This is now starting my 15th year of trying to improve Opensim with the DreamWorld and DreamGrid systems. I haven't done an OSCC talk for several years so I thought I'd give a quick review of some Opensim stats that I track. This data is based on anonymous data from the DNS servers ns1.outworldz.com and ns2.outworldz.com and the publicity checkbox, which generates XML for the https://outworldz.com/search function. I am also able to count some stats from known 'other' grids via a web crawler that runs hourly scans.

There are now 259 free OARs, and that includes 63 exclusive regions for DreamGrid owners. I licensed these from the creators, and collections are copyrightable. The most popular Public OARS are at https://outworldz.com/cgi/freesculpts.plx?q=OAR- and sorted by popularity are IARS at https://outworldz.com/cgi/freesculpts.plx?q=IAR- I have many more to upload still.

I do not have access to any of your assets, backups, OARS, IARS, or any personal data. My servers periodically crawl the web looking for Opensim servers from publicly available sources such as my visitor lists, the data I publish and from Hypergrid Business.

DreamGrid goes back to 2011, when it was called DreamWorld. I didn't always track much back then and periodically flushed the database. Since 2018 (6 years) , there have been 5,180 distinct DreamGrid instances. People created 12,280 different grids with it. and 3,378 were online in 2024. In that same time period of six years, I've located 2,935 standard grids. In 2024 alone, there were 2,762 unique DreamGrids online.

Sl has 18,326 private estates, which are equivalent to the 12,334 regions in Dreamgrid. However, we have much larger regions, the equivalent of 73,341 SL regions. An SL region costs $349 to set up, and $209 a month to rent (not own). The first year, one region costs $2,857, the second year $2508.

When you compare DreamGrid with the SL private estates, we've collectively saved $209,535,237 in the first year, and $183,939,228 per year after that.

~ Fred

“New year, new possibilities. May the new year bring you the best. Sending warm wishes for 2025.” Team Arkham Grid, Sharon, Felix and Amelie.
✨🎉 H̥̊ḁ̊p̥̊p̥̊ẙ̥ N̥̊e̥̊ẘ̥ Y̥̊e̥̊ḁ̊r̥̊ 🥂✨

**1 Year Anniversary of Starchild Shoppe: NEW LOCATION!**
1 year ago Starchild Shoppe opened its doors with a single furniture store. Since then it has expanded beyond what I could have imagined! I want to thank every single person who has crossed its door and has taken the time to thank the effort behind!
I have also heard your feedback, it is why I have consolidated all the stores into their own region with a central store (beauty) at ground, and then skyboxes reachable via the TP board. Super special thanks to Shan Naggins for making it happen! What was going to be just one new store, ended up being an entire mall set up with much more room for growth!
NEW LOCATION: hop://playground.darkheartsos.com:8002/Starchild%20Shoppe/...

**Dali Babe LEGACY Megapack out now!**
I know I've said I would focus on stuff for the guys but...I felt there was a gap on the basics for girls!
Out now the **Dalí Babe LEGACY **(Reborn & Lara coming soon) body skins megapack in 3 different body styles with ALL add-ons.
- Three body styles: Curvy Muse, Slim Muse, and Modelesque.
- Comes in 22 different tones.
- Each body style comes with 2 different cleavage add-ons each.
- They all include a ton of other add-ons for thigh creases, smaller butts, no-vag/no-nip, bombshell boob fix...and a long etc.!

UBER: hop://playground.darkheartsos.com:8002/Boutiques%20NE/104/...

*** NEW RELEASE JULY 23th 2024*** ANCIENT MOSSY OAK TREE - Seasonal textures with smooth animations on leaves. Available for FREE and FULLPERM at GARDEN AREA, BOX 05.
Textures and scripts available! Models available for each season and added a scripted version! yes, just one click and u change the tree for SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER and WINTER icy..
All models are 1 prim only and the seasonal script works for 1 or more trees (when connected and if within same region).
Enjoy :)

They are exhausted, but the fox hunt went well (or studying scripting pack behavior)
Arriving with an exhausted pack https://gyazo.com/0c620b98847038e78b505ee876569886

Sim crossing over 4 var regions with followers works extremely well IF you cross calmly and keep your objects close.

Bonjour,
Vous ne verrez plus çà, vous ne verrez plus jamais cela.
Le marché de Noël est mort, et ce n'est pas moi qui l'ai cassé !
Merci à tous ceux et toutes celles qui furent présents pendant ces 10 années, merci de votre soutient.
Maintenant c'est fini merci et au revoir.
N.B.: ce marché est l'oeuvre de Freddy Wright sur Francogrid vers 2010, et de personne d'autre.

