Spring has sprung, Super Animals! The third and final week of Respawning Day is upon us, and with it comes one last batch of challenges and rewards to unlock beneath the cherry blossoms.

From now until Friday, April 24th, you can complete the Week 3 challenges along with Weeks 1 and 2 if you still have any left to finish.

We’ve also got fresh spring fanart to share, a few new goodies in the SAW Shop, and a big thank you to all of you for bringing the Thomas Sledison Makeship Plush to life in under 24 hours!


For the final week of the event, we’re returning to the fan-favorite Sakura Festival, so put on the pinkest things you own and get ready for one last round of egg hunting amidst the falling petals.

The Super Petal Panda is an elegant new Super Panda breed fresh from the Research Lab. It may look soft and springy, but don’t be fooled by all that pink fluffiness: it’s just as ready to cause trouble as any other Super Animal! As with all new event breeds, it’s a permanent addition to the Research Lab. Thank you to SAILORo7 for suggesting it in our Discord server!

• Teal Kimono | Collect Super Eggs (1337)
  
• 2000 XP | Smash Fabergé Giant Emu Eggs (15)
  
• Fuji Umbrella | Land Under a Cherry Blossom Tree
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Dance at the Beakeasy Stage
  
• Taiko Drum Gravestone | Eat Placed Bananas with the Banana Forker (12)

• Super Petal Panda (Available at Level 30)

The Respawning Day event ends Friday, April 24th, so there’s still time to finish all three weeks of challenges. Happy egg hunting!


Teacher’s pet? You bet. Look and feel prepared for the island’s many survival lessons with the new Schoolgirl Bundle!

The Schoolgirl Bundle is available now and includes the following:

• Blue Schoolgirl Dress
  
• Blue Pen
  
• Books Gravestone

Health Juice can do a lot, but it can’t fix everything. A couple new additions for Super Animals feeling the island’s daily wear and tear have joined the SAW Shop rotation starting today:

• Black Eye
  
• Acupuncture

The Thomas Sledison plush campaign went live on Friday, and thanks to all of you it was fully funded in under 24 hours!

Thank you so much for the support, we can’t wait to get Thomas in your paws and hope you all love it as much as we do. We’re especially proud of all the detail we were able to pack into this one, including his fully detachable jacket and hat.

And like our previous Makeship plushies, every order comes with a code for the exclusive Sledison Plush Emote, so your in-game Super Animal can carry around their own tiny inventor.

You can order the plush until the end of the Makeship campaign on May 2nd.


Four new springtime Super Animal breeds are still available to claim as Twitch Drops! You can unlock them early before they eventually arrive in the Research Lab by supporting SAR streamers on Twitch.

To start earning Twitch Drops, you’ll need to link your Super Animal and Twitch accounts using the SAR Drops website[drops.animalroyale.com] (if you haven’t already).

Then, just watch any Drops-enabled stream in the Super Animal Royale category on Twitch[www.twitch.tv]!

Here are the breeds you can unlock during the campaign:

• Super Sable Lop Bunny
  
• Super Appaloosa Horse
  
• Super Fawn
  
• Super Spotted Lop Bunny

The Twitch Drops campaign ends on Friday, April 24th alongside the Respawning Day event.


Respawning Day and Bright Future inspired some amazing fanart from the community, so we’ve collected a few beautiful pieces to share. Thanks again to all of you who keep creating and inspiring us and letting us feature your work.

Art by TGG HAZIQ


Art by 楹 Ying


Art by とりのねこ


Art by SrTamarindo


Art by typhwosion


Keep your eyes and ears peeled too. Rumor has it that Rabbita is planning another Fanart Contest in the next couple of weeks!


If you missed the full patch notes for the Bright Future update and Respawning Day kickoff, catch up on everything here:
https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/491594085843338837

And if you missed last week’s rewards and challenges, you can also check out the Week 2 post here:
https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/533253650845272191

All three weeks of Respawning Day challenges, plus the Super Spring Animals Twitch Drops campaign, will be available until the event ends on Friday, April 24th!

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Thanks again for all your kind words and support throughout the Respawning Day and the Bright future launch. It means a lot to our team, and we hope you’ve all been having a ton of fun with the new content. We’re looking forward to sharing more once the event wraps up. See you on the island, Super Animals!

Bright Future brought a whole meteorite’s worth of new content to the island, and we hope you’ve been having fun exploring it so far. We’ve already been collecting lots of your feedback on the update and what you’d like to see next, and we’re looking forward to sharing more on that after the event.

Today, we’re kicking off Week 2 of Respawning Day with a new batch of challenges and rewards, a new Super Animal breed to unlock, and the Thomas Sledison Makeship Plush launching this Friday, April 10th!


Super Animals are no strangers to getting their paws dirty, and Week 2 of Respawning Day is here with a gardening-themed batch of challenges and rewards that trade sowing chaos for sowing seeds.

The new Super Grass Capybara has sprouted from the Research Lab. Whether it was engineered that way or just sat still long enough for grass to grow over it, the island may never know, but like all event breeds it’s a permanent addition.

• Handkerchief Hat | Collect Super Eggs (1200)
  
• 1500 XP | Chop Grass with a Giant Emu(150)
  
• Rake | Deal Melee Damage (200)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Drink Health Juice with Cupgrade (200)
  
• Adhesive Bandage| Heal Teammates or Giant Emus with Darts (250)

• Super Grass Capybara (Available at Level 50)

And thanks to oh_ghost on Discord for the Handkerchief hat suggestion!


We’ve been busy, busy in the workshop with our friends at Makeship getting our newest plush campaign ready: the Thomas Sledison plush! Sledison has been a fan favorite for a long time, and with his big role in Bright Future, this felt like the perfect time to finally give SAR’s busiest inventor a plush of his own.

The plush features a fully detachable coat and hat, and every order comes with a coupon code you can redeem for the in-game Sledison Plush Emote, which lets your Super Animal carry around its very own little Sledison plush (ideal for bringing your own tiny backseat inventor into Sledison’s workshop).

The campaign goes live this Friday, April 10th, and we also have giveaways running now on our Twitter[x.com] and Instagram[www.instagram.com] from now until the campaign begins, so follow us there if you’d like a chance to enter.

[www.makeship.com]Check out the Thomas Sledison plush campaign[www.makeship.com] on Makeship!


We’ve also rolled out a few fixes since launch:

• Fixed Hot Mode showing progress ticks from the previous day.
  
• Fixed Chinese text input bug on Switch.

And the following fixes are also already live on Steam and will roll out to consoles in a later patch:

• Fixed an issue where friends would occasionally not have the Join Hub option.
  
