Trash Goblin news & patch notes

We've been blown away by the reception of 1.5, Hugh and the DLC - thank you all so much for your support! As we plan the 1.6 update, we knew we wanted to nip a bunch of nasty bugs in the bud, plus improve some elements that were bothering us ahead of the bigger quality of life update we want to deliver down the line. The two headliners are: 1) a fix that prevented progression during the DLC 2) no more lighting woes/dark scenes! But we've fixed and improved tons of elements of the game across the entire experience so read on for the full details!

PROGRESSION

• We've fixed an issue where the progression of certain Artist of Brimhaven quests were becoming blocked if the Success for Donoval looping quest had not been completed before the DLC was started.

• We believe we have fixed an issue in the Artist of Brimhaven content that was causing active quests (such as Jaq's, Esme's and Aunty's) to be removed from the Quest Tracker when multiple quests were summoned at the same time. We removed a time skip call at the end of these non standard quests and replaced it with a quest tracker update call. This should prevent these quests from immediately starting and ending at the same time.

• Prevented a potential softlock in the tutorial if you go to bed before selling the bottle to Nomia.

• Fix for Expansion Mode button appearing late if you quit the game mid-tutorial.

LOCALISATION & WRITING

• There's been a small handful of fixes to the Korean, Chinese and Hungarian localisations.

• The Hungarian credits now roll properly.

• The opening story beat for the Artist of Brimhaven DLC is now fully visible in Thai.

• Aimon now specifically asks for the Fishy Trophy to be both Silver and Upcycled in the German and Chinese localisation.

• Some of Sam and Oli's dialogue had become muddled so we've corrected that.

• We've nuked a few more typos which were particularly embarrassing to our Producer as she was the one that introduced them!

TRINKETS

• The Clawed Gem and Silver Ring now have the correct names in Hungarian.

• We've addressed the trinket highlight outline. It used to look pretty ugly on smaller trinkets!

• Some renovation quest mercy timer trinkets have been changed to more relevant trinkets.

GAMEPLAY

• The colours of trinkets attached to Corks or certain Lids will no longer automatically extract when entering Recolouring Mode.

• Fixed an issue where some trinkets became unticked in the Quest Tracker, despite being valid.

• Fix for the Quest Tracker counting one trinket multiple times.

• There is now clearer messaging around the unlock moment for Hugh for players on existing saves.

• The camera's "zoom into NPCs" movement at market districts has been changed back to its previous settings so you can see more of the background art.

• The Game Guide now has a section for Recolouring (we've removed Tips for now).

• The best kept secret bug in the game has now been fixed; you can no longer purchase customisation presets if you have no gold!

• We've fixed an issue that prevented NPCs from emoting when there was more than one on screen, and we've gone back through the game adding expression changes to these moments.

• Tooltips will no longer overflow the game window when playing on fullscreen.

• We've changed the position of the zoom buttons for the Brimhaven district.

POLISH

• We've added the animations to Hugh that we didn't have time to complete before the 1.5 launch.

• We've new lighting and postprocessing to the Brimhaven district so it can be appreciated in all its restored beauty.

• We've removed the lighting system that was switching off shop lights and not turning them back on under certain circumstances.

OPTIMISATION/PERFORMANCE

• Nomia's sprite had been inexplicably shrunk to half of the usual NPC size so they were appearing fuzzy. They've now been restored to their full mustachioed glory. Aimon's sprite was fine though, so that's more "proof" of a certain theory.

• We have addressed an issue that was causing achievements to make too many calls to the server and then stop firing, resulting in achievements not triggering correctly for Epic Game Store customers. This also results in a smidge better performance on all platforms.

• Lighting in the shop has been improved and optimised.

• Removed a misplaced sparkle vfx in chipping and cleaning ceremonies.

It's with great delight that we present to you the fifth major free update to Trash Goblin since 1.0! We've been building to this release for a long time so let's dive into all the lovely details!

WHAT'S NEW?

The biggest feature is of course the brand new tool, Hugh! If you've not been keeping up with al the news, here's how it works! You get access to Hugh around the point where you get tool upgrades more generally, and with Hugh you can remove the material (think colour, but with some lighting properties etc) from any trinket's subsection, and then apply it to any other!

Removing the material from a section of a trinket leaves it as 'plain wood', which is a nice look all by itself... but we can't wait to see what outlandish creations you come up with using the 30 materials in the game!

As you remove materials, they're saved in your material jars so you can hoard them, then pick and choose at your leisure!

The application of materials is achieved using the same tool, and can also be applied to any trinket in an upcycled creation, as well as their subsections.

The application/removal process takes 1 timeslot, just like any other trinket minigame, and "Stranger" customers will often ask for a twist on the usual! Like this fussy person here:

That said, in the base game, none of the named characters will specify a material-swapped trinket - this would've required a huge rewrite, plus localisation. Doesn't mean you can't make unique trinkets for them, it's just that you have to be mindful of how specific their requests are beforehand!

On the topic of customers, look out for this one - they'll unlock Hugh for you:

And we don't stop there - for some of you this next bit is even bigger news... you'll finally be able to see what Baby Grandmas look like!

