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Lutari Island and Neopets Mobile

Note: Neopets Mobile service was discontinued permanently on June 30th 2009. Currently, Lutari Island is being pummeled by a huge storm, making it even more inaccessible.

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What is Lutari Island?

Lutari Island was a special island in Neopia that could be unlocked by purchasing Neopets Mobile service. You could feed and play with your pets, as well as access special Island-only areas of the site. It included it's own shop, a healing springs, bank, it's own wheel, and two games exclusive to the Island. Through the island, you could also adopt Kacheeks, Kougras, and Shoyrus, as well as Lutaris, which at that time could only be adopted from the island.

Getting There

In order to access Lutari Island, you needed to have purchased Neopets Mobile either via your service provider, or directly through the Neopets main website. It was added as a paid subscription app, costing $2.99 per month for as long as you kept the service. It was only ever available to residents of the United States, and used mobile data to connect to the Island.

Lutari Island

The main Lutari Island menu consisted of six main sections as follows:

Adopt A Pet / Pet Central

Through this menu, you could adopt a pet, and use items from your inventory to play with, groom, feed, and care for your pets.

Explore

View the map of the island and all its various locations.

Games

Access the two exclusive Lutari Island games, 'Go Go Lutari!' and 'Blockstravaganza.'

Sync and Quit

Syncs all of your items, pet info, and NP to your Neopets account from the Island.

Options

Standard options to logout, switch account, control sound settings, etc.

Talisman

Used to refer and accept referrals to Neopets Mobile. Referrals would grant special rewards.

Navigating the Island

When first entering, it will ask you if you want a tour of the island. You can do it if you like, or explore it yourself

Wheel of Happiness

This wheel was exclusive to Lutari Island. It could be spun every 30 minutes and rewards included Neopoints, exclusive items, mood boosts for your pet, and healing, while negative outcomes included losing your petpet attached to your pet or hit points. There were 11 different spots on the wheel as follows:

250: Awards 250 NP
500: Awards 500 NP
1000: Awards 1,000 NP
10,000: Awards 10,000 NP
Evil: The Night Dweller would steal your petpet
Lose NP: The Night Dweller would steal an amount of your on-hand NP
Whoops: Lose half your hit points
Feather: You win a Lutari Feather
Happy: The mood of your pet becomes 'delighted'
Heal: Your pet is fully healed
Item: you win one of the following items:

Lutari Feathered Dresser

Lutari Kacheek Plushie

Lutari Tonu Plushie

Lutari Uni Stamp

Lutari Savings Bank

Access your Neopets and collect interest at the Lutari Savings Bank! Your account type on the Island will reflect your account type at the National Neopian Bank.

Bog of Charity

The bog functioned much like the Meridell Rubbish Dump. Various characters around Neopia would donate items to the Bog which users could then take. Players were limited to taking one item every hour, and the prize received was random. In addition to receiving Neopoints as a prize (either 50, 100, 250, 500, or 1,000), the items available at the Bog consisted of the following:

Bag of Broken Neopoints

Coconut Stand

Fading Bottled Earth Faerie

Lutari Feathered Chair

Rainbow Lutari Cone

Sparkling Bog Water

Tribal Makeup Set

Water Faerie Hair Clip

Island Gossip

Essentially a New Features page for the Island.

Survival Academy

Similar to the Mystery Island Training School and the Secret Ninja Training School, the Survival Academy was a place where you could enroll your pets for training courses. The Academy used the Lutari Feathers available from various Island features as the currency to pay for the courses.

Briana's Quests

Briana was the air faerie of the Island, who would give out Faerie Quests, much like her kin in Faerieland. In addition to awarding pet stats, Briana's quests also had the chance of granting the following items as rewards:

Fading Bottled Air Faerie

Lutari Battle Strategies

Lutari Kacheek Plushie

Flourescent Pools

Like the Healing Springs, pets could visit the Flourescent Pools to be healed once every 5 minutes. Unlike the regular Healing Springs in Faerieland, the Pools didn't have a shop or give out potions.

Island Market

The market on Lutari Island sold a selection of Island-exclusive and non-exclusive items, where users were able to purchase a maximum of 3 items per hour. The complete stock of the Island Market was as follows:

Blue Sandcastle Kit

Fading Bottled Water Faerie

Lutari Battle Strategies

Lutari Battle Sword

Lutari Battle Torch

Lutari Cocojuice

Lutari Feathered Chair

Lutari Feathered Dresser

Lutari Grundo Plushie

Lutari Tonu Plushie

Lutari Uni Stamp

Rainbow Lutari Cone

NOTE - If you don't like what's selling at the market, switch pets! This changes the inventory so you can buy what you want!

Games

Go Go Lutari!

If you've played Turmac Roll, this will be remeniscent of it.

Controls - Left/Right or 4/6, Speed up/slow down
Jump - Up or 2, Jump, double jump
Strategy - Basically, just get from one area to the next. After you quit or get a game over, your score is converted to NP.

Blockstravaganza

A Teris-based game, the goal here was to get groups of three vertical blocks.

Controls - Up, Down, Left and Right (2, 8, 7 and 6) - Move selector
OK or 5, Swap selected blocks

Difficulty level changes how many colors you have at start.

Lutari Talisman

The Lutari Talisman holds the Lutari Beads that you earn. Users would receive one bead for signing up for the Neopets Mobile service, as well as beads for referrals, and they could also be earned from random events. Different colours of beads have different effects once you add them to your Talisman. Once you add a bead to your Talisman, they cannot be removed, so be sure before you add it. Though they are still avtive and can occasionally be found around Neopia in user shops, trades, and auctions, they are becoming more rare, and therefore expensive, since the mobile service was discontinued. The more of a certain colour bead you have, the more of a reward you get. The available beads and their effects are as follows:

Colour	Beads	Effect
Blue	Blue Matu Bead Blue Oranu Bead Blue Ranaka Bead Blue Tongi Bead Blue Urapa Bead	Unknown
Green	Green Matu Bead Green Oranu Bead Green Ranaka Bead Green Tongi Bead Green Urapa Bead	Randomly get bonus NP from games. 1 Bead: 10% NP Bonus 2 Beads: 25% NP Bonus 3 Beads: 50% NP Bonus 4 Beads: 75% NP Bonus 5 Beads: 100% NP Bonus
Red	Red Matu Bead Red Oranu Bead Red Ranaka Bead Red Tongi Bead Red Urapa Bead	When haggling in Neopian Shops, shopkeepers will accept discounted offers. 1 Bead: 2% Discount 2 Beads: 4% Discount 3 Beads: 6% Discount 4 Beads: 8% Discount 5 Beads: 10% Discount
Yellow	Yellow Matu Bead Yellow Oranu Bead Yellow Ranaka Bead Yellow Tongi Bead Yellow Urapa Bead	Unknown

It was never discovered the precise effect of the Blue and Yellow beads. Theories ranged that they increased the frequency of Random Events, Faerie Quests, and chances of getting random avatars from games or site features.