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We're continuing our monthly tradition: an update on all things new and refreshed last month at Jellyneo!


Here's a rundown of what's new here from the past month.

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Pet Style Listing Enhancements
We've made some enhancements to our Pet Style listing over at the Wardrobe. Most importantly, Pet Styles are now fully searchable alongside all other wearables! We've also added some convenient pre-set special searches:

• All Pet Styles
• All Prismatic Pet Styles
• Pet Styles That Can Be Recoloured
• Nostalgic Pet Styles
• Alternate Pet Styles
• Essence Pet Styles

We also have Pet Style previews embedded right on the item info page in the Item Database. Check it out!


By the way, we're still missing models for Nostalgic Island Flotsam, Scorchio, Skeith, and Zafara. If you have them, please consider modeling for us!

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Art Gallery + Poetry Contest Guide Refreshes
The Art Gallery and Poetery Contest have gone through some changes in recent years, so we've overhauled our guides with all the latest tips and details—including what you can now do to get the previously retired Random Contest Winner avatar from the Art Gallery:

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Cliffhanger Solver
We've got a neat new toy over on our Cliffhanger guide. Simply paste in your Cliffhanger puzzle and get your solution!

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Create-a-Pet Article
We also have a new article on the Create-a-Pet process, including some documentation of the various options available to you there:

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Convention Recaps
We've got two brand new convention recaps: one from Las Vegas Licensing Expo (LVLE) that took place this past May; and another from Pocket Gamer Connects (PGC) last March where Neopets CEO Dom Law gave a presentation on legacy brands. Dom's presentation at PGC was recorded, but not available to the public. If you have access to the recording, we'd love to hear from you to help enhance our recap!


With TNT's increased attendance at a variety of conventions and live events in recent years, we've also set up a hub for our burgeoning collection of recaps to make it a bit easier to peruse by year or by event:

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NeoPass Quest Log
We've expanded our Quest Log guide to include information on the new "NeoPass" quests available for engaging with the Neopets mobile apps.

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Altador Cup Coverage
The Altador Cup was cancelled this year, but our coverage wasn't! We have details on the daily prizes, final trophy, and NC tie-in event Altador from the Clouds:


BONUS SPECIAL REQUEST: Jellyneo is starting up an archive of the "AC Press Tour" blurbs shared leading up to signups every year since 2011. However, the only years we have records of are 2017 and 2024! If you have records of any other years, please reach out! We'd be delighted to credit you to a name of your choosing.

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Tales of Dacardia
Our Tales of Dacardia guide has continued to expand in the last month with some particularly exciting updates.

First up, we've now got a special tool to browse previews of all the released paint brushes so far on all the released Neopets so far! We'll continue to maintain this as new brushes and/or species are released.


Speaking of all the released Neopets, we've now got an overview of them and their availability:


Finally, we've got a guide up for the "Dacardia's 1 Year Anniversary" event, which featured a daily login calendar through July 9th and yet another donation drive event.


We also used this event to launch a prize shop value guide tool! Although it's obviously too late for this event (and the other past ones we loaded into it), keep it in mind for the inevitable next one:

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Faerie Fragments
You've probably had a rough time last month with the stability of the beleaguered Faerie Fragments mobile app, but that hasn't stopped us from growing our guide!

First up, we have an guide for the current seasonal event, the Summer Beach Bash. This event continues with the same general format of previous events, but adds the first-ever Faerie Fragments Neopets.com item prize shop, which we've added a prize shop value guide for!


We've also added a guide for the Guilds feature:


Finally, we've significantly expanded our coverage of what we are calling "Bonus Activities": the various minigames and features the app offers to earn (or buy) in-game rewards.

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New Goal Counters + Cabinet Theme
Our ace graphics department has added a few new Goal Counters.



We've also added a new cabinet theme to celebrate Dacardia's addition to the Altador Cup:

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Recurrent Guide Updates
Some site features are perennially updated by TNT, and so our articles about them are too!

• 50k a Day Guide: Updated based on June game payout updates.
• Avatar Solutions: Solutions for the two new avatars released in June!
• Rare Item Codes (RIC) Guide: Info about the Youtooz item code prizes and Upper Deck's Battledome TCG "Champions of Meridell" Expansion code cards.
• Quest Log Prizes: Updated with the July rotation of daily and weekly prizes.
• Trudy's Surprise Prizes: Updated with the latest batch of 7-day streak prizes.
• Editorial Database: Updated with the 19 Editorial questions answered last month.
• NC Mall Sales Guide: Info about the end-of-month Mystery Capsule sale.
• Pet Styles: Info and images of the new set of Island releases. (We still need a model for several of them! Check out the list here.)
• Dyeworks Guide: Updated with the June "mini" releases.
• NC Mall Rereleases Guide: Info about June Dyeworks originals.
• Sweetheart Grams 2025: Information about the Unique Species Summer Gram and Pride & Proud Gram.
• Mystery Capsules: TNT released two re-release capsules last month, and we have guides on the known contents of both of them:

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Finally, we are always adding new entries to our databases. You can keep up with them at any time!

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If you discovered something delightful or useful above, make our day month by letting us know in the comments. Happy July!

Welcome to the 1st Saturday of the month: Rubbish Dump Day!

