GPO • Whole Cake PART 1.5 — Jan 16, 2026
The developers' own notes, copied word for word from the official GPO Discord.
posting update log
it will be 2 messages since it goes over the discord character limit
GPO • Whole Cake PART 1.5 — Jan 16, 2026
ACCESSORIES
Drops from Homie NPCs located in the Whole Cake Island forest:
[NEW]Red Apple Hat[NEW]Banana Chocolate Hat[NEW]Banana Pudding Hat[NEW]Dark Smiley Hat[NEW]Strawberry Cake Hat
Sold by the Traveling Merchant. 5% chance that the shop gets the pirate theme allowing you the chance to buy the following items:
[NEW]Cabin Boy Attire[NEW]Quartermaster Garb[NEW]Commodore's Garb[NEW]Pirate's Eyepatch
Sold by the Traveling Merchant:
[NEW]Lifa's Outfit — The outfit worn by the Rokushiki trainer
Battle Royale Collectable (0.5% chance). Requirements: Own all 4 BR Champion items, win a match with 10k+ damage:
[NEW]Dominus Ultimus — Added to give dedicated BR players something to chase after obtaining all 4 Champion items. Has an eye aura effect that will be enabled once Roblox releases Emissive Maps.
Required items: Battle Royale Champion's Cape, Crown, Monicle, Tophat
ITEMS
[NEW]Hunter's Journal — Tracks player's NPC kills since Update 6. Available in Robux Shop + Traveling Merchant.
SYSTEMS / QOL
- Inventory — Players can now favorite items they own, placing them at the top of the inventory for easy access. Max of 10 favorited items.
- Custom Tailor — Players can now hide or show their hair regardless of accessories for free. Players can also adjust the position and rotation of accessories with limits, requires a Custom Tailor Token. Accessories that previously hid your hair will no longer do so automatically, players must manually toggle hair visibility.
- All Seeing Eye — Switching will store your current equipped fruit into the All Seeing Eye. If your All Seeing Eye already has a fruit stored inside, it will become your new equipped fruit. 5 minute cooldown.
- Trade Hub — Leaderboard shows real username instead of display name to make it easier to find players.
- Trading — Trade chat now displays actions taken by players such as adding, removing, or adjusting item amounts.
- Whole Cake Island Marshmallow Minigame — Custom Tailor Token added to reward pool (30% chance to appear in reward choices).
- Blacksmith — UI adjustments.
- Private Server Settings — Added custom perfect block window setting and custom M1 hitbox delay setting.
- Battle Royale — If a shark eats your grip, it now counts towards your kill count.
To clarify: Weekend 2x Logia and 2x Drop Rates do work in Trade Hub.
BALANCE CHANGES
Devil Fruits:
Flight:
- Dragon, Ptera, Soul — Can now fly out of water
- Flight Skills — Using a flight skill now puts other flight skills on cooldown
Dragon:
- Hybrid M1 — Now scales with DF stat
- Draconic Cataclysm — Now has hyper armor
Gomu:
- Gomu-Gomu no Gatling — Now knocks back at the end of the barrage
Goro:
- Lightning Wrath — Startup decreased by 0.25 seconds
Gura:
- Blast Clutcher — CD increased by 15 seconds
Hie:
- Ice Stomp — CD increased from 7 to 14 seconds
Mochi V2:
- Donut Roll — Duration increased from 10 to 60 seconds
Paw:
- Paw Barrage — Block break removed, damage cut in half
- Paw Cannon — CD increased from 6 to 10
- Paw Ult — Knockback nerfed
Phoenix:
- Phoenix Brand — CD increased from 10 to 18
- Phoenix Burst — CD increased from 10 to 12
- Full Form M1 — Speed was too fast due to a bug, now slowed to intended speed. Stun reduced.
