Greetings, Adventurers! There’s plenty to dive into with this update: the conclusion of Ninny’s story in Season of Moomin, surprising twists in a special year-end collaboration, big updates for Days of Music, and another round of feature updates and quality of life improvements that we can’t wait to share—among MANY other things.
Season of Moomin Continues
More chapters of Season of Moomin are waiting for you to explore! As the remaining quests become available, check in with the Storybook Guide to experience the rest of this classic tale alongside Moominmama, Too-ticky, and Little My—not to mention Ninny and the rest of the Moomin family.
While the Season continues, be sure to unlock themed hairstyles, capes, outfits, and more. These are available in the Storybook Guide’s area, which you can access by talking to the Guide when you see them in Aviary Village or Home.
With this update, a new cape will appear in the in-game shop after completing the final Seasonal Quest, which becomes available on December 9th:
- Moominmamma's Masterpiece cape: $24.99 (all prices USD)
As part of this special collaboration, this cape comes with the ability to teleport to the inside of a special version of the Moominvalley house! The ability can be activated after completing all six Seasonal Quests. Although the Moomin family and their friends won’t be home during your visit, you can bring your friends with you and explore the space together as Sky kids.
If you’re looking for the other Moomin in-app purchases in the meantime, instead of the in-game Shop, those are now available in the Storybook Guide’s area.
Moominmamma’s Masterpiece cape and other special collaboration in-app purchases will be available only during the Season and are not currently planned to return once it concludes. If you see something you’d like, be sure to check the in-game store and the Storybook Guide’s area before the Season ends!
As for the emote and the two items available in the Storybook Guide’s Friendship Tree in exchange for regular Candles, these are planned to continue to be available after the Season ends.
Season of Moomin continues until 23:59 December 29th (all times PST, UTC -8).
Days of Music Echoes in the Realms
From November 25th through December 8th Pacific time, Days of Music returns! This year’s event brings a suite of updates, with activities, features, and more inviting you to share music in brand new ways.
Talk to the event guide Spirit in Aviary Village or Home. They’ll teleport you to stages across the realms.* Each location provides a unique prompt to create a song to share with others, as simple or intricate as you’d like. Choose from one of the instruments provided nearby, and then record your tune using a Shared Memory.
It’s the perfect opportunity to listen to other players’ creations, too! Browse through the other Shared Memories at the stage and you may even find inspiration for the next song you compose.
Four event currency can be forged each day from event currency Light. This can be gathered as you take part in the event's activities. Plus, 15 bonus event currency will be placed around Aviary Village for the duration of the event, so no need to hurry to find them on the first day (keep your eye out for musical symbols)!
Days of Music will feature new items plus mementos returning from previous years. New items available during the event are:
- Marching Band Cape: 50 event currency
- Music Marching Uniform outfit: $9.99
These next two items will be introduced when Days of Music starts, and they’ll remain permanently available to unlock or purchase in Harmony Hall even after the event ends:
- Jam Station: 250 Candles
- Fledgling Upright Piano: $4.99 This piano appears in the prop category, which means that other players will be able to try it if you place it somewhere such as your Nest.
For details on returning Days of Music items, please refer to patch notes from previous years. As for items originally introduced for event currency, the Marching Band hat and saxophone will be 55 and 125 Candles respectively; the Marching Band hat will be available only during the event, but the saxophone will remain in Harmony Hall permanently. Free trial spells for all items can be found in Harmony Hall.
Speaking of the Jam Station: This item offers a TON of new features to enjoy! It offers a default instrument for each of its four parts, and every other instrument you already have in your closet are options to choose for each part too (the exception to this are instruments that are categorized as a placeable, like Duets pianos or the Fledgling Upright piano). Instrument selections and patterns will autosave, and the updated UI makes it easier to edit each part.
There’s more packed into the Jam Stations than we can fit in the patch notes, but we can’t wait to see the performances you make with them!
(*The event guide in Home will be missing the teleport option in its Friendship Tree. This is not intended, and the teleport function will be available as intended in future events.)
Sharing Gifts During Days of Giving
From 00:00 December 9th until 23:59 December 22nd PST (UTC -8), Days of Giving returns. During this time there will be:
- Double Seasonal Light: 8 clusters of Seasonal Light can be collected in the daily realm for a total of two Seasonal Candles each day.
- Double Treasure Candles: There will be 8 locations of large Treasure Candles in the same realm each day, instead of four.
- Double Hearts: Every Heart and partial Heart gift sent during the event to a friend will be doubled.
Note: Hearts and partial Heart gifts are doubled when they’re sent during the event. If a gift is sent before Days of Giving begins but is then collected during the event, it will not be doubled. Double Hearts will not apply to Hearts sent through Player Creations.
Sky x Alice’s Wonderland Cafe: A Curious Adventure
From December 23, 2024 through January 12, 2025 get ready for a fantastical twist on Sky’s Days of Feast celebration! This special collaboration brings the magic of Alice in Wonderland to Sky with an event filled with memorable characters, stories, and surprises.
When the event begins, keep your eye out in Home and Aviary Village for a creature who’s in a hurry. Follow them to find the entrance to an all-new event area where you’ll experience Sky from a very different perspective.
