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Today’s “Feature You May Have Missed” will be a dream come true for our housing fans out there. We’re talking all about a tool that puts the power of information into your hands when visiting any friend’s house.

Picture this: You’re visiting a friend’s Castle and you see a super cool decoration that you absolutely must have for your castle. The only problem? You have no idea what it’s called or how to get it, and your friend can’t remember the exact location of all 250 item in her house!

Skip all the hassle and go straight to the Housing Item Identifier Tool! This nifty tool will give you details like the item name and how it was created or obtained.

The Item Identifier button lives in the lower right corner of your in-game screen. When you’re in a friend’s house, give the button a click to enter Identify mode.

Once you’re in Item Identify mode, place your cursor over the any item in the house to see a label with the name of the item. Icons on the label will tell you whether the item is Crafted, purchased with Crowns, or earned with Arena Tickets.

The real power of this feature is when you “click” on the item while you’re in identify mode. This opens up a grand list of all the places this item can be found.  Ever wondered if you can get a Cherry Blossom Tree or another item somewhere else outside of completing a quest?  The answer: absolutely yes, which you can find out thanks to the Housing Item Identifier tool!

If an item you click on is available for purchase in the Crown Shop, there’s even a button that will allow you to purchase the item directly. If you don’t quite have enough Crowns to purchase it, there’s also a “Buy Crowns” button right there on the same page.

Exiting Identify mode is as simple as entering it. Just click the Item Identifier button again to exit it. Now, go get inspired by your friends’ houses and fear not about those awkward “where-did-you-get-this” conversations.

Have you used the Housing Item Identifier yet? If so, what cool furniture did you find with it?

– Nalia Dunestrider (AKA Mallie Rust, Marketing Coordinator)

Yesterday we officially announced the release of our latest bundle for Wizard101. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, please take a look at our Accursed Play Gauntlet web page.

This particular Bundle is currently exclusively sold by a select few Wal-Marts, so it can be a bit of a challenge tracking down a physical copy of this bundle. We’re working with our distributor to also offer this bundle for electronic purchase on Walmart.com as well, so stay tuned for more information on increased availability as it happens!

In the meantime, please take a look through the list below if you’re on the hunt for this new bundle. We’ve sorted this list by state, but you can also find the store number, Address, City, and Zip. As always, before making a big trip to a store that may be several miles away, please give them a call first to make sure they have the bundle in stock.

Best of luck hunting down your copy of this exclusive bundle, and remember that we will be trying to offer availability in more ways in the future.

Thank you for playing Wizard101!

Today we’re continuing on with our “Features You May Have Missed” series with a spotlight on Recipe Equipping. That’s right, expert crafters and crafting wannabes, this one’s for you! As with any crafting project (in-game or IRL), at first it’s pretty simple; however, things can get super-messy, super-fast.

New worlds bring new crafting recipes and badges, and, as any Champion Crafter knows, new recipes mean longer crafting recipe menus. There are so many crafting recipes in Wizard101 that it can be difficult to find the recipe you’re looking for, especially once you reach the highest levels of the crafting badges.

That’s why we implemented recipe equipping! This feature is perfect for crafting the watchtower hall. There’s a LOT of sub-recipes to keep track of, and equipping the recipe will keep it at the top of your crafting list. To equip a recipe, use a crafting station and then click the recipe you want to equip.

Once you’ve selected your recipe, hit the equip button. The equip button lives in the lower right corner of the menu and looks just like the equip button in other menus. When an item is equipped, it goes straight to the top of the recipe list.

You can also equip more than one recipe at a time. When you equip more than one recipe, the one that you’ve equipped most recently goes to the top of the list, ahead of any recipes you’ve equipped previously.

As a bonus, this feature also makes a crafting icon appear on all recipes you can make with the ingredients you have on hand. No need to wonder if you’ve finally gotten all of the reagents, Treasure Cards, Furniture Items, or Gear that you need. If you see the crafting icon, you’re ready to craft it!

What recipes do you have equipped? How close are you to crafting it? Let us know in the comments!

-Nalia Dunestrider (AKA Mallie Rust, Marketing Coordinator)

Today’s “Feature You May Have Missed” is all about putting the boogie in your battles! You can win a fight, but can you win a fight — with style? Read on for more information about one of our newest innovations.

The best part of winning a tough battle? Celebrating it! Of course, no victory celebration would be complete without a nifty victory dance.

You’re probably well acquainted with the default victory dance, and you might even be a little tired of seeing the same victory dance over and over again. What you might not know is that you can actually choose your own victory dance.

Graphic from Swordroll’s Blog

If you want to change things up a bit, open your options menu. Next, navigate to the Gameplay Options 3 tab and find the “Victory Dance” option. You should see a victory dance option set to “original.” Click the left and right arrows to toggle which dance emote you’ll use for your victory dance.

You can use any dance emote that you have access to, which means that non-members can choose between the Original and the Bee Dance. Members have even more options, from the Breakin’ emote to my personal favorite, the Oppa emote.

Now you can go and celebrate your hard earned victories with some snazzy new moves! What are you using for your victory dance?

– Nalia Dunestrider (AKA Mallie Rust, Marketing Coordinator)