Patch Notes

Overview

This page is the running version history for Roco Kingdom: World since its March 26, 2026 public launch. Each entry summarizes the new spirits, events, system changes, and bug fixes shipped in that update. Time-limited events are listed with their official start and end dates so readers can cross-reference the live in-game schedule. For the confirmed future schedule, see the Upcoming Updates section at the bottom of this article.

Update Index

April 2, 2026 Update

The April 2, 2026 update introduced the first player co-created spirit family, the Spring Family, alongside a new high-difficulty PvE mode and a cluster of time-limited events and fixes.

New Spirits

Spring Family: Spring Ball (春团, #342), Spring Rabbit (春兔, #343), and Spring Flower Rabbit (春花兔, #344). All three are Grass-type and share the Systematic Development (系统发育) species ability.

Time-Limited Events (April 2)

Balance and Bug Fixes (April 2)

• Holy Feather Wing King (圣羽翼王) encounter difficulty reduced.

• Capture experience improvements for Nightmare spirits.

• Shield break on a Nightmare spirit now purifies its Poison Mark and Starfall Mark, and makes it immune to burn, poison, poison mark, parasite, freeze, and starfall mark for the turn of the break.

• Shining Flower (奇丽花) respawn capped at 10 per 10-minute window to curb farming exploits.

• Multiple skill inheritance inconsistencies resolved across evolution chains.

• Ranked PvP Roco Shell payouts optimized.

April 9, 2026 Update

The April 9 update added a photo-commission event, a Destined Flower Seeds challenge featuring four personality-gated spirits, and a 32-fix stability pass. No core systems were reworked.

Destined Flower Seeds Challenge

The Destined Flower Seeds (命定花种) activity does not add new spirits to the dex. Instead, it features four existing spirits as fixed challenge encounters, each tied to a specific nature requirement. Clearing all four first-time rewards grants Soul Imprints and Light Prism Crystals.

Time-Limited Events (April 9)

Cosmetics (April 9)

• Pica Monthly (皮卡月刊) launch: The subscription track opened with the Goodnight Pajama Party outfit set, featuring four coordinated costumes and shared-animation interactions for the Destined Flower Seeds roster.

• Reunion Waltz rerun: The Reunion Waltz (重逢圆舞曲) costume set returned to the store along with a random-shop rotation.

• Costume Recovery Packs: Time-limited outfit exchange tickets with refund windows were added for the spring lineup.

Balance and Bug Fixes (April 9)

• Trait Brave (勇敢) renamed to Fearless (无畏) to match its effect text.

• Fixed cooldown detection for the skill Gale Wind Assault (疾风连袭).

• Lineup Mirror totem inheritance optimized. Imported mirrors now also pick up the ally team's leader-transformation effect.

• Wild spirit generation now uses independent random rolls per encounter, including inside Legendary Spirit Challenge and Rare Beast Flower instances.

• Friendly Duel (友谊对决) no longer drops the daily limit incorrectly.

• Active team no longer disappears when the spirit box is full.

• PC client performance and mobile UI responsiveness improved.

April 13, 2026: Letter to Little Rocos

On April 13, 2026, the development team published an open letter titled A Letter to Little Rocos (致小洛克的一封信). The letter acknowledged three live-service issues that the community had escalated and committed the team to specific remedies in the following week's patch.

Issues Addressed

• Water-domain continuous capture anomaly: A bug in the water biome pools was allowing infinite back-to-back catches on certain spirits, skewing shiny rate distribution. The team confirmed the fix would ship with the April 16 update.

• Item production pain points: Players had raised complaints about Gulu Ball crafting costs, weekend merchant prices, and synthesis recipes that required both crops and Roco Shells. The team committed to an economy rebalance.

• Destined Flower Seeds rotation confusion: The first rotation caused confusion about which spirits to challenge in which order. A second rotation was announced with clearer UI prompts.

Announced Compensation

The letter previewed that the April 16 update would mail every account a shiny Twin-Light Fish egg (异色双灯鱼的蛋) plus a self-select egg containing one of the eight S1 chance-encounter shiny spirits. Both rewards were confirmed during the April 16 patch window.

April 16, 2026 Update: Magic Renewal

Branded internally as Magic Renewal (魔法焕新), the April 16 update is the largest balance patch since launch. It shipped through a non-stop hot update at 06:00 server time and required a client restart to apply. The patch cut Gulu Ball costs and crafting requirements sharply, buffed recall multipliers for rare spirits, added four new events, and sent the global compensation mail previewed in the April 13 letter.

Global Compensation

Every player received a mail containing one shiny Twin-Light Fish (异色双灯鱼) egg and one self-select S1 chance-encounter shiny spirit egg. The self-select egg requires Mage Level 20 to open.

