The Albino Cub Challenge is a community challenge that was inspired by all of the albino and winter-themed animals, decors, and encounters that can be found during the December event on Lioden.

There are two parts to this challenge: the Community Goal, and the Personal Goal.

The Community Goal requires a total of 2000 Albino cubs to be born between the start of the challenge and December 31st. The faster the total is met, the longer everyone gets to enjoy their rewards!

The Personal Goal requires a total of 3 Albino cubs to be born on your own account between the start of the challenge and December 31st.

At the start of the challenge, a persistent quest counter will appear on your sidebar panel.

Clicking The Gorillas' Quest → text will take you to the Gorilla Enclave, where you can see all data pertaining to the challenge at the top of the page!

By breeding cubs with the Albino base! Note that only cubs born with the Albino base count towards this. Cubs born with the Achromia mutation do not count unless they happen to be Albino-based; even then, they only count towards the goal due to their base, not their mutation.

You must breed these cubs. You cannot buy preexisting Albino-based cubs and have them count towards either goal. You cannot change a preexisting lion's base and have it count towards either goal, as well.

Any cub bred with the Albino base after the challenge began will count towards the goal, even if they were conceived before the update was released!

Albino is a unique base in that it has a random, low chance of appearing in any breeding pair. This means that you could breed together two lions with Red genetics and end up with an Albino cub. You can rely on RNG and luck to produce Albino cubs…

…Or you can go the easy route and try to breed lions together that have genetics similar to Albino's base!

Albino is a Black Light Solid Common base, meaning that any pairing of Dark x Light, Medium x Medium, Light x Medium, and Light x Light bases (so long as at least one parent has a Black colour group base if you are not relying on the random appearance factor) can result in an Albino-based cub being born.

Your best chances of producing Albino offspring are to breed to an Albino-based lion—even better if you can breed two Albino-based lions together!

2019 Rewards  

The rewards for reaching the Community Goal is that everyone has a 1% chance to breed a Snowflake-based cub from a pairing of Albino x any parent for the rest of December! An additional benefit is that the Gorilla Enclave will ask for more Albino-based cubs for their requests.

The rewards for reaching the Personal Goal are a little more, well, personalised. Reaching this goal unlocks the Special Snowflake title, the Albino Cub Challenge achievement, and a background that is based on your king's karma at the time that you redeem your personal rewards!

The possible background rewards are Challenge: Winter [Cub Cave] for Evil karma, Challenge: Winter [Pelt Cave] for Neutral karma, and Challenge: Winter [Fur Cave] for Good karma.

Challenge: Winter [Cub Cave] Challenge: Winter [Pelt Cave] Challenge: Winter [Fur Cave]

2020 Rewards  

The rewards for completing the Albino Cub Challenge in 2020 are the same as the rewards listed above, with two fun additions.

New 2020 Community Reward: Everyone has a 1% chance to breed a Hoarfrost-based cub from a pairing of Interstellar x any parent for the rest of December!
New 2020 Personal Reward: A new marking applicator - Hoarfrost Markings! The applicator is not tied to karma whatsoever.

Hoarfrost Markings

Hoarfrost Dust Hoarfrost Feline Hoarfrost Hyena Unders Hoarfrost Vitiligo

Evil Reward: -400 or lower karma
Neutral Reward: Between -399 and +399 karma
Good Reward: +400 or higher karma

A great way to tell if you're within the range of the karma threshold is to check your king's eyes in Explore. The karma thresholds for receiving a certain background are the same thresholds that determine how your king's eyes appear in Explore!

Good (400 or Higher) Neutral (+399 to -399) Evil (-400 or Lower)

No. The personal goal is a "one and done" deal, meaning you can only complete it once per account per year.

The challenge and any in-game rewards (barring the title, achievement, and background) end on December 31st 11:59pm LDT. This means that after December 31st 11:59pm LDT, Hoarfrost and Snowflake will go back to being combo bases that can only be bred from pairing specific factor bases together.

Want to know which bases must be combined in order to breed Hoarfrost and Snowflake? Check out the Combo Bases page!

If you reach the personal goal, you must collect your rewards prior to the challenge ending, otherwise you'll lose out on the title, achievement, and background.

Yes! The development update for December 2020 confirmed that the Albino Cub Challenge is going to be a recurring annual event, though its requirements and rewards may be adjusted through the years.

Not at all! Unfortunately, you cannot disable the quest counter on your sidebar panel, so you'll have to tolerate seeing that grumpy Gorella De Vil until the challenge ends.

Yes! The community reward is unlocked for everyone that accesses Lioden from the time that it is unlocked to the time that the challenge ends.

Nope! Once the cubs are born, you can safely abandon, chase, freeze, kill, nature reserve, raffle, trade, or transfer them as you please. Your personal counter and the community counter will not be affected.