May is here! With summer right around the corner, let's enjoy the last month of spring in the sun--Hey, why is the sky so cloudy?

event: rainy season

Ends july 5th 10PM EST

Indeed, Latorre's Rainy Season has started.  A natural phenomenon that sweeps the planet, some cossetlings love the rain and welcome the extra water. Others feel quite overwatered and look forward to the sun rising again during summer's peak. In fact, this is such a hot topic for debate among cossetlings to the point they pick sides!

The Rainy Season is a team event. Choose Team Rain or Team Shine and earn event currency for your team to win!

Note: You must join a team in order to collect event currency.

Rainy Season Currency: Mini Raincatchers

These miniature raincatchers are small charms cossetlings carry with them during the Rainy Season to ward off bad weather and collect rainwater for later use. Collect one mini raincatcher daily from a Small Puddle with a goldleaves reward for not missing a day near the end of each event month. Exchange them at the Crowded Station for a various items or give them to an Unlucky Stranger for gratitude if they don't immediately rush off! You can also transmogrify glass bottles and jars into raincatchers with Glass to Catch until the Rainy Season ends.

You can earn more mini raincatchers from the limited-time event prompts: Chasing Clouds, Catch the Rain, It's Raining, It's Pouring

With team spirit in mind, collab submissions will be accepted for this event's prompts!

Completing all three event prompts will let you complete the Rainy Season prompt with an award of goldleaves, mini raincatchers, and a special event memento depending on which team you picked: Rainswept Diorama or Sunlit Diorama

Additionally, everyone who completes the Rainy Season prompt can obtain an exclusive lamba cosprout when the event ends. How the cosprout looks depends on the winning team so make sure to collect a lot of mini raincatchers for your team to win! There may also be another reward depending on the number of raincatchers both teams collect.

Mini Raincatchers will vanish on Wednesday, July 10th 10PM EST so make sure to use them before then.

And, in all this rain, Cosette has found a new souvenir!

May's Souvenir: Weather Report

This informative souvenir will cause clouds to appear and form around a cossetling.

Weather Report will be available until June 5th in Cosette's Souvenirs and June 10th in Crowded Station.

And though the lapitos have went down their rabbit holes, it seems the Rainy Season has brought out a new cosprout.

Event Cosprout: Patoy

Available in May, June

Social and outgoing, these duck-like cosprouts generally prefer the company of their own flock over cossetlings. Bother one at your own risk as they can have a fowl temper, chasing cossetlings away while nipping at their flower hooves. However, patoys absolutely love the rain and are the easiest to befriend during the Rainy Season.

Along with the Rainy Season, it appears another phenomenon has happened: two new cossetling subtypes!

introducing: rooted and wonder cossetlings

Mentioned in the Help Wanted storyline, Rooted and Wonder Cossetlings are two rare subtypes with magic that manifests differently from regular cossetlings. To learn more about these subtypes, please read Wonderful Roots in the guidebook.

Unlike the Charmed subtype, Rooted and Wonder is something a cossetling is born as and not transformed into. To make your own rooted or wonder cossetling, you'll need their respective MYO item. How? Well, the new NPC can help.

Yue, the matriach of the Watcher's Guild who debuted in the Help Wanted storyline, has cultivated a following among cossetlings including rooteds and wonders. Visit her in the Serene Glade for either a Watcher's Fruit (Rooted) or a Watcher's Fruit (Wonder). Do note these rare fruits are available every other season and are randomly stocked. Watcher's Fruit (Rooted) will be available in Spring and Fall while Watcher's Fruit (Wonder) in Summer and Winter.

Additionally, Yue's not too interested in wealth beyond donations to keep her guild running. As a religious figure, she'd rather have praise, devotion, and gratitude. Therefore, rooted and wonder's watcher fruits can only be purchased with gratitude.

However, since May is the last month of spring, Yue has decided to raffle off one Watcher's Fruit (Rooted)! You can buy raffle tickets from the Serene Glade and Crowded Station until Wednesday, June 5th 10PM EST.

However, she'll accept goldleaves for her special item: Lotus Incense

Meditiation with this incense will grant a standard cossetling the Detached trait.

And with this update, there will now be rooted and wonder cossetling adopts along with their respective watcher's fruits being made available during the seasonal MYO sales. Stay tune!

Also with Yue, all the main NPCs have been introduced! To celebrate...

event: emoji contest

ends june 5th 10pm EST

Submit custom emojis to spruce up the Cossetlings discord for a chance to win goldleaves, gratitude, and more! Check out the Emoji Contest prompt for more information.

reminders

May is the last month of spring! As such the following items and pets will no longer be available in any official site shops after Monday, June 10th 10PM EST: Everbloom Branch (Seasonal Souvenir), Weather Report (Seasonal Souvenir), Bebom (Seasonal Cosprout), Fairytales for Beboms (Vol. 1) (Storybook), Fruit Preserves (Vol. 1) (Recipe Book)

These items and pets will return next spring. ^^

The Lucky Clover MYO item and New Leaf slots will expire on Wednesday, May 15th 10PM EST. Make sure to submit before then!

Due to recent Discord changes (notably links expiring after a certain time), prompt submissions that include discord links will no longer be accepted.

You can now add Souvenirs, Souvenirs (Seasonal), Enchanted Item, Magic Food, and Ingredients to your cossetling's inventory where they'll be displayed alongside your cossetling's keepsakes!

As always, thanks for playing for Cossetlings! I hope everyone has a fun rainy May!