Happy spring everyone!

I'm happy to announce several things going on behind the scenes have been finally released on site, including an updated event shop, with a brand new item of familiar traits inside: The Space Box!

Inside the space box are 2 randomly rolled traits from the Space Exploration event that was only during the original opening! Now, they're back for the relaunch, in a box you can get weekly! Each box is 1000 qubits and limited to 2 per person per week, but I hope you enjoy getting the old traits again as we enter a new era for Luminites!

Not only do we have the new box, a new pet was also released alongside it! For 1400 qubits you can get a Suspiciously Plain Egg from the event shop! Inside each egg is an Eggling! Named that affectionately by Luminites because they tend to remain short and babylike even into adulthood.

Relaunch Event 

the relaunch has begun in earnest with a bulletin where you can get 500 qubits and a space box! 

All you have to do is post a bulletin to Toyhouse and submit it here!

The bulletin is limited to one per person, BUT if you join the Discord Server you can participate in Weekly Raffles AND a Spring Gacha that'll be hosted soon in the future!

I'm really really excited to bring more awesome things to you this spring such as new prompts and maybe even the return of the daily gachapon?

That's all for now, but I hope you guys enjoy these new site additions!

Hello everyone! It's been a very hectic new years and 2025 for us all, which pushed Luminites into an impromptu hiatus! However, it takes a lot more than a hiatus to keep us down! Within that Hiatus, our current owner, Ryder (gerard), was diagnosed with many health conditions and couldn't run the species.

What does this mean for the future of Luminites?

for starters, Luminites is not closing down. The responsibility of running and keeping it alive was handed to me, K1NGHELI0S, for as long as Ryder needs to recover! The changes in effect have not been huge, but they did in fact start with the end of the Halloween event. 

What will happen later on? Will there be new events?

Theres going to be new events that I'll be hosting very soon! Starting with a small Easter celebration that hinges on secret gift art... Oooh! Halloween being hidden from view doesn't mean the events are gone forever! 

Other Changes?

Soon, I'll be promoting new moderators to help with my workload who are also as excited as me to revive this species! Thank you guys for sticking with us and believing in us! Also please send kind words Ryder's way, let him know he's appreciated by every last one of us! 

When the first Luminite wished upon a shooting star, something special happened.

That Luminite, long, long ago, was blessed with a humanoid form. Taking on the appearance of a doll, this new world of possibilities granted them the ability to access and intermingle with worlds never before thought possible.

BOLIDESSE INTRODUCTION

To thank everyone for nearly 1000 Luminites, we've decided to introduce Luminites humanoid form - Bolidesse!

Bolidesse are doll-like, humanoid bodies Luminites may optionally obtain by wishing upon a shooting star.

To learn more about this new, exciting form for your Luminites and how to get one for yourself, you can access the Bolidesse information page under the WORLD tab in the navbar above.

>> BOLIDESSE FORM GUIDE <<

To celebrate this new addition, an adopt that comes with its bolidesse form will be posted shortly!

The site will be going down at 00:00 site time for anywhere between 1-5 hours.

Thank you for your understanding!

🎃 NIGHT OF HAUNTS 🎃

What secrets lie within the forgotten woods of Pleiades...?
OCTOBER 31ST - NOVEMBER 30TH

SUMMARY

This year for Night of Frights, Meadowlark has planned a relaxing camp getaway deep within the woods of Tacus. Unfortunately for her, it seems this trip might not go as smoothly as it seems. Is something else lurking in these woods…?

Night of Haunts is an event hosted by the citizens of Pleiades celebrating community, entertainment and honoring the ones who once lived on this planet and the secrets they've left behind!

🕸️ JOBS 🕸️

That's right! Your Luminite can now work a job! There are 3 careers - Farmhand, Alchemist, and Warrior. Each job has their own perks, prompts, activities, and the like!

FARMHAND

Farmhands are a class/job of Luminites that work on agriculture. They're most adept at growing plants, tending to crops, and cooking food.

BENEFITS

• Farmhands cook (craft) food to heal and/or apply status effects
• Farmhands have access to special prompts under the farming category
• Farmhands have access to their very own farm, where they grow crops.
• Farmhands have access to their very own shop, where they can buy seeds and tools with farm points, which are earned by completing farming prompts

Warrior

🕸️ ACTIVITIES 🕸️

anni's candy hunt

This year, I made an RPGmaker game where Anni goes around and finds candy around Meadowlark's campsite! Play it and find all the candy! If you do, you can submit the candy turn-in prompt!
https://gossqmer.itch.io/great-annihilators-candy-hunt

PROMPTS

There are two prompt categories this season. Autumn seasonal prompts, and standard Night of Frights prompts.

