# Battle Royale

## New Legendaries

### Dragonflame Catalyst

- Wield the power of the Ender Dragon with this legendary staff!
- Hold Right Click to spray dragon’s breath on your enemies!
    - 3.5s duration, 24s cooldown
- Sneak and Right Click at the same time to summon a Rejuvenating Crystal.
    - Crystals will heal you and grant absorption so long as you are within range and have an unobstructed view of the crystal.
        - 4 crystal “charges” (think like the Freezing Chakram’s charges)
        - You cannot gain more than 8 absorption hearts from this ability.
        - Crystals will disappear after being destroyed by a player, or 2 seconds after healing the player’s absorption, or 20 seconds otherwise.
        - Crystals do not deal damage to players or terrain.

### Vampire Sabre

- Drain the lifeblood of enemy players with this haunted legendary!
- Base Light Netherite Sword, enchantable, anvilable
- Crafted with a Vampire’s Tooth, found in a new structure called the Manor.
- Melee enemy players and heal 12% of the damage dealt to them.
- Sneak and Right Click at the same time to transform into a bat!
    - You will be able to fly, but will take damage in sunlight and cannot use other abilities while transformed.
    - 60s cooldown
- Right Click to activate the Blood Siphon ability!
    - Your next attack steals 3 hunger and 2 hearts from your enemy.
    - 45s cooldown

### Sceptre of Arachne

- Harness the power of cobwebs and spiders with this throwable legendary!
- Base Light Netherite Sword, enchantable, anvilable
- Passive Ability: Hold the sceptre to be immune to cobwebs!
- Sneak and Left Click at the same time to empower the sceptre. The next throw will place several cobwebs where it lands and spawn small cave spider minions to chew at your prey.
    - Minions despawn after 8 seconds.
    - 45s cooldown
- 25% chance to spawn a cobweb on your opponent on a successful throw.

### Elder Eye of Possession

- Gaze upon your opponents to control their mind with this legendary helmet!
- Base Diamond Helmet, anvilable
- Sneak while staring at an opponent for 2.5s to take control of their body!
    - You inherit all their items and status conditions, but cannot move or consume items in their inventory.
    - Be careful: Your own body will be left behind and vulnerable to attack.
        - If you die in the body you possessed, your soul will return to your original body.
    - 12s duration (can be cancelled by sneaking for 1.5s!), 75s cooldown
- Additionally, attackers will take damage from thorns while you are sneaking and you will be protected for 50% of the attack’s damage.

### Sakura Tessen

- Fight players with this magical legendary to harness the strength of the sakura trees!
- Base Light Netherite Sword, enchantable, anvilable
- Melee players to charge the Petal Arc. Once the bar is full, the next 4 swings will shoot a petal blade to knock the wind out of your enemies!
    - The blade’s speed and damage are influenced by your movement. Make sure to move swiftly.
- Hold Right Click to push players away with the power of the wind!
    - 4s duration, 24s cooldown

## Custom Games

### New VIP Colors

- Two New VIP colors are available to custom game hosts!
    - Lemon-Lime gradient: Hosted 50 Custom Games.
    - Jade-Midnight gradient: Hosted 150 Custom Games.

### New Scenarios

- Hastey Boys: All tools are enchanted with Efficiency III and Unbreaking III.
- Safeloot: Dropped items from killing players can only be picked up by the killer / their team for a short period of time.
    - Also compatible with chests in Time Bomb.
- Timber: Breaking logs causes all attached logs to be broken as well.
- Backpacks: Teammates share a 27-slot chest inventory accessible through /backpack or /bp.
    - When the last player on a team dies, the items from the backpack will be dropped.
- Bleeding Sweats: When a player dies they will drop 1 diamond, 5 gold ingots, 16 arrows, and a piece of string in addition to their existing loot.
- No Clean: When you kill a player, you will receive 30 seconds of PvP protection unless you attack another player.
- Do Not Disturb: When the border reaches a certain point or deathmatch begins, hitting a player will lock you (and your team) in combat with the player (and their team) for 30 seconds, refreshing the timer on every hit.
- Friendly Fire: Teammates are able to attack each other.
    - Reminder: Sabotaging teammates is still against the rules.
- No Fall: Players won’t take fall damage (except to dripstone).
- Magnetism: Items dropped from mining blocks or killing mobs are instantly added to your inventory.
- Vein Miner: When mining an ore, the entire vein of ores will be mined at the same time.

