The Unfair Party List

Hey Jammers! I'm sort of better so I might as well post today. I don't want to deprive you of my *~excellence~* for so long now, wouldn't I?

The new item of today is in the Summer Carnival, which I have still yet to check out fully:

A small lavender-blue hat with a moon and star charm, cute! :)

On another subject, I've noticed something really irritating recently: Only a few certain parties get featured over and over again each day!

I feel like the way the parties appear is based on popularity, but any new party is going to be popular because people want to check it out! I haven't seen a Bunnies Only party or an Atlantis Party in literal months! 

There's a full list of AJ parties linked right here on the AJ wiki and only four or five out of them are featured daily– some even disappeared without a trace! *cough*Heatwave Party*cough*

I think it would be a lot more fair if all current (non-seasonal and appropriately seasonal) parties went through a predictable cycle every day except on certain occasions, like the Leap Year. I think if that happened people would spend more time at parties in general because all of their favorite parties would happen in one day and they may not get as much of a chance to go to them if they only happen once!

Is that a good idea? What are your thoughts? :0

That's all for now Jammers, see you in Jamaa!

– DoomyPanda

Weird Pattern + Redeem Page

Hey Jammers! I'm back, but not really. I may need to take lots of scattered breaks in the next week because to be honest, I just haven't been feeling that well lately. It's not blogging that makes me feel that way, but using a computer at all makes me a little dizzy and... I just wanna lie in bed until it stops. :\

I'll try to keep posting daily, but I won't be online as much until I feel better. I'm hoping this will only last for a week (maximum!) and hopefully clear up by tomorrow. :(

But anyway... There's a Stegosaurus Tail in the Summer Carnival!

Part of a nutritious breakfast.

There's also a new post on the Daily Explorer about a new way of redeeming codes which I think you may find interesting:

Click here to go to the full post.

Click here to go to the redeem page.

These types of codes the post is talking about aren't gem codes– those are here as normal. This post is talking about something I forgot existed: membership codes.

Either this is new or it's been around forever and I've been too clueless to notice it. Probably that. 

The only thing I'm confused about is the Pin. It says "code or pin" and I don't know what a Pin is in relation to AJ codes. (I know PIN numbers, but I don't really think AJ would have you enter that.) Could someone tell me?

At first I thought they made this post because the new animal figures are going to come out, but I realized they're just reposting things from their HELP section in a more understandable way. Still pretty helpful! :D

In slightly more interesting news, I found a bunny in Jamaa Township with a strange pattern:

If you look closely you'll see that the darker yellow pattern sort of RISES on the bunny. Not sure if this was normal, but I actually DID notice it outside of the player card. Weird...

Also, this is not the spring flower pattern. This bunny is nonmember.

That's all for now Jammers, please hope I get better! >.<

– DoomyPanda

No Post Today :(

Really busy with end of the year school stuff right now. I may not be posting for a few days this week. :(

But don't worry (too much), because next week on the 24th I get out of school! Yaaaaaay! :)

Seeya later~

– DoomyPanda

Walkthrough: Battle for the Beacon

Hey Jammers! Sorry I didn't post yesterday, I was honestly just being lazy point blank. I guess there wasn't much news anyway aside from the new item, so I hope that's enough for you to forgive me for. /).(\

Sadly, I may have to also not post this weekend because in a few hours I'll be going away to somewhere that may not have stable WiFi... But I guess the good thing is that my school is over for Summer in a couple of weeks, right? :T

But anyway, let's get on to the new item of today: the sand oasis!

You know the Sand Oasis was actually the sand item that I was looking forward to the most, but here it is, all member... and even more annoying is that ALL the sand items are member, too! 

Like AJHQ... I know AJ is like the fairest browser game for nonmembers and I know you need money from memberships but this is just TOO MUCH!!!11!! Srsly the sand oasis is so cute and my heart is just broken. </3

...Not really, but yeah. :0

I've been playing the new adventure 'Battle for the Beacon' a little and let me tell you, it's much more different than the other adventures.

It's a group adventure but it's not a maze, you're supposed to collect things but there's no set amount you have to collect to complete the adventure, your progress is SAVED even when you log out–

I think you understand right now. SO anyways, I'll give you a simple explanation of what exactly this adventure is about, paired with some screenshots. Okay 1! 2! 3! Here we go!

(Click the pictures to see them better) You start off in the center of a small village/community with Greely the wolf shaman (I still call them shamans because I'm stuck in early 2012), Jewel the bunny who sells phantom items, and a single Zios save point. 

This is where Greely tells you the main point of this adventure: eliminate the phantoms and the phantom tubes.

