Category: News

It has been a busy week for dot big bang! Both Honeyvale and Elemental Beasts were updated, and a few new template toys were added as well. On Tuesday June third at 12:00 PM PDT, we will hold our Monthly Community Meetup Stream on Youtube to go over all the details. As part of that stream we will also give away a Tent House in Honeyvale and an Epic Water Turtle recipe in Elemental Beasts🥳

Can’t wait until then? Read on for the links to the patch notes!

Honeyvale has a brand new super green Gardening Career! The new tasks and rewards are listed in the Honeyvale Patch Changelogs 😁

Elemental Beasts also had a big update this week, adding the Water Beast! This update came with other goodies to find around the world, like pots and tablets full of loot, watershrines, and of course of of the enchanted water gear. Find the full list in the Elemental Beast Changelogs.

If you are more of a creator type, there has been a few updates to the featured templates bar. There is now a particle rainbow you can use to brighten up your builds as well as a giant Lava Beast. The Pride Emoji Override has also made its yearly return! If you are looking for template toys from other times of year, you can always find them in the Featured Templates game.

That’s it! Have fun playing and creating, and we hope to see you for the stream!

Game chat is now an overlay that can be opened and closed from the chat icon in the top left of the game. Try it out in Honeyvale, Elemental Beasts, or any of your favorite dot big bang games <3

Elemental Beasts has had an update! Visit shrines where you can sacrifice items for a boon, split stacks of inventory, view unlocked recipes in your journal, and pin recipes to craft later. You can also check out some of your fellow survivor’s islands by jumping through the portals on the new traveler NPC’s boat! Find all the details on the Changelogs page.

Honeyvale Roleplay has been updated! The post office is now open for business! Write a letter to your friends or get to work at the newly opened post office located inside of Town Hall. You can also find new jewelry, outfits and cars available in the shopping center, a new house available in the housing store, and new quests in the Adventurer’s Guild journal! Read more here on Honeyvale’s Changelogs page.

We have just launched a brand new feature that will allow guest players on dot big bang to build objects and games, customize their avatar, and save data in all games! When ready, guests can claim their accounts to get access to their creations and saves across devices, and to unlock platform features like chat and comments.

In related news, the games Honeyvale and Elemental Beasts have both had updates! Guests now have save data in both games, and there have been many other updates as well! You can check out the patch notes below.

Notable changes

• Guests can play Honeyvale! 
• Players who claim their account receive two free items
  • A bee themed backpack with wings
  • A party balloon

New Career

• Occult Career is now available 
• Unlockable after finishing a questline located in the graveyard
• Career Rewards:
  • Vampire Outfit M
  • Vampire Outfit F
  • Vampire Face 1
  • Vampire Face 2
  • Vampire Umbrella
  • Broomstick Vehicle
  • Wolf Head Accessory
  • Wolf Tail Accessory
  • Bat Staff
  • Hearse Vehicle
  • Gothic House
• New location – Haunted Manor
• New career minigame
  • Read ancient books
  • Feed the pet spiders and bats
  • Stir the cauldron
  • Catch ghosts in the graveyard

New Quests

• Ghosts in the Graveyard questline
  • Reward – unlocks a new area
• Man in the Painting questline
  • Reward – Ghost Bike

New content available in the store

• Hairstyles
  • Cornrows
  • Fringe
  • Long Center Part
  • Top Bun
  • Top Bun Fade
• Outfit
  • Suit and Tie

New Resource Nodes added to the two offshore islands

• Maple Trees
• Cotton
• Wild Rice
• Striped Rock
• Cactus Nodes

New Foods & Related Recipes

• Cactus
• Maple Syrup
• Candied Seeds
• Wild Shoot Salad
• Bowl of Rice
• Bowl of Porridge
• Stir Fry on Rice
• Mushroom Stew
• Roasted Seaweed
• Oyster Mushroom Roll
• Urchin Nigiri

New Healing Items & Related Recipes

• Bandage
• Earth Tonic
• Earth Bandage

New Upgrade Stations & Related Recipes

• Salt Water Distiller
• Sushi Mat
• Copper Pot
• Cauldron

Other Changes

• Guests can now have save data as well as rafts and home islands
• Existing food values and names have been tweaked to better fit with new foods
• Cattail get has been renamed Healing Gel and tweaked to fit with new healing items
• The swamp now fills cups & bowls with swamp water
• The ocean now fills cups & bowls with salt water
• There is a hot area on one of the offshore islands
• Urchins now poison you (same total damage as before, just spit between instant & poison)

Bug Fixes

• Potential fix for the disappearing equipped armor bug, please let us know if you are still seeing that issue <3

Let’s do a spooky art jam! Take the voxel pumpkin and carve it (its hollow), paint it, give it a hat, or even animate it. Everyone who customizes the pumpkin object & enters it in the jam will be rewarded with a free skin to wear across all the games on dot big bang!

The deadline for submissions is Oct 27th. Skins will be sent out to all participants shortly after the art jam ends (give us a few days to hand them all out). After that, we’ll do a wrap-up stream to check out all the amazing pumpkin entries!

