Reader Submitted: The SL23B Swaginator Gift Locations

 

 Sent by Kamida Delec, for those having trouble finding the Swaginator gift locations.

 

Gift 1 - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Celebrate/154/23/21

Gift 2 - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Fascinate/191/88/23

Gift 3 - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Impressive/146/89/219

Gift 4 - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Mesmerize/199/145/22

Gift 5 - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Incredible/187/155/21

 

The SL23B Swaginator Hunt

 

 

Besides seeing the exhibits at the Second Life Birthday, there's the Golden Ticket Giveaway, and the Shining Stars Hunt. But there's one more, an SL Birthday classic: The Swaginator Hunt. 

 

Join the fun and follow the hints to each SL23B Swaginator kiosk to collect a series of awesome SL23B themed gifts. The SL23B Swaginator kiosks are hidden throughout the Second Life Birthday Event, so grab a bottle of water and let's start hunting! 

 

To start, head to the Red Carpet Welcome in SLB Incredible and head to the Swaginator HUD giver at (151/106/21). Clicking on it, you'll get the HUD. Go to your inventory and click and "add" it to your avatar. It should appear on your viewer on the upper right. 

 

Seconds after putting it on, you should get your first clue. Clicking on Teleport, you'll end up somewhere in the vicinity of where the clue is, but you'll still need to search around for it.

 It may take some looking around for a while. But eventually, you'll find it.

 

 And the first prize is, something fun for watching a movie or sports event. So what are the next four? That's something you'll have to find out for yourself.

 

Happy Hunting,

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

The SL22B Swagonator Hunt

 

There's a couple HUD Hunts in this Year's Second Life Birthday. One is the Swaginator Hunt.

To start, you need to get the Swaginator HUD. You can pick it up at a few spots at the SLB sims, but the most familiar one is at the official entrance at SLB Awesome (135/102/103). Click on the giver, and once it appears in your inventory, attach it. 

It should appear on the upper left on your screen providing a clue to where the second is. When you find it, you'll get a small gift, and a clue to the next location.

Previous Swagonator hunts have had as few as five gifts in total. But this one is larger, having a few dozen. Finding them all will take at least an hour, most likely more. 

Bixyl Shuftan

The Winter Swaginator Hunt

 

 

Among the activities by Linden Lab has available for the residents this Christmas season is the Winter Swaginator Hunt.

 

 The Winter Swaginator Hunt has started!!! Get your hud here and find the 5 prizes. Make sure you read the clues the hud gives you to find them. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Muehlenbach/130/119/35

 

To do the hunt, head to the starting point as the announcement says in Muehlenbach (130/119/35). You click on the sign nearby between the two statues, and you get the HUD in your inventory. Attach it, then you read the clue to find the next sign, where it will be nearby with the first prize.
 

 

Once you find the sign, click it to get your prize, and your HUD will update for the clue to where the next prize is, and the option to tp nearby where you should be able to quickly find it. 

As the announcement says, there are a total of five prizes, and the hunt will go on all month.

 

Bixyl Shuftan

EOTB: Linden Lab Shows Off Several Halloween Happenings

 

 

On the official blog yesterday, Linden Lab posted about several Halloween happenings in Second Life, "Immerse yourself in the spooky Halloween spirit within one of the most lively virtual communities in the metaverse!"

Among the goings on is the return of Bellisseria's Trick or Treat game. Get your HUD and candy bucket at Millbank (217/41/23), and go around Bellisseria looking for pumpkin-shaped candy buckets to grab treats out of, and get prizes for it.

Prepare to celebrate Halloween Belli style! Collect candy across Bellisseria this Halloween season and win prizes! This is an interactive event where residents living in Bellisseria can host Candy Buckets on their parcels and anyone (even residents not living in Bellisseria) can go all around Bellisseria Trick or Treating to collect candy. 

 

In the forums, Patch explained that this year's event was a little different, with small changes following reading some player feedback from last year, "We’ve reduced the amount of candy required for the prizes, making it easier for everyone to win. Plus, now when you arrive in a region with the HUD attached, you’ll receive a message letting you know how many buckets you can find in that region. And to encourage more users to join the event, rezzing out a candy bucket at your home will earn you extra bonus candies."

