COCO COVE IS HALF WATER NOW The little green and gold planet has a shallow sea across half of it — shin deep, with the sand visible the whole way out, so you run through it rather than around it. There is a small island out in the middle of the open water, with a beach and a green top. JACKFRUIT GIANT HAS BEEN REBUILT One ice cap instead of two. The sea has swung south to take the whole of the far side of the planet, with the volcano standing out of it as a real island — brown rock, its own shore, water the whole way round. The volcano is a gentler climb than it was. The JUICY TRAIL sign sits on a long low ridge now instead of a steep cone, and the hill is wide enough to read the whole word off from the ground below it. THE PYRAMIDS ARE WORTH CLIMBING Running up one used to fight you: the base threw you almost straight up, the face changed angle underfoot, and on the temples with stairways the worst jolt of all was in the middle of the stairs — the one line everybody runs. All of that is smoothed out, on every pyramid in the game. The summits are domes you can run over, and the corners and ridges where two faces meet have a curve on them. The pyramids themselves look exactly as they did; this is the ground under your feet, not the stone. MOKO THROWS NEARLY TWICE AS FAR The banana lands about twenty paces ahead instead of eleven — far enough to put it in front of someone chasing you. It spends longer in the air on the way, so you can watch it go, and so can whoever it is heading for. YOU CAN HEAR OTHER ANIMALS NOW A power going off within about ten paces of you can be heard, from the side it happened on. That is further than you can see on most worlds, which is the point of it: the throw you most need to know about is the one behind you. YOUR ROOM SURVIVES YOU SENDING THE CODE Open a room, leave the game to send the code to a friend, come back — and the room was gone, with nothing said and the buttons doing nothing. The room now waits for you, the code you already sent still works, and the game puts you back in it by itself. Friends waiting in it stay where they are. JOINING BY CODE TELLS YOU WHAT HAPPENED Typing a friend's code could leave you on the same page with an empty box, as though nothing had happened. What you typed stays put now, and if the room cannot be joined it says why.

MANGOSTEEN HOLLOW — A NEW WORLD, UNDERGROUND A flooded cave. The floor is glowing water you run on, and where the sky should be there is a rock ceiling with stalactites hanging off it. Four shafts of daylight break through the roof on one side, each falling on its own little island; behind you the roof comes down low and dark and the ground breaks up into rubble. Four climbable stone temples stand on a shoal in the middle. JACKFRUIT GIANT — THREE PYRAMIDS YOU CAN CLIMB The pyramid in the desert has company. Three of them now, in a row, and all three are solid — you can run up the sides and along the top instead of past them. PAPAYAN MAYAN — AN ECLIPSE, AND A J IN THE LAVA There is an eclipsed sun in the night sky now, a black disc inside a ring of fire. And the lava in the middle of the plaza has been laid out as a giant letter J, which is the game's own initial, drawn in the one thing on the map that can kill you. ROOM FOR EIGHT, AND TWELVE ON THE RING Coco Cove, Winter Melon, Monsoon Prune and Pink Guava are all twice the ground they were, and all four now hold eight players instead of four. Dragonfruit Donut takes TWELVE — it is a ring, so there is more track on it than anything else in the game. Mango Volcano is resting for now. ROOM CODES YOU CAN ACTUALLY SAY Codes come out easy first. AAAA, then BBBB, then codes using two letters. One sound and one key instead of four unrelated letters read across a room. SMOOTHER ONLINE, AND A CRASH FIXED Other players move every frame now rather than every other one — the same motion, spread out instead of arriving in bursts. A friend joining your private game partway through is sent the trails already on the ground, so they stop seeing animals swerve around nothing. And quitting right after winning a round no longer ends the match for everybody else.

TIDIER PYRAMIDS The corners of Papayan Mayan's pyramids had a flat panel standing up out of the plaza beside them, like a wall with nothing behind it. The stone meets the ground cleanly on all four sides now. A BIGGER LOOK BEFORE YOU PLAY The planet and the animal are shown full size on the online menu, the same as on the play-vs-bots page, instead of shrunk into a pair of thumbnails.

