Sign In

### Topic

#### Butlers

Those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of butlers will be glad to know that our training program has reached the point where we think the butlers can be trusted to reliably perform simple tasks.
Butlers can hold packages and messages for you, and give information to your visitors. You can give your butler a name, and customize its appearance.
If you see any problems, please let us know and we will send the offending butler to remedial training.
Updates:
Forgot to say: Your butler can also open your mailbox.
And, for people who find their butler is stuck on their porch or door, switch your house style to the Hobbit house or Groddle Cottage, then switch it back.
Further update:
Messages are now echoed in local chat, so you can read them later! (Note: in general, butler conversations that get echoed to local chat are only visible to the person the butler is talking to.)
Tuesday!
When you leave info, the butler now shows you what your info currently is and asks if you want to change it.
Wednesday:
For those people who don't like their butler standing next to the door, we now have a way for you to tell the butler where to stand. Simply click on your butler and choose "Set post" to change the butler's assigned post to your current position.
Also, we increased the maximum length of butler names by a few characters, and butlers will now leave their IM windows open after you leave the location so you can continue reading your list of visitors.

Posted 6 months ago by Etna | Permalink

### Replies

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next

- Could it be possible that the butlers automatically say in the local chat what would be said under Tell Me About, when someone enters the street?
  Posted 6 months ago by Popcorn☺ | Permalink
- My butler is confused... when I tell him to jump he dances (and says " I am dancing. Just say 'dance' or 'd' and I will show you my moves.") but when I ask him to dance he says "Not right now". Silly butler.
  ... left and re-entered my home street, he seems to have figured it out now.
  Posted 6 months ago by Zurin | Permalink
- Ahh...Good deal!
  TY, Thursday Soleil!! Much appreciated!
  Posted 6 months ago by sgjo | Permalink
- What a wonderfully creative way to give us a mailbox on our street, plus more!! Thank-you!
  Posted 6 months ago by Oristia | Permalink
- You come here
  Outie Oh, sorry. I have to go do something else right now.
  You come here
  Outie Oh, sorry. I have to go do something else right now.
  You step back
  Outie Sorry, I can't step back right now.
  ---------------
  My butler has issues.
  (He was stuck on my front porch, finally moved away from it and would work again)
  Posted 6 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously | Permalink
- On name length: when you talk to somebody else's butler it adds the owner's name to the butler's to be more clear. But, if the butler's name is too long, things look bad in the client.
  On vocabulary: we are going to be gradually increasing the butlers' vocabulary over time.
  Pascale - you can click on the butler and look at the tooltips on the verbs to see if there are messages/packages waiting. If he told you, then either you wouldn't see it or it'd get annoying.
  Joe Blow - with "step back", the butler walks backwards. With "go away", he walks forward. We may add options for having him stand somewhere else - we are still tweaking things!
  And Pot, the butler can remember 10 messages.
  Posted 6 months ago by Etna | Permalink
- My butler is better than your butler!
  But he (she?) keeps feigning ignorance when I tell him (her?) to go and milk the damn butterflies already.
  Also, I wish I could hug my butler.
  Posted 6 months ago by emdot | Permalink
- Okay. I was first excited about my new-to-me butler, but now I'm a little worried. It seems the butler and the Magic Rock have become good companions and I strongly believe that, together, they are devising a plan that's results with my demise. Their talks become whispers when I am near. I can read their eyes. I'm afraid.
  Posted 6 months ago by Blahtopian | Permalink
- Wow. Just...well, WOW! Love the B0tler...a friend came by for Happy B0tler Day, and watched me open him...he is awesome, but, like emdot, I wish I could hug him!
  Posted 6 months ago by Dahlia DreadNaught | Permalink
- i, too, wish there was a way to make them...
  1. less creepy looking
  2. more symmetrical
  3. have longer names. i kind of feel like...if we are on that person's street we don't need to be reminded whose butler we are talking to.
  and i agree with CTP's earlier comment about the accessories being a little fluzzy looking.
  all that being said..i DO love their functionality...i love getting messages and packages right outside my home. very convenient and fun!
  xo
  Posted 6 months ago by Beans, Obviously | Permalink
