Older Updates
A log of all past updates on the site that aren't listed on the main page. Listed in reverse chronological order.
2024
- January (no updates)
2023
12/29/23
Finished adding the item dialogues I wrote during NaNo! They're scattered throughout various different locations. Other than that, I probably won't have time for any major updates before the new year. Really really busy with school/work stuff. Hopefully I can get up a new crossword by February but in the meantime the current one will stay up for submissions!
12/1/23
Several item dialogues added today, and more coming soon! I was doing modified NaNoWriMo last month where I just wrote 50k across all my fics collectively, and I decided to include item dialogues for the site as part of that when I needed something a little lower effort to pad out my word count, haha, so I've got a backlog of those to put on their respective pages.
I also finally finished up a Xenoblade one-shot I'd been working on forever! You can read Wet Rats and Large Handcuffs here. It's a silly story where Reyn and Alvis get stuck together in Valak Mountain.
10/30/23
Been very busy this past month, but I managed to get one item drawn, Cool Lemon!
Also, we've had a few crossword submissions so far! Lone with 18 correct answers and Reuel with all 22! Congras to you both, and for everyone who hasn't had the chance to attempt, it'll be open until at least the beginning of December (maybe the end of December due to the holidays).
Also also, added Reyn and Fiora's heart-to-hearts.
10/1/23
Happy October! With the new month, there's a new Crossword up! Since the last one was so tough, I'll give a bonus hint this time: there's a vague happy/sad theming to some of the items in this one.
As promised, there are also small prizes for those who submitted answers to the first crossword! Reuel and Viivi, you can find your silly winner's prizes in the new Hall of Fame page! I hope you enjoy the Dobercorgi doodles and thanks for playing!!
Answers to the previous crossword have been posted here! They are under a dropdown, so if you still want to attempt the past crossword(s) for fun, you won't spoil yourself just by clicking on the page.
9/26/23
Long time no update! A few typo fixes on the site as well as Shulk & Sharla's Heart-to-Hearts have been added today.
Also, there's only a few days left to do the Crossword! It will close on October 1st, and I have a new crossword ready to post afterwards.
9/8/23
A few small fixes across some of the heart-to-heart pages. Also added all of Shulk & Riki's heart-to-hearts and added the index page for Shulk & Fiora's.
I'm going to keep being annoying about the Crossword too - you only have until the end of the month to submit answers for (small) prizes! (If you've already submitted, note that prizes will be posted after the submissions close.)
Edit: also ended up drawing art for Blood Oil today!
9/6/23
Happy September! I'm working on this website a bit more again after taking a break to put together my Pokemon website, Pamtre Berry. I'd love it if you checked that out too!
In the meantime, on this end, Luma is helping me set up a faster system for creating Heart-to-Heart pages with javascript. There's still some kinks to work out, but I have made a few of Shulk and Fiora's heart-to-hearts using it. (I don't have an index page for Shulk & Fiora yet, but you can find them from the list of heart-to-hearts by in-game order.)
8/22/23
Finished the affinity index page for Riki!
8/19/23
Great news! I figured out how to have the sidebars update on all the pages without editing them all manually!! I still have to finish implementing it on all of the item pages, but a good chunk of them, and every non-item page, have been fixed. It probably won't look much different to anyone else, but it'll make future updates way easier and faster for me.
Also drew a new item today, Grape Spring. Just felt like drawing a pretty simple one for now.
Later edit: I think every page should now have the updated sidebars and style switcher. If you catch a page that doesn't, please let me know in the Guestbook!
8/18/23
Finished Melia's gifting affinity index and started on Riki's. Currently I'm in the process of trying to find a faster way to update the sidebars on every page; I'm still really bad at javascript so it may be a while, but I probably won't update more of the pages' sidebar links until I figure that out. In the meantime I might mess around with my personal site some, since it's been a while since I worked on it.
Also just going to plug the Crossword again. I'm definitely leaving it open until the end of September, so there's still plenty of time to get submissions in!
