Hi everyone,
Our Halloween update is officially live! This patch introduces Season 2 of the Season Pass, a brand-new cooperative mystery underground, fresh machinery, and some of the most impactful performance optimizations we have implemented to date.
🎃 Season Pass: Season 2 (Halloween)
The Leaderboard Island is fully decorated for Halloween! Season 2 runs from today until November 30, 2026.
* Auto-Claim: If you forgot to claim rewards from Season 1, your unlocked items will be automatically delivered to your inventory upon your first login, and your pass will reset to Tier 1 for Season 2.
* New Rewards: Progress through the pass to unlock the Ghost Drill (5,000/s), the Kettle Refinery (22.5M Storage), and the Witch Egg.
* Witch Pet Synergy: Hatching the Witch Egg (2h base timer) grants the Witch Pet, which provides massive production and storage multipliers specifically to the Ghost Drill and Kettle Refinery.
* Premium Discount: Players who owned the Season 1 Premium Pass will receive a loyalty discount, bringing the price down by 46% (350 V-Bucks).
🔍 Various Updates & Mysteries
* Deep Mines Mystery: A new cooperative mystery is hidden deep within the mines. Strange pressure plates have appeared, and you will need to coordinate with your entire lobby to uncover what they unlock.
* Shuttle Station: We have overhauled the Shuttle Station UI and mechanics. You can now launch a 90-minute mission (Costs 400,000 Energy or 700 V-Bucks; skip for 250 V-Bucks). This mission performs 90 reward pulls with a 1.6x multiplier applied to Cash and Gas.
* New Machinery: The Drake Drill and Castle Panel have been vaulted (previous owners will keep them). You can now purchase the Pirate Ship Drill (600/s) and the Pirate Solar Panel (150 Energy/s, 10k Storage).
✨ Quality of Life, UI & Visuals
* UI Bindings: We added new input bindings across all user interfaces, making menu navigation vastly smoother for both controller and keyboard players.
* Skydome Homogenization: Unified and softened the cartoon skies across all daily events to create a more consistent visual experience, alongside a brand-new Halloween sky featuring a pumpkin moon.
* Inventory Sorting: Your inventory is now locked in a highly requested order: Drills (Highest to Lowest output) > Refineries > Everything else.
* Background Quest Tracking: All 10 of your Daily Quests now track progress immediately in the background, rather than only tracking the 3 currently visible on your UI.
* Unified Placement System: We rebuilt the placement system so that every placeable object (eggs, decos, panels) utilizes the same clean preview silhouette.
🛠️ Performance & Optimizations
We spent a lot of time under the hood this week to ensure the game runs smoother than ever:
* Base Presets: Fixed a critical issue where swapping your base preset caused the entire server to freeze for 2 seconds.
* Deep Mines Lag: Resolved a bug that caused the server's TPS to drop significantly when a player exited the mines carrying Booster Chips.
* Level Up Machine: Heavily optimized the backend math for the Level Up machine. Readying up with sacrifices now processes in 18 milliseconds (down from 1.6 seconds).
* Save Optimization: Cleaned up background subscriptions and reduced save-file write frequencies to eliminate micro-stutters.
Jump in-game today to check out the new skies, start your Season 2 grind, and solve the Deep Mines puzzle!
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