 

The prizes are nightfang, twilight squeak, and cuddle claw boopies (decor, hugable, and animesh follower). Once again get the HUD and candy bucket at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Millbank/217/41/23 .

There's also a new set of last names available for residents, Halloween themed. They are:

Claw, Fangsby, Shade, Spooktail, Growl, Bloodstone, Witch, Vile, Ebony, Phantom

As a reminder, the names are available for a limited time, presumably until just after Halloween is over, and there is a fee to change one's last name.

There's also a Halloween Swaginator hunt.

Linden Lab's Halloween Swaginator Hunt is back! Start at the spooky Millbank region, touch to receive the Halloween 2024 Swaginator HUD, right-click and add it from your inventory, and then dive into a thrilling adventure as you search for hidden treasures and exclusive Halloween-themed prizes. Explore eerie locations, solve mysterious clues, and enjoy the festive atmosphere. Don’t miss out on this exciting quest to celebrate the Halloween season!

The HUD, and first clue of the Swaginator Hunt, is also at Millbank (217/41/23) .

 

As for Milibank itself, it's been transformed for the season into the Haunted Neighborhood, which we've written about in the past. 

Also available are Halloween Premium, and Premium Plus, gifts available at a list of locations.

To read more about these, and more, Click Here. 

Bixyl Shuftan

EOTB: "The Spookiest Time of Year Is Almost Here"

 

 Halloween season will soon be upon Second Life, and Linden Lab is reminding people to get ready.

Last Friday, September 13, Linden Lab had a Halloween-themed announcement. They would mention the upcoming October Shop and Hop and the annual Trick of Treat game in Bellisseria, as well as an upcoming Swaginator event. They would also say they're planning to release some Halloween-themed last names.

Get Ready for Second Life’s Halloween in 2024!

• Event Dates: October 1st - November 3rd
• Shop & Hop: October 4th - November 3rd
• Annual Trick or Treat Event in Bellisseria: Starts October 1st
• Swaginator Hunt: Starts October 8th

How to Join the Fun

• Mark Your Calendar: October 1st - November 3rd.
• Explore the Shop & Hop: Visit multiple shop and hop regions to discover deals and gifts.
• Change Your Last Name: Embrace the spooky season with a new Halloween-themed last name.
• And many more things to do in Second Life during the Halloween period! 

The last line refers to countless Halloween events and themed places across the Second Life, which in the past have included Relay for Life and Team Diabetes fundraisers, as well as games ranging from the simple to detailed HUD-based adventures taking part on huge grounds taking up close to a sim in size. 

For more information click on the Linden blog post here. 

Bixyl Shuftan

Bellisseria Swaginator Hunt

 

 

The Bellisseria anniversary is going on, there is much to do and see. And among the activities is the Bellisseria Swaginator Hunt. 

 

To start, you head to  SSPBA2 (87/38/3) and pick up the Swaginator HUD from the panel looking like a birthday cake. You then go to your Inventory, click on it, and select "Add." The Hud will then appear on the top left of your screen, and you will get your clue on where to go to next. TP there, find the next panel resembling a cake, and step on the pink circle in front of it to get your prize, and the clue to where to find the second prize. 

 

There are five prizes to get. People are asked not to give out prize locations in group chat (IMs are okay).

Once again, to get the Swaginator Hus, head to http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SSPBA2/87/38/31 

Bixyl Shuften

 

 

The Gift Area, And The Swaginator Hunt

 

It seems no matter how long people have been in Second Life, gifts will always get our attention. And at the Second Life Birthday, There's plenty of opportunities to get one. There's the Gift Area at the Tapestry of Time in which you can take as many as a few dozen. But for those who enjoy a challenge, there's the Swaginator Hunt. So where do you go to start and what can you get?

Read the details in Extra.

 

Halloween Swaginator Hunt

It's October, and Halloween season. And with it comes this year's "Halloween Swaginator Hunt" from Linden Lab and the moles.

