A month of construction on Isla Sonora: the proximity voice chat, two mini-games (Poker and Uno), Glitch skins, a new Gold VIP tier, a revamped shop, spawn teleportation, the auction house, and a long list of fixes on the park, quests, and moderation.
🎙️ Proximity voice chat
Big feature of the month: you can hear players around you, live, without any third-party software.
- Full 3D spatial audio: you know where a voice is coming from, left, right, and all around you.
- Reworked range: full volume at close range, then gradual drop-off, calibrated on real listening tests.
- Open to all players (access was restricted at launch).
- Two ways to use it: via the overlay, or directly in a web window if you don't want an overlay. The choice is made from the site header.
- Per-player settings: lower the volume or mute a teammate from the web.
- Voice player counter in the header.
- Your recordings belong to you: clip your own conversations and download an excerpt.
Fixes: no longer hear dead players, no more "single ear" sound, positions refreshed 6× faster, and voice chat no longer travels in the clear over the internet.
🃏 Mini-games
- Texas Hold'em cash game poker: player versus player, rune bets, real-time room, winner announcement, intermission between hands to see the showdown, all hands revealed at the end of the hand, and your winning odds displayed on your own hand.
- Solo Uno against three bots, rune bet, with the display of +2s and +4s drawn.
- Navigation changes: the Shop moves to the header, and the dropdown menu becomes "Mini-game".
🎨 Glitch Skins
- Glitch skins on sale, with 7 in-game validated presets (including Sulfur) and in-game screenshots for each.
- Custom palette: make your own colors, with color families and swatches to keep track.
- Player Glitch skins: saving, resale, and ticket payment.
- "Glitch skins" filter in the shop to display only those.
- A Glitch Skin ticket added to the wheel (0.05% chance).
👑 VIP — Tier Rework
- New Gold VIP tier, €50/month, above Bronze (€10) and Silver (€20).
- The three tiers are now independent and stackable: winning a Bronze on the wheel then buying Gold doesn't overwrite anything, each tier runs on its own schedule. Quantities add up (daily runes, Prime dinos, skin credits, lottery spins, parks) and multipliers take the best value.
- What Gold gives you: unlimited park as long as the subscription is active, unlimited normal and Glitch skins, 10 Prime dinos per month, 800 base runes on daily, ×4 on quest rewards, 10 free lottery spins per day, +4 lifetime park slots per month paid, and a species reservation re-available after 1 h instead of 7 days.
- Silver: 5 Glitch skins per month, +2 lifetime parks per month paid, species reservation, advanced Skin Creator.
- Monthly recharge of VIP perks, even outside Stripe.
- Reserved slot: it finally works when the server is full or overcrowded, without becoming a VIP pass. The species reservation editor appears on the map of the tier you own.
- Fixes: the weekly species slot is no longer consumed "for nothing", and the tier's monthly Prime bundle is no longer clipped by a wheel win.
🛒 Shop & Market
- New grid: 7 rune bundles, from €5 to €100, from Starter to Ultimate Glitch, with wheel tokens, Prime tickets, and Glitch skins included depending on the bundle.
- The three largest bundles include 30 days of VIP: Platinum (€50) → Bronze VIP, Diamond (€75) → Silver VIP, Ultimate Glitch (€100) → Gold VIP.
- A bundle's VIP package is complete: it also grants the lifetime park slots and monthly Glitch skins of the sold tier, which were previously missing.
- Gifting a VIP Pass: you can now gift Bronze or Silver, for 1 or 3 months, with the −20% gift discount on top.
- Auction house on the dino market.
- Dino sales announcements on Discord, with a Buy button.
- Unlimited sales per season, but active Prime required and minimum 75% growth to put a dino up for sale.
- Automatic purchase thank-yous in #server-support.
🏞️ Park
- Choose your arrival region when leaving the park with a fresh Prime.
- Park exit always at the park position.
- Sorting, filters, and nicknames on "My Park".
- Paid mutation rework, nest stealth, skin application for 5,000 runes.
- Clarified exit conditions: full bars required, HP threshold relaxed to 90% instead of strict 100%.
- Restoration of a lost dino from its park sheet, with its 4 mutation tiers and real hunger/thirst.
- Fixes: deparking no longer clips through rocks, hunger is correctly restored upon exit, and exit block after a spawn teleport drops upon death or dino change, with a message explaining how to reopen it.
🚀 Spawn Teleportation
- One free teleport upon dino creation, among 16 regions, with region preview and map pointer.
