Island News & Updates

     As more Isomara voyage, more land is discovered... and also new things! While we are currently on the hunt for a new creature, we still keep an eye out for new land and items. Many isomara parties have headed east and discovered different islands and isles.
     The first is the island named the "Fang of Ciclopy". A suitable name for the fang-shaped land, and also for the island's founder's unfortunate accident of being bitten by a member of the species we have been on the hunt for!
     A second party landed a bit further south and discovered an abundance of clay on a scattering of a couple of smaller islands. These islands have been deemed the "Dragon's Kiln". The northern one, being the lesser kiln, and the southern the greater kiln, with the middle island being small enough to just be considered the center of the kiln.
    With the Fang of Ciclopy being the largest island of this archipelago, we will be calling this the Ciclopy Archipelago!

    Last but not least, a large voyaging party headed northeast and discovered an island filled with stalks of corn! To remember this important find, the island has been christened "Cobber Island"!
     Only a small portion of these new islands have been explored, so we do not have the full scope of what biomes, including flora and fauna, might be in store for us here on the Cyclopy Archipelago and Cobber Island. So If you are interested in helping find more discoveries on these new islands or in general, help discovering new land which you might even be able to name, then be sure to voyage!

    Heading east, the sun blinds the party, and they miss an islet, but no worries, as they come across a large island that seems to slightly curve and extend to the north/ northeast. This island appears to have hilly and mountainous areas deeper in, but overall is a pretty standard island.
     As they scrounge around for some items to bring back home, they spot something clutching to a tree's trunk, glaring at the isomara with a single large eye. Luce is quick to lunge at the creature. Grabbing it by the tail before it managed to flee, Luce looks and confirms this is indeed the creature that has been reported recently. While scanning it for details, the creature opens its jaws to reveal sharp teeth and bites down on Luce, causing Luce's grip on the creature to loosen. It flees back into the woods. Best get back home and treat that wound, then relay what you've found.

"Luce decides to name it “Fang of Ciclopy” or just Ciclopy for short, after the cyclopian inhabitance, fang-like curve of the island, and the inaugural bite." - Lunarnorthstar | D-0033: Luce

     Swimming is a tiring activity, but your party pulled through and managed to find a new island! This small island is just south of a few others on the eastern ocean and has some softer loamy soil, but also rockier soil as well.

Xena looked over the clay she had scooped up in her paws. Xena began to mold it, making the shape of an isomara.
“Heh it kinda looks like you Luce.”
The deustrum Xena had been voyaging with looked over, unimpressed by the crude clay figure.
“We should make a kiln here and take this back as a gift!” Xena exclaimed excitedly as she began to scoop more clay into a pit.
“Ha would you look at that. This island has a dragon kiln now, actually that would be a great name!”
“I’ll call this place Dragon’s Kiln.” - 13oddeyes | I-0375: Xena
 

We would like to give a shout-out and thank Lunarnorthstar, 13oddeyes, and PeachKeeper for finding and naming these islands in the east and northeast!

• New Expanse by Lunarnorthstar & 13oddeyes
• Big Splash by 13oddeyes & Lunarnorthstar
• Let's Catch 'Em! by PeachKeeper

View the current voyaging map and known discoveries here

⁉️ Uncover the Aerial Attacker Event ⁉️

Come rally all verified voyagers and set off to search for the assailant who attacked our friend, Daku. While out on a voyage with his brother, Darwin, he was struck and caught off guard while flying through the skies southeast of the island. This creature was quick to strike and quick to flee. We need voyagers trained in flight to help hunt this creature down.

• You can find all details of this event here
• Note: Most of this event will involve the voyaging activity. An adult isomara is required to have the Island Hopper Achievement to voyage. You can learn about earning this achievement and completing Voyaging Verification here.

This event is scheduled to end on September 14th, 2026, at 11:59 PM  [Event may be extended depending on level of interest and information obtained]

This new post will be bumped each time new information about these unknown creatures is unveiled.

