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Steam News28 July 202612d ago

Pirates of the Veld Update is Live! New Challenges, Enemies & More

Ahoy, Beetle Buddies! The biggest Dung Ho! update yet is here! Face pirates, climb the moon in Bobbin’s Nightmare challenge, tackle new Safari campaigns, unlock cosmetics, and hunt achievements.

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addedAhoy, Beetle Buddies!The biggest Dung Ho! update yet is here! Face pirates, climb the moon in Bobbin’s Nightmare challenge, tackle new Safari campaigns, unlock cosmetics, and hunt achievements.
addedPirates of the Veld is Live!Our biggest update yet has arrived: Pirates of the Veld ! bringing new enemies, new challenges, and a whole lot more nonsense into the wild world of Dung Ho!
added☠️ Pirate’s Cove!Pirates have arrived as brand-new enemies, bringing fresh chaos, danger, and explosive new encounters to your runs. Watch your booty - and your ball.
added🌕 Bobbin’s NightmareIntroducing the Bobbin’s Nightmare Lighthouse Challenge : a brutal new endurance mode inspired by “Only Up!” style progression.
added🦁 Safari ExpansionJump into brand-new campaigns like Tour of Africa and other fresh daily challenge routes designed to test your dung rolling skills in all new ways.
added💰New Items!An array of new items to take advantage of in your routes and to take on new challenges, including:

Dung Ho! changes

addedThe biggest Dung Ho! update yet is here! Face pirates, climb the moon in Bobbin’s Nightmare challenge, tackle new Safari campaigns, unlock cosmetics, and hunt achievements.
addedOur biggest update yet has arrived: Pirates of the Veld ! bringing new enemies, new challenges, and a whole lot more nonsense into the wild world of Dung Ho!
addedPirates have arrived as brand-new enemies, bringing fresh chaos, danger, and explosive new encounters to your runs. Watch your booty - and your ball.
addedIntroducing the Bobbin’s Nightmare Lighthouse Challenge : a brutal new endurance mode inspired by “Only Up!” style progression.
addedJump into brand-new campaigns like Tour of Africa and other fresh daily challenge routes designed to test your dung rolling skills in all new ways.

Ahoy, Beetle Buddies!

The biggest Dung Ho! update yet is here! Face pirates, climb the moon in Bobbin’s Nightmare challenge, tackle new Safari campaigns, unlock cosmetics, and hunt achievements.

Pirates of the Veld is Live!

Our biggest update yet has arrived: Pirates of the Veld! bringing new enemies, new challenges, and a whole lot more nonsense into the wild world of Dung Ho!

☠️ Pirate’s Cove!

A swashbuckling adventure through a pirate infested tropical island. The treasure awaits ye!

Pirates have arrived as brand-new enemies, bringing fresh chaos, danger, and explosive new encounters to your runs. Watch your booty - and your ball.

🌕 Bobbin’s Nightmare

The MOON has fallen from the sky! You and your beetle buddies must roll it up, up, UP, through a surreal dreamscape and return it to its rightful place in the heavens.

Introducing the Bobbin’s Nightmare Lighthouse Challenge: a brutal new endurance mode inspired by “Only Up!” style progression.

Using imagery straight from NASA (thanks NASA!), the moon is completely unbreakable. No mercy. No shortcuts. Just climb.

🦁 Safari Expansion

Jump into brand-new campaigns like Tour of Africa and other fresh daily challenge routes designed to test your dung rolling skills in all new ways.

💰New Items!

An array of new items to take advantage of in your routes and to take on new challenges, including:

  • FIREWORKS: Blast pirate ships, foliage, and celebrate with your beetle buddies... or blast them too!

  • STRANGE METEOR: Imbue your dung ball with destructible cosmic powers!

  • TREASURE CHESTS: Defeat Pirate Ships and claim the... booty!

🌈 80+ Cosmetics

We heard you

Style matters. With over 80 cosmetics now available in Dung Ho!, there are more ways than ever to customize your dung ball and make your mark.

Plus, we added a whole new cosmetic category

contrails !

🏆 Achievements Added

Achievement hunters, your time has come. We’ve added a full set of achievements for players to chase, unlock, and perfect.

Whether you're here to conquer Bobbin’s Nightmare, defeat pirates, or simply look fabulous doing it, there’s plenty to dig into with this new update to Dung Ho!

Jump in and play Pirates of the Veld now!

Other Quality of Life Updates:

  • More reliable ball physics

  • Increased beetle strength and ball control

  • You can now preview your cosmetics in the Customization Menu

  • Items used on the ball now have improved VFX and SFX

  • Updated HUD

  • Flying Improvements allow you to get higher faster!

  • Get up faster when ragdolled!

  • General map improvements in Africa for better navigation

LOVE FROM, THE LESSER WEEVIL TEAM

Lesser Weevil is a small team of developer friends who just want to make fun games about cool stuff like beetles. We hope you enjoy Dung Ho! and the Pirates of the Veld Update!

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Steam News / 28 July 2026

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