When completing prompts, you can receive:

• Special collectible items that you can give to your Luminite to hold
• QuBits (amount varies depending on complexity/amount of effort put into your prompt submission)
• Candy - a special currency just for this event that you'll be using to purchase special items!

SEASONAL ACTIVITIES

For every day of this event, you'll be able to access new foraging areas and encounter areas! Once the event has ended, this activity area will be inaccessible until next year. Within the areas you may find:

• Candy amounts up to 100
• Special event traits
• Special event collectibles
• Special event pets

CAREER PROMPTS

During this event, there are special career-specific prompts you can submit with your Luminite!

- Farmhands may submit the Graveyard Farming prompt to unlock the Graveyard plot area under gardening (under "PLAY" in the navbar)
- Warriors may submit the Ghostmallow prompt to unlock the Blood Sucker recipe, a crafting recipe for a special, Night of Haunts exclusive weapon!
- Alchemists may submit the Soothing the Undead prompt to unlock the Spirit Soother recipe, a crafting recipe for a special potion that cures the "Haunted" status effect!

🕸️ EVENT TRAITS 🕸️

As with the previous event, the Night of Haunts event will also feature special event traits!

You may find the traits featured under the VISUAL TRAIT GUIDE (please click on a trait for more information)

To use these traits, you need to achieve the corresponding item. The description of each trait says what item you need to gain access to it. Items can be achieved through a number of ways:

• Purchasing them with Candy in our event shop
• Purchasing them with USD in our Discord
• Getting them in the new activity area

🕸️ UPDATES & INFO 🕸️

We have also added a new site theme which is Autumn themed! This will be the default theme throughout the rest of the Night of Haunts event, which will continue throughout the duration of this event through November. You may change your site theme in your profile settings.

THANK YOU!

We hope you all have fun!
We encourage you to join our Discord for faster communication, updates, information, and regular giveaways.

1 YEAR (ANNI)VERSARY

Thank you all so much for the amount of love, attention, and feedback this species has received over the past year! I truly could not be happier about how things turned out and I'm eternally grateful for each and every one of you and the love and care you provide our silly species.

As a thank you for being here with us for the past year, we've released special (free) ANNIversary gift boxes that you can purchase in the event shop!

https://www.luminites.club/shops/5

You can purchase here!

We have also made it so mythical traits will be restocked monthly with a stock of 15 traits and a purchase limit of 1 per user!
Er.. We're still not sure how exactly it'll work yet, so we'll see next month! Regardless, keep your eyes open for it!

💌 VALENTINE'S DAY 💌

FEBRUARY 17TH - MARCH 7TH

SUMMARY

Within the cold of the winter season, the warmth all Lumis need to thrive can be found within the comfort of their love towards each other. Whether that be romantic, platonic, familial, or something outside of it, now is the time for Lumis all over the galaxy to show their appreciation for one another!

💘 ACTIVITIES 💘

PROMPTS

All prompts for the Valentine's Day event allow either art or writing submissions. Prompt rewards include:

• Awards/badges which can be displayed on your profile
• Special collectible items that you can give to your Luminite to hold
• QuBits (amount varies depending on complexity/amount of effort put into your prompt submission)

DAILY GACHAPON

For every day of Valentine's Day, a special box will be available in the Daily Gachapon for you to open and receive a random prize! Prizes per box may include:

• QB amounts up to 30
• Special event traits
• Special event collectibles
• Special event pets

💘 Updates and info 💘

We have a new site theme inspired by Valentine's day! This will be the default theme throughout the rest of the Valentine's Day event. You may change your site theme in your profile settings.

• Sorry for the smaller event than usual! We're all kind of tired, burnt out, and super busy! Still, we hope you have a lovely time celebrating the season of love with your Lumis!

THANK YOU!

We hope you all have fun!
We encourage you to join our Discord for faster communication, updates, information, and regular giveaways.

Guys pretend like I didn't just accidentally delete the entire Stellaestum event post. If you see this..No you didn't.

❄️ STAR-SNOW FESTIVAL ❄️

DECEMBER 17TH - JANUARY 17TH

SUMMARY

As the world gets colder and the skies grow darker, Luminites continue to find warmth and comfort within the bonds they’ve formed with each other over the past seasons of festivities, celebration, and excitement.

