Amber Ravynsong and her friends in their Christmas gear celebrating Christmas in July in the Commons. of Wizard101

Christmas In July

Christmas in July Coloring Contest

Amber Ravynsong and her friends in their Christmas gear celebrating Christmas in July in the Commons. of Wizard101

Beat the heat and stay cool this July with the Ravenwood Academy Christmas In July Coloring Contest!

To Enter: First, download the Ravynwood Christmas Tree coloring page found below, then make it your own with crayons, watercolors, digital paints, or anything you can dream of!

Then, take a picture or make a copy of your image and upload it to the Ravenwood Academy contest channel on Discord at:

discord.gg/wizcommunity

If you don’t have access to the most poppin’ Wizard101 Discord server in the Spiral, you can post your image and tag us on Twitter @Ravynswood, or email it to us at [email protected]. Winners will be chosen by vote of the Ravynwood staff team for the following categories:

Christmas Classic
Creative Colors
Best Digital
Best Physical

First Place Winners will receive A Peppergrass Glen Bundle and a Reindeer Sleigh Mount.

Second Place Winners will receive 10,000 Crowns and a Reindeer Sleigh Mount.

Every entry we receive will qualify for a bonus drawing for 10,000 Crowns and a rare Wolf of Winter mount! So, do your best and have fun! Get your entry to us by August 1st, 2022 to qualify. Any Wizard could take home a prize regardless of their ability.

We can’t wait to see your dreams of winter on such a summers day!

2021 Spell Audit Showcase

This Spring, Wizard101 is bringing quality of life changes to the Spiral. Check out the updated all-one-enemy spells from the Spring 2021 Test Realm. Watch as Ravenwood Academy showcases the changes to: Sandstorm, Ra, Deer Knight, Scarecrow, ​Meteor Strike, Fire Dragon, Rain of Fire, Blizzard, Frost Giant, Forest Lord, Rebirth, Humongofrog, Orthrus, Mystic Colossus, Tempest, Storm Lord, and Sirens.

What do you think of the changes? Love ’em or hate ’em, let us know what you think at the Test Realm discussion on Discord, or in the comments below. 

Pet Lending

“Pet Lending gives Wizards a powerful in-person hatching option to lend their pet for hatching to another Wizard. And as a bonus you can do this without being charged Gold or having your Wizard’s Hatching Slot timer started. It’s a wonderful opportunity to exchange adventure stories as you also exchange pet types!

New pet features wouldn’t be complete without rewards for having fun going through the process. You will get advance warning before the hatch process begins on what type and quality of reward you are expected to receive. The value of the reward will depend on the pet lending level and pedigree. Also, you will receive a badge for many of these lending actions!

Note that there is a limit to how many times you can lend a pet (based on your Wizard’s level).”

-KingsIsle Entertainment 

Pet Lending

The arrival of the 2020 Fall Update brings some exciting changes to the Hatchery. The most noteworthy feature is Pet Lending. A new mechanic that gives players more options in the Hatchery.
 
What is Pet Lending exactly? Pet Lending allows another player to hatch with your pet without costing you any gold. Lending also bypasses your Hatch Timer! Gone is the guilt of having to turn someone away because you’re still on a cooldown. Plus, you don’t have extra unwanted pets cluttering your inventory. You’ll even get a small reward each time you lend someone your pet. These benefits simplify Hatching and encourage powerful players to help their peers. This new mechanic makes hatching a snap! Whether you’re helping a friend or a new player, it’s never been easier to help someone create their dream pet.

Lending101

To get started, bring an adult pet and a reasonable sum of gold to the Hatchery. Hatchery prices tend to be half the price of using the Hatchmaking Kiosk. The cost of the Hatch is going to depend on the age of the pets involved. Hatching two Adult pets usually start around ten thousand gold. Meanwhile, hatching an Adult pet with a pet that’s Mega or older is around forty-five thousand gold. If you’re getting started, using younger pets will be to your benefit.
 
Next, find someone with a pet you want to hatch with. If you want more information on creating pets, read our Pet Training Guide and Petmaking101.
 
Once you are on the Hatching screen, you and your partner will see two options. One says “Hatch,” and the other says “Lend”. If you both choose Hatch, you will both pay a sum of gold to create a new pet egg for each of you. To use the Lend mechanic, one of you must choose Hatch and the other Lend.
 
Note how you can only lend a pet a specific number of times daily. You gain one lend every fifty levels. For example, if you’re under level fifty, you can lend once per day. But should you be between levels fifty to ninety-nine, you can lend twice. Finally, if you’re level one-hundred or higher, you get three lends.

Hatcher

If you’re being lent the pet, select the hatch option. From there, everything will proceed as usual. The cost to create the new pet will remain the same based upon the pet’s age. Keep in mind older pets will cost more to Hatch than younger ones. You can tell if someone is lending you their pet by looking beneath their pet’s stat block; it should say “Lending”.

