Update 29.1 is the 2025 Christmas update, released on December 25. It combines a winter event and a major gameplay novelty: the 
Empyrean mutation for 
Kitsune. Elves appear throughout the world and drop 
Candy, which can be spent with the returning Christmas NPCs and, as a new feature, to spin the free gacha.
How to get it
Released on December 25, 2025.
New Features
- New
Blox Fruit mutation: Empyrean Kitsune
Winter Event
- Winter Holiday Event.
- Elves appear throughout the world: defeat them to collect Candy.
- Candy can be spent with the returning Christmas NPCs.
- New feature: Candy can also be used to spin the free gacha (Free to Play Gacha).
Event Rewards
Free Gacha
- Fruits
- 2 profile backgrounds
- 3 accessories
- A chance to get a skinned fruit from the Chase Reward Tier
Winter 2025 Fruit Box- Pulls from the Chase Reward Tier
- Available in the in-game shop
Skins
New
- Ember Dragon
- Divine Portal
- Galaxy Empyrean Kitsune
- Crimson Empyrean Kitsune
Returning
- Green Lightning
- Torment Pain
- Glacier Eagle
- Celebration Bomb
Mobile Improvements
- Fixed buttons overlapping with Classic Controls.
- Fixed
Flash Step cooldown not always appearing in the interface.
Miscellaneous
- Various bug fixes.
Fixes and Balance Changes After Release
December 26, 2025
- As announced shortly after release, the Candy drop rates on enemies were broken: this has been fixed.
Dungeons now give Candy on the completion screen.- The free pull cost has been reduced to 100 Candy.
- Fixed the Galaxy skin colors on Empyrean (Kitsune).
January 1, 2026
Fish descriptions are back.- Equipping an item no longer closes the inventory.
- Fixed inventory scaling on large screens.
- Fixed
Elite Hunter text. - Fixed Kitsune's M1 hitbox in Dungeons.
- Fixed Dragon's M1 slash projectile (base and hybrid), which had no visual effect.
- Fixed transformed Empyrean's Z move, with added endlag.
- Improved inventory management on console.
- Improvements to fruit abilities and item stats.
- Fixed Control Domain color issues, for example the V remaining purple when it missed.
- Control Domain now recolors the beams and cubes again when switching from purple or blue.
- Empyrean now has dash animations for its transformation.
- Fixed Empyrean's rig height, which finally touches the ground at rest and while moving.
- Transformed Empyrean's C Tap is new: it's a recolored version of transformed Kitsune's C.
- Empyrean's cinematic moves to the held C.
- The hitbox of Empyrean's C cinematic is increased.
Updates