Week 2 of the Year of the Super Horse is here with a stable of new challenges and rewards, and a Duos Day mini-celebration packed with hearts, roses, and matching outfits.

If you missed Week 1, that post covers the full event kickoff and patch notes (including quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes):
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/494967350396716585

• Week 2 is live: New Lunar New Year challenges and rewards, plus Duos Day bonus items
  
• New Super Horse breed: Super Pink Pony
  
• New Super Peacock breed: Super Heart Peacock
  
• SAW Shop (Duos Day): New Heart Gun Bundle
  
• Carl’s Cart (Duos Day): Duos Day Suit & Duos Day Dress
  
• Duos Day Rose melee: Earn it by playing Duos before the event ends (Feb 27)
  
• Bonus Duos Day Cards: Print one out for your special Duo

The Super Pink Pony is leading Week 2 with a fresh set of Lunar New Year items to earn. Joining it is the Super Heart Peacock, a bonus Duos Day themed breed. Both breeds are permanent additions to the Research Lab, and all event challenges can be completed until the event ends on Friday, February 27th.

• Lunar Bow | Collect Red Envelopes (1200)
  
• 1500 XP | Ride Emu (Meters) (750)
  
• Peach Hat | Use Throwables (10)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Get Kills With Common Guns (8)
  
• Incense Gravestone | Dance at the Bamboo Stage

• Super Pink Pony (Available in the Research Lab at level 60)
  
• Super Heart Peacock (Available in the Research Lab at level 70)

Duos Day is kicking off alongside the Year of the Super Horse event with a few bonus goodies to pick up before the event ends.


Forget about sending Valentine’s. Send love-filled bullets instead with the new Heart Bundle!

• Heart Magnum
  
• Heart Thomas Gun
  
• Dogna’s Heart Dartfly Gun
  
• Heart Dual Pistols

These items include a special heart effect when fired and will be available in the SAW Shop throughout the event (until Feb 27)!


The Duos Day Suit & Dress introduced in last year’s Duos Day celebrations have been permanently added to Carl’s Cart.

The popular Rose melee is also making its return. Earn it by playing one game of Duos in Super Animal Royale between now and the end of the Year of the Super Horse event on Feb 27.


Four brand-new Duos Day cards for 2026 have been added to our growing collection to print out and send to those special Duos in your life.

Check out the full set and print them out here![www.dropbox.com]

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- Michael, Logan, & the Community team

Hay there, Super Animals: the Year of the Super Horse is here! To kick off the new year, we have three weeks of event challenges and rewards galloping your way.

Alongside the holiday event, we’ve included some targeted bug fixes and quality of life improvements for Super Animal World. Our bigger v2.1 Major Spring Update is still on the way too with major improvements and new features (see our Roadmap for all the details). But first, let’s saddle up and see what’s new for the Lunar New Year!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/637955472778854913

• Year of the Super Horse event (until Feb 27): 3 weeks of challenges, cosmetics, new NPCs, and festive island decorations.
  
• New Super Horse breed each week, starting with the Super Red Hare.
  
• SAW Shop: new Lunar New Year cosmetics, 80’s dance emote and the Stable Boy Bundle.
  
• Victory Island: Guan Yu set is now available for Carl Coins.
  
• Carl’s Cart: legacy Lunar New Year items from past events are back in the Cart.
  
• Quest Balancing: easier pearl hunting while their quests are active, plus multiple quest difficulty/requirement adjustments.
  
• Quality of Life: long-term quest tracking improvements, UI polish, and new animations.
  
• Bug fixes + performance improvements across CPU/memory, UI, and more.
  
• Pasta Twitch Drops run until Feb 27, with 5 cosmetics to earn.

To kick off the Year of the Super Horse, the SAW Lab Labs have created the Super Red Hare, based on the legendary steed of Guan Yu.

While you’re out on the island dodging bullets, Zombie Joes, and bananas, make sure to pick up Red Envelopes to restore a small amount of health and advance your challenges. You’ll also earn some bonus Red Envelopes at the end of each match.

Keep an eye out for seasonal Firework Crates and use them strategically: they explode when hit and drop Red Envelopes too!

In the Social Hub, the SAW Welcome Center fountain has been updated for Lunar New year, with seasonal music featuring instrumentals from Pang Wing Man, who we collaborated with after hearing their amazing cover of the Super Animal Royale theme with Chinese instruments a few years back!

Stop by the event kiosk to meet the new Super Siamese Cat NPC, Miao Nian, and learn more about the Year of the Super Horse. And if you’re visiting the SAW Bamboo Resort, keep an eye out for another new face: the Super Horse, Ma Ji!

• Lunar Aviators | Collect Red Envelopes (1000)
  
• 1500 XP | Break Firework Crates (2)
  
• Lunar Outfit (2026)| Get Kills (12)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Chop Bamboo Bushes (75)
  
• Lunar Umbrella | Land at the SAW Bamboo Resort

• Super Red Hare (Available in the Research Lab at level 60)

The Guan Yu set, previously only obtainable via Twitch Drops, has been added to the Victory Island Shop and its items can be purchased with Carl Coins!

We’ve heard you loud and clear on bringing back more legacy Twitch Drops sets, and we plan to make more of them available again in the future.

We’ve also added sparkling effects to the Golden Tophat and SAR Trophy melee to make them extra fancy!


Ms. Macawsome’s stocked the shop with six new standouts:

• Blue Chinese Outfit
  
• Traditional Chinese Glasses
  
• Hobby Horse melee
  
• Heart Collar
  
• Firecracker Necklace
  
• 80’s Dance Emote

Note: Heart Collar and Firecracker Necklace both use the neck accessory slot.



