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.
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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.