| Newbie’s Guide to Subeta |
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Posted by Megan on May 4th, 2011
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If you have a question that this guide does not answer please leave a comment, or submit your question here and I’ll do my best to help you. Because of the popularity of this post and the constant updates to it I’ve pinned this to the front page. Scroll down for newer posts.
Subeta is one of the best virtual pet sites. It’s a smaller community, and that’s one of its charms. Unlike Neopets, you aren’t fighting tens of thousands of people for a single item. On a big site like Neopets it’s easy to become lost in the crowd. On Subeta it is easy to make money and integrate yourself into the site quickly. But, like any site, new users might have some trouble when they don’t know their way around. There are topics and FAQs to help new members, but it can be difficult sorting through so much information. Since so many people end up joining and never doing anything, and I have seen many searches for Subeta guides in my websites referral history, I decided to write the kind of guide I would like to have seen when I was a starting out there. This guide aims to be clear and concise, with all the information you could possibly need in one place. If you are looking for something in particular try pressing CTRL + F and searching for a keyword. If you have a question and you can find the answer here post a comment and I’ll help you as best I can. Not a member of Subeta yet, and not sure if you want to join? Check out all the awesome pets at the Neocolours Subeta page and all the well-dressed avatars at Style File. ![]() Pet Creation – Once you are registered you can create your virtual pet by going to the Adopt a Pet page (Personal > Pets > Adopt a Pet) There are 58 to choose from, 6 being limited. The limited pets are Hipottu, Antlephore, Telenine, Sheeta, Cybill, and Kerubi. Limited pets are released randomly, If you don’t want to create a new pet, you can also adopt one from the pound, Adopt R Us (Explore > Veta Lake > Adopt R Us). There are usually quite a few basic colored pets (like dawn and field) as well as Experimenta pets. You can create a total of 5 pets with a normal account, and 5 more with a gold. Gold accounts can be purchased from the Cash Shop for $5 (500 CSC), or from the user shops for 9-10 million sP. With a gold account activated you can create 10 addition pets by using the Mystical Montre Plushie, or the Mystical Donadak Plushie, which give one and two pet slots respectively, for a total of 20 pets. For every year after the second year you are a member of the site you get a loyalty box, which can be used create more.
Darkmatter Potion – Available for purchase in the Millionaire Center for 4 million. Galactic – This is a special color available on the 6th and 7th of each month. At the Cave’s Quest (Explore > Coda Caves) select a pet to be blessed, then bring the item requested. There are not set gems you need to to complete the Cave’s Quest, it changes every time. They are usually very cheap, due to the amount of gems available, but keep several million on hand just in case. Even if you don’t want a Galactic pet I suggest you go to the caves on those days, as you get achievements for digging up gems. Glade – Glade is one of the most popular colors on the site. Rather than buying a Glade potion, it is cheaper to purchase an Ornate Floral Pitcher and fill it at Peka Glade (available 8-9 am and 8-9 pm, Subeta time/EST). This turns the pitcher into a Glade potion. Glacier – It is usually slightly cheaper to buy the items Artificial Prism Chalice and Bucket of Polar Water and combine them at Asmodeus Genetech Lab (Explore – Darkside – Asmodeus Genetech Lab) rather than purchase one already made. Nuclear Potion – Unlike the above two, it is cheaper to buy the Nuclear Potion than to create it at Genetech, due to the cost of the Supercritical Core. Hydrus – To create a Hydrus you must complete the Uncharted Land Map and then complete Merana’s quest. Steamwork – Steamwork pets are one of the most expensive to create. They can be built or you can turn an existing pet into a steamwork one. Because the processes is more comlicated than the others, I won’t list the details here. You can find instructions on making a Steamwork pet here at Subeta (scroll down to the highlighted part). Angelic Potion – Angelic Potions can be bought in the Cash Shop for 1500 credits, or from the user shops. Because it is a cash shop item, it costs more sP than most others. Scribble – To obtain a scribble pet you must use the Potion of Purity. Miracle Potion I and II – Like the Angelic Potion these are Cash Shop items (2000 credits), and can cost a great deal of sP. The Miracle Potion can change your pet into any color of available for it, except Hydrus, and the Miracle Potion II changes your pets species without changing its color. Common Potion – The common potion will change your pet back to its default color. Other Pets – There are several other special pets available on the site, Aeanoid, Experiment, Bumbus, Cadogre, and Endeavor. You can obtain Experiment pets through the V2 Zapper, and Aeanoid from an Aeanoid plant. Experiment pets can only be colored Scribble.
