November is Trans Awareness Month. Trans people have always been part of Solaris: playing, building, testing and helping shape this place. We want every one of you to feel seen, safe and loved here. So this month we're celebrating, raising money for a good cause, and (of course) shipping a huge update alongside it. 💙🩷🤍

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Awareness Month Event

The fundraiser

  • We're raising money for TransActual, a UK organisation that supports trans people. Full details of the fundraiser, including the running total and goals, are on our fundraiser page
  • NEW Trans Pack in the store: 50% of every Trans Pack goes to TransActual. It includes:
  • Transgender Title
  • Fundraiser Title
  • Trans Bow
  • Trans Flag
  • Trans Wings
  • 200 Stars
  • We'll keep a running total on the site and donate it to TransActual in one go when the fundraiser ends
  • Live fundraiser bar in the hub, right under the clock. It fills up with the trans flag colours as donations come in, and celebrates when we hit the goal

Pride cosmetics

  • NEW Pride cosmetics:
  • Trans Wings
  • Lesbian Wings
  • Trans Saber
  • Trans Pride Flag
  • Trans Beanie
  • Trans Bow
  • Lesbian Bow
  • NEW Wings! A brand new kind of back cosmetic. Wear them in your chestplate slot and they show on your back, tilt when you crouch, and you can see your own in F5
  • NEW Transgender title: a trans flag banner with white letters, and your name in a blue-to-pink gradient. Its style is fixed, so it can't be dyed or painted over
  • NEW Fundraiser title: a pink title, with its own icon in chat, the tab list and on nametags
  • Title banners now stretch to fit any length of title, so even TRANSGENDER fits

Pride on the map

  • Cataclysm's minimap has some new place names, and we think you'll be very happy to visit them: Femboy Falls, Tomboy Town, Estrogen Impact, Closet Castle and HRT Hotel
  • Splatshot's map is now called Woke Winterland ❄️ (it shows on the sidebar)

✨ Updates & Changes

🌪️ Cataclysm: Squads, Bots & The Storm

  • Cataclysm is now Squads! 8 teams of 4, with random teams every match
  • Bots fill empty slots, so a match can start with just 1 player. They ride the bus, drop, loot, fight with the real guns, heal, stick with their squad and chat a little. Bots never earn coins, XP or stats
  • Get knocked, not killed: while a teammate is still standing, lethal damage knocks you down instead. You crawl, can't shoot, and slowly bleed out. A teammate can crouch next to you to revive you. If your whole squad goes down, you're all out
  • Teammates are outlined, and knocked teammates stand out so you can find them
  • NEW Storm: the safe zone is a square that shrinks in phases. Each new zone is picked inside the last one, so it moves every time. Storm damage ramps up each phase, and you'll see purple fog the deeper in you are
  • The zone border now acts as a wall from inside, instead of letting you walk through it
  • NEW Movement items (found in chests):
  • Shockwave Hammer (Destined): hold to charge, release to leap, slam knocks enemies back
  • Shockwave Grenade (Destined): launches everyone nearby, you too. No fall damage
  • Impulse Grenade (Rare): hard knockback, little lift. Push enemies off ledges
  • Grapple Line (Rare): fire at a block up to 40m away and reel yourself in
  • Launch Pad (Uncommon): place it down, step on it to launch up. Lasts 30s
  • Rift Flare (Legendary): rift straight up into the sky and drift down slowly
  • NEW Loot chests: hold right-click to open, and the loot bursts out onto the floor. Closed chests glow and hum when you're close
  • Legendary Vaults: 3 to 6 gold vaults per match, each with 2 high-tier guns
  • Each chest now has a gun with its ammo, 2 heal rolls and a bonus item. More big potions and mini potions (in stacks of 2-4), fewer bandages
  • Walk over floor loot to pick it up, or crouch on it to swap it with what you're holding
  • Full inventory? Walking over a gun of a higher rarity than the one you're holding swaps it in automatically
  • NEW Minimap in the corner, with your squad, the storm, the next zone and named places. Press your offhand key (F by default) to open the full map
  • Reload is now left click (or punching with your gun)
  • NEW Gems: an in-match score for kills, staying alive, outlasting other teams, winning and opening chests
  • Health bar nameplates over every player and bot, and no more nametags through walls
  • Kill streak callouts, a red screen flash when you're hit, a kill confirm sound, countdown titles and victory fireworks
  • New game sidebar with the map name (Artemis), and a squad bar on your boss bar showing who's knocked or out
  • New end-of-match summary: your result, team standings, Top Players and an MVP
  • The storm, HUD and minimap stay up until you're sent back to the lobby, and no more loot drops after the match ends
  • Supply drops have been removed
  • Your offhand stays empty in Cataclysm
  • The map is now surrounded by ocean, and bots can swim
  • Bots open doors, fence gates and trapdoors
  • Cataclysm music now starts on the bus

🎯 Dodgeball

  • Matches are now 4v4 (8 players max)
  • Matches now last 2 minutes
  • Shrinking arena! The outer ring of the floor flashes, then drops into the void, until the arena hits its minimum size. A boss bar tells you when the next shrink is coming
  • NEW Gems: earn them for hits, eliminations, staying alive, being alive at the end and winning
  • The tab list shows everyone's Gems during the match, ranked
  • Team Gems on the sidebar
  • New end-of-match summary with standings, team lives, Top Players and an MVP
  • New hit feed showing lives left and eliminations, plus "team wiped out" and 30 second warnings
  • Spectators get their own box
  • Back to the normal dodgeball now Halloween is over

🚩 Splatshot

  • Health bar nameplates, so no more nametags through walls
  • Matches wait for queued players, and late joiners take a bot's slot
  • Bots chat now (glhf, gg and the odd rage)
  • New scoring: whoever knocks a player gets the kill, and capture points are split across the team
  • Red screen flash when you're hit, and the flag is carried in your offhand

General

  • NEW /help menu with clickable topics
  • NEW hub sidebar
  • NEW Package Delivery boss bar under the hub clock
  • Online rewards boosted from +2 to +10 Coins every 10 minutes
  • Team-coloured boots for every player in every team game
  • New end-of-match chat and sidebars across all games, in Solaris purple
  • You'll get a reminder if you're still in a queue after a match
  • Chat is muted while results are showing at the end of a match
  • In a game you only see your own match's chat
  • Special characters from the resource pack can no longer be used in chat or private messages
  • "ez" and friends get autocorrected after a game
  • The dash no longer spams cooldown messages, and tells you when it's ready again
  • Halloween is over: spooky dodgeballs and the grave hunt are packed away, and the menus and wordmark are back to normal

Apartments

  • Apartments now have a world border
  • Redstone is disabled in apartments
  • You can't build in the apartment panel space

Website

  • The website now has questionnaires: answer them from the homepage or the pop-up
  • New homepage image: Solar City at night

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed dodgeballs flying straight through bots
  • Fixed players clipping into blocks or escaping their apartment when spawning in
  • Fixed /rate not working for some players
  • Fixed punching doing damage in Splatshot, and downed players being able to attack
  • Fixed walking through the Cataclysm zone border
  • Fixed locked Cataclysm inventory slots showing barriers
  • Fixed spectator items showing before your match ended in Splatshot
  • Fixed "Now Playing" pop-ups spamming

If you encounter any bugs, please report them on our Discord. We're also always accepting suggestions!

Thanks for helping us improve SOLARIS during Early Access, and happy Trans Awareness Month! Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ <3

-Lutraa & Skye