8/17/23
The drag-and-drop game has been updated with more backgrounds and given some more functionalities. You can now toggle off side characters, items, and/or party characters. You can also toggle off the background switcher to keep it out of frame. This page has more instructions and examples of what kind of images you can create. (That page has also been added to the sidebar under "Fun" on updated pages.)
Also, we have a new Guestbook! This one works in-site without any external "chatbox" stuff needed, which makes it both more convenient and more official-looking. Thanks so much to Ayano for the script, and I hope anyone reading here will come by and say hi! :D
8/16/23
FUN STUFF TODAY! With my pal Luma's help, I put together a little drag-and-drop game you can play here! It's still in beta and won't work on mobile/touch screens as far as I can tell. No links to it in the sidebar yet because... frankly I don't even know what to call it. but you can put those guys in situations!! (note that the background selector box is also draggable!) Also, if parts of the background are cut off (and they most likely will be), you can resize/shrink your window and for whatever reason that usually makes the whole thing show up. So far there are three backgrounds you can choose from: Eryth Sea, Bionis' Interior, and Valak Mountain.
8/14/23
Fixed the formatting on the Item Art Commentary page (under the "Rambles" section).
8/13/23
New item art for Dramatic Night! Thanks Reuel for the request!
Also added the Rambles page, which currently has a link to some commentary on the art I've drawn so far. It's still under construction.
8/12/23
Added Shulk & Dunban's heart-to-hearts. Also formatted the Trivia page and added one or two fun facts there.
8/10/23
Mostly more minor updates.
- Added the style switcher to several item pages, including all for Colony 9, Alcamoth, Agniratha, Bionis' Leg, and Bionis' Interior.
- Added a few more dialogue snippets to items, mostly for Colony 9. Goal is to at least finish those for Colony 9 items soon.
- Started on more heart-to-heart indexes by character.
In more exciting news, I've gotten a couple of crossword submissions! The high score right now is Reuel with 23 out of 24 correct! I'm very impressed!! I plan to leave submissions open at least until the end of the month, probably going through September as well. So there's still plenty of time to fill it out, either for the first time or if you figure out more answers than you've previously submitted.
8/9/23
Lots more housekeeping today.
- Updated the Heart-to-Heart indexes with the list of Quiet Moments, though none of the actual pages have been created yet.
- Spiffed up the Third Lung style to as good as it's gonna get probably. If you like dark mode, this is for you.
- Added the style switcher and updated the sidebar on all pages except for the item pages (that will be an undertaking in itself).
- Added lots of images to the Assets page.
- Gave the FAQ its own page.
- Created a page just for items that have been illustrated. I figure that's the main draw of the site, so that might be useful.
- Finished Dunban's affinity index and started on Melia's.
You'll notice a lot more uncreated pages on the sidebar now. Sorry about that. It's easier to add them there preemptively rather than update every page every time I add something new.
8/8/23
Working on some layout and organizational updates. Some stuff, especially sidebar links, might look a bit wonky on some pages for a bit.
In the meantime, you can test out the style switcher on a few pages! The "Third Lung" style is still a work in progress design-wise, but it should function just fine.
8/7/23
Exciting news! The Crossword is now up and functional! If you're familiar with how much inspiration this site has taken from The Cave of Dragonflies, it won't come as a surprise to you. It's a collectopaedia-themed puzzle that you can fill out and submit to have your name immortalized on the site (as well as... maybe... a small prize...?). Anyway, I hope you'll give it a shot! And big thanks to my pal Luma for helping me with the code here!
8/6/23
New item art for Blue Chain! Thanks to my pal Luma for requesting! Also don't forget that even if you've requested an item art before, you can still make more suggestions in the guestbook or on the site neocities profile. I don't have any requests currently so it won't put any pressure on me at all. :)
8/4/23
New item art for Poisonous Coral! Inspired by the presentation on fire coral I'm doing next week. Fun fact: fire coral is technically not a coral at all, but a hydrazoan more closely related to jellyfish and sea nettles.
