Happy Respawning Day, Super Animals! This week, the island’s celebrating the miracle of cloning with the Respawning Finale. We’ve got a festive final round of challenges and rewards for you (alongside the first week's challenges which are still available until the end of the event), so let’s hop right into it!

• Choir Robes | Collect Super Eggs (1337)
  
• 2000 XP | Smash Fabergé Giant Emu Eggs (15)
  
• Vegetation Sparrow Launcher | Get Sparrow Launcher Kills (3)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Dance at the Beakeasy Stage
  
• Daisy Crown | Heal Teammates or Giant Emus with Darts (250)

• Super Dandelion

As a reminder, now that all three weeks’ worth of event challenges have been unlocked, you can complete them at any time until the event ends on Friday, April 5th. As always, all three new Super Animal breeds are permanent additions to the Research Lab.




Plushies have started arriving at their homes! In November of last year, we partnered for the second time with our friends at Makeship to bring you a campaign for the Super Skullcat Plush and a re-run of the Super Fox Plush. Even Chicken and Waffle (seen above) are hyped about them arriving, as you can clearly tell.

If you haven’t received your code for your in-game emote, make sure to check all your email folders (including spam) for an email from Makeship sent to the same email address you provided at checkout. If you still don’t see anything there, you can reach out to Makeship support. Make sure to provide them with your email and order number!

Thanks again for helping us reach the campaign goal as quickly as you did! We’re thrilled to be able to partner with companies like Makeship to bring you awesome stuff like this. If you’d like to be notified when new SAR merchandise drops, you can sign up for our email list on our merch site: https://merch.animalroyale.com/


Super talented artists from the community have been creating amazing fanart featuring the new Super Sakura Cat this past week, and we’re tickled pink to share their artwork with you! Make sure to toss them a follow if you love their work as much as we do.



A Super Sakura Cat enjoying a bit of sunshine and dango, by yixuanZhao13




SquirrelRaw’s rendition of the Super Sakura Cat, looking good in the Lucky Collar




A gorgeously-colored piece showing off Cheonsunny_’s amazing sense of style




crvmblo’s pastel and watercolor style compliments the Super Sakura Cat super well




A precious Super Sakura Cat drawn by Khawaiifoxy, looking super happy to be here


There’s always so much more beautiful artwork than we can share, but thank you so much to these awesome artists for letting us share their artwork with the community. :)


For the all the details on the Respawning Day event including all the Week 1 and 2 challenges (which are still available to complete until the end of the event), check out our original post right here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/4107917367734110746

And our Week 2 post right here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/5794516150122869820

Grab your egg-hunting squad on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord! We’ll see you on the island, Super Animals.

It’s the Sakura Festival! Week 2 of the Respawning Day event has brought a new Super Animal and set of new event challenges with cherry blossom themed rewards to earn.

• Taiko Outfit | Collect Super Eggs (1200)
  
• 1500 XP | Chop Grass with a Giant Emu (150)
  
• Sakura Photo Booth Scene | Eat Placed Bananas with the Banana Forker (12)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Drink Health Juice with Cupgrade (200)
  
• Taiko Headband | Break Enemy Armor (50)

• Super Sakura Cat

To celebrate the return of the much-beloved Sakura Set, we wrote this haiku:

The Sakura Set
Is back with lovely items
For you to redeem

..Maybe we should stick to writing animal puns.

From now until the event ends on Friday, April 5th, you can use code SAKURA to grab these items:

• Sakura Kimono
  
• Sakura Fan
  
• Sakura Umbrella

Twitch recently shut down their services in Korea, so content creators in the region have had to move to new platforms and lose years of progress on their channels. To support them and their audiences in moving to new platforms, we wanted to highlight some of our amazing Super Animal Royale creators who have been a part of our community over the years and have been affected by this!

It’d mean a lot if you could check out their content and consider subscribing to support them on their new platforms after all they’ve done for the game. 💜

Johnney has been a Content Creator for the game since 2021! He consistently streams the game three times a week and enjoys french fries. When he isn’t playing Super Animal Royale, he’s enjoying some rounds of Deep Rock Galactic (rock and stone).

별별 has also been with our program since 2021! She has an adorable Vtuber model using the Super Vanilla Squirrel. Her favorite drink is a vanilla latte and she plays a lot of Lost Ark.

Ichigomilk has been a Content Creator for the game since 2022. She’s a Strawberry Cake Fairy Vtuber and enjoys playing games and making art! Her favorite food is (unsurprisingly) cake and her other favorite game as of late (aside from SAR of course) is Palworld.

Eno light has been actively creating Super Animal Royale content for over a year now and streams Super Animal Royale regularly.

