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The dev team is currently creating a bug tracking pipeline.
We will look into the Rockbiter bug.

As for challenges, in turtle 1.17 you have to purchase challenge "glyphs" from the glyph vendor in the starting zones.
We will be changing this in the future

It appears our dev made a hasty hotfix that missed another use of WMIC, causing this error.
We have patched that issue and have pushed a new launcher version 1.0.13

If you would rather download the client yourself and manually install mods and addons, a zip of the client can be downloaded from ...

The content team will definitely be looking into this.
The team loves these types of additions turtle has made.
Our main focus however is on getting all the Turtle content we lost first.
But expect great things in the future

We believe we have fixed this issue by migrating away from using WMIC.
This should be resolved with Launcher version 1.0.11
If you have an outdated launcher and are still experiencing this issue please download the new launcher version at
https://octowow.st/download/launcher
If the issue still ...

Thanks for your report!
This should be resolved with Launcher version 1.0.11
If you have an outdated launcher and are still experiencing this issue please download the new launcher version at
https://octowow.st/download/launcher

This should be resolved with Launcher version 1.0.11
If you have an outdated launcher and are still experiencing this issue please download the new launcher version at
https://octowow.st/download/launcher

Yes the servers are intermittently up with ~15 minute hotfix restarts for the beta test.
If the realm list is showing but you cannot connect, it is most likely a server restart. Check back in ~10 min.
The server realms are currently showing as Medium but we can assure you they are low, we have a dev ...

Tenatious wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 8:12 pm It is still an issue, yes. Neither server is accessible.

Thank you for your report. We are currently updating the server and client with a hotfix so they will be down ~10 min

Thank you for the bug report
This Issue has been patched, for users still affected please try re-downloading the launcher from the website. https://octowow.st/download/launcher
If you are still experiencing this problem after please reply to this post.

Is there a plan to get out a appimage for ...

We apologize for the server downtimes during beta testing.
We are currently pushing many hotfixes to the servers and are only able to notify in game players of server restarts.
Please reply to this post if this is a recurring issue that you are experiencing.