Greetings, Adventurers!

Update 34.0 is launching today on Android, Huawei, iOS, PlayStation, Switch, and Steam!
For a preview of what’s coming to Sky, be sure to check out July’s This Month in Sky!

New Features & Improvements

Quality of Life improvements

  • The size of Season Candle fire is now visually representing the amount of the Candle Light pick up.

Expression Menu Categorization

Experimental Feature

With the Expression Menu Categorization, emotes and gestures are now organized into 6 collapsible categories instead of one long list:

  • Gesture

  • Cheerful

  • Dance

  • Performance

  • Somber

  • Group

How to enable the Expression Menu Categorization:

This feature is Off by default. 
To toggle the feature, go to Settings > Graphics > Experimental Features.

In addition, we’ve done an organization pass on the Spell menu, which should result in it being easier to find spells you’re looking for.

Friendship system

As we continue updating and improving the Friendship system for both Player-to-Player and Spirits, we're introducing a few new features that we hope will improve your experience.

  • [Player-to-Player] Added Relationship Expression Upgrade Tutorial Players viewing their Player Friendship menu for the first time after unlocking a social expression upgrade will see a brief tutorial that shows how to use them. 

  • Updated Friendship System Info Cards Pressing "Info" or "?" while a Friendship menu is open will now display info cards that illustrate aspects of the new system.

  • Added a simplified companion representation for Dear Van Gogh seasonal spirits.

  • All items are now visible in a locked Friendship Tier

  • The friend limit is now capped at 2,000 friends. Players who are already at or above this limit will need to remove some friends before they can add new ones.

Presence

Experimental Feature

Friend suggestions

A star will now appear within Presence players as a friend suggestion. Joining a starred player is optional and all friends and golden Presence players remain joinable whether or not they have a star.

Buddy System Integration

Players in Presence will now show when they're requesting a guide. A guide request icon will appear over the player's head, similar to an emote.

Improved interactions

  • Players will display a temporary icon when they acquire items such as Season Passes, Season Candles, or items tied to charity donations, and more, while in Presence.

  • Players will now orient themselves based on where they're looking while standing still.

  • Players no longer show when they're actively in a quest, reducing visual clutter.

Added Presence to more Realms

Presence has been added to Daylight Prairie and Valley of Triumph.

Speech to Chat

  • Speech to Chat can now be toggled on/off from the Settings menu! To toggle, go to Settings > Audio > Speech to Chat. 

  • When disabled, the Speech to Chat microphone icon will no longer appear and the controls to activate it will not work. 

  • The setting is only visible on Speech to Chat supported 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 

  • The Hopeful Steward Eden Quest can now be completed correctly.

  • Props no longer automatically equip when sitting at a piano. 

  • The Season of Enchantment Guide now correctly appears in Aviary Village during quest progression. 

  • Hearts and collectibles are now correctly available after unlocking a new Friendship Tier with a Season Guide/Spirit.

  • Fixed an issue where the TGC Wireframe Cape granted access to the TGC Office area outside of the event.

  • Fixed an issue where players who had not unlocked High Five were unable to send Hearts.

  • Fixed an exploit where players could use Shared Space to travel through levels.

  • Fixed an issue where additional copies of an item were not added to a player's inventory after purchase.

  • STAR Pins now correctly unlock all emote levels after using the spell. 

  • Fixed an issue where players could receive rewards more than once per day for a given Challenge.

  • The Days of Bloom STAR Pin now correctly enable the garden, fences and picnic blanket.

  • Fixed an issue where Skykids would stand up and become movable after interacting with the piano. Skykids will now remain stationary while playing.

  • Skykid legs no longer clip and bend incorrectly when flying. 

  • The Season of Moments Guide now correctly stays in the level after skipping a cutscene.

  • When reliving the Playfighting Herbalist’s story, the right spirit is now using the playfighting emote. 

  • The Presence system no longer prevents players from using the Buddy system.

  • The STAR Pin Crab Curse spell now correctly applies to the group when handholding with friends. 

  • Option to High Five with Stewie now appears immediately instead of after a short delay. ✋

  • Fixed an issue where placing multiple props in a shared space and then interacting with them would disable customization between props.

  • The Child of Light in the Rebirth scene no longer has a Friendship menu. 

  • Fixed an issue in Aviary Village where a player would teleport back to their challenge when trying to travel to another level.

Level fixes

  • Fixed an issue where a permanent red dot appeared in the closet after unlocking the Drone Camera Upgrade. 

  • Fixed an issue where rain particle effects would remain fixed at the location where the player was last hit by rain, instead of updating to match the player's position.

  • The Lemonade Stand in the Season of Carnival Level is now correctly positioned and no longer floats midair. 

  • Fixed avatar occlusion that would happen in the Wind Path Level.

  • Fixed flags flickering on the mast of the main boat in the Season of Carnival level. 

  • Removed an unusual water spot in a tunnel in The Hidden Forest level.

  • Removed a pink object in The Hidden Forest level.

  • Fixed shaders during level transitions in The Isle of Dawn, Daylight Prairie and The Hidden Forest.

User Interface

  • Fixed an issue where challenges with longer titles caused the difficulty indicator to display incorrectly.

  • Fixed an issue where the 'Tap to Update' prompt did not open the device's app store when a new version was released.

  • Added localized Charity Item tag to the Sky Web Store Store.

  • Fixed an issue where chat boxes would appear blank with no text.

  • The correct hint text is now displayed when tapping on the ? prompt in the Constellation. 

  • Fixed an issue with a lack of details for items in the Season of Passage Guide tree.

Outfits & Props

  • Fixed clipping issues with the Raven Cape.

  • Anniversary IAPs have been moved from the main IAP menu to the returning IAP menu.

Audio

  • Fixed an issue where a bubble popping sound would play unexpectedly when the players had headphones connected and playing sound from another application.

  • Fixed an issue on PC where audio preferences (e.g. Master Volume) were not applied on initial boot, causing audio to play at default settings until the Audio menu was opened.

  • Improved game audio responsiveness and latency on mobile.