• Fixed the cross-play party Kick button not working, though consoles will still need a patch for the fix to fully roll out.
  
• Fixed an issue causing quest auto-tracking to revert on the client UI.

We’re also working on a few other known issues. We’ve identified the cause of one where some cross-play parties with a Switch 1 player can fail to connect to matches, and a fix is already on the way in the next Switch patch. Thanks for bearing with us in the meantime!


Over the next week or so, we’ll be testing new server providers and trying a few different server setups as we explore potential improvements. We’re cautiously optimistic that this could lead to a better experience overall, but we’d love to hear your feedback on how matches feel during the trial.

We’ll be monitoring things closely throughout the test period and comparing how the different options perform. Once we’ve had time to review the results, we’ll share more about what we learned and what we plan to roll out more broadly.


If you want to catch up on everything that landed last week in the Bright Future Update, including all the details on Respawning Day and its Week 1 challenges and content, read the full Steam patch notes here: https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/491594085843338837?l=english

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Thanks so much for all the excitement and kind words around the Bright Future launch. It’s meant a lot to our dev team as we get back into the swing of regular quarterly updates. See you on the island, Super Animals!

No need to keep counting down: the Bright Future Update has landed! A Banananite meteorite has crash-landed on the island, kicking off a new storyline with fresh quests, new weapons and mechanics, and a bunch of community-requested improvements. Here’s the quick rundown before we dive into the full patch notes:

• A Banananite meteorite has landed in Super Animal World, bringing new NPCs, storylines, and quests
  
• Banan Altars have popped up in Animal Royale, where offerings of bananas and Giant Emus can reward you... or punish you
  
• The new X-Ray Cannon, Uzi, and dual-wieldable Dualzis arrive, along with a new featured weapon rotation system to keep matches feeling fresh
  
• Hot Mode, Play Again, Auto-Accept Queue, and a Customize search bar are just some of this update’s community-requested improvements
  
• The all-new Bright Future Pass and Bright Future Starter Pack bring the season’s retro-future sci-fi theme to life
  
• Respawning Day returns with three weeks of eggs, challenges, rewards, and the new Super Cloud Skunk
  
• New Super Gorilla, Super Chimpanzee, and “Alien” breeds are now available in the Research Lab
  
• Four new Super Animals are also available for a limited time through Twitch Drops
  
• Lots more is packed in too, including the new Swampwater Breezeway Hamsterball Racing track, Banana Crabs, shop updates, and plenty of updates to gameplay, Social Hub and UI (plus a Makeship plush tease)

If you’d rather watch the highlights, here’s our Developer Overview:

Now, let’s dive into everything packed into the Bright Future Update.


Northeast of SAW Labs, a huge meteorite has landed, and the island’s factions have very different ideas about what it means.

The meteorite contains a strange, vibrant new material called Banananite. Thomas Sledison is eager to mine as much of it as he can for weapons development in his workshop, convinced it could lead to all kinds of wonderful, dangerous new inventions. The Cult of Banan, meanwhile, believes the Banananite meteorite is something much more sacred, and the yellow, softly-curved shape of its fragments does seem to suggest there may be something to their devotion.

They’re not the only ones captivated by it. The Super Simian Space Society has sprung up in response, an earnest new space-enthusiast club founded by two Super Apes, Ham and Enos, who are convinced the meteor points toward a bright future for Super Animal-kind among the stars.

Embark on new NPC storylines and quests by talking to Ham & Enos, Thomas Sledison, and the Deacon of Banan. Whether you’re helping a would-be space society win official recognition, testing Sledison’s latest experiments, or uncovering the mysteries of Banananite itself, there’s plenty to dig into.


Since the meteorite crashed down, mysterious Banan Altars have been reported popping up around the island. Built from fragments of sacred Banananite and awaiting tribute, they can be found during Animal Royale matches in solos, duos, and squads.

According to some, offerings of bananas and even Giant Emus may reward the faithful, though worshippers should also beware of punishments. Large offerings can reward powerful weapons, and those gifts come with a twist: bananafied weapons that send slippery bananas flying mid-fight. Praise Banan, but worship at your own risk.


The Bright Future Pass celebrates the meteor’s arrival while bringing the update’s retro-future sci-fi theme to life, with the Mini Rhino, Moonwalk emote, and loads of cosmetics inspired by classic sci-fi.

• During this season, the Bright Future Pass is available at a discounted price of 550 SAW Tickets.
  
• As always, Animal Passes never expire. You can keep working on passes you already own on your second track, or pick up older ones from The Archive for 750 SAW Tickets.

Gleeb glob bop? Glorp gleebin bintos. Gleebo Bright Future Starter Pack borp gleebins!

https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/app/4439730/Super_Animal_Royale_Bright_Future_Starter_Pack/

(EXTRA TRANSMISSION RECEIVED. TRANSLATING)
The Bright Future Starter Pack includes:

• Super Alien Cat
  
• Alien Spacesuit
  
• Alien Specimen
  
• 600 SAW Tickets

The Grand Opening Starter Pack that debuted alongside the Super Animal World expansion will only be available for one more week before going into the vault. We plan to bring back past season starter packs again in the future in a new format, but if you’ve been meaning to grab this one, now’s the time.


Time to spray and pray: the Uzi has arrived as a faster, wilder, and more close-quarters version of the SMG! Plus, if you find two Uzis, you can dual wield them to make an extra-chaotic pair of Dualzis.

The Uzi and Dualzis are also part of a new featured weapon rotation. After Respawning Day, this featured slot will rotate daily between the Uzi and Dualzis, the Blunderbuss, and the Bwoking Launcher to keep gameplay fresh. As we add more limited-time weapons in the future, we expect that lineup to grow too.

The X-Ray Cannon has also arrived as our first limited-time Mole Crate weapon! It uses Superite ammo and deals 100 damage when fully charged, or 50 through armor. Shots can pierce up to 3 enemies, with damage falling off after each hit.

Sneaking while holding the X-Ray Cannon will enter x-ray vision mode, letting you see through walls and track down where other players are hiding. Be careful, though: x-ray vision slows you down and makes a distinct sound that nearby players can hear.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on how the X-Ray Cannon plays, so let us know what you think. Depending on the response, we may tweak it or bring it back again in the future!


Hot Mode is here! Every 24 hours, one game mode will be marked as the day’s Hot Mode. For the first 5 matches you play in that mode, you’ll get an extra 25% XP! And don’t worry too much if you get eliminated early; you’ll always get a minimum 100 XP from completing a Hot Mode match.

