Happy New Year!



New Year is a time to reflect on all the great memories and times we had in the year past, and think about all our hopes, dreams, and goals for the year coming. Thanks staff and members for giving us a great 2014!
Share your memories here!

We hope 2015 will be even better!

The Oekaki Weekly Challenge this week is about your New Year's Resolution. Click here to draw for the challenge or view the other entries

And as usual, a new month means new pets to adopt!

For those who celebrate it, Merry Christmas! It's now Dec 25th in the CS time zone (GMT), although it may still be Christmas Eve depending on where you live.

Hanukkah has now ended, and today is the final day of our Advent Calendar! Make sure you go and pick up the last advent gifts (there are 2 to adopt, don't miss anything!). We will leave those final gifts up until the end of December, so people won't miss out if they're busy with family and friends for Christmas.

Santa has already been and visited a couple of the admins in New Zealand, as it is past lunchtime on Christmas Day in our time zone (GMT+13). Tess and Nick must have been nice this year, because Santa brought us some cool CS buttons and stickers We hope our other buttons/stickers giveaway winners have received their gifts by now, although some gifts will still be working their way through the mail.

We hope everyone has enjoyed our December celebrations and that you have a safe & happy holiday season!

It's now Christmas Eve (Dec 24th) here on Chicken Smoothie! Only one more sleep til Christmas

There's one final gift available for Hanukkah today! Hanukkah is still being celebrated until sundown tonight.

Tomorrow (25th) will be the last day of the CS advent calendar, when we will release one last gift. Our last gift will still be available to adopt until the end of December, so don't worry if you are not able to get online on Christmas day!

We hope everyone enjoyed our advent calendar and Hanukkah celebrations this year We wish you a safe and happy holiday season, from all the staff!

We hope you had good luck yesterday! The Dec 18th giveaway has ended

Our Dec 18th Re-release day has begun!

Good luck everybody! Don't forget to get your Hanukkah goodies too, and make sure you read the older news post below for more information about Dec 18th

Useful topics to post in after adopting your Dec 18th pets:
Dec 18th Discussion
What pet is this/How much is this pet worth?
Is this a fair trade?

Have you heard about December 18th on CS?

You might have heard people talking about "December 18th" and "re-releases". If you haven't participated in our Advent Calendar before then this may be new to you. It's just about time for the Dec 18th release, so please read this information so that you understand what it all means!

Each year on December 18th, we have an extra special gift in the advent calendar. The Dec 18th giftbox is full of hundreds of different pets which have been released before over the past 6 years - many of these are rare and valuable. You will have the chance to adopt a few, but like all gifts the pets you receive are randomly chosen, so some people will be luckier than others.

You may not recognize the pets you receive, but there is a good chance that they will be valuable pets with a high trading value! They will generally be worth much more than any other pets in the Advent Calendar.

We recommend that you don't trade your pets away until you are sure you understand how much they are worth. You don't want to get ripped off by someone who offers you low-value pets for your new rares. Many older members intentionally seek out new members and COPPA members on Dec 18th so they can try to rip them off with unfair trade offers. Please take your time and don't rush to accept any offers until you're sure that it feels like a good deal for you.

There will be a forum topic created on Dec 18th so that you can ask for help identifying or valuing your Dec 18th pets.

If you're a COPPA player and can't post in the forum to ask about your pets, we recommend that you wait until your pets are fully grown before you trade them, so that you can work out which outcomes you have and what their rarity is. You can also send a help ticket to get general advice or help with identification from General Helpers/Staff if you are unable to post in the forum.

The Dec 18th giveaway gives you a random chance of adopting pets from earlier months/years, but it's not a guarantee that you'll get a Very Rare from 2008 or 2009, you might just get Rares from 2013. The giveaway's purpose is to bring all sorts of old and rare pets back into the active trading population so that they're a little less difficult to get in trades, but we don't want to dramatically lower their value, so we can't give everyone a Sunback or a Zebra (for example). If we did that, those ultra rare pets would become worthless Very Commons overnight. If you are disappointed by what you receive on the 18th please don't complain and don't feel sad, because even if you were a bit unlucky on the day, the re-release benefits everyone long-term by making trading for older rares slightly easier for everyone again.

Multi-accounting to get more Dec 18th pets is super obvious and easy to detect, so unless you want to get banned, it's better to play fair. Please note: It is considered cheating if you get family or friends to sign up so they can send you free pets or send you all their Dec 18th pets without getting a fair swap in return. Don't make any extra accounts for yourself, and make sure that your trades are fair if you are trading with family and friends. If an account is being used just so that person can adopt extra things for you, then that is cheating.

We have had several news posts over the past few hours, so make sure you scroll down and don't miss anything!

Today is the beginning of our Hanukkah celebrations! Make sure to check the Hanukkah page every day (as well as the Advent Calendar) so you don't miss anything!

Have you heard about December 18th on CS?

You might have heard people talking about "December 18th" and "re-releases". If you haven't participated in our Advent Calendar before then this may be new to you. It's not the 18th yet, but please read this information so that you understand what it all means!

Each year on December 18th, we have an extra special gift in the advent calendar. The Dec 18th giftbox is full of hundreds of different pets which have been released before over the past 6 years - many of these are rare and valuable. You will have the chance to adopt a few, but like all gifts the pets you receive are randomly chosen, so some people will be luckier than others.

You may not recognize the pets you receive, but there is a good chance that they will be valuable pets with a high trading value! They will generally be worth much more than any other pets in the Advent Calendar.

We recommend that you don't trade your pets away until you are sure you understand how much they are worth. You don't want to get ripped off by someone who offers you low-value pets for your new rares. Many older members intentionally seek out new members and COPPA members on Dec 18th so they can try to rip them off with unfair trade offers. Please take your time and don't rush to accept any offers until you're sure that it feels like a good deal for you.

There will be a forum topic created on Dec 18th so that you can ask for help identifying or valuing your Dec 18th pets.

If you're a COPPA player and can't post in the forum to ask about your pets, we recommend that you wait until your pets are fully grown before you trade them, so that you can work out which outcomes you have and what their rarity is. You can also send a help ticket to get general advice or help with identification from General Helpers/Staff if you are unable to post in the forum.

The Dec 18th giveaway gives you a random chance of adopting pets from earlier months/years, but it's not a guarantee that you'll get a Very Rare from 2008 or 2009, you might just get Rares from 2013. The giveaway's purpose is to bring all sorts of old and rare pets back into the active trading population so that they're a little less difficult to get in trades, but we don't want to dramatically lower their value, so we can't give everyone a Sunback or a Zebra (for example). If we did that, those ultra rare pets would become worthless Very Commons overnight. If you are disappointed by what you receive on the 18th please don't complain and don't feel sad, because even if you were a bit unlucky on the day, the re-release benefits everyone long-term by making trading for older rares slightly easier for everyone again.

Multi-accounting to get more Dec 18th pets is super obvious and easy to detect, so unless you want to get banned, it's better to play fair. Please note: It is considered cheating if you get family or friends to sign up so they can send you free pets or send you all their Dec 18th pets without getting a fair swap in return. Don't make any extra accounts for yourself, and make sure that your trades are fair if you are trading with family and friends. If an account is being used just so that person can adopt extra things for you, then that is cheating.