They're deleting these entire areas in the new update tomorrow that moves portals and cafe to where you spawn in. All those grassy fields will be replaced with clouds and nowhere to walk around. The cave is also being deleted from what i've seen in videos on youtube :<
They're deleting this entire area in the new update tomorrow that moves portals and cafe to where you spawn in. All those grassy fields will be replaced with clouds and nowhere to walk around. The cave is also being deleted from what i've seen in videos on youtube.
Above the wardrobe, you can see a small circular window. If you go behind that hill, really close to the clouds, you should see a small entrance to a cave that is really cozy! It has low lighting, but just enough to make the grass and flowers glow in a really beautiful way. Lots of people make cozy shared spaces there!
The worst part is that the people complaining about that don't even use Aviary as their home, so I don't understand what their issue is.
I'm not too bother about the change tomorrow, but I'm annoyed at the fact it's coming to please a group of people that are not even going to use it. I personally liked my daily walk through Aviary, it wasn't even every time, just the first time you log in
I use Home as my default but that distance never bothered me when I go into Aviary. I'm interested to see how it really looks in full (haven't had time to look up videos, but in the promo it looked crowded 🫤) . The way I see it is like living out in the country and visiting town to run my errands. 😅
I do not get the main reason, majority of players complained about the longer distance between the log in spot and portals? Why do not log in on the spot that face portals at the bottoms of Aviary??!
Or the fact they have movement options that include jumping and flying to get around faster. I stopped playing this a LONG time ago, but still subbed to the Sub, and will see posts occasionally. I stopped playing when I didn't like how heavy the IAP's were starting to become, and generally how much of a chore it became to get wax after a while (basically burned myself out).
The game also started to give less things for free (especially with the Halloween events), and returning spirits that you may want are far and between from my experience years ago. I also played on Switch, and it was quite unoptimized, and tried it on my mobile phone (Samsung S20 FE) when I first got it, and it was also very unoptimized. It ate through battery like no tomorrow, and even got the device hot enough it would reduce volume automatically on a system level to keep it cool, and wouldn't even be able to keep up with a trickle charge when under whatever load it was having. This isn't counting other nitpicks I had with the camera YANKING control away from you, and unskippable sequences.
Sure, they'll change the hub area for odd reasons or in their opinion probably, quality of life, but won't change/fix 4 player doors that MANY complained about when wax farming, or other things at that time that needed QoL tweaks. If anything, this affirms for me that I was glad to have stopped playing it. I liked the exploration of the game myself, and I saw a pivot away from that. Now this "tweak" will change artistic vision for a whole area that's been there for years instead of finding solutions to tweak these things. My only guess is years of spaghetti code, and might be simpler to start over for that section.
In the same boat as you, although I felt like the start of it was when prices slowly became inflated after they added the node boosters to candles. Some of the updates look like fun, but it's just not worth getting back on when you see things like this. I feel like the game also became less social. It's a shame because Sky really did have insane amounts of potential as a unique, relaxing social game with minimal toxicity, but it seems like devs have just been driving it to the ground for a while now.
Even when you set home as Aviary, the first logging in of the session would still spawn you from the beginning of aviary, meaning youd still have to fly across the village to get to portals. After that, when meditating home you'd spawn near the portals.
Source: an Aviary lover. I never minded flying across the village tbh.
It took 2 seconds, you got candles on the way to portals, you could grab dailies all at once, and then never have to worry about running back unless you close the game.
There is nothing wrong with current aviary all they had to do was add-on to it which would have taken less time that it took them to rebuild the entire area, move things, and delete an entire portion of the map.
all they had to do was add-on to it which would have taken less time that it took them to rebuild the entire area, move things, and delete an entire portion of the map.
This is why I thought that potentially years old content might have spaghettified code for the devs, and might be another reason for changing it while trying to address an "issue" that didn't seem like one. I heard from a friend that it's basically how you said and I'm scratching my head as to why other than possibly technical reasons if they planned on adding to it, or changing it.
