Greetings, Adventurers! We’re starting 2025 with all kinds of updates for you—Season of Radiance kicks off this month, and it brings a brand new dyeing feature for you to customize cosmetics with new color designs.
Days and Fortune and Days of Love bring new twists to familiar favorites, Aviary Village has an announcement board to keep track of events (among other improvements), and there are some other updates too.
Plus, mark your calendars for Friday the 17th—we’ll have a dress rehearsal in the Aviary Village concert hall to stress test an upcoming feature!
Season of Radiance
A world of color awaits you! Sky’s next Season introduces a feature that many players have been requesting: dyes! The Season of Radiance Guide welcomes you to Aviary Village’s new Dye Workshop, and through Seasonal Quests they’ll teach you about colored Light that can be gathered in the realms, and how you can use it to forge dyes to customize the colors of your outfits.
Three Spirits who you may recognize from Sky’s earliest Season will return, too! These Season of Gratitude Spirits come back to share in Sky kids’ discoveries, and this time, they’re bringing three new expressions, not to mention a variety of capes, outfits, instruments and more—and just about everything can be dyed!
The Radiance Guide offers two Ultimate Gifts for Season Pass holders to unlock while the Season is active. They’ll also bring a uniquely shaped cape which can be unlocked with Hearts even after the Season ends—a memento to mark the opening of the Dye Workshop.
Season of Radiance begins January 20th and runs through April 6th (all times Pacific). Content is accessible to all players who have progressed to at least the third quest from the Hopeful Steward.
New Feature: Dyeing Cosmetics
Transform your ensemble into unique creations! Over the course of Season of Radiance, eight different base colors will become available to gather from special Dark Plants in the realms—some colors will be more common than others. Use these base colors as their own dye, or mix them to create a total of over 70 colors!
- In 0.28.0, most capes, masks, and outfits (e.g. pants, dresses, tunics) have dyeable areas; items in other categories, such as head and neck accessories, are planned to become dyeable in 0.28.5. Some cosmetics are not dyeable—for example, hair color, Season pendants, collaboration items, and so on.
- You can preview color combinations before dyeing a cosmetic.
- Up to two different dyed versions of an item can be saved for you to wear as “Outfit Styles,” in addition to the original version.
- Some of the seasonal spells in the Radiance Spirits’ Friendship Trees will give dye.
Days of Fortune
Let the biggest reunion party of the year begin! From January 27th through February 9th, celebrate with Spirits in the Valley of Triumph, play minigames with friends, and dance to the best dance track this side of Eye of Eden.
Talk to the Event Guide in Aviary Village or Home to teleport to the center of the action in Valley of Triumph. That’s where you’ll find a new minigame waiting for you in the ice rink. You’ll also find some familiar Spirits joining in the celebration there, so be sure to say hello!
A felicitous dragon friend returns to share Light, and they’ll be floating in the air for you regardless of what time you visit them. You’ll be able to transform into a dragon chain with fellow Sky kids once again, and yes, the Secret Area accessible from the ground floor of Vault of Knowledge will be open to all.
The Fortune Gift Envelope will be back as well. This will be in the Friendship Trees of friends with whom you’ve unlocked the carry (piggyback) interaction and allows you to use 14 Candles to gift 5 Hearts. The Fortune Gift Envelope can be given once a day per person, like regular Heart gifts.
(Note: The Fortune Gift Envelope feature requires manual enabling, which means it will become available at approximately 00:00 on the day the event begins until approximately 23:59 the day it ends. Thank you for your understanding!)
Event Tickets
Five coin-shaped Event Tickets (previously referred to as event currency) can be forged each day by playing the new minigame. There are also 15 one-time bonus Tickets that can be gathered throughout the event!
New Items
New cosmetics are available for IGC (in-game currency) and for purchase. Plus, three red and gold themed props can be unlocked for regular Candles, and once the event ends, those props will be added to the Nesting Workshop rotation to unlock later in the year.
