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title: Anniversary
date: 2026-06-01
author: Jasper
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# Calamity Dev Newsletter: June 2026
<cite>(written by LordMetarex and the Calamity Team, edited by Ozzatron)</cite>

<h2 class="text-center">Celebrating 10 years of Calamity!</h2>

<div class="text-center">Hiya folks!</br><span>Celebrations be upon ye, welcome to this month’s very special edition of the Calamity Dev Newsletter! </span></div>
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  <img src="/posts/anniversary_assets/cakeday.png" alt="Cake day!" />
  <figcaption>Cakelamitas Clone</figcaption>
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<div class="text-center"><i>Well</i>, <b>10 years</b> is certainly a long time, isn’t it?</br>
 It's hard to believe that we have come so far from the days of the <a href="https://calamitymod.wiki.gg/wiki/1.0">Devourer being a purple Destroyer clone</a> and <a href="https://calamitymod.wiki.gg/wiki/1.1">Supreme Calamitas being an eyeball</a> that chased you halfway across the world.<br>Time sure flies when you’re developing a project as vast as Calamity.<br>Jokes aside, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for continuously supporting us after all these years - though we may still have a long road ahead, we hope you will stick with us on our journey going forward.</div>

<div class="divider-text"><span>A whole month of Calamity!</span></div>

<div class="text-center">The stars have aligned to allow us to provide a slew of presents to celebrate ten years of Calamity throughout the month of June. <b>Starting with...</b></div>

<h2 class="text-center">An update on Version 2.2 - <a>“Hog Wild”</a></h2>

<div class="text-center">In our last newsletter, we announced our next update, <a>“Hog Wild”</a>. We're very happy to say that this update is cooked up! We've just got a little bit of garnish and presentation to put on this month's appetizer before we can serve it up.</br><i>Expect it on your table very soon...</i></div>

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  <img src="/posts/anniversary_assets/meats.png" alt="meats!" />
  <figcaption>We weren't kidding when we said this update was cooked.</figcaption>
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<h1 class="text-center">However...</h1></br>
<div class="text-center">Pork is not the only thing we have been slowly frying in the pan.</br> Since the release of Brainstorm, we’ve had <i>yet another update</i> in the works which will land later this summer.</div>


<h2 class="text-center">Announcing Version 2.3 - <a>Anniversary</a></h2>

<div class="text-center"><a>The Anniversary Update</a> is another update on the smaller side which will be something to behold. It will feature a significant from-the-ground-up boss rework and new custom UI styles!</div>
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<div class="text-center">To celebrate its 10th birthday, our first boss, the <b>Desert Scourge will be receiving a complete rework!</b> Sporting a new, more reptilian design courtesy of Tobias and Triangle, our resident dune-dweller will now be found in the underground desert in its very own nest generation. The Scourge's aging drops are being reworked from the ground up to match this big makeover.</div>
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<div class="text-center"><i>(You may see the very first iteration of Desert Scourge <a href="https://youtu.be/0NusDFPA63M">here</a>; this video was not produced by the Calamity Team and is included for historical purposes.)</i></div>

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  <figcaption>scoog.</figcaption>
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<div class="text-center">The custom build shown here was created by LordMetarex and is not representative of the Desert Scourge's procedural nest generation. All boss behavior is subject to further changes.</div>

<div class="divider-text"><span>But that's not all.</span></div>

<div class="text-center"><a>The Anniversary Update</a> will also have a set of <b>brand new UI options!</b> These include a new <b>custom player UI style</b> and <b>boss health bar UI style</b> for you to use.</div>
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<div class="text-center"><i>(The current Calamity style boss bar will <b>remain in the mod</b> as an alternative Boss Bar style.)</i></div>

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  <figcaption>The above video demos a standard fight against Supreme Calamitas with the new UI.</figcaption>
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<div class="text-center">The update will also include a <b>facelift to another community favorite</b> that we just can't wait to unveil.</div>

<h2 class="text-center">A pair of <a>new music drops!</a></h2>

Music has been a key pillar for Calamity throughout its storied history, and we are happy to announce that the Calamity Team and <span class="musician-entry musician-entry-inline">
  <img
    src="/img/musicians/TYESKI.png"
    alt="Tyeski"
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</span> <a href="https://linktr.ee/tyeski" class="musician-name">TYESKI</a> have both prepared new songs for you all to hear this coming month. *These will be released some time in the coming weeks*, and will be added as music boxes in version 2.3.

<div class="text-center"><b><i>While we will not be providing teasers of these songs today</b></i>, we do have the song titles and one of the artworks that will be featured in the coming videos.</div>

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  <img src="/posts/anniversary_assets/fragilityart.png" alt="meats!" />
  <figcaption>A song named “fragility” will be released.</br>Credit to tofu and Carnymassacre</figcaption>
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  <img src="/posts/anniversary_assets/hostilitywip.png" alt="meats!" />
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    src="/img/musicians/TYESKI.png"
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</span> <a href="https://linktr.ee/tyeski" class="musician-name">TYESKI</a> will be releasing a song named “hostility”.</br>Credit to LordMetarex and Carnymassacre. This illustration is WIP!</figcaption>
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These songs were originally intended to be part of the Sunken Sea Overhaul update. However, as the music is finished, we thought it would be best to release the tracks now and not let them stay locked away for too long.
The team already has its next major content update past version 2.3 planned out, and there wasn't a better way to slot these music releases into the scheduling.

<h2 class="text-center">Rounding things out with some <a>new merch!</a></h2>

In collaboration with our friends over at GimmeSwag, we're proud to bring Bumblebirb to our store for a limited time!

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  <img src="/posts/anniversary_assets/fatbirb.png" alt="meats!" />
  <figcaption>birb lovingly fed and squished by our grand artist, tofu</figcaption>
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<div class="text-center">We are launching a plushie of our favourite fluffy fellow with multiple names, the Bumblebirb! This feathery friend is more rotund and cuddly than ever before, <a href="https://www.gimmeswag.com/products/bumblebirb-plush">so be sure to pick one up for yourself!</a></div>

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    <img src="/posts/anniversary_assets/birbspin.gif" alt="BumbleBirb plush" />
    <figcaption><a href="https://www.gimmeswag.com/products/bumblebirb-plush" class="btn btn-outline">A squawking abomination.</a></figcaption>
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<div class="text-center"><i>(Additionally, there is spare stock of the Calamitas and Yharon plushies. Supplies are very limited so if you're looking to complete your collection, act fast!)</i></div>


<div class="divider-text"><span>Some parting words</span></div>

***Phew***, that was a lot to get through.

### Expect more newsletters soon.
There will be more goodies up for grabs in the near future, but we can’t share them with you just yet. We'll be providing more announcements throughout Calamity's anniversary month.

As always, thank you so much for taking your time to read through this one-of-a-kind edition of our newsletter. We hope you’re as excited as we are for all the new things coming to Calamity this month.

_- Ozzatron and the Calamity Dev Team_