Of course it's a free update and we wouldn't release one without a themed cosmetic set for you to enjoy - the Maker's Fortune set is all about splotches and splashes of colour! Oh, and jars, naturally 🫙

Also we've heard your cries, and we've increased the number of purchasable Stash Upgrades available in the game. You can now unlock 264 slots in the Stash, and all the new ones are bought from the usual place - the storage chest in the corner of the workbench view!

We've added 5 new achievements because we know you love them so much, and there's also 1 new quest - Cora will appear and they basically unlock the 1.5 trinkets for you. Speaking of which...

54 New Trinkets:

Yeah that's right, fifty four. We just can't seem to stop!

It's a huge week next week, as we release 3 updates to Trash Goblin - a free tool for the base game, a paid DLC story expansion, and a cosmetic pack!

Of course we'll update you with all the details when we launch next week - May 7th for both the 1.5 update and the DLCs! - but for now take a look at the trailers, and read on for a little bit more!

FREE 1.5 UPDATE "MAKER'S FORTUNE"

The biggest thing about Maker's Fortune is that we've built in a brand new tool that expands the game from the first few hours all the way through to however long you want to play! "Recolouring" was something we had on our list of ideas from the very first day of development back in 2022(!?) so it feels great to be able to bring it to life for you now.

PAID DLC EXPANSION "THE ARTIST OF BRIMHAVEN"

The Artist of Brimhaven DLC is a little bit of an experiment, and also a lovely 'what happened next...' piece of story content. We're just not sure what sort of DLC would delight the most players, so we started by thinking about the most popular characters and giving them more time to shine, plus offering a gameplay experience that takes what you know about Trash goblin and expands on it in an unexpected way - by letting you visit a District and then rebuild it!

We can't wait to see what you think when this releases on May 7th, and we'll be all ears when it comes to planning whatever DLC 2 might end up being.

MORE NEWS

Now then. We hit a bit of a milestone this week too!

Yup, quite the big number! We can't believe how far our little goblin game has gone, and really this is just the beginning! The whole team here can't thank you enough for all the love and support you've shown us, and we can't wait to see what the future holds 🥰🥰🥰

WHAT ABOUT THE COSMETIC DLC?

I'll just leave this here...

That's it for now, watch out for next week as we detail everything in all of these huge updates, all happening on Thursday May 7th!

TL;DR

We're bringing a huge free update to the base game in early May! It's a brand new tool and gameplay mechanic where you can 'recolour' every trinket and their parts at will, and slots into the game regardless of if you're new to it or have a 20hr+ save to continue from!

CREATIVE FREEDOM

This has been on our most-wanted list of features since we came up with the game back in 2023. And as we bring it to life, we really wanted to make sure you can do almost anything with this new system. So while you're not able to customise every element of a given trinket individually the flexibility it does offer is still completely bonkers!

Notice that this plush is made up of 6 individual trinkets all upcycled together, and each trinket has multiple sections. Let's focus on the head to explain it. The head trinket contains several sections, which you can remove and apply materials to!

• Green Material (hair, eyebrows and pupils)

• Blue Material (bandana and eyes)

• Orange Material (face & nose, which just reads a little red)

So those groupings define just how fine-grained you can go - the only limitation is that for any trinket you can apply a maximum of 3 materials. These are applied/shared across almost any number of sections. We know from mucking about with it that you're going to show us some creations that will blow our socks off!

"NEW TOOL, HUGH DIS?"

Meet Hugh! This lil' thingy is the key to unlocking all this creativity.

No, we could not resist the pun. You know us by now. We almost went with Mat, but compromises were made.

Hugh is some kind of brass fish/bellows/magical paint orb mashup that we don't yet fully understand, but once we worked up a few concepts, it was clear which one the team fell in love with.

Hugh is still in development with some polish to come, but one thing we wanted to show off is how the various visual effect we're prepping all reflect the current active material:

Here the player has chosen a blue material, and so the trail of puffs shows as blue! That will also apply to the liquid inside Hugh's orb, plus the application/removal visuals we're working on. It's all very cool if I do say so myself, and we can't wait to show you more!

GAMEPLAY BREAKDOWN

Hugh is delivered to you early in the game (or at the earliest sensible opportunity if you're further along in the game), and you can use this new tool to remove colour/material from a section of any trinket, and then apply it to any other! The lore is that this tool harnesses Vibrance somehow to remove and store the material it is made of without destroying it the object itself... the mysteries of Silver City are myriad and wondrous!

One removing a material from a trinket, it is left as a plain wood version of itself - which is actually quite a nice look in an of itself! I've on doubt some players out there will take this to extremes!

How much wood could a wood-chick chick if a wood-chick could chick wood?

You collect materials - all 30 of them! - by removing them from trinkets, and they are stored in your material shelf which is chock full of jars, and displayed when using Hugh. These show the amount of each material you have, and there are tooltips so you can see all the different names.

HOW IT PLUGS INTO THE GAME

Hugh is unlocked at the point where Aimon gives you access to the tools upgrades - around day 16-18 - or just as soon as the game can find a quiet moment if you have a save past that point in which case you'll get it within a day or two at most of continuing.