Pet Zappers – For Wizard Tokens you zap your pet to change its color, gender, species, and stats. Most colors can be zapped, and the Version 2 pet zapper can change your pet to Experiment, zapping is random, and doesn’t always work. The first pet zapper is at the Carnival (Explore > Carnival Tent Picture > Pet Zapper), and the second is at Ziara (Explore > Ziara > Pet Zapper Version 2). Pet Name Changing – You can change the name of your pet by using the Enchanted Hypnosis Wand, a cash shop item that costs 1000 CSC (cash shop credits), and sells in the user shops for around 20 million.
The best time for restocking is early in the morning EST (Subeta time) when there are less users online, except when the Holiday Shop is open (during holidays obviously). When new items are released this is also the optimal time to be online, because these do sell fast.
Saggitarius’s Quests, The Oracle Quests, Sarah’s Quests, Drunk Carl’s Quests, the Blue Building, all have special requirements. For Saggitarius the amount of sP you have cannot go below 750000. That means you must have more than 750000 sP to complete his quests, at least 950000. The Oracle is a random quest, so you can only complete these when she asks you for an item. For Sarah you can’t have more than 500000 sP to complete the quests. You must have access to the Omen Islands to do the Drunk Carl quest, meaning you have to have completed the Uncharted Land Map. And for Blue Building you must have access to Blue Building. A list of the requirements can be found on the Blue Building page (Explore > Centropolis > Blue Building). Buying items from the Blue Building and completing Blue Building quests is best reserved for creating a Bumbus or getting achievements. The cost of the items it takes to complete the quest is often more than how much they sell for the in shops, so if you want a Blue Building item it is usually better to buy it from someone else.
Treasure Maps – Treasure map pieces can be found from random events, the Random game, and through other users. As long as you time your purchases of the map pieces right, as they can fluctuate, completing treasure maps can be profitable, and you can at the very least get the money back you spent on it. You can complete as many maps as you like, and get rare items for turning all your pieces in.
Alegarten – Alegarten is a short holiday and is basically Oktoberfest. No event takes place, but the holiday shop is stocked with German themed items and beer. Morostide – This is Subeta’s Halloween. You can egg and TP users, trick-or-treat at their profile (for which you either get a prize or you get “tricked” and your avatar is turned into something), and look for items in the pumpkin patch. There are wait times after each lasting between 2-10 minutes. Fireside – Fireside is a fall holiday taking place after Morostide. The Veta Lake bonfire is lit, and users can throw in effigies the Red Rreign, which can be found floating around the site. There are achievements for finding the floating items, throwing them in the bonfire, and more.
Gift Wrapping – To gift wrap presents for Luminaire go to the the Gift Center at Arctic Frost. Make sure you have some wrapping paper in your inventory (found at Holiday Shop or in the user shops) and follow the steps on the page. Freyalise Trading Company – The Freyalise Trading Company sells pirate and other nautical items. It most likely opens for about a week in September. Reading Drive – The Reading Drive is a contest where you donate books in exchange for points. The points can be used to buy themed prizes such as the Key of Secrets background (The Secret Garden), Emily doll (A Little Princess), Orange Glowing Wand (Harry Potter), The One Ring (Lord of the Rings), and more. The new prizes for each ongoing Reading Drive are not revealed until the contest is over. As of the 2011 Reading Drive, books of higher rarity and special books earn more points than a common book does. You can only turn in each book once. A good way to get books is to vend at the Blue Sky crane, located at Veta Lake, and sell any duplicate books and buy more books with the sP. You can find Reading Drive page in the Games section under the link “Reading Contest”.
