Improved loading and reduced wait times and errors when adding or removing map members

Crafting dialog now displays five ingredients across, and shows VIP in requirements

Resolved an issue where the "VIP Expired" message persisted in players' mailboxes after renewing VIP. Messages will now automatically disappear after a few days.

Fixed an issue with Avatar wardrobes. Updates now ensure valid Avatars are saved even when wardrobe items are removed.

Glass Bottle Production - Crafting wines will now require a glass bottle that can be produced in Stoneshaping

Mash Production - New Mash recipes added to Cooking Skills which will be used as ingredients in some wine recipes

Recipe Unlocks - Wines unlock at the same Business level as the equivalent seed in Farming (eg. Scarrot Wine unlocks at Level 60 to match Scarrot Seed's unlock level)

Wine Recipe Tiers - Wine recipes now follow the tiering system: 0-19 (T1), 20-39 (T2), 40-59 (T3), 60-79 (T4)

Crop Requirements - T2 - T4 wines now require the main crop + a crop from the tier below.

Berry Blast - added to T2 - T4 wines as a coin sink.

Energy Gain Adjustments - Energy gain increased for most wines, except Grainshine which has a slight decrease.

Production Times - Wine production times range from 12 minutes to 60 minutes

Progression Balance - improved progression in energy gained, energy used, and XP awarded across wine tiers

Fixed bug where legacy VIPs were losing their legacy timestamp

Fixed Map Members Removing/Adding Back Members Out of Order on Map Permissions

Backend Performance Updated

$PIXEL rewards adjusted to round to a whole $PIXEL unless less than 1

Heidi's Swag Bag: Collect the various swag from the Vendors around the Binance Stadium to earn 3 PixTix from Heidi which you can use to purchase one merch from the Binance Truck.

Play Maul-a-Skaul to collect teeth and use them for supplies to craft Ump-O-Lanterns to smash for REWARDS!

Join Barney in his spooky bat-wrangling adventure! From now until Halloween, 3 bats will appear in new locations around Pixels every day. Players must catch all 27 bats over the course of 9 days to complete the quest. Don’t miss a day—previous bats will vanish as new ones appear! Completing the quest will reward you with reputation and a special Halloween treat: the Power Sour candy, which gives you 1000 energy and a breath-refreshing boost. Get ready to hunt those bats and celebrate Halloween in style!

Denis the Dentist's Haunted Harvest is a Halloween-themed event running from October 23 to October 31, 2024. Players can participate in various spooky activities to earn rewards and collect unique items.

Minor adjustments made to Task Board to reflect player feedback

Honey, Eggs, Seltsam Eggs, Glue and Shorelimes have become tradeable again

Storage Chests now stack to a size of 10

Bomb-Shells readded to the Stoneshaping Kit

Added Segmentation by Skill Type

Daily Task Limits - Only a number of tasks for each skill can be offered each day

Maximum of 40 Tasks per skill regardless of specialization

Maximum of 4 of any skill, at any time, on the task board

Task List has been updated, including adding Business to the Task Board

New smarter Reputation System designed to better reflect a community member’s contributions to Pixels. The improvements include calculation changes and analysis of both on-chain and in-game activities to strengthen anti-botting measures & to combat coin inflation.

New Energy Drink added to store: Berry Blast

Disabled trade and sale of consumable energy

Adjusted the $PIXEL price for Coins in the Bank [also accessible by clicking on Coins] will be pinned to USDC price, similar to VIP.

Full Winery has been removed from Terra Villa

A new Basic Winery has been added to TV, capable of crafting single-quantities of Popberry Wine, Grainbow Grainshine, and a few others.

Only T1 will be available to start.

Existing Wineries on NFT Lands are all T4 and will be renamed “Vintage Wineries”.

Reputable Banker - Spend $PIXEL to buy a Coin coupon from the bank store to increase your Reputation score!

Increased Land Surplus to 4-6% based on associated map skill

Blacklisting Ability now available

Land Owners will now have VIP status (land must be held for 7 days)

Certain mail drops will expire after 30 days.

This will not affect existing mailbox items.

