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Kiln — patch notes and updates

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Kiln 2.0.2 Hotfix - Oct 15, 20262026-10-15Kiln 2.0.2 Hotfix - Oct 15, 2026(Appears as 1.253.686 in game) Hello claymates! We have a small fix for you this hotfix, but one that we have seen you all reporting so we wanted to make sure it got into your hands before our next patch. The fix is:Fixed the level 50 achievement (Supreme Grandmaster) not always unlockingWe are continuing to track your reports, so if you're experiencing any issues, please do keep reporting via support@doublefine.com with your device information and any screenshots/details you can provide. That's it for this hotfix and thanks everyone for your patience while we keep working to improve Kiln!
NEW Decorations: Frightful Fall Decoration Pack!2026-10-09'Tis the season, claymates! The spooky season that is -- it's time to put together the perfect pumpkin pot, a beautiful bat pot, or even create a haunted Victorian pot?! The limits are your creativity (or your fear tolerance), so go forth and create some seasonal horrors!Download the pack for free now:And don't forget to share your pots! We love seeing your creations and can't wait to see what you'll create with this pack!
Kiln 2.0.1 Hotfix - Sept 6, 20262026-09-07Kiln 2.0.1 Hotfix - Sept 6, 2026(Appears as v1.246.799 in game) Thank you to everyone who has tried out our recent Bisque update! We’re so excited that it’s finally in your hands, and seeing your Daily Throw creations has been amazing for the whole team to see. As with any major update like this, we’re tracking any issues that have cropped up, so please do keep reporting via support@doublefine.com with your device and any screenshots/details you can provide. To start, the team has put together a hotfix – for anyone who’s unfamiliar, hotfixes are smaller, more targeted updates to fix more pressing issues that you all might be facing! In this c
Bisque Update Notes - September 2, 20262026-09-02(Appears as v1.246.297 in game)Hello and welcome one and all to the biggest Kiln updates to date! Thank you all so much for your patience and support in the last several weeks as Double Fine regained its indie-pendence! None of that meant we stopped working on Kiln though – and we can’t wait to share this exciting update with you all! Be sure to check out our blog post for a deeper run down of the new features, but without further ado: The Bisque Update.As always, let’s recap some of the top highlights: A BRAND NEW creative mode: The Daily Throw 🎨Weekly Quests to earn extra Chips‼️Moving to Player-Hosted Matches⚠️Custom Games with up to 8-Pl
Kiln 1.6.0 Update - July 30, 20262026-07-30(Appears as 1.242.707 in game) Welcome to a small, but important update for Kiln! The team at Double Fine is taking some time to regroup, but wanted to make sure this change got to you as soon as possible – Check out the full note below! ✨ What’s New ✨Added safeguards to avoid loss of save data – this will not restore a save that has been lost, but should prevent any future save data loss. If you continue to experience this, please write into support@doublefine.com and we will take a closer look!This issue was a high priority for us and warranted an update all its own, but we will let you know more news about Kiln as soon as we’re able to.Of
Kiln 1.5.0 Update - July 2, 20262026-07-02(Appears as 1.239.643 in game)Welcome to a new update for Kiln! Even more updates, new additions, and fixes– and continued work behind-the-scenes on more fun for you all! 🙂A quick look at the top highlights: A handy dandy new self destruct button 💣💥 (in case you find yourself stuck)More bot adjustments 🦾A variety of fixes to VFX, SFX, and more!Check out the full notes below!✨ What’s New ✨We’ve added an option to shatter your pot during a match if you’re stuck or need a swap – self-destruct with caution!⬆️Updated⬆️Improved performance and stabilityVarious combat and bot changes, including:Fixed an issue where bots would get stuck jumpingAd
New Decor: Pride Decoration Pack2026-06-19Let's celebrate Pride through pottery! Celebrate your authentic self, or support the LGBTQIA+ community as an ally by repping pots with these joyful toppers, glazes, and stickers~ 🏳️‍🌈The Kiln Pride Decoration Pack includes eighteen new, colorful decorations for your pots, including nine new stickers, two new flag toppers, and seven striped glazes to show your pride through your lovely pot creations!You can find it FREE to download here:Try out this colorful new set now, and be sure to tag @doublefine in all of your new creations so we can appreciate your amazing work!
