8BitMMO News

The 100,000 gold Easter Egg Hunt is on!


Find all four eggs and solve all the riddles to discover the safe password at /tele Easter. The safe contains 100,000 gold, which will be the reward to one skilled player who cracks the puzzle.

/tele Easter in-game, and check out the first clue on YouTube.



The Hammer is a strong weapon -- it causes 10 damage in an area of effect around you. However, you have to stand still for 3/4ths of a second before the weapon causes damage -- just enough time to escape if your opponent is quick.


Now you can purchase ammo separately from weapons! Details here.



We had a lot of fun on April Fool's day -- I rethemed the whole game to be calculator themed. If you missed it, check out the festivities here.


Charge it up and fire... but don't charge too long... ;)

Here's a quick summary of the last month's updates:

Easier to Learn Building System

You guys spoke, and I listened -- the building system has been streamlined and is easier to learn. Just click the item in your inventory you want to build with and plop it down in the world. Picking up items is a simple icon in your inventory. It's even possible to drop swords again if you want to.

Laser Turrets

You can now build laser turrets that fire at other players. Great for use as a defensive block to protect your town, or build it in your dungeon to create devious traps.

Check it out in-game today!

Improved Inventory

The inventory has been overhauled -- no more overlapping blocks, and it supports scroll wheel.

Performance Improvements

You should find the new build runs faster than previous builds, especially in areas with many objects. On my laptop in one place particularly full of blocks, my FPS jumped from ~30FPS to about ~55FPS after this change.

One of the features requested by many players is music. I'm excited to announce that music is now in 8BitMMO!

Amazing chiptune artists Danimal Cannon, Zef, PROTODOME, and Honin Myo Audio have agreed to let me use a number of their excellent songs in-game. All told there is now 82 minutes of high quality music included. Select tracks from these albums are included:




The tracks played are dependent on the area you're in: Town areas will play more relaxed songs, Wilderness areas will play adventurous tracks, and PVP/PVE areas will play actionful combat music. And when you level-up, there's a special track for that too!

Whenever you're curious about the current song playing, hover over the music information box at the top of the screen:



• Skip - skips the currently playing song
• Thumbs Up - lets me know you like the currently playing song. Over time, I will be able to see what everyone's favorite songs are and prioritize the playlists accordingly
• Visit Artist Website - if you enjoy the song, go to the artist's website to download it!

Also, you can now modify music/sfx volume in options. These volume level settings will be saved between sessions.

With the addition of instancing, Root will need a place where players can gather together to chat & trade. I'm going to open this up to the community to allow you to design & create Root's new Social Club!

On Wednesday, we'll scope out your contest entries live on Twitch. The top entry on each server will win a prize!

Full details and stream link on dev blog.

I also posted a Steam event, join the community group to get a notification

8BitMMO is now fully Free to Play on Steam! As I explained on the store page, previously I was very worried about being able to handle server scalability. I wanted to initially limit the number of players online by requiring a premium pack purchase -- that way I could be sure that the servers were able to handle the load. Many of you were disappointed by this decision, and I understand your frustration.

Based on how well the servers were able to handle yesterday's load, I am now feeling confident we will be able to handle the server load of open access to everyone. Based on this and your feedback, I have decided to open up access today.

If you like, you are still able to purchase the founder packs. Note that for the founder packs, the game checks & grants them when you boot up the game's launcher, so if you do buy them, please be sure to restart the game.

If you purchased a founder pack yesterday, I am very appreciative of your support. While the game is now available to all for free, they will not be receiving the gold, plat, and hat bonuses that are exclusive to you -- so I hope you will still consider your purchase worthwhile.

Best,
RobbyZ