Dandy's World update log: what changed in every version
The current version is Alpha 0.29.10, released October 23, 2026 as part four of the Halloween patches and the home of The Hollow event. The Dandy's World Wiki's three changelog pages (2024, 2025 and 2026) list 18 dated entries for 2024, 45 for 2025 and 52 so far in 2026, counting hotfixes. That is a lot of text, so this guide sorts it by year and by what mattered: new Toons and events, system changes, and the balance changes that changed how a Toon plays.
Nothing here comes from in-game testing of these versions. Everything comes from the wiki changelogs, and the figures are quoted as the wiki gives them. Versions the wiki lists without content (many patches say only "Unknown") are skipped. The wiki also has placeholder entries for October 30, November 6 and a December Christmas update, but nothing confirmed for them, so this log stops at 0.29.10.
How the version numbers work
Every version is "Alpha 0.x.y". A new middle number ending in .1 is a content update: a new Toon, an event or a system. Higher numbers after it (0.17.2, 0.17.3 and so on) are patches that fix bugs and tune numbers, and the wiki often lumps several together, such as 0.15.9 to 0.15.12 on January 31, 2026. Hotfixes between patches sometimes have no version number at all. Since 2026 the game has also run a "Toon of the Week" cycle: a Toon gets a week-long update with a Golden skin and a title, and a patch seven days later removes the purchasable content. Skins, titles and gamepasses you already bought stay usable.
2024: launch year
The game went from an Alpha trailer on June 7, 2024 to the Alpha release on June 14. The 2024 changelog has 18 dated entries.
| Date | Version | What it brought |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2024 | Alpha 0.1 | Alpha release: 12 playable Toons plus Dandy (playable only by his creator), 13 Twisteds, 21 trinkets, Rainbow Rooms, Diner and Warehouse floors, the Blackout event and the default Machine |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Alpha 0.2 | Shelly update: Astro's Floor, the golden Skill Check zone, a Tape nerf, and the first round of Toon stat and ability changes |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Alpha 0.3 | Sprout update: Greenhouse floors, Pebble's abilities and Mastery reworked, Twisted cap cut from 8 to 6 |
| Sep 28, 2024 | Alpha 0.4 | Skins and Gigi (part one), Gift Shop floor, Roleplay free camera |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Alpha 0.5.1 | Looey and Connie update, Shelly's Floor |
The July 12 update (0.2) is the one that shaped the early balance: it added the golden zone to Skill Checks, cut Tape rewards (encounters and ability use 5 to 3, floor Tapes 10 to 5) and moved a number of Toon stats and abilities, listed further down.
2025: events, Dyle and new Machines
| Date | Version | What it brought |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2025 | Alpha 0.6.1 | 2024 Christmas event: Ornaments, Christmas Floor, Bobette's store (removed Feb 10, 2025) |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Alpha 0.7.1 | Yatta update, Shelly's Floor rework, Scraps' grapple can attach to Machines |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Alpha 0.8.1 | 2025 Easter event: Easter floor (removed with 0.9.1) |
| May 23, 2025 | Alpha 0.9.1 | Blot update, Vee's Floor, Night Cap replaced by Star Pillow |
| Jul 3, 2025 | Alpha 0.10.1 | Show-Time update: three Artist floor variants, Research Map trinket, Vee ability buffs |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Alpha 0.11.1 | Stickers, Brusha and Dyle: Dyle's Floor and Dyle's Store, the Circle Machine, Ichor Leaks, Piping Tape card, Illness debuff |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Alpha 0.12.1 | Roleplay and Treadmill update: the Treadmill Machine, Main floors in Roleplay, 3x Sticker Wheels gamepass |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Alpha 0.13.1 | 2025 Halloween event: Gourdy, Eclipse, Soulvester and Ribecca, Pumpkins (removed Nov 14, 2025) |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Alpha 0.14.1 | 2025 Christmas event, Coal, Ginger and Flutter ability changes (removed Jan 16, 2026) |
Two things from 2025 still define the game. Dyle's Floor and Dyle's Store arrived in 0.11.1 (August 2025), the same version that added Ichor Leaks and the Circle Machine. The Treadmill Machine followed in 0.12.1 in September. Each holiday ran for roughly five weeks and then its Toons, Twisteds and trinkets left the store: Easter 2025 from April 18 to May 23, Halloween from October 10 to November 14, and Christmas from December 12 to January 16.
