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From the veiled brambles and branches of the Tangled Wood, the elusive Nocturnes are beginning to spread across the realm. These oft-hidden dragons are again leaving the comfort of their dreary habitats and traversing Sornieth under the cover of darkness. On this, the shortest day of the year, Nocturne dragons rule the skies.

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Night of the Nocturne is the annual celebration of one of Flight Rising's Limited breeds. Once a year, Nocturne breed change scrolls become available exclusively during this event! Nocturnes have a 30-day breeding cooldown and eat Meat and Insects.

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Event Details

From now until January 5th, at 06:00 server time, it will be possible to obtain Nocturne Dragons in the following ways:

• Finding rare Unhatched Nocturne Eggs.
• Finding very rare Breed Change: Nocturne scroll items.

The items above will be found in Strange Chests--baffling containers left by the breed during their only two weeks of activity. Nocturnes aren't keen to just shower the realm in gifts, however. Several of these chests have a vicious mind of their own, and some are now known to be under the protection of some new clever and camouflaged foes...

In order to find these chests, participate in daily site activites such as gathering, brewing, hatching, bonding, exalting and more! ...or test your skill and battle Mimic monsters in the Coliseum. Mimics can be encountered in all Coliseum areas, with higher level mimics having a greater chance to drop a chest. New this year, all coliseum enemies will have a low chance of dropping event items, but mimics will have a much better chance than a normal opponent. If you can't battle, don't worry! Baldwin is always seeking new alchemists to help him craft the perfect brew to unlock the secrets of these chests.

It will also be rarely possible to find Unhatched Nocturne Eggs while scavenging in any elemental region.

After two weeks have passed, Nocturnes, their eggs, and their Strange Chests will become scarce until next year, when they again return.

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Nocturne Lore

Engineered by the Shadowbinder herself to be covert, hidden, and adaptable, Nocturne dragons have the incredible ability mimic the sounds, motions, and behaviors of other dragons and creatures. This interesting adaptation can have its drawbacks, though. Find out more about the Shadowbinder's sneaky sentinels in the lore article below:

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Higgins' Haunted Hollow

Higgins Haunted Hollow is back for a limited time at The Grand Exchange. This shop is active for the duration of Night of the Nocturne, and includes item, treasure, and gem trades for unique Night of the Nocturne items! It also includes a rather grumpy butler.

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What's New This Year?
Another year brings new chances at unique Night of the Nocturne exclusive items! Here are some of the new items you can expect to see as part of the event. As the event has grown over so many years, we slowing new additions; you can still expect to see a modest selection of new content each year, and the return of the hoard of content from previous years!


Strange Chests
In addition to previous years' prizes, the following new items now are now appearing within Strange Chests:



Sophie's Splendid Stitches
The following returning items can be crafted at Sophie's Splendid Stitches by tailors who want to spend the shortest days of the year spinning and stitching!

Level 2 Patterns:
Level 3 Patterns:

Higgins Haunted Hollow
The following new items are available at Higgins' Haunted Hollow.

Item Trades:
Gem Items:

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Returning Items
While everyone will no doubt be hunting for the new items, you'll also have a chance to get your hands on items from past incarnations of Night of the Nocturne!


Strange Chests
The following items will be making an reappearance within Strange Chests. Most of these items will show up at a lower rate than that of newer items above.








Treasure Items
The following items have been moved from the treasure marketplace to their new, permanent home at Higgins' Haunted Hollow, where they are always in stock in unlimited quantities.







Gem Items
The following items have been moved from the gem marketplace to their new, permanent home at Higgins' Haunted Hollow.







Baldwin's Bubbling Brew
The following returning items can once again be crafted within Baldwin's cauldron. Recipes levels 1-10 have been balanced to scale with the Baldwin rebalancing performed earlier this year.


Returning Level 1 Recipes:
Returning Level 2, 3 Recipes:
Returning Level 3 Recipes:
Returning Level 4 Recipes:
Returning Level 5 Recipes:
Returning Level 6 Recipes:
Returning Level 7 Recipes:
Returning Level 8 Recipes:
Returning Level 9 Recipes:
Returning Level 10 Recipes:
Returning Level 11 Recipes:
Returning Level 12 Recipes:


Higgins Haunted Hollow
Higgins' Haunted Hollow is the home for the Night of the Nocturne trades.