Hello
This year you won't see that, you won't see that anymore.
The christmas market is dead.
I don't break it.
Thank you to all those who where there during ten years.
Thank you for your support.
Sorry Isn't my fault
Kisses

Hello friends, Inspired by Karin Becker and her Moonshiner family, I'm offering you my Moonshiner collection today to complete your Moonshiner Family. The Moonshiner equipment can be found at two vendors. The figures are NOT for sale, but are for decoration only! You can access the Moonshiner Depot via the TP located in the main store. With that in mind... Cheers and happy weekend ♥

Jiya Skin FATPACK OUT Now!
Wasn't really going to do this line of female skins, because the tones don't really match the body skins available at the store.
BUT, not many 'Desi' looking skins round! Please leverage neckblends from the body to blend a close tone to this.
- Comes in 13 different tones
- Includes Shape and Brows, as shown in CAMILA EvoX head
- Includes Ears for all tones

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/115/173/27

**Esther Set MEGAPACK OUT NOW!**
A big pack, more to follow! I have seen these around, but I thought I'd bring full fatpacks options with HUDs, materials and proper LOD:
- Top, bra, panties, and skirt - available for Lara +Petite, LaraX +PetiteX, Legacy +Perky, and Reborn +Waifu
- HUD with +40 choices for each item + hide/show belt and sheer/opaque for top
- Material layers included

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/98/135/26

**It's Pride Riot MFerz! And that means...time for rainbow-everything!**
Too much to mention individually but:
- A couple of clothing items (Dress, top, boots, and gloves)
- Tons of wearables (Hat, mugs, cake pops, flags, headbands, hats...gay bacon!)
- Tattoos (Flags, Pride cats, hairbases, makeup...).
Come get it all!
Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/129/79/24

🌞 Good morning and happy Tuesday!
The new Sweet Tooth Milkshakes have arrived: beautiful to look at, irresistible to taste! 😋

Perfect for your parties or to surprise friends with a super delicious drink.💥🍓🍫

hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopAnimation/192/219/2...

Hello everyone!


We just added:
- New Bodyskins Collection for Lara X in our Mall ( includes 24 Skins & 10 Addons )
- 2 new Face Skins for EvoX
- 2 new Outfits for LaraX
- new Pants for Gianni & Legacy
- new Boots & Heels

in our Mall.

hop://kishaki.de:8002/SilverFox%20Mall/59/105/42

Have a great Week and happy Shopping !
Amelia & Hertha

*Tempest Chair (Adult) OUT NOW!*
Out of the proverbial oven with +200 new steamy animations, this male/femdom focus chair:
- Contains new +200 animations spread among two sitters
- Both maledom and femdom animations
- HUD with 11 different styles, and all material included!

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/120/141/1501

🎉 OSgrid is now open to the public again! 🎉

We’re happy to announce the official reopening of OSgrid!
To ensure a smooth and stable experience for everyone, please take the following steps carefully:

🧹 Before doing anything:

Clear your viewer caches (both textures and inventory).

Reload your regions (OARs) first using the following command:

load oar test.oar --force-assets
(Replace test.oar with the name of your own OAR file)

For IARs (inventory backups), please wait a little longer before uploading. Let’s take it step by step.

🌀 At LBSA Plaza:
You’ll find a question mark “?” on the plaza. Clicking it will help you stop appearing as a cloud.
Don’t forget to wear the folder offered through it to restore your avatar appearance properly.

🔄 Simulator update required:
Make sure to update your sim to the latest code on the website:
👉 https://osgrid.org/download.php

🙏 Thank you all for your patience and support.
This slightly extended downtime has allowed us to come back stronger, offering a more professional and stable experience for the entire OSgrid community.

See you in-world soon!
— The OSgrid Team

OUT NOW!! Legacy f Perky Full Cyborg Avatar in different styles and with clothing. Another 13 styles can be requested, please just contact me and tell me the style number which you can find on a board in the store.

Hey everyone, hope you are doing fine. We just added new Skins and Outfits for you in our Mall! Grab them while they are hot :P

We also working on own custom Nail System for Mesh Bodys and bring soon new Stuff for Legacy Males.

Greetings
Amelia & Hertha

Erlebe die Magie des Weihnachtsmarkts ?✨

Willkommen in einer Welt voller Besinnlichkeit, Freude und Liebe!
Tauche ein in den Zauber der Weihnachtszeit: Der Duft von Zimt und gebrannten Mandeln liegt in der Luft, sanfte Lichter glitzern wie Sterne, und liebevoll dekorierte Stände laden zum Verweilen ein.

New: animesh hummingbird, as wearable and free roaming
Apologies to all who came to the shop in vain......I forgot to put the sellboxes in place^^...
Please come and pick your copy up now!

UPDATE; seems somehow the humz got broken for some people, deforming the avatar; I replaced the bird in the sellbox, if u have this issue, please return to pick up the new!