How To Enter

1. Make Your Pumpkin Hit the Remix button (the cloud with an arrow, at the top left of the screen) on this pumpkin object. This creates your personal copy that you can paint, decorate, or animate – the decision is yours! 2. Make a Thumbnail When your pumpkin is ready, open the save panel at the top right. Click New Thumbnail to take a picture of your pumpkin. Tip: move the camera for a better angle, and change the background using the color picker! 3. Name Your Pumpkin & Save Finally, name your pumpkin. Check “Published”, and click Save. That’s it, you’re all done!

You can show us your work by posting a link in the #events channel on our Discord – and see the awesome pumpkins other people are making while you’re there! If you decide to build your own pumpkin rather than remixing, let us know in the discord or via comment on the showcase game so that we don’t miss your entry! Discord is also the place to ask questions about the Voxel Object Editor, or anything else that comes up. The development team is there, and will be happy to help.

Finally – we’ll host a wrap-up stream on YouTube when the jam is over to check out all the awesome things people made. Sub to our channel and turn on notifications to know when we go live.

Good luck and have fun creating!

Summer is almost over, but let’s celebrate the last of the season with a dot big bang game jam!

This is meant to be a relaxing and fun jam, so make your game as simple or complex as you like. Theme your game after anything that summer means to you. Warm sunshine, cool lakes, camping, hiking, school vacations, gardening, farmers markets, bike riding, summer storms, scuba diving, watermelon, fireworks, go karts, volleyball, water balloons, disc golf, fairs, the possibilities are endless!

When the jam is over, we will add the games to an event showcase and do a stream to play through them all. As a extra treat, we will also give out a special dot big bang avatar to everyone who participates 😀

The deadline for submission is Sept.8th, skins will be handed out to participants shortly after the jam ends.

How To Enter

1. Create a New Game You can build your game from an existing kit, or start with an empty game. Visit the New Game page and start from whatever inspires you! 2. Build your Summer Themed Game You can make the environment summery, use summer themed obby pieces, or explore summer inspired game mechanics. There are several Featured Templates that may help, like the Swimming Pool and Swimwear NPC. 3. Name & Tag Your Game Finally, name your game (include “Summer 2024”). Check “Published”, and click Save. To Make extra sure that we don’t miss you game, give it the tag “Summer 2024” as well. If you work with a team, make sure you add your team members to the tags and description too! *Bonus Step: If you have an itch account, we would love to promote your game there too! You can submit the game to the jam on itch 🙂

Join the Community & Find a Team

Want to jam with other people and show off your work? The #events channel on our Discord is a great place for that! You are also welcome to hang out in the voice channels while you work 🙂 Discord is also the place to ask questions about the Game Editor, Voxel Object Editor, or anything else that comes up. The development team is there, and will be happy to help.

Finally – we’ll host a wrap-up stream on YouTube when the jam is over to check out all the awesome things people made. Sub to our channel and turn on notifications to know when we go live.

Good luck and have fun jamming!

It is time for another art jam! This time around, your challenge will be to make your own version of the orange doodle! Give it clothes, animate it, anything goes! Everyone who customizes the doodle object & enters it in the jam will be rewarded with a free skin to wear across all the games on dot big bang!

The deadline for submissions is July 21st. Skins will be sent out to all participants shortly after the art jam ends (give us a few days to hand them all out). After that, we’ll do a wrap-up stream to check out all the amazing doodle entries!

How To Enter

1. Make Your Doodle Hit the Remix button (the cloud with an arrow, at the top left of the screen) on this doodle object. This creates your personal copy that you can paint, decorate, or animate – the decision is yours! 2. Make a Thumbnail When your doodle is ready, open the save panel at the top right. Click New Thumbnail to take a picture of your doodle. Tip: move the camera for a better angle, and change the background using the color picker! 3. Name Your Doodle & Save Finally, name your doodle (include “Doodle”). Check “Published”, and click Save. That’s it, you’re all done!

You can show us your work by posting a link in the #events channel on our Discord – and see the awesome doodles other people are making while you’re there! Discord is also the place to ask questions about the Voxel Object Editor, or anything else that comes up. The development team is there, and will be happy to help.

Finally – we’ll host a wrap-up stream on YouTube when the jam is over to check out all the awesome things people made. Sub to our channel and turn on notifications to know when we go live.

Good luck and have fun creating!

Today we’re launching some new things that make it easier for you to play together.

✅ Friends List: Search and add friends to your friends list.

👀 See which friends are online when you come to dot big bang.

🤝 Join Friends: Easily join your friends in the game they’re playing.

💌 Invite Friends: Making a new game? Playing something awesome? Easily invite your friends to play with you with one click.

All of these things can be found in the new user menu under the “social” tab. Open your social tab!

As part of this work, we’ve also moved some things around to make them easier to find. A lot of things are now in a new user menu that you get to by clicking your profile icon. The green number shows how many friends are currently online, and if you have unread notifications, you’ll see a red dot too.

Your notifications are now in the notifications tab of the user menu. Open your notifications!

Games and objects you’ve made are now under the “my stuff” tab, along with a button to create a new game or object. Open your “my stuff” tab!

Your liked games and objects are now in the likes tab in the user menu. Open your likes!

Customizing your avatar and editing your handle, name and description are now under the “profile” tab in the new user menu. Open your profile tab!

We hope you like these new features and have fun playing with your friends!