The Year of the Super Dragon is here! Super Animal World is celebrating the triumphant release of Super Dragons with all-new Eastern Dragon breeds, 15 event challenges, 9 new event cosmetics, and more.
Year of the Super Dragon Event
From now through Friday, February 16th, the event is in full swing! Here’s how it works:
When each week begins, a set of five weekly challenges will unlock for you to complete, with three of these challenges awarding you with the event’s new cosmetic items. Once each week’s challenges have unlocked, you’ll have until the event ends to complete them and earn their rewards.
Each week also debuts a new Super Animal breed (or breeds) in the Research Lab! As always, Super Animals introduced as part of an event are permanent additions so there’s no time limit to unlock them. Take your time and pace yourself!
Red envelope collectibles can be found all around Super Animal World that’ll not only count towards your challenge progress but also restore a small amount of health when picked up. You’ll also earn them from completing matches.
Crates full of firework bundles will spawn in and around S.A.W. Bamboo Resort. You can destroy or shoot them to cause a small damaging explosion, dealing 40 damage at the explosion’s center. They’ll also drop red envelopes for you to pick up.
The island is also decorated with a brand new Welcome Center fountain complete with new music by Catbaux, and festive Bamboo Resort updates like the new dragon statue and couplet on the entrance gate.
We’ve got three weeks of challenges and rewards arriving over the course of the event, so let’s dive right into what has arrived today for Week 1:
Year of the Super Dragon Week 1
To celebrate the Year of the Dragon (and by very popular request) three Super Dragon breeds inspired by Eastern Mythology have been added to the Research Lab! That means we’ll be introducing 5 new Super Animal breeds total for this event, starting this week with the new Super Eastern Dragons.
5 Challenge rewards to earn
Dragon Necklace | Collect Red Envelopes (1000)
1500 XP | Break Fireworks Crates (2)
Dragon Jacket | Get Kills (12)
750 Carl Coins | Chop Bamboo Bushes (75)
Dragon Paper Umbrella | Land at the S.A.W. Bamboo Resort
New Super Animal breeds
Super Eastern Dragon
Super Lunar Dragon
Super Golden Dragon
New in the SAW Shop
The Mime Bundle is new in Ms. Macawsome’s shop, and the animals are not gonna be silent about it. It includes:
Mime Hat
Mime Outfit
Mime Skirt
Eiffel Tower melee weapon
You can also pick up the new Chew Toy melee weapon and Messenger Bag in the SAW Shop, too!
New in Carl’s Cart
Cackling Carl’s got some new stock, too - by popular demand from our French community, the Baguette melee weapon has been added to his rotating stock! We promise it only deals damage because it's so delicious, not because it’s gone super stale.
You can also pick up the new Teal Onesie outfit from Carl’s Cart.
Super St. Bernard is in the Research Lab
In case you missed it, the Super St. Bernard breed of Super Dog is here to keep you warm through the winter! You can unlock it in the Research Lab any time you’d like, starting at level 1.
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank is Out!
We collaborated with our friends at Snoozy Kazoo in late 2023 to bring you our first-ever crossover event, and they’ve finally released the new game that the event was based on: Turnip Boy Robs a Bank! We’ve been having a ton of fun with the new game ourselves - including on the latest Pixile Plays stream - and who knows, there might be some unexpected but familiar faces deep in the bank for you to discover…
Plus, our sound designer and composer, Catbaux, collaborated with Snoozy Kazoo’s Okinoth to make some amazing collab tracks!
Listen to both tracks on the Super Animal Royale x Turnip Boy Robs a Bank EP on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon Music and other major music streaming platforms!
For those who missed the Turnip Boy Robs a Bank crossover event in SAR, don’t worry, you'll have another opportunity to get your paws on its items in the future too!
Big Things in the Works for Super Animal World
The Dragon’s Loot Update has been out for a month now (hope you've all been having a ton of fun with it!) so we wanted to share this schedule again in case anyone missed it for what you can look forward to next from the game.
After The Year of the Super Dragon event, up next will be the ReSpawning Day event (as well as a couple more surprises scattered in between), and then we’ll be sharing more about the anticipated Top Secret Project. We know you’re excited to see what we’re working on and we can't wait to show you when it's ready!
Join us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord to keep up to date on the upcoming weeks of the Lunar New Year event and all Super Animal Royale news. We’ll see you on the island!
Happy Boxing Day: CRISPRmas Week 3 is Here!
Happy Boxing Day, Super Animals! Week 3 of the CRISPRmas event begins today, with Super Swans a swimming into the Research Lab and a final batch of challenges to complete and rewards to earn as we approach the New Year.
5 Challenge rewards to earn
New Years Tophat | Collect Candy Canes
2000 XP | Smash Snowmen
New Years SMG | Get SMG Kills
750 Carl Coins | Dance at the Penguin Palace Stage
New Years Suit | Get a Kill at Penguin Palace
New Super Animal breed
Super Swan (available to unlock beginning at level 10 in the Research Lab)
Code CRISPRmas
Santa Claws came to town and we hope you all had a wonderful CRISPRmas! If you missed seeing it on social media, don't forget to enter the coupon code “CRISPRMAS” before January 5th to get these in-game items:
Santa Hat
Santa Outfit
Santa Beard
Cardboard Bundle & More in the SAW Shop!
