Season 2: Carnival Strange Tales

Overview

Season 2: Carnival Strange Tales (狂欢怪谈) is the second seasonal content update for Roco Kingdom: World. It launched at 04:00 on May 21, 2026, immediately replacing Season 1: Dark Night Collecting Light, and runs for roughly two months until mid-July 2026. The season uses a circus carnival aesthetic with a red-and-black color theme applied across its variant forms. Season 2 adds a free legendary spirit, eleven new spirits in total, eighteen variant forms, two new capture and exchange items, a refreshed pass track, and the Wisdom Press story event.

Season 2 Carnival Strange Tales teaser for Roco Kingdom: World

Season Duration

Season 2 began at 04:00 on May 21, 2026 and runs for approximately two months, into mid-July 2026. The studio has stated a cadence of a new season every two months and a major world update every six months, so Season 2 is expected to give way to the version 1.10 world expansion in mid-July. Spend season-limited currency before the season-end mail goes out.

New Spirits

Season 2 adds eleven new spirits across three obtain tiers. Names below pair the confirmed Chinese name with the most common English rendering. The headline addition is the free legendary Mechanical Curtain Ark.

Spirit	Chinese	Tier	Notes
Mechanical Curtain Ark	机幕方舟	Free Legendary	Season 2 free legendary, obtained through the season main story. Mechanical type, three-stage evolution. Its passive grants assembly layers when allies use mechanical-type skills; at three layers, every ally skill shifts one slot down, letting the main DPS act twice on the same turn.
Snow Monster	雪怪	Pass Spirit	Selectable Light-Collecting Pass spirit. Its Snow Messenger ability applies five freeze stacks after two ice skills are used in a battle.
Blaze Sprayer	爆焰喷喷	Pass Spirit	Selectable Light-Collecting Pass spirit. Applies ten burn stacks after two fire skills are used in a battle.
Firework Duke	烟花伯爵	Encounter	Fire-aligned encounter spirit. Converts diminishing burn damage to poison damage while on the field.
Thunder Didi	霹雳迪迪	Encounter	Encounter spirit with an electric or rock theme.
Disc Howler	音碟吼	Encounter	Encounter spirit with a phonograph or sound-disc design.
Giant Drum Elephant	巨鼓象	Encounter	Encounter spirit with a drum-themed circus design.
Fox-Faced Scrubber	狐脸擦擦	Encounter	Encounter spirit with a fox-mask performer design.
Good Hat Hat	咕德帽帽	Encounter	Encounter spirit with a magic-hat design.
Dapper Puppet	帅帅魔偶	Encounter	Marionette-styled illusion-type encounter spirit.
Clown Duke	小丑公爵	Encounter	Jester-themed encounter spirit.

Variant Forms

Season 2 ships eighteen total variant (异色) forms, split between new season-exclusive recolors and the seasonal return of Season 1 alternates. The variant theme is the red-and-black circus palette. The capture mechanic is reframed this season: the previous corrupted outcome from Nightmare shackles is now a Lucky Surprise Box reward branch when the consecutive-capture chain breaks, with similar variant odds but more cosmetic and material variety. See Shiny and Variant Spirits for the full mechanic.

New Items

Item	Chinese	Use
Dazzle Ball	炫彩球	Premium capture ball that raises the chance of triggering a variant form on a successful capture, taking over the chromatic-capture role the Prism Ball filled in Season 1. See Gulu Balls.
Circus Memorial Ball	马戏团纪念球	Cosmetic-exchange currency awarded by the Season 2 carnival event track. Redeemed at the Season 2 hall for limited furniture, titles, and avatar items.

Type Rebalances

Three element families received across-the-board enhancements at the start of Season 2. Developer-stated targets:

Martial (武系): higher physical-skill base power and better survivability against psychic and illusion families.
Illusion (幻系): new utility effects on key skills, mainly field disruption and morale manipulation.
Demon (恶魔系): recovery and lifesteal improvements that make demon-led teams more viable in long PvE fights.

Environmental refresh mechanics also received a tuning pass: field cycles tied to PvP rotate more often for more dynamic counterplay during the Radiant Competition window. See the Element Types page for matchup context.

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 the length of the season.

Light-Collecting Pass (Season 2)

The Light-Collecting Pass refreshes to its Season 2 version with the same two-spirit selection model used in Season 1. Players choose between Snow Monster and Blaze Sprayer as the pass-exclusive spirit. Unspent Season 1 Wish Stars and pass progression do not carry into the Season 2 pass.

Post-Launch Follow-Up and Optimization

In the first 48 hours after launch, the development team published community communications addressing art-change feedback that had shipped with version 1.101. Several model and animation adjustments introduced through non-standard internal processes were reverted; model-clipping fixes were kept. The team committed to a player-side option to choose between new and previous female-protagonist victory and defeat animations, delivered as the Custom Action feature (Compass menu, Settings then Display).

The same communication confirmed a Season 1 optimization pass that is live in version 1.101 and persists into Season 2: the Spirit Cultivation Spirit Echo range and per-cycle stack count were both increased, the Territory Trial core-reward score threshold was lowered, and several non-shiny cultivation material drops were raised. A version 1.101 maintenance compensation (300 Light Prism Crystals, one seasonal-shiny egg, 10 Wish Stars) was mailed to accounts at Magic Level 20+ that updated before 24:00 on May 24, 2026.

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