I am pleased to announce the opening of the Selea Core Store, located in the southeast corner of the Star Ravenhurst Designs region. This project, which I dedicated over two weeks to last November, aims to preserve the body of work created by Selea Core, who left Open Sim unexpectedly around 2016-17.

At that time, Victor DeAngelo, Ms. Kal, and I gathered all the available Selea Core products. Victor also sourced additional items, re-boxing and labeling them since many were originally stored in folders rather than their original packaging. These items were subsequently offered at his shop.

Years later, I observed that many of these boxes had migrated to different locations, and several had become corrupted, containing duplicates or broken items. Consequently, I undertook the task of meticulously cleaning, repairing, and reboxing them with new labels to distinguish my collection from others. Additionally, I included rare Elven items from my collection that are not widely distributed elsewhere.

While I strive for perfection, I acknowledge that some boxes may not be flawless. However, I assure you that the Selea Core boxes available at this shop are clean, up-to-date, and ready for you to take home.

Please note that Selea Core often used Rezzers for her houses and many of her scenes, typically designed for a single 1x1 SIM. You will need to adjust the script to match the size of your region for the rez box to function correctly. If you require assistance, please feel free to reach out.
Special thanks to Victor DeAngelo for helping to preserve the work, Jupiter Rowland for sharing his SC collection with me, and Ms. Kal for leaving my boxes in her sandbox all this time so I didn't lose the collection.

Ich wünsche Euch und Euren Familien ein schönes gesegnetes Weihnachtsfest 🎄🎅 und für 2024 ein Jahr voller Glück und Harmonie, zufriedenen, fröhlichen Stunden, wundervollen Momenten und vor allem Gesundheit

I wish you and your families a wonderful and blessed Christmas 🎄🎅 and for 2024 a year full of happiness and harmony, content, joyful hours, wonderful moments and, above all, good health

*** Camballa***
Here’s to us in the future
Take better care of us here.
A light for Opensim
Have a good time everyone
Best regards
your Karin Becker

Auf das wir in Zukunft
besser auf uns hier aufpassen.
Für Opensim ein licht
Habt alle eine gute zeit
liebe grüsse
eure Karin Becker

Many stores where you can buy NOTHING (after all, everything is free!) are waiting for you here. To make your stay as pleasant as possible, there are 4 frozen yogurt stores in the small town - number 5 will open eventually. Or not^^.
Furthermore, there are 2 clothing stores with fashion for men and women, although something has gone wrong with the textures here - but come and see for yourself!
Brand new addition is the hairdressing salon with no less than 3 hairstyles - I can already betray that they are really the latest craze ;)
* * *
Viele Geschäfte, in denen ihr NICHTS kaufen könnt (schließlich ist alles kostenlos!), warten hier auf euch. Um euren Aufenthalt so angenehm wie möglich zu gestalten, gibt es 4 Frozen-Yoghurt-Läden in der kleinen Stadt- Nummer 5 wird irgendwann eröffnen. Oder auch nicht^^.
Ferner gibt es noch 2 Kleidungsgeschäfte mit Mode für Damen und Herren, wobei hier irgendwas mit den Texturen durcheinander gekommen sein - aber kommt und seht selbst!
Ganz neu dazugekommen ist der Friseursalon mit sage und schreibe 3 Frisuren - ich kann schon verraten, dass die echt der letzte Schrei sind ;)

The benefits of a wearable animesh horse:
- can cross sims
- can teleport
- can rez a follower co-rider poseball
and has some additional features

Have a long stroll at Neiferleaf and its connected 4 3x3 Var regions.

****EEP SKIES HUD V2 UPDATED RELEASE **** You can now change your EEP sky (*) in your SIM with serveral nice seasonal day cycled options by a simple touch in a HUD! You just need add it to your avatar! Super easy! Nice for those who has zero skills on EEP settings or... just lazy!
Pretend you want play ur SIM as New York city RL so grab the correct HUD for it (and You will experience the same Sun position /angle, sunrise/sunset (approximated values) there! Like on RL. And many options of skies for clear day/nights, foggy, cloudy and rainy!

Available for FREE and FULL PERM at the newest BOX 08 or click teleporter and choose EEP as destination.

(*) Check to your grid manager if EEP sky is enabled;
(*) You must be SIM owner to make it work.
(*) Special thanks for Clifford (AMV Grid owner) who built this script and allowed me to share to Opensim community).
(*) Make sure ur Firestorm viewer is properly set to see EEP skies:
MENU > WORLD > ENVIRONMENT > "Used shared environment" must be selected.

I don't usually support mesh bodies that have got nothing to do with Ruth2 or Roth2. But I've come across an improvement trick for Athena 6 with BoM that nobody seems to know.