8/2/23
Added a Links page! Includes most of the mutuals from the sidebar as well as some other Xenoblade sites that are worth checking out (and some pokemon sites because I can do what I want)
7/29/23
Fixed some links, added some Trivia, and started on Dunban's affinity index. (Technically the other remaining characters have affinity pages now too, but they're mostly placeholders so that the links work.)
7/27/23
All of the item pages are created now!!!! Woo!!!!!!!!!! If you catch any broken links to item pages, please let me know, since everything should be working now.
Also added the heart-to-hearts for Melia and Fiora and Dunban and Riki, and drew Golden Cog.
7/25/23
THREE new item arts today: Dawn Dice, Schorl Mushroom, and Kelp Mushroom! I got so excited drawing mushrooms that I had to draw both of them today. Frankly disappointed there are not more mushroom items in the game to draw.
Also fixed a few links and made some more item pages, up through the start of Central Factory now, which gives me about 50 more item pages left to make in all. You might notice some of the newer pages have the item category and location on the right-hand sidebar now. Eventually I'll work on updating that for the older pages as well.
7/23/23
Forgot that I said I was going to do something Strange next and ended up doing Abyss Heather after asking a pal what I should draw. Whoops. This was a really tough one, probably the one I'm least happy with out of items so far, but oh well. Can't win 'em all
Also made a bunch more item pages, working on Fallen Arm at this point. So over 2/3 of the way there! Woo!
7/22/23
New item! Large Mango, at the request of my pal Norrie :)
Next I should do some kind of Strange item. Need a wacky something back up on the "recent items" section now that Hunger Crash got pushed off
All Alcamoth items also have pages now.
7/21/23
Affinity index for Sharla is now complete. Not much else to stay about it except I love Sharla did you guys know that
Also added pages for all the Eryth Sea items, but there's not anything really exciting on them right now. What is exciting is that this puts us with pages for over half of the collectopaedia items at this point! Closer and closer to having every link on the site functional lol
7/20/23
Super exciting news!! The Personality Test lives!!! I put a ton of work into this, and I hope you guys enjoy it! I got Shulk by the way :)
There's also some more dialogue clips on the Assets page.
7/18/23
Lots of misc things tonight... updated a bunch of sidebars on various pages (especially location indexes), fixed a few broken images, added images to the bottom of a few pages that didn't have any... who knows what else.
Most importantly, I added some more stuff to the Assets page. You can now hear Reyn say "Reyn Time" in your very own web browser! Wow! Or you can even download them to your device for offline Reyn Time! Double Wow!!
Oh, and I finished making the item pages for everything in Makna Forest and Frontier Village.
7/16/23
New item art for Forget-You-Not, as requested by reuel on the guestbook! Thanks for the request! And sorry it looks exactly like irl forget-me-nots... they're my favorite flowers and they're so pretty I couldn't think of a way to improve them lol
7/15/23
Today's Rolling Patch Notes:
- New painting of Eryth Sea / Alcamoth in the Art Gallery I kept forgetting to post
- All heart-to-hearts for Reyn & Sharla are up
- Fixed links and typos on Reyn's gifting affinity page (this took so much time. Why did I set things up like this)
- A few other miscellaneous link and detail fixes, primarily in the heart-to-heart pages
- Some more items from Makna Forest have pages
- Updated the About page with a FAQ and some more details
- New mutual: Noctilum has a super cool site and is currently archiving the Xenoblade 3 rest spot conversations. I'd definitely recommend giving it a look!
- Personality test is finally in the works! Not going to link what I've got just yet but I'm excited about it
7/14/23
New item art for Happy Rabbit, as requested by one of my friends! It's based on a photo of their pet rabbit.
7/13/23
All items for Bionis' Shoulder now have pages. Also, more trivia bits have been added, specifically comparing/contrasting some collectables' appearances in the original Xenoblade vs. Xenoblade 3: Future Redeemed. I don't plan on referencing much from any games besides the first Xenoblade on this site, but it's a bit interesting how it recontextualizes some of the collectables. (Yes I am still annoyed by what they did to Rainbow Zirconia.)
