Latest updates and patch notes for Degen Idle
Hi team, its that season again! Bloomtide Festival is live from March 31 - April 14 (00:00 UTC). Along with this seasonal skill we have some QoL changes.
Travel to Bloomtide Festival to access Bloomtide skill and Burrow Bash content. Gather Bloomtide Eggs, craft Bloomcores, and take on the bloom. Train your Bloomtide skill to gather Eggs and craft Bloomcores to unlock the dungeon. Enter Burrow Bash dungeons using Bloomcores and earn Bloomtide Tokens with a chance at the Petalix pet every run. Challenge the world boss Verdrath for exclusive rewards including the Lumiflora pet.
Pet Upgrade System - You will be able to upgrade your existing pets by combining them with pets of the same type. Doing so will increase both level and rarity. This system allows players who did not get a high rarity pet on their first try to progressively improve their pets over time and eventually reach much higher rarities through gameplay.
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Guild Hall - Guilds will be able to upgrade their Guild Hall, unlocking global bonuses for all guild members. Examples of upgrade bonuses include:
Each upgrade will require a build timer, such as 2 days to complete, and will consume existing guild resources that members donate daily. These upgrades are designed to reward active and coordinated guilds over time.
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Guild Territories - Guild Territories allow guilds to take control of sections of the world to gain powerful benefits for all members. Key details:
Territories enter contention every 4 days, and guilds can level them up for additional bonuses. If your guild loses control of a territory, all territory levels gained will be lost. Capture methods may include:
Captured territories will display the controlling guild name directly on the world map for all adventurers to see.
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Combat Changes
Other Changes
🎅 New Event: The Gingerbread Uprising (Dec 14 - Jan 4)
You can teleport to the event for free via the Map in Outpost.
New Content
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Stability Over the past few weeks, we made a major behind-the-scenes infrastructure upgrade to make the game more reliable and responsive.
We were running into platform-level rate limits that were outside of our control. These limits caused tasks to fail, progress to stall, and actions to occasionally not process correctly. Even though nothing was wrong with your characters or actions, the game could not keep up consistently, which is frustrating and not acceptable for an idle game where reliability matters most.
To fix this long term, we moved to infrastructure that gives us full control over performance, scaling, and reliability. This allows us to handle significantly more players, process tasks consistently, and prevent progress from being lost due to external limits.
At the same time, we rebuilt how the game frontend is delivered and hosted to better support a real-time, always-on experience. The previous setup struggled with lag, slow updates, and global performance. The new approach lets us serve the game closer to players around the world, resulting in faster loads, smoother interactions, and more responsive updates, especially during combat, markets, and long-running tasks.
These changes were not flashy, but they were necessary. They improve performance today and give us a strong foundation for future features, events, and higher player counts.
Thank you for sticking with us while we made these improvements. The game is now faster, more stable, and built to scale.
--- New Features Removed market price limits for more flexible buying and selling Added Market filters Website is now globally distributed (more improvements to come)
New Items
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Bug Fixes
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Known Bugs
Happy Holidays, Adventurers 🎄