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Splinterlands Release Notes

2026-02-24

Escalation Release!

• The new Escalation mini-set has been released and packs are now openable!

Upcoming Conflict Card!

• The eighth Conclave Arcana Conflict card, Brave The Bull, the Legendary Death archon is coming soon! You can read all about the new card here.

  

Gameplay Updates

• The match making in Champion I has been adjusted to greatly reduce wait times before being matched.

• Death Has No Power will appear less frequently and will no longer appear paired with Blood Moon.

• Starting the next season in Survival, cards collection power contribution will be capped at their level.

• A new ruleset Junior Varsity has been added to the game. When this rule is in play, you can only summon units and archons that cost 6 or less mana.

  

General Updates

• The Splintervibes in Frontier Jackpots and Minor Chests have been restocked with new tracks.

• The Splintervibe shop has been restocked with new 10 new tracks, available for a variety of currencies.

• With Conclave Arcana soon going out of the shop, a countdown timer has been added to the header and lobby.

• You can now use Phoenix Ash from the card collection to remove land cooldowns, instead of only being able to apply it when removing cards.

• Updated the SPS rewards burned leaderboard. It is now tracking seasonally and Glint earned.

• Fixed some memory management issues with the campaign that should make it much more stable on Mobile devices.

• The Conclave Arcana shop now has a default currency of DEC selected, instead of always forcing the user to pick a currency.

• Fixed the low currency links on the Escalation shop page to direct to the proper token, and not just Dark Energy Crystals.

• The How To Play tabs have had continued refinements as we continue to provide better information about how the game functions to new players.

• Harvesting land now only updates the tab that you have open, instead of any tabs logged into that account.

• Updated the no match found messaging based on your no liquidity bots setting.

• Fixed the daily quest progress window incorrectly displaying on battle results when spectating other player’s matches while not logged in.

2026-02-17

General Updates

• You can now choose to automatically burn your SPS rewards in Silver and above to increase your GLINT rewards. This effectively doubles your reward shares in the GLINT calculation.

  
• A leaderboard for the burning of SPS rewards has been added under the SPS Dashboard.

• Cleaned up the positioning of tabs in the SPS Dashboard header.

• A new Avatar Badge showing off your selected Runi has been added to the game.

• Cleaned up the spacing of the Team Create buttons when the option to show text labels is enabled.

• Fixed an issue where some of the Jackpot Reward cards were incorrectly showing land production points after being combined.

• Added another new section to the How To Play page as the revamp of that section of the site continues.

• When browsing the market/collection, your position will be retained when going into a specific cards details and back to browsing. More complex navigation will not persist your last location.

• Fixed an issue where trying to do fractional percentages of reward delegations would throw an error. It will now just round down to the nearest integer percentage.

• A learn more button has been added to the weekly draw reminders.

2026-02-10

Escalation Presale Begins!

• The escalation presale is now live! Get your share of the 500,000 packs while they last! Full details for the presale can be found in the announcement post here.

Survival Returns Next Season

• Per the passed proposal, Survival format has been reworked and will start during the second season of February. The new survival format is very different from previous iterations: there’s 11 brackets to choose from with different restrictions on card levels and style of play, all rewards are seasonal, and the collection power played throughout the season determines the reward split between the brackets. For more details see the announcement post here.

Gameplay Updates

• Fixed an issue with Brute Force completely ignoring speed and attack types as tie breakers when two units have the same max attack power.

General Updates

• The How to Play page has been further reworked with a new designs.

• Per this passed proposal, direct purchases of Conclave Arcana Packs with Paypal or Coinbase has been added to the shop.

• A new Exemplar Leaderboard is now accessible from the Profile page.

• The Bloodline Synergy option has been added to the mobile Team Create filters, but only appears when applicable.

• The low level card warning no longer covers the number of cards during Team Create for Survival.

• When leaving a guild voluntarily, you will now be presented with the option to permanently donate all GP upon leaving. This does not apply if you are the last member and are disbanding the guild.

• The Reset Filters button on the main Team Create display has been made more visible.

• Fixed an issue where the Points displayed in the top status display of your tournament progress was showing tie-breaker points instead of primary points.

• Fixed an issue where Streamer Mode was hiding all battle results, rather than the option Hide Battle Results Until Viewed.

• Made a change to ensure the back to lobby button will always show on the battle results.

