These backgrounds are displayed by default on every lion that does not have a background currently equipped to them. They switch simultaneously between themselves, based on the day and night cycles on Lioden.

Default (Day) Default (Night)

These backgrounds can be crafted via the Monkey Business's Decor Crafting page or within their respective event crafting areas.

Event-Specific  

You can craft these during their respective events. See the Event-Specific Recipes section of the Crafting page for more information!

Amethyst Cave Ammonite Cave Excavation Site Garnet Cave Polished Moss Agate Rhodonite Cave Rough Opal Cave

Year-Round  

You can craft these by heading to the Decor Crafting area of Monkey Business!

Amboseli Brumous Cold Morning Busy Waterhole Feast in the Shade Hitchhiker's Road Hyena Kingdom Lonely Wanderer Moonlight Sonata Necropolis Overthrown Temple of the Slithering God The Baobab Tree Tropical Cascade Under the Tree

These backgrounds can be won from minigames on the site!

Cups  

When you pick the correct cup, there is a small chance that you can earn one of these backgrounds released exclusively through Cups!

Elephant Graveyard Savannah Ridge Savannah Ridge at Night Shade of Trees Thicket Gorge

Lioden Trivia  

When answering trivia questions correctly, there is a small chance that you can earn one of these backgrounds released exclusively through Lioden Trivia!

Egyptian Pyramids Nubian Pyramids

Reptile Roundup  

For earning a score of 100 points or more, you unlock the chance to receive any one of these backgrounds released exclusively through their respective levels in Reptile Rondup!
Note that a score of 100 points or more does not mean you will absolutely receive a background prize.

Arabian Desert Burrows Congo Rainforest Eritrean Highlands Flowering Fields Mabira Forest Molten Chasm Namaqualand Night Embers Purple Lovegrass Rocky Wetland Southern Wetlands Swartberg Mountains Termite Lands The Veld Vast Savanna

Serengeti Shuffle  

For earning a score of 4444 points or more, you unlock the chance to receive any one of these backgrounds released exclusively through Serengeti Shuffle!
Note that a score of 4444 or more does not mean you will absolutely receive a background prize.

Analamera Andohahela Betsiboka River Crashing Wave Elephant Ear Lake Ile Sante Marie Beach Kopje Madagascar Shore Mangoky River Otter Beach

Whack a Snake  

For earning a score of 1000 points or more, you can receive any one of these backgrounds released exclusively through Whack a Snake!

Static  

Budongo Forest Congo Basin Tropical Night Life Tropical Undergrowth

Dynamic  

The Jungle Dry Season Wet Season

Mozambique Mountains Dry Season Wet Season

These backgrounds are originally obtained by either winning the weekly raffle lioness or purchasing the background from a player that managed to win her! Older, retired raffle backgrounds can be purchased via the Gorilla Enclave shop.
These backgrounds are marked with a "[Raffle]" at the beginning of their item names.

Cave Waterfall Coast Coffee Bay Dindefelo Falls Hottentots Mountains Knysna Lagoon Kyambura Gorge Lake Malawi Lake Nakuru Lush Oasis Mayombe Forest Moroccan Dunes Mount Kilimanjaro Night Vegetation Rainforest Rwenzori Simien Mountains Sunset Over Entabeni Sunset Over The Serengeti The Drakensberg The Serengeti Wild Forest Wilge River Woodlands of Zanzibar

You can purchase the following backgrounds from official site shops!

Event Shops  

These backgrounds can be purchased via their respective event's monthly shops.

