# Brotato New Dawn Update is Available Now! - Product: Brotato (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/brotato) - Vendor: Blobfish - Date: 2025-10-27 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1942280/view/505091568004235625 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/brotato/releases/2025-10-27-new-dawn-update-is-available-now What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add 6 new items: Fresh Meat, Fruit Basket, Candy Bag, Ghost Outfit, Will-o'-the-wisp, and Hourglass - **added** — Add 1 new weapon: Vorpal Sword - **added** — Add ban system allowing players to ban up to 8 items per run after unlocking it by winning on Danger 3 or higher - **added** — Add save profile system with 3 available save slots, allowing copying progress between profiles and resetting saves - **added** — Add Codex feature consolidating Progress menu and information about Items, Weapons, and Enemies with statistics - **added** — Add icons displaying stats on character and item descriptions for improved readability - **added** — Add Mac and Linux support on Steam - **added** — Add animation for beginning and end of run - **added** — Add color customization options in the Accessibility menu - **changed** — Merge Chest and LvUp icons when gaining more than 4 during a wave - **changed** — Improve curse and flames VFX to better distinguish them visually - **changed** — Add ability to distinguish cursed turrets from regular turrets visually - **added** — Add option to disable effect icons in the Accessibility menu ##### Hello everyone! After 2 weeks on the beta branch, the **New Dawn Update is going live**! Thanks to everyone who played our first beta session of the game. And a big thank you to the ones who took the time to share feedback. We’ve read all of it (yes, even that one), and we’ve learned a lot. You’ve somehow managed to lift us up and humble us at the same time — which is a strange combo, but we kind of love it. Now the update’s out, so if we did things right, there’ll be more lifting. And if not, we are ready to be humbled. PSA: We are sorry about this, but if you had started a run in the previous version then you will need to abandon that run, as the game will crash if you resume it. You may be able to finish it by reverting to the legacy branch. To do this go to the Steam Library page for Brotato, click on the cog/settings image on the right-hand side then Properties > Betas > legacy branch. Then you can come back to the new version once you've finished your run. Here's a TLDR of the content, for full details keep reading: - 6 new items and 1 new weapon - Ban system - Save profiles - Codex - Icons in character and item descriptions - VFX, animation and accessibility tweaks Behind this title — which might be a bit too presumptuous for its own good — New Dawn actually packs quite a lot of new stuff. We aimed for a solid **quality-of-life update**, plus a few extra features we felt you wanted. The beta helped us hunt down a ton of bugs and fine-tune a few new items that… let’s just say weren’t quite ready for prime time. If you're more a visual learner, we've put everything in a VLOG for you: Otherwise, read on for the list of new features: ##### **6 New items and 1 new weapon** Even though our focus was QoL, we still wanted this update to have a little bit of meat on it, so we added 6 items and 1 weapon. One item (fresh meat) is already unlocked. The others must be unlocked with an in-game achievement. Here is the list of the items with their challenge: To unlock each item: - Fresh Meat: No unlock needed - Fruit Basket: Collect 100 fruits while at maximum health. - Candy Bag: Win a run without locking any items in the shop. - Ghost Outfit: Reach +70% Dodge. - Will-o'-the-wisp: Kill 30 enemies by burning them in a single wave. - Hourglass: During the last 5 seconds of a wave after wave 2, press 'Return to Main Menu'. Then press 'Resume' to try the wave again. Next up is the new weapon: Vorpal Sword unlock: Reach +100% Crit Chance. Have fun with those and let us know what you think! Now let's move on to the new extras... ##### **Ban system ** This is something that we’ve seen wanted by many, so we are introducing a ban system to Brotato! You can now ban up to 8 items in the shop during your run. **To unlock the ban system, you have to win a run in Danger 3 or more.** **Once unlocked, the ban system can be toggled on or off in the Run Options.** We believe banning items is the way to go and that 8 bans per run is the sweet spot we’re looking for. The ban system was heavily discussed in the beta, but we are still looking forward to knowing what you think about that. Brotato was always made with trials and errors, and we want to keep it like that, a game constructed in collaboration with its community! ##### **Save profile system ** You can now have 3 saves in Brotato. You can copy your progress onto another profile or reset the save. You can also unlock every item, characters, weapons and Danger level on a save (which will deactivate the earning of achievements, you’ll still have to get them the hard way). This allows you to have a fresh save and keep your old one, copy your ongoing profile to go endless while starting a run 20 on another profile, lend Brotato to your annoying sibling with different track progression, etc. Possibilities are endless (and by endless we mean within the bound of 3 profile slots)! ##### ** Codex ** The Codex gathers the Progress menu and information’s about _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1942280/view/505091568004235625]_