Due to this brand new mechanic being the 4th "trinket minigame" we wanted to stitch it into the fabric of the entire game, and we've ensured that trinkets will now appear in recoloured variants of themselves!

This is so we can basically seed the materials for you to collect a bit more evenly - not every material was used equally in the base game so we've added 100 of these variants, most of them ones you get earlier in the game so you can get cracking!

While playing, Random Stranger customers will sometimes ask for recoloured trinkets just like they do for upcycled etc. The rules are the same as for Upcycling too - unless they specifically say so, they'll be happy with your unique adjustments to materials!

Named customers won't have any quests changed in the base game, as it would mean a lot of rewriting and re-translating which takes time and money. But again, unless they specifically say so, you can go nuts with Hugh on their requests too!

When you do sell a Hugh'd up trinket - that is assuming you're not trying to colour coordinate everything you have in the game - these creative tweaks will net you a bit more gold per sale. That is, except for wood. Because wood is infinite/free/the default, it seems a bit weird to pay more for that.

We've also made sure you can Upcycle Hugh'd trinkets, and you can even use Hugh on already-upcycled trinkets. The only wrinkle being that each sub-trinket behaves independently when it comes to materials, so you need plenty of them to finish your masterpiece.

We're so excited to see what you do with this new tool. Hugh'd have thought we'd be adding such a game-changing mechanic so far on from launch, and for free?!

1.5 UPDATE SUMMARY

Name: Maker's Fortune

Release: 7th May 2026

Price: FREE

So that's another week and another big update done! We've only got two more to go now!

THE COMING MONTHS:

• March 4th - 1.4 New Horizons✅

• March - Console version announced! Exciting secret announcement 01!✅

• March - Console version launched! Exciting secret release 01!✅

• April - Brand New Mechanic for free update 1.5 teased! Exciting secret announcement 02!✅

• April - The Artist of Brimhaven DLC announced! Exciting secret announcement 03!✅

• April - New plush ingame! Exciting secret announcement 04!✅

RIGHT NOW:

• April - Update 1.5 full reveal! 🎨

MORE NEW IN THE COMING WEEKS:

• April - Exciting secret announcement 04! 🤐

• May - May 7th is when the DLC launches! Exciting secret release 02

• May - May 7th is when the 1.5 launches too! Exciting secret release 03

• May - Exciting secret release 04! 🤭

As ever if you want to come and hang out with other goblins and chat about the game with the devs, our discord is open to all!

That's right, a few months after they added a Trash Goblin Plush to Project Zomboid, we've returned the favour and have crafted a wonderful Spiffo plush for Trash Goblin!

In Project Zomboid the plush is a low poly cutie, and a collectible you have to find out in the world!

It turns out there's a surprising amount of crossover between our two communities! Zombies and Goblins get along just fine!

So in Trash Goblin - as with every trinket and plush - we made sure you can have all kinds of fun with upcycling Spiffo!

Watch more here:

Plus of course you can sit the little furry troublemaker on all kinds of things. Let your imagination run wild!

So that's this week's big update... we're well over halfway through our big sequence of announcements so it's the perfect time to catch up on them...!

THE COMING MONTHS:

• March 4th - 1.4 New Horizons✅

• March - Console version announced! Exciting secret announcement 01!✅

• March - Console version launched! Exciting secret release 01!✅

• April - Brand New Mechanic for free update 1.5 teased! Exciting secret announcement 02!✅

• April - The Artist of Brimhaven DLC announced! Exciting secret announcement 03!✅

RIGHT NOW:

• April - New plush ingame! 🧸

MORE NEW IN THE COMING WEEKS:

• April - Update 1.5 full reveal! 🎨 This is going to be SO EXCITING I cannot wait.

• May - May 7th is when the DLC launches! Exciting secret release 02

• May - Exciting secret releases 03 & 04! 🤭

• The localizations for the Candles in Expansion Mode had gone missing but it is now back in place!
• The Woolen Mouse Tail trinket is no longer visible outside of its puzzle blocks when chipping.

That's right, we've been cooking up an exciting and packed DLC for Trash Goblin, and we cannot wait to release it! In fact, it's coming quite soon - the 7th of May is the day to mark in your diary!

WHAT IS IT?

At least 5 hours of brand new story content revolving around you, a new district, and fresh starts. Returning characters, Aimon's cunning plans and ambitious dreams, plus a whole new way to reach out and touch the world of Trash Goblin.

WHAT IS BRIMHAVEN?

The district of Brimhaven is a quiet and abandoned place. Nestled in a large ravine on the edge of the chasm up in the northwest of Silver City, its history is marred by an accident.

In the not-too-distant past, a terrible accident saw a huge bridge - one designed to span the entire Chasm, would you believe? - collapsed, the resulting debris causing terrible and thorough damage to the neighbourhood. Incredibly few people were hurt, but the parish's bones were wrecked and people were forced to move on.

But! Through a combination of your skills as a Trinketeer and Aimon's opportunism (and a brand new tool we're introducing in the free 1.5 update that releases alongside this) you'll be helping the community revitalise the run down buildings of this once-bustling locale, filling its empty streets with cheer and making a lasting positive change to Silver City!