Today’s Boxing Day, so to celebrate, Ms. Macawsome’s got some new items in stock like the Cardboard Bundle! This set includes:
Cardboard Crown
Cardboard Costume
Cardboard Sword melee weapon
You can also get the new Box Cutter melee weapon from the SAW Shop: the only thing that cardboard-clad knights truly fear.
The Scrooge Twitch Drops Set is Live!
Bah humbug! The Scrooge Twitch Drops Set is available to earn. Watching any Drops-enabled Super Animal Royale stream on Twitch will get you:
Scrooge Suit
Scrooge Tophat
Scrooge Cane
To start earning Twitch Drops, you’ll need to link your Super Animal and Twitch accounts using the SAR Drops website, if you haven’t already. The campaign will be live until Friday, January 5, so be sure to earn the Scrooge Set before then!
That’s everything for this week’s announcements! Keep up with everything coming in the New Year on our Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord. We hope you had a wonderful year, and we’re looking forward to dropping into 2024 with all of you!
Week 2 of CRISPRmas is here!
Merry CRISPRmas, Super Animals! We hope you’ve been good, because Santa Claws is comin’ to the island soon. Week 2 of the event begins today, so we’ve got a new set of festive rewards and challenges to share with you. Check it out!
5 Challenge rewards to earn
Tartan Bow | Collect Candy Canes
1500 XP | Skate on Ice (Meters)
Brown Winter Coat | Deal Damage with Grenades
750 Carl Coins | Eat Speed Mushrooms
Cocoa Mug Gravestone | Break Snow-covered Crates
New Super Animal breed
Super Cinnamon Sugar Beaver (available to unlock beginning at level 40 in the Research Lab)
SCCmas Twitch Event
A group of our Super Content Creators have also been hard at work planning their own stream event to spread some CRISPRmas cheer!
You can enter the command “!SCCMAS” into the Twitch chats of live, participating streamers to earn free SCC items.
Enter the command in at least 5 participating streams to receive a code for a free SCC item of any participating streamer.
If you enter the command in 6 streams, you can receive 2 codes for free SCC items of any participating streamer!
Follow participating streamers to get notifications when they're live:
For more information, you can read Fluffub's announcement post on Twitter!
Read the Full Patch Notes
If you missed the full patch notes for the Dragon’s Loot Update and CRISPRmas, check out all the details right here on everything packed into it and whats coming next: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/3857959344049728266
Keep an eye on SAR’s Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord for more announcements coming up including Week 3 of the CRISPRmas event! Until next time, we’ll see you on the island, Super Animals.
v1.9.2: Legends Come to Life in the Dragon’s Loot Update
A mythical new update has arrived, bringing with it the long-anticipated addition of Super Dragons! These fiery newcomers aren’t the only thing we’ve got to show off, so strap on ye olde knight’s armor and wizard’s garb, for ahead of us is a grand journey through everything new in the Dragon’s Loot Update.
Highlights
The Dragon’s Loot Pass is a treasure trove of fantasy-themed cosmetics to earn, including sets like the Wizard and Ranger outfits, the Penguin Palace Photo Booth scene, Coconut Canter emote, and of course, the adorable Mini Horse pet. Just… don’t try to ride it into battle.
The Season 10 Starter Pack DLC is now available, and features the delightful Super Fairy Skullcat.
Super Dragons have been released from their slumber to the Research Lab, with 6 distinct breeds to unlock!
It’s the jolliest, most genetically-modified time of the year: CRISPRmas! For the next 3 weeks, new weekly challenges and Super Animal breeds will unlock as the event progresses. There’s a ton of legacy items to earn, too!
A wealth of UI improvements, gameplay changes and bug fixes have been implemented to improve player experience.
It’s Super Animal Royale’s 5th Anniversary! To celebrate we have a coupon code for 4 free items, a new Super Animal, and a sneak peek of some of what’s coming in 2024.
The Dragon’s Loot Pass
Gather your fellowship, Super Animals, because the Dragon’s Loot Pass is a golden hoard of classic fantasy-themed cosmetics to earn. It’s like an island-wide LARPing session… just with weapons that aren’t made out of cardboard.
During Season 10, the Dragon’s Loot Pass will be available for a discounted price of 550 S.A.W. Tickets.
As always, you can continue working on passes you own from previous seasons on your second track for as long as you need, and you can purchase them from The Archive for 750 S.A.W. Tickets.
Season 10 Starter Pack DLC
A new season means a new Starter Pack DLC, available all throughout Season 10!
The Starter Pack DLC for last season (Season 9) will be going into the vault on December 19th, so if you’ve had your eye on the Super Kitsune and its set, don’t forget to get it before then.
Thar be Super Dragons
The highly-requested Super Dragons have awakened from their slumber to burninate the competition! As the island’s first mythical Super Animal species, they intend to prove why the tales of yesteryear held them in such fearsome regard.
Super Dragons are available in the Research Lab beginning at level 80, with six total breeds to unlock (two of which are Wyverns with a unique design):
Super Dragon
Super Orange Dragon
Super Forest Dragon
Super Superite Dragon
Super Ice Wyvern
Super Black Wyvern
We get a whole lot of requests for mythical species, and Super Dragons in particular, from all of you, and they’ve been in our plans for a long time so we’re so excited to finally release them from the labs! The whole team was so thrilled to see all the excitement for them when we released the first teaser trailer (above), and we hope you’ll all love their season.
