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Overview

Season 1: Dark Night Collecting Light (暗夜拾光) is the inaugural seasonal content update for Roco Kingdom: World. The season launched on March 26, 2026, alongside the game's global release, and runs for approximately two months. It introduces a new legendary spirit, eight new spirit families, 16 season-exclusive shiny colorations, the Nightmare Shackles encounter system, a multi-tier Light-Collecting Pass, the Box Research Laboratory seasonal hub, and the Radiant Competition PvP tournament.

As the first season, Dark Night Collecting Light establishes the template for all future seasonal content. Players earn seasonal currency, complete investigation tasks, and progress through pass levels to unlock rewards that will not be available after the season ends. The season also marks the debut of the Territory Trial endgame PvE mode.

Season Duration

Each season in Roco Kingdom: World lasts approximately two months. Season 1 began on March 26, 2026, coinciding with the global launch. The exact end date is communicated through in-game announcements. Players are encouraged to complete time-limited objectives early to avoid missing exclusive rewards as the season draws to a close.

Dragon Breath Parasus

Dragon Breath Parasus (龙息帕尔) is the Season 1 legendary spirit. It is a Dark/Evil-type creature with a fearsome stat spread designed for physical aggression. Dragon Breath Parasus is available to all players for free by completing Season Assignment Chapter 1, which rewards the spirit's egg. This makes it one of the most accessible legendary spirits in the game.

Exclusive Ability: Evil Thought Exchange

Dragon Breath Parasus possesses the exclusive ability Evil Thought Exchange (恶念交换). When activated, this ability steals one of the opponent's Morale Points and adds it to your own. In the context of PvP, where each player starts with only 4 Morale Points, stealing even a single point can swing the entire match. The ability is feared at higher ranks because it simultaneously weakens the opponent's staying power while extending your own.

Stats

Dragon Breath Parasus boasts a species value total of 617, placing it firmly in the legendary tier. Its stat distribution heavily favors physical offense and bulk.

With 161 Physical ATK and only 29 Special ATK, Dragon Breath Parasus is a dedicated physical attacker. Its 131 Physical DEF and 130 HP provide solid survivability on the physical side, though its 94 Special DEF leaves it somewhat vulnerable to special attackers.

Obtaining Dragon Breath Parasus

Complete Season Assignment Chapter 1 to receive the spirit's egg. The quest line involves a series of story battles and exploration objectives that introduce the season's narrative. Once the egg is obtained, hatch it through the standard breeding system. The evolution chain is: Small Parsa evolves at Level 28 into Parsathus, which evolves at Level 40 into Dragon Breath Parasus. A special release condition requires catching 3 Parsathus and releasing 2 of them to trigger the final transformation.

Nightmare Shackles

Nightmare Shackles is the core seasonal encounter mechanic. It provides the primary method for encountering the eight new Season 1 spirits and their shiny variants.

Phase 1: Building a Capture Streak

To trigger a Nightmare Shackles encounter, the player must consecutively capture 20 or more wild spirits within a specific area. Once the threshold is reached, there is a probability-based chance that a corrupted Nightmare spirit will spawn. The trigger chance increases as the capture streak grows beyond 20.

Phase 2: Breaking the Nightmare Shield

Corrupted Nightmare spirits appear surrounded by a dark purple aura. Before any Gulu Ball can be thrown, the player must defeat the spirit's Nightmare Shield in combat. The shield functions as an additional health bar with elevated defenses. Only after the shield is broken does the spirit become catchable.

Three Possible Outcomes

After defeating a Nightmare spirit, one of three outcomes occurs:

1. Revert to Normal: The spirit sheds its corruption and returns to its standard form. This is the most common outcome.

2. Corruption Bloodline: The spirit retains a purple pollution aura, indicating it carries the Corruption Bloodline. This is a unique variant with altered abilities.

3. Shiny Variant: The spirit transforms into a shiny version with an alternate color palette. This has a base chance of 1.8% per encounter.

Shiny Pity System

The game tracks how many consecutive Nightmare encounters have yielded non-shiny results. After 80 encounters without obtaining a shiny variant, the pity system guarantees that the next Nightmare spirit will be shiny. This pity counter resets if the player flees from a Nightmare battle, loses the fight, or runs out of MP during the encounter.

New Season Spirits

Season 1 introduces eight new spirit families, all obtainable exclusively through the Nightmare Shackles mechanic. These spirits and their evolutions can only be encountered during Season 1, making them time-limited additions to a player's collection.

16 Season-Exclusive Shiny Variants

Each of the eight new spirit families has two forms (base and final evolution), resulting in 16 season-exclusive shiny colorations. Shiny variants feature alternate color palettes and subtle visual effects. Once Season 1 ends, these specific shiny appearances will no longer be obtainable in the wild, making them highly sought-after collector's items.

Light-Collecting Pass

The Light-Collecting Pass (拾光通行证) is Season 1's main progression track, consisting of 100 levels of rewards across free and paid tiers. It offers two thematic tracks: Moonlight and Starlight.

Spirit Choice

At the start of the season, players choose between two exclusive spirits tied to the pass: Speedy Light Beast (疾光千兽, Light type) or Fuzzy Fairy (绒仙子, Bug type). The chosen spirit is awarded at an early pass level and cannot be obtained through any other means during the season.

