Greetings and welcome back to Tokotas! Over the years Tokotas has evolved quite a bit and there have been a lot of major changes to adjust to. This guide aims to log major changes for easy reference for both old and new players alike.

Listed below are the details that have changed, along with the date they have been implemented for your reference.

➥ Returning Players Guide

Last Update: 1/2/2022

2014

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2015

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2016

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2017

• 08/29/2017 - Soul Pool Water has been released! This new item allows you to add physical traits to your Tokotas. Elemental Hearts are no longer used for this purpose.
• 11/07/2017 - Design submissions to DC are now limited to 5 designs per month, per user.

2018

• 01/6/2018 - Submissive lines are no longer being used! Gone are the days of needing to lift a Tokotas head while updating from submissive to average. Please note, all submissive Tokotas moving forward must use the average lines with the submissive background! Tokotas using the old submissive lines are not required to be updated.

2019

• 08/31/2019 - The Thylacine gene introduced with the summer event 2017 has received an official design guide entry - Design Guide: Thylacine
• 08/31/2019 - The cheek fluff physical trait can now be expressed on all manes! These updated lines are contained within the V3 update to the lines as seen above.
• 08/31/2019 - Import lines are now on V3 which can be found in the Import Template folders - These lines have been cleaned up and contain updated eyes and flesh layers as well as containing all physical traits in one PSD file for your convenience.
• 11/05/2019 - A new merle specific mutation Harlequin has been released Design Guide: Harlequin

2020

• 01/05/2020 - New guides, new resources, and new items have been revealed. The Design Guide Handbook now properly lists genes by their intended rarity. A Marking Layer Guide has been provided to help better explain what genes show on top of others. The Makeovers and Do-Overs Guide has also received some minor adjustments including allowing make overs to change eye color. Speaking of eye color... A new item allows for some really radical eye colors! Check it out here: Meelaniks Jinx. There are official lines now provided for the popular "Curled Bobtail" edit, which may be used if your tokota has both Curled Tail and Bobtail physical traits, but not required.
• 07/13/2020 - Semi-customs can now use all Extremely Common, Common, and Uncommon genes! This update is retroactive and affects all Semi Customs permissions/items.
• 08/31/2020 - A new extension marking has been released: Creeping Points. Additionally, swatches for point colors have been updated with additional options, and swatches for Leucistic tokotas.
• 10/18/2020 - Three new markings have been released via World Tour: the Rose modifier, Rose points, and Merle with Rose points.

2021

• 04/17/2021 - Two new restriction markings have been released via World Tour: Restricted Cream & Restricted Rose. New swatches for Cream Black base coats have also been released!
• 05/12/2021 - A new hereditary mutation has been discovered in World Tour: Obsidian!
• 08/11/2021 - The Beard physical trait has been released via World Tour!
• 08/16/2021 - Four new markings have been released via World Tour: the Moss modifier, Restricted Moss, Moss Points, and Merle with Moss Points.

2022

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