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Letter to Little Rocos
May 2, 2026 at 08:19 PM
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Letter to Little Rocos (致小洛克的一封信) is an open letter published by the Roco Kingdom: World development team on April 13, 2026. The letter acknowledged three live-service issues that the community had been escalating over the first three weeks after launch, and committed the team to remedies that shipped with the April 16, 2026 Magic Renewal patch. Three days separated the letter's publication from the delivery of its promises.
Issue | Scope |
|---|---|
Water-domain continuous capture anomaly | A bug in the water biome capture pools allowed infinite back-to-back catches on certain spirits, skewing the shiny rate distribution across the server. |
Item production pain points | Players had raised complaints about Gulu Ball crafting costs, weekend merchant prices, and synthesis recipes that consumed both crops and Roco Shells. |
Destined Flower Seeds rotation confusion | The first rotation had caused confusion about which spirits to challenge in which order, leading many players to forfeit first-clear rewards. |
The letter previewed three concrete remedies that would land with Magic Renewal on April 16:
Economic rebalance: Gulu Ball prices and synthesis recipes were retuned across the board. Advanced Gulu Balls at Annie's Shop dropped from 15,000 to 12,000 Roco Shells, weekend merchant condition balls dropped to 3,000 each, and condition ball crafting no longer consumed Roco Shells.
Recall multiplier buffs: Pollution Bloodline spirit recalls moved from 3x to 5x, and shiny recalls moved from 3x to 10x. The buffs apply retroactively to spirits caught before the patch.
Second rotation of Destined Flower Seeds: A second rotation of the Destined Flower Seeds challenge was scheduled with clearer UI prompts explaining the personality gates and clear order.
On April 16, every player account received a compensation mail containing:
One shiny Twin-Light Fish (异色双灯鱼) egg.
One self-select S1 chance-encounter shiny spirit egg. The self-select egg requires Magic Level 20 to open and lets the player pick any one of the eight S1 chance-encounter shiny spirits.
The letter marked the first major live-service incident response of Roco Kingdom: World's post-launch cycle. The fact that the team shipped all three remedies within three days, plus issued account-wide compensation, set a precedent that subsequent patches have used as a benchmark for response speed. Community sentiment in the days after Magic Renewal launched was broadly positive, and the April 16 patch was credited with reversing a dip in retention that had started around April 11.
Patch Notes - full April 16 Magic Renewal update
Destined Flower Seeds - the event that received a second rotation
Twin-Light Fish - compensation mail hatchable shiny
Gulu Balls - current Gulu Ball economy post-patch
