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H.E.A.R.T. to Rank IX Upgrade!

Looks like we will be getting a long awaited upgrade to the H.E.A.R.T. VIII! Yay!

A couple more Boffins (Jones and Joan) have been sent down from the Skylabs to Cyrene proper: Jonas and Joan. They’ll be the two helping players upgrade their H.E.A.R.T. to Rank IX.

Jones and Joan Location

Trade 200 Animal Oil Residue to Joan for Blueprint.

Protocore Points:
Adept – 10
Worker – 13
Gatherer – 15
Patron – 18
Thief – 20

Zyn Rucksack Improved!

Biocontainment Gardens Location – Click to Copy WP

Upgrade for the Zyn Rucksack to Improved! Details on this page https://cyrenedream.org/zyn-rucksack-improved

The new instance for upgrading your Zyn Rucksack from Adjusted to Improved.
Get to know the new Zyn and see what’s happening with the Engorged Crystal Pedes at this level.

More crafting blueprints!

All our usual texture NPC have some new textures added so go see Kayde Barnes, Ben Keery and Hoban Statsk.

New reward for Ben’s Polkadot Blueprint – Pleak Feathers (repeatable)

New reward for Daily Texture Trade – Hoban Statsk (repeatable)

New reward for Daily Texture Crafting Challenge – Kayde Barnes (repeatable)

Holiday Things!

Zyn’oddy and Zyn’ingle are back with decorations and textures to get as well as the A.R.C. Jolly Wonderland with Holiday mobs and a new mission and reward from the Holiday Terminal.
Yay new holiday textures! The hunt will be on!

Holiday gifts have arrived!

10x Christmas Treat Bags

New Missions from these Guys:
Zyn’oddy’s Oddities – Sculptures (2024)! – Turn in 150 Holiday Magic for a chance at getting 1 of 8 sculptures.

Holiday Texture Missions

Holiday Texture 1 – Where up is down and down is up neselted in a perch up top.

Holiday Texture 2 – Beneath a once fiery crown, a treasure untold waiting to be found.

Holiday Texture 3 – Standing against the tallest of beams able to see nearly all of Cyrene.

Holiday Texture 4 – Broken buildings eaten by lands, look in dark places to get this in your hands.

Holiday Texture 5 – Waters of frozen lands hold a pattern between its crevices.

Hard Texture 1 – In spaces filled with many different zones, the desert hides the Christmas prize.

Hard Texture 2 – Unusual homes with lost doors, come on in to find something more.

Hard Texture 3 – Waters of violence consume your fellow players, find the pillar to avoid the next slayer.

Hard Texture 4 – A Stalking beast swims down below, enter near the depot.

Hard Texture 5 – Dead trees sit on a lone plateau, take a look from up high not below. (You will need a flying vehicle to reach this one)

Holiday Event Missions

Enter the Holiday Instance at Supply Depot.

Holiday Instance

Make a team to enter the instance, abandon the team after entering.

Locate the Holiday Terminal

Follow Marker 1 – Leave the instance. Marker 1

Follow Marker 2 – Marker 2

Follow Marker 3 – Marker 3

Follow Marker 4 – Marker 4

Follow Marker 5 – Marker 5

Go back in the instance and return to the Holiday Terminal

Go to the search area.

Find the first item, it is at 1180, 350

Kill some Mobs in the instance until you find the second item.

DONE!

— Help Rudolph save Christmas! (2024 Edition)
Rudolph - Click to Copy WP
Summon and kill the Mature Jolly Jellyworm. Turn in 2000 shrapnel to summon. You will receive 10 Holiday Magic for turning in the shrapnel whether you kill the jelly or not. This is a daily mission repeatable every 24 hours.

New Mission

5P1D3R Gen I Daily
– For players with sub 100 HP can talk to Aran at 0x101 Supply Depot to work towards building your player power. Aran - Location

Requirements = Kill 235 Gen 1 5P1D3Rs
Reward = 2 PED of Aim or Anatomy or Combat Reflexes or Perception or Weapons Handling

Misc

– The mission: Arms Merchant now offers Laser weapons
– A Defunct Blueprint book has been added to the terminals to store unused blueprints
– The Lurker Pit has been overhauled to accommodate more players
– Increased cooldown time to teleport into Kingka Island PvP4
– Increased no radar area around Kingka Island PvP4
– Replaced / remade the bugged out crafting node in instance Corrupted Laboratory (Base)

Paint cans!

OMG Discovered Finally!

Paint Can (A.R.C.) – Arret

Paint Can (Merfolken) – Male Zeladoth, Merfolken

Paint Can (Turrelion) – Dire Weed

Paint Can (Imperium) – Whisker Fish, Crystal Pede

Paint Can (Zekkonian) – Empi, Paneleon, Flesh Ripper

Paint Can (Boffin) – Sky Wraith, Sea Wraith

Paint Can (Zyn) – ?

Paint Can (Volt) – Pleaks, Skull Bird