In April 2022, TNT updated the Rubbish Dump to increase the drop rate of "rubbish" eligible for the avatar. (And we've even seen some Hidden Tower items pop up that weren't previously confirmed as prizes!)

The Rubbish Dump is special in that items dropped there appear after a Neopian refreshes the dump. (In other words, refreshing the page gives you the chance to "donate" some rubbish to the queue.) The more people visiting and refreshing, the more rubbish dropped, and the more opportunities there are for avatar items to appear!

Starting now, and continuing all day, here's how you can gather and participate:

If you DON'T have the avatar...

• Visit the Rubbish Dump in Meridell and refresh to generate rubbish!
• Claim up to 8 pieces of rubbish to clear the way for more items to appear. (And make sure not to claim anything from the Money Tree or Second-Hand Shoppe... it's 10 items max from all 3 locations combined!)
• To be safe from accidental clicks, save your last 2 rubbish claims for when an avatar item pops up. (You can claim up to 10 items from the Rubbish Dump per day.)
• Review our guide to familiarize yourself with which items are eligible for the avatar.

If you DO have the avatar...

• Visit the Rubbish Dump in Meridell and refresh to help generate rubbish! Even if you have the avatar, refreshing helps generate more "donations" that will show up later. (And that means more opportunities for avatar items to pop up!)
• Claim up to 10 pieces of rubbish to help clear the way for avatar-eligible items to appear.
• Be kind and leave the cheaper avatar-eligible items (like the Fading Bottled Faeries) for those who need the avatar! We won't mind, however, if you try sniping a Dung Catapult.

The more the merrier, so share this post with your Neofriends and guildmates!

As you participate, let us know in the comments what junk—or treasures—you've seen or picked up! And let us know if you get the avatar so we can celebrate with you.


Can't get enough rubbish? Mark your calendars and join us on the first Saturday of next month—August 2nd—for our next Rubbish Dump Day!

TNT has posted a lengthy update on a wide variety of topics over on the main portal site. This is a continuation of this style of update, which started in May as a replacement for the monthly AMAs, which ended in January.

With that, let's get into a summary of this month's updates! (Note: there's a lot of content in the update that is "old news"—already recently reported on by JN over the past few weeks! We're going to skip the details on those and link our relevant updates instead at the end.)

Community Q&A
Some of the responses were quite detailed, so we encourage you to read them in full. We'll summarize the ones with new information here:

Why weren't drop rates for capsules published alongside the NC Mall revamp? TNT states that they are still working to document accurate drop rates, then can display them at some point in Q3. A pity system will not be implemented due to the significant technical effort that would be required to update the NC Mall to support it.

When is TVW coming back? The Void Within will return on Monday, August 4, 2025.

What actionable steps do you plan to take to address transphobia in Neopets? TNT shares a four point plan to build on their April announcement: (1) reviewing and updating moderation policies, (2) clearer community chat guidelines, (3) retraining the moderation team and ensuring consistent enforcement, and (4) gathering community feedback on potential rule updates.

In-Person Events
TNT has (re)confirmed a few upcoming in-person events.

1. Neopets will attend San Diego Comic-Con 2025 for the full weekend, including an offsite meetup.
2. This coming August, Neopets will once again have a collaboration with tsun scoops in Garden Grove, CA. (You can read our recap of their original winter 2024 collab here!)
3. From September 18, 2025, to February 8, 2026, Neopets will be featured among other iconic games in the ACMI Game Worlds exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.

Other Updates
Here's a list of all the other updates that TNT has included in this month's summary that we've already reported on.

• NeoPass Quest Log quests
• NC Mall revamp + feedback survey
• Faerie Fragments "Summer Beach Bash" event
• Release of Battledome TCG "Champions of Meridell" expansion
• Island Pet Styles

Today is Flotsam Day - in their honor, TNT have apparently decided to release a brand new species:


If you plan on creating one of these monstrosities, visit our Modeling page, as we'll need your help!

Over at Cog's Togs, an outfit inspired by the classic Lisa Frank designs - the "Vintage Colourful Flotsam" - is available:


TNT has also completed the HTML5 conversion on 17 previous Flotsam day wearables as well, so they should now appear on your customisations again!

Exotic Foods has released a new Flotsam Sushi to... celebrate?:


And lastly, a Pet Day mystery capsule is available at the NC Mall, featuring my ideal Maraquan Flotsam:

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UPDATE, July 4th: TNT also appear to have released a new background in Mystical Surroundings that did not get mentioned in the New Features, inspired by the Island Chef Academy game! The academy is run by noted Flotsam Sheytano a.k.a. Underwater Chef.

Surprise! A new mini batch of Dyeworks are now available at the NC Mall! This release was not part of the latest Mall preview image, and are only available for a week, retiring on July 10th.

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Separately, a new Mystery Capsule has been released in the NC Mall to celebrate the Mall's 18th birthday! This re-release capsule will award bonus items from Mystery Capsules of the past and more.


This capsule also comes in two different bundles that give a lower per-capsule price:


It also has the chance to award one of three new bonus items:


If you've opened this capsule and have received an item not listed on our guide, please let us know!


We've also updated our NC Mall Birthday guide with a summary of the current celebration. What do you want to see released next?