Stickers – Unlike the other collections you cannot add stickers to your collection, only give them to other people. You can add a sticker to someone’s album by clicking the “Add to Friends Sticker Collection” link on the items page. Bobbleheads – Bobbleheads can be obtained by purchasing an item from the Cash Shop, or buying one from another user. Upon completing your bobblehead collection you receive a rare, exclusive prize.
Cults – Cults (available under the Interact tab) are groups for users of similar interests. Some Cults, such as CHIC, an exclusive Subeta fashion group for those with stylish avatars, require an application. Daily Item is the most popular cult.
Links- Subeta: Subeta’s Tutorial, Welcome to Subeta and Welcome Board Rules, The Newbies Guide to Subeta, Useful Help Threads, sCode, Subeta Abbreviations, Gold Accounts and Cash Shop FAQ, Basic Site/Forum Rules, Frequently Asked Questions & Answers, Rules, About Subeta SubetaHQ – Subeta fansite. All items from the site, including wearables are available for you to preview and search, and there is a “HA Generator” available for you make test avatars. You can also graphics for you to use on you and your pets profiles, and in the forum. Neocolors – On this section of the Neocolors website you can see all the colors available for the Subeta pets. SubetaLodge – This site is wonderful for managing your lists, like books/food read/eaten and event lists like the Reading Drive so you know which items to buy. |
| Best Adoptables Sites |
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Posted by Megan on September 17th, 2010
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12/15/10 – Soon to be updated with another site, Zantarni, an avatar/role play site with pets. Check it out, and I’ll be updating this post with my own thoughts in a few days!
The Best
The Alright
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Avadopts – This Honorable Mentions
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Posted by Megan on September 10th, 2010
Filed under: General
And yes, anime. Mitsudomoe is ending very soon! Luckily there will be a second season. I love Mitsudomoe! I didn’t expect to because the humor is pretty juvenile, and I don’t really like that sort of thing, but this show is freaking hilarious. Stupid, but hilarious. HOTD, also not my thing (say it Megan: highschool… highschool… high school) I’m not a big fanservice fan (unless it’s fanservice for the girls~), but it’s too much fun. That’s the reason I don’t usually like zombie stories, along with other apocalyptic tales. They’re so depressing. And not in a good way. HOTD (where I am anyway – 7/12) focuses more on the zombie ass kicking aspects of it. You’re too hyped up on adrenaline to care about things like mass hysteria and the world you once knew collapsing around you. You’re watching people beat the crap out of zombies! This makes it seem like a zombie apocalypse would be fun! Kuroshitsuji II ended up being surprisingly awesome. But there I was at episode 10, loving where the series was going, and then my little anime world was shattered. I found out it is only 12 episodes. Just when I was thinking “oh, A-1 Pictures, I’m so sorry for doubting you” it turned into “A-1 Pictures you freaking creeps how can you treat me like this?!!!” MAL hasn’t listed the episode count for the time it’s been playing, so I didn’t know what to expect. I expected more than 12 episodes though! I feel cheated. They made us wait a while as they kept pushing back the date, then screwed with us about the new demon butler and master, and they finally managed to do a good story (the last Kuroshitsuji anime, which also deviated from the manga, was pure crap) and they only do 12 episodes. Though episode 11 and ultimately the final one could be bad, but TastyMelon hasn’t released 11 yet. Shiki also turned out to be surprisingly awesome. I didn’t love the first episode (I rarely do) and the animation put me off a little, but it’s turning out so good. Sick of sparkly, “romantic” vampires and vampire knights? This is the anime for you. This is how you do vampires. And damn that Murasako Masao is one strange looking troll. When I watch the next episode I will torment myself again and watch it at night – just for the kicks. I didn’t learn my lesson with Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, or even the last time I watched Shiki. I just started watching it sometime after midnight and the thought occurred to me a couple hours later “maybe I shouldn’t be watching this at night?” and then “I really