fest zone closed prematurely. Rest assured we have contacted him, and it is simply a matter of time until it is resolved. There is nothing you are doing wrong.

ohh, for a moment i thought my game bugged LOL

First Fest so I'm super stoked.

Just a few quick questions:

Will I need to get nets and if so, are the rates to catch them much better during the fest? (I've lost so may good wild finds due to poor catch rates.)

When a theme pet shows up, will it be named or is it a gamble and I won't know until I catch it?

Any tips/tricks/pointers anyone can share?


Good luck to everyone during the fest! :D

You may need to get nets, I do not believe catch rates are better during the fest- however, weakening sylesties does seem to have some effect.

When a themed pet shows up it will have a name beyond "wild X", it will be labeled as "theme name X" i.e. "Delicious Nightshade Puffadore". When it appears on the map it will be called a "rare enemy" rather than "an enemy", as well.

Kill the named, decide what you want to achieve before going in, and keep your goals reasonable. If you're the type to buy diamonds- spending limits are important.

The fests are a great deal of fun, I'm sure you'll enjoy it~

-To answer some questions, I'm pretty sure the catch rates are the same. Just gotta lower the health as much as you can to maximize catch chances. You'll need nets, and patience. There will be times where a super neat themed sylesti simply won't stay in the net and runs away. Happens to us all, but the fests last a good period of time so I'm sure there's a good chance you can net yourself some themed!

-As for nets, there is an npc available in the event area who sells many different quality nets, so you can conveniently stock up on nets without having to leave! In previous festivals, it was also possible to get some higher quality nets via task completion. When the task list is out, check it out to see what sorts of goodies you can earn!

-When a themed pet shows up, you'll get a notification that you've run into a rare enemy. During the battle, on the little bar that contains the foe's title/level/etc. you'll see a themed pet name instead of a regular name. So as an example, instead of "wild luffox" you may see something like "saskatoon berry luffox."

-As for pointers, hmm... be sure you're periodically checking all the areas of the map. Keep picking up all the little treasures that respawn on the map, sometimes in those treasure spawn points you'll find sylesti eggs! The egg nests you pick up in festival zones should always be themed, so they're pretty nice.

soo I just received 42,000 gold worth of tokens back from what I presume to be last years summer festival. I'm not complaining because I need the gold, but is this a normal occurrence?

Sorry about that everyone! ><

There must be a left over 'close' script somewhere in the daily script file.

I have opened the Festival Zone back up. I am really sorry. =(

Yes. This is to prevent people stockpiling tokens from year to year; any tokens leftover will become 'stale' or 'worn' or 'faded' or something like that and be useless except to sell for gold.

Thanks Krin! And no worries, these things happen :3

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=64971&page=4#32 Author: Littlemissmoriarty Time Posted: 8/17/2018 at 10:26 PM Ok, 2 complaints....will do this as nicely as I can but---a tad frustrated, bear with me Please dont do old themes mixed with the new, to the creation part of fests...the sand sculpting, or baking, or gardening or whatever it may be for the seasonal part. Not only does it skew with RNG for people trying to get the new themes and such, opening premium bags, just to get an old theme, etc etc....it also messes with the species list for (as of now, ) the sandbox. For example, and I'd screenshot, but I don't have a box open- *I have two different kelpari essences. I want to make the White Sands Kelpari, not the old theme, but I dont know which one it is, and I do not want to waste diamonds, gold, tokens, to play a guessing game. It says Kelpari Kelpari on the list itself.* I wouldn't mind if old themes could still be found in the actual fest zone, but 2 fests now, there's been the old with the new in both places, and its borderline irritating. It's not only harder to sell the older theme, but...again, the place to make them, doesnt have the theme names to it... I dont know if you'd be able to acronym the names for the pets, since folks do so in chat anywho but it might be something to look at. Due to catas being harder to get, it feels like, (and even premium bags, being bought with diamonds, but can have more regulars in them then anything else) in my mind, it does not make sense to have both old and new themes for creation. Not a whole lot of people can get diamonds to play with RNG like that. I know a lot of people last fest were not happy with the old themes mixed in, I cannot speak for everyone, but from what I saw in the past, (and you might want to do a poll) people weren't happy. I don't know if any of this makes sense, but I tried my best...Currently dealing with a migraine, my apologies for any spelling errors, and I do hope you can be able to get information from this. However, thank you for another good looking fest. And cheers to the artists, I know they are quite busy! Glad to be able to participate, even if my laptops keyboard decided to /stop working/ in the middle of a battle xD

It should say which is which both when obtained and in the Sculpting Area:



Does it not display that way for you?

Edit: Nevermind! Falkinsey explained to me what you meant and I fixed it. Sorry about that. Yea, I 100% agree that made things difficult.