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Masquerade 2026!

Who is ready to dance?

Things are a little different this year. Before we get to the details, just know that the Masquerade will last until July 15.

Dance Floor

On the ballroom floor, you will notice some changes!

💃 The dance rooms are back on the Masquerade Forums! Join a dance room where you can step onto the floor and the Auto Dancing Machine will pair you with another dancer every few minutes. Each pairing will earn you 2-5 trinkets (lounge or steelworks) with up to 80 per day across ALL dancing booths. You will always have a partner, whether it is another user or one of the gossips!

💃 You can only be in 3 dance rooms at a time.

💃 At the bottom of the page, you'll see active Masquerade achievements to help you keep track of things! There are a few new achievements for you to work towards.

💃 Don't forget, you can also use the Mystery Dance feature!

Foods and Drinks!

🍸 You'll see a 'Sidelines' section below the floor where you can bring a Libertine Lounge food or drink to various NPCs. They will cycle out throughout the holiday. There are a few NPCs that will not accept drinks and at least one that will not accept food.

🍸 Why should I feed or provide drinks to NPCs? You will be rewarded for your help! Instead of new items to the Steamworks Menagerie, we've added the small pool of items to the various NPCs on the floor. If you provide 3 items to an NPC, you will get to pick your prize out of that NPC's pool.

🍸 This is an excellent year to catch up on past Steamworks Menagerie and Libertine Lounge items. There are 17 years worth of items, after all!

Olivette's Shop

To dance on the floor, you will need to be wearing an item with the word 'mask' in the name.

🎭 Olivette is in the ballroom this year building masks instead of opening Migrating Masks. She has a higher chance to create a new mask for you but you could potentially get an old mask too! These older masks include masks that once restocked in the Holiday Shop, like the Mardi Gras Face Mask, or from other holidays like the Orange Wreathed Red Rreign Mask. Make sure you CLICK/Select each item when crafting for a mask for the 'craft' button to work.

Note: We've moved everything back to legacy this year (dance rooms were on kumos!), so there may be a bug or two. You can report any you come across here. Thanks everyone!

Note : This is just the first day, there will be more to come! Perhaps a robot or two may challenge you.

🔐 Account Security Update

All accounts on the site have been logged out, and will require logging back in.

We've seen a number of very old (5+ year not logged in) accounts get broken into over the last few weeks and out of extreme caution, I'm are rotating our "primary key" which is used to authenticate accounts on all of our sites.

As always we recommend keeping your password updated yearly and using a password manager (your OS probably comes with one now!) to generate strong passwords, and do not reuse passwords. In most cases, these situations happen because another site is hacked their database is leaked to the "dark web" and folks use the same email/username/passwords in multiple locations. If you feel like someone might have access to your Subeta (or any!) account, change your password right away.

We're always watching out (👁️) and have invested time recently in tools that can "unwind" an account getting hacked and drained. Please make a ticket if you find that you are missing items, or think that your account has been targeted.

You can also check on https://haveibeenpwned.com/, a website to search for your email in large scale hacks on the internet.

Weekend Quests


Quentin is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

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Subeta Update A tidier Toybox

Toys your pet has already played no longer sit in the way as grayed-out cards you can't pick, so the list is shorter and goes straight to what's left. The Toys Played tab still lists everything your pet has played.

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Subeta Update Garden harvest alerts work again

After you harvested a plot and planted something new, the alert stopped resetting, so it went quiet even with the setting on. That is fixed, and every plant already growing in your garden was reset, so you get your alerts back without replanting anything.

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Subeta Update Gardens have shareable links now

Your garden lives at a more shareable subeta.net/garden/yourname, and there is a copy-link button right on the page so you can drop it in a forum post or hand it to a friend. **🔍 Improvement: find a gardener by name from the Pollinator's Hub.** Type a username into the new search box and it tak...

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Subeta Update Shop search stops favoring the oldest shops

The cheapest shops still come first; only the tie between equal prices gets shuffled, so an old shop no longer holds a permanent spot at the top of the list. When more shops share a price than the list can show, which ones make the cut is now random too, so newer shops finally get seen.

New Contest: Fantasy

New contest: Fantasy - 50,000,000sP prize pool, 7 days to enter!

A new Subeta Team contest has started! 🎨

Subeta Team Contest: Fantasy (Week of Apr 5)

Create a fantasy-themed outfit. Design looks for heroes, wizards, or mythical creatures with bold colors, magical accessories, and fantastical elements.

Theme: Fantasy • Prize Pool: 50,000,000sP (split among top 5) • Duration: 7 days • Entry: FREE!

Enter the Contest

Good luck to all participants! 🌟

New Contest: Monochrome

New contest: Monochrome - 10,000,000sP prize pool, 2 days to enter!

A new Subeta Team contest has started! 🎨

Subeta Team Contest: Monochrome (Week of Mar 22)

Design a monochromatic outfit masterpiece. Choose one color family and create a cohesive look using only items in that color range.

Theme: Monochrome • Prize Pool: 10,000,000sP (split among top 5) • Duration: 2 days • Entry: FREE!

Enter the Contest

Good luck to all participants! 🌟

New Contest: Monochrome

New contest: Monochrome - 10,000,000sP prize pool, 2 days to enter!

A new Subeta Team contest has started! 🎨

Subeta Team Contest: Monochrome (Week of Mar 15)

Design a monochromatic outfit masterpiece. Choose one color family and create a cohesive look using only items in that color range.

Theme: Monochrome • Prize Pool: 10,000,000sP (split among top 5) • Duration: 2 days • Entry: FREE!

Enter the Contest

Good luck to all participants! 🌟