- Dragon Dance music sheet: 8 Event Tickets
- Red Dye Blessing: 10 Event Tickets
- Fortune Snake Mask: 14 Event Tickets
- Fortune Snake Pants: 36 Event Tickets
- Fortune Vertical Poster Prop: 5 Candles
- Fortune Candle Flags Prop: 10 Candles
- Fortune Plant Prop: 20 Candles
- Fortune Hand Fan: $4.99
- Fortune Snake Coif and Cloak: $19.99 - Includes a snake-themed hairstyle and cape
For details on returning Days of Fortune items, please refer to patch notes from previous years. As for items originally introduced for Event Tickets, the Fortune Dragon Mask can be unlocked for 57 Candles, and the Fortune Drum for 36 Hearts. Other than the three new props, free spells for new and returning items can be found in the event area.
Days of Fortune is available to all players who have at least started the third quest from the Hopeful Steward.
Days of Love
Celebrate all the different connections at the heart of Sky, and beyond—Days of Love arrives from February 10th through 23rd.
Check with the Event Guide in Aviary Village or Home to teleport to where the event unfolds: the Jellyfish Cove area in Starlight Desert. That’s where a strange crystal formation has appeared from meteor showers, glowing mysteriously in response to emotes. Work together with other Sky kids to discover the secrets hidden within these shimmering shards!
Event Tickets
Forge four Event Tickets each day by participating in this year’s new event activity. There will also be 15 one-time bonus Event Tickets hidden in the area that you can find throughout the event.
New Items
New cosmetics are available for IGC (in-game currency) and for purchase, and this year’s new IGC items can be unlocked with Event Tickets:
- Days of Love Violet Crystal Prop: 14 Event Tickets - This prop glows when other Sky kids are nearby, or when someone nearby uses a friendship interaction expression.
- Days of Love Braids: 35 Event Tickets
- Days of Love Amethyst Accessory: $2.99 - Like the Violet Crystal Prop, this hair accessory glows when other Sky kids are nearby, or when someone nearby uses a friendship interaction expression.
- Days of Love Amethyst-Tipped Tails hairstyle: $6.99
For details on returning items, please refer to patch notes from previous years. As for Event Ticket items introduced last year, Love Heart Beret can be unlocked for 45 Candles, the Love Heart Plushie for 12 Hearts, and the Days of Love music sheet for 15 Candles. Free spells for new and returning items can be found in the event area.
Join Us to Stress Test an Upcoming Feature!
[Edit 2025.1.17] This test has been postponed until a later date. Stay tuned to our social channels for future announcements!
If you saw our Community Concert during the 5th Anniversary last year, you might remember the special limited feature that allowed performers to share their music performances with other players across servers when Festival Tech was active…
And perhaps you’ve wondered what we have in store for the Aviary Village concert hall since Season of Duets wrapped up…
One of our projects is an upcoming feature which allows players to enter a queue in the concert hall to share a brief musical performance on stage for the rest of the concert hall, for audiences anywhere from a couple dozen to a couple hundred people.
Some parts of this upcoming feature need to be verified in the live version of the game, similar to how we had a dress rehearsal test before the AURORA concert launch. So before we officially launch this feature, we’re inviting everyone to be part of dress rehearsal stress tests in the concert hall!
We’ll temporarily enable this feature in the concert hall from 10:00 am Friday January 17th to 10:00 am Tuesday January 21st PST (UTC -8) for this stress test! If you’ve completed the 2nd quest from Season of Duets, you can participate in two ways:
- Join the queue in the concert hall to perform a short song—all ability levels welcome!
- Join the audience to listen to your fellow Sky kids’ melodies.
The data we get from this will be super helpful to work out bugs and potential surprises on the backend, so thank you in advance if you choose to join. Otherwise, stay tuned for more news about this feature in future updates!
Aviary Village Updates: Event Announcement Board and More
The construction crew has been at work in Aviary Village! You’ll notice a few changes in the area:
- There’s a new announcement board in the spot where the Event Shop entrance used to be. When an event is active, it will tell you how many days are left. If an event is not active, it will count down the days until the next event begins.
