KINGDOMS OF GRIFFIA

Devlog [12.29.25]

NEWS
Hello Sprouts,

Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. This is our end-of-year devlog, where we recap what we accomplished in 2025, preview some plans for 2026, and cover key changes and announcements. We are running short on time this season, so there will be no updated list of development projects for 2026 at this time. That list will be published sometime in January.

End of Year Summary
2025 focused on completing missing assets and expanding lore across the project. Below is a list of some of what we accomplished, in case you missed it in the individual devlogs.

List of 2025:
- Achievements
- Reworked Weekly Prompt - Bonus Tasks
- Featured Griffians
- Ticket System in the Help Desk
- Free Theme for AB Characters
- Mascot Overhaul - Can now be dyed
- Beania Settlements
- Elly's Page
- Ian's Page
- NPC Turn Arounds (Create your own turn around of your characters.)
- Relationship System
- Refreshed Griffolk Pages
- Selenia Settlements
- Drackle
- Lichewel
- Thallopus
- Tiles
- The Map
- Technology
- The Vibe Item
- Philosophies
- Architecture
- Artistry
- Language
- Timeline
- Florapedia
- Faunapedia
- Hoppers
- Account Bound Novinauts
- Griffolk Height Chart
- All Companion Turn Arounds/ Height Chart
- Blacklist and Whitelist System
- Game Guide
- User Dashboard Guide
- Masterlist Guide
- How to Consume Lore Guide
- Overhauled all Customization Guides

Guide 1 - Design Guide
Guide 2 - Mutations Guide
Guide 3 - Forms Guide

- Created a Simpler Getting Started Page
- Combined Rule Pages
- New Items
- New Pets
- Rule Updates
- Improved Back-end Tools, such as Automatic Item Distribution
- Added extra Settings and Toggles
- Added Hyperlinks to Subtype and Species on Masterlists
- Hot fixes and bug fixes


Rules, Guides, and Site Reorganization Update - Live
To start, we have entirely revamped the Getting Started Guide for new users. This guide no longer includes all the information on our site; instead, it focuses on the most critical parts of early gameplay.

https://www.kingdomsofgriffia.com/sitetutorials

With this in mind, we have been reorganizing and consolidating our Rules, Guides, and web pages to simplify navigation and improve clarity, as many of these updates were developed concurrently. This work will continue into January, but the Guides are now complete. While the Rules have been reordered as of this devlog, we do not recommend re-familiarizing yourself with the new structure yet, as they still require significant revisions, typo checks, and updates. These updates are expected to be completed by the end of January 2026. Once the revised rules are ready for proper review, we will announce them in a future devlog.

At the same time, we’ve merged overlapping Guides and completed new ones to streamline the user experience, introducing anchored, expandable tables for larger pages. Information previously spread across character tabs, modifier pages, and hidden hubs has been consolidated into guides or moved to lore pages, keeping character creation, customization, and approvals in one centralized location. With these new guides in place, redundant rule pages have been removed or absorbed into relevant sections.

While we are in this process, we would love to hear your Feedback so we can work together to make the experience as smooth as possible.

Things Moved
Art Rules → Split into relevant Guides
Activity Rules → Moved directly into Activities for clarity
Theme Rules → Moved to Section 3
Mutations, Forms, Statuses pages → Moved into Tutorial 4: Character Customization Guides
Magic, Affinity, Abilities, Stat Ranks → Moved to the Lore Tab

Account Bound Novinauts - Clarification
The new Novinaut distribution was initially listed as a CYO for clarity. However, users requested the CYO tag on the Masterlist based on the naming. Marking them as CYO would lock users out of the original CYO system, so it has been renamed to the (AB) Account Bound Novinaut approval to avoid confusion.


Masterlist Image Size Issues - Clarification
During an update, some images on the Masterlist were uploaded at a larger size. We considered increasing the overall image size because the larger images looked better, but this would have made older images appear blurry. We have decided not to enlarge all images; instead, we will resize the ones that are currently too large.



Mutation Clarification - Live
Clarifying confusion about the previous update that mentioned auto mutations weren't allowed for character creation. Users reported this was confusing. We have updated it to state that unlocked mutations are not allowed, but auto mutations are.


Weekly Prompt - 2026
Based on community feedback, we are making several updates to the 2026 Weekly Game structure. The Weekly NPC requirement will be replaced with a Weekly Companion requirement, allowing users to draw their own Companions or natural-coat Companions. This gives Companions a long-needed purpose. NPCs will be reserved for bonus rewards during special Weeklies.

And in recognition of the effort put into backgrounds throughout 2025, the background reward has been increased to 1000 GC. Backgrounds will also be mostly free-choice, as long as they depict a Griffian settlement, providing greater flexibility for storytelling.


User Profile Masterlist rows 6 or 7 - Future
We recently ran a poll on Discord regarding the User Profile masterlist layout. During a recent update, we increased the number of Griffians per row from six to seven and then polled users on their preference. The results were evenly split, which is too close for us to make a confident decision. For now, the number of Griffians per row will remain at seven, but we plan to add a profile setting that lets users customize the number of Griffians per row. This may take some time, and we appreciate your patience while it is implemented.

Golden Hybrid Fruit Changes - Future
The Golden Hybrid Fruit will change in the future; the exact timeline will be announced. Normal Hybrid Fruits will become stackable and usable together, replacing the current use of the Golden Hybrid Fruit. The Golden Hybrid Fruit will instead be used to add one Hybrid subtype to an existing Griffolk.

When this change goes live, the price of the Hybrid Fruit will be reduced to 10k to reflect that it must be used alongside love items. The cost of the Golden Hybrid Fruit will remain unchanged. The current Golden Hybrid Fruit Achievement will be moved to the Trophies section, and a new Achievement will be introduced once multiple Hybrid Fruits are supported. Anyone who previously used a Golden Hybrid Fruit to create a character will receive that item back.

In January, we will also launch a prompt that will reward x5 LP, a Hybrid Fruit, a Golden Hybrid Fruit, and GC, giving players a final opportunity to earn the Achievement before it sunsets into a trophy. More information coming soon.

DEVLOG

Addition
Art - Companion Height artwork done for all Companions.
Art - Sizes Chart for Griffolk added to the Griffolk Hub.
GC - All users with duplicated trophies have received 500 GC per Trophy.
Guides - User Dashboard Guides, Masterlist Guides, Game Guides, How to Consume Lore Guide.
Shop - Added Splice Fruit to G-Mart for 500 GC.

Changes
Companions - Forms and splicing have been added to all Flooperus Floops due to the addition of ears to Flooperus.
Companions- Digits have been added to all Relic Relicdeers due to updated official art matching other relics.
Companions - Coat Cover has been added to all Ursaraptors.
Guide - Starter Guide has been overhauled

Removal
Rules - Section 5
Rules - Section 6
Rules - Section 7

Bug
Griffolk - Fixed a bug that removed the Celestial Subtype on Hybrid Bagbeans.

Fresh year, fresh log, no turning back