• View the Full Event Page For All Information
• View the Reports page for just the initial and follow-up reports of the creature

EVENT END DATE EXTENDED BY 12HRS! New Event End is September 1st, 2026 at 11:59 AM

Partial Lunar Eclipse Mini-Event

General Event Guidelines & Information

• No double-dipping - these submissions cannot be used for any other activity/prompt
• Players may collaborate for this prompt (the collaborated piece will count as each player's one submission)
• You may only use your own isomara (or Deus, the community isomara)

Event Details

    A partial lunar eclipse will be visible overhead for a very short time, and depending on the time of night, a cloud hopper critter can bask in this uncommon moonlight and the shadows and transform into either the umbral variant or the blood moon variant.

View the Partial Lunar Eclipse Event Page for all information
This event ended on September 1st, 2026, at 11:59 AM

🎟️ Sweet September Raffles 🎟️

     Two (2) different raffles are live for players to enter. To gain raffle tickets, you will need to obtain and open Goo Beads. Goo Beads are randomly acquired when opening Goom Favors from your inventory. To turn Goo Beads into raffle tickets, select the Goo Bead from your inventory and choose to open it!

There are nine (9) different Goo Beads; each different colored Goo Bead is tied to a specific raffle, except for the Lime Goo Bead, which can be used for both raffles! Each raffle has a limit of 10 entries per player. 

Both Raffles End On: 25th September 2026, 23:59:59 MST (UTC-07:00)

TIP: Looking for Goom Favors and Beads? Be sure to claim and open your goom's companion care drops, and scour the player shops!

     As more Isomara voyage, more land is discovered... and also new things! While we currently are on the hunt for a new creature we still keep an eye out for new land and items. Just the other day the isomara, Ulap, was the first to find and step paw on the sand of a new island. We would like to formally welcome everyone to Starlitea Island!
     Only a small portion of the new island has been explored, so we are unsure what biomes including flora and fauna might in store for us here on Starlitea. It does seem Ulap uncovered a sand dollar in such short of time before departing, so perhaps this island might have a lot of remnants of sea life washed ashore?
     If you are interested in helping find more discoveries on Starlitea Island or in general help discovering new land which you might even be able to name then be sure to voyage!

     Out about north of Pelemoku Ulap flies. Reaching high into the sky he spots land further north. Ulap grounds himself on to new sands. It is getting late, so he is quick to scrounge around for proof of his findings and swiftly heads back home to the main island. 

     As Ulap takes one last look at his surroundings, his eye captures a bright star in the northernmost sky up ahead, twinkling bright and proud as evening approaches. Enchanted, he softly murmurs...

     "Starlitea... I think that's a perfect name for this new land." - Na-ssh | I-0038: Ulap

We would like to give a shout out and thank Na-ssh for finding and naming this island in the north!
First Discovery here - Sky observation by Na-ssh

View current voyaging map and known discoveries here

There will be scheduled server maintenance on the morning of August 5th. The downtime will not be for the entire window provided below, but there will likely be scattered intermittent connectivity loss during the allotted time. 

Date: August 5, 2026
Time Window: Between 1:00 AM and 7:00 AM MST / UTC-7 (Island Time)

We do not recommend posting to the forums or submitting any gallery pieces or prompts during the maintenance time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have.

Updates, Changes & Fixes since Update 8.5. This journal outlines additions and changes to the Isomara Island ARPG since the previous update. You may be familiar with some of the topics below. At times, we announce new features immediately in Discord, and we want to ensure the entire community knows the latest news and fixes.
View all past Update Logs

Website Updates

Events

🧑‍🎨 Art Fight Mini Event [LIVE]

Participating in Art Fight? Submit your attacks to the corresponding prompt to receive in-game rewards!

• • • • • • Art Fight ends on August 2nd, 2026, at 12PM (11AM Isomara Island time)
          • The Art Fight Attack prompt will close on August 2nd, 2026, at 11:59PM Isomara Island time.