The major problem is that the skin on Athena 6's limbs may look weird under certain viewer settings, much like a lighting bug. Some skin areas look brighter or darker than they should.

A minor problem is that alpha masks don't work on Athena 6 although they technically should with BoM.

The reason is because Athena 6 has a chaotic hodge-podge of alpha settings all over it. Parts are set to alpha masking, more parts are set to alpha blending (it's them which may look weird to you or to others), most have alpha off (this is why alpha masks don't work on Athena 6 out of the box).

The solution:

Step 1: Edit your Athena 6 body. All of it, not just any piece. Select it in your inventory while wearing it.

Step 2: Go to the Texture tab.

Step 3: Set the alpha mode to alpha masking.

Now the different shades of skin colour are gone, but your hands and feet may turn partially white. Don't panic, this is supposed to happen and will be fixed in the next steps.

Step 4: Set the mask cutoff to 128. If it is already 128, set it to 127 and back to 128.

The white should disappear, and your body should look normal again. Or better than what you saw previously.

Step 5: Take the body off and put it back on to save the new settings.

Also, you can now wear alpha masks like you can on the system body which might save you from the hassles that come with the alpha cuts on the HUD, and which you can save with outfits. The only limitation is that the alpha masks still don't work on fingernails and toenails.

Should alpha masks stop wearing, just edit the body and set the mask cutoff to 127 and back to 128.

The same method should work on Adonis 4 if you want to use alpha masks with BoM.

Oh, and before anyone tries this on Ruth2 v4 or Roth2 v2: You don't have to, at least not with the "BoM" bodies and Ruth2 v4 "Business". They've got alpha mode controls on the HUD. The "0.8.2.1" versions, on the other hand, are de-scripted and have no HUD, so they require this trick, too, if alpha masks don't work.

So many beautiful places to explore on Alternate Metaverse Grid- Castles, Schools, Beaches, Malls, Clubs, Live Stages, Parks, Adult Couple Regions and incredible residents. A warm friendly Adult grid with open Waters and Air, Copy your own OAR from website, low cost land packages, Regional God powers, Self restarts from web. https://www.alternatemetaverse.com

NEWS!!! The Busy Bees (animesh)
Three playful little bees buzzing around your head!
They swirl, rise and fall, flutter their tiny wings, and wiggle their antennae and legs with endless energy.
A cheerful animesh swarm full of life and fun.
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Tierra De Volcanes/665/195/3916 (Tp -----> Clothes Women)

Discover the **NEW** Animesh Baby for OpenSim.
Interact, play, and care for your baby with just a touch! Our easy menu lets you make your baby crawl, walk, run, sit, sleep, or follow you. Attach your baby for even more connection—hug, carry, or walk together, enjoying synchronized animations and shared moments wherever you go. Enjoy playful sounds, clothing changes, and connect with furniture like cribs and high chairs. Endless fun and lifelike interactions—all in one adorable companion.

And because having a baby in OpenSim is not like buying a new hair, head, or body—it’s a unique role-play experience that adds real meaning, warmth, and imagination to your virtual world. That’s why we have a few special requisites and rules to ensure every member truly values the journey.

We believe every family moment matters, and our system is designed to make those moments truly special.

Pioneers Mom – Membership Requisites & Rules

Who Can Join:

Passionate about virtual babies and roleplay in OpenSim

Willing to actively test new baby features and provide honest feedback

Able to dedicate a little time each week for testing or feedback sessions

Friendly, supportive, and respectful to fellow members

Experience with animesh babies, accessories, or similar systems is required.

Group Rules:

Read the Manual:
Reading and learning the User Manual is a MUST for all members.

Active Participation:
Test new updates, report bugs, and suggest improvements.

Kindness & Respect:
Treat everyone with kindness and keep feedback constructive.

Community Support:
Help other moms in the group when possible.

Feedback Matters:
Participate in surveys or group discussions when called upon.

Fun Required!
Remember, this is a fun, creative journey—enjoy every moment!

How to Join

Join our Facebook Group:
Start by joining our official Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1445753662842848.

Request Access to the “Pioneers Mom” Chat:
In the Facebook group, request to join the exclusive “Pioneers Moms” chat.

Wait for Review:
Joining the chat does not guarantee a spot in the Pioneers Mom group. Each application is carefully reviewed—not all applications will be approved.

Complete Any Next Steps:
If selected, you may be contacted for a short introduction or to answer a few questions.

Enjoy the Adventure!
Once accepted, you’ll receive full access and instructions for your new journey as a Pioneers Mom.

I am devastated. I loved and respected Mal, and I will miss his friendship and spending time with him, as we all will. There is a Facebook group, Friends Of Mal https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofmal if you would like to join in honoring and remembering him. Rest in Peace, Dear Friend. Until we meet again.