Hatcher's Screen
Lender Rewards

Lender

Meanwhile, if you’re the one Lending the pet, you will select the “Lend” option. Don’t worry when you choose this route; your pet doesn’t actually leave your inventory. If you’re out of lends, the choice will appear greyed out, and a timer will show up to tell you when you can lend again.
 
When you lend a pet, you will not pay any gold, but you won’t receive an egg either. Instead, you will receive an amount of Gold and Hatch Peppers depending on your pet’s pedigree. The little stars in the bottom corner beneath your pet’s stats represent your reward. The better pet you offer, the better the bonus. Remember that your partner must be able to afford the Hatch. Most rewards are under one thousand gold, but you do have the chance to earn two Hatch Peppers.
Lender's Screen

Uses for Hatch Peppers

You can now use Hatch Peppers in a variety of pet-related crafting recipes. These recipes are all available from Doctor Purreau in the Hatchery. All these recipes are excellent additions to your Recipes Tab.

Craftable Housing Items

The Hatchmaker Kiosk recipe allows you to create your own personal kiosk for your castle. This will enable you to reach a Kiosk by teleporting back to your Wizard’s house. Mist Wood and Cat Tails are all over the Spiral, while Black Coal is purchasable from any reagent vendor. Acorns are a rare drop from piles of Mist Wood. Likewise, Mist Wood can be transmuted into Acorns. All these reagents are also found in the Bazaar except for Hatch Peppers.
 
To get all the ingredients, you’ll need two hundred fifty Hatch Peppers, which will take a while. So, your best strategy is to place five pets in the Hatchmaking Kiosk at once and wait. This could give any “failed” pets a use! As the saying goes, “One wizard’s trash is another Wizard’s treasure.” A certain Talent set might not be perfect for you, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not ideal for someone else.

Craftable Elixirs

Purreau also provides recipes for a small assortment of elixirs. These elixirs are the “Clear Hatching Slot,” “Hatch All Eggs in Inventory,” and “Next Hatch Free”. The first will reset your Hatch Timer back to zero like Purreau’s Potion Number Nine from the Crown shop. The second potion’s function is in its name. It will hatch all the unhatched eggs in your character’s backpack. Meanwhile, the last elixir will reduce the cost for your next Hatch to zero. Having these recipes is a massive help to players on a tight budget.
 
The reagents for these potions are easy to get. Each recipe only requires Hatch Peppers and Glass Vials and Black Coal, and various Rank one gems. The latter is sold by reagent vendors throughout the Spiral, but they also turn up in the Bazaar. The Hatch Peppers are going to take some time to get depending on which elixir you’re making. The costliest recipe is the “Next Hatch Free,” which requires two hundred Hatch Peppers. Meanwhile, the “Clear Hatching Slot” elixir is less steep, costing only one hundred. The cheapest elixir is the “Hatch All Eggs in Inventory,” which needs twenty-five to make.
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Craftable Mega Snacks

The best recipes on this list, are the rank eight Mega Snacks. Each snack requires only a few reagents; a rank one treasure card, a Glass Vial, and ten Hatch Peppers. These items are far from costly, acquirable from the Bazaar or various NPC vendors. Any treasure cards required are purchasable from Harold Argleston in the Library. Hatch Peppers are now easier to get with Pet Lending, granted it’ll still take some time to get enough of them. But if you lend out your pets , getting ten peppers should only take a few days. Combine this with checking in on your Couch Potato farm, and you can increase your yield of Mega Snacks. In truth, the trickiest reagent to get for some wizards is Glass Vials.
 
Glass Vials are only available in bulk from reagent vendors in Marleybone and beyond. But don’t despair! This reagent is obtainable from Burning Snap Dragons if you have the proper spells to help them grow. The seeds are sold by Marley in Mooshu and drop from many monsters across the Spiral. Because of this fact, Burning Snap Dragon seeds are often sold in the Bazaar. They are also found in a variety of Hoard and Lore packs from the Crown shop. So, they’re not impossible for Free-to-Play wizards to get but it will take some effort.
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Final Thoughts

I must applaud the Wizard101 Team for the feature they’ve added to the Hatchery. For years players have been in the game forums asking for more Hatch Slots. With this update, KingsIlse not only solved this problem, but they took things an extra step. They not only gave us a system that makes Hatching easier and more affordable. They included a system the reinforces and rewards players for helping one another.

No longer do we have to make the difficult choice between helping someone else with their pet or working on our own. Gone is the stress and struggle of finding someone willing to Hatch. Players no longer have to feel guilty for turning someone away or wait an entire day to Hatch.