Take a moment to talk with the various event Spirits there; they’ll also share some event currency Light if you help them with their requests. If you need a break from their shenanigans, their tea party offers Sky kids some Social Light, too.
In fact, five event currency can be gathered by completing the two activities with the Wonderland Cafe Spirits each day. Plus, as you explore what the area has to offer, you can find 15 bonus event currency tucked away around the Cafe. Like the bonus event currency in Days of Music, these are available during the entire event, so feel free to take your time to search for them.
Don’t forget to explore around the rest of Sky, too! Days of Feast favorites are back in places like Dreams Village, Home, and the Secret Area available from the Vault of Knowledge. So if you’ve been looking forward to being transformed into a snow kid or spending time with a favorite Spirit in the snow hut in Home, you’ll have the chance to do just that.
New items coming with Sky x Alice’s Wonderland Cafe are:
- Wonderland Stacked Hat: 18 event currency
- Wonderland Frantic Hair: 30 event currency
- Wonderland Teacup Bath prop: 36 event currency
- Wonderland Hare Hairstyle: 150 Candles This item will be permanently available to unlock after the event ends by traveling to the Wonderland Cafe via the Wonderland Cafe Corridor prop
- Wonderland Primrose Pinafore Set: $11.99 Includes a hair accessory and a primrose-yellow dress inspired by the outfit Alice wore in Lewis Carroll’s classic story
- Wonderland Cafe Corridor: $19.99 This passageway allows you to travel back to the Wonderland Cafe from everywhere but the stormiest places in Sky, even after the event ends. Once placed, the travel ability can be used by any player who interacts with it.
For details on returning items, please refer to patch notes from previous years. As for items introduced for event currency last year, the Winter Pine Cone Hairclip and Winter Feast Snowboard will be 35 and 145 Candles respectively. Free trial spells for all items are available in Wonderland Cafe.
A Special Group of Visiting Spirits is On Its Way
A group of past Seasonal Spirits is set to arrive and add extra energy to the start of the new year!
Mark your calendars for January 13th through 26th 2025. During that time, one of the Spirits from this group will appear in Aviary Village and Home to teleport you to where they and their friends will gather. While they’re visiting, you’ll have the chance to unlock seasonal items that they brought with them during their original seasons.
New Year’s Fireworks
To celebrate the beginning of 2025, don’t miss Sky’s special fireworks show! It will be held in Home and Aviary Village starting at 02:00 December 31st (the earliest New Year, 00:00 in Kiribati), and repeating every hour until 04:00 January 1st (the latest New Year, 00:00 on Howland Island).
To enter the New Year’s fireworks show in Aviary Village, teleport from the fireworks staff. This will be available if you’ve completed the quest at the top of the Hopeful Steward’s Friendship Tree.
Watch with old friends, join with new ones, or mark the moment in whatever way is cozy to you.
Even More Updates
News in Sky
Players have shared a lot of feedback asking for ways to keep up with official news and announcements shared through blog posts and patch notes. In 0.27.5, we’re excited to start rolling out a News feature that will make these easily accessible in the game!
In this update, players on mobile platforms will find this feature in the Settings menu. Simply tap on the News icon and you’ll be able to easily scroll through Sky’s most recent blog posts and patch notes.
If you’re on Steam, Switch, or PlayStation, don’t worry, we’ll be unveiling this feature for you soon! In the meantime, we’re working on optimizing it to work smoothly and meet the unique needs of console platforms. Stay tuned for a future update!
Start Sky in Your Nest, and Other Nesting & Aviary Updates
Another feature we’re adding based on your feedback: You can now choose to start the game in your Nest! This is a quieter and calmer starting point, so you’ll still need to hop down to Aviary Village to check your Friendship Constellation and Daily Quests. Note that when you use the option in the Settings or Expression menus to teleport back to your “home base,” players with their Nest set as their starting point will be teleported to the realm portals in Aviary.
“Hop down?” you ask. “From where?” Great question—you’ll be able to hop down to Aviary Village from the cozy balcony that has also been added to Nests in this update.
Meanwhile in Aviary Village:
- The Nesting Workshop has a new prop that you can use to hang one of your masks as a wall decoration. Find it in the workshop menu under a newly updated “permanently available” selection of items that can be unlocked.
- Speaking of items in the Nesting Worskhop—the Nesting Workshop now has a section for permanent offerings in addition to a rotating items section. This will make it possible to unlock certain Nest essentials without having to wait for their rotation to come around.
- The place to pick up the daily Season Candle and Hearts gifted through Player Creations has been moved from the Friendship Shrine to the statue near the gates to the levels.
Construction Work in Aviary Village
In 0.27.5, you may notice some construction work in the area where the events workshop was. While that construction is underway, this will still be the place to go if you’d like to travel to an event area quickly—Spirits will be waiting for you here while their event is active, and they’ll offer you a teleport option. Those event locations will also be where event cosmetics can be unlocked or purchased, too.