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Crystalline Gala Skin Contest
The thirteenth annual Crystalline Gala will begin on Monday, January 26, 2026, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Please note that the contest ends on a Wednesday. Click here for more information!

Thank you so much for joining us this week!

We're off next week but hope to be back the week after!

It's not quite the last cozystream of 2025 — come join casual community stream as we return to the post-apocalyptic world of My Time At Sandrock!

Raffle Policy Update & Clarifications

We have small update for our community about our recent update to the Raffles & Giveaways policy.

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Since Tuesday's update, the vast majority of feedback and questions we've received are focused on the Raffles & Giveaways policy. As we've reviewed the feedback sent in to us, we noticed there were some frequently asked questions which we can address today and deeper concerns from within the Dominance community, which will require additional time for us to properly address.

We want to quickly address some of the more common questions we've received:

• Purchasing dragons with gems and offering the dragons in a raffle does not fall under this policy. The policy only prohibits gems as ticket price/entry and prizes.
  
• This update does not change what players were already allowed to use gems for, only raffles.
  
• Non-Flight Rising tangible items/crafts of real world value have never been allowed for trade for Flight Rising IP; this is in-line with our existing Terms of Use, under Account and Art Sales policy:

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To the Dominance leaders who wrote in to us, concerned with how this update could impact Dominance and the many unique and varied ways players can enter your raffles — we hear you.

This policy update is to prevent exploitative raffles and black market transactions using individual raffles as a cover. We understand Dominance raffles have more eyes on them and the currencies and prizes involved are well tracked by your Dominance organizations. The team has to discuss how best to move forward where we protect the best interests of the site without causing significant disruption to our Dominance community members.

With the US holidays around the corner, we likely will not have a decision ready for you until the new year. This is not a resolution we want to rush and then need to return back to repeatedly. We appreciate your patience while we continue to review and discuss your feedback.

Thank you again for reaching out to us with your feedback and thank you for being a part of Flight Rising.

Heeeey, I have to step in and be the party pooper, so to speak. While RPG Maker is great, any game made needs to be of a world of your own making and not use Flight Rising's intellectual property.

All right Flight Rising cozystreamers, tomorrow (December 19th) we'll be returning to Sandrock and our Builder, Bean at 12:30 server time/3:30 PM Eastern!




Logistics note: We will not have a stream next week due to the holiday.

@EPICDragon99, @lalodragon, our ad settings are set for our genre and general age group — political ads, medical ads, etc are not part of that age group.

If you see those types of ads on our website, it's not because we are allowing them but because the advertiser either accidentally or intentionally mislabeled their ads. Mislabeling ads gets them in front of more people and onto more networks than they otherwise would. That's why it's very important to report them directly to the Hiveworks team with as much information you can provide. It skips the middle man (the Flight Rising team) and gets the actionable information directly to the people who can act on it.

Hi there @williwawwarden!

Like Stormdance mentioned, this question and your feedback are best suited for Contact Us. Today's update is a measure made to protect the site and community from those who would exploit the availability of gems for their own benefit via raffles. Your feedback is welcome. Thank you!

Hi @Gulfstream!

This is a measure to protect the site and community from those who would exploit the availability of gems for their own benefit via raffles.

That being said, players are welcome to submit constructive feedback or their insights about this policy update directly to us through Contact Us. Thank you!

We've made several updates today to our Rules & Policies and a Support article. These updates are based on our and the community's experience, community feedback, and the rapidly changing internet landscape.


Policies Updated

• Raffles & Giveaways
• Personal Fundraising is now Fundraisers (all)
• Spam
• AI Images, Writing, & Video is now Generative "AI"
• Non-Gameplay Feedback
• Can I have more than one account?

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Additional Clarifications


Raffles & Giveaways

Today's update further clarifies what can and cannot be used as raffle entries or prizes, from tangible items to gems.

Raffles currently accepting gems or offering gems as prizes prior to today's update are allowed to finish their raffle. No new raffles accepting or offering gems as entries or prizes may be posted after today's update.


Fundraising

Today's update overhauls this existing policy and clarifies that player-run fundraising of all kinds is prohibited on our website.