 

This is also a place where you can use the earth crystals that phantom tubes drop to buy phantom related items, like these:

These items are in place of the random prize that comes at the end of other adventures. The cheaper items are on the back page. According to Jewel, more items are to come later on, so keep checking back!

Because you only get one earth crystal every phantom tube destroyed, it can take a while to get stuff like say, a phantom trophy. But I got 25 earth crystals within 10 to 15 minutes of playing! Your earth crystal collection is also saved even if you log out, so don't stress!

These phantoms are a ton more difficult than in the other adventures for a multitude of reasons. One, they don't have a bubble of limited vision. If you're on screen with a phantom, they will come towards you. Two, there are WAY TOO MANY. They come out of the phantom tubes quickly and in copious amount cluster around you.

Even worse, there's no grass in the Eastern or Western fields that you can hide in. Your best chance of getting away from the phantoms is just to go into the village center.

Phantoms also don't forget you if someone else walks in. I think that when someone else is fighting phantoms you can't see it, like everyone has their own phantoms.

But there ARE ways to fight them. You should be in a group at all times, and should wear some sort of glove on your animal's leg/s, for example:

1. Rare or non-rare nonmember glove

2. Nonmember gold gauntlets (Diamond Shop)

3. Lava/Legendary/Dragon/etc. glove

You should take down the phantom tubes by punching them with a glove as well as using boom seeds for both that AND dealing with phantoms. There are also chomper plants that you could guide phantoms too, but they become sick and unusable once they catch a phantom.

That's where the water wells come in. You should always carry a watering can because you can replenish both chomper plants AND boom seed trees by watering them!

Greely acts as a sort of "commander" and between each new wave of phantoms there's a designated time to go around watering the chomper plants, but it's good to water plants during, too.

There are also other areas that you can unlock by purifying the rivers. Corks will be dropped from some phantom tubes. 

• • •

Before I wrap up this post, here are some general tips rephrased and all in one place for your convenience:

1. Wear a glove or gauntlet

2. Go into a room with a lot of people so you have extra back up

3. Carry around watering cans

4. Punch the tubes as well as use boom seeds

All in all, I really like this adventure! I like how AJHQ has made some adventures difficult like this one as well as easier adventures for different people. I also like how this adventure is ongoing, so it saves where you are and as far as right now doesn't have a definite end.

That's all for now, Jammers, hope that I'll have WiFi tomorrow!

– DoomyPanda

NM Adventure, Piglets, + MORE!

Hey Jammers! I'm gonna be using this text format today just to see how it looks. Even though I've grown accustomed to it, having everything centered looks kind of weird after a while ya feel. :V

It's an early update today as I predicted! This update all the changes have been made so that at least in Jamaa, everyone is fully in Summer. The flowers have left the trees leaving the leaves darker than before (which I actually kind of like) and the main focus of this update: the Jamaa Journal! 

Pet piglets are now available I'm still unsure how many more years it will be until nonmembers can have pets other than kangaroos and hamsters so... yeah. But if you're member, pick up a tiny virtual pig friend in the Diamond Shop today! :P

A new nonmember adventure that takes place in a village! I'm really excited to try this one out~ :D

And yes, I'll probably make a post/walkthrough of it later. ^_^

We were right! This party is reachable in the party hat tab and if you have an owl or eagle, you can go have fun in the clouds. Sadly I don't have a membership or any member friends who can send me screenshots of the Cloud Party, but my friend told me that at this point in time all of the items in the shops are members only. 

As for the party's setting, it's basically pictured in the image above. ^

All the item sets from the last den set contest are being released in the order depending on who voted most for what. The mechanical future set was winning, the sand castle was second, and soon the Archaeologist Dig (I think thats what it's called) will be released. The sand set is sold in Jam Mart Furniture:

An official llama announcement! It comes with a creepy CGI animation, if you wanna watch that it's directly imbedded in the Jamaa Journal. :)

Also, they haven't removed the llama painting from Canyons Pathway yet, so enjoy that while it lasts. ^^

That's the official update right now– but wait! There's more!

The 15 den item contest finalists have been announced– and sadly, none of those entries are mine. buT IN FACT ONE OF THOSE ENTRIES ALREADY EXISTS!!!

AJHQ... Are you not aware of this... Or has my hypothesis been proven that contest final entries are chosen randomly...? It was just kind of disappointing to watch all of the finalists cycle through and not see mine but see an item that was already in stores:

Click here to vote on which item you want to see in stores!

In unrelated news, I passed something today in Sarepia that I didn't... see before...?

In the corner where role-players normally hide during "clan wars" there's a shop where you can buy topiaries. Weird I never noticed this?

There's also some rainbow armor in the diamond shop:

And in addition again, player cards have changed their appearance:

That's all for now Jammers, see you in Jamaa! – DoomyPanda