October 17, 2026
You Lead the Way
The October 17 update puts you in front on bond camp adventures, makes nightfall easier to notice, and raises the player XP that battles and adventures pay. Here are the main changes. The patch notes list every one, small fixes included.
You Lead the Way
On a bond camp adventure, you lead now. Your Elemixies follow you, an arrow over your head shows the way, and a red pin marks the spot. Tap the Adventure banner, or press T or D-pad up, to look at the pin. You can also talk to Mera and Lillibelle during an adventure.
Nightfall
When night falls, a clock chimes and a message tells you, even in the cave. About 1 wild common in 5 now turns rarer at nightfall, up from about 1 in 6, so you're more likely to see it happen.
Player XP
Arena wins pay 12 to 21 player XP by tier, up from 2 to 10, so battling levels you up as fast as catching. A win pays less when your team is much stronger than the tier. Bond camp adventures pay 6 to 14, more for longer trips. Mixing pays 6 to 100 by rarity, and merging pays what catching each Elemixie would. Every task now pays 10 player XP, or 15 for a task that asks for three catches.
Tasks
Battle and adventure tasks stack on one icon, so two battle tasks show as 0/2, and each one still pays when you finish it. Friends in the same server are no longer sent to the same biome for catch tasks. If you'd rather play without tasks, turn them off in Settings, under Gameplay.
New Players
The tutorial is shorter: hatch your egg, catch five Elemixies, merge, and mix. After it, the first quests are a battle, an adventure, and an egg to hatch, with a crystal egg for finishing all three.
Also New
Once an Elemixie is in your Elemixpedia, mixing shows it instead of a question mark. When another player uses Recall, you see the glowing circle under their feet. Wild Elemixies no longer all face the same way.
See you in the meadow.