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Subeta Team Contest: No Customs (Week of Jun 28) is open.

The theme is No Customs. Entry is free, the prize pool is 10,000,000 sP split between the top entries, and it runs until June 30, 2026 at 12:02 AM.

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Who is ready to dance?

Things are a little different this year. Before we get to the details, just know that the Masquerade will last until July 15.

Dance Floor

On the ballroom floor, you will notice some changes!

💃 The dance rooms are back on the Masquerade Forums! Join a dance room where you can step onto the floor and the Auto Dancing Machine will pair you with another dancer every few minutes. Each pairing will earn you 2-5 trinkets (lounge or steelworks) with up to 80 per day across ALL dancing booths. You will always have a partner, whether it is another user or one of the gossips!

💃 You can only be in 3 dance rooms at a time.

💃 At the bottom of the page, you'll see active Masquerade achievements to help you keep track of things! There are a few new achievements for you to work towards.

💃 Don't forget, you can also use the Mystery Dance feature!

Foods and Drinks!

🍸 You'll see a 'Sidelines' section below the floor where you can bring a Libertine Lounge food or drink to various NPCs. They will cycle out throughout the holiday. There are a few NPCs that will not accept drinks and at least one that will not accept food.

🍸 Why should I feed or provide drinks to NPCs? You will be rewarded for your help! Instead of new items to the Steamworks Menagerie, we've added the small pool of items to the various NPCs on the floor. If you provide 3 items to an NPC, you will get to pick your prize out of that NPC's pool.

🍸 This is an excellent year to catch up on past Steamworks Menagerie and Libertine Lounge items. There are 17 years worth of items, after all!

Olivette's Shop

To dance on the floor, you will need to be wearing an item with the word 'mask' in the name.

🎭 Olivette is in the ballroom this year building masks instead of opening Migrating Masks. She has a higher chance to create a new mask for you but you could potentially get an old mask too! These older masks include masks that once restocked in the Holiday Shop, like the Mardi Gras Face Mask, or from other holidays like the Orange Wreathed Red Rreign Mask. Make sure you CLICK/Select each item when crafting for a mask for the 'craft' button to work.

Note: We've moved everything back to legacy this year (dance rooms were on kumos!), so there may be a bug or two. You can report any you come across here. Thanks everyone!

Note #2: This is just the first day, there will be more to come! Perhaps a robot or two may challenge you.

All accounts on the site have been logged out, and will require logging back in.

We've seen a number of very old (5+ year not logged in) accounts get broken into over the last few weeks and out of extreme caution, I'm are rotating our "primary key" which is used to authenticate accounts on all of our sites.

As always we recommend keeping your password updated yearly and using a password manager (your OS probably comes with one now!) to generate strong passwords, and do not reuse passwords. In most cases, these situations happen because another site is hacked their database is leaked to the "dark web" and folks use the same email/username/passwords in multiple locations. If you feel like someone might have access to your Subeta (or any!) account, change your password right away.

We're always watching out (👁️) and have invested time recently in tools that can "unwind" an account getting hacked and drained. Please make a ticket if you find that you are missing items, or think that your account has been targeted.

You can also check on https://haveibeenpwned.com/, a website to search for your email in large scale hacks on the internet.

Quentin is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Congratulations to Najilah for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Congratulations to Emmah for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Spook and sunshine combine in these revamps, it's a hot ghoul summer and the graveyard fester and glade pherret have refreshed their looks to closer match their species revamps!

Are you team horror bird or team flower-cutesie mustelid??

Summer is (unfortunately) here. The Millionaire Center is now ready for the hot weather.

Note: We will add new summer items to the Millionaire Center later this month. Our team is all focused on Masquerade right now, which will be released this week! Seasonal quest shop will change over when the Millionaire Center items get added!

Subeta Team Contest: Elf (Week of Jun 21) is open.

The theme is Elf. Entry is free, the prize pool is 50,000,000 sP split between the top entries, and it runs until June 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM.