BASE GAME UPDATE 1.5

This all intertwines with the free update we're bringing to the game (more details on that soon, don't you worry) on the same day!

DO I NEED TO RESTART THE GAME?

No, this content is designed for people who've completed the story in the base game, and can't wait to see what everyone gets up to next!

FACTS

• DLC Name: The Artist of Brimhaven

• Price: USD$9.99/GBP£7.45/CN¥70

• Release Date: 7th May 2026

We can't wait to show you what it's all like!

It's just a little one, but we've been carefully beavering away on improving the game, even as it releases on consoles! And of course we've paired it with an update on upcoming features!

NEWS

We also promised there'd be a bunch of news across the coming weeks, so here we go!

THE COMING MONTHS:

• March 4th - 1.4 New Horizons ✅

• March - Console version announced! Exciting secret announcement 01! ✅

• March - Console launched! Exciting secret release 01! ✅

• April - Exciting secret announcement 02! Well, that's today!😶

RIGHT NOW:

Exciting Secret Announcement 02 is as follows:

• 1.5 is coming soon (no durr)

• is a free update for everyone (yay!)

• will feature a BRAND NEW MECHANIC to play with which will retroactively work inside the entire game (um wow!)

What could this brand new mechanic be? A cryptic clue - anyone named Hugh will be very excited indeed.

You'll have to wait a little longer to find out (about 3 weeks), but we can't wait to show the world what we've been cooking up! I even dropped some hints in the brilliant SML podcast that I was a guest on only yesterday! No April Fools, go have a listen.

MORE NEW IN THE COMING MONTHS WEEKS:

• April - New plush ingame! 🧸

• April - Update 1.5 reveal! 🎨

• April - Exciting secret announcement 03! 🙊

• May - Exciting secret release(s) 02, 03 & 04! 🤭

FIXES

• Silver's list of accepted items for the Orrery has been updated.

• Similarly, Akilah's list of accepted items for his Wooden Mask has been updated.

• The Goblin Plushie trinket pieces are now accepted when a customer asks for "Any Trinket".

• The legs of the Goblin Plushie can once again be cleaned properly with a sponge.

• The spelling of Woolen Mouse has been corrected in Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

• The Discord icon on the title screen is no longer a plain white box when toggling to Japanese.

• The Spirit of Delivery will once again resume their courier duties between you and Donoval once they have returned from their holiday.

• The connection point on the Flat Hook has been corrected and now it can connect to many things as intended instead of the Woolen Mouse.

Please enjoy these improvements, check out the official merchandise, come chat to us in the discord, and otherwise enjoy your Easter weekend!

We are so lucky to have such a wonderful community supporting us through this incredible journey, and this marks a special occasion for us all! Yay for console goblins!

Of course it's still 33% off right now on Steam so make sure to snag that deal if you're more of a PC Goblin!

• Soekar will no longer repeatedly bother you for an Elephant Kettle!

• We've implemented a bunch of updates and fixes to the Japanese localization.
• Mushroom Strangers will no longer pretend to be Frogs!
• Gamepads will no longer lose focus when returning to the main menu after the credit roll completes.
• A certain Spirit Stranger's body will no longer be swapped out for a grey box after making a sale.
• We've made some tweaks to a handful of quests like Raniel's which should prevent them from not completing properly and starting over if their last line of dialogue is stalled or skipped too quickly.
• The Trash Goblin logo on the title screen is now localised to Chinese and Japanese.

Welcome to the latest big free update to Trash Goblin - we're at 1.4 now, and we're delighted to bring the game to a whole new audience with the Asian languages!

Let's go through all the newness in detail!

Asian Localization

Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai.

14 New Quests

Featuring returning characters including The Spirit of Delivery, Aunty V, Madame Beaufort, Mushromeo, Hortensius Bandersnatch V and... Aimon!

New Horizons Cosmetics

There's more than one set of cosmetics as always, but here's my personal favourite!

6 New Achievements

We've got a VERY exciting year ahead of us for fans of Trash Goblin!

ROADMAP UPDATE

We kicked off the year with our successful merch Kickstarter! And we mean to go on!

Look at all those stars in March, April and May! What could they mean?! Well, read on for some clues... clues without specific dates because we don't want to disappoint you!

THE COMING MONTHS:

• March 4th - 1.4 New Horizons 🌏

• March - Exciting secret announcement 01! 🤫

• March - Exciting secret release 01! 🤐

• April - Exciting secret announcement 02! 😶

• April - New plush ingame! 🧸

• April - Update 1.5 reveal! 🎨

• April - Exciting secret announcement 03! 🙊

• May - Exciting secret release(s) 02, 03 & 04! 🤭

So um... yeah. It's a lot! I'd love to be able to say more but I think you can see the wait won't be long to find out the delightful details of our prolific plans, and I guarantee they'll be worth the wait!

1.4 New Horizons Info

Coming out next week(!), 1.4 will feature a host of stuff that you come to expect -bug fixes, polish, quality of life updates of course. And new trinkets? Heck yeah! And new quests? Yup those too!

👆 This Elven Teapot is one of the Kickstarter backer rewards!

👆 A lovely sundial. Just don't expect to be able to tell the time, ok?

