Changelog/2021

This page lists all **updates** to Mope.io that occurred in the year 2021. If you are looking for a full list of updates, refer to the main article.

## November 3, 2021

```
**Bug fixes**
Fix: Upgrade menu not showing for Tier 14
Fix: Spiders not showing in-game skins

```

## October 27, 2021

### Unmentioned Updates

```
- Summer Items removed.

```

## October 25, 2021

### Unmentioned Updates

```
- New 2021 Halloween Skins added!

```

## October 22, 2021

```
**Hotfix 3.2**
- Animal selection menu is now transparent and & hotkey icon colors match biome colors
- Fix: Pressing enter on animal selection will not crash game

```

### Unmentioned Updates

```
- Jack-O-Lantern re-added.

```

## October 21, 2021

```
**Hotfix 3.1**
- Animal selection screen is now smaller and pushed to the left side of the screen
- Adds and auto selects a rare biome tab if any rare animals are selectable
- Can select biome tabs with number keys
- Can select animal skins with letter keys
- Fix: Issue with certain skins not displaying in upgrade menu
- Fix: Incorrect water/air/energy/lava bar colors & icons
- Fix: mobile button layout
- Fix: Pressing enter on animal selection will not accidentally toggle chatbox after.

```

## October 14, 2021

```
**Version 3 UI**
- New animal selection/upgrade menu with biome tabs
- New ability icons
- New water & experience bars
- New scoreboard
- Outlined minimap

```

## August 27, 2021

```
**ALWAYS CLEAR CACHE WHEN NEW UPDATE ARRIVES!
Hotfix 2.7**
- Fix: Aqua Yeti appearing in place of Golden Yeti.
- Buff: Aqua Yeti gives 300 coins on spawning or being killed.
- Buff: Aqua Yeti gives 20% more damage on roar
- Buff: Aqua Yeti rarity increased to 25/600 (prev 5/600).

```

```
- Fix: "FREE" Skins in the shop taking coins from users attempting to acquire them.
- Fix: Random game crashes
- Fix: Rare farming script patch.
- Fix: Holdable objects are able to move/push animals inside 1v1 arena.
- Fix: Floaters get stuck in waters if a cave is overlapping that water area.
- Fix: BigFoot not loading all assets.
- Fix: Rattlesnake/Gummy Viper not loading rattle assets.
- Fix: Fruity Ice Markhor shop skin not loading all assets (w/ Gold Trim).
- Fix: Removed "wallLimit" and "Dist" values text in arena fights.
- New: When joining a server it shows connected message:

- Misc: Spawning rate of holdables decreased, adding a delay between spawns of holdable objects.
- Misc: Holdable pickup cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 5 seconds for all holdable objets (pumpkins, umbrellas, etc.)
- Misc: Patched rare farming mods.
- Misc: Patched sandbox access. Note: anyone who played/plays on Sandbox/Farming coins using illegal means (such as using mods/hacks) will get perma bans.
- Misc: Ban Hammer v1.0.2 aka #SHOCM; now gives #SHOCM to alts for already banned accounts.

