New Stuff is Here!

Yup. It's another ShabtiBot update post, which means that I have pretty much come to a stopping point for the next few days at least. I've made some pretty big strides toward building a lot of the features that I want ShabtiBot to have, and that has opened up some cool new stuff for you as well. My main focus since the last update was trying to lay a bit of the groundwork that will be needed for some interesting new community events, and while I don't quite think we're there yet we have at the very least created some fun new systems to interact with in Shabti. Here, let's take a look around shall we?

Questing

This was a system that we used to have (what feels like forever ago) with some other chatbots that we have used in the past. The idea is simple: A quest represents a task. If you complete that task, you get a reward. That reward can be currency or achievements or both. I have built it in such a way that quest chains are possible, and I intend to use that to create fun opportunities to expose stream lore that you can explore at your own pace.

To get started, you can head to the Quests page.

Rewards/Store Improvements

I made some improvements to the store page that should allow us quite a bit of versatility when adding new rewards. It's no secret that rewards are a thing that I have wanted to improve for quite some time, so expect to see a whole bunch of new stuff there in the future. I've got plans for short-term emote only toggles, displaying messages on stream, more customization for your User pages, and a few other events that I won't spend too much time discussing until those items get closer to release. With that in mind...

Season 2 Wallpapers

Submissions are now open for Season 2 Wallpapers! I'll be picking 10-20 based on the number of entrants, but if you think you've got what it takes to make a winning wallpaper, head over to the Quests page to submit one. The quest has all of the details about what/how to submit and what the rewards are. I haven't decided on a firm date for picking the winners, but will announce it as soon as I have a hard date in mind.

Also, with the look to release the second set of seasonal wallpapers, I've been thinking a lot lately about a seasonal Xa/Hours reset. I'm still not completely sold on this being a thing that we're ready for, but obviously if you have a place on either of the leader boards, that place will be immortalized by way of historical leader boards, AND you'll get some fancy achievements to show off on your user page as well. If you have any thoughts or ideas about this, feel free to bring them up with me in the Discord, on Twitch, or in DM.

User Page Customizations

You can now edit your user page directly from the website! Initially the goal was to have all of this relegated to chat commands (so that, if you saw someone with a really gnarly user page you knew they had to have a pretty solid handle on what the ins and outs of the chatbot are) but then I realized that was a dumb idea and I just made a page for it. So that's it!

Now when you're viewing your user page, you should see an 'Edit Page' button that will take you to the page where you can edit your info. There are only a few things there at the moment (namely a 'Bio' field that accepts some BBcode, and a dropdown for you to change which achievement is displayed under your profile image), but plans are to add quite a bit more. While you're there you might also notice...

Twitter Account Linking

You can now link your twitter account, and there is now also a quest for this! Once you have linked your twitter, you can claim the quest reward for some bonus Xa and a Twitter achievement to display on your user page. The goal eventually is to reward you for interacting with me on twitter (liking, retweeting, commenting, etc) and to give especially powerful rewards for helping contribute to stream visibility while I'm live. These are still a couple of things that I'm working on, but if you're interested in getting in on the ground floor on that one, you can do that now.

I do plan on adding other platforms as well (Patreon is the next one up on my list), and that's an item that's pretty close to the top so stay tuned there.

Clip Wars

Do you have a knack for grabbing decent clips? Perfectly cut screams or the best (or worst) parts of the quality content? If that's you, I have added a Clip Wars system that you might be interested in. The clips page will now display clips in two main leader boards - One leader board sorted by views, and the other sorted by faves (akin to likes or upvotes). These leader boards reset at the end of the month at which point the top places on both of these leader boards will receive 500k xa and an exclusive achievement, and then the clips system will reset for the next month.

Right now, to help with discover-ability the ten most recent clips are also displayed, because I'd like to keep one or two clips from dominating the top place for the whole month for the simple fact that they just happen to be at the top. I think it's worth mentioning that I'm totally open to any feedback about how to help with clip discover-ability there - A list of all of the clips for the month or a "watch a random clip" feature to stick somewhere on the site? Any suggestions are appreciated!

Umbras

I have to be quick about this one - they could be watching. We have added a dark-market currency system into the bot. I have heard rumors that there might be a couple of secret items in the shop. I'm not sure how exactly to go about getting access to that - maybe you can ask around.

Other/General

• The song requests page will now update any time the queue progresses to the next song (rather than just when you interact with it).
• The Sub status on your user page will now update every day at midnight. This should take care of the issue where some people weren't correctly getting their sub status set, or where some were listed as subs for way too long
• The commands page will now display several commands that are "hard coded" into the bot (!sr, !skip, !cs, !uptime, etc) instead of ONLY the editable commands.
• !Uptime will now give the correct uptime, and commands that are marked as 'only live' should now behave as expected
• Added the ability to look up someone else's xa balance by doing "!xa @username" in chat.

I think that's about everything. We have built a whole lot here in quite a short time so if you happen to come across any bugs or have any difficulty using the site or the chatbot, please let me know!