Pharaoh's Realm Update & Patch Notes (Oct 24, 2026)

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Pharaoh's Realm Update
October 13th, 2026 → October 24th, 2026

Pharaoh's Realm opens on Skyblock with Skill Prestige, the Pharaoh's Altar, and four god bosses in the Pit! Here are the full patch notes for Complex Gaming Skyblock, Prison, and Factions!​

Quick Facts
Released: October 24th, 2026
Covers: October 13th, 2026 → October 24th, 2026
Pharaoh's Realm Opens: October 24th, 2026 at 3pm ET
Game Modes: Skyblock, Prison, and Factions
Server IP: hub.mc-complex.com (Bedrock port 19132)
Versions: Java 1.8 to the latest release, plus Bedrock
Next Patch Notes: October 31st, 2026​

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Patch Notes Sections
Pharaoh's Realm (NEW) • Global • Runes • Dungeons • PVE (Dojo, Tomb, Skull Etc.) • Skyblock • Factions • Prison • Bug Fixes and Misc Changes • Frequently Asked Questions​

Pharaoh's Realm (NEW) ​

• Pharaoh's Champions (NEW):
  • Every 2 hours, at half past the hour (ET), one of four Egyptian gods rises in Pharaoh's Pit.
  • Feed them Favor at the Brazier of Tribute (/tribute) to raise them from Awakened to Empowered, Exalted, and Divine, with tougher fights and better spoils.
  • Spoils include fragments, Ancient Fragments, and Scarab Shards, and every win blesses that skill for the whole Realm for up to 60 minutes (up to x1.35 Prestige Progress from Prestige 1).
  • The first champion rises at 3:30pm ET on launch day. Check the next one with /champions.
• Skill Prestige (NEW): Prestige each of the four skills (Crops, Logs, Dunes, and Fishing) up to 10 times for fragments and Realm Levels.
• Realm Level (NEW): Climb up to Realm Level 40 and unlock more relic slots as you go (/realmprogress).
• Pharaoh's Altar (NEW): 16 relics that boost your skills, bought with fragments (/altar).
• Realm Codex (NEW): A collection book for every skill that pays out fragments and opens extra relic slots (/codex).
• Scarab Sifting (NEW): A new 9th dune perk bought with Scarab Shards that lets raw dune breaks sift out Dune Fragments, and Ancient Fragments from level 3.
• Casual Islands: A cheaper Weekly Realm Pass ($400m + 5M XP, was $500m + 25M XP), a new Day Realm Pass ($75m, no XP), 25% slower Pharaoh's Rage, and only 4 artifacts to open the portal (Pharaoh Artifacts #5 to #8 also fit pedestals #1 to #4).
• Casual Lockout (NEW): Members of a competitive island can't use casual island realms while they're on it. Spend 24 hours on competitive islands in one Island Top cycle, and casual realms stay closed to you until the next Island Top reset (the first Monday of each month), even if you leave. Competitive realms are never blocked.
• Pharaoh's Pit: The Pit is now PvE only. The PvP outpost and its sell, fishing, and perk drop bonuses are retired, and the Pit is now home to Pharaoh's Champions.
• Flash Events: A new Rising bracket for players at Realm Level 3 and below. Helpers of the top Rising island earn 2 fragments even if the goal is missed (gather 1%+ of the goal yourself and be in the Realm when it ends).
• Tomb Expeditions: Expeditions 10 to 15 now have a 5% to 25% chance per clear to drop a Pharaoh Artifact, plus a 10% chance at Ancient Fragments.
• Crop Tiers: Crop sell boosts now go 1.5x, 1.75x, 2x, 2.1x, and 2.25x across the five tiers.
• Balance:
  • Realm crops, logs, and dune blocks regrow slower.
  • Fish bite slower, and fish bite speed boosts are capped at 3x.
  • Greedy Greens and Monsoon are weaker in the Realm.
  • Realm logs pay their own lower /jobs rates.
  • Early and mid realm logs and dune blocks now sell for much more (logs $21 to $28, was $4 to $28; dune blocks $40 to $63, was $1 to $43), while top tier earnings stay about the same.
  • Realm items only sell inside the Realm.
• Quality of Life:
  • Nefer, a new guide NPC, walks you through the whole Realm (/realmtutorial, or /realmtutorial replay to replay a step). Each gather step lends you an Angelic tool for 15 minutes (keep a free inventory slot) and is a one-time challenge worth $10M (500 crops, 500 logs, 500 dune blocks, and 3 fish).
  • Your action bar shows progress to the next tier with an ETA (/tierbar to turn it off).
  • Offerings and tributes pull straight from your offhand backpack, and money pouches, bait, Gold Shards, saplings, and other perk finds go to it first.
  • Treasure keys can be dropped and picked up in the Realm again, and go to /collect when your inventory is full.
  • Restyled /realm menu, new scoreboard lines, and reworked fishing spots.
  • The /realm, Brazier, champion, and portal menus now explain what each trade, tribute, and pass costs, uses up, and gives back.