Gulu Ball Cost Reductions

Recall Multiplier Buffs

Players who recall (retire) Pollution Bloodline or shiny spirits in the Spirit Box now receive significantly larger material refunds. These multipliers apply to all eligible spirits, not just those caught after the patch.

New Combat Feature: Shiny Alert

After a Nightmare Shackles shield is broken, if the revealed spirit is shiny the game now displays a top-right prompt for two seconds and overlays a shiny icon above the spirit's head. This closes a long-standing visibility gap where players could miss shiny rolls during fast combat rotations.

Time-Limited Events (April 16)

Anti-Cheat Enforcement

The patch notes explicitly called out stricter enforcement against third-party scripts and automation tools, including account-level bans for confirmed offenders. Players should avoid any tool that automates capture, movement, or combat.

May 7, 2026 Update

The May 7 update opened the fourth Destined Flower Seeds rotation with four new featured spirits, refreshed the Pica Photo Commission cycle, and added several weekend windows tied to the new event spirits. No core combat systems changed in this patch; the focus was time-limited content slotting into the closing weeks of Season 1: Dark Night Collecting Light.

Destined Flower Seeds Period 4

Period 4 introduces four new featured spirits as fixed challenge encounters. The event window runs from May 8, 2026 04:00 to May 21, 2026 04:00 and requires Magic Level 40 plus Spirit Scholar rank.

Clearing all four bosses in Period 4 yields up to 2,800 Light Prism Crystals depending on routing, plus Soul Imprints and personality-locked spirit drops on first-time completion. Using a colored ball (炫彩球) locks an excellent personality trait on the captured spirit reward.

Time-Limited Events (May 8)

Cosmetics (May 7)

• Pica Monthly Outdoor Survey Team (野外考察队): The May monthly bundle opened May 8 04:00 and closes May 21 04:00. The themed outfit ships with magical combat VFX and exclusive battle-entrance interactions for matching spirits.

• Alchemy Potion bundle: The April 24 cosmetic release closed its purchase window on May 8.

• Oath Holy Knight Remembrance: Limited cosmetic bundle returned to the store rotation.

Notes (May 7)

The May 7 patch did not adjust the Light-Collecting Pass, Gulu Balls costs, or Combat System mechanics. Players still on the closing weeks of Season 1 should plan around the May 21 04:00 cutoff, when season-exclusive spirits, shiny variants, and the Season Pass and Monetization reward track close.

May 21, 2026 Update: Season 2 "Carnival Strange Tales"

Season 2, titled Carnival Strange Tales (狂欢怪谈), launches at 04:00 on May 21, 2026, immediately replacing Season 1 (Dark Night Collecting Light). The new season runs for approximately two months until mid-July 2026 and uses a circus carnival aesthetic with a red-and-black color theme for its variant forms. The new content was officially revealed in the S2 PV on May 14 and detailed in the version-update announcement posted on the official forum on May 15.

New Spirits (S2)

Season 2 adds eleven new spirits across three obtain tiers. All eleven are listed below; names are presented with their confirmed Chinese name plus the most common English rendering. As of launch some English names remain provisional until in-game text is finalized. The spirit names, tiers, and signature-ability details below come from the official pre-launch reveal for this season and should be treated as provisional until confirmed against the live version 1.01 build.

New Variant Forms (S2)

Season 2 ships with eighteen total variant (异色) forms split between newly-introduced season-exclusive recolors and the seasonal return of Season 1 alternates. The S2 variant theme is a red-and-black circus color palette applied across the new spirit roster and select returning shinies. The variant capture mechanic is updated this season: the previous "corrupted" outcome from Nightmare Shackles is now reframed as a "Lucky Surprise Box" reward branch when the consecutive-capture chain breaks, with the same approximate variant odds but more cosmetic and material reward variety. See Shiny and Variant Spirits for the full mechanic.

New Items (S2)

Two new capture and redemption items launch alongside Season 2.

Type Rebalances (S2)

Three element families receive across-the-board enhancements at the start of Season 2. Specific per-move stat shifts will be detailed once the patch's full balance table is published, but the developer-stated targets are:

• Martial type (武系) : higher physical-skill base power and improved survivability against psychic and illusion families.

• Illusion type (幻系) : new utility effects on key skills, mainly around field disruption and morale manipulation.

• Demon type (恶魔系) : recovery and lifesteal pass improvements that make demon-led teams more viable in long PvE fights.

Environmental refresh mechanics also receive a tuning pass. Field cycles tied to PvP encounters are intended to rotate more often, opening up more dynamic counterplay during the Radiant Competition window.