Kiln 1.4.0 Update - June 16, 20262026-06-16(Appears as 1.237.762 in game)Welcome to a new set of patch notes for Kiln! We have some adds, some fixes, some updates – and some more cool decorations coming out this week so stay tuned! A quick look at the top highlights: More room for pots!!! (Increased pot collection size from 48 to 72)Various improvements to bots – let us know how they fight!Various combat tuning changes to pot archetypes ⚔️ Check out the full notes below! ✨ What’s New ✨Increased pot collection size from 48 to 72! That’s two whole new pages 🤩General prep for new decorations ⭐ ⬆️Updated⬆️General stability improvementsGeneral performance improvementsVarious bot improveme
Kiln 1.3.0 Update - June 03, 20262026-06-03(Appears as 1.236.608 in game)A new update has landed into the fray! This update includes some improvements, some bug fixes, and some prep for our bigger Summer update, Mission Criti-Bowl from our launch roadmap. We are also working on an updated roadmap for you all, so stay tuned for that! Your top highlights for this update: There’s sorting in the shop now! 🎉You can filter things based on locked/purchased, theme, and glazes by typeWe’ve made adjustments to the idle timer in Quench to help address running into idle players in matches. We know it’s not a permanent solution and are still investigating ways to continue to improve this!Fixed an
NEW Kiln Pack: Cats & Dogs Decoration Pack!2026-05-21Things are getting hairy in Kiln this week... 🐱🐶We have already been thoroughly impressed by your creations of pet pots in Kiln-- And all before the Cats & Dogs Decoration Pack was even in the game?! It's time to unlock your full potential with our brand new, free pack!The Kiln Cats & Dogs Decoration Pack includes both Cat & Dog based accessories, with ten new attachments for both cat and dog lovers, four new pet-patterned glazes, and fourteen new stickers to expand your in-game customization options. See the full friendly pack below 👇And find the pack on Steam here (did we mention it's free?): Try out the new set now, and be sure to fill
Kiln 1.2.0 Update - May 20, 20262026-05-20(Appears as 1.235.035 in game) Welcome to a glossy new set of update notes from the Kiln team! This update is focused on various fixes and improvements, so that’s what you’ll find in the notes today, however we’re continuing to work on more for our upcoming Roadmap– please keep your feedback coming for what you’d like to see added to Kiln! Your top highlights for this update: Improvements to performance, stability and UI!Improvements to matchmaking 👯A fix to make sure Potty gives you Chips at max level 🫖 Check out the full notes below!⬆️Updated⬆️General UI improvementsGeneral stability improvementsImproved matchmaking times, especially for
New Decor: Stickers of the Gods Sticker Pack2026-05-14The Stickers of the Gods Sticker Pack features six god-tier new stickers based on the first six available maps in Kiln! That includes new stickers for Athena, Anubis, Dionysus, Hades, Hermes, and Set.Decorate your newest clay creations with an icon from Athena's War Room! Perhaps you'll add the menacing visage of Anubis, a very heavy metal Cerberus, or some rock show decor to your pots. If you're more of a lover and not a fighter, the dancing figures on the walls of Dionysus' Boogie Lounge and the envelope-winged Pegasus from Hermes' Package Center might be more fitting options.You can find the pack here:Try out the new decorations now, and b
New Map: Hades’ Pawn Shop!2026-05-07It's heating up in the Kiln with an all new map: Hades’ Pawn Shop! For a limited time, matches on Hades are more likely, so try out our new map now and be careful where you step! On this map you'll find everything that Hades hordes, including all manner of tchotchkes and knick-knacks, but also... SO MUCH LAVA. Here's how you can make the best of it:JUMP! There are plenty of raised platforms for you to take advantage of, so hop onto them to avoid the ebb and flow of the lava. Water is your best friend: Not only does it help you put out the enemy Kiln, but it also allows you to create temporary platforms on the lava to save your poor spirit's f
