Greetings, Adventurers! In this update, we’re excited to finally reveal Season of Moomin with you! Days of Mischief is also headed your way, along with some updates to improve your gameplay experience and another hefty batch of bug fixes.

Season of Moomin

Sky’s newest collaboration arrives in this update! Enter a timeless story as an invisible child meets the friendly family of Moomintrolls and struggles to emerge from the shadows of her past.

Meet the Moomins and their companions as they get to know Ninny the invisible child. As you explore the enchanting world of Tove Jansson’s classic characters, you’ll discover the ways that friendship and acceptance can restore color no matter how faded the world may seem.

To begin your journey, check in with the Moomin Storybook. This guide offers a series of quests that gradually unfold to tell the story of the Season from both the Moomins' perspective and a Sky Child's perspective.

Along the way you'll have the chance to unlock themed items that reflect the Season—special outfits, capes, hairstyles, an instrument, and more!

The Moomin Storybook brings several items in their Friendship Tree: A new expression, plus an outfit and a cozy family portrait that can be unlocked for regular Candles. Season Pass holders will also have the chance to unlock three Ultimate Gifts.

In the in-game shop menu, you’ll also find special collaboration items inspired by some of the characters you’ll encounter during the Season:

• Hattifattener Shoulder Buddy: $2.99
• Pointed Snufkin Hat: $4.99
• Roving Snufkin Robe Set: $9.99
  • Comes with scarf and outfit
• Moomintroll Accessory Set: $11.99 (all prices USD)
  • Includes ear and tail accessories

Stay tuned for a soon-to-be-announced cape coming in the 0.27.5 update too—it will offer a memorable way to carry a piece of Moominvalley with you throughout Sky. 

These special collaboration items are currently planned to be available only until the end of the Season.

Season of Moomin begins at 00:00 October 14th and continues until 23:59 December 29th (all times Pacific). 

Season of Moomin: Sky Web Store Promotion

After Season of Moomin begins on October 14th, the Sky Web Store will offer 15 additional regular Candles with the first purchase of any item during the Season. For more information about the Sky Web Store, see our FAQ page!

[Edit 2024.10.14] Please note that these 15 additional regular Candles are categorized as a mobile currency, so they will not appear in your inventory when playing on a Nintendo Switch. A Switch player will need to log into their Sky account on a mobile device in order to use these additional regular Candles.

Days of Mischief

First it was Dark Dragons, then it was Dark Crabs—but this year, something else altogether has been unleashed, and the Spirits in the Cackling Crab need Sky kids’ help!

The Spirits tried to summon a creature to the area above the cave, but something wasn’t quite right. Instead, something much more chaotic has appeared. 

In each of the event’s three weekly phases, the Spirits will ask you to lend a hand to keep the chaos at bay. Help them take care of what they’ve brought in—on land, in the air, or even by the brooms they’ll lend you— and you can find event currency Light in the process too!

Up to 5 event currency can be forged each day by gathering event Light. That event Light can be gathered while participating in the activities the Mischief Spirits ask for your help with. Event currency can then be used to unlock this year’s new items:

• Mischief Star Sticker accessory: 16 event currency
• Mischief Cauldron: 36 event currency
  • Take a sip of this cauldron’s brew to temporarily turn your Sky kid green!
• Mischief Spider Bun hairstyle: 22 event currency

These items can also be purchased:

• Mischief Raven-Feathered Cloak: $17.99
• Mischief Withered Broom: $19.99
  • This prop offers your avatar a way to fly in all but the stormiest of places in the realms

Items from earlier years of Days of Mischief will be back, too, for those who are interested. For all details on older items, please check out our patch notes for the event from previous years. As for the IGC (in-game currency) items introduced last year, the Goth Garment and Goth Boots will be 58 and 38 Candles respectively, and the Crabkin Accessory will be 36 Candles.

As usual, free trial spells from all items can be found in the event shop in Aviary Village.

And of course, the Secret Area accessible from the Vault of Knowledge is open to everyone while the event is running.

Days of Mischief will run from October 21st through November 10th Pacific Time. With tricks, pranks, spells, and transformations galore, there’s plenty for everyone to enjoy during Sky’s spookiest event of the year!

New Daily Quests

0.26.5 included our first set of new Daily Quests. Now in 0.27.0, we’re including another round that we hope you’ll enjoy! Perhaps you’ll discover new ways that the Spirits of Sky are connected to the realms, and to each other. 

(We’ve also included some small changes related to using the counter where these Spirits wait, which you may also notice!) 

Nesting Workshop Updates

Starting in 0.27.0, when you go to unlock an item that’s available in the Nesting Workshop rotation, you can find them sold as individual items rather than in sets of two or more. 

Once you unlock an item from the Nesting Workshop, it's now also possible to get additional copies of it while editing a Shared Space. When you’ve placed all the copies you have of that item, a “+” symbol will appear on its icon if additional copies can be purchased. 

We hope this makes it easier to enjoy the items you like at the pace that you want!