Art Fight is an annual game for all levels of artists where you draw other participants's original characters. The goal is to have fun and gift artwork to others! Find more information and participate at artfight.net. Join our Discord server to find fellow Isomara Island villagers who are also participating, or check out the Isomara character tag on ArtFight.

⁉️Uncover the Arial Attacker Event [LIVE]

Come rally all verified voyagers and set off to search for the assailant who attacked our friend, Daku. While out on a voyage with his brother, Darwin, he was struck and caught off guard while flying through the skies southeast of the island. This creature was quick to strike and quick to flee. We need voyagers trained in flight to help hunt this creature down.

• You can find all details of this event here
• Note: Most of this event will involve the voyaging activity. An adult isomara is required to have the Island Hopper Achievement to voyage. You can learn about earning this achievement and completing Voyaging Verification here.

This event is scheduled to end on September 14th, 2026, at 11:59 PM

Updates

ℹ️ Information Documentation

• The following pages have been added and/or updated with new information:
  • Voyaging
  • Voyaging Verification

🪨 Items & Categories

• New Fossil items and item category
  • Rocks can now be cracked open with a very slim chance to discover a fossil, gem, or ore item
    • Note: There is a large chance to crack open nothing and destroy the rock
• New Chosen Normal Trait item
  • Due to popular demand, we have added an item that can be used to apply any one non-special trait at the player's choice.
  • This item is only available to purchase from Slay's Concessions at this time
  • Those who have provided a trait suggestion and it became official, as seen in the credits, have been each given one Chosen Normal Trait application, so they may use it either on a trait they suggested or another trait of their choosing. We thank you for your contributions!
• Hair Mousse item can now be used on Isomara to earn the common Filigree trait
• Hair Removal Rub item can now be used on Isomara to remove the common Filigree trait
• Mystery Candy and Ultra Mystery Candies have received a very subtle adjustment to the potential rolled rewards
  • Normal Mystery Candies are less likely to roll a low stat gain or hunger reward and are more likely to reward a new trait or trait change
  • Ultra Mystery Candies are less likely to roll a low stat gain or hunger reward and are more likely to reward a new trait, trait change, or a legendary item

Changes

📝Prompt Rewards

• Added x1 White Pearl as a reward to the following prompts:
  • Dumb Love
  • Voyaging Verification
• Added x1 White Pearl as a reward to the Achievement Turn-In prompt. This now means each achievement earned by a character will reward one white pearl
  • The following achievements earned through the following means do not count towards the x1 white pearl reward:
    • Ally of Goo - Earned through opening a Goom Care Bundle
    • Careful Coexistance - Earned through opening a Memora Care Bundle
    • Dumb Love - Earned through opening a Blepper Care Bundle
    • Queen's Gambit - Earned through pilfering from the queen's cache
• We have retroactively gone through all past approved prompts and granted x1 white pearl for each of the above prompts/each of the achievements earned
• For those who have isomara who were awarded achievements through other means aside from the Achievement Turn-In prompt, please submit a claim so we can grant you white pearls for the earned achievements
• For those who have isomara who were awarded achievements back on DeviantArt, please submit a claim as well, but also include proof that you were the one to earn the isomara that achievement
  • If you are unable to supply links to proof, provide any details you possibly can, and we will do our best to investigate on your behalf.

🫧 Miscellaneous

• Removed "Upon Voyaging Verification approval, 50 seashells will be removed from your balance as a fee for your isomara's voyaging license". Seashells will no longer be taken out of a player's balance when a character of theirs completes voyaging verification.
• Added hyperlinks to Egg and Isoling Age text on isomara master lists that link to the corresponding information on how to progress the isomara's age
• Use code SL33PYSL4Y3R to receive a gift

🛠️Fixes

• Fixed multiple minor grammatical and spelling errors
• Fixed numerous outdated links on the Beginner's Guide

🐛Known Bugs

You can find the full list of known issues here. These are issues reported by players or noted by staff that have not yet been resolved but are on our radar.