• Added user friendly text for Validator rewards to the Currency Activity page.

• We have back populated the tier information onto older reward cards, to make it easier for third parties to determine which era they belong to.

2026-02-03

Escalation Countdown

• The shop has been updated with a new Escalation page, featuring a countdown until the prerelease next week!

Gameplay Updates

• Clarified the description of Hey Jealousy to denote that melee units will attack from any position.

General Updates

• The selection of a bonus package when buying Credits now defaults to Veteran. Your selection will now also persist in the local browser cache.

• Previews of the Splintervibe tracks for sale in the store have been added to the shop page.

• The How To Play page is being overhauled. Currently Abilities and Modifiers have been moved off to new tabs.

• Added a history page to the Avatar shop to allow you to review past purchases.

• Updated the Frontier academy panel to have content about the jackpot prizes.

• Updated the battle lobby academy panel to have content about the daily challenges and removed the outdated Survival section, which will be replaced when the new version of Survival releases.

• Added an academy panel to the SPS dashboard.

• A confirmation box has been added for adding/removing liquidity from the in-game pools.

• The font size for rule descriptions and the icon size of modifiers have been adjusted slightly for better visibility on smaller displays.

• Made a change for Hive Keychain on Mobile devices when using a free-to-play account. If you attempt to make a payment using Hive, i.e. buy a spellbook, it will allow you to pick another Hive account to make the payment from.

• Fixed an issue where the daily challenge window in the battle results could show the wrong format, if you had changed formats while waiting for an opponent.

• Moved the low/no SPS indicator on daily challenge claims next to the Claim button and updated the text to be more descriptive if you have insufficient SPS staked to claim a reward.

• Video ads on Seeking Opponent will now only display on full sized monitors, as they were a bit too small to see on tablet sized displays.

• The Campaign videos now shows standard video player controls.

• The land Resource History page now shows a type for Splintervibe crafting.

2026-01-27

Upcoming Conflict Card!

• The seventh Conclave Arcana Conflict card, Hanv, the Legendary Fire archon is coming soon! You can read all about the new card here.

  

Splintervibes

• The Splintervibes music player has been removed from the SPS page and added as a control under the master volume. The option to play these will only display if you own a Splintervibe track in the game.

  • A new Splintervibe page has been added under the Shop menu. 8 tracks will be available, with a limited print of 100 copies each, for a mix of Glint, Dark Energy Crystals (DEC), or land resources.

  • 200 Splintervibe tracks, 100 copies of the Venomchant and Big Decisions respectively, tracks can new be found in Minor chests, while supplies last. They have a 0.05% drop chance.

  • 200 Splintervibe tracks, 100 copies of the Flight Ends Here and Haunting Beauty respectively, tracks can new be found when claiming Frontier daily claims, while supplies last. They have a 0.05% drop chance.

  • Splintervibe tracks have been added to the non-card market. Currently there are more tracks listed than are obtainable, but we plan to add the others to the game in future updates.

• You can read more Splintervibes in the article here.

Love Is In The Air

• A holiday event, Amorendel, will run for the first season of February! Holiday backgrounds will appear in the battle lobby and arena, limited time Avatar outfits will be available in the Avatar shop, and a number of holiday skins will be available in the Reward shop!

• 10 different Sweetheart skins will be available in the Reward shop for either Glint or DEC for the duration of the event.

• 10 copies of 10 Obsessive skins, so 100 total, will be in Ultimate chests, while supplies last or until the event ends. They will have a 1% drop chance.

• A holiday ruleset, Hey Jealousy, will appear in some battles during the event. When this rule is in play, all units will target the unit on the opposing team with the highest health.

  

Land

• Time Crystals can now be obtained using Cinder.

  • 1 Time Crystal can be crafted with 135 Cinder in the Artisan Quarter.

  • Cinder has also been added as a purchase option on the Time Crystal Buy page.

  • As it costs 100 DEC to buy a Time Crystal, and burning a card worth 100 DEC would give you 150 Cinder (Cinder received = DEC burn value x 1.5), the 135 Cinder cost is a 10% discount off the DEC price, to encourage card burning.

• Phoenix Ash has been added to the game as a new craftable item in the Artisan Quarter.

  • 1 Phoenix Ash can be crafted with 4 Aura + 0.02 Time Crystals.

  • Phoenix Ash is tradeable on the Non-Card Market and a link to it has been added to the Consumables Shop page.