Existing VIPs will have the current expiration date saves and used to qualify for 1% fee rate

Moving forward, VIPs will use the new rates

Crafting Mix has been re-added to the store

Recipes that required Voidite Matrix have been reverted to Voidtonium

First Pass at Gacha Boxes and item durability teased in Halloween Quests

Land Flowers only plantable in Large Land House Solariums

Water Flowers only plantable in Large Water House Solariums

Space Flowers only plantable in Large Space House Solariums

Astracactus only plantable on NFT Space farms

Watermint only plantable on NFT Water farms

Grainbow Flour and Sack of Flour are now crafted in Windmills & give Business Skill XP

10-second craft time on Popberry Jam

Turn in only 1 Popberry Jam through task board

Small mining step added before gate opens

Completing barney’s triggers 2 of the newbie quests (these quests are also triggered by talking to the NPC)

Welcome To The Buck’s Galore, Quality Goods From Ceiling To Floor! (triggered from intro & through buck) - Learn what the Buck’s Galore has to offer. Talk to Buck about his wares at Buck’s Galore in Terra Villa!

Shoulda, Wood-a, Coulda! (triggered through intro & through jack) - Introducing the Woodworking Bench. Bring 3 Whittlewood Logs to Jack or get them by chopping down Trees marked with spraypaint.

A Rocky Start. (through Sandy) - Introducing the Stoneshaping Kiln. Bring 1 Log from a Tree and 2 Clayum Matrix from a Mine back to Sandy.

That’s So METAL! (through Smith) - Introducing the Metalworking Station. Bring 3 Copperite Ore back to Smith.

Off To The Daily Grind. (through Gill) - Introducing the Mill. Bring 2 Grainbow to the Mill for processing.

The Apparel Heir Apparent. (through Tex) - Introducing the Textile Station. Bring Tex 6 Silk Fiber and 4 Silk Slug Slime.

Winery? More Like Sublimery! (through Winona) - Introducing the Winery. Bring 24 Popberries, 10 Cooking Mix and 3 Honey to Winona.

Up to 9 dead crops can now be removed at once

NEW REPUTATION SYSTEM WAS ROLLED BACK DUE TO BUG. SET TO RE-RELEASE IN COMING WEEKS.

Fixes:

Crafting changes:

Some UGC creation fixes

Task Board

Variable fee rates on trades and memberships

Analytics and metric tracking improvements

Withdraw and deposit now automatically disabled during server updates

Reputation point tracking improvements

Entity improvements

Colyseius updates

Bookmark updates

Quest and inventory checks improvements

Bug fixes:

Ability to transfer state between entities and items. When using an item to place an entity, it can pass basic parameters to the entity, and when removing an entity using the REMOVER, it can initialize the state on the item for placing in inventory or the mailbox (some removed entities go to mailbox)

Moved computation of Discovery Point calculations from external service into the game server during the normal save map process

Modified map saving to use fewer db operations

Added support for Industry Limits for specific industry types as well as specific entities.

Added support inheritance on ITEM scripts (item can inherit from another item)

Task board draws task blueprints evenly for each skill. Meaning, you are just as likely to get an Animal Care skill as a Cooking skill, even if there are hundreds of cooking tasks defined and only 1 animal care task

Added support for more speeds on shoes

Reduction in redundant requests for the same images (lowers server costs for people w/o local cache)

Fix telemetry / recaptcha process (reduces unnecessary recaptcha generation, which lowers cost)

Change URL for recaptcha, reducing problems with ad blockers

Fix bug reloading game dialog strings (helps players when quest is pushed between updates and players have not reloaded client data)

Fix scrolling bug in Marketplace listings

Changes to error messaging (already live, launched mid-sprint)

Improved error handling in some circumstances

Optimizations to all database updates

Migrating the main Terra Villa map to reduce file sizes

Position Decision Quest migration

Other migrations that get us ready to launch Barney’s Bazaarn game

Guild Taskboard support, required refactoring all taskboard code

Updated Colyseus version

Mongodb update

Changes to leaderboard code to support segmented leaderboards

Analytics improvements

Cooking task updates

Preparation for Wedding and upcoming quest

Update to collision detection when placing entities on lands. Checks for identical entities overlapping

Display overall level on player info dialog

New Quest!

