Player Creations

**Player Creations** refer to any player made content in-game such as Message Candles, Message Boats, Shared Memories, or Shared Spaces. Each Player Creation requires at least three 'likes' from friends before the creation becomes visible to other players. Typically, players will need 50 'likes' to earn a Heart (the only exception are the Message Candles when they're created for the Daily Meditation Quests.) If players receive enough hearts on their creation, they will be rewarded with one Heart only, regardless of the number of 'likes'.

## Message Candles

**Message Shrines** (also known as **Message Candle Spots**) are fixed locations where players can leave a message for others to see. At first it will only be visible to friends, and if the note gets 3 likes it will become public. If it receives enough likes, the player will receive a Heart at the Home Shrine. The number of likes required to earn a Heart from Message Candles will change as needed to help balance the game and prevent exploitation. Currently this number is 50 likes.

Message Shrine locations may house the Meditation Shrines that complete one of the Daily Quests. At Daily Quest Shrines players will only need 10 likes in order to receive a heart. Meditation Shrines have appeared both during Seasons as well as off-Season. A message candle will stay for 48 hours at a regular shrine, or 24 hours if it is a Daily Quest meditation spot.

There are no Message Shrines in Home or Eye of Eden.

Heart reward at HomeMessage UI

## Message Boats

*"Send off a friendly message boat. (Replaces any already placed in the area)"*

The Message Boat Spell is used to leave messages on water in the shape of a paper boat. Once placed, they remain for a total of two days (48 hours) before disappearing. Just like messages left at Message Candle Spots, messages left using Message Boats can be opened, liked, hidden, and reported. This Spell was first introduced during the Days of Summer Lights event in 2020.

Players that gain 50 "likes" or more on a Message Boat will earn a Heart at the Friendship Constellation Statue at Aviary Village.

Regular Message Boats
In addition to Message Boats, Message Lanterns & Message Cranes were later added during Days of Fortune 2021 & Days of Love 2022 to match the theme of their respective events.

### Message Cranes

*"Send off a friendly message crane. (Replaces any already placed in the area)"*

Just like the Message Boat Spell, the Message Crane Spell is used to leave messages on water in the shape of a paper crane that can be opened, liked, hidden, and reported. Once placed, they remain for a total of two days (48 hours) before disappearing. Regular Message Boats were made to look like Cranes during Days of Love 2022, before the Message Crane Spell was introduced. This Spell is a 5  Blessing .

Players that gain 50 "likes" or more on a Message Crane will earn a Heart at the Friendship Constellation Statue at Aviary Village.

Message Cranes
### Message Lanterns

*"Send off a friendly message lantern. (Replaces any already placed in the area)"*

Just like the Message Boat Spell, and the Message Crane Spell, the Message Lantern Spell is used to leave messages on water in the shape of a water lantern that can be opened, liked, hidden, and reported. Once placed, they remain for a total of two days (48 hours) before disappearing. Regular Message Boats were made to look like Lanterns during Days of Fortune 2021, before the Message Lantern Spell was introduced. This Spell is a 5  Blessing .

Players that gain 50 "likes" or more on a Message Lantern will earn a Heart at the Friendship Constellation Statue at Aviary Village.

A Message Lantern
## Shared Memories

Shared Memories are a type of spell that will allow players to show a glimpse of their past for others to see. Activating the spell records an avatar’s movement for a brief period of time. Then, once the recording is finished, a special candle appears in the world representing this memory. Friends and other players who find it can tap on it to replay this visual message. Shared Memories were added as a part of Season of Performance in the 0.17.0 update. After the 0.20.5 update (February 23, 2023), the appearance of Shared Memory candles was updated to more closely resemble crystals to better match lore within Sky. The total number of visible Shared Memory spells placed by others in an area has also been reduced.

Shared Memory Spell Icon in InventoryShared Memory CrystalPlayer Viewing a Shared Memory
Like Message Candles and Message Boats, Shared Memory candles remain in an area for 6 days. Other players who view them can tap the heart icon when viewing a Shared Memory to “like” it, and after a certain number of “likes” the person who shared the original memory recording will receive a Heart. You will receive 1 Heart if one of your Shared Memory gets enough likes. However, you cannot receive more than 1 Heart in this way every 6 days.

Shared Memory candles remain in an area for 6 days.

A recording can be as simple as waving hello to leave a greeting for a friend who’s offline, or be an excerpt of a favorite tune played to encourage fellow travelers—or perhaps something else entirely different that you dream up. We hope that Shared Memories will be a way to capture new moments of delight and imagination!

Shared Memory candles can be acquired through the **Performance Guide** or the Spell Shop in the Forgotten Ark area of Golden Wasteland and the Sleepy Traveling boat.

Shared memories need to be placed on dry land and players should take care to not stand too close to things like Candle locations, meditation circles, or Spirits.

## Shared Spaces

Shared Spaces are a new feature introduced to the world of *Sky* on May, 31 2021 and are available to players who have completed the sixth Quest from Season of Assembly. It's a new way to play in private or public with friends using Props.

Select a lantern surrounding the crystal and travel to your own private oasis. Shared Spaces are not another place where you can teleport but a place that you get to customize to your liking with your Props, much like your home.

You can have up to 16 Props available at a time in your Shared Space, but the total can be much less depending on the "volume" of the Props as determined by how much the top bar fills up. Once a Prop is in use, it will stay where you left it as long as you don't move it or remove it. The items are sorted by how much "volume” they use in a Shared Space, listed from left to right.

All Props are multiplied by the number of Shared Spaces, meaning that even though you used a Prop in one Shared Space you have the ability to use the same in another Shared Space without removing it from the first one. You cannot place an item outside the Shared Space limit (sparkling blue walls).

### Shared Space Spells

Introduced in February 23, 2023 with the 0.20.5 update, Shared Space Spells are a type of spell that allow players to build a shared space almost anywhere in Sky. These shared spaces last for 96 hours (4 days) and similar to shared space shrines, the player will receive 1 Heart once their Shared Space spells gets 25 likes.

The icon of shared spells in inventory look like a hammer within a lantern, once placed down they look like a transparent version of the memory lanterns found across Vault of Knowledge.

Shared Space Spell Icon in InventoryShared Space Spell placed downShared Space Spell confirmation

These memory lanterns can be placed almost everywhere in Sky, other than:

* Home
* Near grandma at Hidden Forest
* Near the geyser at Sanctuary Islands
* Inside the Prophecy Trials
* Repository of Refuge
* In bounds of a Shared Space shrine
* Parts of Eye of Eden before Orbit

Players can buy Shared Space spells from the Sleepy Traveling Merchant's boat at home or the spell shop at Forgotten Ark. There are 4 spells available for free offered by the Remembrance Guide that can be obtained after completing the seasonal quests. During the Season of Remembrance, the Assembly Guide offered 1 free shared space spell as well.

## References

1. ↑ https://thatgamecompany.helpshift.com/hc/en/17-sky-children-of-the-light/faq/521-what-are-message-shrines-message-candles-message-boats-shared-spaces-candles-and-shared-memories/