- Ability to choose an arrival point away from present players.
- 10 min cooldown per zone, visible countdown.
- "Stay here" is no longer prompted on every load.
- You land on real ground, no longer on a guessed altitude.
🎁 Rewards, Runes, and Referrals
- Unified daily reward: 7-day cycle, VIP multiplier.
- Lottery: x5 spin in one go (5 wheels in a modal), and free spin bundle scaled by VIP tier.
- Reworked referral system: new scale, recruiter tier starting at 3 referrals, extensions to 15 / 20 / 25.
- Community challenge: reward is reserved for participants.
🏆 Leaderboards, Quests, and Contracts
- Quest leaderboard next to the kills one.
- Survival leaderboard on the same dino.
- Season rewards up to 10th place on contracts and survival.
- AI kills and pack assists credit quests.
- Hatchlings are credited, and crossing quests become bidirectional.
- Arena deaths no longer credit contracts.
- Apex contract "adult" threshold aligned with the game (0.75 instead of 0.9).
🔪 Serial Killer — Blood Moon
- Blood Moon Discord card at launch and verdict, viewable without starting a hunt.
- 50% of the bounty shared with the winner's teammates.
- Random draw subject to a floor of 50 online players.
- Prohibition of teleporting to the target, growth floor, and "tracked" badge.
🗺️ Map, Overlay, and Tracking
- Broader and more readable hot zones, with built-in explanation.
- Full vitals in the HUD, including blood, continuously updated.
- Overlay map hooked into hot zones, with the freshest source.
- Directional arrow instead of a simple dot for players.
- Positions refreshed every 3 s: the map captures you 2× faster.
- Stealth species are removed from public counting.
- In-picture overlay installation tutorial on Discord, and rules to accept before downloading.
- Overlay went from version 0.3.7 to 0.3.20 over the period.
🦕 Population and Species
- Dynamic tier bonus: extra slots for Allosaurus, Deinosuchus, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops beyond a certain number of connected players.
- Body drop open to T-Rex (5,000 runes, 50–75% window) and Deinosuchus (up to 75%, then adult tier 75–100%).
- Body drop now requires full HP and stamina, and the growth window drops to 50% instead of 75%.
- Omnivores get access to the herbivore mutation pool.
📬 Website and Profile
- Inbox tab: your player inbox.
- Profile header reworked into a single card.
- Combat history: all PvP hits archived and viewable on the player sheet. Unfold a death to see who hit the victim.
- Community gallery: new public page, fed by your submissions via Discord, with moderation.
- TikTok streamers highlighted alongside Twitch.
- Monthly Top 10 voters and Discord vote announcement.
💬 Discord
- Three-way translated relay between FR, EN, and IT in general channels: no more language barrier.
- Onboarding with mandatory readings and quiz.
- Ticket panel, welcome boxes, night waiting notices, automatic closure of inactive tickets.
- Staff schedule and streamer schedule with buttons.
- Event announcements with team choice (herbivore / carnivore) and live counters.
- Dino market and nest announcements.
- Server status card ALL OK / NOT OK, and alert when the server becomes invisible.
⚖️ Moderation and Reputation
- Chat moderation reactivated: flat penalty at −5,000 and Ban 24h / Permanent ban buttons directly on alerts.
- Verbal toxic remarks also enter the penalty system.
- Earnings freeze set to 72h for major offenses.
- Many fixes to prevent false penalties: no more penalty on a respawn, inflicted drowning, delayed damage, nor for simple spectators of a mixed-pack brawl. Refined mixed-pack detection.
- In-game site rules aligned with Discord's.
🛠️ Stability and Comfort
- Auto-save of your dino, with anti-combat-log guard, and tracking of save losses (dino disappeared without dying).
- Fairer kill feed: killer is correctly attributed on "Natural cause" deaths, and Deinosuchus grab drownings are credited.
- AI: out-of-zone AI cleanup, total wipe on demand with automatic repopulation, proximity-activated zones.
- Expired bans are lifted during the restart window.
- Any group member can invite, not just the leader.
- The 60-min restart announcement has been removed.
- Various reliability fixes: no more errors on an unreadable session, no more double downloads, no more double-counting of playtime.
Two additions were removed during the period and are therefore not in this patch: the 2,000 runes bonus per hour of live stream spent in-game, and an early version of the Allosaurus / Deinosuchus tier bonus, which later returned in another form.
Have fun everyone. 🦖
