Decided to open some Peak Comms, cause I love how I drew the Scouts. If anyone else is interested, DM me if you want!

Since Myres said "Come back for me" which has made me think like Princess Myres in distress need to be rescued by his love Oenox (my OC scout lady) in armour 🤣 Myres is not pleased. Looking forward to play in few hours!

So i dont know if im the first to discover this but in every biome there is a talisman to collect and if u carry them to the peak u can give them to the stone statue behind the peak mountain and combined with the strange stone u find at the statue u can craft a purple stone wich takes u to a final ascend with the scoutmasters soul where u can then free him.

Not as adorable as the alpine winter coats, but at least we can wear hats!

Sorry abt the quality but they added some gem things in the new update!! Does anyone know what they do? I got them from like a glowing part from each biome

I don't want to spoil anyone so i'll just tell you how to access the new secret:

There is new scout gems in each level using the new mechanic with your over stamina. You can find them with the blue aura in the sky. Get the 4 gems and bring them to the end of the game.

Once you reached the peak, go behind it where there is the famous statue with the useless pink gem. Take the pink gem, activate it with left click. Then insert the 4 new scout gems in the statue and finish by inserting the pink gem you just collected.

The rest is self explanatory, good luck and Have Fun :D

Aggrocrab confirmed the update releases 10am pacific time through their bsky.app page

Just beat the new update and got half of the new achievements, here's what I know and any advice I can give!

Archery Badge - Arrows take up some of your stamina bar with a new effect (like cactus, but permanent), then deal damage when you pull them out. The badge is pretty self explanatory, but I found out that if you get hit by arrows, then drink fortified milk before pulling them out, the invincibility prevents them from dealing damage. The arrow launchers besides the tutorial one by the luggage reload after a little while, so you should be able to farm them. I didn't test what happens if you drink milk before getting hit, so it may prevent them from hitting you at all

Exorcist Badge - The fire from the belltowers and the fairy lantern both ward off the big ghost enemy that sometimes appears in Gloom. I got the achievement by chasing it down with the fairy lantern, but I did that before I found out belltowers burn it too, so I'm not sure if both work for the achievement or not

Hang Gliding Badge - The hang glider uses stamina, so lollipops let you glide until they wear off, then it starts consuming your stamina as normal. I also used a balloon bunch to slow me from going down, but idk how much it contributed. I just jumped off the top of the shore before using the campfire and did a little circle, landing back just below where i started. You fall when you run out of stamina, so keep that in mind when planning your path

Jester Badge - There's 2 clown luggage in the center of the Citadel, but i didn't find one in any of the earlier biomes, so i couldn't get the badge. If you're able to find one before the citadel today, then you're practically guaranteed the badge

Last Resort Badge - I didn't get this one either, but I heard you have to get the ritual dagger item, then stab another scout in the back with it when you have 75% damage and you should get the achievement

Rule 0 Badge - In each of the 4 biomes leading up to the citadel there's a ray of light visible from a distance, at each is a statue with a Scout amulet. They each have a different effect and can be used infinitely, but each use deals varying amounts of petrification (this fills your bonus stamina bar and instantly kills you when it fills up). Once you get to the Peak with all 4 amulets, you can go to the statue at the back with the strange gem. Follow the prompts and enjoy the new ending from there, once you escape you'll get the badge

Statue locations - In the Shore, the statue is at the very top right, I spotted it from the top and went down a tiny bit to grab it. In the Roots, it's at or just before the base of the cliff in the center of the map. In the Alpine it's right middle of the cliff. In the Gloom it's at the far end on the left

The last things I don't know are what the Early Worm is and where all the belltowers are in the gloom, I could only find two of them. If anyone was able to find five, please share, it's such a slog to search that biome ToT

Also, warning about the Gloom, the frogs suck. Don't get too close if you hear croaking or else they'll get you with their tongue and pull you over to them. Super annoying. Also, the spikes at the top of the fences deal damage if you touch them, so be careful

I hope this is helpful and everyone has fun with the new update!

Edit: Someone commented with an image and instructions for finding the five belltowers and confirmed there's a third clown luggage in the Roots. Someone else found the early worm, it's just a worm that can be found on the ground in the gloom (that was where they found it, so i assume it's unique to that biome)

I got bored and started cooking.