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Cinthia's Quests is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Congratulations to Mino for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Congratulations to Weekend for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

What's this? A huge toy filled Token Shop restock! I'll be restocking differnet toys over the next 24 hours, so keep an eye out!

Know of any items on site that are not currently toys but should be? Let me know on this thread!

Congratulations to Beacara for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Every pet on Subeta has a Toybox now! It keeps a record of the toys you've played with that pet (just like food or books), and it gives you a much faster way to play them.

You'll find it on any of your pets: open the options menu on your pets page and pick Toybox, or jump to it from the pet's profile.

Here's how it works:

• Playing a toy makes your pet happier and adds it to the Toybox. Each toy counts once per pet, so once it's in the box it stays logged.
• Your pet can keep playing past full. Happiness still tops out at 10, but a toy run can carry your pet a little past that, so you can keep filling the box in one sitting. When they get too excited to keep going, give them a bit to calm down and pick it back up.
• Mass Play. Instead of playing toys one at a time, the Toybox pulls every toy you own out of your inventory and your vault and plays a whole stack at once. Pick the ones you want, or grab up to 10, and your pet plays through them until they've had their fill.
• A checklist of what you're missing. The Missing Toys tab lists every toy in the game your pet hasn't played with yet, so you can see exactly what's left to play with. There's an achievement tied to how many you've played, too.

While I was in here I also changed how pet happiness goes down. A pet that's looked after now settles at a comfortable, content level and stays there, instead of quickly dropping all the way to miserable (0) and staying there. Toys cheer them up well past that and can go post 10. Every pet that had been sitting at the very bottom got a little nudge back up to content to start.

The Toybox starts from today, we never kept a record of which toys a pet had played with over the years, so there's no way to fill in the past. Every pet begins with an empty box, and I'm sorry that history isn't there to recover, but it's counting now! Go play with your pets 🎲

Congratulations to Volbeat for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

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Subeta Team Contest: Gothic (Week of Jun 14) is open.

The theme is Gothic. Entry is free, the prize pool is 50,000,000 sP split between the top entries, and it runs until June 21, 2026 at 12:01 AM.

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Quentin is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Congratulations to Azure for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

We had a few users point out that some of the oldest donation presents were missing from the collections sale the Cash Shop has going on.

A bit of background
Waaaay back in the day, we would use the same item as the "opening present". We would just change the range of items you would receive. So the donation present item giver (those boxes or bags that are usually at the top of a monthly collection news post) for presents up to before May 2026 didn't really exist!

What have we done up to now with those items for the "lost months"?
Generally, during sales, I would bring back a large chunk by just putting those individual items from those months in the Cash Shop under 'collection'. Outside of sales, the expensive items are chucked into the CS Hustler.

Why are you telling us this?
This is all to say we've added the presents from 2005 and 2006 that were missing HERE.

Congratulations to Kismet for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

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Congratulations to Autumn for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Lady Kamakiri and Lord Kochu are lurking and prepared to challenge you for battle... depending on how many bugs you've attracted to your minion zoo.

I just put up a new page: the Daily Support Goal. It's the (very, very) long version of the little bar on the news page, and it's the honest account of what it costs to run Subeta in 2026 and how close to the line we actually are. If you've ever wondered how a site like this keeps the lights on, that page is me answering it. Please read it!

And to support the goals on the page, two updates went up alongside it. Cash Shop Collections has its own page now, so you can browse every monthly collection going back to 2006 and either buy the sealed set or pick the one item you want out of it. For this week only you can browse and choose from every week, when the sale is over it goes back to being just the ones released in the current month.

And Billboards got rebuilt with a banner maker, so you can design your very own drag and drop 480x90 ad right in the browser instead of uploading one. Please, make something weird and fun!

For one week, both are on sale. Every collection is open right now, all the way back to 2006 👨‍🦳, and all but June 2026 are 100 CSC each. Billboards are 75% off on every size. The sale ends Sunday, and the prices and the collection selection go back on their own.

