Tap Simulator REBORN Updates & Patch Notes
Every update, patch and milestone from the developers, newest first. Summarised in plain English from the official Discord and Roblox events.
Official event · live now
UPDATE 1 · ??? + Island + 🎃
Oct 17, 2026, 18:00 UTC
Official teaser: “Spooooooky, and pretty hot? Someone trade free pet pls!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!”
See the event on RobloxUpdate 1: trading, Halloween Part 1 and the Volcano island
- Trading is here: swap pets with other players, up to 12 pets per trade. (Listed in the in-game update log; the Discord notes left it out.)
- A Halloween island opens with a new currency, Candy Corn.
- Trick-or-treat at houses for candy and potions — some houses trick you instead, and one rare secret pet can come from them.
- The Hallow Lord boss appears every hour; tap it down for rewards and a chance at its pet.
- The Candy Witch hands out daily quests. A Halloween shop sells the Blood Moon dial, totems, incubators, fruits and more for candy.
- There is no Halloween egg: 3 Halloween secrets can be hatched from any island egg instead.
- During a Blood Moon, Halloween secrets are 2.5× more likely and a new Bloodmoon mutation can appear.
- New Ghost mutation: 1 in 100 hatches, ×1.5 power. A Halloween fusion pool adds the Haunted mutation.
- Nevermore is sold in the shop in limited stock. The Halloween island has its own spooky menu theme.
- The Volcano island comes after the Shadow Realm, with two new eggs (Volcanic and Draconic) and new pets and secrets, two of them animated.
- Two more rebirth buttons: +6.1B and +30.5B.
- New codes: SPOOKY and BOO!.
From Tap Simulator team · source
Roblox server issues at launch
- Some players got "Error launching restart" when Update 1 went live. It was a Roblox server problem — rejoining fixes it.
From Dob (developer)
Week 1 leaderboard winners
- The developers congratulated the first weekly leaderboard winners.
From Zood (developer)
Weekly leaderboard rewards
- Online winners receive their reward pets about 3–5 minutes after the weekly leaderboard closes.
- If the backend read fails, that week is retried on the next refresh.
From Dob (developer)
21,000 players online
- The developers thanked players for reaching 21,000 concurrent players.
From Dob (developer)
Server migration before Update 1
- Servers migrated in preparation for leaderboard rewards and the upcoming update.
- Auto Rejoin should be more reliable, with less network load when joining.
- Hatching runs better on lower-end devices.
- Leaderboards refresh more often before rewards are handed out, so your shown rank is as accurate as possible.
From Developers
13,000 players online
- 13,019 concurrent players across 2,733 servers: 6,382 on computer, 4,482 on phone, 1,349 on tablet and 806 on console.
From Dob (developer)
Country and Friends leaderboard tabs
- Every leaderboard is getting Country and Friends tabs next to Global.
From Zood (developer)
10,000 players online
- 10,187 concurrent players: 5,066 computer, 3,308 phone, 1,148 tablet, 664 console.
From Zood (developer)
Update 1 announced
- A Roblox event for "Update 1" was published with the teaser "??? + Island + 🎃" — a new island and Halloween content, plus one hidden feature.
- The event description jokes about trading ("Someone trade free pet pls"), hinting that trading may arrive with it.
From Dob (developer) · source
Godly hatch rebalance
- The developers are rebalancing godly hatches.
From Zood (developer)
Exclusive eggs fix
- A bug that stopped some players opening exclusive eggs is fixed in new servers. If it still happens, join a new server or an empty private server.
From Dob (developer)
Island machines
- The machines on each island are now shown in new servers.
From Dob (developer)
Big quality-of-life patch
- 11 more secret pets got their own hatch cutscene — rewatch them in the Pet Index.
- Craft All added to the Golden Machine (unlocks at Goldens Mastery 4).
- 1-in-500K secrets are now announced only in your server; 1-in-1M and rarer still announce globally.
- Quests now go all the way to Shadow Realm, with much bigger gem rewards.
- Your Pet Power rank shows in chat at any rank.
- Hold-to-tap on mobile is faster: 4 → 6 clicks per second.
- Coins, Gems and Rebirths are back in the bottom-left on mobile, with bigger side buttons.
- New Auto graphics mode, better phone performance and faster joining.
- Fixed: luck showing +0% for some players, Auto Open turning off while AFK, freezing after joining, and falling through the floor on join.
From Dob (developer)
Shutdown with fixes
- Servers restarted to ship a batch of fixes.
From Dob (developer)
Secret pet deletion safety
- Auto-deleting secret pets now asks for confirmation, and any secret pets that were selected for auto-delete were cleared.
From Dob (developer)
Secret rebalance and island portals
- Percentage-based secret pets were rebalanced to include base tap power.
- Portals to the next island were added on every island.
- Everyone now starts with one double jump.
- Leaderboards now count secret % pets.
- Top 2,500 players get a chat tag in new servers.
- A creator code for Gravy was added to the shop (a creator code supports a content creator — it is not a reward code).
From Zood (developer)
Launch-day fixes
- The developers patched launch-day bugs within hours.
From Zood (developer)
Full release
- Tap Simulator REBORN left early access and fully released. Players who joined during the countdown received rewards.
From Cursor Makers
Release date announced
- The sequel to Tap Simulator was announced for release on Friday, October 9 (US time).
From Dob (developer)
Early access opens
- The game was created on Roblox and opened in early access.
From Cursor Makers
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Source: Official Tap Simulator Discord (#announcements, #dev-patches) and Roblox events · Checked · High confidence