Previously, Ko-Fi links were prohibited on our website due to its stated function as a virtual tip jar and not a payment processor. Ko-Fi is now allowed for art commissions only and only if the payment type affords the buyer protections, either credit card or PayPal.


Generative "AI"

Today's update overhauls this existing policy and provides further clarifications on what isn't allowed on our site, our intellectual property, and why.


Non-Gameplay Feedback

Today's update provides clarifications on what is and isn't considered constructive feedback, how players can submit feedback, and how player feedback is documented, reviewed, and audited for team accountability.


Can I Have More Than One Account?

Today's update provides additional clarification as to why multi-accounting carries the escalated penalty of account closure and additional examples of multi-accounting based on our investigations over time.

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Feedback and questions about our policies should be sent directly to the team through Contact Us.

Hello everyone! Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns and feedback with us regarding the gene expansion process.

Gene expansions typically (but not always!) happen in either single gene or single breed buckets. If there is a gene you'd like to see on a specific breed, please be sure to share that with us over in the Suggestions forum.

We are going to go ahead and lock the thread now under our Non-Gameplay Feedback policy, as this thread is headed in a direction of feedback about policy and staff. Feedback regarding staff and policies should be sent directly to the team through Contact Us. Thank you for understanding, and thank you again for your feedback!

Poor Banescales! They will surely get the gene someday. ;_;

This was an oversight. We've pinged the engineers. There should be an update on this tomorrow. :)

The images for these were updated an hour ago, but if you have them cached locally, (ie: you viewed the ancient gene parchments recently, your browser will store local copies of the image to make them load faster) you may need to clear your cache to see the new images. On windows Chrome browser, ctrl + f5 will typically accomplish a fresh reload without having to dump your entire cache.

Sailfish and Marlin are now available for Modern, Aberration, Aether, Auraboa, Cirrus, Everlux, Gaoler, Undertide, and Veilspun dragons!

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Sailfish and Marlin
Sailfish and Marlin are primary and secondary genes that apply a pattern of gradiated color and spots across the body and wings of your dragons. This gene pair is now available for Modern, Aberration, Aether, Auraboa, Cirrus, Everlux, Gaoler, Undertide, and Veilspun dragons, and has a chance to drop in the Coliseum.

Note that the Ancient Gene Parchments that previously droped for this gene have been automatically converted to the Modern primary and secondary scrolls, which are the trade requirement for converting these genes to their Ancient counterparts at Glass and Gloss' Genuine Genes.

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New Achievements
2 new achievements for modern genes are now available.

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Crystalline Gala Skin Contest
The thirteenth annual Crystalline Gala will begin on Monday, January 26, 2026, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Please note that the contest ends on a Wednesday. Click here for more information!

Please check the known issues and working-as-intended sections before making a report!

This thread is to track any gene errors that occur with the Sailfish and Marlin expansion. This thread is for the newly modern version of these genes only, and does not encompass previously released genes.

In this thread, players may report any errors they encounter with the new genes. These can be technical errors, or consistency issues. This thread is intended to focus on these potential errors so that they can be addressed swiftly





Please report any errors you encounter and we will do our best to correct them in a timely manner. This thread will close out 45, on January 29, 2026.After this time, players may report technical issues with these and other gene errors in the Modern Gene Error Backlog Thread, but further consistency issues will not be accepted for review and will be considered working as intended.

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Note that it may take a short while for the site's internal image cache to reflect the corrected image assets.

Corrected Issues

Known Issues

Investigating (Not sure if issue or not)

Working as intended

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I will be deleting reports that are not relevant to the Sailfish/Marlin gene expansion, reports that have been corrected, reports are not considered an issue, duplicate reports, and discussion or chatter as I encounter/investigate them to keep the thread current with gene reports only.


This thread is accepting reports on the following genes only:

@Gene Error Updates

No errors were reported after October 14th. The thread is officially closed for consistency issues. If you find any technical issues related to these genes, please report them in the Backlog - Ancient Gene Errors thread. Thank you!

@Gene Error Updates

This thread is a bit old, but did have several technical issues outstanding that were corrected today in the modern gene error thread. (No consistency corrections went past the original date of thread closure) Our apologies for the delays in getting this thread closed out.

