# IdleOn NEW CLASS - Royal Guardian!

- Product: IdleOn (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/idleon)
- Vendor: Lavaflame2
- Date: 2026-08-25
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1476970/view/672877923725739655
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/idleon/releases/2026-08-25-new-class-royal-guardian

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- **added** — New masterclass Royal Guardian with kingdom expansion gameplay, building outposts across worlds to recruit workers and organize for efficiency
- **added** — 15 new talents for Royal Guardian class
- **added** — Royal Armory with 70 unique upgrades for the Royal Guardian
- **added** — Royal Statues as mega-versions of regular statues with multiplicative bonuses to EXP and Drop Rate
- **added** — Statue Flair feature to boost regular statue gains by collecting marble
- **added** — Orb of Verisimilitude upgraded from Orb of Rememberance, boosted by killing Regal Mobs and drops Lil Orblets
- **added** — Lil' Orblets Shop accessed via Royal Guardian talent for spending Lil' Orblets on permanent bonuses including statue automation
- **added** — New miniboss Verminous Rats found in the Royal Castle
- **added** — New spelunking cavern Exiled Throne with 15 discoveries, 10 Grand Discoveries, and lore bonus from defeating Esquire Morose at Depth 130
- **added** — 15 new spelunking shop upgrades including Manic Mode gameplay mechanic
- **added** — Legendary rarity Dungeon Pants now unlockable
- **added** — New Research Grid
- **added** — 1 new Zenith Market upgrade
- **added** — 4 new Sushi tiers bringing maximum to 63
- **added** — +1 Pet Token for all players on PC, coming to Android and iOS in next update
- **added** — 1 new Alchemy Bubble, the 34th Orange Bubble
- **added** — Pet Raids feature in The Grand Tournament with 3 difficulty levels and chance to win pets
- **added** — Pet Park Themes unlocked by registering for raids
- **added** — Pet Mart+ with 19 upgraded pets on daily rotation of 5 after obtaining all Pet Mart pets
- **changed** — Weekly free pet chance now occurs daily

_Kingdom Expansion - the main gameplay of the Royal Guardian!_

_15 new talents for Royal Guardian - including the new ROYAL ARMORY, the LIL' ORBIES SHOP, and much more!_

_Verminous Rats - a new miniboss found in the Royal Castle!_

_Pet Raids - a PvE experience where you can win free pets!_

**• NEW MASTERCLASS - ROYAL GUARDIAN!**

• Expand the royal kingdom across IdleOn, building Outposts in each world as you recruit workers, traders, milia and other units. It's your job to organize them for max efficiency by deciding collection routes, min-maxing outpost specialty ranks, and continuing expansion until your empire has a foot in each and every map!

• Spend your kingdom's resources on 70 unique upgrades at the Royal Armory! There are a handful of bonuses that affect IdleOn in massive ways outside of your kingdom, but most of them directly boost your abilities as Commander of the King's Legion.

• Unlock and upgrade various ROYAL STATUES! These are mega-versions of regular statues, which each give OP multiplicative bonuses to important stats like EXP and Drop Rate.

• Unlock Statue Flair, and boost your regular statue gains by collecting marble!

• IMPORTANT: Royal Guardian has his own talent pts, and can't use "All talent LV" bonuses nor Super Talents until they are unlocked in the lower shelves of the Royal Armory!

• Turn your Orb of Rememberance into an ORB OF VERISIMILITUDE, which gets super-boosted by killing Regal Mobs and can drop Lil Orblets!

• Lil Orblets shop added, accessed via the Royal Guardian Talent of the same name! Spend your Lil' Orblets dropped by the Orb of Verisimilitude on permanent bonuses, including a way to automate the leveling up of your Statues!

• New Miniboss - Verminous! Find them in large swarms beneath the floor of the Royal Castle, but don't expect to kill many early on...

• New spelunking cavern - Exiled Throne! It's filled with 15 new discoveries to make, 10 new possible Grand Discoveries, and of course a new powerful LORE BONUS by defeating Esquire Morose found on Depth 130!

• 15 new Spelunking Shop upgrades, including the new MANIC MODE spelunking gameplay mechanic!

• Legendary rarity Dungeon Pants are now finally able to be unlocked, after being added to the game... uh... just 57 months ago.

• New Research Grid \

• 1 new Zenith Market upgrade

• 4 new Sushi tiers - the max sushi tier is now 63

**_• Don't tell the non-readers, but I also snuck in +1 PET TOKEN for everyone! Well, currently it only hits accounts on PC, but it will of course come to Android and iOS in the next update! I'll clarify more next update, but simply put everyone who plays IdleOn in the next few weeks will be hooked up fr_**

• The giant doodlefish has 1 more piece of advice for you, so long as you're willing to pay

• 1 new Alchemy Bubble, that being the 34th Orange Bubble

• New feature - PET RAIDS

**• Raids added to The Grand Tournament! Every day, your team will face off against a preset raid -- not against other players! Whenever you win, you have a chance to win a pet... or even MULTIPLE pets!**

• Raids have 3 difficulties - Beginner, Veteran, and Nightmare - but must be unlocked one-by-one.

• Participating in a raid for the first time will reward you with a Tournament Background, yours to keep forever! You can change which background you use via the "Rewards" button in the top-left of the lobby, same place you get your Season Rewards.

• The top of EACH Raid Leaderboard (which are based on the number of pets you had left alive after a successful raid) will be awarded with a BIG CHARACTER - the same one that the Major Champion & Gold Division Winner receive! This increases the total number of big characters awarded each season from 2 -> 5!

• Registering for a raid for the first time awards with that raid's PET PARK THEME! You can change which theme you're using from within the "rewards" section of the Tournament... you know, the button in the top-left. This affects both the Pet Park itself, as wel

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