Eternal Magic

## Summary

There are many beautiful items found in the Dragon & Elfs game and many players like to use some of these as borders or decorative items in their home map. Unfortunately, many of these items are harvestable or mergeable so they could not be reliably used as these players had hoped. One of the players requested a function which would allow a specific item to have it's normal behaviours stopped by changing it into a decorative item only.

The Development Team went to work and delivered on this request by introducing **Collectibles** to the game.

The ***Collectibles*** function was added to Merge Dragons & Elf on February 20, 2023 and was later revised on November 22, 2023. This revision removed the collectibles function from the information bar and moved it into a new feature called the Queen's Magic Pool. The collectibles function is called **ETERNAL MAGIC** and is accessed by opening the Queen's Magic Pool feature found on the right side of the screen by tapping an icon that is an image of a galaxy on a blue background.

## How To Change an Item Into a Collectible

To turn an item into a collectible, open the Queen’s Magic Pool feature found on the right side of the HomeWorld and tap the center icon which is an image of a framed painting.  This will activate the Eternal Magic function.  Charging the Magic Pool Energy Bar to the maximum of 720 minutes (12 hours) will allow 24 items to be turned into a permanent collectible item.

Make sure the Queen's Magic Pool Energy Bar has at least a half hour available for each item that will be transformed into a collectible item. Then tap on the item you wish to change.  There will be an image if an action leaf above the information bar that says "Eternal Magic" with a small image of a framed painting on it.  When you tap the action leaf a "Tips" pop up will appear with a confirmation screen.  Tap Okay on the green button and the item will immediately be transformed into a collectible.

Collectibles have no other function and will not be affected by the Black Hole or the Wormhole.  When an item becomes a collectible, it reverts to its original size, so if you harvested an item which made it smaller, when it becomes a collectible, it will return to its original larger size.

Once an item has been transformed into a collectible item the display when selected will show the name of the original item, a notification that the item has become a Collectible and no longer has any function and an option to sell the item.

NOTE: When an item is changed from it's usual function into a collectible item it does not change any of the other items of the same level or description. It will only change the single selected item. Each item a player wishes to change into a permanent collectible item will need to be done individually. Performing this operation is permanent, the item cannot be returned to it's original functions.

## Images

* Image 1) Fresh Rose in it's normal state.
* Image 2) Fresh Rose ready to be transformed into a collectible item.
* Image 3) Fresh Rose transformed into a collectible item.

* Image 4) Queen's Magic Pool - Eternal Magic.
* Image 5) Queen's Magic Pool - Eternal Magic Tips.

* Image 6) Item Bar 1 - Collectible Description Layout
* Image 7) Item Bar 2 - Collectible Description Layout
* Image 8) Item Bar 3 - Collectible Description Layout

* Image 9) Item border in Original State
* Image 10) Item border in Collectible State