After entirely too long, the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived... The Orphanage is now live and functioning on ketucari dot com!

With the new digs, there's also some changes. For one: genotypes can now be adopted directly. This should allow for a much larger supply of available ketucari even when admin availability is low. Genotypes play by the same rules as imports, but you get to design them yourself. 

However, this also means that we've discontinued offering a free redesign with imports. Ultimately, having predesigned imports as the only option created a huge bottleneck, and also meant that our team was creating many designs that ultimately weren't used. Imports will still be offered to allow newbies to get into the game faster without having to wait on design approval, but we're going to be treating them as a more special thing going forward. You can still redesign adopted imports, but you'll have to snag a redesign token from the store instead of getting one for free!

The last note is that with the differences in how import transfers are handled on site, the no-transfer rule is now being enforced by using Lorekeeper settings to prevent Orphanage adoptions from being transferred or added to trades.  Once a ketucari has five pieces to their name, just send in a claim with proof of those pieces and one of our admins will lift the embargo so your ket's free to roam. 

Now, as a bonus for members that might have signed up and gotten their first ketucari elsewhere during the long wait, we're offering a gift from now until August 31st of either one Foundling Amulet (allows for another Orphanage adoption even if you've already got a ketucari) OR one Distress Beacon (can be turned in for either a wild or a limited semicustom). Please submit to this prompt to claim, and indicate which you'd like. One gift per player!

(EDIT 7/14/25): Made some changes to the Orphanage page to clarify adoption elegibility criteria and implemented some changes to dropoff rewards.

-pawstepsinthesnow