Updates, Changes, & Fixes since Update 8.4. This journal outlines additions and changes to the Isomara Island ARPG since the previous update. You may be familiar with some of the topics below. At times, we announce new features immediately in Discord, and we want to ensure the entire community knows the latest news and fixes.
View all past Update Logs

Website Updates

Events

💎 Artificial Rainbow Basking Event [ENDED]

Hasha's experiment has since ended and many villagers have been able to witness the outcome of the communities donations and her effort. If you havent seen the conclusion come check it out here.

🧑‍🎨 Art Fight Mini Event [LIVE]

Participating in Art Fight? Submit your attacks to the corresponding prompt to receive in-game rewards!

• • • • • • Art Fight ends on August 2nd, 2026 at 12PM (11 AM Isomara Island time)
          • The Art Fight Attack prompt will close on August 2nd, 2026 at 11:59PM isomara island time

Art Fight is an annual game for all levels of artists where you draw other participant's original characters. The goal is to have fun and gift artwork to others! Find more information and participate at artfight.net. Join our Discord server to find fellow isomara island villagers who are also participating, or check out the Isomara character tag on ArtFight.

⁉️Uncover the Arial Attacker Event [COMING SOON]

On July 30th, come rally all verified voyagers and set off to search for the assailant who attacked our friend, Daku. While out on a voyage with his brother, Darwin, he was struck and caught off guard while flying through the skies southeast of the island. This creature was quick to strike and quick to flee. We need voyagers trained in flight to help hunt this creature down.

• You can find all details of this event here once it goes live on July 30th.
• Note: Most of this event will involve the voyaging activity. An adult isomara is required to have the Island Hopper Achievement to voyage. You can learn about earning this achievement and completing Voyaging Verification here.

Updates

ℹ️ Information Documentation

• The following pages have been added and/or updated with new information:
  • Island Inhabitants Page
  • Credits

🗨️ Community Through Comments

• A minor backend change occurred, and for safety, we reset all player and character comment visibility settings to hidden
• Comments can be enabled on player and character profiles.
  • Head over to your account settings to change your player comment visibility to open your profile up to receiving comments
  • Character comments can either be mass-enabled through your account settings, or you can go to your character's masterlist page and select the "Edit Profile" button in the Profile box section, locate the Character Comment Status dropdown to override your global account setting.

🐉 Inhabitant Traits

• New Tandem Wings trait for Bleppers (credit to player, 13oddeyes, for the suggestion)
• New Dyad Wings trait for Memics (credit to player, 13oddeyes, for the suggestion)

🪨Items

• New Egg Dye Kit item is available to craft or purchase from either Hasha's Hut for 3,000ss or 15sd or the MYO Shop for $10
  • Can be used during a courtship, allowing you to design the eggs yourself, essentially making the new offspring eggs MYOs that must start off at the egg age stage. Normally staff roll and design the eggs; this item allows you the freedom to fully design your new isomara eggs as you see fit.
  • Can be used to overwrite the color palette and/or design of an egg you already own
    
    • This overwrites the old palette and is not an additional alt color palette. The new palette is now the only official palette until changed using another egg dye kit, or after hatching using designer fruits to change or add colors.
    • This item cannot be used to gain the Dim Primaries Trait; a wish in a bottle or special trait item must be used to gain the Dim Primaries special trait
  • Note: For those waiting on egg designs from courtships, each player has been given an egg dye kit as a thank you for your patience and may choose to use that item for these overdue courtships. To use the item on these specific overdue courtships, please submit a claim with a link to your pending courtship. The overdue courtships will be completed on July 30th, so please submit claims before that date if you wish to use your Egg Dye Kit on them.

🧰Crafting

• Seashell bundles can now be created via the crafting menu. Perfect for tossing into Darwin's Donations.

