Today is a big one: the biggest UI refresh Pixels has seen in a long time, plus a second wave of community builds landing straight in the game.
Here’s everything that’s new! 👇
All-New UI Features
A lot of the screens you use every day have been rebuilt to be cleaner, faster to get around, and less in your way.
🎒 A New Backpack
Your backpack now floats! Move it anywhere on screen and open it alongside your storage or a chest, so moving items around is finally painless.
It’s also your new home base. VIP Benefits, your Avatar & Name editor, Statistics and Skills all live inside the backpack now.
»»» Tip: Press K to jump straight to your Skills.
📖 A New Quest Log
The Quest Log is now a proper book. 📜
- Every quest shows each step you have left, one by one, so you always know exactly what’s next.
- Quests are split into In Progress and Complete tabs.
- Not ready for a quest yet? Hide it and it’ll stay out of your way.
NPCs will also let you know when they have something for you: a ? means a new quest is available, and a ! means the next part of a quest is ready.
💬 Chat Update
- Chat is now resizable.
- Emojis are natively supported. 🥳
- Chat bubbles have a fresh new look.
✨ Stacked Progress Bar
- Stacked Offers have an added progress bar to help guide you along the way
- Offers also have a new indicator on the top right if they’re new!
⚙️ HUD Settings
- Hide HUD for clean screenshots and videos. 📸
- HUD themes itself to match your Union, but you can now switch this off in Settings.
»»» Prefer the old look? You can switch back to the legacy UI in settings.
🗺️ Map Zoom Update
Click on the zoom button on the top left of the HUD. A bar will appear, allowing you to easily zoom in and out. You can move around the map will zoomed at any stage!
»»» Click Z on your keyboard to quickly zoom in & out!
🛠️ Other Updates & Fixes
- The Skull aura is now enabled. 💀
- Bountyfall auras have been improved.
- Fixed the RocketZ aura going behind surfaces. (You may need to clear your cache to see this one.)
- UGC items are now hidden from the Marketplace All tab to stop it from crashing.
🏗️ Round Two: More Community Builds Are Live!
Earlier this month, the first community builds landed in Pixels. Today, the next batch is here.
Everything below was requested and built by the community at community.pixels.xyz. You asked for it, someone built it, and now every player gets it.
NEW Industry UI: Tracker and search
This is the biggest quality-of-life upgrade of the bunch. A brand new panel with two tabs: Timers and Search. Find the button in the top left of your HUD.
⏱️ Timers show everything you have running, all in one place:
- Energy: your bed, sauna pool and VIP sauna rocks, with how long until each is ready or how much energy is left.
- Crafting: every item you’re making, grouped by where it is (Terra Villa or a specific land), with the time left on each.
- Finished: anything that’s done and ready to collect, right at the top.
Got VIP Tier 6? Hit GO next to any land and you’ll be taken straight there. No more running around checking on your industries. 🏃
🔍 Search helps you find where to make anything:
- Type in an item (like Flour) or pick an Industry and Tier.
- See every land that has it, and how many are available on each.
- Hit GO to head straight there.
💰 Bounty: 100,000 $PIXEL
🧖 House Saunas & House Skills
Houses now come with a working sauna pool! Your sauna allowance of 120 energy is shared between the Main Sauna in Terra Villa and every House Sauna.
Saunas only work for Landowners and managers.
NFT House map kills are now enabled!
💰 Bounty: 200,000 $PIXEL
Smaller, QOL Updates:
⛵ Merchant Ships UI Improvements
MS Contracts have been cleaned up to be easier to read and understand.
💰 Bounty: 100,000 $PIXEL
⭐ Allow players to favourite crafting recipes
Click on the little star next to a recipe in any crafting book to favourite it.
📌 Bookmarks Saved
If you’re using Bookmarks to jump around, your current bookmark is highlighted to easily find the next one.
Got an idea you want in the game?
Request it on the Community Hub and let the builders get to work!
⚖️ Economy Balance Update
A round of tuning to keep the economy healthy.
📋 Task Board
- Dragon Scale tasks are now offered to Animal Care 70-79 (previously 72-79, 80-89 and 90-99).
- Dragon Essence tasks are now offered to Animal Care 75-79 (previously 75-79, 80-89 and 90-99).
- Bronzenite Ore mining tasks and Butterberry tasks now appear more often.
- The Ashnut, Gloomshard and Sunbloom tasks added last week (levels 70 and 85) now appear less often.
⚗️ Alchemic Forge
- Forestry Yield Boost III & IV and Mining Yield Boost III & IV now also need 1 Heart Fragment each.
🔨 Crafting
- Nail 2 now costs 4 Bronzenite Ore (was 3). The bulk recipe now costs 24 (was 18) for the same output.
- Butterberry Borscht now needs 10 Butterberries (was 8).
⛏️ Mining
- Tier 2 mines give slightly less Metal Ore 2, roughly 5% less at most levels (for example, 28 instead of 30 at level 90). Rough Stone is unchanged.
🏔️ Bountyfall
- The bonus chance to find a Hearth Fragment when depositing yield stones (overall level 95+) has been halved: 0.5 / 1 / 2.5 / 3.5 / 5% by stone tier (was 1 / 2 / 5 / 7 / 10%). Points and rewards are unchanged.