Peulryune has held multiple events for the Super Animal Royale community over the past couple years and has even streamed them! He loves meat and enjoys playing Minecraft.




The Land, Sky, and Sea Super Fanart Contest is still on, and submissions close this week!

Submit your art by Sunday, March 24th for a chance at the Golden Paintbrush and a shot at a frame for your art in SMoMA.

{LINK REMOVED}Check out the contest rules and submit your piece here!


For the all the details on the Respawning Day event including Super Octopuses and Week 1’s challenges (which are still available to complete until the end of the event), check out our original post right here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/4107917367734110746

We hope you’re enjoying the beautiful colors and sights of springtime as much as us, Super Animals! You can keep up with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord so you don’t miss anything headed this way for Week 3 of the event. See you then!

The Respawning Day event begins today, with three weeks of event challenges and rewards on their way!

This year’s event features a different theme each week, starting with St. Pawtrick’s Day, followed by the Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Festival in week 2, and a Respawning Day spring finale for week 3. It’s like three events in one!

We’ve got a brand new species of Super Animal to introduce too, so let’s see what’s popped up now that winter’s ice is melting.




Respawning Day is a time where Super Animals celebrate the pod-grown clone technology that makes their endless participation in Super Animal Royale possible!

Springtime reminds Super Animals of more than just their functional immortality via cloning, though, so this year’s celebrations include three different spring themes, starting today with St. Pawtrick’s Day.

If this is your first event or if you need a refresher, here’s a crash course on how events in SAR work:

• When each week begins, a set of five weekly challenges will unlock for you to complete. 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 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!
  
• Join the island’s Super Egg hunt around Super Animal World! Each egg provides a small heal and counts towards progressing certain event challenges. You’ll earn them from completing matches, too.
  
• Fabergé Giant Emu eggs have been placed around the island! You can destroy them to progress some of your challenges, and don’t forget to nab the Super Egg pickups inside.

Top o’ the morning to you, Super Animals! The event’s first week features 5 lucky challenges to complete as well as the new Super Lucky Pig in the Research Lab.

• Lipstick Sticker | Collect Super Eggs (1,000)
  
• 1500 XP | Smash Faberge Giant Emu Eggs (7)
  
• Golden Horseshoe Gravestone | Get Kills (12)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Destroy Skunk Mushrooms (5)
  
• Clover Umbrella | Land Under A Cherry Blossom Tree

• Super Lucky Pig

You’re not being suckered, the new Super Octopus really just arrived in the Research Lab. It took a bit of convincing (and genetic modification) to avoid them using eight guns at once, but never fear, the Lab Labs have made sure to fully “balance” them against other combatants.



Super Octopuses are available to unlock in the Research Lab beginning at level 60, with four total breeds to unlock:

• Super Octopus
  
• Super Pink Octopus
  
• Super Blue Octopus
  
• Super Blue Ring Octopus

Worried about getting pinched? We’ve got you covered.

From now until the event ends on April 5th, you can use the code LUCKY to nab these mean, green St. Pawtrick’s Day items:

• Lucky Top Hat
  
• Lucky Suit
  
• Lucky Dress
  
• Lucky Beard
  
• Lucky Hunting Rifle

The island can be a chaotic, stressful place for any Super Animal, but Macawsome has just the solution! The new Spa Bundle in the SAW Shop will help you unwind and get a little self-care in between (or even during) royale matches.

The Spa Bundle includes:

• Towel Wrap outfit
  
• Towel Hat
  
• Cucumber Glasses

The new Sakura Dual Pistols have also arrived in the SAW Shop to get you in the spirit for the Sakura (cherry blossom) Festival, kicking off next week! Plus, tomorrow (Wednesday) the new Tinfoil Hat will rotate into the shop for 48 hours. Grab it quickly before anyone questions whether it was ever really there.




Carl’s got some new stock, fresh from the garden! The Leek melee weapon (which in an ironic turn of events, got leaked yesterday) has arrived in Carl’s Cart and tomorrow (Wednesday) the Daikon Radish melee will join it. Respawning Day cosmetics from previous events have also been moved into the Cart so keep an eye on its rotations for those throughout the event.

• Added /hidenames command to genericize other player names in matches (particularly useful for streamers).
  
• Private match hosts can now use /admin # command to set a player as a helper admin (use shift+~ to see a list of players to get their number). These helpers can use all of the same commands as the host, aside from kicking the primary admin. The command can also be repeated on the same person again to revoke their privileges.
  
• Fixed SFX volume being at 100% on first install, despite showing 50% on the settings screen.
  
• Fixed a bug where high ping player could pick up two downed teammates at once with fast clicking.
  