🫧 MYO Shop

• A Bulky Seashell bundle was added to this shop last month and will be removed from the MYO Shop on August 10th
  • This item was added for a backend test, but that same day players noticed and began purchasing the bundle. We didn't feel it was proper to remove it right away when only a few people stumbled upon it. So we are keeping it for a short time to give all players a fair chance to purchase it in this small window if they so choose. After this window, the Bulky Seashell bundle will be removed from the MYO Shop permanently, and there will be no future plans to add any sale listing pertaining to the in-game currency, seashells, to the MYO slot shop.

🌠 Achievements

• Two achievements are officially available for isomara, Star Struck and Dragon Heart. Awarded to isomara who have consumed 49 star fruit and dragon fruit respectively
  • If you have an isomara who has consumed 49 of these fruits and does not have the achievement(s) be sure to submit proof to the Achievement Turn-In prompt

Changes

Earning In-Game Currency Balancing

As the game progresses, we will need to, at times, assess the state of the economy and review incoming and outgoing seashells. Some parts of the ARPG may need a rebalance to currency earning through submissions and games as follows:

⬆️Seashell Rewards Increase Payout

• Miscellaneous Bonuses
  • Isomara & Large Companions from 8ss to 12ss

⬇️ Seashells Reward Reduced Payout

• Games
  • Sink or Soar mini-game from 5ss to 3ss per correct guess
• Miscellaneous Bonuses
  
  • Small Companions and Critters from 4ss to 3ss
  • NPC Involvement from 5ss to 3ss

➖ Removed Seashell Payout Sections

• Miscellaneous Bonuses
  • Removed Prompt Pavilion as an activity bonus

📝Prompt Rewards

• Added x1 White Pearl as a reward to the following prompts:
  • First Encounters
  • A Rendezvous For Two
  • Egg Nurturing
  • Isoling Growth
• We have retroactively gone through all past approved prompts and granted x1 white pearl for each of the above prompts to those who submitted it

🫧 Miscellaneous

• Reduced price of Goom Orbs in Darwin's Exchange Center from 5 black pearls to 3 black pearls
• Added Critters, Hunger Mechanic, Alt Forms, and sigils to the sidebar of the ARPG Index page for easier navigation. Also, ensured all the links on the sidebar were available on the main ARPG Index page.
• The image notes tab on character masterlist pages is now hidden unless an image has notes
  • If you think an official image is missing notes, submit a claim with the note you would like added.
• Added new Community Resources folder to the art gallery (credit to 13oddeyes for the suggestion and na-ssh for the push to make it happen)
  • For those wanting to link a .psd or other layered file in the gallery submission description for others to download, please reach out to SlayersStronghold on Discord or in the QnA channel of the official Discord server, so we may review your file and upload it to our file server to avoid linking to 3rd party sites and services. Attempting to submit something to the gallery that contains a link to another site, such as, but not limited to, Google Drive or DeviantArt Stash will get your submission immediately declined.
• Renamed Special (Birth) trait category to Special (Hatch)
• Added Head trait category for isomara species and moved related traits to said category
• Use code R0CK34T3R10 to receive some rocks 😜

🛠️Fixes

• Minor spelling and grammatical errors
• Added missing sheared trait to multiple isomara
• Removed inaccurate text from the Queens Conch item as it can be converted back to an item from currency through Darwin's exchange center
• Rocks from mountains were missing in the backpack roll rewards on the exploration breakdown page
• Wood and Bone Shovel equipment did not clearly state roll effects on either the exploration breakdown page or equipment item description
• Backpack equipment roll rewards were inconsistent between the exploration breakdown page and equipment item description
• Reduced font size of some usernames to avoid word breaks across the website
• Equipment and accessories attached to characters now properly line up next to each other instead of stacking vertically.
• Equipment and accessories attached to characters are now hyperlinked to their index info pages
• Finished removing all mentions of Patreon as the official Patreon has since been closed
• Equipment, Accessories, and Achievements with effects relating to exploration now contain a link to the Exploration Rewards Breakdown page in their descriptions
• Added missing Events & Content Log hyperlink on ARPG Index page
• Fixed Scarred Memora trait incorrectly mentioning rendering memora infertile if they had the trait (this was incorrect; scarred just renders the memora unable to produce venom)
• Created workarounds for various missing buttons on older mobile devices
• Minor adjustments to the website's UI on the default theme and rainbow theme across multiple devices and screen resolutions

🐛Known Bugs

You can find the full list of known issues here. These are issues reported by players or noted by staff that have not yet been resolved but are on our radar.