Kiln 1.1.0 Update - May 06, 20262026-05-06(Appears as 1.233.912 in game) A new update is fresh out of the Kiln for you all! We have some fun adds, some improvements, some fixes– and we’re hard at work on the rest of our Roadmap, so look forward to more soon!A quick look at the top highlights: Data added for new Quench map, Hades, ready for when it unlocks on 5/7 (Thursday!) at 10AM PSTYou can now resize Stickers to be smaller There’s now a higher chance that a Party will end up in the same lobby after a matchImprovements to animations, bots, performance stability, and UI! Check out the full notes below! ✨ What’s New ✨You can now scale Stickers to be smaller – let your creativity run
NEW Kiln Pack Unlocked: Dino Decoration Pack!2026-05-01Thank you all for such an amazing launch week from everyone here on the Kiln team! We're diving into your feedback, getting to work on some fixes, and super excited to keep adding to Kiln with you all ❤️And we HAVE LOVED YOUR POTS. Your creativity is next level and we're impressed every time we see something we've never seen before -- keep them coming! To help you create even more beautiful creations, we have some more decoration options available for you all starting NOW... Welcome to... Jurassic -- I mean, the Kiln Dino Decoration Pack! This pack includes a pre-historically cool new set of pot decoration accessories, including five new atta
Kiln 1.0.1 Hotfix - Apr 26, 20262026-04-26Kiln 1.0.1 Hotfix - Apr 26, 2026(Appears as 1.233.229 in game)Thank you to everyone who has joined us for the first few days of Kiln! It has been an amazing journey for the team and we’ve loved seeing all of your pot creations (please keep them coming)! The team is also carefully tracking all of your reports and feedback and we are happy to share with you our first Kiln hotfix – for anyone who’s unfamiliar, hotfixes are smaller, more targeted updates to fix more pressing issues that you all might be facing! In this case, we have heard your reports and have two main fixes for you below:Fixed an issue where players could become invulnerable aft
Kiln is available NOW!2026-04-23The wait is officially over: Kiln is HERE! Our multiplayer online pottery party brawler is live and ready for you to sculpt, splash, and smash your way to victory! As you get ready to roll (and splash) (and smash) (and sculpt), let's make sure you're starting on the right foot...Tips & Tricks: Becoming the Best Pot You Can BeIf you're wondering how to conquer the Kilns, become a wheel master, or just wondering what kind of tips and tricks we could even have for a professional like yourself, check out our starting tips & tricks on our site here. ICYMI: Kiln's Spring 2026 RoadmapYesterday we posted about our Spring 2026 roadmap for Kiln, and we
HOT OUT OF THE KILN: Kiln's Launch Trailer2026-04-20⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ The KILN launch trailer may cause uncontrollable levels of HYPE!Just THREE DAYS until Kiln leaps out of our hands and into yours— so if you aren't already, it's time to watch it and get fired up for the throwdown:Don't forget to pre-order Kiln now for the Warrior-Artist decoration pre-order bonus:
Thank you for trying out Kiln! ❤️2026-04-13We saw some crackpot pottery, some smashing moves, and un-bowl-lievable metas emerging from this open beta! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend, and a reminder to take a few minutes to fill out the Open Beta survey. Every response helps us improve Kiln!And if you enjoyed Kiln, don’t forget that you still have a little over a week to pre-order– check out the full details of the pre-order bonus on our blog here. And if you’re still debating editions, you can find the pricing and edition details here or on our Steam page: Again, sincere thanks from all at team Double Fine and see you in the Wedge on April 23, 2026!
