October 3 Update

October 3, 2026

Halloween has arrived, along with new rounds, a Quiver, the Booster Cookie, and a lot more to do in the Escape menu.

Halloween theme: The Escape menu, menus and HUD now wear a spooky look. Use the switch at the bottom of the Escape menu to turn it on or off.
Halloween gift: Play for an hour, then claim your gift from the Game tab in the Escape menu. It pays out over three hourly claims and includes Halloween crates, special rounds, a title and some Premium+ time.
Broker bonus: Brokers pay extra on sales for the whole season, and the sale menu shows it.
Hallowed weapons: Nine Halloween crates of Hallowed guns are in Unbox for October. Every pull is announced to the server.
Loading screens: The loading screen now dresses up for the season, too.

Five new rounds: Armor-Piercing, Hollow-Point, Shatter, Siphon and Rubber. Bram sells and makes some; more now drop from kills.
Round wheel: Hold R once your gun is full to pick from the rounds you carry. Right click cancels.
Quiver: A new bag just for rounds. Every gun fires the round you choose from it. It opens at Crab Carapace III and grows as you go.
Bleed: A new element. Sanguine creatures use it, and Barbed rounds leave it behind.
Knives: Knives now have their own level, with abilities that unlock as you climb. The Lightsaber and Knife ladders now run to level 60.
Store weapons: The guns you own from the Store now live in a Store Weapons section of your inventory, so reforges and mods stick to them.
Accessories: Accessories now go one to a slot, and you can list them on the marketplace.

Booster Cookie: Eat one for four days of boosts, including skill XP, remote market access and banking. Every account gets one free, and more cost 675 shards in the Store.
HUD: An active cookie shows on your HUD with its time left.

Blood Moon: A new sewer event with red water, a much bigger horde and better pay.
Fog: A grey haze closes in and sneakier hunters take over.
Champion Pack: A small elite pack appears far off. Wipe it out for a reward.
Blackout: Longer or shorter each time, with tougher enemies and more scares.
New bosses: The Hag, the Butcher, the Plague Mother and the Pale One can now rise from the sewers.
Zombine: The Legendary Zombine throws a live grenade.
New species: You now get a popup the first time you kill a new creature.
Level-ups: The HUD lists every unlock you earn.
Ocean: Diving up an artifact can now wake the ocean's own creatures.

New abilities: The Hunter, City Scanner, Manhack, Antlion Guard, Vortigaunt, Mouse, Walrus and Antlion Worker pets all gained abilities.
Leveling: Pets now level only from jobs that match their skill, and Taming is harder to level.
Health max: The Health stat from pets can go higher.

Profile: Open a full profile from the Escape menu, showing your jobs, time played, level, XP and what each earned. Open anyone's profile from the Players tab.
Jobs earnings: The Jobs tab shows what each job really pays.
Quests tab: Rebuilt with a new layout, and Jack now takes up to three commissions at once.
Community Rewards: A new tab shows this week's rewards, with a card on the home screen.
Settings: Settings is now a tab in the Escape menu.
Scoreboard: It now shows people who are still connecting, who played in the last day, and the city's named NPCs with a map waypoint.
World events: The game menu lists live world events.
Item cards: Cleaner layout, with the item's tag in a ribbon across the top.

Retro Miner: Pickaxe abilities (R uses, Ctrl+R switches), daily perks, Bits pouches and drops that differ for each ore. Bars are now ordinary inventory metals.
Pharmacist: You now earn XP for mixing, cooking, freezing and clean presses.
Hub merchants: Bram's goods are spread across six merchants around the Hub.
Shops: Every shop has a Sell all button. Prices you can't afford are muted.
Marketplace: Bank items and sacked materials now show on the Sell tab.
Sacks: Merchants count what's in your sacks.
Auto-sell: Auto-selling loot to Bram is switched off.
Government jobs: These, gang jobs and armed jobs now need a few levels first.
Donors: A banner thanks new supporters, and you can thank them back from the Downtown hub.
New players: Protection ends the moment you attack.

Performance: Smoother frames around zombies, doors, ground items, bitminers and the HUD.