- b0tler. ha ha ha. :)
  Posted 6 months ago by emdot | Permalink
- My Buttler brought me onion rings.
  But they were cold. This is a problem.
  Posted 6 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- It was so ugly when it came out of the box that it scared the shit out of me! I made it cuter though. :P
  Posted 6 months ago by Serra | Permalink
- I was out and about a couple of times and came back and my butler told me that I had had visitors and who they were.
  A bit ago, my character was in sleep mode and two friends came by to harvest my trees. When I woke up I checked and one of my friends had left a message for me. Then I checked the visitors log and it said No visitors but I knew someone had been there or I wouldn't have had the message left. Then one of the friends came by again and my butler told me that I had had a visitor. So my butler is not consistently giving me a log of my visitors.
  Is this something that is a known bug and is being worked on?
  Posted 6 months ago by PittyPat is sad | Permalink
- Let me suggest a visual cue when there are messages or packages waiting with the botler. Like maybe a halo. Or a red carnation (flower) on the chest (lapel). Or some other indication that would tell us at a glance that information was waiting, without having to interact.
  Posted 6 months ago by Pascale | Permalink
- What constitutes a visitor? Because someone visited while I was out and left a package, yet my butler reported no visitors.
  Also, I agree with Pascale - If I enter the street and walk up to the butler, he/she/it should address me unprompted that there were visitors, or that there are packages, or messages.
  Posted 6 months ago by WalruZ | Permalink
- Are visitors the same as stalkers?
  My friend wanted me to ask this.....
  Posted 6 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- We're looking into the issue with visitors not being reported correctly.
  Posted 6 months ago by Etna | Permalink
- mine name is Zombie and it says "Braaaaiiiiinnnnsss" :D lol just like me!
  Posted 6 months ago by crazy zombie | Permalink
- The butler looks cool, not had much time to play with him yet. I would like to be able to move him a bit to one side though, right now in my Midnight Glow street he is standing right in the light making it kinda hard to see him properly.
  Posted 6 months ago by Teena | Permalink
- Eep! Adorable!
  Posted 6 months ago by Folderol | Permalink
- I opened my box and no butler. I have the worst time with connections this time every night *sadface* Reloading like a mad thing now!
  Posted 6 months ago by Mistress*of*Fishies | Permalink
- So, not to be a curmudgeon or anything, but what if we don't want a butler? Is there any way to get rid of it? Or decline the package?
  Posted 6 months ago by Joscor So | Permalink
- I want a buttler stick so it stays away from my door, because I dont want you staffers looking in my windows. I know you spy on me that way.
  Also, Buttler Box Cubimal. Just because the Moose cubi will be lonely, and Mooses love things in boxes. Yes really.
  Posted 6 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- This is really cool. Thanks bunches!
  Posted 6 months ago by Axa | Permalink
- My butler can DANCE but I can't? What sort of sorcery is this? I want to *dance* NOW! Seriously, I want the dance option. Please, we have high 5's which are okay, but dancing is a necessity.
  Posted 6 months ago by rorschach | Permalink
- I really like the butler, but I don't really like that they were just given to us. Why not let us make them, I mean we can make fabric, string, fiber, and crystal to power it. It just seems like it we would have been more fun if we actually had to work for it and create it ourselves.
  Posted 6 months ago by Muncey Mango | Permalink
- This is Awesome! Thank you,Tiny Speck! :=)
  Posted 6 months ago by Princess Of Pink | Permalink
- My butler is very shy and she likes to hide behind my gnome. www.glitch.com/snaps/PUVJRK...
  Posted 6 months ago by KatGamer | Permalink
- I have named my butler Aladdin Sane. We are getting along swimmingly, though some other glitchen are concerned.... www.glitch.com/snaps/PUVTC6...
  Posted 6 months ago by Aglet | Permalink
- Oh wow what a fun day -- first butlers then new cubis! Thanks so much, TS.
  Posted 6 months ago by Vocable | Permalink
- QUESTION -- I'm sorry if this has been previously asked but I am wondering about the leaving info part with the butler. Does he only remember one thing? And how do I view what I have him saying?
  Posted 6 months ago by Eye Wonder | Permalink
- Thank you, TS!!! Kelp is very helpful and so darn cute! Love the animations! Have always loved the handmade monster ragdolls and REALLY love having one that I can interact with! ( ... and not just in my imagination 0..o ) Fab work!
  Posted 6 months ago by Seaweed | Permalink
- How do I get rid of this thing? Despise it!
