Your character can't do prompts or participate in events until it is approved and on the masterlist!
You may still be able to borrow other users' characters to use, however.
Some species may have special guidelines listed on their pages as to what you can and cannot do when making a design!
These are the global rules that apply to all species, unless if stated otherwise.
In order to submit your character, you'll need to get a MYO Ticket. You can get them from Zzeke's shop.
If you're new, then you can claim a free gift set using code WELCOMETOMERLOT. It contains a random rarity of MYO ticket as well as a randomized trait essence.
Every week, you can also claim one gift from the glade. Maybe it'll contain something to help you!
Once you have your tickets, and you've drawn your character, you can submit them. The process can be confusing at first, so let's take a visual look!
First, you'll want to consume the ticket to get a usable slot. You'll need to go to your inventory and click on the ticket, making sure you click the little check box!
You will not need to consume a ticket to submit for plentiful species if you wish to only create a common slot.
Plentiful slots automatically become usable slots!
Now you can go to your slot and submit the design.
You can reach the "My MYOs" page from the inventory page or by clicking "home" in the navbar and looking for "my MYO slots".
You may also access your slot right after creation by clicking "MYO slot" in the success message when you go to create your MYO.
Once you've created a slot, there's no rush to use it. Your slots will not expire and you can always return to them at any time.
Click on your slot and click "submit MYO design" to get started!
You should then be on the draft page and can begin filling out the form!
On the Comments page, you'll put... well, comments. Anything important you think mods would need to know about your design, such as items, etc. Make sure to visit the page and click Save anyway even if you don't have anything to add, you'll have to do this for every page moving forward.
The comments section exists to help you! If you have anything that you think you need to clarify or elaborate on, then use it to its fullest!
Then, you can upload your art. This will be the image displayed on the masterlist. It doesn't have to be perfect, but at least make sure everything of importance is visible. You need an image to be uploaded, you cannot submit with no image.
Please make sure to upload an image that is not too large. An image that is no greater than 1000px tall or wide should be a good enough size. If your image is too large your submission may get rejected.
You can then add on your add-ons, such as trait essence or other items. Make sure you tick the checkboxes next to each item and then click save!
If you don't have anything to add, then click save anyway!
Then you can add the traits of your design. When some tickets are used, their rarity may be locked in, so a mod may have to edit that. Make sure to pick the right traits, if you missed anything then feel free to ask a mod to either push the submission back or add them in.
Traits are listed by species name, if there isn't one listed it's usually a global trait.
If you're done, you can click save and submit the draft!
You should be done now!
You can submit everything to be approved, but until then, this will just be a draft, and you can keep editing it or adding more until you're ready!
Updating a character design is always an option regardless of reason, such as if you want to re-upload art, edit art, change the design, upgrade traits, etc.
The process is very similar to uploading a MYO, so follow that guide if you have questions. You can find the design update button here:
Make sure to include all required items, updated traits, and art.
If you're making massive changes to your design, you may need items like Design Edit Mirrors, Makeover Mirrors, or Hue Shift Towels.
Small edits are ok, and just changing the art is always fine!
Alternate forms can be updated, but they may need special items like Design Edit Mirrors, Makeover Mirrors, or Hue Shift Towels.
Whenever you submit a MYO or design update, you'll be asked to list the rarity of your character. This should match the traits you currently have on the character, using the highest rarity as their rarity.
The rarity should follow that of the rarity guide.
The standard rarities outrank the rarity previous, uncommon is rarer than common, etc. Unusual is the highest standard rarity.
Special rarities are usually considered as outranking all other rarities, but you don't have to list them as the highest rarity on your character if you don't want to. You can pick any special rarity you want to display on your character if you have more than one of them.
If you can't list your character's rarity manually, then be sure to add your preferred rarity in the comments.
These rarities don't exist as rarities and more of ways to catalog specific categories of traits, we don't recommend you using them to categorize your characters but... you can... if you want to?:
When submitting a transformation, please keep the following in mind:
For traits like ones that grant alternate forms (imp form, shifter etc.) you will have to include multiple drawings, one for each form (if you have multiple) as well as the base form. Make sure to list the appropriate trait changes if there are any, such as if a trait only shows in one form or another.
To upload, submit a design request as usual for your character, making sure to fill out the required information, images, traits, and addons. You can submit your request as normal, but make sure to inform the mods that this is an alternate form and not the main image. If your request looks good, it'll be uploaded as usual, and the mods will handle everything from there.
In some cases, a transformation may be gotten from a certain rarity of ticket, such as Event. In this case, then you may submit a character with its forms all at once so that you will not be required to consume extra items when you go to add the forms.
In the comments field, include a link to your planned transformation images, as well as list their traits. This way, staff will be able to pre-check them before the ticket is consumed and there will be little to no confusion. Your first uploaded image should be your character's main form, and then you may submit a design update to add its other forms once all the forms have been pre-approved.
Include a link to the approved MYO submission (The link should be similar to https://www.merlotarpg.com/designs/1 ) in the comments of your additional form uploads so that staff have proof of the pre-approval being completed and that you planned to add the forms to begin with.
If you want to update a transformation's design, you can do so at any time. Please note that updating a transformation will still require extra items if you are changing the design significantly.
If your transformation has many different traits, then you may submit an update for that transformation specifically by clicking on your character's "images" tab.
By clicking the "update design" button, the created design will fill in the chosen image's traits and features for you, saving you the time of having to re-upload them all.