Greetings, Adventurers!
Update 33.0 is live on Android, Huawei, iOS, PlayStation, Switch, and Steam!
For a preview of what’s coming to Sky, be sure to check out April’s This Month in Sky!
Update highlights
For a quick overview of the update highlights, check out this video:
New Features / Improvements
Quality of Life improvements
Candles
The size of the Candle Light is now visually representing the size of the Candle Wax pick up.
Added Candle Wax to the Hermit Valley Slide race.
Button Selection Priority
Improved button selection priority for Gamepad and Keyboard & Mouse in high-traffic locations.
Constellation Pads in Home and Aviary Village
Outfit Shrines in all Maps & Nest
All Meditation Pads
Candle Wax pick ups
All buttons with a red indicator
Shared Creation & Message Boat Prices
Beginning with this update, basic Shared Spaces, Shared Memories, and Message Boats will all cost one regular candle.
Presence (Beta)
Presence brings the world of Sky to life like never before! Designed to fully embrace its massively multiplayer nature, this feature allows players to connect and discover nearby players and transforms the experience to genuinely shared gameplay.
Please note that Presence is currently in a limited beta and is subject to change.
With the 33.0 update, Presence will be gradually rolled out to a randomly selected group of players as we monitor server performance. Not all players will have access at this stage.
In this update, this feature is available exclusively in Aviary Village to the randomly selected players.
New Presence Menu Button
Unlocks after completing Hidden Forest.
Replaces the Buddy Request button in the Wing Menu.
Activating the button triggers a visual effect that reveals nearby players using Presence.
Presence can be toggled from the Menu.
Presence Feature
Most players revealed through Presence can be joined instantly.
Friends
Appear as fully shaded, simplified moths.
Players using DND spells, blocked players
Will not appear in Presence.
Player states in Presence
Blue ethereal players and Embers are not joinable.
Gold ethereal players and friends are joinable.
Introduces a new model for representing remote players:
Improved animation including standing, sitting, running, stopping, flying, and wing flaps.
Chirps when players chat or use expressions.
Displays a small flame when a player has their candle out.
Players become Embers when idle or AFK.
Constellation Improvements
Take control of your social experience with the new friend list view! You can now view all of your friends from an alphabetized list to easily manage connections, making room for the people who matter most. This update not only keeps your friends organized, but also improves visibility, ensuring a smoother experience for everyone.
Added a List View toggle in the upper-right corner of the Friends Constellation, allowing you to switch between Constellation view and List view.
In List View, you can tap the pencil icon to enter Edit Mode.
Edit Mode lets you select multiple friends at once and remove them at the same time, making it easier to manage your friend list.
Multiplayer Shared Memories
By enabling co-creation, Multiplayer Shared Memory strengthens social connection and encourages players to engage more meaningfully with one another. Whether it’s a spontaneous gathering or a coordinated activity, players can now preserve moments that reflect a shared story rather than an individual one. This new option improves storytelling capabilities while maintaining safety for players.
Added Multiplayer options to the Shared Memory creation system, allowing multiple players to participate in a single recording.
Introduced a new indicator to show which players are actively recording a Multiplayer Shared Memory.
Unfriended players will appear as either lit or unlit in recordings, depending on whether the creator has lit them.
Blocked players will appear as ghosts in recordings.
When viewing a Multiplayer Shared Memory, blocked players will still appear as ghosts. They may be visible to others watching if those viewers have not blocked them.
Players who join after recording has started will not be included in the final Shared Memory.
AR Camera
Added pinch zooming
Introducing a scale resize feature for markerless flow
Enabling mesh anchors on iOS for LiDAR devices
Bug fixes
Items in Bold are representing a fix for something players reported to us.
Please keep reporting bugs, it helps us improve the quality of the game!
Gameplay & Quality of Life
Fixed an issue where players' wings appeared depleted when leaving a shared space.
Plushie pick up prompt now correctly displays for all players.
During Season of Lightmending quests, players who toggled the Skip Cutscene setting no longer experience a soft lock when mending a lantern.
Companion Spirits are dismissed at reset.
Players now consistently get affected by Rain, Krills, Dark Water and Storm Rocks in all levels.
The Season of Lightmending Seasonal Spirits has been removed, they deserve a break!
The button to record a Shared Memory and Hug a plushie are now different for Mouse & Keyboard, no longer blocking Shared Memory recording if holding a plushie.
Players can now interact with the door blocking the underwater cave in the Treehouse area in the Hidden Forest.
Level fixes
Gondolas in Valley of Triumph no longer skip and now float gracefully.
Something is happening in Aviary. What is Stewie up to anyways?
User Interface
The display is no longer distorted after exiting the Support Page when using Portrait Mode.
Emoticons now display properly on iOS when language is set to Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
Traditional Chinese font now has consistent font weight.
Social Feed no longer overlaps with Recording buttons in Portrait Mode.
Friend names no longer display as “?” when set in Arabic & Persian language.
Outfits & Props
The Harp Prop Spell now functions properly.
The Moonlight Lantern Decoration no longer has an invisible object blocking movement when placed in Shared Spaces.
Days of Fortune Muralist’s Smock no longer stretches when emoting.
Audio
Fixed a game Audio distortion issue that would occur on certain devices.
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!