Hatch Peppers are now much more comfortable to get and are more useful. Grinding and Gardening aren’t the only way to get Mega Snacks anymore. Which makes snacks of that caliber more available to players who struggle to get them. The same goes for the select few Elixirs we can now craft.

I am amazed by the impact of this little feature. Pet Lending has made the eternal quest to achieve the perfect pet that much easier. With that said, I look forward to what future updates will bring.

Thanks for Reading!

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading; I hope it helps you on your journey towards the perfect pet. I would also like to extend a special thanks to everyone who assisted in this article’s writing.
 
Feel free to explore the wealth of guides and information on Ravenwood Academy. If you want to stay up to date on the latest news, follow Ravenwood Academy on social media.
 
Thank you all again. See you in the Spiral!
 
-Morgan Shade

Fall Friendship Contest

Happy Fall from Ravenwood Academy!

Thank you for all of the wonderful submissions to our Halloween Spirit Contest! Even though October is over, the fun sure isn’t! November’s contest is about Community, Friendship, and Gratitude.

Take one in-game Autumn themed screenshot anywhere in the Spiral, and underneath tell us how this image inspires you. You can tell us with a short paragraph, a description, or even a poem! How does your image show community, friendship, and/or gratitude?

Post your screenshot & caption in the Ravenwood Academy contest channel on our Official Discord server to enter the contest by November 30th, 2020. Remember, all entries must be your original screenshot & writing and follow our community rules.

Winners will be judged by our staff team based on the quality of the screenshot and written caption and how well it follows the contest theme. The winners will be announced by December 7th on Discord. Prizes are as follows:


1st Place: Fantastic Fairytale Bundle

2nd Place: Blood Raven Bundle
3rd Place: 5000 Crowns

We can’t wait to see your creativity shine again – good luck, Wizards!

Thank You

Thank you for helping make it possible to keep bringing you Ravenwood Academy and The Ravynwood Community groups. No matter what size your contribution is, you have our heartfelt gratitude for your support of our work in the community, on the Minecraft Server, and the site.

Ravynwood Community server subscriptions allow you to support our work in the community and gain exclusive perks in the Discord server in return. Some benefits of subscribing include exclusive emojis, special permissions, and custom roles.

Learn more about subscribing to Ravynwood here:
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We have retired the Patreon program and its associated roles in light of the server subscription program. As thanks to all the angels who supported us through Patreon over the years, “Ambers Angel” will become a permanent role in the community. If you were a Patreon subscriber and don’t have the role, reach out to any Ravynwood administrator to claim it.

Thanks again for your generous contribution.

Amber Heart

Ravynlea

Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Ravenwood Academy and the Ravynwood Communities

Captains Logs

Welcome to the Captains Logs. Here, I will keep you informed of the changes that come to the Discord weekly. So, without further ado.

Captains log 3/2/2020

  • Updated the Beastmoon voice-chat channel to match the number on a Beastmoon team.
  • Updated the Spiral Door – added multi-lingual descriptions for our international partners servers and communities.
  • The Welcoming committee and Peacemakers programs were officially canceled.
  • Hoisted Team Leader below Spiral Booster and ran a flash pack giveaway for Helping Henchmen in order to encourage helping in the community.
  • Giveaways this week included 5k Crowns, Leaping Leprechaun Pets, Soaring Heart Wings, Fog Staffs, and Druids Hoard Packs
  • Changed server Welcome message – goodbye “Jambo”, hello “Nice to meet you”
  • Added several game and community-related emoji
  • I did an announcement asking you to give me 24h to disperse server giveaways. HERE
  • The music commands channel description was changed.
  •  The rules for the music channels were clarified and pinned. HERE 
  • The music commands channel was removed
  •  Rule 3 was updated and clarified to explicitly state flashy emotes are against the community rules.
  • We opened a new fishing channel, “Lucky’s Bait and Tackle”. HERE
  • We renamed the “pets” channel to “The Hatchery”
  • We moved “Wiz-memes” and “community art” to the community section
  • We moved questions and server feedback to support section
  •  We renamed “PvP” to “Arena Chat”
  • Updated Server Icon and Banner to fit the new Spring theme.

Captains Logs week of 3/9/2020

– Updated the  ATA icon for March
– Promoted Peanut, congrats on Admin little nut!!
– Started the monthly Wiz-memes contest in the Facebook and Discord groups.
– Added Dyno reminders to the ATA and Pirate101 Community Discords to join us at the Main Community server for conversation.
– Discord server hit 14,000
– Giveaways included Life Starter Sets, Pets, Crowns and even Memberships!


Thanks so much for being part of our community. Keep all those amazing server suggestions coming. Feel free to reach out anytime.

