The latest from Subeta. Browse the archives for older updates.
Thank you to everyone who helped test the new fishing mechanics — your feedback was incredibly helpful! The fishing game is temporarily offline while we work on the next version. Stay tuned!
The rescue station in the Galaxan Wastelands has been completely rebuilt! Celesse now runs the operation. She'll greet you, comment on the minions, and celebrate when you pop a bubble. Each trapped minion gets a cute nickname and a visible satisfaction meter that fills as you feed it. No more invisible dice rolls - watch the bubble (the little border - i'm working on this!) wobble, crack, and shake as it gets close to popping! Feed any food you have (no more specific food requirements), but pay attention to reactions ... minions have preferences that the community discovers together over time. After feeding, vote on whether the minion enjoyed it to help build the Field Guide (or lie to throw everyone else off!). Your existing scores and medals are all preserved. Happy rescuing!
You can now toggle a dark content area on any theme! Head to Dashboard > Themes and check "Dark content area" to flip the main content background to dark while keeping your theme's personality and colors. Great for reducing eye strain, especially on dark themes like Shadowglen, Darkside, and Morostide.
Rare item restock chances have been significantly increased: rare items now have a 30% chance (was 15%), very rare 12% (was 4%), and r99 4% (was 1%). Each shop reserves 15% of its shelf space specifically for rare+ now, so common items can never crowd them out entirely.
Fixed broken shop restocking that was causing shops to feel empty with mostly common items. The price lookup cache and clearing logic have been repaired. Shops now restock every ~3 minutes (was 5), fill to 65% capacity (was 50%), and process 5 shops per cycle (was 3).
Kumos shops, quest bar, and shop search now pull from the same inventory as the legacy site. No more seeing different items depending on which version of the site you're on, there is one stock for everyone.
Don't like what the Recycle Beast is asking for? You can now spend recycling points to shuffle ALL the items! Everyone sees when someone shuffles and the cost doubles each time you do it, cooling down over a few days. Chaos encouraged.
This was added while fixing the nightly cron that changes the items, and I just have always wanted the items to change a little bit throughout the day. And now you can add a little bit of chaos 👹
See how many tickets have been sold for each potion type, plus which potions you have tickets for. The page also shows who bought tickets for you today.
These improvements were added while also fixing the nightly cron that runs the potion lottery, so it *should* run correctly tonight 🤞
Fixed a bug where Ricardo's Lucky Slots would get stuck in an infinite spinning animation and never show your result. The reels now properly stop and display your outcome every time, even if there's a network hiccup.
The Gift Center has been completely rebuilt for a much smoother experience. Instead of waiting for the page to reload every time you browse items, search, or change filters, everything now loads instantly. your inventory appears right on the page, with search, sort, type filters, and pagination all working without page refreshes. Adding items to your gift box feels snappy with subtle animations, and you can see a progress bar fill up as you add items. The whole flow — pick items, type a username, write a message, send all happens on one page with no lag.
The "Spread the Love" button used to always kiss whoever had the fewest kisses received, which meant someone could leave a booth and rejoin to reset their kiss count to zero, making themselves the permanent target and hogging all the love. Now the button picks someone at random instead, so the love gets spread around fairly. You still get the 1-minute cooldown bonus for using it!
I know this is a late fix, but at least it'll be in place for next year!
*(legacy site)* The Training Center has been modernized. Your pets are now sorted into clear sections — Done (collect results!), Currently Training, and Ready to Train, so you can see at a glance what needs your attention. Jim's intro text has been cleaned up, the old Bootstrap grid layout is gone, and everything uses the my new modern design language.
If you've got a Gold Account you'll notice a new option to get all of your pets out of training at once when they're finished.
You can now set custom pronouns (he/him, she/her, they/them, or type your own) and a custom gender label (up to 20 characters when you pick "Other") on your profile settings.
Right now these don't show up anywhere, but might be added to legacy and kumos user profiles soon.
A celebratory new reaction cosmetic — just for having the Shoutbox widget on your sidebar! If you've got it enabled, you'll automatically unlock this reaction next time you load a page. Art by @Merlin! Check your Reactions page to see it.
You can add the shoutbox widget to your Kumos sidebar and/or your Legacy sidebar. It hasn't been turned on the legacy site in years, but it's back!
Fixed a bug where using the nuclear reset (or having an admin reset your avatar) would clear the zombie skin from the database, but the old zombie image would keep showing up for a few minutes/hours. The reset wasn't clearing the cached avatar image on disk, so you'd keep seeing zombie-you until the cache naturally expired. Now resets immediately clear the cached image too — when you nuke it, it stays nuked!
Fixed a bug where removing your hairstyle in the legacy wardrobe would still show your old hair on your avatar everywhere on the site. The avatar renderer was pulling your last-used hairstyle from memory even when you'd taken it off. Now your avatar only shows hair if it's actually equipped in your outfit.
Ricardo now asks you a simple question during his interruptions, and you'll have to answer right ;)! We've also added a 1-second minimum between spins to prevent button-mashing, and if you've been at it for a while, Ricardo will make you take short breaks that get longer the more you spin. Take a breather, you slot fiend!
You can now set one of your kissing booths to run on autopilot! It'll automatically kiss a random person in the booth every 20 minutes — slower than doing it yourself, but it works even when you're away. Autopilot lasts 12 hours, then you'll need to come back and re-activate it (same booth or a different one). You can enable it from inside any booth you've joined, or from your dance card. Your manual kissing still works alongside it!