Our goal with Hot Mode is to encourage fuller lobbies in the featured mode each day with a small bonus, while still keeping it optional. It’s something we’ll be monitoring, and we’d love to hear your thoughts on how it’s working so far and any similar features you’d like to see in future updates.


We’ve also added some of the community-requested improvements we’ve been hearing about a lot from all of you, aimed at making both core modes and the Social Hub smoother to move between and easier to navigate.

• Play Again lets party hosts requeue everyone automatically once the group returns to the hub so you can re-queue right away without opening the modes screen. You can also cancel it by opening the Game Modes screen. Note: the spectate button has moved to the bottom right of the endgame screen, and can still also be triggered with the escape key.
  
• Auto-Accept Queue is here and enabled by default, with a 10-second cancel window to make it easy to finish up what you’re doing while avoiding a missed match. If you prefer the old manual queue flow, you can switch back to it in the Game Modes screen.
  
• We’ve finally added a Search bar to Customize and Emotes at MTN stations! With over 2,000 cosmetic items in the game, this is a really nice and long-requested addition.
  
• The BananOS Social screen now includes Recent and Nearby players to make it easier to add friends, report, or mute.
  
• It’s now easier to join friends’ Social Hubs directly from their profile (it works bi-directionally, not just for party hosts).

There are plenty more improvements and new features listed below as well, and we still have lots more planned for BananOS in future releases. Keep the feedback coming and we’ll keep refining it!


The LED Bundle and LED Guns Bundle are here to help you light up the island in proper retro-future style. You can pick them up from Ms. Macawsome’s shop, no trip to cyberspace required.

The LED Bundle includes:

• LED Helmet
  
• LED Outfit
  
• LED Sword

The LED Guns Bundle includes:

• Dogna’s LED Dartfly Gun
  
• LED M16
  
• LED SMG
  
• LED Silenced Pistol

Beyond the bundles, the SAW Shop has a great Spring 2026 collection to help you celebrate Bright Future and Respawning Day:

• Atom Hat
  
• Casual Dress
  
• Neon Umbrella
  
• Rainbow Emote
  
• Sakura Bonsai Gravestone (thanks to zomzartisticz for the suggestion!)
  
• Sakura Scythe (thanks to SAILORo7 for the suggestion!)

Not to be outdone by Ms. Macawsome, Carl has stocked his cart with some new outfits if you’re looking to dress for the island’s latest space craze. Don’t worry, wearing the red one won’t get you killed first... probably.

Here’s what you can pick up from the Cart:

• Red Space Commander Outfit
  
• Yellow Space Commander Outfit
  
• Green Space Commander Outfit
  
• Blue Space Commander Outfit

The Lab Labs have finally expanded the Research Lab’s simian lineup with Super Gorillas and a Super Chimpanzee breed! Turns out even the Lab Labs weren’t immune to the island’s space craze.

You can unlock these Super Gorilla breeds in the Research Lab beginning at level 40:

• Super Gorilla
  
• Super White Gorilla
  
• Super Brown Gorilla
  
• Super Grape Gorilla
  
• Super Chimpanzee

The Lab Labs decided the island’s latest obsession with the stars could use a few more visitors, so they bio-engineered a whole invasion’s worth of new “Alien” Super Animal breeds.

Available now in the Research Lab (the required unlock level is listed beside each breed):

• Super Alien Bat (Level 80)
  
• Super Alien Chinchilla (Level 50)
  
• Super Alien Cow (Level 40)

Rejoice and Respawn! The Respawning Day event has begun, our holiday celebrating spring, eggs, and the miracle of clone-based functional immortality. Plus, free eggs on the ground.

From now until Friday, April 24th, colorful Super Eggs are hidden around the island. You can pick them up for a small heal, and you’ll also earn them by completing matches in any mode. Fabergé Giant Emu Eggs have popped up too, and smashing or shooting them will get you the prizes inside.

New challenge sets will unlock each week, so check back here or on social media to see what’s new. Once they unlock, you’ll have until the end of the event to complete them all!


Week 1 is live now, and here’s what you can unlock right away:

• Easter Egg Pullover | Collect Super Eggs (1000)
  
• 1500 XP | Smash Fabergé Giant Emu Eggs (7)
  
• Eggshell Umbrella | Banana Slip an Enemy
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Destroy Skunk Mushrooms (5)
  
• Gestation Pod melee | Break Enemy Armor (50)

• Super Cloud Skunk (Available at Level 20)

For the first 48 hours of the update, Banana Crabs will be swarming the beaches in a slippery April Fools frenzy. Watch your step, because touching them will make you slip! After the frenzy ends, Banana Crabs will remain in the Social Hub as a permanent new catchable bug, but at a much rarer Legendary tier.

As always, new Super Animal breeds introduced during events stay permanently available in the Research Lab, so unlocking them isn’t time-sensitive. Happy egg hunting!

• Respawn Tank respawn timers have been adjusted. Respawning one teammate now takes 9 seconds, two teammates take 11 seconds, and three teammates take 13 seconds (previously, it always took 9 seconds regardless of how many players were being respawned).
  
• Accordingly, the number of teammates respawned is now based on how many vials you’ve collected when you start the respawn. Picking up a new teammate vial during the respawn will not add that player to the current respawn, so you’ll need to cancel and restart it to include them, or find another Respawn Tank.
  
• Respawn Tank cooldown has also been increased from 10s to 20s. These changes aim to make Respawn Tanks riskier when attempting larger comebacks and more difficult to use in rapid succession.
  
• The first 5 shots after spinning up the Superite Laser now have no recoil, as suggested by Bloop on Discord. This makes it a more predictable burst weapon when fired in short bursts.
  
• Respawn Tank icons now show on the map in duos and squads.
  
• Loot now visually fades after a short delay when a player or placed banana is behind it. This helps prevent edge cases where certain emotes or Super Animal breeds let players hide too well in loot piles.
  
• A new setting has been added to always show weapon skin effects, and it’s on by default. This lets everyone hear custom gun sounds like the Soil Revolver’s and see custom projectiles like the Cardinal Bow & Sparrow’s.
  
• Reduced barrel explosion knockdown duration from 1.3 seconds to 1.2 seconds. Reduced the range of barrel explosions where knockdown occurs from 21 SAU to 16 SAU.
  
• Increased movement tolerance slightly for picking up downed teammates.
  
• Lightning effect brightness has been decreased by 50% and duration has been increased from 1.8s to 2 seconds.
  
• Private matches can use /giant to spawn a Giant Sloth. Good luck.
  
• Added /altars command for private matches to disable Banan Altars.

