2023.51.0

Welcome to the last (major) update of 2023. It's a long one! We'll be only doing one small patch near the end of the year, and spending the rest of the holidays resting. We hope you get some rest too!

Winter Content

• New mistletoe item, consumed on use
  • Using it on someone generates their pfp with a kissy on it. Mwuah
• Added new winter seasonal content to crime and search
• Added winter rewards to beg
• Winter adventure is once again live, with only minor additions of rewards
• Voting gives a christmas gift

Vote Rewards

• HEAVILY, and I mean HEAVILY buffed
• Except for xp, it's a lower multi for 4 (combined) hours now
• Daily boxes are back on the menu, baby

Partners

• We removed partner servers
  • /partners command, and their exclusiv perks are gone
• We plan on replacing partners as a concept with more or less, a server listing site for dank memer servers in 2024
• We still love the (previously known as) partner servers, and they still deserve your support.

Gem Shop

• Played with prices, lots of cheaper, a few more expensive. Vote with your wallet this season so we know what you want.
• Added new things, removed uninteresting things, added (at a higher cost than if you bought the pass last season, so pass owners still get the best deal by a mile) some cosmetics and such from s1 fishing
• In the STORE there are two new fishing bundles and next week there will be a store discount

Fighting

• You can no longer wager coins against coins, if the coin amount differs.
• A reminder, next month we ARE adding fighting tax back. There's no premium/credit card way to get around it either. Keep some cash on hand for it.

Alts/Impersonation/Abuse

• Accounts younger than 3 months old can no longer do the following things:
  • Wager
  • Add friends
  • Post on the market
  • Use server events
• This is just the start, we'll be adding more restrictions on new/"untrusted" users in 2024, including a verification system for high abuse vectors, such as the above bullet points.

Other Changes

• No one bypasses market tax anymore
• Market tax was lowered
• Scratch is now only available after voting on either site in the last 12 hours
• Scratch is also heavily buffed (mostly by adding newer things + removing more junk things)
• Passive no longer expires while on vacation
• You can no longer share with friends while in passive
  • The point of passive, as mentioned in its description, is to not interact with users. (this means in ANY way, we just let it slide for over a year!)
  • More stuff will be slowly walled off, you have time to leave rob servers, protect against rob in your own servers, and learn to use anti-robbing items/systems.
  • No, we aren't bringing back the OG negative multiplier for being in passive.
• Slightly changed level rewards
• Slightly changed formula for xp chances, to favor 1 more than 3 (more than before)
• Shop now rotates every 4 hours, rather than every 6
• Added a mobile friendly setting
  • Over time, more mobile views will be added. For now, it's just fishing.
• Removed some staff beg names ("staff members that were promoted to customers" -badosz)

Welcome to Fishing season 2, season of the frozen heart. We've learned a lot from the launch of fishing, and this season starts to address things you guys want to see!

Season 2

• All new season pass
  • To lean into the holiday spirit, the free track for this season has a few extra presents from Krampus. Every slot has something naughty
  • Both tracks include a small amount of gems as an experiment.
    • We reduced the cost of the premium+ pass as an experiment as well.
  • The tier 1 premium pass reward is an all new type of skin for guidebooks
  • If you had the previous premium pass, you keep earning XP for it alongside this new one!
• 2 new holiday locations
  • The Ice Caves and Snowy Mountain will be available until shortly after new years
• 4 new seasonal creatures and 2 bosses
  • Narwhal, Beluga Whale, Arctic Char, Nelma
  • The dreaded Pliosaur, and our own bossy creation: Issrakr
• 1 new seasonal NPC
  • Thrym, the Golden Leash, is a master at stealing what he wants.
• 1 new seasonal bait
  • Gift baits, can be found in bait boxes, the season pass, or while fishing in the seasonal locations

New Permanent Content

• New NPC
  • Meridian, The Mermaid, is a mystical and friendly ally to the ocean creatures.
• 9 new Creatures and 1 new boss
  • Bullfrog, Snapping Turtle, Box Turtle, Leafy Sea Dragon, Arapaima, Sturgeon, Ocean Sunfish, Vampire Squid, Coelacanth
  • The boss from down under, the Bunyip
• New skills, skill challenges
  • We completely reworked, buffed, nerfed, and even removed old skills based on S1 feedback
  • Check out the Magnetic Personality or Friends with the Trash Man skills that were added
  • Enjoy the free skill point unassign, and the new skill challenges to earn more - Buckets that were placed before this (reducing your slots) are now unavailable. Anything you have can be taken out of them, but nothing new can enter.
• New bait
  • XP bait is for those grinders out there. Use it to max your season pass in NO time, while also earning XP for regular dank memer levels.
  • You can find it in bait boxes, and the season pass.
• New random event
  • Crazy chromas, during the event all chroma variants are 2x more likely to be found
• New Items
  • Plant clump, Waterlogged log, Old shell, and Message in a bottle are all new sellable junk items from fishing

Major Changes

• You can now have multiple fish tanks, and they can be named. Limit is 5... for now.
  • Buy more from the fish shop
  • Tank decorations are reset by this change, you can just add them back. Sorr
• Through the idle skill, idle machines can use bait and target locations (and there's a setting for auto-refilling idle baits)
• If 5 buckets isn't enough, you can buy a week of a 6th slot for 50 gems
  • when time is up, the stuff in the bucket is still manageable, but can't be added to
• /fish skills now has a search command argument so you can jump to one skill you're looking for
• Updated the angler bundle now that we know adjusted rarity and added new items
• Leaderboards in DMC now show a small explanation of what's important for the score
• Tutorial was shortened and cleared up some wording
  • 40k people were stuck at the step about hitting the camera button...
  • You are invited to do the tutorial over again or resume it if you didn't finish now
• For those who can keep working on season 1's pass, the font is rendered better now
• Fixed some bugs

Balances/Nerfs/Buffs

• In case the nerfs to INSANE coin earning didn't land as we wanted, we'll do a follow up patch right before new years eve.
• It's now easier to complete the time parts of fish cards on multiple fish (need to catch less)
• Money bait now gives tokens AND coins both instead of just coin
• Chroma default chance to spawn was slightly increased
• Chroma multiplier was reduced
• Unique multiplier was increased
• Multiple baits, tools, and buckets had their durability/capacity reduced
• Deadly bait is now less effective at catching variants
• You can now only win a leaderboard once per week per leaderboard type
  • eg, if you win Chad you can't win Zara or any other NPC for a week (but you can win a fish lb)