This issue has been fixed! The Prismatic Essence item can now be used once more as intended where from your critter inventory you can select a cloud hopper and change its variant using the aforementioned item.

For those who submitted a claim already, we will be handling those right away!

There is currently a bug that does not allow all players to change the variant of their cloud hopper with the new Prismatic Essence item. We apologize for this inconvenience and are working on a fix. In the meantime players can submit a claim to use this item to change a cloud hopper of their choice.

We have disabled the use of this item to automatically change a cloud hopper's variant. If you already used your item and it vanished without changing the hopper's variant we will be refunding you your item soon.

There will be a follow up bump of this news post for when this issue has been fixed.

Thank you for your patience,
- Slayer

🎊11th Anniversary Belated Celebration🎊

🌈Event Conclusion☁️

The official conclusion to the Rainbow Basking Experiment has been released and all player rewards have been distributed! Give it a quick read.

     Happy June everyone! Slayer here wanting to thank all of our supporters and players for another good year. As you may have noticed we did not celebrate Isomara Island's Anniversary in May. There was some sickness going around the Stronghold that led myself and other bedridden during that pivotal time, so celebrations had to be pushed. Now that we are feeling much better the festivities can begin!

💎Hasha's Artificial Rainbow Basking Experiment🌈[ENDED]

The new event is live. Hasha has a new theory she'd like to test, but needs your help gathering the materials.

🚨Goal #1 & Goal #2 has been met! Over 60 Diamonds and 100 gems have been donated!🚨
Final Count:
73/60 Diamonds
165/100 Other Gems

Event Ended: 30th June 2026, 23:59:59 MST (UTC-07:00)

⏲️Limited Time Open Registration [CLOSED]

🎟️MYO slot & Critter Raffles [ENDED]

There are nine (9) different raffles for players to enter. Six (6) are MYO Slots, and the other three (3) are critters. To gain raffle tickets, you will need to obtain Goo Beads. Goo Beads are randomly acquired when opening Goom Favors. Info on finding Goom Favors below!

There are now nine (9) different Goo Beads; each different colored Goo Bead is tied to a different raffle. 

Note: To turn Goo Beads into raffle tickets, select the Goo Bead from your inventory and choose to open it!

All Raffles Ended On: 15th June 2026, 23:59:59 MST (UTC-07:00)

🟢Goom Favors

These Goom Favor drops have increased during the celebration. Here are ways to obtain them:

• NPC Shop - Slay's Concessions
  • Each player can buy up to 2 Goom Favors a day for 5ss each
• NPC Shop - Darwin's Donations
  • Who knows, maybe you'll be lucky enough to find a Goom Favor sitting in the donation basket?
• Tide Pools
  
  • There is a small chance of receiving a Goom Favor or a specific colored Goo Bead per stamina spent.
• Goom Care Drops
  • There is a slim chance of receiving 1-2 Goom Favors when opening a Goom Care Drop.
• Player Shops
  • Scour the community shops, as you never know if there will be players out there looking to sell off goom favors or specific colored beads.

After June 30th, all goom favor and goo bead drop rates will return to normal.

🏳️‍🌈 June Goodies

During the month of June you can pick up the Rainbow Site Theme and a new collectible Pretty Shell from Slay's Concessions.

• The new collectible Rainbow Pectin Pretty Shell also has a small chance to drop from the Tide Pools during the month of June!

🦤Goom & Blepper Adoptable Batch [SOLD OUT!]