~ AmberRavynsong #2344
Director of the Ravenwood Community

Pirate Poem Winners

These are the winners for our Summer 2019 Pirate101 Poem contest. A great big thanks to everyone that submitted an entry. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

1st place: Stephanie Dawnheart “Peter Quint”

2nd Place  Garett Hassoldt  “Dreaming Quinn”

3rd place Kristen Cringle “In search of El Dorado”

Summer Story Winners

Thank you to everyone that entered our 2019 Summer Story Contest. Check out the winners below!

1st place: Diana Icepetal with “Me, Machine”

2nd place: Julianna Colucci  “Necromancer”

3rd Place Ashley Star  “Unicorns”

We had so many amazing entries, we wanted to give a great big thanks to everyone who submitted one this year. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Happily Everafter

This incredible new castle is by far one of my favorites! The entire estate is full of fairytales and fables, from Mother Goose to The Brothers Grimm. What truly caught my attention was the morals behind the fairytales represented. I don’t know if KingIsle had an ulterior motive behind their selection of fables, but if they did…..BRAVO! Each area of this home has positive morals hidden within the fable itself.

The Land of Fairytales and Fables

As we arrive through the Spiral Door, we see many pathways leading from a central farmhouse.  The central farmhouse also has a small barn with a secret tunnel that leads to the main house. There are multiple gardening areas all around the central farmhouse. As a bonus, this house is a like for your plants! There is also a lovely lake with a stream for fishing. I haven’t quite figured out what fairytale the main farmhouse represents. Maybe Jack and the Beanstalk? What do you think it could be? I would love to hear your ideas in the comments below!

The first house we’ll visit represents Mother Goose and The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe. It’s a multi-level house, 4 stories inside, with quaint details. The last 2 stories are reached by climbing a ladder, how fun! The rooms inside are smallish, but have plenty of space for decorating in your style.

In the Old Woman and the Shoe, there is a woman who has so many children she doesn’t know what to do! The moral of this story is, listen to your parents and have good behavior.

From there we go to visit the 3 Little Pigs, a fable originally published in 1886. You’ll find a straw house, a house of twigs, and a brick house. These are cute little 1 room shacks.  To the left of them is a path that when followed takes you through a cave to the next house.

Just as the 3 Little Pigs worked hard to accomplish their dreams, so can you!  The moral of this story is you can accomplish anything with hard work and dedication.

The next house we come to is the witches’ house from the Brothers Grimm tale, Hansel and Gretel. This is a fabulous rendition of the enticing candy house. The entire structure is covered in sweet treats that sparkle in the sunlight. The interior has 2 rooms that are vibrantly colored, matching the outside. If you go through the side of the large tree stump, it takes you underground, coming out int the main area of the castle.

Hansel and Gretel got into loads of trouble because they didn’t listen to their parents and trusted someone they didn’t know. The moral of this story is to always listen to your parents and don’t trust strangers.

After climbing a hill, we find ourselves at a wishing well. This well has a daily gift for your Wizard! On this occasion I recieved gold and a pet snack. Climbing a hill to a well is from an old 18th century nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill.

Jack was in such a hurry that he forgot to stay safe and be careful.  The moral in this story is to avoid being hasty and do things carefully.

Rising to the sky we have the Brothers Grimm again, this time with Rapunzels Tower. This whimsical structure has 3 stories with a winding walkway that circles around the main floors.

Rapunzel dreamed of getting out of her tower and patiently waited for that wonderful day to arrive. The moral of this story is to never give up on your hopes and dreams!

There is a hidden door behind the waterfall that takes you to the lower level of Rapunzels Tower!

The mount that comes with the bundle is none other than the Pumpkin Carriage from Cinderella! This is another great multi-person mount from KingsIsle, this one with stunning details.

Cinderella had a hard life but kept a happy heart no matter what. The moral in this story is to be kind, forgive others, and don’t let bad things ruin a good heart.

The pet that comes with this bundle is the adorable, or should I say “toadorable” Noble Toad!  As his crown shows, he comes from a long line of Noble Toads!

Gear fit for a King or Queen

If you’ve ever wanted to have a regal look, this is the gear for you. The stats won’t replace your dungeon farmed gear, but it will make an amazing stitch!

This wand is utterly amazing, so very eerie!  It’s called Poison Apple.  Once again, the stats are not the greatest but it would be another awesome stitch. Does anyone remember where a poison apple comes from? That’s right, Snow White!  

Snow White was envied for her inner beauty as much as for her outer beauty.  Her good-hearted trust in everyone caused problems for her.  The moral to this story is that real beauty comes from within, and once again don’t trust strangers.

KingsIsle has outdone themselves with this bundle!  Not only is it an adorable castle with many features, but it also has wonderful morals for the children of the game. I hope you enjoyed this walkthrough of the Fantastic Fairytale Farm! If you see any other fairytales or fables represented that I missed, let us know in the comments below! Until next time, may all your dreams come true!

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