CRISPRmas Week 3 | Super Toy Horse gallops into Super Animal World

It’s hard to believe Super Animal World has already been out for two whole weeks. It’s been a blast playing with all of you, and we’ve loved seeing your clips from around the island!

Now it’s time for the third and final week of CRISPRmas celebrations. With all three weeks now unlocked, you have until Friday, January 2nd to complete the full set of challenges and unlock all of the event rewards before CRISPRmas wraps up for this year.

CRISPRmas Week 3

A true CRISPRmas miracle has also arrived in the Research Lab: the Super Toy Horse! It may look like a hand-painted wooden toy straight from Santa Claws’ workshop, but thanks to Dr. Dogna and the Lab Labs, it’s fully alive, kicking, and ready to gallop its way to the top of the food chain. And as with all event breeds, it’s a permanent addition, so you can unlock it at your own pace, even after the CRISPRmas festivities conclude.

5 challenge rewards to earn

• Candy Cane Glasses | Collect Candy Canes (1337)

• 1500 XP | Smash Snowmen (15)

• Oversized Knitted Sweater | Get Melee Kills (3)

• 750 Carl Coins | Dance at the Penguin Palace Stage

• Cinnamon Sticks | Get a Kill at Penguin Palace

New Super Animal Breed

• Super Toy Horse (Available at level 60)

Code CRISPRMAS

Enter code CRISPRMAS in the main menu to redeem Santa Claws’ outfit and get into the spirit of giving! Just don’t ask where we got it. This one’s on him.

• Santa Hat

• Santa Outfit

• Santa Beard

Youtooz x SAR Vinyl Figures

Quick reminder if you’ve been thinking about grabbing one: our Super Animal Royale x Youtooz vinyl figure pre-orders are open until January 9th!

Pre-order here: https://youtooz.com/collections/super-animal-royale

As a bonus, they both include in-game cosmetics:

• Dr. Dogna includes a code for the new Mini Tiger With Wire pet

• Zombie Joe Monitor Buddiez 2-pack includes two in-game Zombie Joe hats

We hope you all love them as much as we do, and find really creative places to stick your Monitor Buddiez. Send us pics on our socials or Discord if you do!

Bug Fixes

We also rolled out a number of bug fixes this week. Additional fixes are still on the way for Nintendo Switch, so thanks for your patience. And thanks as well for all your reports! They’ve been a huge help in tracking down some of the issues that were harder to spot until servers were live and busy.

• Updated dialogue translations and fixed several cases where the dialogue bubble would glitch out due to formatting.

• Quests that end with a cutscene will now play the video even if the player cancels out of the dialogue early before getting to it.

• Reduced cases of “Matchmaking request timed out” errors.

• Players can now use the matchmake accept hotkey while fishing and during item show-off (accepting is no longer blocked).

• Fixed the BananOS character animation playing while fishing.

• Fixed a bug where the matchmaking queue wouldn’t reset for other party members if the party leader disconnected.

• Hit animation now plays for victims of the tundra monster.

• Fixed tracked quest UI not updating progress.

• Fixed Bug Spray melee missing a swing sound.

• Fixed gems appearing in the Welcome Center after using the photo booth.

• Fixed the gem reveal emote not showing gems in transparent photo booth photos.

• Controller users with (A) bound to 'Use / Pickup' no longer have NPC dialogue and responses accidentally skip.

• Fixed binding (A) on controller glitching out in settings.

• Fixed one of the mole NPC icons being incorrect.

• Fixed the Supercharge Fox icon.

• Fixed Fish Frenzy on the map sometimes appearing blank.

• Fixed a missing translation on the default controls popup.

• News entries now only show the external link icon when they open in your browser rather than in-game.

Read the full Super Animal World patch notes

If you want to see all the huge new features included in the Super Animal World expansion that launched earlier this month, including Week 1 of CRISPRmas challenges and rewards, check out the full Steam patch notes here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/622187705533466306

Week 2 of CRISPRmas can be found here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/648085384362722669

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Before we sign off for the holidays, we wanted to express one more extra-big thank you to all of you. Super Animal World is the single biggest project we’ve ever attempted, and these past few weeks have been a whirlwind, so it’s meant a lot to see so many of you showing up with your friends to play and enjoy it.

We’re going to take some much-needed time to rest and recharge, and then come back ready to keep polishing, improving, and building on this new foundation for the game. We’re also really looking forward to getting back into a steady rhythm of quarterly major updates so we can move faster and keep expanding SAW in meaningful ways.

Once we’re back and have had a chance to digest all your feedback, we’ll share a clearer look at what we’re focusing on next, along with a few of our biggest takeaways from launch.

Until then, we hope you all enjoy the holidays and have fun on the island, whether questing, exploring, or battling. Merry CRISPRmas and Happy New Year, Super Animals!