Storage entity naming

24-hour land ownership requirement before getting taskboard benefit implemented

Guild handle is now displayed in the player info screen

Restrict overbuilding of maps via overlapping entities

Backend preparations for upcoming Guild Wars event

Various bug fixes

Display guild name on "Planted By" text (if they have pledged)

Only allow players in the same guild to water each other's growing crops

After the crop is grown, only land owner or manager can water, regardless of guild

You can retrieve seeds by trying to water a growing crop on a soil you had things planted on

You can retrieve seeds by trying to harvest a grown crop on a soil you had things planted on

Trees now require a random number of chops (anywhere from 2-11)

Trees now only have two cutting phases - Mature & Stump

Daily Login Reward increased to 300 coins

Added Page Perry Pixel Pavillion Parley Maze Quests

All crops will die within a similar timeframe (~5 hours)

Earned XP and energy requirements of Astracactus and Watermint adjusted for balance purposes

4-leaf Clover crop will live forever only on the user's land

Only a builder, manager or owner can water full-grown crops to extend their life

"Needs Water" will no longer be displayed on fully-grown crops

A timer will appear on a fully grown crop after a certain amount of time, unless builder, manager or owner continues to water it. The timer counts down to when it will die.

Soil state indication: changed to be more useful and make it easier to tell when a crop is dead or needs to be watered.

Cooldown lowered for Bulk Purchasing [Automatic Buy]

Player Ownership when Placing Trees now displays properly

Removing Unused slots on task board when player loses VIP

Fixed Red Areas when moving/placing things

Expired Quests Removed from Quest Count

Fixed Scrollbars appearing on Skills in Gate UI

Bed Energy Timer now properly displays across multiple beds for the same owner

Karen Quest now properly checks for Speck Creation

Announcement of Winery Industry overhaul coming in ~3 weeks with all new types of drinks!

Temporary Winery rebalancing to address issues caused by the previous imbalance, allowing users to be able to essentially craft infinite energy:

Rebalanced the task board to favour higher-tier & higher-level tasks:

The task board has been reconfigured to give more consistent daily $PIXEL earnings!

Completion of the Shorelime 2024 Quest rewards 325 Reputation points

X (Twitter) Social connection in Dashboard fixed

Implement prevention of rapid clicking on AutoBuy to bypass cooldown

Bug fixes:

Stoneshaping & Metalworking have been added to Skills

The Leveling Curve has been adjusted [EXP between levels has changed]

Skills have been consolidated and migrated from Chapter 1 in the following manner:

Tiering System for the following industries have been added:

The Machine inside MOI has been refurbished with recipes

Barney's BarnBQ Recipes have been updated with relevant cooking recipes

Tier 1 for each industry added to Terra Villa Central

New art & recipes added to industries with advanced tiering system

Growth times, and industry times have been greatly reduced

Otherspeck Mines have been converted to Tier 4 Mines with faster production time

Specks have received a complete overhaul. Each beginner speck receives the following:

Each Speck has a total of 5 possible Upgrades

Tier 1 Industries can be placed immediately

Tier 2 industries can be placed on the 4th & 5th upgrade

You can now place as many industries as you can fit on your speck!

The following Tool/Industry Tiers have been added to the game:

Over 100 new recipes & items added to the core loop

Stack Sizes have been adjusted to x99

Industry limitations have been removed, and you can now place as many industries as you can fit on your land!

NFT Owners/Managers can only place industries if they are the appropriate level

Tier 1 - 4 industries can be placed on NFT Lands

Lands with the Light/Dense tree traits have increased tree drop rates

Large NFT Lands have more square footage than Small NFT Lands

Speck Houses can be upgraded 2 times

Speck Houses are equipped with a Tier 1 Stove, their Infinifunnel, a bed where you can recharge energy, and a wardrobe to place wearables

Small NFT Houses come equipped with the same aspects of a Speck House, except it is fully upgraded, has a Tier 4 Stove, a cave basement & its very own pool

Large NFT Houses have all of the same aspects of a small NFT house, with the addition of a Solarium where decorative flowers can be planted

Some internal aspects of a house can now be modified! You can change wallpaper, flooring, bedding, and even add paintings to the walls!

Task Board has been renamed to the Infinifunnel

The Infinifunnel has been upgraded to match the new tiering system

The Infinifunnel can be accessed via your Speck or NFT house [no longer accessible via Buck's Galore]

You can now remove marketplace items even if you do not have enough space for the full listing [Items will be partially removed equal to the amount of bag space available]

Jerome's Store: New Flooring, Wallpaper, Paintings & Bedding

VIP Shop moved to Pixels HQ

Buck's Store: Tier 1 Industries, Tier 1 Tools, new tiered crops!

Pet Shop: Chicken, Slug and Bees have been relocated.

MOI: Infini-Portable Added for purchase!