shouldn’t be watching this at night!” Did I stop? Of course not! As for the other airing shows that I am watching, it’s mostly just to torment myself. Seitokai Yakuindomo, I hate, Amagami SS, I hate slightly less, Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin just gets an “eh” from me, The Redundant Title of Redundancy and Nurarihyon no Mago… I’m dealing with it. And as for Ookami-san, I still haven’t gotten past the first episode. Unfortunately for me all the anime that I’m enjoying is either ending or possibly going on hiatus (we don’t know yet how the Shiki hiatus on one channel will affect our watching). And with the new season seeming pretty blah this is not good news for me. I do at least have one currently airing television show here to look forward to and that is Destination Truth, with the hot geek Josh Gates. The new season started yesterday. I don’t have cable right now, but Syfy and Hulu both have the previous episodes available on their websites for a short time. The first Destination Truth episode of the season featured Josh and his team went to Pompeii to search for ghosts, and to Africa to search for a beast called the Nandi Bear. Destination Truth is an awesome cryptozoology/paranormal show that airs on Syfy channel. They go to places and investigate things that no one else does (they’ve even been to Chernobyl), and they found some pretty compelling Yeti proof that’s still being investigated by labs today. Plus, Josh is very cute and charismatic. So if you’re into monster hunting and cute geeks definitely check it out. (more…) Tags: adoptables, anime, doctor, eggs, Health, kuroshitsuji, life, online, pokemon, television, websites |
| I Hate Holidays, and This is Why |
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Posted by Megan on April 4th, 2010
Filed under: General
I’ve been online most of the day. There’s usually holiday events on adoptables sites Two I’m a part of that are doing it are Egg Cave and Dragon Cave. They’re both doing egg hunts, and Drag Cave’s continues through tomorrow. On Egg Cave you get an Easter only egg, and on Dragon Cave I’m not sure what you get, if anything. I finished the Egg Cave event with help, but I’m still doing the Dragon Cave one. There’s over 38 eggs to collect, and they only show up about ever 12 minutes. I’ve got 25 so far (5 more than when I started writing). I also managed to get a Mod Mayhem egg “This egg radiates the heat of a fell flame.” I can’t tell you how many others I missed though. Who knows when my mom will get home tonight. There’s a good chance she’ll be drunk. Not including Monday, and today of course, my mom was out drinking every day last week. Getting home between 9 PM and 2:45 AM. I was already having trouble sleeping, but whenever she stays out late I also have to stay up to let her in if she comes home. I also hate spring. It starts getting hot, there’s allergies, and then the bugs. Oh the bugs!!! All I’ve been doing recently is beating buggy brains out. There are some good things too. The animals and the plants (even though the latter cause me pain). There’s a beautiful pear tree in a neighbors yard a few doors down, and you can see it from our kitchen window. It’s wonderful when it blooms in spring, even though it doesn’t last long, though it’s still pretty after when it turns green. It finally bloomed a couple days ago, but it’s been so hot and windy that almost all its flowers are gone now. There’s been record high temps here the past couple days. It went from being in the 40-60′s to being in the 80′s. My poor Allie cat is in the window right now. She’s been sneezing like crazy for the past week. She either got my mom’s cold, or it’s her kitty letter. Her kitty litter is horrible. It’s one of those perfumey, dusty kinds that go everywhere and and get in everything. It coats Allie’s fur so when you pet her your hands smell like it. We can’t stand to be around it, and if it’s that hard for us to breathe it it must be 10x worse for her since she actually has to be in it. She seems a little better today, but before then she was mostly just laying around since she didn’t feel well. She came over and sat with me for a while when I was typing this, but she just left. Tags: allie, dragons, eggs, holiday, mom, spring |
| What an Ordeal |
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Posted by Megan on February 14th, 2010
Filed under: General
