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GPO • Whole Cake PART 1.5 — Jan 16, 2026

The developers' own notes, copied word for word from the official GPO Discord.

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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

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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 etc

  • Big 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
    reopened

  • 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.
    Reposting
    Some people will have hair reenabled on accessoires that disable
    U will have to visit the custom tailor npc to toggle off

    Santa 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 dragon

  • fixing 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 editable

  • fixed

  • this was only bugged for 4 accessiories
    big mama hat/cape
    tropical parrot
    frostspire hood

  • fixes 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 quest

  • fixed crafting ui not working on mobile
    fixed weapon m1 speed being bugged with dragon hybird

  • fixed jumping on ice bike and mochi v2 donut roll

  • fixes published v12.40+

  • should be able to bunny hop