 It’s hard to believe it, but Mycena Cave has been around 10 whole years! As I reflect upon this milestone, I’m feeling very grateful to each person who has contributed their time, energy, and passion to help shape this little corner of the web. Whether you are a visitor, a contributor, or a steadfast member, your presence has been the lifeblood that keeps us chugging along. <3 Cheers to you all, and thank you for everything! We have a few things going on for our birthday this year; a gift, a couple of activities, two new permanent games, a look at the past 10 years, the dory, and of course the launch of summer! Thanks goes to Plaid and Loon for making the gifts, we hope you enjoy them! Activities Party Flavors Nothing says ‘celebration’ quite like a big ol’ get-together — and no type of gathering heralds the warmth of summer more than a block party! Local Mycenians have decided to throw one such bash, in honor of the tenth anniversary of their little community. It promises to boast quite the crowd, so everyone is invited to bring along a dish to share with their friends and neighbors—head this way! Boney Bashing It’s a bird! No, it’s a plane! Wait, what is that strange looking thing dangling from the Bone Monster’s paw?
...need I show more? Come hit the Boney-shaped piñata here! New Games We’ve released two new games, Remembery, a memory game, and Sprocket’s Secrets, a minesweeper game! These are games we’ve previously tested out and gotten positive feedback on. Payouts will likely need to be adjusted after we collect more data. This game has been played by Mycenians from a young age as a means to enhance their memory skills. Although it was initially bestowed with an official name, the children affectionately embraced it as “Remembery,” a title that has since become synonymous with the game. Note: You can set the theme for the game in the Community Settings menu! Choose between forest foraging, circus scarabs, or gone fishing The game will presents a grid of cards, face down. Each card has a matching pair somewhere in the grid, and the objective is to find all the matching pairs by flipping over two cards at a time. Click to reveal its face and then, click or tap on another card to reveal its face as well. If the two cards you revealed match, they will remain face up. If the cards do not match, they will automatically flip back face down. The game ends once you have found all the matching pairs. Sprocket has buried highly volatile electronomers* underground. Your job is to do a survey of the area, marking the sites of potential electronomers that should be excavated by trained specialists. Be careful not to disturb the electronomers! *Electronomers were created by Sprocket for his Marvelous Meteorologic Machine. Once that project was scaled back, the extra components should have been safely disassembled. Clearly, Sprocket had other plans. This game is similar to Minesweeper. Click a field to excavate it, or right-click it to mark it as an electronomer. Numbers indicate how many adjacent fields contain electronomers. But be careful! If you excavate on a field with an electronomer, you’ll detonate it and have to start over! Note: you can also toggle between excavating-mode and marking-mode, to help in case your device does not have the ability to right-click The number on the square is the number of electronomers touching that square, including on the diagonal
Flag squares that are likely electronomers.
Click on squares that are likely not electronomers. The tile will disappear if there are no electronomers touching it, or it will reveal a number.
The game is over once you’ve clicked any tile that isn’t an electronomer. Specialists will come in and excavate all the flagged areas.
Cheers to 10 Years 10 Year Timeline It’s easy to forget how bare bones Mycena Cave started compared to where we’re at today. Check out all we’ve managed to do in the past 10 years here! A Look Back at Events We’ve hosted many events—if you’re feeling nostalgic, take a look at all the fun we’ve had here! It’s Summertime! Seasonal Selection As always, with a new season comes a new mushroom variety to snack on! Summer Seasonal mushrooms are now available in Tamshir’s Specialties! This season’s stock will remain available until Autumn officially arrives on September 23rd.  Chadwick’s Summer Snack Shack is back in business! The cat returns with this year’s hottest summer fashion trends (as well as retro styles from years prior). He’ll be keeping his Summer Snack Shack open until 23:59ST on July 20th, after which he’ll be riding off into the sunset until next year!
It’s Item Dory Time! It’s time for the annual Item Dory—how won-dory-ful! We want to hear about the kinds of items the community is interested in seeing, broad or specific. You can submit your wishes to the Dory, and then share your interest on the other ideas players have submitted! Collecting this data is very helpful to our artists and coordinators, who often refer to the most recent Dory results to help guide our creative processes. Do note, though, that submitting an idea to the dory does not guarantee that it will be used! The Dory will remain open through 23:59 ST on July 4th.