@Gene Error Updates

The following corrections went in today

That's it for this week, thank you so much for joining us!

All right, dragons! It's time to return to the post-apocalyptic town of Sandrock for this week's cozystream!

The end of another week approaches! We're looking at our return to Sandrock tomorrow, Friday December 12th at 12:00 server time/3pm EST. Conserve water!

Thank you everyone for your reports! Please be sure to report these directly to Hiveworks, too. Reporting directly to Hiveworks expedites diagnosis and resolution of the bad ad. Thank you!

It's our Gecko!

That's it for this week, thank you for joining us and spending time with our cozystream community!

Time to get Builder Bean her horse riding lessons! We're live in Sandrock for our casual community stream!

Hello everyone! Things are looking good for a stream tomorrow, Friday December 5th starting around 12:30 server time/3:30 PM Eastern time. We'll be returning to Sandrock tomorrow for our cozy casual community stream!

Just the front page cache delay that's built-in, in case something doesn't behave as expected. Frigidfin items went in at 05:57 server time and the post went up at 05:59:03 server time

Another chilling winter is about to howl across the realm and dragons everywhere are taking advantage of an unusually bountiful fishing season! Frigidfin Expedition runs from December 4-8, and brings with it many rewards!

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Frigidfin Expedition
The Frigidfin Expedition, one of Flight Rising's quarterly micro-holidays, is in full swing! From Thursday, December 4th to Monday, December 8th (06:00 Server Time), all players will experience a couple of battle-related boosts!



Bountiful Battles
For the duration of the Frigidfin Expedition, all all Coliseum enemies will have the chance to drop seafood items in addition to their normal loot. Other site activities such as gathering, breeding, bonding, brewing, and visiting some of the trading post dragons will also yield a chance at the expedition! Dragon clans everywhere are taking this time to stock up on fishes, clams, sharks, sponges, corals, snails, shrimp and more to feed them through the winter.



Battle EXP Boost
During the event, all battles will yield 50% additional EXP, so now is a perfect time for dragons to train. Grab your newest team and head out into battle!



Furry & Finned Fishers
Dragonkind are not the only ones taking advantage of the prosperous fishing season. As the oceans, lakes, and rivers teem with life, enterprising critters rush the shores. A few unique species of beaver and newly emerged Narwin capitalize on this seafood surge, catching fish not only for themselves, but as currency in a barter system with water-faring dragon clans. For the duration of the Frigidfin Expedition, these toothy familiars will drop occasionally in the Coliseum and rarely during Fishing. The Narwin will also drop from the coliseum and rarely from all types of gathering activities.

Once the expedition has concluded, the Narwin go back into hiding, but dragons may still encounter into one or two beavers while Fishing.

A vista and scene have a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities.

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Splendid Halos
Sophie's Splendid Stitches has new patterns for dragons with a tailoring skill of level 3 and above:

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Crystalline Gala Skin Contest
The thirteenth annual Crystalline Gala will begin on Monday, January 26, 2026, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Please note that the contest ends on a Wednesday. Click here for more information!

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Additional Updates

• Frigidfin Expedition got a bit ahead of itself this morning and some extra fishies dropped for players from 06:00 to 07:15 server time. This is now corrected and the Frigidfin Expedition will return at its original start date of Thursday, December 4th at 06:00 server time!
• The item picker used by Sophie's Splendid Stitches can now filter items by locked/unlocked status. By default, only unlocked items will be shown.

Hey everyone! Thank you, @Lawful, for sharing the heads up about the temporary alert on Purchase Gems in the sidebar.

From today (December 1st) until Thursday (December 4th), we're running 10% bonus promotion for our premium currency. When the bonus sale ends at 06:00 server time on Thursday December 4th, the orange star indicator will go away.

Flight Rising is free-to-play and not pay-to-win. Players are able to earn our premium currency through gameplay and can freely trade gems in-game with other players. This doesn't change the fact that our premium currency helps keep the lights on and helps keep Flight Rising free-to-play. That means when we do run a promotion, part of that promotion will involve calling attention to our Purchase Gems page.


We're going to go ahead and lock this thread now due to the non-constructive feedback and the personal attacks that are starting to happen between folks who disagree with each other. Thank you.

Indeed >.>