Hey everyone! Its the beginning of a new year, and we’re back for a dev log for January 14, 2026!

We hope you all had a great end of the year and we wish everyone the best for the new year!

2025 was a big year for PixelTail, and we’re really looking forward to what’s in store in 2026!

We’ll be working on our two ongoing projects this year: Tower Unite & Elevator!

Since the last dev log, we wrapped up the second half of the Winter Holidays update and have continued working on Optimizations, Items, Cooking, Accelerate SDK, and more!

For 2026, we’re going to continue working through our post-1.0 Roadmap as well as deliver the usual QoL updates and fixes for Tower Unite!

We’ve wrapped up some substantial work on Plaza Optimizations since the last update!

We’ve made updates to how the Boardwalk renders, some improvements for users on low post processing settings, improved anti-aliasing performance and optimized night lighting.

We also fixed a massive performance issue with dynamic lights, and improved performance, render distances, etc. for numerous misc. lights throughout the Plaza, among other improvements!

You can check out the list of optimizations on our Trello[trello.com]!

The “Cooking Mode” System was completed! Players will be able to toggle cooking mode on, select the items they wish to cook, and throw them into cookers (like the blender)!

Work was also completed on the cooking processor logic (for recipes), and the cooking actions system with heat, blend, freeze, prepare, grill, and boil as the options!

Fixes were made to the Grenade Launcher’s sticky grenade as well as the “The Big Finale” achievement! We also made some light tweaks to existing SDNL milestone items for QoL purposes.

More super weapons such as the Grenade Launcher, Rocket Launcher, and Chaingun were added to Kalarry’s Warez!

The “Track Spline” for the Accelerate Map Editor has been completed. This spline will allow players to place down track pieces easily when making their own Accelerate maps.

Lots of work was done on fixing material regressions for various items, as well as some texture fixes, collision issues, coloring issues, seating and emote issues, and NPC / Camera issues.

We also have a batch of new items such as the Accessory Pedestal and Physics Pool tube which allow players to display owned accessory items in their Condos as items! Another addition is the Text Ticker Item, which is an alternative of the Theater Ticker item.

And, finally, we have the Laundry items, made for Elevator, which will be items in Tower Unite! These include the Commercial Laundry Washer, Laundry Detergent, Laundry Whitening Powder, Laundry Dryer Sheets, and Bleach.

We’ve had the Elevator kickstarter ongoing since December 16th, 2025, and we have raised over $70,000! We are so appreciative for the support.

THANK YOU to everyone who has played the demo, left a review, supported the Kickstarter, or just spread the word about Elevator. We can’t do what we do without you all, so thank you!

There’s about 24 hours left in the campaign, so if you wanna spread the love and get some fun goodies, pre-order the game & get access to closed betas, please consider supporting!!

We’ll keep you guys up to date on some Elevator news in the Dev Logs going forward. Elevator development images and progress will be shared behind-the-scenes with the backers.

That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one!

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