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.

See Also

• Kingdom of Loathing Calendar

External Links

• KoL Old Announcements
• KoL Trivial Updates

History of Loathing	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025