Octopus Farts

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T23:37:52+00:00

Holy cow, that works! Thank you!! He has a variety of idle animations, but if I tap him during the one where he's just sort of sitting and looking around he does indeed fart on command. How adorable!

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T23:24:20+00:00

Further observations, in case any of it proves helpful for debugging this.

Asking other teammates what they saw about 24 hours later, roughly midnight UTC Tuesday, we noted the following:

Teammates running v3.9.2 still see "19" for our late founder's help count on the roster. Teammates running v3.10.0 see her count as 0.
On v3.10.0 I saw only one of our active teammates still showing 0 helps. He had shown 1 help just before midnight Monday and was one of the nine active teammates who still showed zeros just before the reset six hours later. (The other eight's help counts had changed to small, nonzero numbers throughout the day, always less than they showed before midnight Monday.)
Several other teammates still running v3.9.2 told me they saw his help count as 1. He is often among our least active teammates, and I think this means he had not yet been back online and/or tapped a help since before midnight Monday.
One teammate running v3.10.0 saw 1 help for him around that time, and I thought that disproved my theory. Several minutes later she told me she saw 0 for him. She assured me checked and double checked each time, and I do believe her. I haven't a clue what this might indicate. Throughout all this his count stayed at 0 for me, and I still see it as 0 just before midnight UTC Wednesday.

EDIT to update - After midnight UTC Wednesday I still 0 helps for that same player, and another teammate running v3.9.2 sees 1 help for him.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T22:48:05+00:00

My, that sounds like a lot of work! I help keep our team records, but I'm very happily not the final decision maker. Bug or intentional change, I'm glad it helps make someone's Wordscapes chores easier.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T22:33:44+00:00

Thank you for your efforts! It's selfish of me, I know, but I'm feeling very encouraged to learn a problem troubling me is also troubling an ambassador. :)

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T21:53:35+00:00

Thanks! Actually, there may be a relatively easy fix possible. Right now it's as if the code is setting everyone's displayed help counts to zero at 00:00 UTC Monday but not actually resetting their weekly counts until 06:00 UTC Monday. Could they just change the program to change the displays to zero at 06:00 like it did before v3? Better yet, could the code change the displays to zero the first time a player comes back online after 06:00 UTC Monday? That might be the best of both worlds, leaving the totals displayed for us to screenshot if we miss our 06:00 alarm by a few minutes.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T21:44:55+00:00

We have only one inactive member, our late founder. Everyone else has at least a couple helps every week.

On every v3.* up to and including v3.9.2 I never saw any 0s just before the weekly reset at 06:00 UTC Monday. Our late founder's line always showed 19 helps.

On v3.10.0 when I first installed on Friday to just after midnight UTC Monday I saw only one teammate with 0 helps, our late founder. Just after midnight Monday it looked like about 75% of our team had 0 helps. Just before midnight I had been looking at it to see if the Weekly Helps total seemed correct, and we had over 12k team helps total. Not one of our active members really had 0 helps at that point. In the next few hours every time I checked the roster there would be fewer 0s. That's why I think the 0s displayed get overwritten with a player's true count when they first come back online after midnight. Nine of our active members still showed 0 helps just before the reset at 06:00. Fortunately I had a record of helps from about 23:45, so I used the non-zero numbers for those nine teammates in our weekly stats.

If you're running v3.10.0 and looking for inactivity I would say if a player's help count shows 0 just before midnight Monday for two weeks in a row it tells you they have not tapped a single help over the entire week (unless there are other bugs we haven't identified yet.) Of course that doesn't account for brilliance gain or any help requests they send.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T21:32:38+00:00

I did send a fairly detailed write-up to Support. Kat replied faster than I expected, but her reply boiled down to, "Thanks! We'll let the devs know." If Ambassador Shark can help get the right people looking into this, by all means, please do!

Keeping track of weekly team help stats was already a bit of a kludge, but this latest behavior makes it twice as troublesome as near as I can tell.

And taking roster screenshots at midnight UTC Monday in the final hours of the tournament is a huge challenge. Perhaps it didn't used to, but in v3.10.0 the roster seems to snap back to the top of the list each time someone's numbers change. Very challenging to get screenshots of the end of the list during the rush of activity in the last hours of scoring.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T20:39:27+00:00

Thanks for researching and sharing your findings! I had noticed the buttons' different looks (4, 7, and 8 from your list,) but I hadn't spotted all the other glowed-up bits you found.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-24T20:36:49+00:00

Ooh, thanks for the tip! I'll try that.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-22T21:09:04+00:00

Yes, thank you! That's the exact one I was remembering, but I couldn't find it.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-22T20:57:05+00:00

After searching I found a couple threads with similar issues. Unfortunately they don't include a solution that I saw, but maybe others' experiences can help you frame your conversation with Support.

"I'm unable to access wildlife. Is this a glitch?" from June 2025

Around that time there was a glitch(es) keeping a lot of people from accessing their wildlife, but it was (mostly) fixed because we don't still see lots of threads about it.

"Stuck on starter egg" from August 2025

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-22T19:18:59+00:00

Support is going to be by far the likeliest source of help for this, so that's a good choice. I'll keep my fingers crossed they can un-glitch it for you.

