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ploinkNewsBall limit update
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Ball limit update

ploink · published 16 Mar 2026, 07:35 UTC

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A ball limit is being introduced to encourage people to drop their balls more often since they would usually just drop one ball at a time and stockpile them.

I wasn't happy with Bacteriophage, it was a really weird peg but also very easy to abuse with no way of balancing it without changing it entirely, so it's been changed entirely... Sort of. The new bread peg is essentially just reworked Bacteriophage but it's ability didn't really fit the theme so it was also rethemed.

The Sun retheme might seem random but it's something that's been bothering me for a while. The original design for Sun was to give all pegs on the board score but that wasn't really possible so it shifted into instantly giving score when a peg is hit. This basically made no sense for the ability, yet the theme stayed. I've been wanting to change it into something more fitting but couldn't think of anything. Thankfully I didn't have to cause someone on the discord suggested a good change. I love the ear change because it brings it in line with all the other organ pegs like heart and eye.

The next update is gonna focus on a major rework to bosses.... eyes emoji...

GAME CHANGES

  • You can no longer gain balls from the ball shelf if you have too many balls

  • Reduced initial ball count

  • Sun

    • Re-themed into Ear, functions the same (credit to Hwang)

  • Bacteriophage

    • Removed and replaced with Bread

BALANCE CHANGES

  • Pollen Ball

    • Mini Pollen Balls now turn into full Pollen Balls only after beating a level

  • Star

    • Reduced chance of transforming

    • Increased price

    • Cannot turn into platinum pegs

  • Clock

    • Increased score ramp up

  • Button

    • Removed score on hit

    • Changed secret ability

  • Alternate Universe

    • Increased price

  • TSAR BOMBA

    • Moved to platinum

    • Increased price

    • Increased multiplier

  • Virtual Pet

    • Increased price

  • Ore

    • Decreased hits needed to activate

    • Decreased score

  • Flower

    • No longer copies score from other flowers

    • Now sets its score to current level when obtained

    • Changed secret ability

  • Bee \\ Potion \\ Brick

    • Now destroyed when disabled

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed UI being flipped for some players

  • Fixed a crash related to the Alternate Universe

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