🔍 Improvement: First-Feeder Head Start! The first person to feed a fresh bubble gets a head-start window — they're the only one who can feed that minion for a few minutes (5 for common, 8 for uncommon, 12 for rare or shiny). Keep feeding to hold your claim; if you stop for 3 minutes it releases back to the public pool. You can hold up to 3 claims at once. Huge thanks for the patient feedback in Trapped Minions Rework feedback.
👑 New Feature: Celesse's Daily Food Crate! Celesse now sells a crate of feed for 500 sP once per day (twice for Gold Accounts) right at the rescue station. Each crate has 8 random low-rarity foods pulled from the community's proven "minions actually eat this" list, weighted toward the foods that tend to get overpriced in player shops. That way feeding the cheaper minions isn't a net loss.
🔍 Improvement: Field Guide Is A Real Guide Now! The Field Guide works like a personal collection — species you've never fed show up as silhouettes with question marks, species you've fed reveal their names and your personal feed count, and species you've rescued get a highlight. A progress counter at the top shows how many species you've met, fed, and rescued out of the full catalogue. Great for spotting which minions you still need for the Unique Species achievement.
🔍 Improvement: Learning Mode Is Visible Now! If a species hasn't been fed enough for the community to know its tastes, reactions are random — but you couldn't tell that was happening, so "my minion loved that food last time, now they dislike it" was baffling. A small banner on the minion detail now says whether you're feeding an unknown species (reactions will be random until 30 community feeds accumulate) or a known one (reactions follow community votes).
🎨 Visual Update: Quieter Rescues. The "top rescuer" on an active bubble now shows a feed count instead of a username, and other players' wins in "Recently Rescued" appear as "someone" instead of a linked profile. Your own wins are still clearly yours. This was a direct request from Synth and gatorgirl — no more coming away with a list of users to avoid because someone else's name popped up next to a minion you wanted.
👑 New Feature: Rescues Show Up In Your Activity Feed! When you win a minion from a popped bubble, it logs to the game event feed — so if you find an unfamiliar minion in your inventory, you can trace it back. Thanks Frost.
🔍 Improvement: Visible Feed Cooldown. After you feed a minion, the food buttons now show a live countdown of the 15-second per-minion cooldown, and the bubble itself gets a little progress bar along the bottom. Angelica asked for this in the thread. You'll also stop accidentally clicking a food item 8 times in a row.
I can't buy both food crates. it keeps saying I've brought the crate for today
maybe try again now thst its been up longer, i was just able to buy two
how do i find Celesse's Daily Food Crate?
I like the improvements but I am still confused about how the mechanics work. So I know this is still being developed but I just feed 37 items of food to the same minion and someone else got it.... This feels like a step backwards. I thought that if you feed the most you have a higher probability of getting it when the bubble pops. Or did I misunderstand that?
Now this game is even more fun. Wonderful response to all the feedback. Thank you.
I hate this, actually. I try checking the field guide, but it doesn't actually tell me what the minion likes eating if I click on it. It just tells me how many times it's been fed/how many known foods it supposedly likes--which doesn't help me one whit to actually feed the minion. Also two minions got sniped from under me when their bubbles were ready to pop because someone else came in while I was still trying to figure out what the dang things even wanted to be fed. I actually miss the old version where the minions straight up asked for specific food and it was first come, first served for the minions ):
these are all such great improvements, thank you!