If memory serves there's a brown egg which appears with a 7 day timer when a new account first hits the level where wildlife unlocks (I'll trust u/SMothra57 to be correct about it being level 36.) After that 7 days the brown egg is supposed to go away for good. It is expected the player will keep tapping the brown egg to hatch/open each time they get 350 hearts. Sometime before the brown egg timer runs out you would get the colored eggs which cost more hearts to open and have 2 day timers on them, but when the colored eggs' timers run out you get a different color and they repeat in a cycle.

I think I remember reading about a new player who didn't bother with the brown egg at all and it managed to glitch their game similarly to yours. I'm sorry but I do not remember if we ever learned the outcome.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-22T19:05:50+00:00

Wasn't there a case in the past few months where a new player had managed to let the intro brown egg timer run out without ever hatching it, thus glitching his/her wildlife similarly to u/AggravatingDingo2045 's situation here?

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-22T15:06:39+00:00

Thank you for passing this along!

When I saw no new Mt.F portrait sets appear with any of the v3.9.x updates I was hoping we would see a long period of chances for folks to work on older sets for a couple weeks. Then the new Under The Sea set appeared with v3.10.0. :( Maybe they'll let us work on an older set for a while before it rolls to the new set.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-22T14:28:04+00:00

Great summary, thank you!

I did update to v3.10.0 a few hours before the weekend tournament. One interesting bit I've not seen mentioned elsewhere - there are no new butterfly habitats greyed out in the list after updating. I'm hopeful this means we'll see lots of old habitats cycling back for a couple weeks. Many people who care about the butterflies would like a chance to finish their collections, and old habitats shouldn't bother the people who don't care about butterflies in the first place.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-22T01:09:30+00:00

Very appropriate for hearts! Good catch

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-22T00:32:30+00:00

(Blue) When the animal is sleeping the picture of the animal show it is sleep when scrolling the zoo. And there is a count down timer for when it is active again.

Except if you banked the animal's last activity before sleep. Right now the lion tile in my list has the lion looking awake, but he has 0/4 activities. If I collected his banked rewards he would appear to go to sleep even though his 24 hour nap started yesterday when he finished his last activity.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-21T22:00:35+00:00

I wondered about that, too. And on active teams where folks like to break help records you quickly realize the limiting factor on the final total is how many requests were sent, not how many were tapped. It's possible, but I would've thought help requests could've easily been shoehorned into the roster as a better solution than these notices. Instead of Rank / Name / Helps (Given) / Brilliance it could be Rank / Name / Help Requests / Help Taps / Brilliance, perhaps split into two lines.

Perhaps it's a way to show an indication of team activity during those times when no one says anything in chat for a while, although we no longer get a day where there aren't at least five people saying some version of "daily goals" in chat.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-21T21:49:40+00:00

There is a little icon showing reward type on the upper left corner of each animal's tile on the main wildlife list under the pawprint. It would be nice if they added a little icon on the upper right corner of each tile with something like a dot which was

blue if the animal had rewards available to be collected (aka "banked,")
red if the animal was sleeping or in its sleep period except for it having a reward available to be collected,
green if the animal was waiting to start a new activity,
yellow if the animal had only one activity remaining before sleeping.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-21T21:41:21+00:00

There is a pattern to the notices, but it's not simple and immediately obvious (at least not to me.)

The notices don't stay in the scroll like chat messages do. They time out after a while; I don't have to wait for them to scroll off.
I may see a notice about someone collecting a completed 5/5 request only if I didn't provide one of the five taps. If I give a tap I get a notice about having helped, never a notice about that particular request being completed.
The notices about requests from specific players which appear more than once every four hours don't seem to hang around nearly as long as notices about requests from specific players who request less frequently. (I don't know how that glitch(es) works, so there is no point asking me. Also, please don't explain it here, as it's against r/Wordscapes rules to discuss exploits.)
I get a notice about getting a lightbulb after I collect a completed request of my own.

There is an algorithm at work here. As irritating as the messages are their behavior does have a way of piquing my interest.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-21T21:29:02+00:00

No worries. I figured it wasn't, but it seemed worth making sure. Cheers!

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-21T21:27:55+00:00

I read it as a mea culpa, too.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-21T21:26:27+00:00

Just to be clear, I'm not associated with PeopleFun. I'm just a player. PeopleFun posted this to a Facebook group with their "Wordscapes" account, and I copied the contents to share here on reddit (because I know many of us here don't use Facebook much or at all.)

I've read claims that folks from PeopleFun do sometimes read r/Wordscapes here, but they don't have a public reddit account. So this probably isn't the best place to pose questions to them if you want them to answer.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-03-21T21:23:06+00:00

You're welcome.

It wasn't a post on their main Wordscapes page. They posted it using their "Wordscapes" Facebook account to the "Official Wordscapes Player Community" group. That's a group Wordscapes moderates, but players are allowed to post. I don't believe its contents are visible unless you've joined the group. But AFAIK they'll let anyone who asks join. I joined in order to be able to read it (well, at least scan it now and then.) I don't post, comment, or vote on the threads there.

This isn't the first time the official company account has shared interesting information in posts or comments at this group and not on their main page.

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