The Halloween Swaginator Hunt is back! Can you find all five hidden Halloween-themed gifts? This year’s freebies are among the best ever! To get started, look for the special haunted edition of the Swaginator gift-giving station to grab your free HUD. 

To get the Swaginator HUD, head to Meauxle Bureaux (157/123/29). There, look around for a sign with a couple pumpkins, "Touch Here to get your Swaginator HUD." Do so, and you'll get the HUD. Attach it, and you'll get your first clue, "Something spooky has been sighted behind a cabin in the woods." And you'll get your first location: Millbank.

Millbank happens to be the site of the Halloween Haunted Neighborhood. It's dark, it's spooky, so searching for the clue may take a while. Most of the rest of the clues will also lead you to places around Bellisseria (one leads elsewhere). Some are easy to find. A couple may take a while. For every one you find, the pumpkin in your HUD gets another tooth. There are five Halloween-themed gifts to grab. Some are no doubt more useful than others. But the hunt itself is half the fun.

Once again, start out at: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Meauxle%20Bureaux/157/123/29/

Source: Linden blog

Bixyl Shuftan

SL17B Swaginator Hunt

Like other Second Life Birthday celebrations in the past few years, this one has a gift hunt by Linden Lab. Called the "Swaginator," the objective here is to go from one destination after another, collecting the gifts, or "swag," along the way.

To get the gifts, you'll need the HUD. The SL17B Swaginator HUD is at the entrance area of the Birthday grounds at SL17B Beguile (16/117/53) , a short walk from where you TP in. Finding the sign, touch it to get your LDPW - SL17B Swaginator HUD.

Wearing the HUD, you get a clue to where the first gift is, as well as a location to port to. Getting to the first spot, the Swaginator both won't be immediately in sight, but some distance away on another side of the structure next to you. The second one, the gift will be inside a place some distance away, but still on the island you're at. The third gift was the hardest for me to find, but eventually I did (it's not in a different sim). The ones afterward were easier to find.

There are a total of six gifts to grab in the SL17B Swaginator hunt. The gifts consist of three "floaties," including one that's really a raft, and three mole garden gnomes. There's no bonus for finding all six. Just the challenge of a little game, and a few items you're likely to find some use out of this simmer in Second Life.

Don't forget to check the SL17B grounds, notably the gift shop area, for some more gifts.

Bixyl Shuftan

EOTB: Springtime Swaginator Hunt

Recently in the official blog, Linden Lab announced a couple things. One was a gift for Premium residents, a gazebo and matching table and chairs, available for pickup at various Premium gift kiosks. The other was a new gift grab, the Spring Swaginator Hunt.

Several flower-shaped kiosks have blossomed across the grid - and each kiosk holds a special surprise! Seek and find the kiosks to claim a total of five free gifts. Grab your free Swaginator HUD at Meauxle Bureaux to get started. The hunt runs all through spring, happy hunting!

To start out, head to Meauxle Bureaux (157/123/29), and click the flower. You'll then get the HUD in your inventory. Go into your inventory and find it, then click "wear" or "add"/"attatch." It should then appear in your upper left. Click it to get the location of where the first gift is. Once you get it, click the HUD again and get the next location. There are five in total.

To read the blog post in full, Click Here.

Winter Wonderland Returns, Winter Swaginator Hunt Is On

There was some news in the Linden blog late last week. The Labs' own winter area, the Winter Wonderland, is once again open.

Winter Wonderland is back in all its beautiful glory - with activities you are not going to want to miss! Start your adventure in the Village of Lights, then make your way to snowboarding, snowmobiling, ice-skating, or snowball fighting in the snowball fight arena. Each of the activities is not to be missed, and are more fun with friends - so grab your besties and plan to spend a few hours catching everything that Winter Wonderland has to offer. If you’re in the mood for something a bit quieter after all that running around, take a breath-taking trip on the Ferris Wheel and catch incredible views of the twinkling lights and shimmery snow.

To get to Winter Wonderland, go to the Portal Park sim, and look for the door to the place. When entering, you'll be asked to accept permissions for objects in the place to act on your avatar. Do so.

Also going on, the Winter Swaginator Hunt has started.

