dream dust
Welcome to the Dream Dust section of the Currency Guide. What's Dream Dust? Dream Dust (or DD) is the groups milestone marker currency. Almost every single upgrade you'll want to apply to your Sleepkin will have a Dream Dust Requirement! In order to apply that upgrade, aside from any other requirements, you'll need to have equal or greater that amount of Dream Dust!
You gain Dream Dust mainly by drawing or writing about anything Sleepkin, including official pets and others Sleepkin!
Dream Dust is counted in your Deviations Description, usually in this format:
[# Earned in Image]/[New Dream Dust Total]
ex: If you had 10 DD and earned 5 more DD, your description count would look like this:
5/15 DD
The Tracker
Sleepkins has a required but handy-dandy Dream Dust Tracker you can use in order to keep track of how much Dream Dust you have! The Tracker will add all of your totals together for you, you just need to input how many of what there is!
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Only input the # of Fullbodies, Shading, Gifts, etc. there is unless it's the OTHER column. So if there's four (4) fullbodies in your deviation, under fullbodies you'd put Four (4) not Twelve (12)!
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To get your own Tracker just click where it says File then select Make a Copy. Just like that, you'll have your own tracker in your own google sheets that you can edit, ta-da!
What counts for dream dust?
Floating Heads
Heads without a neck or anything attached to them do not count for Dream Dust!
Unfinished Art
Any messy and/or uncolored lineart/sketches that have lots of stray lines do not count for Dream Dust!
Re-Used Lineart
Any re-used lineart if it makes up about 75% of the total lines does not count for Dream Dust!
Heads
Heads with at least a neck or more attached to them do count for Dream Dust!
Colored Clean Sketches/Lineart
Any Colored Art that is clean enough for it to be easy to see whats going on does count for Dream Dust!
Multiple Poses
Similar but not exact or Unique poses with minimum re-using of lineart between them do count for Dream Dust!
WHO counts for dream dust?
Official Sleepkin
Any Sleepkin who have an approval submitted to the group can count for Dream Dust!
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In order to properly count for Dream Dust the art posted of them should be of their current up-to-date design. i.e. if they're an adult, it cannot be of their baby form and must include all their current upgrades.
Official NPCs
Any official Group NPC (Non-Player Character) can count for Dream Duwhen drawn. Official means that only NPC's uploaded to the group's Resource account count!
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Unofficial NPCs can be created/used by users for their story, however should be used sparingly and do not count for Dream Dust.
Official Pets
Any official pet uploaded to the Sleepkins resource account counts for Dream Dust. Their designs must match or be close to their design on the resource account.
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Wild Creatures, Un-Official Pets, Farm Animals, do not count for Dream Dust. Un-Official Pets should be shown sparingly, and can never be used in mechanics.
Dream dust visual guide
Headshot || +1 DD
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You can only see the shoulders and up of this Sleepkin, meaning they're a Headshot!
Gift || +2 DD
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As you can see this is a gift of someone else's Sleepkin! Remember that gifts count for a BUST and up! You cannot count the dust for a headshot gift!
Bust/Partial || +2 DD
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This Sleepkin is visible from the waist up, showing 50%+ of their body and both of their front legs/arms.
Simple Shading || +1 DD
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Simple Shading is one or two layers of cell (unblended) shadows or highlights! This is counted per figure in an overall piece, not just once!
Fullbody || +3 DD
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80%+ of this Sleepkin is visible, making this a fullbody! Fullbodies can only cut off a single leg or half of a tail.
Detailed Shading || +2 DD
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Multiple layers or blended layers of shadows and highlights on the character! This is counted per figure in an overall piece, not just once!
Writing || +1 DD per 200 Words
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Writing must be by one person only! Roleplays cannot be counted for Dream Dust unless they're refined into proper story form!
Animations || Given by Staff
Animations are anything with more than 3 unique frames! Unique means that the majority of the frames are redrawn not recycled copy-pasted lines! Dream Dust for animations is decided by staff so make sure you submit it to the #animations-and-crafts channel in the discord!
Crafts || Given by Staff
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Crafts are things like sculptures, plushies, sock puppets, etc, that are clearly meant to be Sleepkin! Dream Dust bonuses for Crafts are decided by staff so make sure you submit it to the #animations-and-crafts channel in the discord!
Simple Background || +2 DD
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Simple backgrounds are any clear scene (NOT patterned or gradient color backgrounds) that have only the midground where the characters are! Simple backgrounds can be shaded or unshaded.
