The Holidays 2020 Event has started!
The Snowies are BACK! (featuring the Event Shop)
After skipping Holidays 2019, Snowies are back in Tycoon Island! Obtain snowies from researching and collecting safes, and exchange them for cool, new exclusive Holidays items, Tycoon Bux, or Mystery Bags!
To celebrate the occasion, we’ve also decorated the island by a bit! And we’ve also added a new code: Holidays2020. Redeem it for 1,000 Tycoon Bux!
'Tis the time for gift-giving
Five new gifts have been added to Ore Tycoon 2! Two are obtained for fulfilling a certain requirement, while the other three can be obtained by exchanging Snowies. All of them will be opening on December 25, 2020 to reveal the awesome goodies inside.
- Tasty Gift of Holiday Treats
- Frosty Gift of the Snowies
- Wondrous Gift of Auroral Lights
- PlantStudios Christmas Present 2020 (unobtainable past December 31, 2020)
- Starry Box of Wishes
Good luck!
Time for customization!
The ability to equip and unequip mine skins is now here! You can now choose which item skins you want to use, and which to keep in your closet forever, never to see the light of day again.
No need to rejoin anymore after obtaining an item skin—you can now equip it by yourself from the Inventory anytime, anywhere!
All event mines that used to be on top of the Armory are now item skins. Please check your inventory to see which mine will be replaced by the new item skins!
Science items are also considered as skins. Prefer a different design? Feel free to unequip your science item skin—the buff will still apply! Science skins will also be automatically equipped if you do not have any skin applied for the item, and automatically unequipped if you reset your levels.
Go now and mix and match your item skins! Some may even change your ore’s appearances 
New and improved bundles!
Bundles can now be equipped and unequipped, just like item skins and accessories! You will now also spawn wearing the bundle that you equipped. Hooray!
Proximity Actions now in your proximity!
Console and mobile players rejoice—Proximity Actions are now LIVE for you! Activating excavators no longer require intensive camera-centering and fatigue, as just going near the excavators and pressing the Y button will now activate them. The same is also true for armor, boosts, helmets, owner doors, weapons, and the Mechanical Upgrader!
New Holiday Mythicals!
Three new Mythicals and one new xMythical have arrived just in time for the Holidays 2020! Check them out one-by-one below 
Heart of Winter xMythical
Amid the unending gray, the Heart of Winter lays still, calm and immovable as the rocks that protect it from the violent blizzards are. May it bless those who pass with joy as pure as the white snow that gently falls around it.
Skin for the Cosmic Towers (Floor 4, Level 4).
Glacial Guardian Mythical
The guardian of the Northern Glaciers harnesses the power of the bitter, northern cold to make those who dare trespass the glaciers cower.
+HP: 50
Glacial Greataxe Mythical
A greataxe forged for the Glacial Guardian, powerful enough to cleave through most materials. Only the Glacial Guardian can harness whatever powerful energy lies within.
Slash: 18 DMG
Lunge: 34 DMG
Reduces walkspeed by 4. The bitter cold deals greater damage to burning enemies, dealing 35% more damage.
If the user is wearing the Glacial Guardian armor, hits have a 50% chance of freezing an enemy for 4 seconds. This effect can only occur once every 20 seconds. Enemies with hot items are immune to the freezing effect.
Santa’s Steamer Mythical
Can you smell what Santa’s cooking? Mmmm, smells like amazing Christmas presents!
Skin for the Industrial Refiner.
Other Additions
- New and returning items have arrived the Catalog and the Mystery Bags!
- New and returning Mystery Bag items:
- [NEW] Legendary: Shockingly Rad Red Gift (Item Skin)
- [NEW] Legendary: Candy cane-sword (Gear)
- Legendary: Snowy Gravity Coil (Gear)
- [NEW] Rare: Candy cane particle
- [NEW] Rare: Snowflake particle
- [NEW] Rare: Poinsettia particle
- Rare: Winter Greatsword (Gear)
- Rare: Holidays Box (Particle)
- Rare: Holidays Box (Trail)
- Uncommon: Snowies (Particle)
- Uncommon: Snowies (Trail)
- New and returning Catalog items:
- [NEW] Christmas Ornament-inator (Item skin)
- [NEW] Frosty (Chat Tag)
- [NEW] Red Festive (Chat Tag)
- [NEW] Green Festive (Chat Tag)
- Snowman Sword (Gear)
- Tree of Festivities (Particle)
- Tree of Festivities (Trail)
- Snowball (Gear)
- Candycane Bow (Gear)
- New and returning Mystery Bag items:
- Added ROCKET JUMPING! Woo!