  • Phoenix Ash can be used to reduce unstaking cooldown when Non-Runi worker cards are removed from Land plots. One single Phoenix Ash reduces cooldown by 0.24 hours for a single card, meaning you need to use 100 to reduce cooldown by 1 day, and 300 to eliminate a card's unstaking cooldown period altogether. When you remove cards using the Worksite Slot Management screen, you will have the chance to optionally apply as many Phoenix Ashes as you wish, up to the maximum amount allowable for the number of cards you are removing. Ashes are applied in card removal order, moving from left to right following the display order of slots on the Worksite Slot Management screen.

    
  • A new pop up notification message has been added to confirm the success of a card staking/unstaking blockchain operation and how many Phoenix Ashes, if any, were used.

Gameplay Updates

• The Standard (no modifiers) rule set will appear more often and three rule sets will appear less frequently.

• Silenced Archons has been removed from the game.

• Healed Out will appear less frequently.

• Equalizer will appear more frequently.

• Going The Distance will appear less frequently.

• Shades Of Gray will appear much less frequently.

• The Bloodmoon rule set has been turned back on with a very low chance of appearing.

General Updates

• The Credits system has been updated to add a service fee, which is to cover the fees we are charged for processing transaction by our various vendors - primarily Paypal.

  • All Paypal purchases under $25 will have a 7% fee.

  • All Paypal purchases between $25 and $100 a 5% fee.

  • All Paypal purchases of $100 or more will have a 3.5% fee.

  • All Crypto purchases of Credits will have a 1% service fee.

  • To help make up for these fees, we have introduced a bonus program where purchases of 100,000 Credits or more will earn in-game rewards. You have a choice of Starter Packs & Glint or Potions & Glint:

    
• The battle results screen has been rearranged slightly, and had some items on the claim progress window hidden. This should fit the content better on most screens.

• Fixed an issue with the non-card market filters not being scrollable on mobile sized screens. With larger lists, like Splintervibe tracks, it could block your ability to close the filter.

• New small videos advertising the Escalation set release have been added to the waiting for opponent bar.

• Added the ability to delegate “sell” authority to another account per user request. This will let that account sell unlocked cards on your account, so only grant this to accounts that you trust or own

• Fixed an issue with the Avatar showing the former element after changing them on some displays. It should now update on the display immediately.

• Updated the combine warning for account bound and non-account bound cards being combined to stand out more from the other text.

• Improved the way that time periods are displayed on various cooldown timers, notably card cooldown status on the Card Details collection sub-screen. These timers should now count down with a slightly smoother, more natural time period progression.

• The filters on the Other Items screen now stick near the top of the screen on desktop sized displays.

• The balances in the Reward shop on mobile sized displays should now stick near the top of the screen.

• The display immediately after combining cards has been improved and you should no longer see them incorrectly ordered briefly.

• The Crypto Recovery Fund page has been updated with the new entries per this passed proposal.

• A new tooltip for the weekly reward claims has been added to the game.

2026-01-20

General Updates

• The Updates tab on the main lobby has been updated to display as a carousel with all 3 updates, instead of just the top 2.

  
• Added the daily quest progress bar to the Victory screen in ranked battle results, to make it clearer when you have completed a quest.

• Added the profanity filter to the names in the battle result screen.

• The top filters will now stick to the top of the screen on the market.

• Fixed the Exemplar cards not showing proper stats when hovered over on the battle history page, if your opponent surrendered the match.

• Fixed the display of card foil types on the rotating card display of the recent draw winners.

• Fixed the bonuses button on battle history not working properly on mobile sized screens. It was only working on desktop by hovering over it with the mouse, but will now also display when pressed on mobile.

• Added back an on-hover display of bonuses to the VS button on the match history.

• Fixed an intermittent issue with Shades of Grey causing a display error in Frontier mode team creation.

• Fixed a delay before the battle started displaying when the skip battle intro option is selected.

• Added a button to skip the rest of the Campaign and proceed to Frontier mode, if you had initially selected to do the Campaign when presented with the option after registering a new account, but changed your mind.

• The Exemplar colors will now show up more reliably in Tournaments where they are allowed.

• Cleaned up the display of more tooltips on mobile sized devices, where previously they were partially off the screen.

• Added some clarifying text on the Credits tooltip instructing you to press the + button to get them.