```

## August 3, 2021

### Unmentioned Updates

```
- Invisible umbrella bug fixed. Umbrellas can be seen again when being used.

```

## July 30, 2021

```
**Summer Update**
- New Summer Season in mope, lasts for entire August-September during 2021
- We have compiled 45 incredible summer themed limited edition shop skins for this update! These are temporary, so make sure to buy 'em all before they're gone forever!

NEW: Floaters!
- Land animals will conquer the oceans! Use new floaters to move quickly in lakes, rivers in oceans, and get XP & Coins for riding them. Make sure not to get stuck on land!
NEW: Beach Balls!
- Introducing customized beach balls for the soccer mini-game! Compete with other animals to score the highest amount of goals, or enjoy your coins while rolling the ball. You may find a rare golden beach ball if you try hard enough!
NEW: Umbrellas!
- The sun's powerful shine is quite harmful during the summertime! Introducing you umbrellas, use them to save your animal from getting a heat shock. Stay in shade, preserve your water resources and get free coins!
NEW: Rare Falcons!

- Predator Falcon (50/4000):
- A slightly enhanced falcon, mobile and dangerous predator for any stranded prey. Beware of its claws!
- Shaheen Falcon (1/4000):
- An incredibly enhanced Pakistani Shaheen Falcon, with lots of health, longer flight duration and POWERFUL dive! No animal shall stay safe from this hunter.
**New Summer Items**

- Beachballs:

- Spawns in ocean with only two variants, golden and normal
- Holding beachball gives xp/coins, rare golden beachball gives crazy xp and good coins
- Shoot water or use ability to drop beachball from holding
- Umbrellas:
- Spawn everywhere in 3 different rariteis, rainbow, purple and golden
- Holding an opened Umbrella gives xp/coins boost, rare golden Umbrella gives crazy xp and good coins
- Holding Normal Umbrella drains water 25% slower, while the golden makes it 60% slower
- Shoot water or use abilities on riders to drop umbrella from holding
- Spawn in ocean and lakes
- Players can ride a Floaty if they both are in water
- Ridding a floaty gives speed boost (10%), also gives xp/coins bonus, can't go on hills/rocks etc and you turn very slow.
- Shoot water or use abilities on riders to get them off from their water vehicles!
- WARNING: Do NOT go outside water if riding a floaty, otherwise you will become extremely slow and vulnerable
**Misc:**
- New: Once any holdable object is dropped, you cant pick another for 10s
- New: Flying animals cant pick holdable objects if ended flight 5s ago
- New: Chat is disabled for non-logged in players
- Fix: 1v1 available for non-logged in player.
- Buff: Croc can completely camouflage in lakes and water puddles
- Buff: King Dragon 25% extra tail slap damage if hit from back
- Buff: King Dragon 65% extra tail slap damage if facing tail (now one-shot kill on tail slap apex and lower)
- Buff: King Dragon hp bumped to 18, Black Dragon hp is bumped to 12

```

## July 14, 2021

```
**Hotfix 2.6**
- Fix: Plays click sounds on all uni button presses now.
- Fix: Persists your nick name between game sessions if you are not using a private/incognito browser.
- Increased the scale ratio for the home menu size.
- Displays an entering game message
- No longer shows bottom banner ad while on homescreen.
- Added hover tooltips to footer items.
- Restyled IOGameSpace and privacy policy footer elements

```

## June 21, 2021

```
**Hotfix 2.5**
- Fix: Stingray not obtaining victim XP if they are killed by the zap ability.
- Fix: Phoenix not obtaining victim XP if victim dies of bite-burn.
- Fix: Arena invites stacking, resulting in arena menu without/non-clickable buttons.
- Fix: A lot of water required to extinguish ground fires.
- Fix: Bushes die when animals came from bushes (due to Tiger bush logic), thus causing bushes to vanish from map.
- Fix: Warthog/Chipmunk not being able to consume ability generated foods.
- Fix: Pakistan Toucan burning in lava and not able to shoot fireballs.
- Fix: Queen Celeste skin inside 1v1 arena wasn't properly centered.
- Fix: Cobra venom not stacking.
- Fix: Shivering effect preventing boost usage inside 1v1 arena.
- Fix: Cancelling the arena configuration making you unable to send 1v1 requests.
- Fix: Arena fire acting less damaging on Land Monster and Phoenix.
- Fix: When animals come from land and go on caves in river they still walk on land and thus can't regen water whilst standing on cave.

```

```
**Balancing and Features**
- Balancing: Cobra changes.
 - Buff: Cobra venom effect now lasts for 8 seconds and deals 0.45HP damage to prey & 0.25HP to predators with 1.8s.
 - Buff: Subsequent venom makes the effect last for 6 seconds and deal 20% damage.
- Balancing: Land Monster changes.
 - Nerf: Land Monster ability recharge time has been increased from 9 seconds to 11 seconds.
 - Nerf: Land Monster cannot enter any holes/volcanoes/caves while using the ability and 3 seconds after it runs out.
 - Buff: Land Monster S-fire now consumes 1/9 of its lava volume instead of 1/5.
- Feature: Macaw species mimic ability changes.
 - Red Macaw: can mimic animals from tier 1 to tier 9, rares excluded.
 - Blue Macaw: can mimic animals from tier 1 to tier 13, rares included.
 - Pakistan Macaw: can mimic all animals in the game, rares included.
- Feature: Animals that are immune to lava can walk through the erputing volcano.
- Feature: If the volcano is erupting, no animals can hide in it.
- Feature: Coin earning cooldown reduced from 90s to 30s.
 - Nerf: can grab KD/BD from behind.
 - Nerf: Health max set to 6hp (prev 9hp).
 - Nerf: Max flight time is 16s (prev 20s).
 - Nerf: Ability cooldown set to 14s (prev 8s).
 - Nerf: Can carry KD for 4s, BD for 6s, Monsters for 8s, apex for 10s and prey for 12s.
 - Buff: Fall damage to victim set to 1.2hp (prev 0.5hp).
- Shahbaz:
 - Nerf: Shahbaz max flight time is 14s (prev 15s).
 - Nerf: Shahbaz can carry monsters for 6s, apex for 8s and the rest of predators for 12s and preys for 14s.
 - Buff: Fall damage to victim set to 1.2hp (prev 0.5hp).
 - Buff: Ability cooldown set to 10s (prev 12s).
- Golden Eagle:
 - Nerf: Max flight time is 12s (prev 12s).
 - Nerf: Can carry monsters for 4s, apex for 7s, rest of predators for 10s and preys for 8s.
 - Buff: Ability cooldown set to 10s (prev 12s).
- Bald Eagle:
 - Nerf: Max flight time is 10s (prev 12s).
 - Nerf: Can only carry preys for 8s.
 - Nerf: Can't stun predators.
 - Buff: Ability cooldown set to 10s (prev 15s).

