Friday Feature – The All Powerful Sarlacc

[Q'in]

No home is complete without its own small pit of Carkoon! As a "welcome back" to returning players and a "thank you" to current players, you'll be able to claim a miniature Sarlacc to fit in a dark corner of your home beginning March 5, 2009.

Welcome Back!

Owners of abandoned structures (since July 2008) strewn across the galaxy have a short time to return and reclaim their structures. Players who return during the House Pack Up event and activate their game accounts before February 15, 2009 receive a decorative Sarlacc Trash Can, perfect for the house you just saved.

This distinctive, tradeable item writhes and wriggles just like the mighty Sarlacc found in the Dune Sea of Tatooine!

The miniature Sarlacc can be moved and placed just as any house decoration, so you can place it in just the right spot in the home you've returned to.

Feeding the Sarlacc

Dedicated citizens can also claim the Sarlacc Trash Can as a new loyalty reward! Players who have an active, paid subscription on January 13, 2009 which is still active on February 15, 2009 are eligible to receive a Deluxe Sarlacc Trash Can.

The Sarlacc hiding inside the Deluxe Trash Can requires constant attention and care and gets rather attached to its master, so it cannot be traded to a new owner.

This creature is on a unique diet, and even though the Deluxe Sarlacc is diminutive compared to the rare beast inside the Great Pit of Carkoon, it requires regular feeding. If you feed your Sarlacc one tasty junk item a week for four weeks, it will give you a random collection item in return. Use the radial menu and choose Feed to select which junk item you'd like to give your hungry Sarlacc.

The Sarlacc munches on all junk and collection items offered to it, and digests them over the next 1000 years – so be sure to double-check the snack you're giving!

Not sure when your Sarlacc last had a meal? Use the radial menu to examine your Sarlacc and you'll discern if the Sarlacc is fed, hungry, very hungry, or starving. If your Sarlacc is very hungry, it hasn't been fed in two or more weeks. A "hungry" Sarlacc has eaten previously and is ready to eat again. If you don't feed it soon, the Sarlacc returns to starving and you must begin the four item feeding process again.

A fed Sarlacc will no longer accept items, and you must wait seven days before it can eat again.

You will receive your random collection item at the end of every four weeks from the time the Sarlacc is first fed if it eats once every Hungry phase without reaching Starving. Retrieve the random collection item from the Sarlacc seven days after its fourth feeding by using the radial menu on your Deluxe Sarlacc Trash Can.

Sift through the Sarlacc Box and you might even find that rare collection item you've been longing for!

Returning and active veterans can use the /claim window beginning on March 5, 2009, to obtain their very own small Sarlacc.

[Q'in]

Elias wrote on the SoE boards:

What you put into the trash can does affect what comes out of it.

I will not elaborate any further than that, so don't ask.