Twitch Account Linking

Beginning in this update, when logging into Sky, iOS and Android players will have the option to link their Sky account to a Twitch account. (If you’re on another platform, don’t worry—we’ll bring that option to more platforms in future updates!)

For more information about account linking, see our FAQ page:
https://thatgamecompany.helpshift.com/hc/en/17-sky-children-of-the-light/faq/703-how-do-i-save-my-progress

Reminder: Daylight Saving Time Ends

Daylight Saving Time ends at 2:00 am Pacific Time on Sunday November 3rd, moving clocks back an hour. Time notation for events in Sky will change from PDT (UTC -7) to PST (UTC -8).

If you are in a region that does not observe this time change, after November 3rd the daily reset will occur an hour later for you.

[Edit 2024.10.10] As long-time Daylight Saving Time aficionados may recall, each time there is a time change, it has some wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey effects on daily Seasonal Candles and Treasure Candles around the reset that follows it. In this case, the candles that appear on November 3rd will disappear from the realms an hour before the next reset. Candle behavior will be back to normal on November 4th.

Other Updates

• A new type of accessories category for face items. This allows avatars to wear glasses and earrings or glasses and head accessories at the same time. We also updated the icons for some cosmetics, as well as those used for the neck accessory and head accessory categories.
• 0.27.0 includes a few more changes to the new player experience. One which players with more experience may encounter depending on how many Spirits they’ve met: If you’ve rescued a Spirit but haven’t brought them to the temple in their realm, they will now follow behind you until you bring them to their temple.
  
  Other changes include:
  • Adjustments to the social space in Daylight Prairie to make it easier for new players to understand where to go.
  • In Hidden Forest, the beacon hint shows when a new player calls. 
  • The end of the cutscenes after completing a Spirit’s memory quest are a bit shorter.
  • Moved the Winged Light that was near the gate between Daylight Prairie’s Butterfly Fields and Village area; it will now be in the Daylight Prairie social area.
  • In Isle of Dawn, the Winged Light at the temple will appear in that location only the first time that a new player collects it. Once they progress to Daylight Prairie, when they need to collect that Winged Light again it will appear near the exit of the first tunnel in Isle of Dawn, at the remains of the boat.
• One of the feedback topics we’ve been hearing from the community was about the tea tables and their chat functions—namely, that it often felt confusing that chat wasn’t possible without drinking a full cup of tea from some tables but not others. From 0.27.0, chat becomes possible at any tea table after only one sip of tea.
• The “You are about to be reborn” text has been added back into the game.
• Spells activated from the emote favorites menu can now be canceled from the emote favorites menu.
• Increased the max number of spells that can be used at the same time to five.
• Thai localization has now been added.

Improvements and Bug Fixes in this update include:

Highlights

• Camera hints for Spirits’ memory quests should now only trigger if both of these conditions are met: you have not completed that Spirit’s memory quest before, and you also haven’t opted in to participate in doing that memory quest again.
• Freshly served Light goodies in the Elevated Clearing won’t sink if you don’t burn them before the Spirit brings out the next batch of goodies.
• Fixed an issue where some expressions, spells, and stances would not be saved in the emote favorites menu after the game was restarted.
• [PC] Screenshots save properly to the Steam screenshot directory.
• [PC] Player can move around while having an instrument equipped.

_{[Edit 2024.10.10] An earlier version of the patch notes indicated that a Winged Light would appear after the exit of the first tunnel in Isle of Dawn. This change is related to updates for new players; an updated description of this change has been added to the “Other Updates” section above.}

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug with the Guide system that would prevent handholding between the guiding player and the player that requested assistance.
• When a player leading someone by handhold views a Shared Space followed by a Shared Memory, the player being led by handhold should no longer see the Shared Space pop in and out in a loop.
• Restored the ability to chat at the table near the Aviary Village archway counter once Daily Quests are completed.
• Meter that indicates how many props you can add to the Nest should be more accurate when adding or removing props.
• Fixed a bug where the shadowy creatures in the Fire Trial would turn into dark spheres if you touched them after meditating at the trial’s shrine, instead of making them disappear.
• Skipping cutscenes when reliving a Spirit’s memory in the Valley of Triumph Dreams Village should no longer relocate the player elsewhere in the level.
• Fixed a bug for Season of Remembrance quests that caused prompts to follow Spirits to their preferred location to be missing.
• Fixed a bug involving the Daily Quest counter in Aviary Village that caused Spirits a player hadn’t met yet to rotate and face them when they were interacted with.
• Some Daily Quests on specific dates were not being translated to supported languages. This should now be resolved.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Sleepy Traveling Merchant from appearing for some players.
• In cases where copying text is not supported, the option for the copy text function has been disabled.
• Relationship menu options that are inactive due to piggyback, handholding, carry, etc. can no longer be selected. This will resolve several issues, among them an issue where players in Cradle Carry could force and be forced to hold hands with other players.
• When activating a spell, the spell description should now more accurately indicate whether it affects only you (for example, the pinwheel spell), or both yourself and friends you’re holding hands with.
• Fixed a privacy bug related to Nests: When two friends each enter their own Nests at the same time, they can no longer see any chat messages sent by the other player.
• A Winged Light should no longer appear in the wrong location for the Map Shrine in Daylight Prairie Village.
• Fixed a bug that caused the guiding beacon to appear behind you in some areas instead of appearing in front of you to guide you to where you probably actually want to go.
• Emote favorites menu will now close when you go AFK.
• When using a gamepad, ​​a player carrying someone with piggyback is better able to move forward in a straight line.
• Controller should no longer vibrate constantly after cutscenes in the Hidden Forest Temple.
• Fixed a bug that showed certain Daily Quests at incorrect locations on the Map Shrine.
• Daily Quests can be turned in without sitting at the counter near the archway in Aviary Village.

