Julala recently added a requested feature to Herb & Fable website that allows you to see which badges you still have Yet to Get.
I was surprised how many I was missing, so I’ve been working to try and catch up with the missing tasks.
One group of badges I noticed I was missing were those for the Haynei Iris. The iris beds let you grow flowers, petals and seed pods. The latter is important, since this plant was only available briefly as a fundraiser and seeds aren’t often available, but can be traded. Fortunately I snagged a few packets of seeds when they were at Fantasy Faire this year.
Of the other products you can grow, the petals currently don’t have a use, but the flowers give you a pretty powerful stats boost of 50% across the board:
I was missing more of the rituals than I realised, but have decided I’ll cover those at their corresponding times of year.
While I was writing this post some other missing badges appeared on the site, Julala released the Manifestation Ritual & Lions Gate Portal. More on those soon!
I last wrote about the Second Life Mobile App back in December 2024 a month after it’s public Beta release when Linden Lab held a blogger call to tell everyone what was upcoming. I know they’ve been making may continuous developments, so I thought I’d give the latest signup process a go and see what … Continue reading “The Second Life Mobile App Experience Mid 2026”
I last wrote about the Second Life Mobile App back in December 2024 a month after it’s public Beta release when Linden Lab held a blogger call to tell everyone what was upcoming. I know they’ve been making may continuous developments, so I thought I’d give the latest signup process a go and see what it was like for a new user accessing the grid for the first time on a smartphone.
I’m aware some of this isn’t news to many people, but I wanted to try and be thorough.
The sign up process was pretty standard, so I’ll skip that here and go to the avatar customisation bit. This all takes place in the app after registration and before your avatar appears inworld.
Now this is all great, but there’s one big catch to it; it’s all uses Linden Lab’s own Senra body that few creators design for. Fortunately there’s the Welcome Pack now in the Library section of the inventory and its available in the app by going to the Avatar section screen, so more on that later.
I also happen to have arrived in what would appear to be a regular arrival point, with a single sign explaining how to move, same as it’s been for quite a while. However I was wrong, this place is actually among the Mobile Showcase destinations, make of that what you will.
It seems since I created that new avatar Linden Lab have put some effort into a new on-boarding location. I logged back in with the mobile app and sure enough there was the Mobile Learning Centre on the login screen, so I went to have a look.
If I’d arrived here, I’d have been a little more impressed. It has a game-like activity to help you learn how to control your avatar. You must collect coloured stars, by bumping into them, to open doors. However some of them require you to fly (or the floor fall away underneath you), so you do learn more than just walking. On the whole a much better experience than I had a little while ago.
Unfortunately when someone on the app asks you “How do I get my avatar to look like that?”, things aren’t quite so slick.
As I mentioned above the Avatar Welcome Pack from your inventory Library, is accessible via the Avatar option on the app menu and lets you choose from a few different body types and a few outfits for each.
There’s a very big difference here from the avatar you created at registration though. These selections actually remove the Senra mesh body and replaces it with a Legacy Special Edition body and a Lelutka mesh head. This means you can now wear anything made to fit the Legacy body series, which is well catered for by designers. The Lelutka head means most skins, tattoos and makeups will work just fine too. (Note though that this body and head will get you started, they have some limited capabilities, mainly not including HUDs for making certain changes.)
So now with a head and body that stuff will actually work with, and SLB23 in full swing, there’s a Shop & Hop I can go visit to kit out the new avatar..sort of.
The app let’s you wander around the different stores at the Shop & Hop, clicking the gift boxes to receive the goodies. Sadly there’s currently no way yet to check you received the item, or unpack and wear them because there’s still no inventory access from the mobile app.
This meant I had to switch to the Desktop viewer to overhaul my new avatar with my collected freebies.
You can switch between outfits in the mobile app which is helpful, but you can’t put together an outfit there, except for those made using the avatar selection options. For those residents that might be using primarily mobile, this turns the desktop viewer into a changing room where you have to log on and put your looks together for use on Mobile.
In my December 2024 post I discuss some key features the Lab were planning to bring to Mobile. 18 Months later,how have they done?
Lobby – Pass
Address Bar – Pass
New account creation – Pass
Persistent chat logs & Group Notice Push notifications – Pass
Notecards – (Grumpity Linden said “Three Months Plus”) – Fail
Item level avatar editing – Fail
The ones that passed did so within their 2025 targets. The app and the experience of using it has come on leaps and bounds since public release, but there’s a way to go yet, if they want the experience to resemble the online video marketing.
For me personally it’s nearly there; hovertext and dialog box support have been added, we just need HUD support and rezzing from inventory and I’ll be able to play Herb & Fable on my phone!
A final note on my Mobile experience I’d like to give a shout out to Prima Linden for being so welcoming when I first logge
Time is running out, the clock is ticking! From when I hit Publish on this post there will be just 10 hours and 50 minutes of Fantasy Faire 2026! So we all have that long to take one final whizz around the Faire grabbing those things we saw but hesitated on.
11:42:55] Alia Baroque: some of us realised that a few months ago we just aim at the rave [11:43:07] Alia Baroque: is like the finish line after the auction finish line [11:43:22] Alia Baroque: like the final prize [11:43:34] Alia Baroque: you did well now go play with your glowsticks [11:43:38] Alia Baroque: and look at butts
Fantasy Faire 2026 has been extended by the Lindens until Wednesday 13th of May at Midnight SLT.
I’ve been gradually collecting the various Market Stalls from Rig! over the last couple of years. This time at Fantasy Faire I found the “Dreggs” ale cart and just had to get it to add to my collection.
It’s said the leaves of UlimHyl’s trees are red from the blood of a mischievous fae, but the story has got mixed up over time, because it is closer to being the blood of it’s victims. A Dark fae enchanted the forests so that she would blend in unnoticed by unwary mortals as they wandered through her hunting grounds, waiting to abduct unsuspecting Fairelanders.
This is a quick snap I took as I was making way round the Faire for the first time this year. I came through The Golden Hour and it made me think of this outfit from Poet’s Heart and some Tattoos from a couple of merchants that had been kindly left in the blogger room. How do the different regions inspire you?
I love that at Fantasy Faire I nearly always find a new store I love. Last year it was Madame Noir, previous years it’s been Jinx and Petrichor. This year it’s Eudora3D and StarQuake that go in my “New Shiny” blogger challenge post, and probably some more before the Faire closes.
Sometimes when you hit that Teleport button, you just never know where you’re going to end up. You usually have some idea, you headed in that direction after all, but where you actually arrive might not be where you expect…like in a crypt next to a big spider.
As the visitors explore the land she watches them casually but diligently. The role of the Red Warriors, or “Reds” as they are known, has become more a formality these days, but they must still stand armed and ready for the possibility of a servant of the Unweaver finding their way into the Realm.