And the nice thing about these is that they mark the completion of our original Kickstarter promises, rewards and stretch goals! It's an incredible ting to be able to type here, and we're so happy with how the game has grown thanks to all of our wonderful backers.

But that's not all! 1.4 will introduce Asian language localisation to the game! We're super stoked about this, finally bringing Thai, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese to the game!

That isn't the end of our plans for localisation, and we'll share more when we can 😇

The more eagle-eyed among you (or should that be Soekar-eyed?) will be wondering what happened to Maker's Fortune? Well... let's jut say it ain't going away... more on that down the line! Until next week, stay Goblin! 💖

• The reference to the Heart Pendant had broken in the trinket pack in which it is unlocked. You should now start to see this trinket come through in your sack!
• By popular request you can now put hats on top of the Dog and Bear Plushie's heads.
• We've implemented a proper loading screen for when travelling to districts.
• We've added a short "once upon a time" story beat on starting a new game.

We could not resist your demands! We're adding the Trash Goblin Plush into Trash Goblin the game as an in-game trinket, and you'll be able to buy it as a DLC soon!

We had to spend some time considering which materials to use for the plush as one of the limitations of the game is that we can't just invent brand new colours. I think you'll agree, our artist nailed it!

This is a proper in-game trinket like all others, meaning you will chip the dirt off the various pieces, clean it up and upcycle it to combine the 6 elements (2 legs, 2 arms, torso and head) into what you see here!

Of course, you will also be able to make all kinds of mad creations by upcycling it with other things!

YES BUT HOW DO I GET IT?!

There are 3 ways!

THE OFFICAL TRASH GOBLIN MERCHANDISE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!

So what are you waiting for? GO GET THAT PLUSH (and other things)! We need your support to reach the goal, which will guarantee you the merch of your dreams 🥰

Not only can you buy this adorable plush which is bigger than it looks (26 cm tall sitting, 32 cm tall standing):

But you can also get this glorious poster:

Or you can immortalise Donoval, Grandma Egg or the Goblin as premium pin badges:

And then there are these amazing sticker packs to use:

And we're helping to raise funds for the Immune Deficiency Foundation once more with this exclusive pin badge: ...of course there is much more including a T-Shirt and a physical version of the Art Book! Also, we updated the game's main menu with a snazzier button for this very day! Go and back the campaign now, let's get to 100% funded as fast as possible, and guarantee you this lovely merchandise!

33% OFF

We're at 33% off for the next 2 weeks - tell your friends and get in while the deal is hot! We've still working hard on bug fixes, quality of life improvements, and... dare I tease it... more updates!

We'll announce those plans with more details as soon as possible of course, but get playing sooner rather than later!

MERCHANDISE KICKSTARTER LAUNCH DATE!

The Merchandise Kickstarter campaign launches on the 21st Jan, and runs for 30 days. Some items are limited (either by time or number) so get in quick and pledge early, otherwise you might miss out.

So here's another look at the adorable plush you can buy from the 21st Jan!

And here's a look at another item we're selling - the pins! These are based on some of the most iconic elements of the game, and you'll be able to buy them either individually or as a pack.

So get on over to the page, register so that you get told the very moment the campaign goes live, and tell your friends (unless you're planning on buying them something as a surprise)!

NEW YEAR, WHO DIS?

2026 is an exiting one for us at Spilt Milk studios, and while we've got huge plans to share with you soon, we can't resist fixing some horrid bugs and bringing you the gosh darn cutest thing ever!

PLUSH

That's right, we're kicking off our official merchandise with a Goblin Plush! There's a link to our upcoming merch store in the game (it's on the main menu) so make sure to boot up, then go & register your interest - it's not long till the Kickstarter campaign goes live and you want to make sure you're first in line!

I actually just can't. So cute.

And yup, the game has been updated. We saw a huge flood of new goblins coming to play our game over the Winter Sale - welcome one and all - and that meant a few nasty bugs got surfaced, which we're delighted to announce have been squashed already!

BUG FIXES:

• We've fixed an issue that was causing some players to see a black screen when travelling to districts, or a missing cart when loading saves already at districts 🫏

• Trinket icons will no longer behave erratically in the Stash when using a gamepad 🎮

• The Candle Holder now connects to trays rather than bottles and cups!🕯️

• We've removed the duplicate Harvest Festival cosmetic set from the customer mat and also corrected the order of the categories. This means there's a chance that currently equipped mat may change to the pattern immediately below it in the list, you'll just need to reselect your old one from the customisation interface 😅

• The customisation interface for the Shop Sign now shows the correct name rather than displaying the variable name 🪧

Welcome to the final update of 2025, the Year of the Goblin! Or maybe 2026 will be that, if we can petition Steam to add Goblin as a tag, and to let us run a Goblin Sale Event...!?

As the year wraps up its been amazing to look back on everything we've achieved. 12 months ago(ish) we were in Early Access, had barely 25% of the game's current content, and so many exciting moments were still to come. It's been an incredible ride, and we can't wait to show you what we're cooking up for next year! But before we get to the update's content, let's have some fun!