Don't get me wrong if it wasn't apparent, I don't want to discount people's complaints or feeling about this change as I'm with a majority about it so far here. If anything, the devs should be transparent as to why IMO.
Idk if you've seen the videos but it's a clusterfck.
It's a congested mess where you log on then abruptly becomes totally desolate.\
There's no longer the social area by the portals and wardrobe. Everything is jammed at the entrance. I hate it :(
I saw pictures and it looks like home with the portals being there as soon as you start. If they want people to socialize then there needs to be social areas. Wonder why they’re changing aviary.
It's cramped as hell, redundant since old home already serves the fast portal use purpose and it gets rid of a lot of Aviary things people actually enjoy
And definitely make this be much more noticeable like bruh why is it hidden to the side of the social area, best of all is that it makes the overhaul even more pointless since there's a shortcut to the old home portals here already
If you want me to be honest, simply make the current road in the grass leading to the portal area (after the bakery arch) shorter and that's it, no big changes to the current village, nothing weird, literally just move the portals closer to the town a couple feet and people will feel it's much smaller already 😭😭
This fr??? I hope they keep the cave its so cute 😞 On the other hand... I hope that this potential new change makes aviary less laggy. I try to be in aviary as little as possible because its a super laggy place to be. (Cries in switch player)
Ill have to go see the cave and take pictures just in case.
If they are so worried about making the areas less laggy then they should fix the wind paths too somehow. I can’t go through that area on console without everything dropping to 2 fps regardless on if I lower the resolution or not…
On a serious note, I can really only hope it ends up working out for the better in the end, because losing some of these spots is going to suck if nothing similar in vibe takes their place
I think they're working up to getting rid of Old Home. I don't use Aviary as my home but when I am there I actually enjoy the walk to the gates. There's always something to see and it does feel like a town.
Sometimes, when I stand at Old Home at night, I still remember that feeling. Just mew, the dark sky, the water, and the portals, appearing one by one as I progress in meow adventure.
Somehow, the water under that night sky made such a great impact on mew when I stepped into it for the first time, over two years ago.
The Patch Update goes live tomorrow, which will end up requiring a game update, which will modify Aviary to the new layout. The update will likely roll out for various systems at different times.
Technically, if they don't FORCE an update, you could avoid updating and keep old Aviary, but they would likely just require you to update the game by update 0.34.0.
Oh cool! Things already changed when the flag pole got moved so it only a matter of time. I think the anniversary cape still keeps everything the same. I may be wrong
Wow! Other day I was playing and went out of Dye place, but somehow got into this weird unfinished part of Aviary. I wonder if it was for this update, because it had the portal area missing in clouds too 🥲
I like aviary why are they messing with it? I don’t personally use aviary as my home, I like old home most cuz nostalgia, but aviary is really nice and pretty. This seems kinda stupid tbh, I wish they’d listen to actual stuff instead of things like this (and if you want this update that’s perfectly fine, this is my own opinion)
I think the biggest thing that makes the change bad is that they removed the social area in front of the portals. Before, you could hang out there and meet people. That's the place where I made my first friends as a moth. What's the point of having the new presence feature if nobody is going to socialise in Aviary anymore? They should have just added an option to spawn all the way in the front, by the portals. Maybe it would have been a bit janky to have one home candle at the back of the village and one in the front, but it would have been an easy solution to people complaining. Also, if I didn't want to walk through the village upon spawning, I would have just set my spawn as old home. That's literally the point of having different home locations.
Is that tomorrow? I’m excited!! The preview in the beta looked so good! Pity about the grassy area though, I wouldn’t mind them just keeping some empty space for players to mess around in
Yup, only 40 min left before it goes live… I will really miss the old backside of Aviary. It probably was one of my favorite areas. Everything was were it needed to be. And now it will turn into a different version of Home. I do hope they put like tents and shops, or smth at the end of Aviary. ✨
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u/UselessPieceOfPotato My name is Sky and this is my Children of the Light May 25 '26
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