- Jump and point your rocket to the ground at the correct time to rocket jump! Be warned: you WILL take damage.
- From nothing came the H Mine.
Changes & Improvements
- The Niobium, Obsidian, Poudretteite, Darkmatter, Polonium, and Cosmos mines have been refreshed with improved models!
- Items in inventory categories with subcategories are now distinguished with icons on bottom-left (Ex. Trails and Particles can now be easily distinguished by the bottom-left icon)
- Added descriptions and thumbnails for items missing those
- Underground Expansion teleporter, Tycoon Tele-Orb, and Tycoon Bag now have the island expansion’s black circle transition
- Menu shortcut text will now be hidden if you are not using a keyboard
- Backpack, leaderboard, and chat are now hidden for Tablet players when the shop / settings / research screen is on
- Lowered click range for most clickable items
- Game will no longer tell you that something is required to advance to the next expansion if you are too underleveled to unlock the said expansion
- Ore Worth Filter will no longer be reset after researching if it is off
- Equip button will now become Unequip button 3 seconds after equipping (and vice-versa, if you’re still on the same item)
- Purchase button will now also become an Equip button after 3 seconds of purchasing
- Optimized code
- Wearing bundles no longer unequips armor
- Please do note that unequipping bundles will unequip armor
- Added (Item) at end of “Ask for help from the Second Rescue Helicopter” research requirement to reduce confusion
Balances
- Tweaked Tycoon Tele-Orb, Tycoon Bag timings
- Increased Heavy Malachite Cooldown from 0.2s → 0.4s
- Nerfed Snowy Gravity Coil
- Boost changes
- Renamed Speedy Boost into Speedy Shoes
- Renamed Portable Healing Station boost into Regeneration Station boost
- Speedy Shoes balanced from +26 SPD, -85 HP to +12 SPD, -55 HP
- Bunny Boost balanced from -85 HP, +12 SPD, +80 JMP to -85 HP, +6 SPD, +40 JMP
- Unstable Machine (2018 Gift Item) nerfed from 100% SPD boost, 100% JMP boost to 10-50% SPD Boost, 10-50% JMP Boost. The two boosts can have different multipliers. Damage taken for using the unstable machine changed from [0 - (HP - 1)] to 30 - 99% of Max HP (Guaranteed at least 1 HP)
- Dev Note: The previous stats of the boosts were fine-tuned for the huge Holidays 2019 map that was in-game for late-2019 and early-2020. We forgot to retune it to match the current map that is much smaller and has less verticality than the previous one. We apologize for this oversight. The new stats still effectively boost your map navigation and PvP strategies while not being too overpowered in terms of the former.
- Snowman Sword nerfed from +10 SPD to +3 SPD
- Nerfed Sword from Slash 10 DMG Lunge 20 DMG to Slash 8 DMG Lunge 18 DMG
- Winter Greatsword buffed from Slash 20DMG Lunge 30DMG to Slash 22DMG Lunge 38DMG
- Nerfed Greatsword from Slash 40 DMG Lunge 68 DMG to Slash 18 DMG Lunge 28 DMG
- Reduced price of Greatsword from 10,000 Tycoon Bux to 2,500 Tycoon Bux
- Dev Note: The Greatsword had unintentionally high damage stats when it was supposed to be a common, affordable item with better stats than the common sword for new players. We apologize for the error. All players who owned this item before the update have been refunded 7,500 Tycoon Bux.
Fixes
- Fixed an immortality / instant full heal exploit by equipping and unequipping accessories and bundles with HP stats
- Fixed an issue where items awarded upon joining do not appear in inventory
- Fixed rockets and bullets freezing in place permanently if the player dies before the projectiles hit anything.
- Fixed issue where equipping bundles removes particles / trails
- Fixed issue where if you teleport too fast on boat/island teleporter, the black circle disappears
- Fixed button shortcut key text being inaccurate for non-QWERTY keyboards
- Fixed shortcut label on screen menu buttons showing on edges
- Fixed “Gating laser gun” typo for Gatling laser gun button
- Reduced Unstable Machine (2018 gift item)'s particles because it also made my machine unstable
- Fixed an issue where Research Screen icons have weird / wrong sizes when window size changes
- Fixed Helicopter drop and Ceramic Pot drop floating mid-air
- Fixed 50M Chat Badge having bad thumbnail quality
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed Bloxikin Bag for players that equipped it before it became a non-equippable item
- Inventory will no longer completely break if server encounters errors with equipping
- Fixed Solar Savior armor parts being blown off when in radius of an explosion
- Fixed 50M Mechanical Upgrader having an invisible, solid part on conveyor
Removals
- Removed 50M Neon Party items. (The Neon chat tag is here to stay!)
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