History of Loathing (2023)

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

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

January 03, 2023

• January's Item-of-the-Month, the Rock Garden Guide, is now available in Mr Store. Rock on, you crazy gardeners!
• Visit Mr. Store to pick up the unoccupied sheep suit, a helpful familiar for gaining stats, finding items, and making neat stuff out of wool! It'll be available for all of 2023.
• The Cyrpt bosses now only account for the last 13 units of evil, so they take a little longer to show up.

January 04, 2023

• The monster resulting from improper use of the [glitch season reward name] is now limited to providing 1,111 stats from combat.

January 09, 2023

• Hark! Crimbo Town will once again fade into the mists at rollover on Wednesday night.

January 20, 2023

• The 8-Bit Realm has gotten a bit of a facelift, including a new acquisition method for the digital key.

January 30, 2023

• Adventure absorption from monsters in the Grey You challenge path has been limited to 500 per day, to squash some degenerate path-dropping farming behavior.
• You (your character) can now only enter the astral gash (ascend) once per in-game day (between two rollovers).

February 01, 2023

• The Nuclear Autumn path can no longer be dropped in the first three days of a run.

February 02, 2023

• February's Item-of-the-Month, the S.I.T. Course Voucher, is now available in Mr. Store. Your chance to learn about bugs, rocks, and plants from a prestigious university.

February 13, 2023

• Astute observers may have noticed the emergence of certain shadowy rifts in various Kingdom locales.

February 16, 2023

• A new challenge path! Play as one of the classes from Shadows Over Loathing.

February 26, 2023

• Due to various plague-related logistical challenges, we're gonna need a few extra days to get March's Item-of-the-Month out the door.

March 06, 2023

• March's Item-of-the-Month, the closed-circuit phone system, is finally in Mr. Store! Install one today!

March 14, 2023

• Bosses you fight for Rufus will no longer consume an Adventure.

April 07, 2023

• April's Item-of-the-Month, the cursed monkey's paw, is available in Mr. Store and has been for a few days now!

April 19, 2023

• Shadows Over Loathing is now available on the Nintendo Switch eShop!

May 01, 2023

• There are now messages in the charpane if your character has one of the things that forces the next adventure to be a noncombat.

May 02, 2023

• May's Item-of-the-Month, the shrink-wrapped Cincho de Mayo, is now available in Mr. Store. It's a party on your hips!

May 14, 2023

• The shadow rifts have faded into the... darker shadows?
• The latest challenge path, Legacy of Loathing, is now available.

May 31, 2023

• June's Item-of-the-Month, the shrink-wrapped 2002 Mr. Store Catalog, is now available in Mr. Store. Storeception.

June 01, 2023

• The sot will now give you a new place to go iif your current place becomes inaccessible.

June 22, 2023

• Due to frequent requests over the past two decades, a name change form is now available in Mr. Store for one Mr. Accessory.

June 27, 2023

• The fiberglass foil no longer works in skid row. And dinosaur modifiers no longer apply. For, you know, reasons.

June 30, 2023

• July's Item-of-the-Month, the sleeping patriotic eagle, is now available in Mr. Store. Pick one up and start pledging allegiance to some areas of the Kingdom.

July 13, 2023

• An old friend has rolled into Market Square. Take a look.

July 31, 2023

• August's Item-of-the-Month, the august scepter, is now available in Mr. Store. Pick one up and celebrate lions and thriftshops and beaches, oh my! Also 28 other cool things.

August 14, 2023

• A new challenge path has appeared - A Shrunken Adventurer am I!

August 17, 2023

• Five existing monsters have a brand new item that they drop. Yay!

August 31, 2023

• The book of facts, September's Item-of-the-Month, is now in Mr. Store. Pick one up and learn all the things!

September 05, 2023

• CDMoyer apologizes, but the double-sided tape and cognac he accidentally included in the book of facts random item selection are no longer avaialable.

September 12, 2023

• Getting older, squinting at chat? Check out the new chat size options on the account page.
• You may now only equip one ceramic celsiturometer and one ceramic cerecloth belt at a time. More than that is really a fashion faux pas!

September 19, 2023

• Are the august scepter skills too much awesome for you to handle? Click the handy dandy [disable] link to hide those skills until you click [enable]! Fun wow!

September 30, 2023

• October's Item-of-the-Month, the Dark Jill-of-All-Trades, is now available in Mr. Store. Looks like Halloween has come early this year! Trick or treat!

October 16, 2023

• The Shore, Inc. Gift Shop is now a thing you click on, rather than a thing you choose from a menu in the zone.

October 31, 2023

• A Guide to Burning Leaves, November's Item-of-the-Month, is now available in Mr. Store. Pick one up, start a fire, get some cool stuff.

November 27, 2023

• The Time-Twitching Tower has materialized in Seaside Town! (The Time-Twitcher's Almanac suggests that it will stay around for a week.)

November 30, 2023

• You're not going to believe this, but Crimbo Season is upon us. Check out your campground for your very own Advent Calendar.
• December's Item-of-the-Month, the wrapped candy cane sword cane, is now available in Mr. Store. Pepperminty!

December 05, 2023

• The gear made from the hobo-in-sheep's-clothing wool has been made a lot more powerful. Nothing particularly speed relevant, just some nicer quality-of-life stuff.

December 14, 2023

• Would it be Crimbo Season if Crimbo Town didn't appear in the Big Mountains with some sort of trouble brewing? It would not. Go make some Crimbo trouble!

December 15, 2023

• Pirate and Elf war leaderboards have been added to the login page.

December 16, 2023

• Fixed "Elf Warfare" and "Pirate Warfare" being wired up backwards. Elf Warfare should make you better at killing pirates and vice versa. Sorry about that. Internal wires crossed.
• The sleaze damage mechanic in the Bar at War has been made more equitable. Fairer. It now hits everybody once per combat at the beginning. Try to keep it clean in there.

December 26, 2023

• KoL's staff recorded a Q&A podcast earlier this month. You can listen here!

December 31, 2023

• January's Item-of-the-Month, the baby chest mimic, is available in Mr. Store. Pick one up and start collecting mimic eggs!

See Also

• Kingdom of Loathing Calendar

External Links

• KoL Old Announcements
• KoL Trivial Updates

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