The castle has been busy. I would say "busy" is an understatement. Since my last update, roughly 400 things have changed (not so sure if that's an exaggeration). Here they are, sorted by how excited you should be, which is a lot.

Chocolate Frogs: now with foils, honors, and mild obsession
- Cards can arrive as shimmering foils.
- Three Limited Editions every month, with an Edition Pack in the Card Shop and a monthly guarantee so the 25th pack in a row is never a dud.
- Seven Honors cards that can never be bought. Only earned.
- A Bestiary: one card for every Forest creature with a portrait, earned by capturing it.
- Eighteen professors joined the album. Pin your three favorites to your profile.
- New Champions boards: Foil Collectors and Honors Earned.

VIP: more reasons to be fancy
- The VIP hub shows every perk, counts every month you've ever paid, and hands out a free Patron Foil each month.
- 25 percent off tuition at Arcane Academy, a weekly seminar, gilded certificates, and 300 bookmarks in the Reading Room.
- Monthly collectibles are announced in the bell (Alerts) and on Discord. Non-VIP students can buy the month's piece too, and every past piece is on show in the Guide.
- Gold marks for VIP tale authors, and a Longest-Serving Members board.

Pets, companions, and a tired sheep
- Pets are now companions. Feed them, play with them, and let them do one useful thing each (Yes, this should remind you of Tomagachi).
- Free pets can find you in the Forbidden Forest. Treats are sold at the Menagerie.
- Desmond, a tired sheep, now stands in the background of forest fights. Collect all of him for the Whole Flock badge. We suspect the fights are why he is tired.
- A Companion Bond board on Champions.

Tales, Quests, and Reading
- The Reading Room has a proper reader, bookmarks, chapters, reviews, follows, scheduled chapters, a Story of the Month, and an Atom feed.
- Quest Workshop lets you write branching quests. The Quest Shelf lets everyone else play them.
- Bookshelves on profiles, and eight chosen friends.
- Boards for Quest Authors and Most-Read Tale Authors.
- Reader code based on my original and fan fiction archive software https://kiption.com/

Adventures, fights, and the Forest
- Expansion Packs: permanent, replayable three-day adventures.
- Dueling Club Night: a weekly three-hour window with its own ladder.
- Fight results have HP bars, foldable boxes, and a card saying exactly what changed (if you don't like it you can turn it off in Preferences).
- Races reset after each Voldemort Encounter, and six half-blood races joined.
- A "Your condition" card on the forest page tells you whether you are fine, fragile, or about to learn something painful.

Clubs and dwellings
- Every club now has a Common Room, a Max button on the treasury, and an Active column. A club silent for 21 days goes dormant.
- Dwellings can be decorated, and you can buy a Study Desk.
- Every student now has a rival from the opposite House who writes owls.

Owl Post and chat
- Live previews of color codes, quoted replies, "Mark as unread," and smiley and palette buttons.
- An emote picker in chat, and thumbs up.
- A busy group chat now sends each person at most one email.
- Fenwick the Contingency Footman can now speak aloud, in two voices, with twelve new idle remarks, none of them helpful.

Hogwarts Classes: homework, but with rewards
- A Monday to Friday timetable with lessons to attend. Fall behind and you can take a make-up lesson.
- A Mastery Wall of all fifteen disciplines. Mastering one pays Term Pass XP and a professor's Chocolate Frog card.
- The Time-Turner lets you attend one extra class period right now. Physics be damned.
- An Academy Masters board on Champions, for those who need to know who is winning.

Accounts and the small stuff
- Sign in with Discord. Link up to four of your own accounts and switch between them.
- Ignoring someone is now mutual.
- A Today card suggests your next step, and the bell reports new blog posts, VIP drops, and pet reminders.
- The Bank opens with your balance and tucks its other options away quietly.
- Roleplay Tools (a name generator, House quiz, and backstory generator) are free without an account.
- A "What's New at Hogwarts" page in-game, and Guide pages with fresh art and corrected facts.
- Bug bounty rewards are lower and flatter, and the Guide has a Security Reporting page.

Nothing exploded during the deployment so that's a good sign. Hopefully, nothing is seriously broken. Report bugs in #bugs on Discord or via Contact.

Want the details? Read the Guide:
- Chocolate Frog Cards Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/chocolate-frog-cards
- Frog Editions Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/frog-editions
- Bestiary Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/bestiary
- Champions Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/hogwarts-champions
- VIP Membership Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/vip-membership
- Notifications Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/notifications
- Discord Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/discord
- Pets and Companions Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/pets
- Desmond the Sheep Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/desmond
- Mrs. Figg's Petting Zoo Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/mrs-figg-petting-zoo
- Tales from the Restricted Section Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/tales-from-the-restricted-section
- Quest Workshop Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/quest-workshop
- Expansion Packs Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/expansion-packs
- Combat Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/combat
- Forest Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/forest
- Clubs Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/hogwarts-clubs
- Dwelling Decorating Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/dwelling-decorating
- Your Rival Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/rival
- Owl Post Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/owl-post
- Chat Effects Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/chat-effects
- Contingency Footman Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/contingency-footman
- Hogwarts Classes Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/class-timetable
- Arcane Academy Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/arcane-academy
- Term Pass Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/hogwarts-term-pass
- Linked Accounts Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/linked-accounts
- Ignoring Players Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/ignore-chat-users
- Bank Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/bank
- Roleplay Tools Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/roleplay-tools
- Bug Bounty Guide: https://hogwartslive.com/guide/bug-bounty