Also added all three heart-to-hearts for Shulk & Reyn. Getting there slowly but surely :)
7/12/23
New item art, Blade Bird! This is the first one exclusive to Future Connected that I've done. I was going to save all these for last, but my pal Winter had such a good reference picture for me from one of her trips, and strangely this is the only bird item in the game (not counting the strange collectables such as White Songbird, which is implied to be named only metaphoically based on the description).
On the subject of strange and useless collectopaedia tidbits, I've added a few bits of trivia to the trivia page. Mostly inconsequential observations like the one above.
7/11/23
Finally, the alphabetical item index is complete! Coding the big tables full of 300+ items always takes forever, which is why the affinity index pages aren't yet complete. But I was sick today and didn't have the brainpower to do much more than copy and paste coding stuff over and over while watching Defunctland lol.
6/28/23
Added art for Humming Cat! Thanks to komatsune on the guestbook for sharing your love for this one! The reference I used was a picture of my own cat, Shrimp <3
6/23/23
Added art for Rabbit Diode, as you can probably see above, since I went ahead and added a "recent items" section to this main page. I figured that would be an easy way for people who are primarily here for art to keep track of what's new.
Other than that, made pages for all the Bionis' Interior items.
6/22/23
Went ahead and made all the item pages for Galahad Fortress, since there aren't many of them and I made Hunger Crash yesterday. All of the pages there have dialogue on them. :) Satorl Marsh item pages have all been created as well, though they don't all have dialogue yet.
Also cleaned up a couple things, such as Fire Apple image not showing up on the Valak Mountain page, and some links to the Parts index on the sidebar on some pages being broken. (There are probably more broken links there, but I haven't had time to test every page yet.)
6/21/23
Today we have four new heart-to-hearts: Fish Fly, Fish Fly! (Reyn & Riki) as well as all of the Melia & Riki ones.
Also, two new item arts: Plate Snow and Hunger Crash! I've been wanting to do Plate Snow for a while now. Thanks Bee and ricediety for requesting these two!
6/19/23
Today's patch notes:
- New heart-to-heart: Journey's End (Reyn & Riki)
- New item art: Rainbow Zirconia - thanks to Lone for requesting this one!
- New item pages: the last couple in Colony 6 and first few of Ether Mine. I wrote some fun dialogue for most of these new item pages, so I hope you'll check them out!
- Minor layout updates: the icons for navigating to/between location pages now light up on hover. Links in tables and some other areas now have underlines for visibility. Sidebar links are continuing to be updated on previously created pages.
6/18/23
Working out some minor layout fixes. Also added more assets, if you enjoy such things as four pngs of Juju with barely differing expressions, the sidequest description background, and lots of tiny menu icons that are probably of no use to anyone.
In more exciting news, there is now a trivia page, which I've been wanting to start for a while now. It's pretty sparse so far but it'll fill up as I make the affinity-sorted pages.
And last but not least, two new heart-to-heart pages, Eternal Scars (Melia & Dunban) and Riki's Crazy Crystal Plan (Reyn & Riki). Hope you enjoy them!
6/17/23
New item art finished: Shiny Scarab! This one was requested by my pal Winter who has not played Xenoblade but was really enjoying Scarabella in Miraculous Ladybug at the time.
I've been informed that some people wished there was an in-site guestbook. I set up one a while ago, but wasn't sure if it would work or not. I figure I might as well try it out? Will take me a bit to update the sidebar with a link but in the meantime you can find it here! (If that doesn't work, you can always go to my neocities profile, though I think that might only let you post if you have a neocities site.
Speaking of if you have a neocities site - I added a section on the right sidebar for mutuals! If we're mutuals and you want to send me a button so I can have a cuter looking link to you, please do. (And if you don't want to be linked to at all, just let me know and I'll take your name off!)