Well, I did end up having to help her after she woke up and started screaming again. This time it was about her back and knee. Well after falling down and then laying on the floor between the coffee table and couch, of course it would be hurting. So I had to get her shoes and socks off and try to help her up, but she didn’t want to help herself. She just kept yelling about it hurting (stupid shit like “owie,” “my backy,” and “meowie”) and that she could do it. If she had put as much effort into getting up as she did complaining about it she would have gotten up a lot sooner. It took forever to get her up, then she hobbled to the bathroom which took forever, then took forever getting undressed, then finally went back to the couch and started crying. So I had to put up with that crap, and finally with her slobbering all over me. I hate drunk people! And I hate it when they cling to me and pet me, and then cry on me. Bleh. I can’t stand to be touched but I had to put up with her crushing me for a while (my ribs hurt and I had trouble breathing because of it, then when I finally got away there were indents from my pajamas all over my arms and sides) before I eventually got her to go to sleep. I think that was around 5 AM, and then I got to go to bed again after 6:30. Now her knees are bruised and swollen because of that, and she’s talking about calling off tomorrow. This morning I heard my cat getting into stuff and when I finally got up to see what the idiot was doing I found her digging under some stuff. It crossed my mind that it could be a mouse, but I thought it was probably a centipede so I dragged her away and started lifting some of it up to see what was underneath. That’s when a little grey mouse went zooming out from under it and around the corner towards the stove. Yes I screamed, several times too. I like mice, mice are cute, but only when they’re in cages, not when they’re running around your home. After I got it together I had to go after that cat who was in pursuit of her new toy. I didn’t know mice could climb, but he scaled the blanket hanging over the door in the kitchen, then dropped back down and finally went back behind the stove again. It looked like he had something either in his mouth or stuck to him. Allie’s been hunting that mouse for almost two years, and this is the first time I’ve seen him come out. He had gone all over the place in here too. I hope he stays behind the stove now. I’m sick of Valentines day. Egg Cave is has a Valentine egg, which took me 20 (then 100 more when I had to restart Firefox) tries to find, but there’s a 10 egg viewing limit so I have to wait until tomorrow and hopefully it’ll still be there. Then Dragon Cave has two Valentines eggs, which are impossible to get. Half the time the site doesn’t even load, then by the time it does all the eggs are gone. I’ve never been able to get any egg when they were released so I don’t think I’ll be able to get either of these. There should be a one egg limit for both instead of two, so the greedy people can’t stock up on them while the rest of us don’t get anything. I don’t see why some many idiots on that site think this is fun. How is it fun to sit at a computer for hours at a time, all day long trying to get a couple virtual eggs? It’s not fun, it’s frustrating and painful, and very bad for you. Fighting over 1000 people for 3 eggs? What BS. Edit: After almost 400 eggs, I just found out I got two of this years Val eggs when I checked my scroll. Still no ’09s. It’s going to be so noisy here soon. Like it’s not enough already. But they’re tearing down the McDonalds and Jiffy Lube in the back and building a bigger McD. The McDonalds execs are idiots. The McDonalds there gets busy, but there’s no way we need a new or bigger one. Not only are we losing our McDonalds for 6+ months, we get to listen to construction starting at the end of this month. It is literally right behind us. Then the street the runs along side us, the one McDonalds is on, it’s going to be getting teared up. I don’t know what’s with all the stupid fucks making these decisions, but they’re going to be doing work on it for miles back. So we also get to hear that, and my mom will be having trouble getting to work since it’s a bus line. It’s a very busy street, I don’t know what people are going to do. It’s the main road to downtown. I hope McD doesn’t close down for a few weeks more. They’ve got Penguins of Madagascar toys. I love that show so I’m going to try to get my mom to get herself a Happy Meal so I can get some. Tags: dragons, eggs, holiday, Internet, life, mom, online |
| Finally a New Post |
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Posted by Megan on January 25th, 2010
Filed under: General