If the goal page makes the case to you, the sale is the easy way to help but there are lots of other suggestions on the page. Bump your old bug reports (they're getting fixed!) and make those suggestion threads.


me! in 2026, still clutching that Kumos plushie 💗
And yes, Masquerade is this month - more toward the middle. Hopefully you understand from the page why dates have been more flexible the last few years.

Congratulations to Rasputin for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

🏆 New Subeta Team Contest! 🏆

Show off your styling chops in Subeta Team Contest: NPC (Week of Jun 7)!

Theme: NPC
Prize pool: 50,000,000 sP
Ends: June 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM

Entry is free. Good luck!

Hello, gardeners! It's Emma. I've been busy out here in Veta Lake, and the garden has changed quite a bit since you last stopped by. Pull up a stool and let me show you around.

Come see me every day

I keep the seeds myself now instead of leaving them on the Seedlings shelves, so the garden is where you'll get them.

• A daily quest. Once a day I'll offer you three seeds, sorted from Common to Showpiece. Pick whichever tier suits you, grow it in any plot, and bring me the harvest. The plant comes straight to me, and you walk away with sP and a seed packet for your trouble.
• A daily seed packet. I also bundle one packet a day, in three sizes: Garden Variety (5 seeds), Mixed Bag (4 seeds, weighted toward the middle), and Connoisseur (3 seeds, weighted toward the rare end). A bigger budget leans the odds toward rarer seeds, and you never quite know what you'll open. That's half the fun of it.

One note, since a few of you have asked: seeds have left the Seedlings shelves for good. The tools, soil, cans, and gnomes are all still in the shop. Only the seeds moved over to me, through the quest and the packet.

New seeds that surprise you

Some of the new seeds in those packets don't grow into one fixed plant. The same seed can come up a different bloom each time you plant it.

Sow a packet of Stellar Bloom Seeds and you might raise a Galactic Stellar Bloom one season and a Rubicund Stellar Bloom the next. Those are only two of the five it knows how to become. Fairy Ringlet Seeds are the same way: Fiery Fairy Ringlets today, Pink Fairy Ringlets tomorrow. Plant them more than once and see what you get.

Room to grow

You can tend up to 10 plots now. Every harvest earns garden XP, and each level you reach opens more land for you. I've got plans to make even more available in the future, so keep at it.

Pick your spot, and move it if you change your mind

When you start a garden you choose where it grows, and each place has its own character. The lake is gentle and reliable, Shadowglen's soil is dark and strangely fertile, the Omen Islands are for gardeners who like a little adventure. If you outgrow your spot, you can repot the whole garden somewhere new from your garden settings whenever you like.

Open your gate

Flip your garden public in settings and it joins the Pollinator's Hub, the directory I keep of everyone's plots. Once you're listed, a few good things happen:

• Visitors help your plants grow. Anyone who stops by gives your garden a small boost.
• Birds and bugs come calling. Little visitors flutter through public gardens now. You can't catch them out here yet, so for now they're just nice to have around.
• Show your garden on the forums. Drop `
  No gardener named yourusername.
  ` into a post to show a card of your plot, and anyone reading can water your thirsty plants right from there.

You can wander other people's gardens, too. The Hub sorts by location and by which critters are visiting which plots today, so it's a pleasant walk even when you're not growing anything yourself.

A journal of everything you grow

Every plant you raise now gets written down in your Growth Journal. It shows the whole catalog, with the ones you've grown lit up and the ones you haven't waiting as silhouettes, and your totals up at the top. Filter by what you've grown, search by name, and watch it fill in over the seasons.

That's the tour! Come find me at the garden when you've got a moment. I always have seeds, and I'd love to see what you grow.

Saggitarius is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Congratulations to Battle Warrior for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

You'll never grow out of wanting to play with these sweet dolls from this month's collection.

Older June Donation Presents and Collections are also available for purchase.

We’ve changed the special item for our Subscription Quester, Councilor, and Goddess plans. We will be changing this special item slot every month.

Congratulations to Cherilee for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!