• New NPCs have been added at the Welcome Center and at the new meteorite site northeast of SAW Labs. New quest chains are available from these NPCs.
  
• Fish will now bite much faster on your fishing line if you land your lure in front of their mouth. An effect and sound will play if you land an effective cast.
  
• Added a 6th hamsterball racing track: Swampwater Breezeway.
  
• Hamsterball racing start/finish lines now have the same glow and fade effect as checkpoints.
  
• You can now choose all three of your tracked quests and toggle them on and off. We’ve also added a setting to toggle auto-tracking.
  
• Pearls can now stack up to 20 in your inventory.
  
• The Victory Island gardens have received a beautiful DNA-themed update with new flowers just in time for spring!
  
• Added hit animations when smacking NPCs with your melee.
  
• Added a radio in SAW Security that plays a song. Give it a listen if you’re paying the good dogs a visit!
  
• Catfive now has looping music coming from his headphones.
  
• Reduced some Super Dog and Beaver voice volumes.
  
• Early tutorial dialogue has been tightened and trimmed.
  
• Fixed several typos in various NPC and quest dialogue.

• A coupon code screen has been added to BananOS, so you can redeem coupons while in-game in the Social Hub in addition to the main menu.
  
• You can now see active hamsterball races on the map screen, and join them directly from the map!
  
• Customize now defaults controller selection to the left category buttons, and backing out of the item grid goes back to the left buttons before exiting to the presets screen.
  
• Charge-up weapons like the Bow & Sparrow will now show distance indicator dots similar to the BCG. There’s also a new setting available to disable these charge indicator dots if you prefer the regular recoil indicators. For controller users, disabling them will show the old static indicators instead.
  
• Weapons that don't reload such as the Bow & Sparrow and X-Ray Cannon will now show a single ammo label on the UI. This makes it clear that they don't need to reload and fixes edge cases such as a “0” being displayed in the current ammo text.
  
• Added hotkey icons for the middle mouse button, mouse 4, and mouse 5.
  
• The keybinds screen now shows LMB, RMB, MMB, Mouse 4 and Mouse 5 (instead of the default text 'Mouse0,' etc).
  
• The wait time on the ferry scene once the server connects has been reduced from 0.5 seconds to 0.25.
  
• The BananOS challenges widget now displays progress as a whole number out of five (#/5), rather than a percentage.
  
• Moved the "REMOVE FRIEND" button to the bottom of the player info card and colorized the text.
  
• Direct messages received while in the main menu or ferry scene will display when you next join a hub or match.
  
• Updated background art on player info cards with a prettier scene.
  
• Updated "BACK TO HUB" on the end-game and in-match escape menus to "LEAVE MATCH".
  
• Added a loading indicator and improved text clarity on the post-match respawn screen.
  
• On the victory photo screen, the photo now remains displayed a bit longer after it’s taken to give you a chance to screenshot it. We’re planning to add a way to save these more easily in the future too!
  
• If BananOS news is displaying a seasonal event, clicking it will take you to the event rather than to the news UI.
  
• When reviving a teammate, you’ll now see the target player’s username in the interaction and reviving UI text.
  
• A clearer, new popup now appears when editing a preset name in the Customize screen.
  
• Fixed left side navigation buttons in BananOS shop not working correctly sometimes, and removed the dot indicators.
  
• You can now scroll BananOS news with the mouse wheel.
  
• Private matches: added true score column for '/getplayers' to give more accurate placement in team games.

• Shooting gallery targets now have hitboxes that more closely resemble the player hitbox.
  
• Improved memory usage and reduced memory pressure, especially for Switch users, by reusing world objects and large data structures between matches instead of recreating them each time.
  
• Revised the JAG-7 reload sound to better match the actual reload time to avoid players cancelling it before it's done.
  
• Fixed missing translations on Create Party and Exit Game UIs in the main menu.
  
• Fixed some UI elements on the matchmaking pill blocking left-click for attack.
  
• Fixed long breed names in the seasonal event UI not auto-sizing.
  
• Dynamic font size is now used for the secondary Animal Pass title to fit longer text.
  
• Fixed devices on the Umm al-Qura calendar causing BananOS to glitch out.
  
• Fixed Research Lab entries under the cursor not being selected properly after using the mouse wheel to scroll. This fixes an issue with DNA magnets applying incorrectly.
  
• Fixed weapon pickup text not using the proper pickup translation (mainly for Russian).
  
• Fixed the Superite Bomb graphic when following the player in hamsterball races so it uses the correct design.
  
• Fixed the player’s hamsterball racing placement always being 1st place in the "YOUR PARTY" results.
  
• Improved an issue where melee weapons could poke through the SAW Shop’s left wall.
  
• Fixed emote music muting match-ready music.
  
• Fixed ambient music playing while in MTN station if a player misses readying up.
  
• Fixed the back button not being clickable on the royale escape menu.
  
• Credits video typo fix.
  
• Private matches: fixed ghosted players not seeing admin messages like confirmations of commands.
  
• Super Friends will keep trying to reconnect now rather than stopping after 3 attempts, with longer intervals each time.
  
• Updated Photon SDK for Super Friends to the latest version, which fixes lag spikes caused by disconnecting from friends.
  
• Fixed friend status not setting to "Online" when connecting to Super Friends after previously disconnecting.
  
• Fixed rich text displaying in Super Friends' names.
  
• Fixed being able to interact with objects while having the quick chat wheel open.
  
• Fixed quick chat wheel not closing when opening the escape menu.
  
• Fixed a bug where the map icons would be missing after finishing a race.
  
• Fixed environment shadows showing slightly through characters.
  
• Fixed teammate screen-edge markers not reverting to normal upon respawn.
  
• Fixed the SAR logo not showing up in the photobooth for transparent GIFs.
  
• Fixed Giant Sloth pathfinding occasionally being too wide and not being able to walk in some areas.
  
• Fixed short-charged Bow & Sparrow shots not registering hits inside an emu's hitbox.
  
• Fixed players being able to melee attack emus behind a wall in certain conditions.

Spring has sprung, and four new Super Animal breeds are hopping out of SAW Labs and onto Twitch Drops. Support Super Animal Royale streamers and earn them for yourself by linking your Super Animal and Twitch accounts on the SAR Drops website[drops.animalroyale.com] and watching Drops-enabled SAR streamers on Twitch[www.twitch.tv]:

• Super Sable Lop Bunny
  
• Super Fawn
  
• Super Appaloosa Horse
  
• Super Spotted Lop Bunny

The campaign runs until Friday, April 24th when the Respawning Day event wraps up. After that, all four breeds will be unlockable with DNA and Super Serum in the Research Lab, so Twitch Drops are your chance to grab them early.