Players who do not purchase the pass still have a path to these exclusive spirits. By visiting a friend who has purchased the pass, you can enter their world and catch the exclusive spirit there for free. This social mechanic encourages cooperative play and rewards having an active friends list.

Pass Pricing

The Duo-Buy option allows two friends to purchase together at a discounted rate. This is the most cost-effective option for players who have a regular gaming partner.

Free Tier Rewards

All players have access to the free tier, which includes nature correction materials, IV correction items, shiny eggs, and various consumables distributed across the 100 levels. These rewards provide meaningful progression even for players who choose not to spend real money.

Radiant Competition

Season 1 features the Radiant Competition as its flagship PvP tournament. During the event window, all ranked PvP rewards are doubled, making it the most efficient time to climb the ladder and stockpile resources. The Radiant Competition also offers exclusive seasonal medals and cosmetics for top-performing players.

Territory Trial

Season 1 also marks the debut of the Territory Trial, a high-difficulty PvE mode available to players at level 50 and above. The Territory Trial features a unique trait-sharing mechanic where two deployed spirits share abilities, requiring flexible team composition and deep understanding of ability synergies. It was introduced alongside the April 2, 2026 content update.

Season Hall: Box Research Laboratory

The Season Hall for Season 1 is themed as the Box Research Laboratory, a seasonal hub area overseen by the NPC Lu Meng, an evil-type researcher. Players complete investigation tasks assigned by Lu Meng, and the laboratory auto-generates Starlight Value over time based on completed tasks.

Accumulated Starlight Value can be exchanged for various rewards. The most notable exchange is Roco Shells for Capture Light Balls (80,000 Roco Shells each). The Season Hall provides passive income that rewards consistent daily engagement throughout the season.

Season Shop

The Season Shop uses Wish Stars as its primary currency, earned through the Light-Collecting Pass and various seasonal activities. It offers exclusive cosmetic items, furniture, emotes, and decorations that will not be available after Season 1 ends.

Available Categories

• Costumes: Themed headpieces and outfits matching the Box Research Laboratory aesthetic, including the Researcher's Hat.

• Toys: Decorative items such as the Old Suitcase, Knowledge Bench, and Comfortable Desk.

• Emotes: Four new emotes (Greeting, Realization, Contemplation, Come Here), each with two upgrade levels that enhance the animation.

• Furniture: The Star Dome Echo series, a collection of astronomical-themed furniture for the player's home, including a Star Orrery, Astrology Platform, Telescope, Astrology Tent, Carpet, and Lost Star.

Commemorative Items

The Season Shop also stocks commemorative items unique to Season 1. These include a memorial Coco Fruit Ball (roughly equivalent to an Advanced Gulu Ball) and a Season 1 nameplate. Both are intended as collector's items that prove participation in the game's inaugural season.

April 2026 Content Updates

Season 1 received three mid-season content updates on April 2, April 9, and April 16. These patches added new spirits, events, and balance changes without ending the season. See the full Patch Notes article for the complete change log.

April 2: Spring Family and Territory Trial

• Spring Family: Three new Grass-type spirits (Spring Ball, Spring Rabbit, and Spring Flower Rabbit) obtainable through the Roco Dreaming Constructor event that ran from April 3 to April 24.

• Territory Trial debut: The endgame 2v2 trait-sharing gauntlet opened with the Farisasa Tribe as the first featured faction. See Territory Trial for mechanics and rewards.

• Healing Rabbit Outbreak: A short April 3 to April 6 wild-spawn event with a chance at the Healing Rabbit shiny variant.

April 9: Photo Commission and New Activity Spirits

• Pica Photo Commission (皮卡摄影委托): April 10 to April 24 event. Completing photo tasks for every spirit unlocks the limited Spirit Group Photo Wall Decoration furniture.

• Four new spirits: Snow Shadow Doll, Dream Youyou, Electric Ball MieMie, and Phantom Eye were added via the Destined Flower Seeds challenge activity.

• Cosmetic drops: Goodnight Pajama Party outfit bundle and a rerun of the Reunion Waltz costume set.

April 16: Magic Renewal

• Global compensation: Every player received a shiny Twin-Light Fish egg plus one self-select S1 shiny egg. The self-select egg unlocks at Mage Level 20.

• Gulu Ball cost cuts: Advanced Gulu Ball dropped to 12,000 Roco Shells, weekend condition balls dropped to 3,000, and Attribute Ball recipes no longer consume Roco Shells. See Gulu Balls for the full table.

• Recall multipliers: Pollution Bloodline spirit recalls moved from 3x to 5x and shiny recalls moved from 3x to 10x, making shiny duplicates the top cultivation material source.

• Starlight Roaming (星光漫游): A long April 17 to May 6 login and exploration activity centered on the Starlight Leisure Park zone, with Advanced Gulu Balls, Sage Crystal Fragments, Ability Keys, and Prism Balls as weekly rewards.

• World Observation Notes (大世界观察笔记): April 17 to April 24 capture challenge gated by spirit height and weight thresholds, rewarding Light Prism Crystals and Sage Crystal Fragments.

• Transformation Ball (变幻球): The Illusion and Mechanical Attribute Ball became directly purchasable from the Traveling Merchant at 3,000 Roco Shells, capped at 200 per day.

Season Timeline

Players are encouraged to prioritize the Light-Collecting Pass early, as many of the best rewards are gated behind higher pass levels. For details on the characters involved in the Season 1 story, see the Characters article.