The Stable Boy Bundle is here, because obviously all these Super Horses aren’t going to groom themselves:

• Stable Boy Outfit
  
• Stable Boy Flatcap
  
• Broom melee
  
• Wheelbarrow Gravestone

All of the Lunar New Year items (including the Stable Boy Bundle) will be available in the SAW Shop for the full duration of the event, until Feb 27!


Legacy Lunar New Year items from past events are back in Carl’s Cart, and 2025’s Year of the Super Snake items are now in the event’s Super Legacy Item track.

Carl’s Cart items:

• Lunar Headband
  
• Lunar Flower
  
• Lunar Paper Umbrella
  
• Bunny Pendant
  
• Lunar Bunny Ears
  
• Water Rabbit Umbrella
  
• White Hanfu
  
• Hanfu Headwear
  
• Lunar Hat 2023

Claim Year of the Super Snake items from 2025 in the event’s Super Legacy Item track:


Before our v2.1 Major Spring Update arrives, we wanted to ship a few targeted improvements alongside this event based on your feedback, mainly around quest difficulty and tracking.

We’ve heard a lot of feedback about how long Gold and Black Pearls can take to obtain for their quests. Higher-tier pearls are still meant to be rare “flex” finds, but having quests for them made the grind feel more like a requirement than a long-term project.

Normal pearl drop rates are unchanged. However, while you have the matching pearl quest active, your first pearl for that quest has boosted odds from Giant Giant Clams:

• Gold Pearl quest: first Gold Pearl is 2x as likely to drop.
  
• Black Pearl quest: first Black Pearl is 4x as likely to drop.

They’ll still be rare, but this should feel more forgiving while you’re actively working on the quests.

For players who already completed them, we’ll be granting an additional 200 Carl Coins for the Gold Pearl quest and 2000 Carl Coins for the Black Pearl quest this week as a little recognition for completing them before this change.

The Purple Pearl quest now also awards 150 Carl Coins (up from 100).

Bonus: our composer Catbaux has released Louie’s version of the Crab Dance on YouTube!

• Several quests are now tagged as "long-term" and won’t appear on the HUD unless you manually track them. They’ll also sit at the bottom of your Side Quests list.
  
• Players working on Bwoking Dead quests that require playing as a Zombie Joe will now be prioritized to start the match as the Red Zombie Joe in The Bwoking Dead (space permitting).

We’ve also made a few difficulty tweaks to smooth out these quests:

• Quest "Emusing Ourselves to Death" now works in any game mode.
  
• Quest "Scout's Honor" changed from 3 to 1 flag capture.
  
• Quest "Insistent Gifting" changed to 1 kill required.
  
• Quest "The Gift That Keeps on Giving" changed to 1 infection.
  
• Quest "The Straight and Sparrow Path" changed to "Course Combat Course", a quest about using any weapon in racing.
  
• Quest "Chonky Tonk" now works in any game mode.
  
• Quest "A Speedy Steed" changed to 5km.
  
• Quest "War Horse" changed to 1 kill and now works in any game mode.
  
• Quest "Eagle Scout" changed to 3 flag captures.
  
• Quest "Zip-line Sting" now allows any type of zip-line.

• Made some animation changes that should improve CPU performance, especially on Switch or lower-end PCs.
  
• Donk has more sound effects now when idling/walking.
  
• Lab Labs now have their own unique animations with clipboards and vials.
  
• Added total animals unlocked count in the Research Lab.
  
• MTN entrance interaction overrides player interaction.
  
• Lowered Shotgun bullet spawn distance by 0.5 SAU (4 pixels) so it matches JAG-7 approximately.
  
• Pearl and other item show off animations now play sound based on rarity, similar to fish & bugs.
  
• Cardinal Bow & Sparrow effects are now visible to spectators.

• Fixed typos in various NPC dialogues, along with updated translations. We’re still actively updating translations.
  
• Fixed and polished several Hamster Ball race track lines.
  
• Improved memory usage on several different screens.
  
• NPC exclamation marks no longer update while off-screen, improving CPU usage.
  
• Fixed a bug where HUD Quest listings would sometimes show Side Quests over Story Quests.
  
• Fixed matchmaking pill briefly showing 0 on the ready timer.
  
• Fixed the position of squad members being too close in the victory photobooth (when it's 4 players).
  
• Fixed 2 crates on the map that were unbreakable.
  
• Fixed a tent roof and loot spot in Murre Woods.
  
• Fixed one of the roofs at Pixile Port.
  
• Fixed a Sea Land jellyfish wall that had z-order issues.
  
• Fixed an issue where opening Rebel Caches while connecting could cause the player to see an unopenable cache.
  
• Removed duplicate English subtitles for on-screen titles, and fixed a couple of broken subtitles.
  
• Fixed the map biome hotkey working while typing in the map screen.
  
• Fixed a bug where users in Australia and New Zealand had BananOS glitched. Sorry mates.
  
• Fixed Gold & Black Dress having wrong sleeve size.
  
• Fixed Cardinal Bow & Sparrow missing sparkle icon on Customize.

For those looking to earn more cosmetics and support Super Animal Royale streamers, you can earn five free cosmetics by linking your Super Animal and Twitch accounts on the SAR Drops website[drops.animalroyale.com] and watching Drops-enabled SAR streamers on Twitch[www.twitch.tv]:

• Pasta Suit
  
• Pasta Dress
  
• Pasta Bow Tie
  
• Pasta Bow
  
• Spaghetti melee

The campaign ends on Friday, February 27th when the Lunar New Year event wraps up. Go get your items before it concludes!

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We hope you all have an amazing time horsing around together in this year's Lunar New Year event. See you on the island, Super Animals!

- Michael, Logan, & the Community team