Introducing: The Iron Carnival!
Following the success of our December inter-game IRE event, we are so excited to announce our next event installment which will run through September! Celebrate good times here in Starmourn as you collaborate with players from across the Iron Realms in Achaea, Aetolia, and Lusternia to open the Carnival and experience all it has to offer.
A new cast and crew
Run by the irascible Grimbeard and the foppish Ringmaster Percivale, the Iron Carnival was once a star-studded celebration that traveled otherworldly lands, putting on a dazzling show full of games, fairground amusements, and tasty treats. In the modern day however, the Carnival has fallen into disrepair and the troupe needs your help to restore it to its former glory!
Take a Station Transfer from Omni Station to the Iron Carnival grounds, where you’ll find Grimbeard and a task board awaiting your help. As spacers in the Starmourn sector and adventurers across time and planes assist, your access to the Carnival’s attractions will gradually expand. Work hard and work together, and you might just see the Carnival come fully to life!
Two unique quest categories.
As you complete Building quests, you’ll bring in materials and workers to boost the development of unopened areas of the Carnival. Every 5 days the unopened area with the most contributions across all the Iron Realms games will open for everyone for the duration of the event. Check the status of this with CARNIVAL AREAS.
Once an area is open, Grimbeard will ask for helping bringing in Crowds. With each contribution, visitors will flock in to the areas you assist with. As the crowds grow, the spirit of the Carnival will improve, inspiring unique mini-events per area and occasionally bringing Percivale the Ringmaster to dangerously excitable states. You can check the crowd states with CARNIVAL CROWDS.
Bring the spirit of the Carnival to a grand crescendo!
Attendees can expect a variety of attractions and games, including fortune telling, pie-eating contests, a sideshow and menagerie, paint-pelting clowns, face painting, chain-letter prophecies that go from game to game, and more! Win tickets from your contributions or high scores and collect takeaway souvenirs from a large selection of event-exclusive rewards and trinkets.
Oh, and while exploring, you may even notice phantasmal specters of visitors from another world across the Iron Realms. Greet them and your emotes will echo across planes, times, and space…
Read the full Carnival write up in HELP IRON CARNIVAL in-game or on the web portal!
We hope you enjoy the show ~
The entire Iron Realms team has been working on this cross-game event for the last several months and it’s our pleasure to finally unleash it upon the world! we hope you enjoy it as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together, and please be sure to read over HELP IRON CARNIVAL!
As with any major event release, there are certain to be bugs and tweaks! Do not fear – report anything wonky via BUG report and we’ll address as soon as possible.
Wishing you an absolute BLAST at the Carnival this season.
Your Starmourn Admin Team
Elan is on FIRE and has knocked out another massively requested feature: Crew Hacking.
For all hackable terminals, a crew of hackers can now jack into one shared grid and breach it together. Assemble your crew and dive into the grid today!
Crew Hacking Command Syntax:
HACK CREW OPEN <terminal> - open a crew hacking operation on a terminal's grid
HACK CREW JOIN - join a crewmate's hacking operation in this room
HACK CREW LEAVE - leave the crew hacking operation
HACK CREW STATUS - show a roster with each member's attempts and contributions
HACK CREW START - host: send your crew into the grid;
booted member: jack back into the grid of an ongoing operation
HACK CREW CLOSE - host: cancel an operation before it starts How it works:
- Your hacking crew will share a single grid. As each member explores, the map and uncovered password letters will fill out for the full crew. You’ll also be able to see fellow hackers moving and destroying ice in the grid.
- GigaOps and ability cooldowns are unique for each hacker. A member forced out of the grid may re-enter while attempts remain. The number of available attempts depends on the grid.
- Hacking XP for a successful hack will be divided across the group based on contribution.
- Your crew will be notified when a member is forced out or when the operation as a whole is won or lost.
- Override reward software cannot bypass a cooperative grid.
One more change, for now. Hacking passwords now have a potential to be truly random letters on upper level grids. This applies to both solo and crew hacks.
New to Starmourn? Learn more about the hacking skill: https://www.starmourn.com/hacking/
More to come! As always, please submit a BUG if you notice anything wonky with this new feature.
With much much love,
Your Starmourn Admin
Everyone, please gather for a round of applause for Elan, our amazing coder!! He has just introduced a system that solves a request players have been making almost since launch: “Let us mine space rock together!”
Fleet Mining officially introduces a multi-ship cooperative mining activity to Starmourn. When piloting an unarmed “mothership” equipped with ore-crusher / gas-compressor modules, you can now open a mining operation. Small “harvester” ships can then join your operation, gather and contribute raw materials to you, and get immediate XP and marks rewards for the work.
System Commands
All under the SHIP verb:
SHIP MINING OPEN <xp%> <price> - open an operation on an unarmed mothership that has a crusher or compressor; sets the harvester XP share and per-unit marks price.
SHIP MINING JOIN / LEAVE / CLOSE - manage membership in an active fleet mining session; CLOSE is blocked while the mothership still holds delivered, unprocessed material.
SHIP MINING STATUS - show operation terms, per-ship contributions, and the location of each ship in the operation.