Cosmetics

• When sitting down with the “sneak” stance while wearing the Bearhug Hermit’s cape, your avatar’s face will no longer clip through the cape.
• Resolved some shadowy texture issues when the Duets cello is equipped.
• Sky kids’ upper arms won’t deflate in certain poses when wearing the Pianist’s Flourishing suit from Season of Duets.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent plushies from being visible to other players.
• The Princess’s mask from Season of the Nine-Colored Deer fits properly when the avatar is wearing the Sunlight Beach Shorts outfit.
• Resolved a subtle but old skinning issue with some of the umbrellas causing flickering discoloration while opened, or that seemed to add random small bits of material to the umbrella itself.
• It’s no longer possible to take an in-game photo while previewing a Shared Memory that uses the photo camera prop, since this only results in a broken image.
• While under the effects of the Crab Curse Spell, using the dash movement will no longer prevent the camera props from being used after the spell has ended.
• The remaining backpacks used when wearing some props have all been updated to use the New & Improved version that has already been used for other props.
• When a player holds hands with someone and is being led by them, when they equip an instrument and then start walking, the instrument placement won’t float oddly in front of them.
• Plushies no longer jitter, and they don't drop when flying.

General Fixes and Improvements:

• Fixed an animation bug where players could look misaligned when they used the cradle carry interaction.
• Avatars summoned from the Friend Constellation now appear properly holding out their unlit candle instead of having their arms clipping inward awkwardly.
• When the player places the Kettle prop and another player picks up the Big Manta Plush while seated at the Kettle, the plush should no longer be placed horizontally.
• Fixed the odd and frankly painful-looking contortions that could happen to Sky kids’ legs when doing flips in flight.
• When another player near you unlocks a new stance, their stance should more reliably be visible to you.
• When a friend reaches the very end of Eye of Eden with you, their hand will no longer be stuck being held above their head.
• Side hug animation should look better when swimming.
• Fixes for the orange wifi symbol sometimes showing even during a stable internet connection.
• Players should no longer be able to bypass cooldowns on props (like the fireworks staff) by spamming inputs in the favorite emotes menu.
• Plushies are for hugging, and we would be heartbroken if they were ever accidentally set on fire. So, to improve fire safety, Sky kids will no longer be able to hold a plushie at the same time they hold out a candle to offer friendship to another player.
• Fixed a bug where the confirmation menu is cut off when purchasing the Journey Pack on devices with a smaller screen.
• Memory Shrine text should no longer overlap with the AURORA concert countdown timer.
• Fixed an issue that caused UI objects to disappear when a player transitioned between levels while the Sky Codes option was open in the settings menu.
• Invited another round of Spirits to the optimization club to reduce clipping issues and avoid awkward cape placement caused by the shoulder piece, among other things. This includes several Spirits from Hidden Forest and Golden Wasteland, plus a handful of Spirits from across the other realms.
• Fixed bug affecting instrument spells where the instrument menu remained open after the spell expired.
• Fixed a visual glitch in the Aviary Village outfits area where the level would disappear based on where you were standing.
• Camera no longer randomly zooms in and out when swimming in Prairie Peaks.
• Updated the mask from the Waving Bellmaker, namely to fix the metallic forehead.
• [iOS] iPads that use external peripherals like track pads should have more reliable flight control.
• [PC] Currency symbol properly appears next to prices in the in-game shop menu.
• [PC] Placing props in the level should now be possible with left mouse button (it was previously bound to the spacebar).
• The rock went wandering one night, enjoying the gentle light from the moon and stars. While sitting under a tree, they noticed Sky kids leaving riddles for each other. Wanting to join in on the fun, the rock made their own:
  
  "What's the BEST, most AMAZING, CUTEST creature in the whole wide world? You'd better say jellyfish!"
  
  ...Rocks aren't very good at riddle games.

[Update 2024.10.15]

• [Huawei] Fixed a bug affecting linking Sky accounts to Twitch accounts.

Please refer to this page for known issues ongoing or introduced with this patch: Known Issues Patch 0.27.0.

As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback, and encourage you to join the community discussion on our official Discord server at discord.gg/thatskygame!