Christmas Quiz

As we can't all get together and have fun irl, we thought it'd be cute to let you loose on a silly quiz - Which Trash Goblin Character Are You? We'd love to know who you are in the comments!

Merchandise

We're also ramping up our efforts towards the merchandise kickstarter that we're launching in January - you can register your interest there or via the button ingame - and of course tell your friends! We've already shown off one of the sticker sheets, so get excited to see more (pins, tshirts, mugs, etc!) soon!

HEARTHTIDE UPDATE

Just in time for the Winter Sale - tell your friends, now's a perfect time to get this Overwhelmingly Good game at a tasty discount - let's get into what we've just released for you to enjoy in Trash Goblin 1.3.5.HoHoHo!

Cosmetics:

It wouldn't be the festive season without some way to decorate your space - and that's where this brand new "Hearthtide Festival" cosmetic set comes in! The denizens of Silver City love nothing more than to ring out the old year and greet the new with a tidal wave of fireworks and lights of all colours, and this set reflects that tradition perfectly.

(Note: The 4 wallpapers in this set are free, as compensation for the wall merges - see below)

Customers:

We've finally implemented the last of the paper dolls that make up the strangers - so amongst other things this update includes humans (some with glorious hair), hench-as-all-heck lizards, a Golden Retriever and - naturally - a frog on top of a frog. As a hat. Or is it hair? But in a cloak. Naturally.

27 New Trinkets:

We're still adding more and more fun little items for you to discover and mess around with! ThIs brand new set will unlock after a visit from Aunty V.

Above you can see how quite a lot of these go towards making some really intricate objects - can you spot the rapier? The tea set? I think I can even hear the inkling of a music box?! We can't wait to see what your imaginations conjure up out of this lot!

The full list:

WELCOME TO MIDWINTER SPIRITS!

MIDWINTER SPIRITS STEAM EVENT

We're delighted to be a part of this event which marks the time of year when the mischievous energy of Halloween transforms into the warm, glittering anticipation of Christmas! Click here to see the event page and explore all the games.

We thought this was the perfect time to cosy up with some plans for our next update. That's right, we're planning on releasing another update to the game before the year is out, and while it won't be as big as Success For Donoval was, it's still a good reason to get back into this, the cosiest of shopkeeping games 🥰

MORE COSMETICS 🎆 Firstly, it wouldn't be the festive period without some kind of themed decoration - the game already has Christmas-ish and Winter/Snow themed cosmetic sets, so we're leaning into celebrating the end of one year and the birth of a new one with the "Hearthtide Festival" cosmetic set.

MORE CUSTOMERS 🥸

Also, we're able to add in the last of the paperdolls to the customer system! This includes new humans and lizards, plus a frog-on-top-of-a-frog... and a Golden Retriever?! Our Kickstarter backers are such a creative bunch!

MORE TRINKETS ⚱️ On top of that, seeing as its the season for giving, we've adding another 27 brand new Trinkets into the game, including such peculiarities as:

• Boar Knuckleduster

• Fish Trophy

• Frog Rapier (Chrono Trigger fans look out!)

• Gnoll Compass (Gnolls confirmed I guess?!)

• Pigeon Charm (pigeons confir- wait nobody is surprised by that...)

• Goblin Ballerina (ballet confirmed!)

MORE... MORE 🤯 Of course we're going to ship as many little things we can to improve quality of life in the game, plus we've locked in some performance improvements, and are fixing bugs every day. Among those is the boring (but important) security update that came from Unity a few weeks back. Plus of course plenty more requested improvements from you lovely bunch of goblins!

DEMO 🎮

We're also working on updating the Trash Goblin demo seeing as we've made so many improvements to the base game that aren't reflected in the current live demo version! MERCH 🛍️ We're excitedly ramping up our Merchandise Kickstarter efforts - there's a lovely button in the Main Menu which takes you to the registrations page - and we can't wait to unveil more of the glorious trinkets we're bringing to the campaign, but to get first looks please do register there, and then hop over to our discord to join in the voting fun!

We know from the user reviews how cosy and relaxing you find Trash Goblin, so we were delighted to see a perfect category at this year's Steam Awards! "Sit Back and Relax - This game is the antidote to a busy day. It's smooth, it's relaxing, it lets your worries melt away. This game is your moment of zen."

Please do vote for us! 🥰

Updates:

There are now 11 new achievements to sink your teeth into, all related to the Success for Donoval update!

Bug Fixes:

• We've fixed an issue that was preventing Seliki from appearing on some saves.

• When changing languages the options within drop down lists on the Options Menu will now instantly update to the new language.

• Customer names and request summaries now pull through the correct localised text under the Current Customer section of the Quest Tracker.

• Polish will now only be seen on the Day End screen when you have the language set to Polish!

• We've fixed all the text wrapping and UI overflow issues on the Options Menu in all languages.

• The Day counter on the HUD now updates instantly when changing languages in game.

• The Day counter will no longer overlap with the Gold counter when it wraps onto 2 lines

• The Carabiner and Safety Pin now have an extra connection which allows you to use them as jump rings for necklaces - this means charms with parallel loops (e.g. Silver Pocket Watch, Philospider's Stone Charm) can now face forward when attaching them to necklaces.