We’ve been busy, busy working with our friends at Makeship to design our next plush! Keep an eye on our social media for the big reveal and giveaway, and look for pre-orders to open on Friday, April 10th.

That’s it for the Bright Future Update! If you made it all the way down here, thanks for sticking with us, this was a big one. We couldn’t have kept supporting this game for so many years without you, and we really appreciate it.

Make sure to let us know in the comments what you think. Bright Future is the first of our seasonal major updates this year, and your feedback will help shape what comes next in the summer, fall, and winter.

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Super Animal World was a giant leap for us, and Bright Future is just the beginning of what we want to build on top of it with all of you. See you on the island, Super Animals!

A meteor is hurtling toward Super Animal World, and it lands Tuesday, March 31st with the Bright Future Update (v2.1)! It’s the first major update after Super Animal World (v2.0), bringing community-requested features and plenty of polish to the new systems.

The Banananite meteor’s impact kicks off a new storyline with new quests, new characters, and a retro-future sci-fi theme across the season and the Bright Future Pass.

We're also giving battle royale some extra love after all the cozy content in Super Animal World, with new weapons like the X-Ray Cannon, Uzis, and Dualzies, plus Banan Altars for rare loot (or curses). In the Research Lab, you can unlock new Super Animals, from bio-engineered “Alien” breeds to space-ready Super Gorillas and Chimps.

v2.1 also brings community-requested improvements for smoother matchmaking with Play Again + Auto-Accept Queue, Hot Mode (a featured mode each day gives bonus XP), and easier ways to join friends’ Social Hubs. There’s also, at long last, a search bar in Customize!

We’ll have more to share leading up to release (including a few more surprises)! For all the latest Super Animal Royale news, subscribe to our ​​newsletter[animalroyale.com] and follow us on the social channels below as we reveal more about the Bright Future Update leading up to its release on March 31st:

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See you on the island, Super Animals!

The final unlocks of the Year of the Super Horse are here!

Complete Week 3’s five new challenges, and catch up on Weeks 1 and 2 before the event ends on Friday, February 27th.

Week 1 (full event kickoff and patch notes including quality of life improvements):
https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/494967350396716585
Week 2 + Duos Day:
https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/529870881777779929

• Week 3 is live: Final five Lunar New Year challenges and rewards
  
• New Super Horse breed: Super Przewalski Horse
  
• Event ends Feb 27: Complete all challenges before the event's conclusion

Meet the Super Przewalski Horse, arriving with Week 3’s final five challenges and three new Lunar New Year cosmetics. Bonus challenge: say its name three times fast. We dare you.

• Lunar Dress (2026) | Collect Red Envelopes (1337)
  
• 1500 XP | Break Fireworks Crates (6)
  
• Lucky Bamboo | Deal Melee Damage at the SAW Bamboo Resort(50)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Eat Health Fruit (15)
  
• Lunar Hairpin | Deal Damage with Lucky Cat Mines (200)

• Super Przewalski Horse (Available in the Research Lab at level 60)

Complete all your Lunar New Year challenges before the event ends on Friday, February 27th. As a reminder, all breeds introduced as part of the event are permanent additions to the Research Lab!


We have another round of incredible fanart from the community to share! Thanks to all of you who keep filling our feeds with so much creativity every month.

Art by Resh1maru


Art by Hiroshi


Art by Glitch


Art by Soup Boy


Art by Satori


Art by PixelatedGecko


Art by FlameCat!

If you’re posting your fanart on social media, use the hashtag #superanimalroyale or tag us in it! You can also share fanart in our Discord server[discord.gg], where we have channels dedicated to fan creations and art discussion.

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Happy Lunar New Year, Super Animals! We hope you’ve had fun with this event and we’re excited to share more about our upcoming v2.1 Major Update real soon. :)

- Michael, Logan, & the Community team

Week 2 of the Year of the Super Horse is here with a stable of new challenges and rewards, and a Duos Day mini-celebration packed with hearts, roses, and matching outfits.

If you missed Week 1, that post covers the full event kickoff and patch notes (including quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes):
https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/494967350396716585

• Week 2 is live: New Lunar New Year challenges and rewards, plus Duos Day bonus items
  
• New Super Horse breed: Super Pink Pony
  
• New Super Peacock breed: Super Heart Peacock
  
• SAW Shop (Duos Day): New Heart Gun Bundle
  
• Carl’s Cart (Duos Day): Duos Day Suit & Duos Day Dress
  
• Duos Day Rose melee: Earn it by playing Duos before the event ends (Feb 27)
  
• Bonus Duos Day Cards: Print one out for your special Duo

The Super Pink Pony is leading Week 2 with a fresh set of Lunar New Year items to earn. Joining it is the Super Heart Peacock, a bonus Duos Day themed breed. Both breeds are permanent additions to the Research Lab, and all event challenges can be completed until the event ends on Friday, February 27th.

• Lunar Bow | Collect Red Envelopes (1200)
  
• 1500 XP | Ride Emu (Meters) (750)
  
• Peach Hat | Use Throwables (10)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Get Kills With Common Guns (8)
  
• Incense Gravestone | Dance at the Bamboo Stage

• Super Pink Pony (Available in the Research Lab at level 60)
  
• Super Heart Peacock (Available in the Research Lab at level 70)

Duos Day is kicking off alongside the Year of the Super Horse event with a few bonus goodies to pick up before the event ends.


Forget about sending Valentine’s. Send love-filled bullets instead with the new Heart Bundle!

• Heart Magnum
  
• Heart Thomas Gun
  
• Dogna’s Heart Dartfly Gun
  
• Heart Dual Pistols

These items include a special heart effect when fired and will be available in the SAW Shop throughout the event (until Feb 27)!


The Duos Day Suit & Dress introduced in last year’s Duos Day celebrations have been permanently added to Carl’s Cart.

The popular Rose melee is also making its return. Earn it by playing one game of Duos in Super Animal Royale between now and the end of the Year of the Super Horse event on Feb 27.


Four brand-new Duos Day cards for 2026 have been added to our growing collection to print out and send to those special Duos in your life.

Check out the full set and print them out here![www.dropbox.com]

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Happy Lunar New Year and Duos Day! We’ll be back next week with one more round of new event goodies. Until then, we’ll see you on the island, Super Animals!

- Michael, Logan, & the Community team

Hay there, Super Animals: the Year of the Super Horse is here! To kick off the new year, we have three weeks of event challenges and rewards galloping your way.

