March 2nd, 2026

The beetleball music competition ended! SE4WEED got first place with the song Beetle Bossa, and Likeaduck got second with Metamorphosis. There was a three way tie for third between Gellogy with lowk beetling it up, coinflip with Post-ranked game therapy music, and Arconifer with Latin Beetle. All the top 3 received a hat in the following update and the winners plus anyone that made songs that would fit in the game were contacted to add their songs in an in game radio in the stump in the lobby. The devs voted on Naqu with Match Point for an additional winner.
The cloud save that stores your inventory data wasn't actually syncing previously but fixing this has created a bug where if you switch Steam accounts and haven't opened Beetleball since the fix, and then switch back, it will try to sync your inventory with empty data (because it wasn't syncing before) and clear your inventory data, removing all of your items. To prevent your inventory from being wiped due to the Steam cloud bug, you need to make sure to open the game, equip an item, close the game, and make sure it says it syncs on the cloud.
D.5.0 was released featuring a couple new features such as a feature that lets hosts force start games and an experience reward for completing the tutorial. The major focus of the update though is a very large quantity of new cosmetics featuring around 80 new hats and other things such as new wing trails, skins, stickers, etc.
Both the 1v1 and 3v3 leaderboards were reset and will have a cosmetic reward for anyone in the top 25 at the end of their timers.
D.5.1 released as a hotfix for the previous update to patch various bugs that appeared (such as corrupted steam avatars crashing the game)