Save Custom Chat Messages in your Emote Favorites Menu
If there’s a particular phrase you use a lot when chatting with friends, now you can add it to your emote favorites menu! Use this to quickly send custom chat messages like “Thanks!” or “Meet me back in Aviary Village,” or “No, you shouldn't try to hug a Dark Dragon.”
Friendly Account Linking Reminder…
We have some fun stuff planned to share with you in December. On a related note, if you have a Twitch account, be sure to link it with your Sky account.
Continued Daily Quest Improvements
Along with another batch of new Daily Quests (we hope you’ve been enjoying them!), we’ve included some quality of life improvements. For example:
- In the realms, use your Sky kid’s call to reveal a radar point for Daily Quest Spirits whom you haven’t already met.
- Photo quests have a progress meter.
- When you turn in your Daily Quests to a Spirit, the icon has been updated from an exclamation mark to a checkmark.
- In Aviary Village, the Spirit behind the counter will offer you a small treat after you turn in all of your quests.
- Daily Quest list text will update with hints once you start to do them.
Additional Graphics Options for Mobile Platforms
Players on mobile devices can now choose separate settings from resolution and frame rates under Graphics Settings in the Settings menu. Note that support for some resolution and frame rate options is dependent on device capabilities.
Improvements and Bug Fixes in this update include:
Items with a ✶ symbol next to it means that this is a fix for something that the player community reported to us. So thank you for letting us know about the bugs you’ve come across!
Gameplay
- ✶ Fixed a bug that was warping players to the location of the Snufkin tent prop whenever they spawned into an area.
- ✶ Fixed bug that prevented players from interacting with certain UI elements while moving the virtual joystick.
- ✶ Resolved a crash that could occur when entering edit mode at the Shared Spaces shrine in the Butterfly Fields area of Daylight Prairie.
- ✶ Fixed a bug that was changing the musical key an instrument would play in even when the background music was muted or faded.
- Updated conditions to be able to gift friends an in-app purchase; in addition to the existing pre-requisites, the giver must also have progressed to at least Valley of Triumph.
- [PC] Fixed a bug causing flight mode to toggle off while using the Days of Mischief broom.
- [iOS] Fixed crashes that could occur while using in-game video recording.
Cosmetics
- ✶ Players with short avatars or wearing the chibi mask probably noticed that several capes, namely the Duets ultimate cape, Snowflake Cape, and Mischief Gossamer Cape, had appeared strangely shrunken when equipped. These have been put through a special unshrinking process and should now appear normal again.
- ✶ All of the notes on the Passage ocarina play properly again.
- ✶ Harmonica sounds are once again consistent.
- Corrected the teal color of the tier two teal cape to more appropriately match the teal of the tier one version. Related known issue: The contrast between the main cape color and the border is not as distinct as it should be. This will be resolved in a future update.
- ✶ Fixed bug that caused shoe cosmetics to oddly layer on top of the Roving Snufkin Robe outfit.
- ✶ Glow spell glows the right way again.
- Improved the wooden grain texture of the Mischief Withered Horns.
- Updated the Season of Moomin scarf to reduce clipping with certain capes.
- Tweaks to the Season of Moomin bow neck accessory to reduce clipping with various cape. and outfits.
General Fixes and Improvements:
- [Android] Various graphics improvements.
- Updated the description when using the “teleport home” feature to make it clearer that you’ll be returning to the realm portals in your chosen area, to avoid confusion that could arise with using the term “home” to refer to more than one area.
- ✶ Chat translations can once again be reverted in the chat log.
- ✶ In areas where there is both a Shared Memory shrine and a Spirit, the shrine no longer disappears after a player completes their memory quest.
- ✶ Flying or diving while wearing the Mischief Raven-feathered Cloak won’t leave black pixellated streaks in the sky or water.
- ✶ Fixed a bug in the outfit shop in Aviary Village that could make the Moth and Sparrow Appreciation Pack displays appear to be black or unlit.
- ✶ Fixed a bug that could prevent mobile players from using a bluetooth keyboard.
- ✶ When a nearby player who was using the reading expression exits the game, their book should no longer remain floating awkwardly in the level as it if expects you to put it away or something.
- ✶ If a players is asked to complete an in-game survey and starts to fill it out, tapping outside of the survey window should no longer cause survey results to be lost or reset.
- ✶ A blocked player’s Shared Memories, Shared Spaces, and Message Boats should no longer load into the level, even if you had selected the option to “follow”/see more of their creations.
- ✶ The warning that appears when you’ve reached the maximum capacity for a Shared Space is a bit clearer now.
- Updated the minimum distance that Player Creations can be placed from the Ancestor’s Table in the Elevated Clearing.
- Corrected a typo in the confirmation text before activating the glow spell.
- Fixed the highlight outline appearing over the play/stop button while viewing a Player Creation when the button wasn’t selected.
- Fixed a bug that skipped players directly from Home to the Valley of Triumph Coliseum area.
- Fixed the slightly disturbing issue of the Admiring Actor not really having a face under their mask.
Please refer to this page for known issues ongoing or introduced with this patch: Known Issues Patch 0.27.5.
As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback, and encourage you to join the community discussion on our official Discord server at discord.gg/thatskygame!