Static  

A Walk on the Beach Abaddon Skies Acacia Forest /> Acacia Forest at Night /> Acacus Mountains Altar of Ra Amazon Fire Ancient Trail Animal Graveyard Daytime Animal Graveyard Nighttime Apocalyptic Sandstorm Arena Gorge Ashlands Aurora Australis Badlands Bleeding World Wildlife Bloody Pit Boneyard Buried Guardian Buried Sekhmet Buried Temple Ruins Burned Evidence Burning Poacher Camp Burning Sahel Cannibal Den Cape Floral Kingdom Champion's Wall Championship Arena Championships at Night Charming Night Charred Lands Chimanimani Mountains Cloud Forest Crowded Backstage Crumbling Temple Cthulhu Depths Dead Forest Deadlands Demonic Depths Devoured Crops Draconids Dreamwalker Realm Drying Water Earth-Grazer Endless Heatwave Equine Fields Eroding Gorge Falling Stars Ferocious Fight Flawless Victory Flipped Iceberg Floating Hearts Flowering Fynbos Flowering Pond Flowering Vines Fluffball Burrows Forest Swarm Frozen in Fight Frozen Smilus Frozen Waterfall Fugitive Beasts Glacier Cave Gonarezhou Gorge of the Champions Great Hunger Great Zimbabwe Ruins Halloween Heaven Helicopter Ruins Hell Herb Grove Hungry Crocodile Waters Ice Cave Icy Glacier Infernal Lands Kingfisher Grove Kulig KwaZulu-Natal Laharu's Den Lair of the Lich Lair of the Manticore Leonids Loneliness Lost in Visions Lover's Cave Lukanga Swamp Magic Hour Majestic Snuhlion Mammoth Cave Mana Pools Mosh Pit Muddy Dry Wasteland Natural Beehive Nightmares Nyanga Mountains Palace of the Pharaohs Perseid Storm Persian Onager Herd Pillaged Camp Pit of Defeat Plains of Perdition Prehistoric Boneyard Primordial Spring Red Lake Natron Reflection Pool Resting Leopard River of Blood Roaring Giant Romantic Beach Romantic Waterfall Roots of the Warriors Salt Lake Natron Scavenger Cave Scratched Rocks Seraphim Watcher Siberia Fire Skeletal Cave Smoke on the Water Snowy Den Snowy Mountain Top South African Meadows Spider Lair Steel Graveyard Sudan Drought Sunrise Over The Championships Swarming Tornadoes Swarms Swirling Dust Taurids Tefnut's Memory Temple of Anubis Temple of Bast Temple of Edfu Temple of Seth The Cannibals The Chase The Fence The Last of Giants The Passage The Solitude Training Arena Tribal Pyres Trophy Cave Trophy Lair Unholy Ground Vanishing Giants Victoria Falls Victory Road Vision of Ancestors Vision of Titans Vulture Cliffs Vulture Roost Vulture's Den Wading Buffalo Washed Up Whale Wasteland Whale Bones Den White Desert Witches' Sabbath

Dynamic  

These backgrounds are very special. As mentioned above, they change through the day and night cycles on Lioden, and will have differing images for dry and wet seasons as well! All dynamic backgrounds are marked with a "[D]" at the beginning of their item names, to indicate that they are dynamic.

Forest Thicket Dry Season Wet Season

Namibian Meadows Dry Season Wet Season

Zambian Bush Dry Season Wet Season

Ngorongoro Dry Season Wet Season

Ol Doinyo Lengai Dry Season Wet Season

Flood Pit  

The Flood Pit appears at the top of the Crossroads page during wet seasons on Lioden. It contains some unique backgrounds that can only be purchased while it's wet and rainy!

Barotse Floodplains Botswana Floodplains Flash Flood Flood Aftermath Flooding Gorge Hedajia-Nguru Wetlands Microburst Flood Microburst Rains Mossy Den Niger River Okavango Delta Raging Storm Rain Shelter Rainy Swamp Rattling Bog Striking Lightning Sudd Marshes The Tornado

Gorilla Enclave  

The Gorilla Enclave can be accessed through the Crossroads page. It contains backgrounds that are unique to themed sets, as well as retired raffle backgrounds!

[GE - Andalusia] Hills of Andalusia [GE - Balkans] Balkan Mountains [GE - Himalaya] The Himalayas [GE - India - Deccan Forest] Deccan Forest [GE - India - Ganges Delta] Sundarbans [GE - India - Great Indian Desert] Thar Desert [GE - India - Sri Lanka] Sri Lanka [GE - Italy] Erupting Etna [GE - Middle East] Socotra Island [GE - Myanmar] Bagan Herb Grove at Night

Monkey Business  

This pesky mandrill's shop can be accessed through the Crossroads page. He has a variety of intricate backgrounds to equip to your lions.

