History of Loathing (2024)

These pages shall contain the history of the Kingdom of Loathing.

For an annotated list of changes to the game, see Changes.

January 02, 2024

• All Standard-legal free runaway items now work 100% of the time and use Everything Looks Green as a cooldown.
• Hobopolis consumables can now only be used once per day. Sorry. It was just getting out of hand.

January 11, 2024

• In roughly 2 days, the deed to Oliver's Place will be leaving Mr. Store.

January 18, 2024

• The Black and White Apron Enrollment Form, the 2024 Item-of-the-Year, is now available in Mr. Store. Save time shopping and cooking every day! (The unoccupied sheep suit will be say baaa-bye shortly)
• Items that "will become less good after Crimbo is over" have now done so.

February 01, 2024

• February's Item-of-the-Month, in-the-box spring shoes, are available in Mr. Store. Pick up a pair and put some spring in your step!

February 14, 2024

• Where is the spring challenge path? Were is the new challenge path. Transform into a WereProfessor today.

February 29, 2024

• Nothing says March like a packaged Everfull Dart Holster. "What's that," you say? It's March's Item-of-the-Month! Pick one up and throw darts at the butts of all your foes.

March 06, 2024

• KoL's own Jick wrote a book, a choose-your-own-adventure about escaping from a wizard. You can buy it on Amazon dot com.

April 01, 2024

• April's Item-of-the-Month, the boxed Apriling band helmet, is now available in Mr. Store. Join or conduct the band and look cool doing it!

April 30, 2024

• As predicted, May's Item-of-the-Month, the boxed Mayam Calendar is now available in Mr. Store. Yams!

May 14, 2024

• Coming to Valhalla this summer (right now), the latest hit challenge path from the minds behind all the other challenge paths, 11 Things I Hate About U.

May 31, 2024

• The mini kiwi egg, June's Item-of-the-Month, is available in Mr. Store. A super cute little bird for your terrarium!

July 02, 2024

• July is here, and so is the packaged Roman Candelabra. Pick one up, play with the candles, have some fun, try not to lose a finger.

July 25, 2024

• Happy Christmas in July! Why not celebrate with a visit to the Time-Twitching Tower that has reappeared in Seaside Town (and will stick around for about a week).

August 03, 2024

• Rollover tonight will be super long (many hours). We've got some maintenance to take care of, sorry for the late notice!

August 05, 2024

• The Time-Twitching Tower will be fading back into time at rollover. (Probably... who can predict!?)

August 09, 2024

• We released a new podcast episode! Get it on iTunes, or from the direct RSS feed or download the mp3 directly.

August 12, 2024

• You can now sell items in the Mall of Loathing for much higher prices. The max price is now a hundred billion minus one Meat. I'd type it out, but my nine key stops working if it gets bored.
• In addition to the higher Mall price limits, all of the places players can store Meat (their wallets, their closets, etc.) are no longer limited to ~4 billion. They're now limited to a much higher number that I don't know exactly.

August 13, 2024

• There are new raffle prizes. The first prizes aren't new but generally old and will change daily. The small pool of second prizes are new new.
• Candidate for most inside baseball update - Waffles now decrement the gregarious and recalled monster counters and also embezzlers are now marked as uncopiable.

August 14, 2024

• A new challenge path has arrived! Ascend into Avant Garde and adventure in a kingdom of highly protected foes.

August 26, 2024

• Reading is FUNdamental! The bookmobile has just rolled into market square.

August 27, 2024

• Gremlins with tools are now infinitely more likely to use them during each round of combat.

August 31, 2024

• September's Item-of-the-Month is here! Pick up a boxed Sept-Ember Censer, unbox it, and start turning embers into cool stuff!

October 01, 2024

• It's a big day in Mr. Store! October's Item-of-the-Month (spooky bat wings) and a new Clan VIP Item (a non-spooky photo booth) are available now.

October 21, 2024

• Reading the letter from King Ralph XI in the future will now retroactively reward you with HC tattoos for various classes/paths that had issues. (ie. Grey You)

October 22, 2024

• Reading the letter from King Ralph XI in the future will now retroactively reward you with HC tattoos for various classes/paths that had issues. (ie. Grey You)

October 30, 2024

• After the briefest of multi-year delays quantum of familiar now does something.

November 30, 2024

• Good news - Crimbo is coming! Check out the advent calendar in your campground. Bad news - the Item-of-the-Month will be delayed a day or two.

December 03, 2024

• December's Item-of-the-Month, the Sealed TakerSpace letter of Marque, is now available in Mr. Store!

December 14, 2024

• Crimbo... town? has arisen from the mists.

December 31, 2024

• Pick up the McHugeLarge deluxe ski set from Mr. Store, January's Item-of-the-Month, and hit the slopes in style. You could be wearing up to 5 pieces of fancy gear!

See Also

• Kingdom of Loathing Calendar

External Links

• KoL Old Announcements
• KoL Trivial Updates

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