Barney's Bazaarn: New Flower Seeds & Football Added

Regular Energy Regen Rate has been adjusted

Crops are no longer edible

Grilled Items have had their energy adjusted to align with Chapter 2 changes

Brand New Avatar Creation System

Bag Space has increased by 12 slots [2 rows]

Moca Storage Chests have been upgraded to 6 rows

Terra Villa has been reorganized

Fountain replaced by Hot Air Balloon

All NPCs have received a visual update!

New Animation effects for collecting Coins & $PIXEL

Many older quests have been archived

Players with existing accounts had their items migrated, and some of those items have been upgraded to higher tiers.

Guild owners can now transfer ownership of their guild

Guild owners can now pledge to any guild [not only their own]

Fixed bug where using Pet Inventory sometimes caused external areas to be un-clickable

Fixed bug where UI Audio wasn't playing at times

New Batch of Genkai Avatar Art Updated

Guild Pledging is now available!

Land Gate settings have been updated to match

Help Button now opens basic information instead of leading to Help Center

LOG OUT button now has a confirmation dialog

Additional pop-up dialogs can be closed with ESC

Hover text on objects in-game will not show when holding items

All future recipes show in crafting dialogs

COLLECT ALL from Mailbox will display a notification if nothing can be collected due to full inventory.

When storage container or crafting table is removed, other players open dialogs will close

Increased size of ORDERS tab on task board

Fixed the incorrect display of some items in Marketplace

Fixed the HAIR selection in avatar builder

Flashing on Task Board reduced

Player Movements not showing to other players fixed

Can now remove owned items from the Gate even if Gate is Locked

Land Owner/VIP tasks are now color-coded on Task Board

Gate Buttons have been adjusted

Styling has been updated on Crafting Menus

Item Tooltips have visually changed

Discord and YGG Quest Reputation reduced

3 second cooldown for buying

Accounts are limited to 5 listings at a time

0.5 energy to purchase items from the MP

10% price buffer on listings

Task board algorithm adjustments

HUD highlighting for new items in backpack

Crafting Recipes now listed by Tiers

Mailbox Improvements

New items available in the Decor Store:

Secret ornament placed around town (& more coming soon!)

Get a MocaID or connect existing via the Pixels Dashboard > Social page

New Moca Clubhouse in Terra Villa!

Connected MocaID gives access to 5 Mocaverse avatars

Mocaverse NFTs are usable in-game as avatars

Complete 3 quests to earn rewards

Players can log in using their Ronin Wallet

To add a Ronin Wallet to your existing account, read more here

Pixels in-game token is now live on the Ronin chain

Available to trade on Katana (coming soon)

Play Pixels Carnival games to earn tickets

Redeem tickets at a Prize Trailer for a chance to win: Pets, Industries, Decorations, and more

Mint your pet at a Pet vending machine

Hatch Pet Capsule in-game

Bump-A-Grump:

Corn Maze:

Left-Right:

Beat The Crowd

Orange Grumpkin Seeds

Cotton Candy Seeds

Contribute to resolving the town’s shortage of Orange Grumpkins, essential for the renowned Grumpkin Spiced Lattes

Galactic Grill: crafts 15 packs of pet food

Submarine Sizzler: crafts 10 packs of pet treats

Basic BBQ: crafts 1 pet treat at a time

OtherSpeck Trailer & Prizes

Terravilla has shrunk!!

City Hall becomes Pixels HQ

New Pool & Sauna

Daily rewards are back!

The bank has a new look!

Push Notifications

New Road

OtherSpeck Release! Head to https://play.pixels.xyz/otherspeck & get going!

Crops no longer live forever!

Event Calendar and Submissions

Enhanced Land & Travel UI

PLOT & MOI Transformations

Marketplace moved to Upstairs Bucks

Decor Store Opens in TV

New authentication system

Shorelime Beach Party Map + assets

New Mayor in Office

HUD Improvements

New Maps around Terra Villa

Dashboard Redesign

Rewards

Skills Tab Improvements

Terra Villa is now a permanent Bookmark

Farm Share Link

New Outfits

UGC Tool

Leaderboards

New HUD!

Tastemakerz Rewards

Barney’s BarnBQ

Fuy Gieri Quest

Marketplace Improvements

PLOT UI Update

Pixels Trivia

Quantum Recombinator in Landowner Basement

Muckchuck in Hazel's shop

New buildings in Terra Villa North

New Mayor: Chicken Pet

OKX wallet login integration

The Outhouse Store

$PEPE integration

New NFT land gates

Tastemakerz game!

