Frequently Asked Questions

Of course not, anyone is free to join and play! Our group offers many opportunities for users who are interested in our species to to get a JBD!

Jellybean Dragons are a closed species, meaning you cannot make your own without the ownership of a MYO slot. All users can pick up a free Adventurer's Bag at the Build-A-Bean Workshop — this item contains a free Starter MYO to get you started on your Jellybean Dragon adventures!

You can buy more MYOs at the Build-a-Bean Workshop or earn them during special events or prompts!

Yes, we require users to link their DA to participate in the species. This is so we can verify accounts that are within our species as legitimate individuals.

Editing your bean's profile allows you to do things such as name your JBD, give it a description, and even open them up for gift art/writing!
To do this, select your character Under the "Settings" tab select "Edit Profile" When finished, select the blue "Edit Profile" button to save your changes

Transfering or "gifting" a JBD can be done under your bean's "Settings" tab!
To do this, select your character Under the "Settings" tab select "Transfer" Type the name of the recipient and then provide a reason for the transfer.

This is NOT the area to do trades UNLESS you're doing a three-way trade OR a non-jbd trade!

Select your character Under the "Settings" tab select "Edit Profile" Click the "Up For Trade" toggle and hit "Edit Profile." This will notify anyone who has your character bookmarked that you are looking for offers on your JBD.

Go to the "Activities" tab  on the dropdown select "Trades" Click "New Trade" and you can start the trade. Once you submit it, the user you are trading with will be able to add their half of the trade and send it back for approval/rejection.

Please refer to the Deviantart Inventory Guide on how to get your old inventory (and JBDs) listed under your account if they aren't already!

Yes, as it can be part of a JBDs canon story that they used to be an actual dragon! All dragons were forcibly changed into JBDs around the same time hundreds of years ago, so most dragons that remember this (regardless of their physical appearance) are going to be very old.
You are free to design actual dragon forms for your JBD to reflect this but these on their own will not be able to be used in the prompts.

Of course!

There are technically a couple ways you can draw your JBD for our group, but we've broken them down into 3 categories!

• As a normal JBD (classic)
• As a human (otherwise known as human beans)
• As a mix of the two in some way
  • Appropriately dubbed "split peas," these forms range between an anthromorphic JBDs to humans with JBD ears and/or tail.

Check out our Bean Forms page for more information!

Users are not bound by the lore set by the species when they create their own personal stories for their characters and those "non-canonical" concepts are referred to as AUs! While these concepts can't be used for prompts (which should remain lore-friendly,) you're still free to share and talk about your AUs within the community!

A potential trait is a trait that can be added to a JBD later on should a user wish to apply it. This mainly just refers to custom horns as JBDs have the option of not growing horns.
Traits listed as (Potential) do not pass down during breeding as the trait doesn't exist on the JBD yet. 

We don't claim to own the concept of dragons with fur, so please do not worry! There are plenty of fluffy dragon characters that exist outside of our group and we in no way are looking to stop you from making your own original fluffy dragon character or species. We only ask that users avoid our specific likeness (using JBD specific anatomy/traits/lore, calling their character a JBD, etc.) to avoid confusion with our species!

We use potions points (pp) to limit how many traits GA beans or Staff MYOs can have applied to them without the use of potions! They don't have any functionality within the species aside from that!

This symbol means that that particular trait was added to the JBD using an item! Because potions can be removed at any time, it's good to have a visual representation of this usage on the masterlist.

When we were first uploading beans to this site we were copying information from the old masterlist before we restructured how we tracked everything, so some JBDs have traits listed like "(Medium Trait Potion (2PP)." We are still working on adjusting everyone's traits!

Traits that aren't applied via potion or were given to a MYO upon it's creation can only be removed by giving the bean a new item (like changing custom ears into standard ones with a small trait potion.) For things like mutations or a custom pupil, removal dust would be needed instead.

DM a staff member letting us know what you'd like to purchase – getting in contact with one of us is most easily done over Discord or on DA. We will send you an invoice when we have the information we need and once paid we will provide you with your MYO item.
This is only temporary while we add more extensions to the website!

If someone owned the original design and you owned the redesign, would the redesign be considered too similar to stand on its own? Would it be treated as character theft?
If yes, the design is likely to pass for a redesign!

As long as you own the design, yes, you can! If it's a closed species be sure to check and see if this is alright before doing so and be sure to properly credit the artist wherever applicable.
(Remember that the og design and the jbd will always belong to the same user!)

No, we do not allow personal fursonas to be brought into the species. Sorry!

Yes! If there ever comes a time when you wish to leave Jellybean Dragons and use your characters how you please, you are able to retire them from the species. Their Masterlist entry will remain on the site that only staff can access or see, but they are considered removed from the species in all other aspects. JBDs can be unretired at any time without having to buy a new slot to bring them back. Please read our TOS for more information.

PLEASE NOTE: Retiring a JBD does not change their resale/trade/voucher allowances. All designs that came from JBDs must still follow those rules, even when removed from the species. Users must be transparent about this, and the design's origins, to any future owners that are given the design. Failure to do so will result in a blacklist for scamming.

Simply submit all the characters involved in the mateship to Mateship Records and give them all x1 wedding ring. We look back on the prompt submission to confirm which beans are involved in the mateship, so only giving the new bean a ring doesn't work!

They can! JBDs reproduce through some type of love magic, so it doesn't matter what gender, sex, or sexuality your JBD is! The only limit is that only two beans can breed at one time.

We use the design lineage function only to track where NBs/NBMYOs designs' come from and not as a family tree for users' character relationships. Users do not have to consider anyone within the lineage as their JBDs canon relatives/family and of COURSE can have canon family not listed on their lineage. (Keep in mind that even if characters aren't related in your canon, we still consider design lineages as a family in their own right and breeding them together is prohibited.)

You are free to develop your bean as any kind of character you want and you're not required to have them actually be related to any of the offspring their designs make. While we use the design lineage to prevent inbreeding (as in, your JBD cannot breed with any character within its design lineage,) that is the extent that breeding has to effect your JBD. 

Users also have the option remove their owned parent JBD from any of its NBs/NMYOs’ design lineages if they no longer wish for a NB/NMYO to be associated with their character’s design. Check out our TOS for more information!

If you are found abusing this freedom to create illegal relationships on purpose, you will be removed from the species and nursery bean designs may be completely deleted depending on the circumstances.

That symbol indicates that any user made works submitted to those galleries will award tokens! The amount of tokens depends on the type of work submitted, which can be found in the description of each gallery.

If you would like to, you may! Choose one person to submit it and credit the other user as a participent split the tokens amongst yourselves, but we won't accept collab work by both people or submitted as two users!

Prompts must be completed by each user individually unless specifically stated otherwise!

Yes! Drawing your beans as anthros, humans, kemonomimi, etc. are all valid ways to depict your character for the group (including our gallery!) All we ask that the more humanoid forms still resemble their JBD form in some way, since that is the "true" form of your bean!

There is no way to actually delete any work you upload to the website, but you can hide it from public view using the "archive" function in the upper right of your upload. (Don't worry, you can unarchive it at any point!) You could also upload something to replace the artwork itself if you wish to hide it that way!

If we spot a mistake we will reject/cancel it and send it back to you to fix, no worries! If we accept the mistake, you are free to submit a follow up explaining your issue through a claim. We'll be more than happy to fix it then! (Since there is no way to edit these things after submitting them, it's important that you double check everything before sending it off for approval!)

We do have a blacklist, but we don't provide this information to the public. If you're concerned about something, please send us a message and we can help you out!