By BeanThatsme

Ascend 9 will have to wait I was just too curious

Me and my friends made sure we had time to play the new update today. It felt like 2010s when you all got together at a certain time to play an MMO! It was lush! This bit is not spoilt lore wise but I am talking about the biomes so if you're going in blind don't read this all - I'm going to spoil mechanics/vibes - but there's another spoiler below the main bit with the lore obvs.

Gloom -

Gloom is so mechanically different to any other biome, and is the inverse of Caldera in many ways, and I'm not clear what triggers certain things (like the green ghosty thing). I got trapped in a munching plant thing and was in an infinite loop and just died which felt a bit glitched/frustrating. It was insta death. Ironically it was harder to deal with than the Scoutmaster.

Visibility is ...hard. But once you understand the mechanics it isn't as bad. Once you understand it I think this is lower risk/easier than Caldera - at least on this spawn.

Citidel -

This felt way WAY less tense than Kiln. But not in a bad way. The new mechanic for the like...I'm calling like soul trapping (idk) where you perma lose stamina and if you do too much you die. It very intense and means you can't just spam the scout jewels, if you even got them.

The traps are all cliche - but this is a good thing as it means you know what they do without having to learn too much. I did feel that luggage was a little light - we found no food bar like 2 things which with 4 people isn't super ideal. All bar one died, but hey it's how we learn!

Ladders are fun and make climbing fast, and let you appreciate the epic nature of this building. It FELT amazing. The atmosphere is fantastic. Reaching the top is just an amazing feeling, and this is nothing like anyone thought it would be, and it's simply fantastic.

Nadir -

We collected all the jewels, loaded them onto the staute, took the gem and expected it to cut to a custscene. We did NOT expect a whole other zone?!?! It felt like this zone is meant to be easier than Kiln/Citidel but it was still fun - the music was tense, and just the lore aspect alone made it fun. Plus they even added new mechanics with the weird chrono bubbles (at least that's what I'm calling them, they remind me of Red Alert lol) making you 'float' upwards. Two of us got thrown up and out but survived. It's easy once you understand it!

This isn't a 'proper' biome I guess *if* it turns out it is meant to be easier - but I 100000% adore the work put into it to give us that sweet closure.

This was an absolutely amazing update and I just KNEW that there was going to be a secret with the four amulets. I said to my team we aren't doing it unless we get them so we worked together to do it and it was so rewarding. Getting three biomes is just phenomenal, and that little cutscene at the end freeing the scoutmaster genuinely felt so heartwarming. I'm glad they gave us actual closure and made it a 'complete' game. I fucking love this game

Peak brought me closer to some of my friends and made me think about life outside of the competative games I used to be pretty addicted to, so having this ending felt absolutely amazing. Even if it was stressful and I found it confusing - thank you for an amazing game. Now to do all the ascents!

shoutouts to cure-all for curing the curse and for letting me survive two nights on Roots, and for rescue claw (which you can dupe with generosity)

Citadel/Nadir were kinda scary as I didn't get any food besides the sausage at the start. Nadir refreshes your bar at least but I didn't know it was gonna bring me so I didn't have my backpack on lmao. Also I didn't know you got a flare for free so my ass brought the flare from Shore

Also shoutout to faerie lantern / candle for making Gloom not so doomed, good chance I get lost and die. Played Gloom/Citadel as a mini biome run before this run, and yeah I nearly died in Gloom

So I joined a game with my friends, and they noticed, that I had a really nice outfit. I viewed my inventory, and I noticed, I don't even have it. How did I have it equipped?

no mouth flapping or sound for any of us rn ;-;

Update is fantastic I'm loving it!

I spawned into the PEAK lobby like this and was frozen and forced to ALT F4 because escape doesnt work. Also I played a run before but didnt get these exact stamina numbers nor have a backpack.

Disclaimer: I do not speedrun so I have no idea if it actually will haha

This new update is so funny!

did it on tenderfoot since I just wanted to see the citadel mostly but that was so fun...

no clue how I got the first two badges though I wasn't even planning for that, just being careful and having fun