Adrar Plateau Arch of Kamandjan Australian Fires - Blue Mountains Australian Fires - Kangaroo Island Blue Mountains Cactus Oasis Cave Den Chasing Rainbows Cloudy Sunrise Damp Cave Dark Cave Deadvlei Deriba Crater Desert Cave at Night Desert Twilight Dirt Road Dry River Bed Dusky Plains Ghana Wetlands Grasslands Grassy Den Grazing Wildebeest Great Karas Mountains Greek Islands Kilimanjaro Plains Lake Nyos Lake Retba Le Morne Brabant Lone Marula Tree Makgadikgadi Pans Mandara Mountains Marshland Misty Baobabs Misty Hills Morning Marshlands Mount Hombori Mutarazi Falls Nabiyotum Crater Night at the Beach Night Time Nightfall Nighttime Lightning Nothing Papyrus Banks Rock Formation Rocky Waterfall Sandy Dunes São Tomé Island Savannah Secluded Nest Secluded Waterfall Serene River Sunrise on the Rise Sunrise Over the Lake Tadrart Rouge The Cave Waterhole

Limited Time Backgrounds  

For more information on these unique limited backgrounds, visit our Monkey Business page!

Australian Fires - Blue Mountains Australian Fires - Kangaroo Island Biebrza Forest Fire Chernobyl Forest Fire Equinox Full Moon Mars: Perihelic Opposition Moon Walk Super Blue Blood Moon

Oasis  

You can access the Oasis at any time through the navigation bar on every page. The Oasis contains special backgrounds that change during day and night cycles, as well as through the seasons.

Standard  

Galaxy Green Savannah Heavenly Skies Nebula Pōwehi Tefnut's Nebula

Dynamic  

These backgrounds are very special. As mentioned above, they change through the day and night cycles on Lioden, and will have differing images for dry and wet seasons as well! All dynamic backgrounds are marked with a "[D]" at the beginning of their item names, to indicate that they are dynamic.

Arid Desert Dry Season Wet Season

Bushveld Dry Season Wet Season

Dry Savannah Dry Season Wet Season

Floodplains Dry Season Wet Season

Lion Lands Dry Season Wet Season

Marshlands Dry Season Wet Season

Riverine Forest Dry Season Wet Season

Rocky Hills Dry Season Wet Season

Sahel Dry Season Wet Season

Shrublands Dry Season Wet Season

Temperate Savannah Dry Season Wet Season

Tropical Forest Dry Season Wet Season

Waterhole Dry Season Wet Season

Limited Time Backgrounds  

For more information on these unique limited backgrounds, visit our Oasis page!

Solar Eclipse

There are still many more backgrounds that can be achieved through random means around the site.

Advent Calendar (December)  

These backgrounds are given out from the Advent Calendar in December during certain years!

Frozen River Heavy Clouds Snowy Forest Snowy Lesotho Snowy Morning

Black Friday (November)  

These backgrounds are awarded as purchase bonuses during Lioden's Black Friday to Cyber Monday sale each November!

Full Moon Majestic Black Panther Royal Sunrise Seychelles Zanzibar Beach

Explore Drops  

You can even encounter backgrounds while in Explore.

Environmental Encounter Drops  

These backgrounds can be found in Explore while experiencing some of the environmental encounters!

Clean Lake Cozy Waterhole Wild Waterhole

Event-Specific  

These backgrounds can only be found during certain monthly events in Explore!

Static  

Abandoned Cemetery Dark Forest Frozen Valley Golden Water Tiger Woods

Dynamic  

Great Fires Background Dry Season Wet Season

Karma-Specific  

If your king or queen has reached a certain karma threshold, they'll be able to find these backgrounds in Explore!

Bloodbath Carcass Hyena Lands

Mud Pit (December)  

These backgrounds can be dug up from the Mud Pit during the December event, when it's unlocked!

Boglands Fen Wetland Hot Mud Springs Murky Basin Okavango Swamp Rotting Rhino Wallowing Pit

Submale Patrolling  

When out on patrols, your submale can find backgrounds to bring home!

Rock Pinnacles Sunset Over The Desert

Event Storylines  

These backgrounds can be obtained during their respective events while participating in their storylines.

Broken Kingdom Burning Blight Conjuction Empyrean Future Hyena Clans Hyena Wastelands Pure Morning Setting Sun

Community Challenges  

These backgrounds could be obtained via participating in community challenges.

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