- Event Guide Spirits will appear near the event announcement board when their event is active. They’ll offer the option to teleport to their event area, and once you’re in that area, you can check with Spirits and such there for event items.
- In the plaza at the entrance of Aviary Village, the decorative pole has been relocated, and in its place is a Constellation Table where you can view your friends’ stars.
Even More Updates
- As promised in our last patch update, the in-game News feed is now available for players on Switch, Playstation 4/5, PC, and Steam Deck. This means players on all platforms can easily access critical information about in-game events, patch notes, and bug fixes. A few additional notes:
- For non-mobile platforms, we recommend using the QR code provided in-game for the best browsing experience.
- On Steam Deck, controller/gamepad support isn’t officially supported when browsing the News feed. Players will be prompted to use touchscreen controls to avoid potential audio issues. We’re still looking into a longer-term fix with Valve regarding supporting controller/gamepad navigation!
- Players on older or less powerful mobile devices, particularly iOS, may experience some performance issues when accessing the News feature.
- Based on player feedback, we’re working on some updates to outfits with the longer term goal of making it easier to select shoes for certain outfits. This may happen gradually, but in 0.28.0 you’ll see some changes such as a new tab in the outfits closet for onesies, i.e. outfits where shoes are a set part of the ensemble.
- If you’ve set your game to start in your Nest, the game login sequence will load directly into your Nest, instead of transitioning through cutscenes from Home and Aviary Village.
- We’ve increased the max length of Shared Memory recordings from 30 seconds to 60 seconds!
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!
Highlights
- Jam Station: Instruments that are categorized as placeables, like Duets pianos, are now a sound option.
- ✶ Fixed sustained instruments cutting off abruptly when played rapidly.
- Added a closet in the concert hall.
- ✶ Fixed a bug that could get a player stuck in the Trial of Air if they were handholding and then fell off a platform.
- Increased the maximum amount of medium and large items that can be placed in a Shared Space.
Gameplay
- ✶ Increased max polyphony possible for instruments.
- Resolution that should fix a bug that was preventing completion of meditation Daily Quests.
- Don’s Memory Spirit in the Office can be completed properly again.
- Fixed an issue that could lead to a player becoming softlocked when reliving a Spirit’s memory.
- Fixed some bugs with the beacon icon/signal, which could get stuck in certain cases such as transitioning between parts of Hidden Forest, skipping the bell tower sequence in the Village area of Daylight Prairie, or using the Return Shrine to go back to the Graveyard area of Golden Wasteland.
- Players in their own Nest are able to properly join a friend in their Nest.
- ✶ Players can properly collect Light fragments during the Leaping Dancer’s memory quest.
- ✶ Fixed a bug preventing players from interacting with friends or Spirits they summon from the Constellation after being in certain levels.
- ✶ Props can no longer be placed on top of the Constellation Table (and thus blocking it) near the realm portals in Aviary Village.
- [iOS] Fixed a significant drop in framerate that could occur and cause a progression break in the 6th Storybook Quest in Season of Moomin.
- ✶ Fixed handhold and carry breaking when using the Cave of Prophecy STAR pin.
- ✶ Fixed an issue where handholding a friend prevented a player from leaving the Windpaths via tunnels to other levels.
Cosmetics
- On the tier 2 teal cape, increased the contrast between the main cape color and the border color.
- Fixed an issue with props that could cause disruption to player movement in certain cases.
- ✶ Color Bubble machine prop reacts as intended to player’s cape color.
- Due to a bug, if a player had multiples of an item unlocked from the Nesting Workshop and placed them in their Nest, visiting friends could only see one of them. Now, each duplicate item is properly visible.
- ✶ Avatar’s legs won’t appear stiff and unnatural when wearing shoes.
- When using the Wonderland Cafe Corridor prop, other players will shrink down as intended when entering its door.
General Fixes and Improvements
- ✶ Knees will no longer bend during avatar flight animation.
- In the Settings menu, the label for the “Home” button is updated to “Portals.”