## New Winning Challenges

- Challenges are a way for players to earn rewards and compete on a leaderboard to win the game with a specific playstyle!
- Challenges are available to all players and are automatically active when you join a Battle Royale / Civilizations game, but they cannot be completed in Custom Games.
- There is a reward for completing each individual challenge, and a reward for completing all challenges! The rewards can be claimed once per month and reset on the 1st of each month (except this coming June 1st)!
    - VIPs earn 5x gems from completing challenges.
- After completing all challenges and claiming the rewards for each, you will be awarded a challenge-exclusive cosmetic and 2 mystery crates!
- Speak to the Challenges guide next to the Quests guide in the Battle Royale lobby to check out the different types of challenges!

## Balancing Changes

- Headhunter’s Chestpiece Enraged Ability:
    - Strength III → Strength II
- Crimson Chainsword Bleed Ability:
    - Damage & duration nerfed. Cooldown 35s → 45s

## Vanilla Maps v2

- Major changes to Forest biomes aimed at making combat a better experience (fewer trees, taller trunks).
- Significantly reduced the number of caves that are flooded with water. This should only happen when a cave is directly attached to a lake now.
- Increased the “flatness” of maps to provide a better combat experience.
- Added a new “Autumn” biome, similar to the one present in our old maps.
- Added Mushroom Fields biomes.
- Increased the rates of Pale Garden and Cherry Grove biomes.
- Reduced the rate of Dark Forest biomes.
- Heavily reduced the rate of Mangrove Swamp biomes. Standard Swamp biomes have mostly taken their place.

## Legacy Combat Roulette Royale Custom Games

- Custom Games with the Legacy Combat and Roulette Royale will be hosted automatically every 45 minutes.
- This will happen until the end of May.
- Games hosted between 6 AM and 4 PM GMT will be on EU servers, other games will be on NA.

## Fixes

- Fixed an issue where the Gulag would not close properly.
- Fixed an issue where the Headhunter’s Chestpiece’s rage bar was not visible.
- Fixed an issue where Roulette Royale (Tasks) were counting multiple times.
- Fixed an issue where players could duplicate their kit at the start of a game.
- Fixed issues in Legacy Combat custom games where axes were unintentionally strong.
- Patched methods of destroying Time Bomb chests.
- Fixed the Custom Game “Tip” item not working / disappearing in specific circumstances.
- Players should no longer be revived after the game completes.
- Fixed issues where language strings would occasionally not load.

## Legendary Rotation

### Rotated in

- Dragonflame Catalyst
- Vampire Sabre
- Sceptre of Arachne
- Elder Eye of Possession
- Sakura Tessen
- Poseidon’s Trident
- Sonic Crossbow
- Enderbow
- Gruntilda

### Rotated out

- Guardian Cannon
- Pufferfish Cannon
- Dragon Katana
- Shadow Blade
- Chrono Sword
- Freezing Chakram
- Artemis Bow
- Armadillo Detonator
- Corrupted Crossbow

# Duels

## Changes

- New legendaries have been added to the Custom Kit editor!
- New legendaries are not available in Roulette Royale Comp Duels yet.

## Fixes

- Kit layouts should now save properly in Competitive Duels.
- Fixed issues where players’ kit layouts were sometimes missing items.
- Fixed outdated in-game messaging about Comp Duels rewards.
- Fixed an issue where Fishing Rod knockback was unintentionally strong in Legacy Combat.
- Fixed UHC & NethPot kits not having intended golden apple regeneration length.
- Fixed an issue with the Sculkweaver’s Lantern’s mobs targeting dead players.

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Hoplite Patch Notes - May 22nd, 2026