Alongside the holiday event, we’ve included some targeted bug fixes and quality of life improvements for Super Animal World. Our bigger v2.1 Major Spring Update is still on the way too with major improvements and new features (see our Roadmap for all the details). But first, let’s saddle up and see what’s new for the Lunar New Year!

https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/637955472778854913

• Year of the Super Horse event (until Feb 27): 3 weeks of challenges, cosmetics, new NPCs, and festive island decorations.
  
• New Super Horse breed each week, starting with the Super Red Hare.
  
• SAW Shop: new Lunar New Year cosmetics, 80’s dance emote and the Stable Boy Bundle.
  
• Victory Island: Guan Yu set is now available for Carl Coins.
  
• Carl’s Cart: legacy Lunar New Year items from past events are back in the Cart.
  
• Quest Balancing: easier pearl hunting while their quests are active, plus multiple quest difficulty/requirement adjustments.
  
• Quality of Life: long-term quest tracking improvements, UI polish, and new animations.
  
• Bug fixes + performance improvements across CPU/memory, UI, and more.
  
• Pasta Twitch Drops run until Feb 27, with 5 cosmetics to earn.

To kick off the Year of the Super Horse, the SAW Lab Labs have created the Super Red Hare, based on the legendary steed of Guan Yu.

While you’re out on the island dodging bullets, Zombie Joes, and bananas, make sure to pick up Red Envelopes to restore a small amount of health and advance your challenges. You’ll also earn some bonus Red Envelopes at the end of each match.

Keep an eye out for seasonal Firework Crates and use them strategically: they explode when hit and drop Red Envelopes too!

In the Social Hub, the SAW Welcome Center fountain has been updated for Lunar New year, with seasonal music featuring instrumentals from Pang Wing Man, who we collaborated with after hearing their amazing cover of the Super Animal Royale theme with Chinese instruments a few years back!

Stop by the event kiosk to meet the new Super Siamese Cat NPC, Miao Nian, and learn more about the Year of the Super Horse. And if you’re visiting the SAW Bamboo Resort, keep an eye out for another new face: the Super Horse, Ma Ji!

• Lunar Aviators | Collect Red Envelopes (1000)
  
• 1500 XP | Break Firework Crates (2)
  
• Lunar Outfit (2026)| Get Kills (12)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Chop Bamboo Bushes (75)
  
• Lunar Umbrella | Land at the SAW Bamboo Resort

• Super Red Hare (Available in the Research Lab at level 60)

The Guan Yu set, previously only obtainable via Twitch Drops, has been added to the Victory Island Shop and its items can be purchased with Carl Coins!

We’ve heard you loud and clear on bringing back more legacy Twitch Drops sets, and we plan to make more of them available again in the future.

We’ve also added sparkling effects to the Golden Tophat and SAR Trophy melee to make them extra fancy!


Ms. Macawsome’s stocked the shop with six new standouts:

• Blue Chinese Outfit
  
• Traditional Chinese Glasses
  
• Hobby Horse melee
  
• Heart Collar
  
• Firecracker Necklace
  
• 80’s Dance Emote

Note: Heart Collar and Firecracker Necklace both use the neck accessory slot.



The Stable Boy Bundle is here, because obviously all these Super Horses aren’t going to groom themselves:

• Stable Boy Outfit
  
• Stable Boy Flatcap
  
• Broom melee
  
• Wheelbarrow Gravestone

All of the Lunar New Year items (including the Stable Boy Bundle) will be available in the SAW Shop for the full duration of the event, until Feb 27!


Legacy Lunar New Year items from past events are back in Carl’s Cart, and 2025’s Year of the Super Snake items are now in the event’s Super Legacy Item track.

Carl’s Cart items:

• Lunar Headband
  
• Lunar Flower
  
• Lunar Paper Umbrella
  
• Bunny Pendant
  
• Lunar Bunny Ears
  
• Water Rabbit Umbrella
  
• White Hanfu
  
• Hanfu Headwear
  
• Lunar Hat 2023

Claim Year of the Super Snake items from 2025 in the event’s Super Legacy Item track:


Before our v2.1 Major Spring Update arrives, we wanted to ship a few targeted improvements alongside this event based on your feedback, mainly around quest difficulty and tracking.

We’ve heard a lot of feedback about how long Gold and Black Pearls can take to obtain for their quests. Higher-tier pearls are still meant to be rare “flex” finds, but having quests for them made the grind feel more like a requirement than a long-term project.

Normal pearl drop rates are unchanged. However, while you have the matching pearl quest active, your first pearl for that quest has boosted odds from Giant Giant Clams:

• Gold Pearl quest: first Gold Pearl is 2x as likely to drop.
  
• Black Pearl quest: first Black Pearl is 4x as likely to drop.

They’ll still be rare, but this should feel more forgiving while you’re actively working on the quests.

For players who already completed them, we’ll be granting an additional 200 Carl Coins for the Gold Pearl quest and 2000 Carl Coins for the Black Pearl quest this week as a little recognition for completing them before this change.

The Purple Pearl quest now also awards 150 Carl Coins (up from 100).

Bonus: our composer Catbaux has released Louie’s version of the Crab Dance on YouTube!

• Several quests are now tagged as "long-term" and won’t appear on the HUD unless you manually track them. They’ll also sit at the bottom of your Side Quests list.
  
• Players working on Bwoking Dead quests that require playing as a Zombie Joe will now be prioritized to start the match as the Red Zombie Joe in The Bwoking Dead (space permitting).

We’ve also made a few difficulty tweaks to smooth out these quests:

• Quest "Emusing Ourselves to Death" now works in any game mode.
  
• Quest "Scout's Honor" changed from 3 to 1 flag capture.
  
• Quest "Insistent Gifting" changed to 1 kill required.
  
• Quest "The Gift That Keeps on Giving" changed to 1 infection.
  
• Quest "The Straight and Sparrow Path" changed to "Course Combat Course", a quest about using any weapon in racing.
  
• Quest "Chonky Tonk" now works in any game mode.
  
• Quest "A Speedy Steed" changed to 5km.
  
• Quest "War Horse" changed to 1 kill and now works in any game mode.
  
• Quest "Eagle Scout" changed to 3 flag captures.
  
• Quest "Zip-line Sting" now allows any type of zip-line.

• Made some animation changes that should improve CPU performance, especially on Switch or lower-end PCs.
  
• Donk has more sound effects now when idling/walking.
  
• Lab Labs now have their own unique animations with clipboards and vials.
  
• Added total animals unlocked count in the Research Lab.
  
• MTN entrance interaction overrides player interaction.
  
