Hello Kinzville! Today marks another update in Webkinz and I’m here to talk about what’s new.
- Days of Play are coming to Webkinz World starting August 28th!
- Ms. Cowoline is handing out prizes until September 4th. Don’t forget to log in and get your prize each day for the Super School Give-A-Way!
- The Acorn Collection Event is returning during the entire month of September! Visit your Map of Kinzville next month and click on the icon to collect Acorns. Collect all 50 to win Grand Prize!
- Player Appreciation Week is coming on September 7th – 13th! Log in during that week to get a gift box full of never-before-released Daisy Doe’s Diner items!
- Don’t forget—you have until the end of August to win a Wacky Jet Backpack, Giant Zangoz Plushy and WackyER Zingoz Arcade Unit! Play the Wacky Zingoz Celebration Challenge by clicking the icon on your Map of Kinzville!
We’ve also made MANY updates to Webkinz X to get it working better! Here are some of the highlights:
- More item fixes!
- NEW arrow button to hide/show bottom UI (Pet, Dock and Things To Do menu)
- Added support for shorter screen sizes (no more scroll bar)
- Fixed bug preventing some pet requests from being completed in the Arcade
- Improved performance in Clubhouse and Kinzville Park
- Added sounds for feeding and dressing pets
- Improved “Zzzzz” above sleeping pets’ heads in the room
- Permanent Log Out button added to top right corner of screen
- Fixed KinzPost bug which didn’t allow multiples of the same item to be sent
- Improved cache system (less need to always clear your browser cache)
- 77 various other technical fixes
To see all of the items we’ve fixed each week, you can check out our list by clicking here.
(Although we’ve made improvements to our cache updating system, if you are experiencing a technical glitch you can still try to clear your cache to see if it resolves your issue.)
Mayor of Kinzville
I am not happy with having the family points you can earn with a pet reduced. No 10 points for getting it out of bed and nothing for filling the hunger level. And I fed my pet a chocolate egg and it no longer shows a picture of the prize I won.
Love the acorn prizes! So glad I saved an extra wallpaper & floor from last year, they’re going to go great with these new prizes!!! So far I love the new screen size! I discovered the updates when I hit that arrow to hide dock by mistake trying to go home – it was just a temporary panic-lol. Not sure why we need a 2nd logout button, but okay. One of the fixes seems to be the Oak Paneled Pool. It is nice that the water is now in the pool instead of above it, but the whole pool is now off-center and overlapping items placed next to it. It’s sort of funny to have trees and other items on top of the pool, and pets walking on the water before they swim in it. – - what a miracle-lol. Also, I have been having trouble lately playing in ie, I keep getting error messages. This is in addition to/separate than when it locks up and I get a white screen with an i in the middle. I don’t have the same problem in chrome. This is new in the past week or so. The white screen has been more frequent since X. Is anyone else having this trouble – and has anyone found a solution or fix? (a fix within ie, not just a suggestion to use a different browser – I like ie) Thanks :)
There’s a known bug in Firefox causing a white/black screen to appear on login (but the site will still load– it just takes a little longer). This is a bug in the Firefox web browser itself. We’ve been told that Firefox is working on a fix for this.
Thanks Steve — is that the same problem with ie (internet explorer)? I had tried before on firefox & had the trouble with the black screen (only it never did load for me). I had more trouble there than on ie so I’ve been trying to stick with ie.
Thank you sooo much, but what is a Day of Play?!?!?!
guys where i still can’t invite my friends over to my room, do i need to clear my cache?
Ganz, I love all the new acorn prizes! Can’t wait to get them all!
Thanks for those fixes Ganz, I know you all are working hard. Today however, the witches brew bath tub wont work, and it did before, and I am not receiving family score points for getting my pets in and out of bed, which I do every day, then I bath them and then they go to the gym, sometimes I get the points and sometimes not today, also I keep getting a black screen when switching from my house to the arcade upon my pets requests, and have to log out and back in again. Sadly up until today everything worked fine for me Any suggestions? Thanks so much.
We’re aware of the issue with beds not awarding any points and we’re looking into it.
Thank you Steve! :)
barb539, I’m having the same problems. Thanks for bringing up these issues.
Oops so sorry Steve. Didn’t see this before i questioned the bed problem. Thanks for looking into the problem !!!!
How about the food meters that say 100 percent but don’t give you the five points for that accomplishment.
Hopefully Ganz will fix the problem where you take your pet out of bed, and then their hunger meter drops down to 0. This problem is annoying.
We’ve found the root cause for this and will have a fix in place for the next update on September 9th.
Thank you- I’m nearly broke because I try to keep feeding my five pets!! and only FIVE pets!!
hi Steve i have a question i can’t invite my friends over to my room do i need to clear my cache?
We’re still working on the Invite a Friend feature. Currently you can still invite friends over if you’re having a party.
Okay! Thank you Steve!
I wonder if u guys fixed the KinzChat. Sometimes people ask me, “Hello!” or “How are you doing today?” or something. I feel so bad.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for getting rid of the scroll bar! That has to be my very favorite fix and will cause a lot less frustration.
YAY! Thank you for all of these fabulous fixes.