SHIP DELIVER - hand tethered asteroids and primary-scoop gas to an adjacent mothership if you're in their session. Fleet Mining Rewards
- Harvesters are paid marks per delivered unit of raw materials instantly at delivery, deducted from the mothership owner’s account.
- When the mothership processes the raw material, the Captaincy-XP / CrushedRaws / Daily Credit rewards are split between the delivering harvester and the owner per the operation’s configurable percentage.
- The reward pool is fixed by the material, never inflated by grouping.
- Solo mining is unchanged by this update: the owner receives the full reward exactly as before.
Note: For now, any ship can be a “mothership” as long as you remove any weapons, including tractor beams, before opening a session. When we finish part 2 of this update, we’ll also release a formal ship that will be exclusively used as the mothership for the system.
We hope you will all enthusiastically take part in trying out and testing the new Fleet Mining system! If you notice any BUGs while you’re at it, please report them asap- Elan will be monitoring reports.
New here and interested in learning how space and starships work in Starmourn?
Check it out: https://www.starmourn.com/space/
Go get them rocks, spacers!
Your Admin Team
Open call for Storyteller applications!
The Storyteller role for Starmourn has grown a lot and now offers much more flexibility for the creative-minded spacers who choose to rise to the occasion.
We are looking for folks who would like to peak behind the curtain and run events, create areas, puppet NPCs and the like. I could use the help now that I’m taking a step back, and I’d really like to see the Starmourn sector continue its expansion.
If you are interested, please message me (Argus) on Discord with:
- Your Character Name & Your IRL Name
- Why you want to be a Storyteller
- What project(s) you want to work on
- A writing sample (Draft a new NPC with a full desc and short backstory)
- Your time zone – for availability considerations
There is no formal time expectation, however we do expect volunteers to be available for a reasonable time to complete projects consistently and to follow through on any projects you pick up. You will also be required to sign an NDA, so keep that in mind.
Feel free to message me with any questions!
Argus, the tiniest feracht
For those days when you want to do a group activity, but don’t know how to ask. Now you can tag yourself via Looking For Group, and you can see a list of anyone who’s already flagged themself for a group activity.
Looking for Group (LFG) Syntax
- LFG ADD <reason> Add yourself as available for a group.
- LFG UPDATE <reason> Change the reason on your group posting.
- LFG REMOVE Removes you from the grouping list.
- LFG ON/OFF Toggle visibility of the LFG Channel.
- LFG WHO Find others looking for a group.
Players also have access to an LFG channel now which will report when someone adds a new group or updates their group’s purpose. These updates will report to the Discord’s ingamealerts channel in case someone offline might be enticed to team up!
Chat on the channel in game with LFGT <MSG> and check what happened while you were away with HISTORY LFG. This channel should be considered IN CHARACTER as much as possible. If you want to ask questions or coordinate OOC, take it to Cesspool or Discord or Crew Chat please.
Please keep in mind that you’ll need to restart your group inquiry if you disconnect or log off as the system will wipe your post from the LFG boards.
Team up to take on Facilities, clear out a hunting zone, quest together, mine in a specific sector, strike up a band, or whatever piques your interest that day!
Note: This feature does NOT create crews or divide up XP/marks/resource gains. It’s purely meant to help people find other folks to play with. Your status on the LFG board with clear if you log out or disconnect.
Dive in today and start your next adventure in the Starmourn Sector: https://play.starmourn.com/
The revamped Referral System is now live!
Got a friend who would actually click with Starmourn, or a returning veteran you have been trying to lure back? We just made it easier to bring them in, and you both get rewarded for sticking with it as they play.
Read HELP REFERRALS for all specifics and exact rules.
Whats new
- Two referral types: New Player and Returning Player.
- Rewards for the player and the referring player when milestones are hit.
- A personal referral link plus in-game tracking for referrals and rewards.
How it works
- Get your personal link with REFER LINK, then share it.
- New Players: they sign up using your link and confirm you as referrer during their first character creation. If they forgot the link, they can still confirm with REFER CONFIRM <PLAYER> within 25 hours of total playtime.
- Returning Players: If they log in using your link, you’re automatically confirmed as referrer. They can also confirm with REFER <PLAYER> during their first login session after 90+ days of inactivity, and have not been referred in the last year.
- No self-referrals to alt accounts. Do not troll newbies to earn bonuses, this can result in a permanent ban on referring. Abuse can revoke rewards and add penalties. Referrer must be in good standing.
- Returning invites are limited to one per registration per real-life year.
Eligibility
- New player referrals require the new player to not already have an account for the game.
- Returning referrals require the player to be fully inactive for 90+ days, have no active characters, and have not been referred in the last year.
Rewards
- Rewards are based on milestones tied to referral type.
- Easier milestones award Unbound Credits, harder milestones award Iron Forged Bonds which may be used in a new exclusive shop on Omni (IN from the main station, or WALK TO URSAN)
- Some of the current rewards include exclusive genecust/shipcust options, limited run event pets, and a totally new weapon set. More to come – so stay tuned and start referring!
Again, please read HELP REFERRALS for all specifics and exact rules.
Ready to dive in? Get back into the stars today: https://play.starmourn.com/
Think we're pretty cool? Tell your friends!