```

```
 Arena changes:
- Tail burn feature activates if a player's tail is within 45° degrees from the outermost wall.
- Player burns if their body is touching unsafe area while the inner circle is greater than 50%.
- Outermost wall gives bounce if players hug the wall using tail.
- Stronger force applied when player is trying to escape arena, two times as strong now.
- Tail bounce on outermost wall starts once arena has shrunk more than 20% (2nd phase).

```

## June 15, 2021

```
**Hotfix 2.4**
- Footer UPDATES now displays an indicator when new updates are available to read.
- Footer Discord button now displays age restriction.
- Shop menu gives you option to purchase coins if you do not have enough to purchase the focused item.
- Fixed: ad bug that prevents ads to be seen after a video plays.
- Fixed: Mobile ads.

```

## June 9, 2021

```
**Hotfix 2.3**
- Fix: Initial server connection is chosen based on lowest ping and highest player count.
- Restyled the social media links in the footer.
- Added ZenDesk support link to the footer.
- Increased play button size.
- Decreased server dropdown height and name input field.
- Prompts user to login when purchasing coins while unauthenticated.

```

## June 1, 2021

```
**Hotfix 2.2**
- Fix: Fireball neutralizing on impact with the flying/hiding/divind animals resulting in causing no damage if hit another animal.
- Fix: King Dragon's tail-slap dust neutralizing the fire/fireball.
- Fix: Sunset/Storm Clowod lions giving 50 coins on spawn.
- Fix: Bigfoot/Snowman/Snowgirl/Santa assets not showing in game when the owner player wearing a theme.
- Fix: Fixed Newyork1, Miami1 server crashes.
- Fix: Ad snippets appearing on top-left corner for a split second when upgrading to a new animal.
- Fix: More UI fixes on mobile devices.

```

## May 27, 2021

```
**Hotfix 2.1**
- Fix: Queen Flame missing firestream assets
- Fix: Queen Flame missing dark wings assets
- Fix: Shop skins have wrong tiers for crab/tully monster
- Fix: Clowod Lions giving 50 coins bonus/bounty
- Fix: New Store using original pack prices instead of sale prices
- Fix: Disabling Halloween bundles listing and purchase. Still available if already bought
- Fix: Ads not disappearing after arena ends
- Fix: UI not loading for old browser
- New: Mope ID can be viewed from Settings Tab (click to view it).

```

## May 22, 2021

```
**New Storefront Update!**

- New fresh looking store interface
- New layout and display features.

- Featured Bundles and Featured Skins
- New skin and bundle listing pages

 FREE! FREE! FREE!

**Legacy Pack**

- Enjoy good old classic skins once again!
- Once you buy Classic Skin pack, it will appear under "Settings" tab in Mope Shop.
- Equip Classic Theme and refresh your good old memories!

**New Skins**

```

## May 12, 2021

```
**misc update**
- optimized db/accounts server
- optimized game servers
- Please leave your feedback here r/mopeio

```

## March 5, 2021

```
**Crash fix**
- fix: singa/frankfurt2 crash

```

## March 4, 2021

```
**Hotfix #1**
- fix: flamingo ability causing screen glitch and game crash on client side
- fix: player accounts owning loads of shop skins were not able to join game servers
- fix: redemption not starting even credits consumed
- fix: spinstrat being used to defeat redemption bots
- note: redemption leaderboard fully developed. Will publish it in hotfix #2

```

```
#MopePoliceSquad (MPS):
- new: Assigned mod powers to a group of people who look for naughty players and ban them if using hacks/mods
- note: Mope.io is a place where we all gather to enjoy and have some cool time. If anyone is using hacks/mods to disrupt gameplay of other players we wont tolerate it. MPS will give permanent ban to your account. Please play mope.io fairly. Thanks.