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10 Year Timeline
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Total Items Released: Total Site Coats Released: 14 Total Unique Coats Created: 60 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 1 January
February
March
April
June
July
August
September
October
December
Total Items Released: 306 Total Site Coats Released: 48 Total Unique Coats Created: 194 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 8 January
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March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Total Items Released: 460 Total Site Coats Released: 79 Total Unique Coats Created: 491 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 20 January
February
March
April
June
September
October
November
Total Items Released: 639 Total Site Coats Released: 101 Total Unique Coats Created: 874 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 26 March
April
May
June
August
October
November
Total Items Released: 805 Total Site Coats Released: 125 Total Unique Coats Created: 1,194 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 33 January
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March
April
July
November
December
Total Items Released: 996 Total Site Coats Released: 149 Total Unique Coats Created: 1,393 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 44 February
March
May
April
June
July
October
November
December
Total Items Released: 1,287 Of which Sponsored: 98 Total Site Coats Released: 179 Total Unique Coats Created: 1,561 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 55 January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
October
November
December
Total Items Released: 1,548 Of which Sponsored: 143 Total Site Coats Released: 211 Total Unique Coats Created: 1,711 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 68 January
February
April
May
June
July
September
October
November
December
Total Items Released: 1,941 Of which Sponsored: 185 Total Site Coats Released: 240 Total Unique Coats Created: 1,822 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 78 January
February
March
July
August
October
Total Items Released: 2,203 Of which Sponsored: 193 Total Site Coats Released: 274 Total Unique Coats Created: 1,928 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 86 April
May
FINAL TOTALS Total Site Coats Released: 286 Total Unique Coats Created: 1,953 Total Number of Events/Forum Activities: 91
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A Look Back At Events
October 2013 – Halloween Event February 2014 – Spring Flower Rush July 2014 – Discovery Dig September 2014 - Dungeon Diving October 2014 – The Cave Files: The Case of the Lost Necklace February 2015 – Choose Your Own Adventure April 2015 – Spring Swarm Extravaganza July 2015 – Stellar Spelunking September 2015 – Shimmers in the Water October 2015 – Marcy’s Harvest Festival / The Scholarcrow Event April 2016 – The Great Spring Renewal April 2016 - Darcy’s Spring Sweets August 2016 – Into the Caves October 2016 – Marcy’s Actually -Happening Harvest Festival January 2017 – The Winter Watch March 2017 – Quest for the Lost Chamber April 2017 – Spring Spell Sling August 2017 – Legend of the Lost Trove October 2017 – Letters from the Lost January 2018 - The Winter Watch II February 2018 – Cave Chronicles: Quest for the Icy Soul April 2018 – The Spring Bloom Jubilee August 2018 – Search for the Fallen Stars Oct 2018 – Bruc & Jessamyn’s Sorvery Spectacular January 2019 – The Winter Watch III April 2019 – Professor Sprocket’s Marvellous Meteorological Machine August 2019 – Ye Olde Midsummer Faire November 2019 – Stoneskin Outbreak February 2020 – The Winter Book Faire April 2020 – Reign of the North Wind July 2020 – Kerric’s Magnificent Caravan October 2020 – The Siege of Saltrock Cove January 2021 – Cave Files: Return of the Stolen Sun April 2021 – Spring Blossom Festival July 2021 – Soup, Stones, and Snakes: Mapping the Cave October 2021 – Echoes of Nautalis Jan 2022 – The Walk of Three March 2022 – Alphabet Goop August 2022 – The Summer Sunset Carnival November 2022 – Warding the Withering Wood January 2023 – Lunar Luck Festival May 2023 – Once Upon a Magical Library
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Happy birthday Mycena Cave!!!!!! Crazy to think about how long it’s been around. Some stray thoughts: I can’t believe we *had* qi as a word but it was removed >:[ omg I can’t believe the jorts war got a mention!!! Here’s to another 10 years and hopefully twice as much fun over the next decade. :>
Posted 06/21/23
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more games more games more games Wow does time fly. I’m super excited about the gift!! And new games are awesome. It’ll be fun to look through the history posts after work. (If we find a bug with the games, should we echo glitch or post in the forums in case anyone else has an issue? I couldn’t finish my very first memory match and it was kinda poetic in a way given how many times I just failed at Sprocket’s Secrets. I need to not spend my entire day on memory matches.)
Posted 06/21/23
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Y’know, since all I mostly do is play Cave In and do the timer events it didn’t even occur to me that I’ve been here almost the entire ten years. I still make all my uprights girls and actives boys, I didn’t actually notice when genders were removed.
Posted 06/21/23
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I’ve been playing the new games a lot so far, thanks for their release. I really like Remembery and think I might add it to my regular game rotation. I will say, maybe some people are better at minesweeper than I am, but Sprocket’s Secrets is pretty hard (I lost a lot lol) and takes a lot of time for just 50 nuggets so… probably won’t be a regular game for me when trying to earn nuggets if that remains the reward rate. But… I mean, I also play Mycelium for fun still sometimes when I’m bored and it still gives nothing so I appreciate the extra games anyway.
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Having played Sprocket’s Secrets a bit more, I had a thought: Fairly often I end up with a board where I have to outright guess (like a 50/50 chance between two tiles being the final electronomer. At least twice this has been the very last mine on the board. So, it’s a 50/50 chance with a fully complete game on the line. I’m wonder if it would be possible to award nuggets based on how many unclicked tiles were left on the board in cases where I’d guess wrong? Like partial credit just cause of how long it takes to get to the point where I’ve marked 18-19 bombs already and therefore only had 21-22 tiles left unclicked. It can scale as high as you’re generous to. But with 108 tiles, 20 of which are bombs.
Posted 06/23/23
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