Peace on Earth is Overrated: It’s CRISPRmas
As winter arrives, Super Animal World is ready to celebrate everything CRISPRmas means to its Super inhabitants: friendship, generosity, peace (for now), and most importantly, the miracle of genetic modification! The event includes:
3 new Super Animal breeds
15 challenges to complete with 9 new event cosmetics
20 legacy cosmetics return from previous CRISPRmas events
This year’s event functions differently from past years, with challenges to complete to earn the rewards. Here’s how it works:
When each week begins, a set of five weekly challenges will unlock for you to complete, with three of these challenges awarding you with the event’s new cosmetic items. Once each week’s challenges have unlocked, you’ll have until the event ends to complete them and earn their rewards.
Each week also debuts a new festive Super Animal breed in the Research Lab! As always, the animals are permanent additions so there’s no time limit to unlock them!
Candy canes are scattered around the map to consume for a small healing effect and to count towards some of your challenges.
Snowmen (or are they snowanimals?) have been built around Thomas’ Tundra! You can smash them to get some candy canes, and some of the event’s challenges will require you to destroy them.
CRISPRmas Week 1
We’ve got three weeks of gifts to unwrap this CRISPRmas, so check back for new Steam news posts each week with the debut of a new Super Animal breed and challenges!
Here’s what’s coming down the chimney in Week 1:
5 challenge rewards to earn
Candy Cane Tie | Collect Candy Canes
1500 XP | Smash Snowmen
Present Outfit | Get Kills
750 Carl Coins | Chop Grass
Present Tophat | Land on Ice
New Super Animal breed
Super Icicle Deer (available to unlock beginning at level 10 in the Research Lab and featuring transparency!)
New SAW Shop and Carl’s Cart Items
Ms. Macawsome’s got some new items in stock, just in time for CRISPRmas! The Street Art Bundle is available now, as well as the stylish Checker Glasses!
The Street Art Bundle contains the following items:
Street Artist Outfit
Street Artist Bandana
Spray Paint melee weapon
Carl’s Cart also has some new additions to its rotation: Balloon Swords! They come in three colors (red, blue, and green), and don’t ask Carl how he makes them deal as much damage as a typical melee weapon. They just do.
UI Updates
The game’s user interface has received some improvements and fixes that will help to save time and add clarity.
Cosmetic & item icons now load from hard drive dynamically instead of on game launch. Considering how much SAR has grown over the years, this change will help improve load time and save hundreds of megabytes worth of memory usage.
When viewing cosmetic items, users may now briefly see hamster ball load spinners depending on hard drive speed.
Adding an animal in the Photo booth now refreshes from Customize each time, in case there were changes made to the preset.
Fixed a bug where the "Show Pet" toggle in the Photo Booth wouldn't work if you had updated your preset with a pet later.
Fixed the game modes screen being bugged on first launch for new players in certain regions.
Fixed two bugs with death explosions in the shop: changing tabs while mousing over an explosion would position it in the wrong spot, and controller users changing shop tabs would leave the explosion running overtop of the character.
Changed 'Grenade' to be 'Throwables' for hotkey settings.
Gameplay and Map Changes
Several hamster balls and Giant Emus are now available to use in the pre-game lobby!
Banana Forker healing has been reduced from 25 to 20 HP.
Additionally, the Banana Forker no longer increases range and healing from event currency items like candy canes.
Slightly increased banana drop rate from slicing grass.
You can eat mushrooms, coconuts, and health fruit while downed. No hands required!
Added priority back for the "Ride Emu" interaction, which should make dismounting to gather ammo easier, similar to before. Note that SvR flags, mole crates, Giant Mole boss crates, and downed teammates will not be overridden by a nearby emu (also similar to before).
While riding a zipline, input for chain-riding versus exiting should be more accurate now, as previously it was very generous on detecting inputs to continue the ride.
The Super Sea Land gift shop now has animated screens.
You can now see other player characters picking up coconuts, mushrooms, and health fruit (previously, only your own character performed the animation).
Cleaned up a few muzzle flashes so the last animation frame isn’t as easily mistaken as a bullet.
Reduced collisions behind the Giant Mole boss.
Added a private match command for /saw # and /rebel # to force a player to be on a specific SvR team.
Improved player name tag position lag at low FPS.
Fixed a spot at Lab to Table where emus would get stuck.
Fixed a collision spot in Pete's Swamp between thorns and a stump.
Fixed shadows on Le Waddle wall.
Fixed Security HQ table having zip-lines go under it.
Adjusted conveyors so bananas don't spin in circles on the corners. Sorry little dudes, no free rides.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a shadow sometimes appearing for broken hamster balls.
Fixed a bug where breaking different types of destructible objects would only play the sound of one type.
Fixed duplicated sounds when eating multiple things on an emu.
The emoting while parachuting bug should be fixed.
Fixed a bug where swapping to a weapon just after dropping it (while at higher ping) would leave the character stuck on the dropped weapon.
Fixed vertical flicker issue with controllers and petting mini animals.
Players spawning far in the skunk gas in the Bwoking Dead should be fixed now.
Fixed event loot items fading out if on screen while becoming a Zombie Joe.
Fixed bots not being able to go into secret rooms.