• We've added a little padlock icon to the species cosmetics on the customisation interface to make it clearer that these patterns are locked until you max out the Reputation.

Welcome to the latest and greatest of our huge free updates for Trash Goblin! As of now, we're confident saying that we've doubled the size of the game compared to 1.0 launch!

First up - and this is huge - we've fully localised the entire game into 7 languages!

Localisation

Those of you who speak French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Brazilian Portuguese can now enjoy the whole game properly!

We're delighted about this as it welcomes so many more goblins to the fold, and we can't wait to see what you think - thought do bear in mind we're a small team so if there are any issues please do report them as a bug on our discord and we'll do our best to fix them as soon as possible! With your help it'll be perfect!

Reputation System

This is something we've been brewing for a long time now. We know that the game is super chill, soothing and cosy. We don't want to mess with that. But the 'selling' portion of the game seemed a little lacking to us, and we wanted to see about adding something the drives an interesting decision or two without adding stress or any real risk/reward friction.

Instead of having to always take what you're offered for a trinket's sale, now when you're dealing with a "stranger" customer (ie: anyone not a named character) you'll be able to offer them one of two prices; the Market Price, or the Generous Price.

The Market Price is fair, and the customer is always happy to pay it - you're not trying to squeeze them for profits after all 😅 And in the short term, going for the Market Price will help you save up for time-savers like the Soak Tub or game-changers like the Display Mat. You'll get a small amount of Reputation too, as you're always being fair with your prices.

Choosing the Generous Price will mean you get less gold in the short term, but more Reputation...

...so what is Reputation for?

Over the course of the game, you'll be levelling up your reputation for each species. Doing so means that in the future you'll see more customers of that species giving tips, and also those tips will get larger. Then once you've maxed out the Reputation for a given species, you'll unlock a cosmetic set themed around them (see below for pics!) as a celebration of their culture!

More Reputation Info:

• Named customers behave a little differently, as it made sense to have the reputation and sales prices be more determined by the emotional heft of the story beat.

• You can never lose Reputation, and customers are always happy with your offer, so don't worry about which option you choose! It all depends on your goals.

• When you load your saved game from 1.2 (or earlier), we've made sure to calculate roughly how much Reputation you will have gained so far, and award it to you immediately. That way you don't have to start again - unless you want to!

• To keep track of your Reputation, we've added a new tab to the Stash Book

• Any time you hit a new level, a popup card will announce it

• You can get an idea of just how much Reputation a sale wins you by how many hearts are shown above the customer's head 💖💖💖💖💖💖

Success For Donoval!

How can we name an update like this, and not deliver on that promise?!

Well, this brand new type of quest is something we've added beyond the end of the game, so if you're wanting more game to play - this is for you!

Without spoiling too much, Donoval decides his skills as a travelling merchant could be put to good use in combination with your lil' goblin business, and he'll gladly take sacks full of up to 5 trinkets off on his next adventure.

On his return you'll get the profits, he'll take his share, and you get treated to a little glimpse into the wider world of Trash Goblin with his stories. This content is designed to be space out as Donoval goes for some very long journeys - think multiple in-game days - but once you 'complete' this new questline a... well let's just say there's an obvious candidate for him to hand over his entrepreneurial reigns to!

30 New Trinkets!

We've added 30 brand new trinkets to the game, some of them Kickstarter backer rewards, some of them wholly original creations!

Oh my days! It's been a full year since Trash Goblin launched into Early Access, and we're so amazed by the journey so far. There's plenty more excitement to come, but first up to celebrate, we're announcing our Official Trash Goblin Merchandise Kickstarter! 🥳

Featuring a delightful range of perfectly cosy merchandise straight from the world of Trash Goblin 🤩

We've partnered with the brilliant Mighty Merch to deliver the items so you can be sure they'll be premium as all heck ✨

GET INVOLVED

Have your say - we've got some great ideas for merch - too many perhaps - so we need your help to let us know what we should do for this first run! The first vote is happening right now in the discord so hop over and make sure your voice is heard! We will be unveiling even more juicy details soon, and in the meantime, look forward to the campaign itself running some time very early in 2026! 📆

Register your interest in the Kickstarter here so you'll be the first to know when it goes live, and tell your friends! 💖

ONE YEAR OLD

That's right, a whole 365 days since we first opened our cosy little goblin shop! And look how far we've come:

Not to tease, but 1.3 and 1.4 and our biggest updates yet and we can't wait to show the details. Know that 1.3 is coming very soon indeed...

GOBLIN SCIENCE-FACTS

Originally appearing on Steam Early Access on November 6th, 2024 before our 1.0 launch on May 29th 2025, we've sold more than 60k copies and right now I'm ecstatic to be able to say we have a ‘Very Positive’ rating across over 900 reviews - with 100% of Steam player reviews in the past 30 days being positive on top of that! Truly amazing stuff that speaks to the talent of the whole team, and it also highlights you, our loving and enthusiastic community 💖

In that time:

• We've hit nearly a quarter of a million wishlists (with 179k outstanding!)

• Nearly 5,000 of you have played for more than 20 hours.