Detailed Background || +4 DD
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Detailed Backgrounds are any clear scene (NOT patterned or gradient color backgrounds) with a foreground, midground, and background! Detailed Backgrounds must be shaded in some way even if simple!
CLEAN VS MESSy
Lineart and Sketches​
In order to count as clean, Lineart and Sketches must:
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Be recognizable as the character it's intended to be.
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Not have an excessive amount of stray lines on the image
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Not have lines that obstruct the clear definition of the character.
Coloring
In order to count as clean, all coloring must:
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Be recognizable as the character it's intended to be.
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Stay (mostly) within the sketch/lines and not stray outside in blobs. Some gaps as a stylistic choice is fine.
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Include all aspects of a design (markings, placements, etc.)
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Be the characters intended palette or a Monthly Challenge color palette.
Simple vs detailed
Unsure what counts as Simple vs Detailed when it comes to shading and backgrounds? This is a bit trickier than clean vs unclean sketches and lines, as there are two different types of simple and detailed, those being shading and backgrounds. This handy little guide should help you determine whether somethings simple or detailed!
Shading
Simple Shading
Simple shading...
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Is one or two layers of unblended or lightly blurred highlights or shadows on a character/background.
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Is as simple as partial shadows in some areas of the character/background instead of the majority
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Does not have to have a defined light source that makes sense as long as the shading is not all over the place.
Detailed Shading
Detailed shading...
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Is multiple layers of cell, blurred, or painterly shadows, AND lighting on a character/background.
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Must include shading/lighting on the majority of the character/background, leaving no doubt as to where the light is coming from.
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Should be consistent, meaning if the light is coming from the left you shouldn’t put tons of shadow where the light is touching.
Backgrounds
Simple Backgrounds
Simple backgrounds include...
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A scene or setting of some sort and cannot be patterns put behind the character.
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A midground of some sort.
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Minimal Detailing, meaning the scene can be mostly empty without lots of items or the like to fill it up.
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Flat Colors, shading is completely optional on Simple Backgrounds!
Detailed Backgrounds
Detailed backgrounds include...
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A scene or setting of some sort and cannot be patterns put behind the character.
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A foreground, midground, and background elements to the scene.
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A decent amount of detail, such as adding bushes to the ground, branches to a forest, detail any grass, adding clouds, decorations to interiors, etc. in the image!
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Must have at least simple shading!
Milestone rewards!
Dream Dust is mostly used just for earning upgrades, but it has other uses! As you earn Dream Dust you also earn Milestones which reward you with different prizes. Most of the time you'll receive Dream Tokens, however, there are a few other repeatable milestones you can earn for more in the group!
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Remember to submit your earnings to the #milestones channel in the group's discord by filling out the pinned form!
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Milestones are repeatable, meaning each time you hit that milestone you get those rewards again. As examples...
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When you reach 500 Dream Dust...
You'll have received Seven (7) Dream Tokens!
+ Five (5) tokens from the 100 Dream Dust Milestone (x5)
+ Two (2) tokens from the 500 Dream Dust Milestone (x1)
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When you reach 3000 Dream Dust...
You'll have received Fifty Seven (57) Dream Tokens & Two (2) MYO Slots!
+ Thirty (30) tokens from the 100 Dream Dust Milestone (x30)
+ Twelve (12) tokens from the 500 Dream Dust Milestone (x6)
+ Fifteen (15) tokens from the 1000 Dream Dust Milestone (x3)
+ Two (2) MYO Slots from the 1500 Dream Dust Milestone (x2)
milestones
Milestones are repeatable and you can earn the rewards for them more than once!
Every 100 Dream Dust || +1 Dream Token
Every 500 Dream Dust || +2 Dream Token
Every 1000 Dream Dust || +5 Dream Token
Every 1500 Dream Dust || +1 MYO Slot
DREAM TOKENS
Dream Tokens is the group's premium currency earned through Events, Milestones, donating Bred/Adopted Sleepkins, and other various means. Tokens can be used to purchase shop items, participate in some mini-events, purchase Token Adopts and more.
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Dream Tokens are exchangeable for USD at a rate of:
One (1) Dream Token = 1$ USD
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If you wish to use your Dream Tokens to purchase an item from the shop just be sure to fill out the form fount in the #front-desk channel in our groups discord!
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Keep in mind that tokens cannot be used to purchase Adopts, Pets, or Auctions priced in USD!