Marketplace release

$BERRY withdraw & deposit officially open

Notification on the mailbox in HUD (upper right corner)

Secret staircase now open to landowners

New infrastructure (servers)

Universe-specific backpacks

Universe-specific bookmarks

Mailbox (for items, not messages)

Limited-time Easter quest and avatar art!

New Rainbow Road art

New VIP hotel pool!

Initial support for delegate.cash

Mayor voting now open

User profile updates

New trash bin art

Sound updates

Users can now toggle music & in-game sounds on and off

Trade value now displayed on trading board

In-game link to community-run wiki pixelsdata.xyz

Secret staircase (coming soon to a landowner near you)

VIP release! https://pixels.xyz/vip 🎉

Dashboard release

Withdraw & Deposit $BERRY (not enabled until audit passes)

Mayor nomination is open!

Pets table - go add some ingredients!

NuCyber World Release!

Click & release items to more storage (no longer drag & drop)

Bug Fixes

New limited-time quest: Luck of the 4 Leaf Clover

New clover crop!

New OG item

New Top 200 item

Bug fixes

New Crops!

Winery Industry: New Bottle Types!

New Quests!

Terms of Service

Users will now have to pay 1000 $BERRY to change their username

Map skills are now on the land's gate

Avatar & VIP Kiosks in TV

The Road update: Land Neighbors!

Industry degradation: chickens, slugs and queen bees die over time

New Heartbeets crop and Valentines Day quest

New industry: Winery!

Pixels VIP Testing

Users can now walk away from warp

New Limited Quantity Decoration (only 10 available)

More inventory space for Land Owners

1 more bookmark spot for Land Owners

Major infiniportal update

New small craftable storage entity

Timestamps next to chat messages

Pet store in TV

Some new signs in TV

Crafting in bulk available for more resources now

Can now load more than 200 integrated NFTs

Bug fixes

Trading has a new field for entering # of items to trade

Crafting Updated: dialogue will stay open unless it should close because it requires resources (kiln and wood stove)

Mine Updated: player will receive different bonus items depending on the environment type:

New Industry blueprints are available through Bitsi's store at the Ministry of Innovation

New Industry: Textile Mill launches! A new crafting table type. The associated skill is Textiler

New Industry: Apiary launches! Buy Queen Bee in-store to add to apiary and activate it. The associated skill is Beekeeping.

New Industry: Slug Hutch launches! Requires a slug from store. The associated skill is Slugger.

Trash cans can be crafted for farms

Various changes to crafting recipes, buy & sell prices, xp

Other bug fixes & improvements

Coinbase Gaming Day quest

New Holiday quest!

New decorations and time-limited decoration store

Some bug fixes with existing decorations

Minor in-game art touch-ups

Crafting Bug Fixes

New Holiday Maps!

Mute & Trading Restriction Features for Moderators

Bug fixes

Thanksgiving quest turned off

2 new industries! Mine & Kiln

2 new skills: Mining & Ceramicist

There is both a Mine and Kiln in the outskirts of Terra Villa

New forestry resources

A new coop resource

Mining resources

New kiln recipes

Several balance tweaks to existing resources

Crops now show as “ripe” instead of “dead” if the crop turns ripe before the soil dries out

Bug fix for purchasing mini plot lands

ESC to close player profile window

SPACE to goes to the next dialogue

Build area fixes

Notification when you've unlocked achievements

Eating an egg will now give you energy

New tree explosion animation

Farm Charm Crystals are now 100x the points that it was before

All data deleted from the KYC

Player-to-player trading is now live

The energy bar is now shown as total energy points instead of percentages

Energy regeneration has been increased from 12 energy/hr to 20 energy/hr

A new crop is available!!! Go buy some butterberry seeds (must be level 2!)

Trees will now take a bit longer to grow back

Floating chat bubbles to talk are back!! & a new look for NPC names

There’s now a search bar in the store

A world map located in Terra Villa is now available

There’s a new graphic for Seltsam Eggs

The Discoverability Crystal is now called the Farm Charm Crystal

NFT Lands

Coop

Windmill

Houses

Forestry

Woodburning Stove

Woodworking Bench

Skills & Levelling System

Trash Can

Build from Inventory

Mover & Remover Tools

In-Game Purchasable Land

Improved Store UI

Old Farm Painting & Access

Discoverability Crystals & Road Rank

User Permission System

Map Storage

Gate & Bookmarking System

New In-Game Locations

Quick Travel Infiniportal

Innovation Blueprints & Kits

New Characters

New Quests

Click to Walk

Level Progression Achievements

Help Center