With anime I’ve mainly been sticking to a few specific ones, but that changed with the new season of anime. Those are Bleach, Prince of Tennis, Wallflower (aka Perfect Girl Evolution, aka Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge), Ouran, Nodame Cantabile, and Itazura na Kiss. Awesome, awesome, awesome, good, okay, …okay. I finally got caught up with Bleach probably about a month ago, and now I just love love love it. I really want to give it an 8 just for how likable and how much fun it is. But everytime I get the urge I have to remind myself of all the times it made me want bash my head against the wall. It’s a 7 anime. Prince of Tennis is still really good, but I’ve been on a break from it because they’re at a tournament and Ryoma’s up and it’s making me nervous. I loved Perfect Girl Evolution (which is known by three names, my preference being The Wallflower because it’s short and easy to remember), and it went on to become my fastest anime, I finished at three days. I was surprised at how quickly I connected with it, and how quickly it went. Ouran was good, and it’s in second place at 7 days, although I technically saw the first episode (several times) almost a year ago. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do that again, I just can’t watch that many episodes at once, especially of the same anime (except near the end for Bleach, I was at about 20 a day). Nodame is okay, and it doesn’t grate on me as much as Itazura does. I was hoping to get caught up on all the Nodame Cantabile series before the last one came out, but that was an unrealistic dream. For the winter season I added Durarara!!, Ookamikakushi, and Dance in the Vampire Bund. I may start watching Hanamaru Youchien, but I’m not sure yet. I was so disappointed Kuroshitsuji 2 wasn’t going to start airing this month like some idiot on MAL said it would, but hopefully it’ll start in the spring. I like Durarara, enough for me to give it an 8 on the second ep, which is something I never do. I liked it so much it gave me a renewed interest in Baccano, which I am also finding myself liking. Ookamikakushi… well, it’s my own fault because I could tell what it was going to be like, so now I’m just hoping it’ll get better. The characters are so friggin annoying. Vampire Bund had one of the most original first eps I’ve ever seen, but the second wasn’t as good. I also knew what I was getting myself into there, but I’m weak and stupid. I’ve been downloading a ton of anime, so I’m going to be taking a break from the internet for a few days again so I watch it. After several months I finally got out again, and to The Cheesecake Factory no less. Unfortunately it was Martin Luther King Jr Day, which is an official holiday here, so a ton of people and brats had off. We got there less than a half an hour after they opened and it was already packed. We were seated next to these “rich” women and one of them had thrown her big coat over the divider between the booths, so it was practically in my seat. I wanted to throw mine over so it would hit them on the head. People are so rude and obnoxious, they really have no concern for others. It wasn’t that great there either, and I was the one paying for it, so that’s minus $40. We should have gone to Red Lobster. After we went to the Jo Beth bookstore. Even though I hate them, I hadn’t read anything in a while except The Lovely Bones (which is an awful book, don’t believe the hype). They didn’t have The Shining or any interesting bios, so I got Ender’s Game, which I’ve been meaning to read for a while. I’ve got two new fl layouts up now, my Maria Sharapova, and Amber’s K-ON one. I love the coding on the second one, it looks really good further down on the page. A preview of what will be the layout of my new anime fl collective domain Zangetsuki.org is here. I prefer my current layout, but I decided to move that one to Among the Stars since its layout only looks good in 1024×764. That’s if I don’t try to fix it with div id’s, but it’s so much hassle since I’m not used to that yet. I’ve been downloading a ton of textures for layouts and icons, so expect to see more, esp of the icons, I still have a lot to upload, and a lot more I want to make. I’ve already made over 100 Schneizel and Clovis bases, and I want to make more for other fandoms. Since he hasn’t been here in a while, and he’s really missed sharing his hotness in my posts, Schneizel once again gets to be my icon. Tags: anime, dragons, eggs, Internet, mom, online, outing, websites |
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