This is the Holoearth Management Team.

We performed an update to Holoearth on August 15th, 2024.

Update Contents

Alternative City

■Transportation Items Implemented
Players can ride around Alternative City on electric scooters by interacting with any of the scooter stations located around the city.
To ride a scooter, approach it and press the F key.

■City Scenery Updated
Aspects of the Alternative City scenery were updated.

New Avatar Items

A total of 42 new sporty, summer-inspired items were added to the current lineup in the ALTERMODE shop.

New Customization Options

New avatar customization options were added to the salon and clinic in ALT BEAUTYS, including hair, eyes, and eyebrows.

■New Avatar Customization Editor Options
It is now possible to add gradation to not just an avatar’s base hair color, but also its hair accent color. 

■Group Unlock Feature
When confirming changes to avatar customization, players can now unlock groups of locked customization options at once instead of one at a time.

New Area: “My Space”

A new area, “My Space,” has been added.
This is a safe area with no monsters, where players can can gather, craft items, and enjoy building freely.
My Space offers a lighter survival experience than the Simulation Room, with greater gathering and observation datapoint acquisition rates, and reduced stamina, thirst, and hunger drain.
(Items will not be shared between Simulation Room and My Space.)

Shop Updates

■Daily Free Pack Added
A daily free pack of 20x HoloCoin (regular) is now available in the shop.
The daily free pack will be replenished each day at 4:00 (JST).

■Notifications Added
When new shop items are available there will be a notification badge displayed on the item thumbnails.
When there is a new product with a notification badge, the badge will also be displayed for the category for that product.

■Fashion Item Search
There is now a search feature in the shop.
(Please note, since the display names are currently in Japanese for the time being, search at this time will not reflect in English.)

Other Updates

■User Profiles Added
A user profile feature was added.
In the user profile, players can change the avatar background, display badges they have earned in Holoearth, and set their profile picture to any chat stickers they have.
Players can also set their online status and visibility.
The user profile can be accessed and edited via the shortcuts menu (H key).

The “Badge” feature will allow players to display badge items that were previously obtainable via the minigame during the “Protolive #2 ~Yamato Phantasia~” event.
The “Favorites” feature will become available in a future update.

■Friends List Feature Added
Players can now add other users as friends and check their online status and user profiles.

To add friends, players can access the shortcuts menu (H), select “Friends,” and search for another user via username or user ID. Or, players can add friends via the “Send friend request” button on their user profile.
Additionally, players can enter mouse mode (^) and right click another user or their messages in chat and send a request via the menu that appears.

■Changes to Usernames
Users can no longer have usernames containing only spaces.
For such users, their user IDs will replace their usernames.　
New username rules are as follows:
・Username cannot begin or end with a space.
・Username cannot include consecutive spaces.
・It is possible to add a single space between characters.

■Changes to Moving Between Areas
・”Simulation Room” was added to the list of areas that can be accessed directly.
・Players can move to areas by interacting with Mithra.
・The area selection UI was updated.
・”Entrance Hall” received a visual update.

■Changes to Avatar Controls
When moving the camera while holding the right mouse button, the avatar will now face the same direction as the camera.

■Minor Changes and Fixes

Please see this article for details on the ver. 0.9.0 update.