- ✶ You can once again trigger a “trip and fall” animation while falling in motion.
- ✶ When teleporting to the SkyFest Aviary Village using the SkyFest Wireframe Cape, the parade performers now walk their full parade route instead of causing a supernatural Spirit traffic jam.
- ✶ Fixed a bug that caused markers for Seasonal Spirits to appear on maps for new players who hadn’t yet been through Eye of Eden.
- ✶ [PC] Resolved a crash that could happen when typing text into a field, then inserting an emoji symbol between text characters.
- Fixes for bugs related to Player Creations:
- Viewing a Shared Memory of yourself holding a plushie prop will no longer cause a crash.
- ✶ We have (re)solved the mystery of props that would inexplicably disappear from some players’ Shared Spaces, so those should no longer vanish into thin air.
- Fixed sustained notes playing infinitely after playing a Shared Memory in Aviary Village if the Memory had an instrument playing a sustained note.
- ✶ Fixed a bug with notifications that said a Shared Memory had been liked, regardless of what kind of Player Creation had actually been liked.
- ✶ “More” button displays correctly when more than 12 comments are posted to a Player Creation.
- ✶ No more surprise teleports to Aviary Village when positioning your Sky kid behind your Nest’s edit crystal.
- Fixed a bug that allowed more props to be placed in a Nest than there was space for.
- Props in your inventory won’t be greyed out before Nest capacity is almost full.
- While viewing a friend’s star, the pencil icon will no longer disappear when displaying their name when it has over a certain number of characters.
- UI & interacting buttons from the environment will no longer go missing when the player transitions levels while News is open.
- Fixed duplicate prop icons that could appear briefly when cancelling edit in the Emote Favorites menu.
- Fixed a bug preventing players from scrolling through the gameplay tips while using a controller.
- ✶ Fixed different fonts being used in chat text vs. Player Creation text when device is set to Japanese
- We’re not sure how it would make sense to use the handstand emote while swimming… But players who had been doing that will now find that their Sky kid won’t be subjected to an odd animation in the process. Well, more odd than doing a handstand while swimming, at any rate.
- Fixed animation bugs that could affect the somersault emote in certain cases.
- Fixed animation error causing avatars to overlap when a player accepted the carry interaction from a friend.
- Resolved weird avatar twisting during carryball Spirit memory quests.
- Various fixes for various Season of Moomin quests:
- Fixed crashes that could happen when teleporting to the Moomin Storybook area from the Moomin Guide’s Friendship Tree.
- Fixed a crash that could happen when teleporting back to the first or sixth Season of Moomin quests.
- ✶ Improved Spanish localization for the first Season of Moomin quest title.
- ✶ Fixed a German localization error during the first Season of Moomin Quest.
- Fixed a bug in the fifth Moomin Seasonal quest that could turn a player invisible.
- Fixed bug that could cause soft locks during the fifth Moomin Storybook Quest.
- Accessing the fifth Moomin Storybook quest won’t return player to the sixth Storybook quest.
- Fixed bugged audio of wind blowing during the sixth Moomin Seasonal Quest.
- Fixed part of the credits text after the sixth Moomin Storybook quest being cut off when device language is set to Japanese.
- ✶ If a player scans a STAR pin that another player owns, the pin no longer erroneously indicates that a friend request can be sent.
- ✶ Took avatars to the chiropractor so that their spines will no longer bend inward in certain sitting positions.
- Fixed an issue for mobile players using controllers that could cause their avatar to keep moving if the player opened the News feature while moving.
- While searching for more jellyfish to befriend, the rock spotted a very curious creature! Was that...a crabbit? After following the crabbit, the rock discovered a giant room full of all kinds of treasures: books, mushrooms, and even a wonderful tea party with friends! The rock felt like a tiny pebble in comparison to the huge space, and spent days wandering, meeting new creatures, and appreciating the magic their new crabbit pal had introduced them to.
Please refer to this page for known issues ongoing or introduced with this patch: Known Issues Patch 0.28.0.
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!