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Critter CoveNewsThe Outfitters Update
Major update

The Outfitters Update

Critter Cove · published 31 Jul 2026, 09:57 UTC

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Ahoy!


We’re happy to announce the next update for Critter Cove. The Outfitters Update adds some long-standing player requests to make expressing yourself a lot easier, a brand new quest line, a minimap feature,  new clothes, new Critters and more.

You can check out the full patch notes here, and as always, we’d love to see y’all on Discord.

Critter & Fashion Loadouts (AKA Transmog / Vanity Slots)

Dress to impress without losing any stat-boosting items. The new outfit loadout system will allow you to pick two sets of clothing: one for practical use, like scuba masks and flippers, and one purely for style. You can also save five different outfits and easily switch between them.

But in the world of Critter Cove, style goes beyond mere fashion. You can also now easily save and swap your entire appearance via mirrors with just one click. 

And finally, we’ve added a much more complete color picker into the game to help make fine adjustments to your color selections.

Job Covers & Sickness Notifications


You can now set Critters to cover a job, so that if the main employee gets sick, the new worker will take over the next morning and stay until the original worker gets better. No more days where your doctor gets sick and there’s nobody else to help out.

We’ve also added sickness updates to the in-game notification system, which makes it easier to see who is sick and covering every day.

Great Mushroom Questline

The Great Mushroom hasn’t spoken to anyone in a VERY long time, but it seems like now is the moment for them to awaken and waste no time in setting you to work. You can pick up this new quest line from Haystack in Port Bella once you’ve completed the earlier farmer-related quests.

Minimap

You can now turn the game compass into a live minimap, which can also show you quests, Critters–provided that you’ve made bracelets for them–and robots. You can turn this on and off and tweak settings via the camera menu.

New Outfits & 6 New Critters

Introducing: Prism the Unicorn, Odus the Walrus, Tina the Kappa, Fernando the Bull, Ratthew the Rat & Selene the Luna Moth!


Alongside our new line-up, you can also now buy the oil rigging outfit from Riggs. Rain jackets have arrived in the Clothing Store just in time to easily swap over using the new outfit loadouts, and we’ve made some variations on the open jacket that is a bit less ‘chesty’ for those looking for a more modest style.

And More...

We’ve added a ton of quality of life upgrades, but here are some highlights:

  • You can now pull materials for buildings directly from your chests

  • Harvester robots can now do more for you

  • Many controller improvements and fixes

  • Lots of tweaks and fixes to the Create-A-Critter system from last update

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Game update6 Aug 2026Vanity OutFit Fixes Patch 311Added new Option to show only items in the vanity slots OR if a vanity slot is empty allow the normal equipment slot to show instead. So this allows you to always wear some pants/shirt etc outfit while being able to still show hats or whatever in your normal slots. Fix for duplication of clothing items when using vanity slots. Fix for allowing pants or shirt in equipment slots while also having…Game update31 Jul 2026The Outfitters Update Build 309Patch Notes The Great Mushroom Questline : A new multi-part questline featuring the Great Mushroom himself. Job Covers: Critters can now be assigned as backup workers who automatically step in when a shop worker is home sick. Outfit Loadouts: Dress for style without losing your stats! Save full outfits into loadout slots and swap between them right from your inventory. Critter Loadouts : Change…Game update28 May 2026Emergency Patch 349Final fix for the exception bug on new game. This was caused by the new feature in Options called Auto Save Frequency. If this was set to Daily it would cause a new game to fail. Sorry for the issue and the delay in fixing this. Big shout out to Dylus on Discord for tracking this one down.