• Lowered Shotgun bullet spawn distance by 0.5 SAU (4 pixels) so it matches JAG-7 approximately.
  
• Pearl and other item show off animations now play sound based on rarity, similar to fish & bugs.
  
• Cardinal Bow & Sparrow effects are now visible to spectators.

• Fixed typos in various NPC dialogues, along with updated translations. We’re still actively updating translations.
  
• Fixed and polished several Hamster Ball race track lines.
  
• Improved memory usage on several different screens.
  
• NPC exclamation marks no longer update while off-screen, improving CPU usage.
  
• Fixed a bug where HUD Quest listings would sometimes show Side Quests over Story Quests.
  
• Fixed matchmaking pill briefly showing 0 on the ready timer.
  
• Fixed the position of squad members being too close in the victory photobooth (when it's 4 players).
  
• Fixed 2 crates on the map that were unbreakable.
  
• Fixed a tent roof and loot spot in Murre Woods.
  
• Fixed one of the roofs at Pixile Port.
  
• Fixed a Sea Land jellyfish wall that had z-order issues.
  
• Fixed an issue where opening Rebel Caches while connecting could cause the player to see an unopenable cache.
  
• Removed duplicate English subtitles for on-screen titles, and fixed a couple of broken subtitles.
  
• Fixed the map biome hotkey working while typing in the map screen.
  
• Fixed a bug where users in Australia and New Zealand had BananOS glitched. Sorry mates.
  
• Fixed Gold & Black Dress having wrong sleeve size.
  
• Fixed Cardinal Bow & Sparrow missing sparkle icon on Customize.

For those looking to earn more cosmetics and support Super Animal Royale streamers, you can earn five free cosmetics by linking your Super Animal and Twitch accounts on the SAR Drops website[drops.animalroyale.com] and watching Drops-enabled SAR streamers on Twitch[www.twitch.tv]:

• Pasta Suit
  
• Pasta Dress
  
• Pasta Bow Tie
  
• Pasta Bow
  
• Spaghetti melee

The campaign ends on Friday, February 27th when the Lunar New Year event wraps up. Go get your items before it concludes!

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We hope you all have an amazing time horsing around together in this year's Lunar New Year event. See you on the island, Super Animals!

- Michael, Logan, & the Community team

Hey Super Animals! Thank you for an incredible Super Animal World launch, and for all the feedback so far. It’s been a huge help as we plan what’s next, and it helped guide a lot of what we prioritized in the roadmap below.

We've also got a bit more context on what we’re focusing on first and why. Also: despite their size, we managed to sneak Super Elephants into the Research Lab this week. More on that later, but first let’s jump straight into what’s coming next to the island.


v2.0 was a massive lift for the team. It reshaped the game loop around the Social Hub, added story quests, and introduced new activities like fishing, bug catching, and hamsterball racing. Shipping all of that at once was a huge effort, but we didn’t want you waiting until 2026 to get your paws on it, so the team pushed hard to ship it by the end of the year.

The goal was to get a strong foundation in place and keep building on it this year. We wouldn’t call it “Early Access 2.0” because SAR is already a very mature game after 8 years of development, but for the Social Hub side of things, it’s the start of a new era of iteration. We’re getting back to regular quarterly seasonal updates, which means a faster feedback loop and more chances to polish and expand what v2.0 kicked off. We’re going to keep building on the Social Hub, but we’re also shifting more attention back to the battle royale and our other game modes, with improvements and polish across the board.

Everything in this roadmap is subject to change as we dig into building it all, but we wanted to give you a sense of our upcoming priorities and how we’re thinking about the next updates to SAR, while still keeping a few surprises up our super sleeves!

The Year of the Super Horse event kicks off next month with new Super Animals, challenges and cosmetics!

It’ll also include some smaller quality of life improvements, like tagging certain quests as “long-term” so they don’t clutter your HUD, tuning down a handful of quests that were a bit too difficult, and making Louie’s later pearl hunting quests more forgiving. We also spent some time cleaning up smaller stuff, like typos, a few hamsterball race track tweaks, and some behind-the-scenes optimizations that reduce memory usage (especially helpful on Switch).

This will be our first big update since Super Animal World, and we’re packing it with improvements based on your feedback. Now that v2.0 is live, we’ll be iterating faster with big seasonal updates throughout the year, starting with one early this spring.

You can look forward to highly requested UI upgrades like a search bar for cosmetics in Customize, faster and easier queuing (and re-queuing), and more polish across our newer screens and features. We’re also improving the Social Hub experience for groups, including making it easier to get onto the same server as your friends.

We’re shifting more focus back to the battle royale and our other core game modes too. We can’t share all the details just yet, but we’re actively working on it now, so keep the feedback coming. We’ve also heard you on match fullness, so we’re designing a Featured Mode system to encourage players to queue into specific modes (including Hamsterball Racing) at certain times, while still keeping your freedom to play what you want.

Beyond the Major Spring Update, we’ve also been planning the rest of the year and have a few items we’re particularly excited about to share.

You might have noticed the beaver construction site in the northwest of Murre Woods. The beavers are still hard at work, and later this year they’ll be unveiling a museum where you can view all the bugs you’ve caught. And yes, your fish will be getting a proper place to show off too. We’re also planning to keep expanding bug catching and fishing over time as we build out those systems and mechanics.

That’s right, we’ll be doing more collabs, and we already have a few lined up! We’re especially excited to team up with other indie studios and highlight games we love, like our collab with Snoozy Kazoo for the in-game Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion items (which will return once our new collab setup is ready).

If there’s an indie game or character you’d love to see in SAR, let us know. We can’t promise anything, but we’re always happy to reach out and see what we can make happen!

Despite SAR’s cute combatants and terrible puns, a lot of you have gotten really, really good at this silly animal game over the years, and we love watching it. We’ve always loved seeing your skill on display in things like SAR Tonight’s Superest Kills segment. We want to do a better job supporting competitive play going forward, while still keeping SAR easy to pick up and welcoming.

We won’t try to turn SAR into an esport (unless Donk and Howl force us), and we’re definitely not done adding wacky stuff either. But we do think there’s room to better support competitive play without sanding down the chaos everywhere else, and we’ve got a few ideas we want to test later this year. We also want it to still feel like SAR even when things get intense and competitive: friendly, funny, and not too serious.

Now that the Social Hub is up and running, it’s time to keep expanding it and adding more things to do. We’ve got new activities and world events planned, along with more quest lines and NPCs to meet.

If there’s anything you’d like to see added, let us know! Except gambling. Gambling gets suggested a lot and we can’t do that.