  Posted 6 months ago by Gelderlin | Permalink
- @ Gelderin, why would you want to get rid of your mailbox?
  Posted 6 months ago by Mal'akh | Permalink
- +1000
  My butler and I are getting along splendidly so far. Her name is KaBastet, "Soul of Bastet", who was the patron goddess of the home in ancient Egypt. Dance is fun, and Zombie is hysterical (though it made me a little worried the first time). She's welcoming visitors, though I don't usually get that many.
  http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PHV3F34BR562C0F/21161-f478cf61ac/
  http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PHV3F34BR562C0F/21159-9c5e5a0a97/
  I like the living toy motif. It took me a while to put together a good-looking set of options, not too cute, and not too creepy, but now she has a very nice matching style...for values of "match" approaching 15th century Germany (google Landsknecht). I was trying to get more symmetrical at first, but now I think I prefer this way, though giving people the option wouldn't hurt. Now I want patchwork asymmetrical outfits and accessories for me, so that I can dress butler style.
  I do wish that, if my butler is my answering machine, one of our options would be either "g" for greeting or "t" for Tell Me About, so we can remember what we recorded. It's been more than two minutes ago since I typed it ;)
  Posted 6 months ago by KhaKhonsu | Permalink
- Is there a definitive list of commands for it?
  Posted 6 months ago by Serra | Permalink
- WOW this thing is horribly ugly. I tried my best to tinker with it, but the best I can do seems to only make it either SUPER ADORBS KAWAII DESU~ or unspeakably creepy.
  So I made it all green to blend in with my forest. I love the base functionality, but I still don't like having that terrible little homunculus of nightmares stomping around my yard. Can we PLEASE get some more customization options at some point in the near future so I can stop wincing every time I have to cross paths with this thing?
  Posted 6 months ago by Aeralis | Permalink
- My butler is behaving himself and is adorable - thanks TS!
  Posted 6 months ago by Moz Art | Permalink
- I heard something about a rumor that the botlers will be able to do our gardening for us. Is that going to eventually happen? I'd be the happiest glitchen EVAR!
  Posted 6 months ago by Serra | Permalink
- I have to agree...love the functionality of the butler. Love that I can check my mail on my street and send mail now!! Love that I can safely leave gifts for my friends that won't get taken any more (though the size of package storage really does need to be increased). But would also appreciate more customization...right now it just seems to be ugly, creepy and creepier...would like some options that are more cute, more matching (for us OCDers) or blend with the surroundings better. Very sad that it can dance, but my avi can't. Also, would love to be able to leave anonymous gifts for people.
  Posted 6 months ago by b3achy | Permalink
- "Homunculus of nightmares" made me laugh.
  I refuse to open mine. I like the box. Is the thing.
  I made someone else's dance though, and go zombie, and I agree: Glitches need these verbs, too. I long for the day I can go zombie on someone. And then dance. On the dismembered ... ah, okay, I'm stopping now.
  Posted 6 months ago by Sirentist | Permalink
- Creepy. Scary. Not cute. Did I mention dolls and clowns freak me out?
  Posted 6 months ago by Zira | Permalink
- Now I can really see how not popular I am. lol "No visitors. No visitors. No visitors. No visitors. No visitors. No visitors. No visitors. ..." Ah well.
  Is it wrong that my first thought upon seeing the butler was "My wife could totally crochet one of these."?
  Posted 6 months ago by Fauxfire π | Permalink
- I wish my butler was larger.
  Posted 6 months ago by Gruff McGruff | Permalink
- Do these pants make my butler look big?
  Posted 6 months ago by Sirentist | Permalink
- Love the arm falling off! :) Could they also whistle, when they're just sort of hanging out on the street with no interaction? Maybe the tune of their favourite musicblock?
  Posted 6 months ago by Xacau Feera Blin | Permalink
- HEHE
  http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PHFQLOVSFFD2RUL/23333-f3d1282779/
  Posted 6 months ago by FTW BACON!! | Permalink
- @fauxfire: Not at all. I dated a girl who used to make "sock creatures" that looked exactly like the butlers. The arms, legs, head, and body tended to match though.
  Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce | Permalink
- Fauxfire--do a web search for 'stupid sock creatures' and check out the gallery!
  Also, the butler's movements remind me so much of Gir from Invader Zim. :)
  Posted 6 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips | Permalink

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next