Story Event: Wisdom Press

Season 2's headline story event casts the player as a Wisdom Press (智慧出版社) intern reporter investigating circus-themed mysteries. Each chapter unlocks a clue, and publishing the assembled story yields a Kingdom Ball, 500,000 Roco-coin, and an exclusive Season 2 title. The story requires Magic Level 20+ (Apprentice Magician rank) to begin and runs for the duration of the season.

Notes (May 21)

As of the May 21 launch, Season 1 content is sunset; remaining Season 1 currencies should be spent before the season-end mail goes out. The new Light-Collecting Pass Season 2 track replaces the Season 1 pass tier with the same two-spirit selection model. The Wandering Merchant rotation and Pica Photo Commission cycles continue uninterrupted across the season transition.

May 22 to 23 Post-Launch Follow-Up

In the first 48 hours after the Season 2 launch, the development team published two community communications addressing player feedback on art changes that had shipped alongside version 1.101. The first communication walked back several model and animation adjustments that had been introduced through what the team described as non-standard internal processes. Adjustments tied to model-clipping fixes were kept because those changes resolved a separate visual bug; other art adjustments were reverted to their previous shipped state.

For specific female-protagonist victory and defeat animations in PvE and PvP, the team committed to expose a player-side customization option so each player can choose between the new and previous animations rather than the change being applied globally. The team also reaffirmed its community-standards and topic-moderation commitments as part of the same follow-up.

Season 1 Optimization Pass (Rolled Out With Season 2)

Alongside the apology, the same communication confirmed a polish pass on three Season 1: Dark Night Collecting Light systems that had drawn the most player feedback during the closing weeks of the season. These changes are live as of the Season 2 update and persist into Season 2:

• Spirit Echo range expansion. The radius and per-cycle stack count of the Spirit Echo (精灵回响) cultivation mechanic were both increased, so a single echo cycle now contributes more raw material per run.

• Realm Trial core-reward threshold reduction. The score threshold required to unlock the per-tier core rewards inside Territory Trial (also referenced as Realm Trial in CN sources) was lowered so the headline rewards are reachable from a wider competence band, not just from optimized PvE teams.

• Cultivation material acquisition improvements. Several non-shiny cultivation material drops were increased in their primary spawn rotations, reducing the grind required to lift a non-meta spirit from base to its first competitive form.

These three changes were originally framed as "post-Season 1 follow-up" but are live in the version 1.101 build, which means they apply to ongoing Season 2 cultivation as well. Players who had paused Spirit Echo or Realm Trial grinding during the Season 1 wind-down should re-evaluate after the update.

Season 2 Update Compensation

The same communication confirmed a compensation package for the version 1.101 maintenance window. Players who had created an account, reached Magic Level 20 or higher, and updated to version 1.101 before 24:00 on May 24, 2026 received 300 Light Prism Crystals (分光晶), one Season 2 seasonal-shiny spirit egg, and 10 Wish Stars (许愿星) through the in-game mail system. The mailing window was a one-shot delivery tied to the update flag, not an event that can be claimed retroactively.

Upcoming Updates

The development team has confirmed an update cadence of a new season every two months and a major world update every six months. Two future milestones were publicly confirmed alongside the April 2 co-creation announcement.

Version 1.01 (Late May 2026): New Season

• Season transition: Dark Night Collecting Light ends and the season 2 theme launches. The new Season Pokedex system debuts, tracking collection progress on a per-season basis.

• 11 or more new spirits are confirmed, expanding the dex to 358 or more base species.

• 18 new shiny and variant forms will arrive as collectible variants tied to the new season.

• S1 shiny spirits lock out: The eight season-limited shiny spirits from Dark Night Collecting Light will close their wild capture channels at the season swap. The team has indicated possible future returns through breeding and other methods, but no dates have been given.

• New season-exclusive activities and refreshed pass tracks will launch with the version.

Version 1.10 (Mid-July 2026): Major World Expansion

• World map expansion opens new regions on the Kaluoxi'a Continent.

• Main story update advances the seven-chapter narrative.

• 15 or more new world spirits and world bosses arrive with the expansion.

• New challenge mode and new resonance magic system debut.

• Complete seasonal content is bundled in, including a dedicated seasonal theme distinct from the 1.01 swap.

See Also

• Roco Kingdom: World - main game page with development timeline

• Season 2: Carnival Strange Tales - dedicated Season 2 hub page

• Season 1: Dark Night Collecting Light - ongoing seasonal content

• Gulu Balls - current ball costs and recipes

• Shiny and Variant Spirits - rate mechanics and farming

• Territory Trial - endgame 2v2 gauntlet

• Spring Family - new co-created Grass-type family

• Starlight Leisure Park - Starlight Roaming event hub