Fixed some hit-reg issues when in high ping mode and shooting at walls.
Several minor soft crashes should be fixed now.
Celebrate SAR’s 5th Anniversary and Big Things Ahead in 2024
To celebrate Super Animal Royale’s 5th anniversary with us, enter code BIRTHDAY to get 4 items:
Pixile Anniversary Firework melee weapon
Pixile Umbrella
Party Beads
5th Anniversary Cake Gravestone
The new Super Piñata Donkey has also arrived in the Research Lab in time for the party, but the Lab Labs asked me to advise you against trying to find out if there’s candy inside: this piñata fights back.
It’s crazy to think of how far Super Animal Royale has come since its Early Access debut half a decade ago on December 12th, 2018, and we can’t wait to share all the big things we have in the works for its sixth year.
But before we look forward, we’d be remiss not to also look back and celebrate the exciting year we’ve shared with all of you. This year marked the first Respawning Day and the new event system for Howloween, the first marine Super Animals and Super Sea Land, the Photo Booth feature, the game’s first-ever collab with Turnip Boy Robs a Bank, the Super Merch Shop and to top it all off, we officially crossed the 10 million total player mark this summer.
We’re so proud of what we’ve built and that so many of you enjoy playing it, and as big as 2023 has been, we can’t wait to make 2024 even bigger. We couldn’t do any of this without all of you in the community, so from all of us at Pixile, thank you so much for your support in building this world together that we all love to spend time in.
Before we sign off for this update we wanted to give you a bit of a peek at some of what we have planned next for the game, but we’re saving the biggest surprises for next year. Here’s some of what’s coming up next after CRISPRmas concludes in the new year:
We can’t wait to share more of what we’ve been working on for 2024 when it’s ready, and in the meantime, we hope you have a ton of fun with the Dragon’s Loot Update and CRISPRmas!
For week 2 and 3 CRISPRmas announcements be sure to follow SAR on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky and Discord, or check back here on Steam each Tuesday at 10am PT.
Pixile Plays Stream Tonight at 5pm PT
If you’re reading this on launch day, tune in for a Pixile Plays live stream tonight at 5pm PT on Twitch to join the Pixile team in celebrating the game’s 5th anniversary, playing the Dragon’s Loot Update, and answering your burning questions: https://twitch.tv/Pixilestudios
Last Chance to Get Super Skullcat & Fox Plushies
It’s also the last chance to get your order in for the Super Skullcat and Fox Plushies (with included in-game emotes)! Order by December 17th to get yours, and for anyone purchasing both, Makeship is offering 10% off.
We hope you’re all as excited as we are to get our hands on them when they ship in March! Codes for their emotes will be sent out within 1-2 weeks of the campaigns ending (depending on Makeship’s holiday hours since the campaigns end close to CRISPRmas).
We’ll see you all on the island, Super Animals, and happy holidays!
Announcing The Dragon’s Loot Update and a Double XP Weekend!
On Tuesday, December 12th, The Dragon’s Loot Update arrives with mythical new Super Dragons, CRISPRmas, and a new Season!
Super Dragons have been one of the most popularly requested Super Animals and we can’t wait for you to get your claws on them. We'll be showing off more from the update over the next month, so keep your eyes peeled on our Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, and join us in our Discord for more reveals!
Double XP Weekend
Pump up those jams even louder: The Party Animal Update’s Double XP Weekend is here!
From now until the end of Sunday, November 26th, all experience from dailies, weeklies, and matches will be doubled! If you have tiers remaining on the Party Animal Pass or need a couple more levels before Super Dragons arrive, now’s your chance to get them.
Double XP also applies to account level and any pass from the Archive that you have activated on your second Animal Pass track. So even if you’ve already completed Season 9’s Animal Pass, don’t miss the opportunity for you and your squadmates to make some gains on archive passes!
Watch Super Content Creator Blondie_420 and earn her Twitch Drop!
Last Friday we also announced our newest Super Content Creator collaboration with Blondie_420! Blondie has been a long time content creator and community member (since way back when we were in Early Access) and has been a huge supporter of the game ever since. We’re thrilled to get the chance to collaborate with her and recognize all she’s done for the game!
Until Tuesday, December 12th, you’ll be able to earn her Classy Health Juice melee by watching her stream on Twitch for 30 minutes. Follow Blondie’s stream here to check when she’s streaming next!
As always, there will be additional ways to obtain the Classy Health Juice melee after the Twitch Drops campaign ends both from Blondie and eventually in Carl’s Cart, so if you can’t make it to her streams this time, you’ll have more opportunities to get it later!
Makeship Updates - We’re 100%+ Funded
In case you missed our previous announcement, we have Super Skullcat and Fox plushies available on Makeship until Friday, December 8th and they’re already both 100% funded (in less than one day, no less) thanks to your incredible support!
There’s still time to place yours if you want to own the closest you can get to a real Super Animal! For those who pick up both, Makeship is offering 10% off.
Both campaigns will run for three weeks until Friday, December 8th, and the plushies will only be available during the campaign window before they go into production.
The Super Skullcat plush has a velcro paw just like the Super Fox, which means you can swap its magnum weapon and health juice can with the Fox’s pistol!
Each plush comes with a coupon code to redeem in-game for an emote that lets your Super Animal walk around the island with a Super Skullcat or Fox plush of their own!