• In fact, you goblins have spent a cumulative total of 376,501 hours playing

• That’s 15.5k days, or 43 years - the same age as the game's creative director, he writes reluctantly

• At that rate, we estimate 4.5 million trinkets have been found so far!

• The average time played is nearly 8 hrs

• Our most committed goblin devoted 404 hours to their trinket restoration career (that’s over two weeks in real-time!)

• The longest time played before a review was left was 271hrs

• The longest playtime of a goblin who left a negative review was 160hrs. They reviewed it after 10hrs, then played for another 150hrs so... they couldn’t have been that dissatisfied eh?

THANK YOU

So once again from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Your support from the first days of our announcement, the demo, the original Kickstarter all the way through the amazing Early Access launch and onwards to today, we couldn't have done it without you!

COMPETITION WINNERS

Thanks so much for all your entries, we were blown away by the creativity on show! It was a tough decision, but I'm delighted to announce the two lucky winners of our limited edition pin badges 🎃 First up, the overall winner is SaturnGrl with this horrifying scene - what sort of dark rituals are about to be performed here?! 👻

This entry topped the team vote because of the combination of elements. It's not just the overall setup and story... but once you clock how any eyes and faces there are, you can't unsee them, however much you might wish you could! As promised, our top runner up also gets a badge, and that goes to stephanie, with this wonderfully creepy scene! 🕸️

There's a lot going on here, we feel like we've intruded on something very uncanny... and the bear's head facing the wrong way is just the right kind of twist that really sold it for us. A huge congratulations to both of our winners, I'll be in touch to get your postal addresses and send the pins on their way 💖

We want to say thank you again for everyone who entered out competition, we can't wait to run another one! The team had a blast voting, and you all keep reminding us how imaginative and talented you are. We're humbled to know you!

MERCHANDISE VOTES!

If the glimpse of a pin badge has got you wanting, nay needing some official Trash Goblin merch, then we're currently running a vote over on our discord to see what kind of poster you would simply have to own should we make one.

And if I'm not being too much of a tease, I'd say you really want to head over there as we're going to keeping asking for votes and feedback on merch as we build towards something very exciting. But more on that soon - for now go and vote!

We've all done it. Added one too many eyes to a mask and freaked ourselves out - well, now's or chance to lean into that spirit of cursed invention with our Halloween competition! If you want to win a Trash Goblin pin badge - one of a limited run, so very rare indeed and modelled by the always-glamorous Trashy Plush in these pics - all you have to do is show us your spookiest screenshot of Trash Goblin!

It could be that you've decorated your workshop in a really cursed way, or found a combination of creepy customer and even creepier trinket... whatever you want as long as it's an unedited screenshot, and shared with us before the deadline!

Creativity and spookiness will always win!

The 2 winners will be picked by the dev team voting on it on Friday, 31 October 2025 @ 17:30 UK time - and you have to be comfortable giving us your postal address so we can send the prize to you!

Rules:

• spookiest screenshot wins

• submit via Steam or however you want, just make sure to post a link in the replies to this post!

• team vote, no argument

• deadline is Friday, 31 October 2025 17:30 UK time

• there will be 2 winners!

Introducing: Twinkle Goblin

Neighbours & Goblins

Just in time for our favourite season of the year, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Might & Delight to bring this cosy combo - whimsical decoration and goblin shopkeeping together at last!

The Twinkle Goblin Bundle

Joining Trash Goblin is Twinkleby – a cozy decoration game where you map out an archipelago of floating islands and build dioramas for a society of spacefaring Neighbours. Expand your collection, discover antique secrets, decorate, and when you change your mind – evict everyone and throw their furniture into space! Twinkleby is just such a perfect match for our game, with a brilliant mix of wholesome and quirky that we know you'll love - especilly as they just updated with spoOOooky Hallowtide content! So grab a blanket, put the kettle on, and snuggle up with both Neighbours and Goblins this season. You'll also save 10% when you get the bundle – and if you already own one of the games, you’ll still receive the discount when completing the set! Get the Trash Goblin + Twinkleby Bundle here!

• Snap to functionality is now present on the dialogue and option boxes when playing with gamepads.

• Snap to functionality is now present on the Options menu when playing with gamepads and options can now be cycled rather than selected from a drop down.

• We've added an aim curve to the analogue sticks which means the cursor movement is now much faster with large movements to LS. It also allows more precise control of things like the movement of the sponge when making small movements with LS.

• We've increased the clickable area of the Magnifying Glass and Envelope icons in the Quest Tracker so it is easier to select them when using gamepads.

• Trinket tooltips are now in place on the Receipt and End of Day screen.

• Tooltips in the Stash once again show the full name of an upcycled trinket.

• Tooltips now appear in the Stash when using a gamepad.

• The Stash and Quest Tracker can no longer be opened with a gamepad when the pause menu is open.

• Trinkets in the Stash will no longer be deleted when opening the Stash via X on a gamepad with a trinket in hand!

• We've fixed an issue where completing quests or dismissing NPCs at districts stopped other customers from turning up to your pop-up shop!

• You can now scroll on the Stash and Trinketpedia with RS on gamepads. We'll be introducing this functionality to the Quest Tracker and Customisation UI very soon!