- Triple Talon Kick — Added 0.25 second endlag
- Triple Talon Kick — CD increased from 8 to 12
- Can now heal party members in safe zones if they are out of combat
Soul:
- Blaze Eruption — Additional M1 damage buff halved
- Storm Chaser — Now applies damage reduction, even to skills used by the user
Fighting Styles:
Cyborg:
- Ult (Air) — Removed red warning UI
Weapons:
Bone Shiver:
- Rib Smash — Now knocks back instead of dazing, end lag increased
- Bone Frenzy — No longer knocks back at the end
Cupid Bow:
- Cupid Rain — Stun removed, now useable in air
Demon Jester's Scythe:
- Crimson Slice — Stun increased by 0.3 seconds
Dullahan:
- Will O' Wisp — Scaling nerfed
Festival Lancer:
- Icewall — Destroys if placed mid air
Ghost Princess's Umbrella:
- Umbrella Thrust — Startup reduced by half
Helix Skewer:
- Wringing Rupture — Now has hyper armor
Neptune's Trident:
- Impale — CD increased from 10 to 17 seconds
Soul King Guitar:
- Power Chord — Knockback increased
Soul King Violin:
- Freezing Tune — Startup halved, Y-axis knockback decreased, CD reduced from 25 to 14
World Ender:
- THE TROXX — First 2 slashes knockback increased
Combat:
- Healing — Healing skills in combat reduced to 35% effectiveness.
- Buffered Blocks — Holding block during hitstun or another action so it activates automatically can no longer perfect block. If your block can't activate a perfect block, the block icon will be slightly darker to indicate that.
BUG FIXES
- Spring Facebreaker — Fixed a bug on the grab moving upward unintentionally
- Perfect Block Ping Compensation — Previously, high ping players could potentially always perfect block since there was no cap to the compensation. Now the perfect block window caps at 0.15 seconds (regular window is 0.1 seconds).
- Ito — Fixed VFX not playing for other players if the Ito user flew out of render distance
- Hover Pod — Fixed glitching and teleporting
- Inventory — Fixed background memory leaks for players with tons of items
- + many more
What the developers posted next
Fixes, tweaks and codes from the 27 changelog posts in the three days after these notes.
works with everything
capes,hats,glasses, shoulder pets etcBig islands in second sea have custom icons for them now
only appears in universe hub chat if someone obtained it
fishing exp also nerfed
for common and rare fish
Mochi v2 donut roll will still cancel after 10 seconds if u hit someone
thats how the dominus looks ingame rn, it wont get the eye aura enabled until roblox releases the emissive maps beta feature
game will reopen in around 6-7 mins if all goes good
reopening givei t a bit to update on the website
reopenedCustom Tailor — Players can now hide or show their hair regardless of accessories for free. Players can also adjust the position and rotation of accessories with limits, requires a Custom Tailor Token. Accessories that previously hid your hair will no longer do so automatically, players must manually toggle hair visibility.
Reposting
Some people will have hair reenabled on accessoires that disable
U will have to visit the custom tailor npc to toggle offSanta will leave on the 31st of janurary
adding the option to go straight into fruit v2 if u stored a v2 fruit into ase and swapped back to it
increased m1 dmg on hybird dragonfixing some projectiles not hitting like rokushiki rankyaku
projectile with the bug fixed
fixed health packs counting as assist packs
ase will now properly store and swap between v2s
v12.33+chat messages in trade hub will display full usernames instead of displayname
fixed first elims in br not giving spriit essense
fixed a ase bug with swapping v2
fixing some acceossires not being editablefixed
this was only bugged for 4 accessiories
big mama hat/cape
tropical parrot
frostspire hoodfixes published v12.35+
fixed v2 quest voiding ur current fruit if it wasnt the proper fruit for the v2
example if u used dragon to finish the final quest for pika v2 quest
published fix in v12.38
only do v2 quest in that if u are using a diffrent fruit from the questfixed crafting ui not working on mobile
fixed weapon m1 speed being bugged with dragon hybirdfixed jumping on ice bike and mochi v2 donut roll
fixes published v12.40+
should be able to bunny hop