‘Tis the season to be jolly - and what could be more jolly than a ton of new gifts? From now through most of December, Second Life will be giving away some goodies for everyone! Four exclusive Winter decorations have been scattered across the Bellisseria continent: special variations of items found in the Premium gift are only available through this hunt! Pick up your HUD at the Meauxle Bureaux and make sure to complete the gift hunt in order by following the clues in the HUD and local chat. Happy hunting!


To start, head to Meauxle Bureaux (157/123/29). Once there, click on the sign that says "Get your Swaginator HUD here!." You then find it in your inventory, then add it. You then follow the clues to the gifts.

Stay tuned for the date of the Linden Snowball Fight, in which you get a chance to lob a frosty one at Linden  Lab's finest at the Winter Wonderland's arena.

The Halloween Swaginator Hunt

Linden Lab is promising "A Month of Haunted Surprises For Everyone" on their blog. There is the Halloween Haunted Tour. There is the "Creep Crawl" that will take place on October 31. But the main thing on the blog entry was about the Halloween Swaginator Hunt.

The start of this gift grab event is at Meauxle Bureaux (157/123/29). You click on the sign above, find the HUD in your inventory, and attach. It will then offer the clue, "Something spooky lurks near the Fairground Docks," and a SURL that takes you to Whiskey Bay in the Bellisseria Fairgrounds. There, you pick up your first prize and the second clue. To unpack your prize, find it in your inventory, attach, and click on the image that appears on your screen. After collecting it, the picture should detach on it's own.

The prizes are all in spots across places around Bellisseria. Most of the locations aren't too hard to find. But the last one was harder to find than the others, so expect to take some time with finding the last prize.

Happy Halloween hunting everyone.

Bixyl Shuftan

Eye On The Blog: "What's Next For Linden Lab?"

Earlier this week, Linden Lab posted on the official blog "What's Next For Linden Lab," which was a rundown of improvements and changes to Second Life, and Sansar, in addition to some upcoming developments.



The Lab touted their success with Animesh mentioning there were over 1300 animesh items in Marketplace (I found almost 1600). They also mentioned Bakes On Mesh, with a youtube to learn more about it.



The Lab went on to say they were getting their Environmental Enhancement Viewer "into shape." For those who don't know what the EEP is, it's "a series of new customizations in the environment rendering system that will allow for the creation and sharing of advanced environment settings, including up to four different sky layers which can be set independently. " (link to video)

Of the migration of Second Life's data to cloud servers, the Lab stated progress was continuing, saying they were trying to make the move as "invisible" as they could, "Your inventory data has been in the cloud for quite some time, and the maps website moved a little while ago."

The Lab told readers to, "Stay tuned for updates on when to expect the return of Last Names, availability of a new mobile app beta, changes to Premium options, improvements to Events, Search, the Destination Guide, and much more." 

Something else the Lab discussed were "New Growth and Community Initiatives." Among them was an upcoming "Second Life Blogger Network." "This new initiative will promote high-quality independent blog content to the Second Life community." The Lab stated there would be more details on it soon.

The Lab also told residents to expect some Halloween fun in October, "Residents can expect a mix of new events, freebies and other spooky surprises." Among the events, a Halloween-themed Swaginator hunt.

Also mentioned were the "New Video and Ad Campaigns." These included the Second Life Destinations Youtubes, the "Made in Second Life" videos, and the "Lab Gab" show by Strawberry and Xiola Linden. 

And the Lab has been doing new video tutorials, featuring Strawberry Linden. These include "How to Get Started in Second Life,"  "Shopping and Buying Linden Dollars," and "Customizing Your Avatar Shape." 

And of course, Linden Lab had a few things to say about their other virtual world, Sansar.

"Sansar introduces new features including improved avatar editing, experience points and titles, and new core worlds. We also have first-of-their-kind partnerships with several established music and entertainment companies. Now with a rich backstory and new quests, Sansar has come a long way since it debuted in beta in 2017 and is worth a second look!" 

A press release mentioned musical performances in Sansar on Wednesday September 25 and Thursday September 26.  

For more information, click on the blog post here.

Bixyl Shuftan