NEW PLANET: PAPAYAN MAYAN. A night world of stepped pyramids and tiki fire. Lava pours down one staircase of each pyramid at a time, so there is always a way up and always a wrong one. The panda's power is now TUMBLE: he somersaults through the fruit and throws it clear of his path, instead of leaving a piece where he was about to run. A large SPECTATING tells you when you are out. The tutorial is shorter, and Mango Volcano's lava runs properly.

THE PANDA'S POWER IS NOW TUMBLE He somersaults through the fruit instead of shoving past it, and the fruit is thrown clear of where he is going rather than being tidied into it. The old version could leave a piece sitting directly in his path and kill him with it a second after the power ran out — that cannot happen now. It also fixes a worse version of the same thing online: fruit that had visibly been knocked aside could still kill you as you went through it. The fruit you can see is now the fruit that can hurt you. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE OUT A large SPECTATING appears the moment you are eliminated, and disappears for the scores at the end of the round. People kept asking whether they were still in the game. Now the game says so. THE TUTORIAL IS SHORTER AND CLEARER One line per step instead of two, bigger, and up at the top of the screen where nothing else is competing with it. A thumb shows each gesture down where your own thumb goes — sliding to steer, and pressing the buttons it is telling you about. It also says what you are trying to DO. "Never touch the fruit" is how you lose; "survive the longest to win" is the other half, and it was missing. MANGO VOLCANO LOOKS LIKE A VOLCANO The lava rivers run in continuous ribbons instead of breaking into patches, and the lava in each crater sits in it rather than floating above the mountain.

The animals have voices, there is a planet twice the size of any other, and eight of you can play on it. SOUND • Every animal makes its own noise when it uses its power. Real recordings — the tiger and the bird sound for as long as you hold it down; the monkey, frog and seal call out once as they go. • It no longer stops your music. The game plays over whatever you already had on. • Everything the game used to play has gone: the beeps, the stings and the synthesised splats. The six animals are what you hear now. JACKFRUIT GIANT • A new planet, and the one you start on: snow at both poles, a desert, grassland, and an ocean across the middle with a volcano standing in it that erupts. • A red cabin with a sleigh and nine reindeer at the north pole, frozen lakes at the south, a pyramid out in the sand, and a sign on a mountain. • Snow falls over the ice caps and nowhere else. • EIGHT PLAYERS, here only — every other planet still plays four. Private rooms hold eight too. IT RUNS PROPERLY NOW • A long-standing stutter is gone. It was the audio engine, awake and working every moment of every match whether or not anything was making a noise. • Sideways layouts fit on the screen. ONLINE • Names float over the other players, so you can tell who is who while you are running. • Change your name from inside a room, without leaving it and losing the code. • QUICK MATCH gives you a new game. It could drop you back into the one you had just walked out of, several rounds in. THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES • The tutorial asks your name first, teaches the three controls, shows you what a trail does to somebody — and lets you try all six powers before you play. • The characters go by their animals: MONKEY, TIGER, BIRD, FROG, SEAL, PANDA. • Flick up to jump works on a fresh install. It had been failing on the very first run and nowhere else. SMALLER THINGS • The panda's Barge lasts half again as long and comes back twice as often. • The frog and the seal no longer flicker between the ground and the air mid-jump, and the tiger settles out of a sprint instead of snapping. • The monkey's banana leaves his hands rather than his feet. • Sprinkles on the Dragonfruit Donut.

The animals have voices, there is a planet twice the size of any other, and eight of you can play on it. SOUND • Every animal now makes its own noise when it uses its power. Real recordings — the tiger and the bird sound for as long as you hold it down, the monkey, frog and seal bark once as they go. • Everything else the game used to play has gone. The beeps, the stings and the synthesised splats are not missed, and the six animals are what you hear now. JACKFRUIT GIANT • A new planet, and the biggest by a long way: snow at both poles, a desert, grassland, and an ocean across the middle with a volcano standing in it that erupts. • There is a red cabin with a sleigh and nine reindeer at the north pole, frozen lakes you can skate at the south, a pyramid out in the sand, and a sign on a mountain. • EIGHT PLAYERS, here only. Every other planet still plays four. Rooms hold eight too, so a private game on Jackfruit Giant seats everybody. ONLINE • Names float over the other players, so you can tell who is who while you are running. • You can change your name from inside a room now, without leaving it and losing the code. THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES • The tutorial asks your name first, then teaches the three controls, then shows you what a trail does to somebody — and ends by letting you try all six powers before you play. • The characters go by their animals: MONKEY, TIGER, BIRD, FROG, SEAL, PANDA. • Flick up to jump works on a fresh install. It had been failing on the very first run and nowhere else. AND IT RUNS PROPERLY • A long-standing stutter is gone. It was the audio engine, awake and working every moment of every match whether or not anything was making a noise. • Sideways layouts fit on the screen.