We hope you enjoy this weekend’s Double XP event and we can’t wait for everyone to share more with you about The Dragon’s Loot Update coming next month. See you on the island, Super Animals!
Super Skullcat and Fox Plushies are Here
The Super Skullcat plush campaign is LIVE! It’s Super Animal World’s favorite little genetic anomaly, now small and (mostly) nonviolent enough to cuddle.
We’re also super excited to announce a second run of the Super Fox plush alongside the Skullcat! If you missed out on your chance to get it during the first run, you’ve got one more chance to get it now. And for those who pick up both, Makeship is offering 10% off.
Both campaigns will run for three weeks until Friday, December 8th, and the plushies will only be available during the campaign window before they go into production.
The Super Skullcat plush has a velcro paw just like the Super Fox, which means you can swap its magnum weapon and health juice can with the Fox’s pistol!
Each plush comes with a coupon code to redeem in-game for an emote that lets your Super Animal walk around the island with a Super Skullcat or Fox plush of their own!
Check out both plush campaigns here on Makeship: https://www.makeship.com/shop/creator/super-animal-royale
Super Merch Shop Restock & New Stickers
We also have updates to our own Super Merch Shop with new emoji stickers and limited restocks of the Health Juice Sippy Can, Tumbler, and S.A.W. & Rebel Flags.
Supplies are limited for pre-CRISPRmas shipping, but if you miss the above items this time, we’ll be doing another restock in the new year. We’re also starting to run low on certain t-shirt designs and for those we don’t have restocks planned, so if you’re interested in any of our current shirt designs, be sure to pick them up while they’re available.
We also have updated shipping options, so for most destinations shipping should be slightly cheaper than before!
Browse the Super Merch Shop here: https://merch.animalroyale.com
New Update Coming Soon
There’s a new season on the horizon and we’ll have news to share about it Super soon! Make sure to keep your eyes on our socials so you don’t miss any of the upcoming teasers and reveals:
Super Bearded Dragons have arrived on the island, and they're ready to bask in the heat of battle.
The Super Bearded Dragon and its three additional breeds are now available in the Research Lab (available to unlock starting at level 40):
Super Bearded Dragon
Super Grey Bearded Dragon
Super Red Bearded Dragon
Super Yellow Bearded Dragon
Pixile Plays Stream this Evening
Join us tonight from 5 to 7pm PST on Pixile Plays where we’ll be showing off the Super Bearded Dragons and playing rounds with viewers on Twitch! In addition to the new time, we’ll be announcing some other changes to the stream, so we hope you’ll be able to join us.
Tune in for the cold-blooded fun on Twitch: http://twitch.tv/pixilestudios
Skullcat Plush Teaser
We’ve been hard at work with our friends at Makeship again, and we’re excited to announce a new plush campaign, starting Friday, November 17th at 12pm PST! Soon, your Super Fox plush will have the perfect buddy (or mortal enemy, either one works) with new items to trade into its velcro paw.
The Super Skullcat plush comes with a magnum weapon and health juice can to swap between, as well as a digital code for the new Skullcat Plush Emote!
Visit its store page on Makeship to sign up for an email reminder when the campaign goes live: https://www.makeship.com/products/super-skullcat-plush
It's Aliiive! Howloween's Back, With a New Event Format
The island is in the Howloween spirit again with a haunting fountain, spectacled specters, an undead delivery mole and more! The event this year has a brand new format, with three bundles of challenges, rewards, and Super Animals that will roll out each week, so let’s skulk right into the gorey details.
3 Goulish Weeks of Challenges & Rewards
Today through November 10th at 10am PT, Howloween 2023 is haunting Super Animal World, with a brand new event format we hope you’ll all love.
5 spooky challenges unlocked per week to complete.
Once each new set of challenges unlocks, you’ll still be able to complete previous weeks’ challenges until the end of the event.
A new Super Animal breed releases each week for a total of 3 spooky breeds throughout the event. As always, these new breeds will be added permanently to the Research Lab.
There’s still Candy Corn to collect too, as well as new jack-o-lanterns to smash, both of which are tied to new challenges and rewards.
Candy Corn also provides a small heal when collected, and jack-o’-lanterns drop Candy Corn when smashed.
We’ve added a few extra days onto the end of the event, so it’s slightly longer than three weeks to give you time to complete all the final challenges at the end!
As part of the new event format, earning select legacy holiday cosmetics will now require the Super Edition DLC, and can be unlocked by collecting Candy Corn.
Your support is what allows us to keep making the game, and we appreciate it so much. We try to keep all our monetization as light and player friendly as possible, and felt that this design makes a lot of sense alongside our Animal Pass Archive system where passes from previous seasons can still be purchased even after they end. In this case, a single DLC that many of you already own will give you access to legacy items for all of our events moving forward rather than charging for them directly! We’ve also increased the number of new free items per holiday event to 9, up from 8, and we’ve moved 7 legacy Howloween items to Carl’s Cart to unlock for free.
Without further ado, let’s jump right into the content for each week of the event! This post will be updated to showcase the new Super Animal and event cosmetics released each week, so check back as the event progresses to see what’s revealed for week 2 and 3.