• Fixed Firecrackers melee missing animation sometimes.
  
• Edited tap dance draw order to fix blush moving on top of glasses.
  
• Fixed kestrel's (and others) eyes in aerobics emote.
  
• Fixed some cosmetic positions on the Super Blackbird.
  
• Fixed Ninja Booties draw order during zipline.
  
• Added missing foot splashes on water to some emotes.
  
• Added some follow-through animation to raccoon's mask and dragon wings in some emotes.

Our latest Super Fanart Contest is in full swing, with the prompt ”Land, Sky, and Sea!”

Submit your piece by Sunday, March 24th for a chance to have it featured in-game at SMoMA and get a shot at the coveted Golden Paintbrush.

Full contest rules and further info can be found on the {LINK REMOVED}submissions site. We can’t wait to see all the amazing artwork you submit!


That’s all for this first week of the Respawning Day event, Super Animals! Check back next week for sakura (cherry blossom) themed items and another new Super Animal breed for week 2 of the event.

We hope you enjoyed all the reveals, and best of luck in hunting down all those Super Eggs!
You can join us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord to keep on top of everything SAR-related and be the first to find out what each week of the event brings. See you on the island!

The final week full of challenges and rewards starts now, in Week 3 of the Year of the Super Dragon event!

Now that all challenges have been unlocked, you have until Friday, February 16th to complete them before the event ends. Grab your friends and get to checking off those challenges!

• Dragon Dancer Outfit | Collect Red Envelopes (1337)
  
• 2000 XP | Break Fireworks Crates (6)
  
• Dragon AK | Get AK Kills (8)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Eat Health Fruit (15)
  
• Firecrackers melee weapon | Deal Damage with Lucky Cat Mines (200)

• Super Taiyaki (available to unlock beginning at level 10 in the Research Lab)

For the all the details on the Year of the Super Dragon event, check out our original post right here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/843380/announcements/detail/3953664641968642006?snr=2___

We hope you’ve all had an amazing time with the Year of the Super Dragon event! Join us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord to keep up with what’s coming next to Super Animal Royale and let us know what you think of the game. See you on the island, Super Animals!

Happy New Year, Super Animals! Week 2 of the Year of the Super Dragon event has begun, so we’ve got new event challenges, rewards, and a new Super Animal to share.

• Dragon Horns | Collect Red Envelopes (1200)
  
• 1500 XP | Ride Emu (750 meters)
  
• Dragon Sword | Get Melee Kills (3)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Dance At the Bamboo Stage
  
• Gong Gravestone | Get Kills with Common Guns (8)

• Super Stone Lion (available to unlock beginning at Level 40 in the Research Labs)

For the all the details on the Year of the Super Dragon event including Week 1’s challenges, check out our original post right here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/843380/announcements/detail/3953664641968642006?snr=2___

And make sure you’re following us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord so you don’t miss our final drop next week for the Year of the Super Dragon Week 3!

We hope you have a ton of fun with this week’s challenges, and we’ll see you next week for the finale of the event. See you on the island, Super Animals!

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.


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:




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.

• 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

• Super Eastern Dragon
  
• Super Lunar Dragon
  
• Super Golden Dragon

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!




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.




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.




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…

Check out the game’s Steam Page to learn more:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097230/Turnip_Boy_Robs_a_Bank/

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!




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!

https://steamcommunity.com/games/843380/announcements/detail/3857959344049728267

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, 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.

• 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

• Super Swan (available to unlock beginning at level 10 in the Research Lab)

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

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.




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!


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

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!

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!

• 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

• Super Cinnamon Sugar Beaver (available to unlock beginning at level 40 in the Research Lab)

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:

[twitch.tv/fluffubsheepub]
[twitch.tv/wvbBB]
[twitch.tv/CocoaCaa]
[twitch.tv/mochi_mei]
[twitch.tv/enmadarei]
[twitch.tv/ermahburd]
[twitch.tv/blondie_420]

For more information, you can read Fluffub's announcement post on Twitter!


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.

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.

• 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.

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.

A new season means a new Starter Pack DLC, available all throughout Season 10!

The Season 10 Starter Pack features these magical items:

• Super Fairy Skullcat
  
• Fairy Armor
  
• Fairy Sword melee weapon
  
• 600 SAW Tickets

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.




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.




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.

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:

• Candy Cane Tie | Collect Candy Canes
  
• 1500 XP | Smash Snowmen
  
• Present Outfit | Get Kills
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Chop Grass
  
• Present Tophat | Land on Ice

• Super Icicle Deer (available to unlock beginning at level 10 in the Research Lab and featuring transparency!)

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.




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





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!

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!


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!


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!


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!