Jump twice as often, and trust it when you do. JUMPING • The wait between jumps is a third of what it was. A jump is something you reach for now, not something you ration. • And it does not lie any more. If you are drawn above the fruit, you are over it — there was a gap between looking clear and being clear, and it is gone. TWO THINGS THAT COULD COST YOU A WHOLE MATCH • Your SECOND game in a sitting works. Finish one, go back, start another, and you could find yourself unable to move for the entire match. • Opening the menu while waiting in a room no longer leaves you unable to steer once the match begins. EASIER TO READ • AVOID STEPPING ON FRUIT is big enough to actually read on the way into a round. • The scoreboard in the corner is a purple berry instead of a grey box. • Winning a match now looks like winning one. • Monsoon Prune's waves rise to sharp peaks with whitewater breaking along them.

A new planet, a sea that actually moves, new fruit on four animals, and bots that stop building walls. A NEW PLANET • PINK GUAVA. A pink world with a pale sand beach, a blue sea over a third of it, and beach umbrellas, towels and surfboards along the shore. On the far side, across the water, there is a little town: a street with pink houses down both sides and pink cars parked on it. Bright midday sun, which no other planet has. • Pineapple Peaks has left the rotation to make room for it. THE GROUND MOVES • Blueberry Deep is now MONSOON PRUNE. The water swells and rolls underneath you, with foam running along the crests, and everything standing on it rides the swell. The silver platforms are gone — it is open ocean the whole way round now. • Dragonfruit Dream is now DRAGONFRUIT DONUT, with white icing across the top. • Mango Volcano's cones are finally the same colour as the planet they stand on. NEW FRUIT • Tango leaves halved coconuts and Bao leaves lychees — both new. • Dozer takes the watermelon. • Kazoo's blueberry is a blue raspberry, which looks like a berry instead of a hexagon. BOTS THAT DO NOT BUILD WALLS • They cross your trail instead of running alongside it, so the arena stops filling up with corridors. • They look much further ahead, so they stop winding themselves into smaller and smaller circles. • They can see when they are sealing themselves in, and they hop trails rather than following them. SMOOTHER • Trails are far cheaper to draw. Watching somebody else after you have been knocked out used to run at about ten frames a second; it does not now. • Flick up to jump at half the distance it used to ask for. ONLINE FIXES • A player leaving no longer makes everyone else invincible, and no longer leaves their animal standing in the middle of the arena. • REMATCH starts the game when the last person presses it, and stops pretending to work when the connection has already gone. • Your animal's power is your animal's power. Tango threw bananas, Bao's shove could not be seen by anybody but Bao, and Dozer's launch had gone missing entirely. • The pause menu shows the room you are actually in. ALSO • Pick a different animal from the results screen, before the rematch. • The two ways into an online game are on screen in landscape instead of below the fold. • One row per player on the scoreboard, not two. • The tutorial ends by telling you what the game actually is, with the real animals and the real fruit they leave.

Smarter opponents. The bots have been rebuilt. They cross your trail instead of running alongside it, so the planet fills with gaps to dive through rather than walls you can't jump. They hop trails, they roam instead of winding into circles, and they're measurably better players. Dragonfruit Donut. The old Dragonfruit Dream is now a proper donut, with white icing across the top. Pick a new character between matches. Change who you play as on the results screen, before the rematch — online or against bots — with the animal shown as you choose it. Fixes. Jumping responds to a much smaller flick. A player leaving no longer freezes the round for everyone else. Dozer's belly flop looks right. Scoreboards, menus and results now show each animal's face instead of an emoji, and the layout no longer breaks sideways or on a wide screen.