Howloween Week 1
5 challenge rewards to earn
Spider Necklace | Collect Candy Corn
1500 XP | Smash Jack-o'-lanterns
Howloween Photo Booth Scene | Get Kills
750 Carl Coins | Replenish Health From Campfires
Witch Hat Umbrella | Land at the Graveyard in Pete’s Swamp
New Super Animal breed
Super Sewer Rat (available to unlock beginning at level 20 in the Research Lab)
Howloween Week 2
5 challenge rewards to earn
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“HOWLOWEEN” Coupon Code Returns
Returning from previous Howloween events, from now until November 10th, you can enter the coupon code HOWLOWEEN in the main menu to get the… very unique Howl Mask cosmetic. Take your Howl Michaels cosplay to a whole new level (of uncanniness)!
Super Summer Finale Artist Collaboration
Autumn may be in full swing, but it’s never too late for an end-of-summer beach party, so we wanted to take a moment to recognize the amazing work of 30+ community artists who took part in this self-organized collaboration piece! The amount of love and talent poured into fanart like this from all of you never ceases to amaze us, and we hope projects like this will continue to inspire more incredible collabs for years to come.
And, with that, we’ve doled out all the treats we have to give out for Howloween so far, but be sure to check back on this post each week of the Howloween event to see the new rewards and animals that have been released. You can also keep an eye on SAR’s Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord for more announcements including an upcoming Twitch Drops campaign! Until next time, we’ll see you on the island, Super Animals.
v1.9.1: Turnip the music, the Party Animal Update is live!
The wildest end-of-summer party Super Animal World has ever seen kicks off today for Super Animal Royale’s ninth season.
The guest list includes the new Super Caracal, Super Blobfish, Super Komodo Dragon, and… Turnip Boy! The rancorous root vegetable has burst out of his upcoming game, Turnip Boy Robs a Bank, to crash SAR’s party in our first ever 2-week collab event, featuring wanted posters to tear up and cosmetic items to unlock.
Highlights
The Party Animal Pass brings 49 tiers of festive party favors including gun skins with animated firework muzzle flashes, the rockin’ Hound Dog emote, Croc Club Photo Booth Scene, Mini Croc pet (just watch your fingers around him) and more.
The Season 9 Starter Pack DLC is available, featuring the enchanting Super Kitsune!
Twelve new party guests have arrived, fresh from the Labs! A wide variety of favorite Super Animal species have gotten new breeds, including the Super Caracal, Super Blue Poison Dart Frog, and the Super Blob Fish.
Pixile has partnered with Snoozy Kazoo for SAR’s first-ever collaboration: a 2-week Turnip Boy event! Tear down wanted posters and complete challenges to earn six Turnip Boy themed cosmetic items in a brand new event format.
SMoMA has updated its displays to feature the finalists of the Life of the Party Super Fanart Contest!
A moshpit of quality of life changes and bug fixes round out this update, including bot changes, a light matchmaking system for the SAW vs Rebellion game mode, and more.
The Party Animal Pass
In Season 9, the island’s inhabitants are doing what Super Animals do best, which is killing. But, they’re ALSO doing what Super Animals do second best: throwing a wild party!
The Party Animal Pass includes tons of party favors, with some especially fun additions like the Mini Croc pet (watch your fingers), the Crocodile Club Photo Booth Scene, weapon skins with unique firework muzzle flashes and sound effects, and a Disco Umbrella skin that has a custom eject sound.
During Season 9, the Party Animal Pass will be available for a discounted price of 550 S.A.W. Tickets.
As always, you can continue working on passes you own from previous seasons on your second track for as long as you need, and you can purchase them from The Archive for 750 S.A.W. Tickets.
Season 9 Starter Pack DLC
A new season means a new Starter Pack DLC, available all throughout Season 9!
The Season 9 Starter Pack features these Japanese folklore inspired items:
A party is only as exciting as its guests, and so to be sure the Party Animal Update has no shortage of partying animals, the Lab Labs have released 12 new breeds of favorite Super Animal species!
Unlock each of them in the Research Lab once you reach the appropriate level for the species they belong to:
Super Caracal (Cat)
Super Blobfish
Super Tiger Tiger Shark
Super Gummy Shark
Super Elephant Seal
Super Blue Poison Dart Frog
Super Fire Hawk
Super Inverted Skunk
Super Flamingo (Seagull)
Super Komodo Dragon (Lizard)
Super Tibetan Fox
Super Sacabambaspis (Fish)
Turnip Boy Collab Event
Turnip Boy’s thirst for crime can no longer be satiated by his own games (Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion and his upcoming sequel, Turnip Boy Robs a Bank), so he’s crossed over to cause some mayhem in Super Animal World!
From now through October 10th, you can complete challenges and tear up wanted posters to earn Turnip Boy themed cosmetics in this newly revamped event format.
Earn six Turnip Boy-themed items via event challenges:
Soil Revolver magnum skin
Turnip Boy Leaves
Turnip Chan Outfit
Turnip Boy Umbrella
Turnip Boy Wanted Poster gravestone
Soil Sword melee weapon
The Turnip Boy-inspired Super Apple Cat has also arrived in the Research Lab!
The event won’t be your last chance to get your paws on them, so if you miss the event, just keep your eyes peeled for future opportunities to unlock them.