2026: the biggest changes by month
| Date | Version | Headline |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | 0.14.12 | Stickers Patch: sticker wheel grows from 6 to 8 slots, all 2025 Christmas content removed |
| Jan 30 | 0.15.1 | 3 Optimizations: floor spawning rework, max Twisteds 6 to 8, Ichor Leaks buffed to 14 puddles, new Art Gallery and Aquatic variants |
| Feb 11 | 0.15.19 | Solo runs capped at 6 Twisteds, Twisted Pebble nerfed from 25 to 24 speed |
| Feb 27 | 0.16.1 | Squirm and Achievements: Squirm, Stress Ball, Library Floor, Gift Shop rework, Journal with Medals and Titles, Exhaustion returns |
| Mar 5-6 | 0.16.12-0.16.13 | Matchmaking reweighted, Rare Twisteds become more likely with depth |
| Mar 20 | 0.17.1 | 2026 Easter Part One: Bassie, Cocoa, Eggson, Flyte, Spring Fever event, Baskets, Easter floor |
| Apr 24 | 0.17.17 | All 2026 Easter content removed |
| May 1 | 0.18.1 | Sprout's Week: first Toon of the Week |
| May 15 | 0.19.1 | Machines Overhaul and Duo Machines |
| May 22 | 0.20.1 | Vee-Mail (gifting) |
| Jun 5 | 0.21.1 | Care Bears collaboration quests and skins |
| Jun 12 | 0.22.1 | Finn's Week: Swimmy Barnaby Machines, Dandy's Buds starter system, code redemption moved to a lobby computer |
| Jul 17 | 0.23.1 | QOL update: Break Room every 25th floor, new settings menu, Spotted Visualizer |
| Jul 24 | 0.24.1 | Tisha's Week: Tidy Up reworked |
| Aug 7 | 0.25.1 | Waxwell, Twisted Waxwell, Cherished Blanket, the Ignited buff |
| Aug 14 | 0.26.1 | Brusha's Week: Artistic Inspiration reworked |
| Sep 4 | 0.27.1 | Profiles: customizable profile cards, daily login streak |
| Sep 18 | 0.28.1 | Gigi's Week: Surprise reworked, Twisted Gigi stash |
| Oct 2 | 0.29.1 | 2026 Halloween Minor Update: 116 listed changes, Haunted Gala, Trick or Treat doors, Soulvester rework |
| Oct 9 | 0.29.7 | Halloween Part Two: Queens of Mischief skins, Roleplay attack cooldowns for Twisteds |
| Oct 16 | 0.29.9 | Halloween Part Three: Roleplay ability sound effects and Twisted blinking |
| Oct 23 | 0.29.10 | Halloween Part Four and The Hollow event, new Trick or Treat effects |
The year breaks into four blocks. January to early March was systems work (floor spawning, Journal, matchmaking, Squirm). The Easter event ran March 20 to April 24. May to September was the Toon of the Week run, with Machines and Profiles in between. October is the Halloween event, which the wiki lists as running to November 6, 2026.
2026 changes that affect how you play today
- Floor spawning (0.15.1). Diner and Greenhouse floors can appear from floor 1 instead of floor 6, and Warehouse, Gift Shop and Sprout's Floor from floor 6 instead of 11. Astro's, Shelly's and Vee's floors moved from floor 16 to floor 6. See the floors guide.
- Twisted count (0.15.1 and 0.15.19). The cap went from 6 to 8, solo runs stay at 6, and duplicates of the same Twisted no longer appear.
- Ichor Leaks (0.15.1). 14 puddles instead of 6, with Slow I applied as a real debuff.
- Machines (0.19.1, 0.22.1). Duo Machines pair any two of the Default, Circle and Treadmill types, and Swimmy Barnaby Machines join the same pairings. Items can no longer be picked up while extracting (0.19.2 to 0.19.4).
- Break Room (0.23.1). A rest room that appears every 25 floors, with 2 fixed Machines whatever the player count and no Twisteds or floor events.
- Skill Check button (0.24.1). Press-and-hold returned and the button got bigger, with a larger increase on mobile.
- Soulvester (0.29.1). Rework plus a Soul Sword buff that gives him an extra heart when the trinket is equipped.