2026-01-13

Frontier Jackpots!

• Four new Foundations cards have been added to the game! When claiming a daily reward, you have a 1.5% chance of finding one of these new cards. You can find the details on these new cards in the post about this update here.

Gameplay Updates

• Fixed an issue where a Spite attack could stun an attacker, and if that attacker had multiple attacks their remaining attacks would trigger even though they were stunned.

• Fixed a couple of issues with Wingbreak. Ranged units with Wingbreak will now attack flying units from the first position. Melee units with Wingbreak will no longer attack as if they had charge when no flying units remain on the opposing team.

General Updates

• Fixed the display of rarity and foil of the Exemplar card based on its level on numerous screens.

• Fixed filtering by rarity during team create for the Exemplar card.

• Fixed an ear skin color mismatch issue with Orc Avatars when using certain earring settings.

• The Extra edition reward cards have been added to the variant history for ranked rewards. The new Frontier Jackpot card variants will also appear on the Frontier variant history.

• The Skip Battle Intro setting will now do something again, and skip the Avatar display at the start of battles if enabled.

• Added slightly more animation to the end of battle Avatars display.

• The Buy More button leading you to the reward shop in order to buy additional entries will no longer appear if you have not bought a pass for the current draw.

• The Match History page now has a breakdown of wins, losses, and draws.

• A handful of new tooltips were added for new players. You may see these the next time you login.

• Some mobile display updates for various tooltips, to fit better on small screens.

• Some additional Campaign UI refinement.

• The Terms of Service for Tournaments has been updated with clearer language.

• The Lodge guild building tooltips have been updated for better accuracy.

Items Hotfixed into the Game Prior to the Release

• Fixed the description of the Fire Beetle Skin in the non-card market.

• Updated the Tower Mage Avatar icon in the non-card market to show the new outfit image.

2026-01-06

Happy New Year!

• As Winterfest winds down, the holiday shop tab and Avatar items will no longer appear in the shop. The gift boxes are, of course, still able to be opened and remember to double check your inventory to ensure that you didn’t miss any gifts!

Gameplay Updates

• A new ruleset, Brute Force, has been added to the game. Under this modifier Units with the highest (individual) attack power attack first.

  
• Rulesets are now more easily restricted from specific formats, and the number of modifiers appearing in Frontier mode has been reduced.

• Stampede should no longer appear with Death Has No Power.

• Fixed a rare issue where Spite could incorrectly trigger twice when triggered off a blast from an execute attack.

General Updates

• Premium Avatar Backgrounds and Frames have been added to the Avatar shop page.

  
• A new chapter has been added to the Campaign prologue covering Avatar creation.

• If you have not previously created an Avatar, you will now be initially shown the select Bloodline display instead of showing the default human male.

• Fixed some mismatched naming on human avatar complexion options.

• The match up with opponent display has been updated with a new brief scene of opposing avatars.

  
• A new outro display has been added to the end of matches.

• A new setting has been added to skip the new avatar match displays.

• A red dot indicator has been added to the Updates tab in the main lobby. It appears if there are new posts since the last time you visited that tab. This is saved locally in the browser, and may reappear across different devices or if the cache is cleared.

• Added a button linking to the Reward shop from the weekly draw section of the lobby, in case you wish to purchase additional entries with Glint.

• Fixed the display of avatars shown for the past weekly draw winners. Previously it was just showing the default model for everyone.

• Added an up arrow to the top of the footer on smaller screens, mainly for mobile devices, that will scroll back to the top of the screen when pressed.

• A confirmation display has been added to the land resource trade hub, clearly indicating the region you are swapping resources to and from.

• The bloodline of cards is now shown on the initial Manage worksite display.

• A filter has been added to the Tournaments page to show only tournaments where the Exemplar card is playable.

• Fixed a display issue when trying to transfer, or lock, plots when you had selected them across multiple regions.

• Fixed some issues where duplicate buffs would show up on some Units in battle - which was just a display issue and units didn’t actually have duplicate buffs.

• Added Gladius Cases to the all packs shop page, which will redirect to the Guild Shop if you are in a guild or the guilds page if you are not currently in one.

• Fixed some sizing issues where the Choose Your Path choice for new players, i.e. to do the Campaign or not, was not fitting properly on some smaller displays.

• A number of minor graphical and text improvements were made to some chapters of the Campaign.