You might notice when you visit the Welcome Center that Turnip Boy has left its iconic fountain a bit worse for wear (you know how he feels about animals), but you’ll get to enjoy a new Turnip Boy X SAR track from Jake Butineau and Snoozy Kazoo’s Jake “Okinoth” Currier for the 2 weeks of the event!
We’re super excited to hear what you all think of our first-ever collaboration project and new event format, and are proud to hit this milestone with our friends at Snoozy Kazoo. We’re huge fans of the first game, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, and for any of you who are fans of single-player roguelite games, you should definitely keep an eye out for its sequel: Turnip Boy Robs a Bank, which launches later this year and is available to wishlist now. You may be surprised by what you’ll find in the Botanical Bank…
The party has started in SMoMA’s gallery
The Super Museum of Modern Art’s Ephemeral Collection has been updated with the finalists from the recent Life of the Party Super Fanart Contest! The overwhelming amount of entrants and sheer level of creativity on display from all of you completely floored us yet again, and it was super hard to narrow down the finalists. Thank you so much to all of you who submitted your artwork to the contest!
Ms. Macawsome’s stock has expanded once again with a new bundle and emote! She’s always one to be improving her catalog… or would it be parrotalog?
Diner Bundle, including the Diner Server Dress, Hat, and Milkshake melee weapon
Hit the beach for an end-of-summer luau with the new Hula emote
We have three colors of party hats to watch out for in Carl’s Cart too that will be rotating in this week.
Quality of Life Improvements
A soft matchmaking system has been implemented in the SAW vs Rebellion game mode. At the start of a match, teams are balanced based on player level for an improved and more balanced experience. This means you won’t get your helmet until the match begins and your team is assigned.
Scout I’s skunk bomb count has been reduced to 1, and Scout II’s to 3.
Teammates in the SAW vs Rebellion mode no longer trigger friendly Lucky Cat Mines. This will allow them to be more useful, as players often found them being accidentally detonated by allies in large-team modes.
The Wave emote is now a milestone reward, achieved by playing 20 team-based games.
The legendary BCG’s max damage has been lowered from 76 to 72. This will make it typically still able to two-shot players wearing level 1 armor, but now fairly unlikely to two-shot players wearing level 2 & 3 armor.
Common magnum damage at the muzzle has been increased from 51 to 53, and uncommon magnum damage has been increased from 54 to 55. This keeps them more in line with the rare magnum.
Up and down melee swings have been adjusted to occur within 40 degrees of north and south aim (previously, this was 30 degrees).
Throwables now make a sound while traveling mid-air to better alert players of their presence.
Sparrow trackers can now apply to Giant Emus.
Removed local rollback upon death, so higher ping players don't feel like they are teleported after dying.
While dead, the chat field will now show a message about not being able to type (and block text input) for all-chat.
Added creep (walk) and creep (idle) to the photo booth.
Exclamation alert badges that notify about Photo Booth Scenes that are earned now appear on the main menu and the Photo Booth tab.
Added a support code option for email-linked players in Manage Account.
Bot Tweaks
Many changes have been made to the game’s bots to improve the player experience, especially for newer players.
Bots aim more smoothly, making them more realistic in how they look around, and with fewer abrupt snaps.
Bot aim has more randomization now.
Pursuit range, aim, and vision have been reduced against lower level players (below level 40).
Fixed hunting rifle bots shooting too quickly.
Bots will roll less while pursuing players under level 20.
If targeting a downed player, bots will look for new enemies in line of sight that are not downed to prioritize before the downed player.
Lowered attack speed of bots slightly.
Zip-and-Go Improvements
Carry/place limit is now 4 (6 with bandolier).
Zip-and-Go throwables now spawn in the world as packs of two rather than individually.
Deployment animation has been lowered from 0.50s to 0.39s.
Drone speed is 30% faster.
Increased minimum exit time after riding, to reduce spam [E] clicks causing accidental exit.
Server predicts exit position and waits based on player ping to avoid players seeing themselves stuck in water.
New Private Match Host Functions
Private match hosts now have a /weight command:
This command can be used to regenerate the loot table with various weapon spawn weightings, while in lobby.
Valid weight types include ‘all’, any gun class, any gun ID, and any grenade ID (with values from 0.0 to 5.0).
Priority is given to the most specific type, for instance ‘/weight all 0 gunhuntingrifle 1’ will allow for a match with only hunting rifles.
It is important to note that the weight value is a multiplier on the original weapon weight, so the minigun is still zero spawn chance in the world, even with a 5.0 weight.
Mole crates are not affected by weight but a weight of zero will stop a weapon from being in the drops.
Weight does affect rebel caches as well as grenades/bananas from grass and breakable crates.
For mystery mode, weights are applied after any mystery mode specific modifiers.
The command ‘/weight reset’ can be used to reset all weightings.
Private match hosts can also enter a ‘/mystery #’ command to change the Mystery Mode type in the lobby. One minor thing to note is that if picking Western mode, all player hats will change to a cowboy hat, but changing to another mystery type will not undo the hat.
Other functionalities have been added for private match hosts, as well:
Added ‘/kill all’ command for private match hosts.
Added ‘/nade’ command for private matches, to spawn grenades.
On PC, ‘/netdata’ command now shows packet loss.
Map Updates
Added animated jellyfish & water to some of the tanks at the Super Sea Land aquarium!
Added posts to many boardwalks around the map, especially at Super Sea Land.