🎉 Bonus day for Kiln Beta!2026-04-12NEW DAY UNLOCKED: Bonus Day for the Open Beta Throw Down!Thanks so much to everyone who has hopped into Kiln’s Open Beta Throw Down over the last few days – we’ve seen wacky pots, cute pots, even some incredible recreations of real life animals?! We are having so much fun, we ARE EXTENDING THE OPEN BETA FOR ONE MORE DAY (or about 17 more hours)! The Open Beta Throw Down has been extended to this SUNDAY, April 12 at 5PM PDT (12 AM GMT)! If you haven’t had a chance to throw down yet, head to our Steam Page: While there, click “Join the Playtest” (and invite up to three of your friends to join you) and you should be automatically added to the Be
Kiln's Open Beta and Pre-Orders are LIVE!2026-04-09The OPEN BETA THROW DOWN IS HERE!It's TIME, claymates: The Kiln Open Beta Throwdown is happening right now on Steam! We're so excited to welcome you to the Wedge from April 9 through April 11, where you'll be able to get a taste of Kiln before it launches on April 23.All you have to do is open our Steam page, click "Join the Playtest," and you're in! It's that simple. We need all the players we can get to hop in, try the game out, give us valuable and constructive feedback, and stress test our servers, so get your wheels spinning!And... PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE!If you do try it out and love it, you can also preorder Kiln starting today. You'll get
The Kiln Open Beta is THIS WEEK!📣2026-04-06Get ready to leap into the flames of battle, claymates!This THURSDAY, April 9, starting at 10AM PDT (5:00 PM GMT), to this SATURDAY, April 11 11:59PM PDT (7:59 AM GMT) the Kiln servers are heating back up for our Open Beta Throwdown! Whether you’re a Kiln pro (shoutout to our Action Insiders ❤️) or ready to get your hands on some virtual clay for the first time, run, don’t walk to our Steam page: While there, click “Join the Playtest” (and invite up to three of your friends to join you), to make sure that you’re automatically added to the Beta once it starts 👇For those who participated in our Closed Beta: you aren’t automatically added to th
Launch Date, Editions, Open Beta, and More!2026-03-18Hello Claymates! Today, we're super excited to bring you some Kiln news-- and important for you all on Steam, our upcoming Steam Open Beta! Kiln's Open Beta ThrowdownOpen Beta signs ups are now available here: And the best part? You can also invite your friends to join you-- send invites to up to three friends to party up for Kiln's Open Beta Throwdown! It will take place over three days, Thursday April 9 to Saturday April 11, and will be exclusive to Steam. You'll get a cool in-game Participation Trophy for playing! If you haven't seen the trophy pot, check our latest News post:Now onto some Important News... Launch!Our online multiplayer po
Don't Forget: Sign Up For the Kiln Closed Beta Now!2026-03-13Hello Claymates!We're finally in the month of the Closed Beta, and we want to remind you to sign up before it's too late! We also wanted to let you know about a sweet little bonus you can earn from participating... Exclusive Beta Bonus: Closed Beta Participation TrophyThat's right -- get your very own participation trophy pot for joining us in the Closed Beta! It's particularly shiny and fancy if we do say so ourselves. So don't forget to Sign Up Now! ICYMI: Kiln at Day of the DevsKiln was among some great company this past Sunday at Day of the Devs in San Francisco! The game was playable and we saw some wild and wacky pots from players of al
ICYMI: Kiln in IGN Fan Fest 20262026-02-28This week the Kiln team was excited to participate in IGN's Fan Fest, and we decided it was a great opportunity to start introducing you to the maps you'll be battling on in Kiln!Our first map tour is of Athena's War Room, a beautiful but deadly space where two kilns stand side-by-side. Your crew of ceramic warriors will have to throwdown, cross Athena's tactical map, fill up your pot to the brim with water, and then return to the enemy's kiln room and douse away! Find more details in the full video below:We hope it gets you fired up and excited to play! Speaking of playing... make sure you've signed up for the Kiln Beta Testing Program!We ca
Dev Direct & the Making Of2026-02-03Hello Claymates! We're so excited to have you join us on the road to Kiln! So much so, that we want to bring you content from our newsletter, Double Fine Action News (if you're already subscribed, this may seem familiar).ICYMI: Xbox Dev DirectWe announced this very game, Kiln, during the most recent Xbox Developer Direct!In it, you learned all about our brand new game Kiln, an online, multiplayer pottery party brawler. It's a game that celebrates both creation AND destruction: you'll spend time sculpting and decorating pots that are as unique as you are... and then you'll wear those pots as armor, head into battle, and smash the enemy (or be
Announcing our new game, KILN!2026-01-26Hello Claymates! As you might have seen, last week we announced Kiln as part of Xbox's Developer Direct. KILN celebrates both Creativity and Destruction -- the pleasure that comes from making beautiful things and then smashing those beautiful things to smithereens! Check out the trailer for Kiln below:Help the team sculpt the game before it launches this Spring by signing up for our upcoming closed beta test, and joining the Double Fine Action Insiders.Don't want to miss a moment of pot mayhem? Be sure to wishlist on Steam now: KILN hits Steam in 2026 (yup, this year). We can't wait to see you make and break your way to victory. We'll see you