We figured you’d have a lot of questions, so we’re hosting a Reddit AMA on r/animalroyale this Tuesday, January 20th at 5pm PT until 6pm PT!

Come ask us anything about Super Animal Royale, Super Animal World, Pixile Studios, or what’s next! We’ll do our best to answer as many as we can. :)


And if you want another opportunity to hang out and ask questions, Pixile Plays is returning to Twitch next Thursday, January 22nd at 3pm PT! Join Kaity, Logan, and Michael as we play some games and chat with the community.

Make sure to follow our Twitch channel[www.twitch.tv] so you get a notification for when we’re live.


Now that we’ve addressed most of the elephants in the room… let’s address four more. (Sorry.) Super Elephants are available in the Research Lab!

• Super Elephant
  
• Super African Elephant
  
• Super Pink Elephant
  
• Super White Elephant

The Lab Labs are always working on new Super Animals, so let us know what you’d like to see next in the comments or on Discord.


https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/app/997360/Super_Animal_Royale_Soundtrack/
Catbaux’s amazing Super Animal World tracks are out now for your listening pleasure on streaming platforms like Bandcamp[catbaux.bandcamp.com], Spotify[open.spotify.com], and Apple Music[music.apple.com]! The Steam soundtrack has also been updated with the new tracks if you’d like to support Catbaux further.

Watch the full playlist on YouTube


At the time of posting this, our Dr. Dogna and Zombie Joe Youtooz pre-orders end in about 24 hours, closing at 12pm PT on Friday, January 16th!

Pre-order here: https://youtooz.com/collections/super-animal-royale

As a bonus, they both include in-game cosmetics:

• Dr. Dogna includes a code for the new Mini Tiger With Wire pet
  
• Zombie Joe Monitor Buddiez 2-pack includes two in-game Zombie Joe hats

We hope you enjoy this look into what we’re working on and we can’t wait to answer more of your questions! Your continued support means so much to us.

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See you on the island, Super Animals!

- Michael, Logan, & the Community team

It’s hard to believe Super Animal World has already been out for two whole weeks. It’s been a blast playing with all of you, and we’ve loved seeing your clips from around the island!

Now it’s time for the third and final week of CRISPRmas celebrations. With all three weeks now unlocked, you have until Friday, January 2nd to complete the full set of challenges and unlock all of the event rewards before CRISPRmas wraps up for this year.


A true CRISPRmas miracle has also arrived in the Research Lab: the Super Toy Horse! It may look like a hand-painted wooden toy straight from Santa Claws’ workshop, but thanks to Dr. Dogna and the Lab Labs, it’s fully alive, kicking, and ready to gallop its way to the top of the food chain. And as with all event breeds, it’s a permanent addition, so you can unlock it at your own pace, even after the CRISPRmas festivities conclude.

• Candy Cane Glasses | Collect Candy Canes (1337)
  
• 1500 XP | Smash Snowmen (15)
  
• Oversized Knitted Sweater | Get Melee Kills (3)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Dance at the Penguin Palace Stage
  
• Cinnamon Sticks | Get a Kill at Penguin Palace

• Super Toy Horse (Available at level 60)

Enter code CRISPRMAS in the main menu to redeem Santa Claws’ outfit and get into the spirit of giving! Just don’t ask where we got it. This one’s on him.

• Santa Hat
  
• Santa Outfit
  
• Santa Beard

Quick reminder if you’ve been thinking about grabbing one: our Super Animal Royale x Youtooz vinyl figure pre-orders are open until January 9th!

Pre-order here: https://youtooz.com/collections/super-animal-royale

As a bonus, they both include in-game cosmetics:

• Dr. Dogna includes a code for the new Mini Tiger With Wire pet
  
• Zombie Joe Monitor Buddiez 2-pack includes two in-game Zombie Joe hats

We hope you all love them as much as we do, and find really creative places to stick your Monitor Buddiez. Send us pics on our socials or Discord if you do!


We also rolled out a number of bug fixes this week. Additional fixes are still on the way for Nintendo Switch, so thanks for your patience. And thanks as well for all your reports! They’ve been a huge help in tracking down some of the issues that were harder to spot until servers were live and busy.

• Updated dialogue translations and fixed several cases where the dialogue bubble would glitch out due to formatting.
  
• Quests that end with a cutscene will now play the video even if the player cancels out of the dialogue early before getting to it.
  
• Reduced cases of “Matchmaking request timed out” errors.
  
• Players can now use the matchmake accept hotkey while fishing and during item show-off (accepting is no longer blocked).
  
• Fixed the BananOS character animation playing while fishing.
  
• Fixed a bug where the matchmaking queue wouldn’t reset for other party members if the party leader disconnected.
  
• Hit animation now plays for victims of the tundra monster.
  
• Fixed tracked quest UI not updating progress.
  
• Fixed Bug Spray melee missing a swing sound.
  
• Fixed gems appearing in the Welcome Center after using the photo booth.
  
• Fixed the gem reveal emote not showing gems in transparent photo booth photos.
  
• Controller users with (A) bound to 'Use / Pickup' no longer have NPC dialogue and responses accidentally skip.
  
• Fixed binding (A) on controller glitching out in settings.
  
• Fixed one of the mole NPC icons being incorrect.
  
• Fixed the Supercharge Fox icon.
  
• Fixed Fish Frenzy on the map sometimes appearing blank.
  
• Fixed a missing translation on the default controls popup.
  
• News entries now only show the external link icon when they open in your browser rather than in-game.

If you want to see all the huge new features included in the Super Animal World expansion that launched earlier this month, including Week 1 of CRISPRmas challenges and rewards, check out the full Steam patch notes here:
https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/622187705533466306

Week 2 of CRISPRmas can be found here:
https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/843380/view/648085384362722669

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Before we sign off for the holidays, we wanted to express one more extra-big thank you to all of you. Super Animal World is the single biggest project we’ve ever attempted, and these past few weeks have been a whirlwind, so it’s meant a lot to see so many of you showing up with your friends to play and enjoy it.

We’re going to take some much-needed time to rest and recharge, and then come back ready to keep polishing, improving, and building on this new foundation for the game. We’re also really looking forward to getting back into a steady rhythm of quarterly major updates so we can move faster and keep expanding SAW in meaningful ways.

Once we’re back and have had a chance to digest all your feedback, we’ll share a clearer look at what we’re focusing on next, along with a few of our biggest takeaways from launch.

Until then, we hope you all enjoy the holidays and have fun on the island, whether questing, exploring, or battling. Merry CRISPRmas and Happy New Year, Super Animals!