The Star-Snow Festival is celebrated all across the universe, with each cluster adapting its own traditions. The most notable of them being Pleiades, which, with its large population, is the most known for going all-in on the Star-Snow Festival, with the season to match! (To be fair, when is Pleiades NOT going all-in on the celebrations?)

Now is the time for Luminites to reflect on their time here after their birth as they fully appreciate the friends they have made and prepare for all there is to come!

🎄 ACTIVITIES 🎄

PROMPTS

All prompts for the Star-Snow Festival event allow either art or writing submissions. Prompt rewards include:

• Special collectible items that you can give to your Luminite to hold
• QuBits (amount varies depending on complexity/amount of effort put into your prompt submission)

SEASONAL ACTIVITIES

For every day of this event, you'll be able to access a new activity area! Once the event has ended, this activity area will be inaccessible until next year. Within the areas you may find:

• QB amounts up to 15
• Special event traits
• Special event collectibles
• Special event pets

🎄 EVENT TRAITS 🎄

As with the previous event, the Star-Snow Festival event will also feature special event traits!

You may find the traits featured under the VISUAL TRAIT GUIDE (please click on a trait for more information)

To use these traits, you need to achieve the corresponding item. The description of each trait says what item you need to gain access to it. Items can be achieved through a number of ways:

• Purchasing them with QB in our event shop
• Purchasing them with USD in our Discord
• Getting them in the new activity area

🎄 UPDATES & INFO 🎄

We have also added a new site theme which is Winter themed! This will be the default theme throughout the rest of the Star-Snow Festival event. You may change your site theme in your profile settings.

We will be changing the resale price of collectibles from 50 QB to 20 QB to adjust for Lumiflation. You may still sell collectibles in user shops for as much as you'd like, though!

We'd also like to apologize for how late this event ended up being. I, ryder/gerard, developed Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and have been unable to maintain stable activity levels due to wrist pain and treatments.
We initially had a lot more we wanted to do for this event, but my health troubles ended up holding that back. Hopefully my normal activity will be able to resume soon, but in the meantime, we hope you have fun!

THANK YOU!

We hope you all have fun!
We encourage you to join our Discord for faster communication, updates, information, and regular giveaways.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER NEWSLETTER

Hello everyone! I hope you're all excited for the holiday season!

First, let's go over the biggest change to our website recently...

FORUMS

Since there are so many users who do not currently use the Discord, we thought it would be beneficial to introduce FORUMS!

Let's go over what you can do!

WHAT CAN I DO?

Forums are, as the name implies, forums! If you are familiar with them. Essentially, there are a collection of topics you can create a new thread under. Threads allow you to choose something to talk about! 
More specifically, using forums, you can:

• Trade your Luminites, items, and much more!
• Discuss and develop your characters
• Participate in forum games
• Find people to do art trades with
• Discuss the species as a whole

And much more!

Please remember that when using our forums, you must adhere to our Terms of Service. 
You may not discuss anything inappropriate for a PG-13 audience and you must be respectful to your fellow forum users.

Keep in mind that forums are optional and not a required part of participating on the site, but if you'd like to interact with your fellow users, go right ahead!
You may find the forums within the navbar next to gallery.
https://luminites.io/forum

SITE UPDATES

Along with that, we also have some other minor site updates and news to share!

WHAT ELSE HAS CHANGED?

• Shop has been removed from the WORLD category and may now be found under BROWSE
• Inbox and wishlist have been removed from the WORLD category and may now be found under your username in the top right

WHAT'S IN STORE?

December is coming up, which means it's almost time for the Winter season! To celebrate, we will be hosting a relatively large event called the STAR-SNOW FESTIVAL.

Let's take a peek at what's in store:

As the world gets colder and the skies grow darker, Luminites continue to find warmth and comfort within the bonds they’ve formed with each other over the past seasons of festivities, celebration, and excitement.

The Star-Snow Festival is celebrated all across the universe, with each cluster adapting its own traditions. The most notable of them being Pleiades, which, with its large population, is the most known for going all-in on the Star-Snow Festival, with the season to match! (To be fair, when is Pleiades NOT going all-in on the celebrations?)

Now is the time for Luminites to reflect on their time here after their birth as they fully appreciate the friends they have made and prepare for all there is to come!

Thank you all for your continued support and interest in our species!

THANK YOU!

We hope you all have fun!
We encourage you to join our Discord for faster communication, updates, information, and regular giveaways.