```

## February 18, 2021

```
**Food/Redemption buff**
- buff: overall food buffed 20%, another 20% buff on low crowded servers
- buff: Noob Redemption win bonus increased to 400 mopecoins
- buff: Pro Redemption win bonus increased to 750 mopecoins
- nerf: Winning 3 Noob Redemptions locks it, players are encouraged to play pro version
- fix: Sultan's opacity decreased so players can see through when 1v1
- misc: Awarded 10 free credits to the players who bought redemption credits from shop

```

## February 17, 2021

```
**Balancing**
- nerf: nerfed Noob Level 10
- nerf: nerfed Pro Levels 7-10
- note: redemption leadboard coming soon :)

```

## February 16, 2021

```
**Redemption/Accounts Update**
**New Account Servers setup and Optimizations**
- improved database performance upto 10 folds
- new fast login technology and player data loading
- more powerful servers and up-scale ability
- upgraded cloud connectivity to 99.99% uptime, reducing latency that lowers lag and disconnections for low-speed internet users
- server side optimizations on accounts/game servers/client

```

```
**New: 1v1 Redemption Mode**
- player can fight with AI Bosses to improve their 1v1 skills (A step towards 1v1 Tournaments in Mope.io
- comes with 2 different versions (Noob and Pro)
- each redemption version comes with 10 AI bosses/levels
- to play redemption mode, you have to buy credits from shop, once you buy credits they show in Settings tab inside Shop interface
- each redemption credit unlocks on Pro/Noob version (10 rounds)
- if a player is able to beat all 10 AI bosses, they get a 375 mopecoins reward for Noob version and 500 mopecoins reward for Pro version
- reward coins do not show in live
- earning but directly go into their Mope.io Wallet
**1v1 Arena Revamp:**
- new: normal/fast speed optimized
- new: new arena display
- new: hotkeys for arena buttons
- new: players inside arena cant see other arenas or players inside them
- new: arena wont get pushed by other arenas
- new: use Q key to initiate 1v1 request
- new: wall hug damage and wall shrink disabled when arena is less than 50% in size
- new: timer runs on outside edge of the Arena upto 5 minutes, however last 30 seconds give closing burn (a
- red colored timer runs at the end)
- new: arena timers dont show to the outside players improve arena rendering for outside players
- new: 1v1 Arena now available to logged in players only
- new: disabled all client
- side animations for players are inside 1v1

```

```
**Balancing and fixes:**
- fix: arena config wont work if you chat/go in hole
- fix: jackass unlimited raging when on water body
- fix: lava toucan shooting fireballs when inside igloo/caves
- fix: ostrich babies cant go in caves
- fix: mini cacti not giving damage
- fix: Pelican's beak overlay on client
- fix: daily reward not functional
- fix: crashes on various servers during past 4 weeks
- fix: main menu spectator moving to top
- left corner and sticking there
- fix: fully grown Pelican water bomb ends before hitting ground
- fix: giraffe AI visible to players inside arena
- buff: eating cacti now gives 25 water
- nerf: aqua yeti nerfed
- nerf: reduce kill
- nerf: heal for KD when killing animals from tier 11-15
- nerf: reduced fireball damage for KD
- new: shop animals rebranded to "Features"
- new: KD's tailslap now creates waves/storms when in respective biomes
- new: berries/planktons no longer visible to tier 15 or above, improves client-side rendering
- new: online/playing counter
- new: KD/BD become transparent when they come in contact with other KD/BD
- misc: client side optimization to improve FPS

```

## January 20, 2021

```
**Hi-fi update**
- All game servers are now hi-fi servers :)

```

## January 19, 2021

```
**Crash Fix**
- fix: fixed crashes on paris1/paris2/seatle/turkey
- misc: old viewing player count is back

```

## January 18, 2021

```
- fix: xp-glitch for higher tiers when they kill lower tiers
- new: if there are more than 350 players, game gives 66% kill xp, between 1-350 players gives 55-90% (higher the players higher the percentage)

