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Spring Breeding Season 2026 Posted April 16th, 2026, 11:45 AM

Spring Breeding Season 2026 is on! The Perennial Meadow will be generating three seasonal rarity creatures through the end of May 21st 2026. Seasonal creatures use separate slots from your regular ones, so now's the time to swing by and be able to easily raise more creatures at once. During this same period of time, these spring season creatures will always breed true, after which they will breed true very rarely until their next breeding season. They will still use the same seasonal creature slots during the off-season.

While the creatures will generate until the end of the given date, if Perennial Meadow still has unclaimed creatures after that point then it will continue to be accessible until its supply has been depleted. These creatures will become available in the Perennial Meadow again next year.

After Perennial Meadow vanishes for the year, Meadow Essence will be able to be acquired for a limited time by excavating at the Great Plume.

If you don't see any creatures right away, don't worry—more will appear every 10 minutes.


As we move into spring and summer, we'd like to bring attention to something else this year. As you may already know, every Chroma variant of Tyling, one of the spring seasonals, is based on a real butterfly. The Standard Variant is specifically based on the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. This species has recently been listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List due to food and environmental disruption.

Monarchs are best known for their massive migration in North America, but they're found across the world, and are one of if not the most iconic butterfly globally. They lay eggs through the spring, summer, and early fall.

How You Can Help

By far the easiest way to help conserve this species is to plant milkweed, the exclusive plant host of monarch larvae. Butterflies lay their eggs on the leaves, the caterpillars hatch, and this is their sole food source until metamorphosis. However, milkweed is also considered a protected native species or noxious weed in some places, so please make sure to check your local laws before committing to it.

If you can't plant milkweed, consider looking at these links for resources, information, and more ways to help.
Monarch Watch
Monarch Butterfly Fund
National Wildlife Federation