Toon, Twisted and trinket balance changes
These are the balance changes the wiki's changelogs list, oldest first. Cooldown and percentage figures are quoted as written. Where a figure's unit is unclear, it is left out, which is why the 0.12.4 Treadmill star-value rework is not in the table.
| Date | Version | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2024 | 0.2 | Astro's ability restores all Stamina instead of 50 percent; Astro gains a Movement Speed star, Pebble a Skill Check star, Vee a Stamina star; Poppy's ability lasts 3 seconds instead of 2.5; Scraps' ability cooldown 45 to 30; Twisted Toodles moves from Common to Uncommon |
| Jul 13, 2024 | 0.2.1 | Tisha's Tidy Up speed boost cut from 33 percent to 25 percent |
| Aug 14, 2024 | 0.3 | Pebble's abilities and Mastery reworked; Thermos regeneration 10 to 15 percent; Coin Purse price 250 to 200 Ichor; Twisted Shelly applies Confused I instead of II |
| Sep 28, 2024 | 0.4 | Scraps' grapple cooldown 30 to 25 and pull time 0.75 to 0.5 seconds; Diary becomes 25 percent Stealth |
| Jan 11, 2025 | 0.6.1 hotfix | Bobette's Skill Check lowered to 4 stars and Movement Speed raised to 3 stars |
| Jul 3, 2025 | 0.10.1 | Teagan's Tea Time costs 75 Tapes instead of 100; Vee's Mic Check cooldown 60 to 50 seconds and Camera Hijack highlights 2 Machines |
| Sep 12, 2025 | 0.12.1 | Brusha's Skill Check size boost 25 to 50 percent |
| Nov 26, 2025 | 0.13.14 | Astro's Nap Time cooldown 75 to 60 seconds; Brusha's Skill Check chance boost 25 to 50 percent |
| Dec 12, 2025 | 0.14.1 | Coal's Scout cooldown 100 to 30 seconds; Bobette's Festive Aura gives a 5-second 25 percent speed boost; Ginger reworked to heal; Coal trinket penalty 20 to 10 percent |
| Feb 6, 2026 | 0.15.17 | Blot Jr. now affects Twisted Glisten; Boxten's Wind-Up adds to the Extraction Speed multiplier |
| Feb 11, 2026 | 0.15.19 | Twisted Pebble speed 25 to 24 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | 0.17.1 | Cocoa's BonBon lasts 10 seconds instead of 5; Eggson's Fixer Upper 10 to 20 percent and works on Treadmills; Whispering Flower reworked |
| Jun 12, 2026 | 0.22.1 | Finn's Reel In speed buff 33 to 35 percent; Fishing Rod reworked |
| Jul 24, 2026 | 0.24.1 | Tisha's Tidy Up gets a larger radius and clears Ichor puddles |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 0.26.1 | Brusha's Artistic Inspiration reworked into a minigame that buffs a Machine; Paint Bucket 5 to 10 percent; Twisted Brusha vision 100 to 85 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 0.28.1 | Gigi's Surprise cooldown 80 to 60 seconds, rolls from any item tier |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 0.29.1 | Soulvester reworked (spends a heart to guard a Toon, then teleports in and stuns the attacker); Eclipse can briefly highlight all Twisteds on the floor during Blackouts; Ribecca gets a random buff after her ability |
Three patterns are worth knowing. First, Scraps' grapple has been buffed repeatedly (cooldown twice, pull time, then Machine attachment), while Astro, Brusha and Tisha all had abilities adjusted two or three times. Second, Twisted Pebble's 25 to 24 in 0.15.19 is the only Twisted speed nerf with exact numbers in the logs. Bobette's slight nerf in January 2025 gave none and was reverted in 0.14.1. Third, Toon of the Week updates usually double as balance patches for that Toon: Finn's Reel In, Tisha's Tidy Up, Brusha's Artistic Inspiration and Gigi's Surprise were all changed in their own week.
Patch notes for the current Halloween event
Alpha 0.29.1 on October 2 brought back Eclipse, Gourdy, Ribecca and Soulvester and their Twisteds, plus the trinkets Bone Needle and Thread, Memory Locket, Moon Pack Heirloom and Soul Sword. It added the Haunted Gala floor event, Trick or Treat doors, a rebuilt lobby with Gourdy's Store and a set of new buffs and debuffs (Guarded, GuardBurst, Sugar Rush and others). Part two (0.29.7, October 9) added Queens of Mischief skins, part three (0.29.9, October 16) added Roleplay sound effects to most Toon abilities, and part four (0.29.10, October 23) opened The Hollow through a Trick or Treat door in the lobby and added the Vanguard, Sweet Relief and No Bones About It door effects. Full detail on the event's currency is in the currencies guide.
For the Twisted and trinket side of these updates, see the Twisteds guide and best trinkets. Every update is also listed on the updates page.
Sources
All entries come from the Dandy's World Wiki changelog pages below, plus the structured update data behind this site's own pages.
