OtterSMP Weekly — August 14, 2026

Written by the OtterSMP Management

Hey everyone, happy Friday! Today's post will mostly be covering the big day tomorrow. Let's talk about Mid Season, and more, in this week's rendition of Otter Weekly!

This week's topics:

• 🎂 Otter Birthday's Mid Season update! Everything to look forward to tomorrow!
• ⚔️ Boss Rush Beta Testing is LIVE!
• ⚙️ A big quality-of-life addition - Settings 2.0!
• 👀 Future things coming soon!
• 🏰 SMP Showcase of the Week!
• 💬 Discord Showcase of the Week!

🎂 Otter Birthday's Mid Season Update!

This mid season, we're breaking a record for the most amount of content we've ever tried to release on one day! Tomorrow is going to be one for the history books, make sure you show up! We're going to attempt to release the following:

• 🦊 Birthday Starfox - featuring a ton of callbacks to the first ever Starfox!
• 🎁 Community Bundle! (Artifact) Tons of artifacts and ideas brought back from over the last year, voted on by the community!
• 🦦 Otter Bundle! (Cosmetic) An adorable, Otter-themed bundle to celebrate the 2nd year of Otter in style!
• ⚔️ Boss Rush! The biggest leap we've taken EVER for HVTs! You and your friends fight in the Calamity Gauntlet against some familiar foes for sweet rewards! Two recent and two old HVTs are making their debut!
• 🧸 Two new plushy tokens - the Party single & Memories duo tokens!
• 🎟️ Week 2 of the Birthday Event Card!

Make sure to log on for a bunch of keyalls, and to experience our brand new Boss Rush gamemode. :)

⚔️ Boss Rush Beta!

Speaking of Boss Rush, if you just can't wait to play Boss Rush, you can experience the slightly-unpolished Beta test right now! Don't expect perfection or rewards, but it'll give you a good grasp of what to expect come tomorrow! It's LIVE right now - do /bossrush to enter the queue!

⚙️ Settings 2.0!

While we're at it, we're investing heavily into doing a feature you guys have been asking forever for! Take a look at this - Settings 2.0! Tons of more customization for what you see in chat, available NOW! Check out /settings in game!

👀 Future things coming soon!

This isn't all we have planned for August. As promised, this month still has tons in store! For now, let's talk about Skin & Build Battle! Our party-clown-themed skin competition starts on August 16, 2026, while Build Battle's deadline is August 23, 2026! Best of luck to all that enter!

🏰 SMP Showcase of the Week!

For this week, we're taking a look at an amazing build created by BlueMatsuoka. This castle looks sick man, thanks for sharing it and building on Otter! You've been given 5 keys and the Builders Badge - GG! You can find it in-game at /warp botw.

💬 Discord Showcase of the Week!

And finally, this week's Discord Showcase shows off a beautiful render made by Osaaki for another community member, Yumarice's, birthday. Happy late birthday to Yumarice, and thank you osaaki for making and sharing your art on Otter! You've been given an Artist Badge and 5x keys, GG! You can see this by joining our Discord.

🦦 OtterSMP Management