6/15/23
Added a couple of pride icons for pride month! Knowing me I will run out of time to make more before the end of the month but I hope they are enjoyed nonetheless. Also, as this page accrues more updates, older ones have been moved to their own page, Older Updates.
Edit: also went ahead and put up some Free Assets for anyone who wants to make their own pride (or any other) edits! Cut out the middleman!!
6/7/23
Still very busy BUT!! I had some time to paint an Alvis for pride month slash pal's birthday :) You can find him on the art gallery page.
Also, thank you so much to everyone who's followed this site and left nice comments here and on my tumblr! It means a lot!!
4/25/23
Whewwwww it has been a while. Got in a car accident and had finals. But hopefully I will have more time to work on the site soon!! Today I offer you art of Shin Newt. Tomorrow? Who knows...
4/1/23
Not an April Fool's - today there's two more items with art, Strong Dandelion and Clarity Moss. Also, all the item category indexes are complete.
The next step is probably to create more of the individual item pages - which I've started to do for Bionis' Leg - but the thing is, if I change anything on the menu sidebar, I'll have to change it on every single page. That's really the only reason I've been putting it off (and it's a good thing I did, because I realized I'd misspelled "Satorl" literally everywhere, lol). Of course, it'll take longer to create all the art and dialogue snippets for each item, but actually having the pages there to be clicked on with at least the game's description feels like it would make the site a lot less empty. If not that, then the alphabetical index would probably be another good choice, where I plan to include the item descriptions in-page so there's at least one index where you can have an overview of every item at once. I'll have to see how well all the text fits in the table format though, especially on mobile where it tends to stretch out the page layout.
Speaking of mobile - this site is actually designed with responsive layout, so while desktop is probably the prettiest view, mobile is a completely functional way of viewing the site. Just thought I'd throw that out there since apparently that's not super common for neocities sites.
3/31/23
Lots going on! Added another heart-to-heart ("High Entia History"), three of the category indexes (fruit, veg, and flower), one drawing (Ether Plum), and made a linkable button for the site!
I don't think there are many Xenoblade sites on here (at least not that I've been able to find), but if anyone wants to be affiliates anyway feel free to shoot me a message on my neocities profile :)
3/28/23
Art gallery has been added! Header has also been updated to match the new website name.
Edit: So I started on the heart-to-heart pages anyway lol. The only one currently up is one with Dunban and Melia - let me know if there are any things you'd like to see me tweak with the formatting!
3/27/23
Back from vacation! Despair Clover and Gold Dust Illusion have been illustrated.
Also, the website has had a name change from Shulk's Collectopaedia to Shulk's Scrapbook! This is partially just because I thought the name sounded cuter, and partially because I'm planning to eventually add more stuff than just collectopaedia items. In particular, I want to add all the heart-to-hearts in a way where you can click through the different dialogue choice options. It might be a while before that happens, though. I still have yet to update the header but hopefully that will be soon.
3/17/23
All location indexes have been created! Also, all items from Colony 9 and Tephra Cave have pages, even if it's just the in-game item description and affinity info for most at the moment.
3/16/23
About page is now functional! Give it a read if you're curious about how this project got started or the people who made it possible.
3/15/23
More item pages have been added, including Dance Apple, Sorrow Beetle, and Clear Almond, which all have artwork attached.
I've also made the index page listing the affinity Reyn receives from each item. This is probably a pointless way of categorizing items, but sometimes you've just gotta arbitrarily sort. If nothing else, you can't find comprehensive collectopaedia lists sorted by gifting affinity on the wiki, so now it exists somewhere. You're welcome.
3/13/23
Finally updated this main page! Also working on updating the location pages. Vegetables for Colony 9 all have pages with art.
Please feel free to leave a message on my neocities profile if you have any suggestions for the site or requests of which items you'd like to see me draw next! Or, if you'd rather use tumblr, you can find me there @reyntime (main is @taliaxlatia).