```

```
- buff: new system for xp buff for low crowded servers. 1-150 players, game gives upto 2.5x xp boost upon eating any food. Lower the player count greater the XP
- buff: new system for KILL xp buff for crowded servers. between 150-350 players, game gives upto 90% or 15mn (which ever is lower) kill xp of the dying player
- buff: Conch Shell/Cactus/Mushroom Bush edible from +10 tiers
- buff: Conch Shell/Mushroom Bush are now High-XP foods
- buff: Mushroom Bush now spawn across Arctic and Land
- buff: Mushroom Bush spawn rate increased on land
- buff: Cactus spawn rate increased in desert
- buff: Cactus inflicts bleed/damage/stun effects 1/10 chances

```

## January 16, 2021

```
- upgrade: new hi-fi servers upgrade for chicago1, dallas1, la1, la2, ny1, ny2, seol1, tokyo1, china1
- note: remaining servers will be upgraded soon
- buff: Bald Eagle can dive in water
- nerf: Golden Eagle dive in water disabled
- buff: Honeybee can sting upto monsters (give 0.2hp damage) and gives 0.4hp dmg to 15 or lower tier
- fix: Honeycomb going under rocks
- fix: Gazelle going under rocks/hills when using ability

```

## January 15, 2021

```
- buff: food-xp rebuffed across all biomes. It's complex cant explain how much is it but I can say, its 234903249238490 times better now!

```

```
- buff: Golden Eagle chances revised to 28/5000
- buff: All Eagles except Bald Eagle can dive in waters, Golden Eagle dives for 7s, Shahbaz for 10s and Golden Shahbaz for 15s
- buff: Shahbaz can climb on rocks
- nerf: BD/KD max-health doesnt reset when they come out of Arena
- nerf: Food xp across all biomes nerfed, OP xp in desert lived for too long. Now we are back to hunt and survive gameplay. Some might find it a bruh moment, but yea we are now looking back to bring the pre-desert gameplay back
- nerf: reduced number of objects spawning across map. previously we had +12k objects mostly food and they despawn over time. Too many objects keep CPU busy for no reason. Now we have reduced game objects down to 55%
- buff: Aqua Yeti damage is 50% on both Prey/Predators
- fix: Ostrich babies cant go in caves along with mommy
- fix: Pterodactyl can't land on Igloos
- fix: BD/LM xp/coin glitch with arena/upgrade
- fix: BD unable to on-shot kill ostrich babies
- fix: Caves in rivers make animals show out of water resulting in water/dive ability loss
- fix: Cassowary able to hit animals when ability active and going in hole and come out to hit outside players
- fix: Paid animals kill-bounty abuse for 500 coins. Now there they get coins 30-minutes apart from same guy
- fix: BD/KD max-health doesnt reset when they come out of Arena
- new: Hiding holes in arctic biome are recolored to match the biome
- new: 5s delay when you click on PLAY button (avoids spam-click)
- removed: Christmas food/trees removed
- removed: removed extra servers to increase concentration on their regions, now multi server regions will have max 2 servers except Asia where listed servers represent their countries
- note: officially announcing High Performance servers which are: chicago2, brazil1, paris1, paris2, miami2, sydney1, dallas2 and turkey1
- note: remaining servers will be upgraded to High Performance servers during next 2-3 days

```

## January 2, 2021

```
- new: testing two new High Performance game servers NFX and FFX if they can live up to Mope's standards! lol.

```

```
**Bug Fixes**
- Buff: Snowgirl can statue up to Monsters for 1.5s and below apex up to 2.5s. Predators get 0.2hp damage and preys get 0.7hp on statue impact. Predator can move if statued, but prey becomes standstill.
- Buff: Golden Shahbaz can pick all animals in game (including KD), flies for 20s, ability cooldown half of normal eagle.
- Buff: Both Shahbaz are Paki animals, Shahbaz gives 400 and Golden Shahbaz gives 500 mopecoins on spawn/kill
- Fixed: Caves not replenishing the air
- Fixed: On exiting cave/igloo players can't boost.
- Fixed: Lag caused by caves
- Fixed: Animals not losing water when inside caves/igloos
- Nerf: Xmas food xp nerfed by 40% for 11+ tier and also reduced the concentration by 30%
- Fixed: Snowgirl head not showing when using ability
- Fixed: AI entering in caves
- Fixed: Sidebar ad placeholder showing after arena ends for the winner.
- Misc: Paid animals have 500 mopecoins kill-bounty :) kill them! (remember the bigfoot/snowman/snowgirl by luck won't give bounty).
- Misc: Added snowfall on/off option in settings on main menu.

```