Site Updates

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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New Site Layout!
To celebrate our 20th birthday on August 22nd, we released a project we have been working on for quite some time: a new main site layout! This layout matches what we have used on all of our other departments, such as the Item Database, for many years.


We are currently having a short beta testing period before rolling out widely, so stay tuned to our homepage for updates! If you have any feedback, do not hesitate to let us know! We read everything we receive, and are fixing bugs and making adjustments every day. Look forward to a site theme switcher very soon!

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Special Categories 2.0
We continued our birthday celebrations with a big update to the Item Database: Special Categories 2.0!

We have completely redesigned and updated our "Special Categories" system to be more robust, shedding previous limitations with the ability to categorize an item in any way we wish.

We've expanded the list of our Special Categories from 212 to 324 options, with even more planned to be added and catalogued in the coming months.

The "Categories" section on an individual item's page has been redesigned to show the full rundown of where the item can be found, where it can be used at, any effects it may have, and any other thematic groupings.


You can search by Special Category right over in our search bar—look for the In Special Category options!

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The Void Within Coverage

The Void Within has continued to develop over the last month, and we've covered it breathlessly!

August saw the start of the Clash Over Kiko Lake. Check out our guides for the most accurate current mechanics and prizes:


Our prize shop guide is up-to-date with a battery of new prizes released last week:


We also saw the first release of Dr. Landelbrot's Voidworks. This activity will allegedly become a daily one once Chapter 5 starts next Monday, September 9.


Having trouble keeping track of all the plot activities? Check out our personal checklist tool, updated daily:


You can continue to keep up with news of every development by checking our plot hub homepage daily:

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Plot Points Fortune Cookie Guide
In case you missed it, last month TNT released a new Void Within Plot Points Fortune Cookie. The cookie respects the same daily/weekly point limits per activity, but helps you get there two (or three, if you're lucky) times as fast.

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Altador Cup Coverage
The Altador Cup spanned the entire month of August, with the top bracket wrapping up this weekend, while middle and bottom brackets experienced a bizarre and unexpected double-practice day.


The TNT Staff Tournament also completed and has already had its prize shop opened! Check out our coverage to see how each staffer did and what's available for your points:


Finally, we hosted our very own Staff Tourney for the first time in five years! Congratulations to Ducky, Rylon, and Perry for their podium placements, and to the five lucky random winners of a SDCC prize code for submitting guesses in all ten rounds!

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New Convention Recaps
We published three new convention recaps in August.

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New Premium Scratchcard Prizes
TNT updated prizes for the weekly Premium scratchcards with a mix of new and rereleased items. Check out our guide for all the latest details:

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New Petpetpet Attachment Walkthrough
Thanks to a tip through a contact form, we now have instructions on a very efficient way to get your Petpetpet attached. Curious? Check out our guide:

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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 August game payout updates.
• AMA Recaps: Added recap of August 2024's AMA with TNT.
• Dyeworks Guide: Updated with the August releases.
• NC Mall Rereleases Guide: Info about the August 2024 Dyeworks rereleases.
• Pet Styles: Info and images of the new set of new Mutant Pet Styles. (We still need several Blue and Mutant models! Check out the list here.)
• Mystery Capsules: TNT released two re-release capsules last month, and we have guides on the known contents of each 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 August!

It's Day 2 of our 20th birthday here at Jellyneo! To celebrate two decades of Neopets help, we had to spread the updates over two days! Yesterday, we released a new layout for our main homepage. Today, we have a major update for our Item Database... Special Categories 2.0!

We have completely redesigned and updated our "Special Categories" system to be more robust, shedding previous limitations with the ability to categorize an item in any way we wish.

We've expanded the list of our Special Categories from 212 to 324 options, with even more planned to be added and catalogued in the coming months.

Special Categories are no longer limited to "exclusives." For example, the Tombola Special Category now encapsulates every single item that can be won from Tombola, rather than just the exclusive items. This means that, as of writing, 356 items now have the Tombola Special Category rather than 48 previously.