Updated the shape of the sand islands at Super Sea Land.
Improved collisions at the aquarium by removing the rocky corals and removing collisions from tube corals.
The Sea Legs Restaurant’s side hut has been revamped.
Stage seating was updated at Super Sea Land so players can walk between rows. A barrier has also been added at the water's edge.
Improved rail visibility around the Super Sea Land stage.
Widened some door openings around Super Sea Land and added patios.
Adjusted Super Sea Land stage lights and added markings where the stage TVs fell in the animated YouTube short.
Crates near the broken saw mill line that blocked collisions abnormally have been moved.
Fixed some construction walls at Beaver HQ that were able to be hidden behind.
Fixed a corner of the houses at S.A.W. Villas that could be seen through.
Bug Fixes
Fixed upward melee swings not able to hit fences if right against them, and fixed downward swings sometimes not playing tree-hit sound.
Fixed phantom mole crate pulse appearing on the map if viewing it after the mole has left.
Fixed map being openable while the report panel is active.
Fixed the water at Nautitorium stage not being treated as water for throwables such as bananas.
Fixed z-order on Nautitorium rails especially with zip-lines.
Fixed pets sleep sound playing repeatedly in the fruit press if you died there at the end of the conveyor belt with a pet.
Fixed being able to board teammate emus through walls.
Fixed a bug where changing emus and eating a second speed mushroom would add the stacked effect to the second emu.
Fixed giant emu and your own mushroom speed boost timer getting mixed up when dismounting/remounting an emu while both boosts are active.
Healing emus no longer incorrectly contributes to the healing stat & milestone.
Fixed sparrow tracker position on player when riding a giant emu. Sparrow will also match the direction the player and emu are facing.
Fixed a bug where grenades and other throwables being tossed while becoming a Zombie Joe would end up stuck on the map.
Phantom respawn timer in the Bwoking Dead should be fixed now.
Fixed Zombie Joes spawning in the fruit press. Might have to recall those last few batches of juice…
Fixed a bug where changing to MP4 in the photo booth didn't do transparent checkbox toggling in one case.
Fixed friends in the Photo Booth not having their proper gem level after being duplicated.
Fixed gem emote flipping the gem upside down in the photo booth.
Fixed controller bug with navigation on the Customize emote tab not showing an emote when using dpad-left.
Fixed random vertical flickering for controller users when drinking or taping.
Can no longer change the fill toggle while matchmaking (prevents desync bug).
Big Things Coming to Super Animal World
We also wanted to take this opportunity to share a little bit of what you can look forward to next in Super Animal Royale, after the update.
You might have noticed that this season is a little more focused on quality of life improvements, seasonal content and new animals than our previous update, and that’s because we’re working on something really big for Super Animal Royale in parallel. We’re super excited about it, but we’re not quite ready to talk about it yet aside from that you can look forward to it coming in 2024.
In the meantime, we’ve packed the schedule for the rest of 2023. After this update and the Turnip Boy event, you’ll be able to look forward to Howloween and CRISPRmas in the brand new event format, another update in December, and lots of additional surprises sprinkled in between.
We’re very excited for all the big things coming in SAR’s future, and we hope you’ll all have a ton of fun this season with the Party Animal update and the Turnip Boy collab event.
We’ll see you all at the party, Super Animals!
With Season 9 on the horizon, it’s time for a Double XP Weekend!
With the Party Animal update and Season 9 kicking off at the end of the month, we’re hosting a Double XP Weekend to help you finish off your Animal Passes!
From today through Sunday, September 10th, XP will be doubled from playing matches and completing daily/weekly challenges.
Double XP also applies to account level and any pass from the Archive that you have activated on your second Animal Pass track. So even if you’ve already completed Season 8’s Animal Pass, don’t miss the opportunity for you and your squadmates to make some gains on archive passes!
Your invitation to Season 9’s party is here
The wildest end-of-summer party Super Animal World has ever seen kicks off on September 26th! The guest list includes a wide array of new breeds including the Super Caracal, Super Blue Poison Dart Frog and Super Blobfish.
The v1.9.1 Party Animal update includes a total of 12 new Super Animal breeds for many of your favorite species, as well as a surprise new event and a goodie bag of quality of life improvements.
Stay tuned for more reveals of what’s coming on social media in the weeks leading up to its release! You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and join us in our Discord! And new to the list, we’ve finally started posting to TikTok as well.
Welcome our newest SCCs Ermahburd and EnmaDarei and earn Twitch Drops!
We’re super excited to have announced that Ermahburd and EnmaDarei are our newest pair of Super Content Creators! Each has a custom designed item for you to earn from Twitch Drops by watching their streams until Monday, September 18th.
Check out Ermah’s and Enma’s channels to see when they’re streaming next, and watch for 30 minutes each to earn Ermah’s Gravestone and Enma’s Guitar.
Enma and Ermah are both longtime community members and have created so much amazing content in their time as creators, so we’re so happy to have gotten the chance to collaborate with them and recognize them.
If you’re unable to catch their streams before the end of the Twitch Drops campaign, they’ll both also have codes to give away on future streams, and the items will make their way to Carl’s Cart in mid-October.
That’s all for now, Super Animals! We hope you enjoy this weekend’s Double XP event and we can’t wait to share more with you about the Party Animal Update coming later this month. We’ll see you on the island!