The "Categories" section on an individual item's page has been redesigned to show the full rundown of where the item can be found, where it can be used at, any effects it may have, and any other thematic groupings.


For example, did you know that the Peach Snowball has been able to be won or purchased from over 15 different sources over the years? It's a prize when playing Snow Wars! It restocks in the Battle Magic Shop! And it was even an Advent Calendar prize in the year 2000. All of which is now documented in our Special Categories.

You can search by Special Category right over in our search bar—look for the In Special Category options!


You can see a full list of the new Special Categories over on our Special Categories Index.


We'd love to hear your feedback! Whether it's an idea for a new Special Category or some feedback on how to improve what we have, drop us a line through our Contact Us page!

On August 22nd, 20 years ago, Jellyneo was born! And we've been very happy to be bringing you the latest Neopets news and help ever since. You can stop by Jellyneo any time to peruse a complete Item Database (now with almost 66,500 item entries); visit the only destination on the 'net for Neopian history and lore; find a place to preview wearables; reference the premier guide to the Battledome; search a unique, categorized listing of over 148,000 Neopets images; peruse a full list of Neopets merch released since 1999; not to mention read a massive repository of guides and articles for any Neopets feature you can probably think of. And all of it is done to help you, our fellow Neopians.

To celebrate our 20th birthday, we're celebrating with a few BIG updates today and tomorrow!

Without further ado...

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NEW SITE LAYOUT
It's finally here! We've teased for awhile, but we're finally ready for the reveal!


To celebrate our 20th birthday, our new site layout is ready to debut. We're going to be running a short 2-3 week beta test here before rolling it out widely, and everyone is invited to try it out!

We've redesigned our main site here to match our other departments, like the Item Database and Book of Ages. The new layout is also mobile-friendly—and mobile users account for almost half of our traffic here, so I'm sure you will enjoy a layout where you're not always having to pinch to zoom in!

If you're ready to jump in and give it a try, you can switch to using the new layout by clicking the button below, or you can peruse new.jellyneo.net whenever you'd like:

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As Jellyneo turns one year older, thank you to all of you, our amazing visitors. We really appreciate all of your support and kind words that we receive. Here's to another year of Neopets help and fun!

And don't forget to check back TOMORROW for another massive update that we couldn't fit into today!

After a long 20 days, our JN Staff Tournament has come to a close! A big congratulations goes out to Ducky, Rylon, and Perry for earning a spot on this year's podium!

With the winners tabulated, it's time to see which of you were the tournament's top guessers.

Help me in congratulating bogosort with a whopping 79 correct guesses (out of a possible 100) in the daily round guessing portion! You had to have a minimum of 67 correct guesses throughout the tournament to earn yourself a round trophy.


Alas, this year we did not have any guessers with a perfect 4 out of 4 guess... but we did two users with 3 correct guesses! Congratulations to drasirz and sirius7antares!!


Anyone who participated in our tournament, either by guessing in at least one or the rounds or guessing the top 3, received at least one new cabinet claim! (Two if you did both of those things!)

Last but not least, 🥁 drum roll... The 5 lucky winners below have been chosen to receive a Rare Item Code given out at SDCC last month!

• amiyesiam
• jordle
• tarons
• terragainsborough
• zomglol

If your name is above, check your inbox for an email shortly! You have until Sunday to respond to claim your Rare Item Code!

Thank you to all who participated! And hopefully next year's tournament will be a little less grey!

Round 10 guessing is now open! This is the FINAL round to get your guesses in for! The more guesses you get correct, the more points you earn, and the higher the trophy you'll receive in the end! Winners will be announced on Wednesday, the 21st.

Before guessing, though, make sure you check out the round 9 results!

🏆 PARTICIPATION PRIZES: Comic-Con just wrapped up last week, and we have some special Rare Item Codes from the event to give away! At the end of our Altador Cup Staff Tourney, 5 lucky jnAccount users who voted in all 10 rounds of our tournament will be randomly selected to receive one of the codes. All you need to do is make sure you submit your selections for all 10 rounds by the time each round closes.

So, what are you waiting for...