Champion​	Skill​	Feed It​
Ra, Sun Emperor​	Crops​	Crops​
Anubis, Judge of Souls​	Logs​	Logs​
Sobek, River King​	Fishing​	Fish​
Apophis, Serpent of Chaos​	Dunes​	Dune Blocks​

Want every detail? Read our Pharaoh's Realm Guide​

Global ​

• /guide Wiki (NEW):
  • /guide is now the official in-game wiki and opens your game mode's guides.
  • /wiki works as an alias.
  • Typing [wiki] in chat posts a clickable link to the guides.
• Daily Warzone:
  • In Kill the King, the King now glows gold through walls with a gold crown, a light beam overhead, and a ♛ THE KING ♛ nametag.
  • Hunters get an arrow and the distance to the King on their action bar.
  • Fixed exit portals not working because their chunks unloaded mid-run.
• Bedrock Wiki Links (NEW): Bedrock players now get a QR code they can scan to open wiki guides on their phone.
• Wiki Links in Menus: Info books and menus now link their wiki guide: /tomb, /skull, /dojo, /dz, /lz, /cluescrolls, /jobs, /camps, Raid Camps, /chestshop, shop settings, the /gc info item, and the Prison pickaxe menu.
• Report a Player: The main menu Reminders button is now a Report a Player button (/report <player>), and /report now works inside Dungeons, Tomb Expeditions, and Duels (/staff works in Tomb Expeditions and Duels too).
• Golden Merchant: The Shard Merchant on Prison and Skyblock is now the Golden Merchant (T2 and T3 Golden Merchants on Skull Island).
• Voice Chat: Players who are way too loud on voice chat are now turned down to a normal level automatically, while normal speech stays untouched.
• Duels: Suspicious Stews are now allowed in Bring Your Own Gear duels.
• Jobs: Metal Detector loot and Spawner Frame rewards now only show in /jobs on Survival, where they drop.

Want every detail? Browse every guide in our Complex Gaming Wiki​

Runes ​

• Imperial Fishing Rod: Now catches extra items instead of only fish, and every extra catch drops bonus EXP orbs (slightly lower max on Skyblock).
• Spartan Fishing Rod: No longer adds pond capture progress. To make up for it, it now procs more often and catches up to 10+ extra fish per cast on Skyblock and Prison.
• Greenhouse: New toggle in the rune settings to spread grass and mycelium onto nearby dirt.
• Incinerator: Unidentified runes can now be incinerated (hotbar-locked runes stay protected).
• Marksman Shards: Restored the 60% lower proc chance when using crossbows.
• Void Axe: No longer procs from rune damage, only from melee hits.
• Pilfering: No longer strips gear off custom mobs.

Dungeons ​

• Mastery Rewards: Milestone coin and XP rewards are way higher (the top milestone now gives 100,000 coins and 100,000 XP). Already claimed some? Open /dungeon to claim your top-up.
• Lucky Rolls: Max level raised from 10 to 15, and it now compounds: each level makes every perk level 7% more likely to roll than the one below it (was a flat 3%).
• Essence: Minion Essence in the Dungeon Shop is now half price (25,000 to 12,500 coins).
• Boss Coins: Every boss now drops coins on death, scaling with the dungeon tier.
• Perk Menu: The perk selection menu now shows a row of your perk slots, with each picked perk's level and stats and your open slots still to fill.
• Perks: Extra perks are now priced from their full base cost, and Trap Evasion and Trap Resistance only roll in Overworld dungeons.
• Items: The Random Crate Key can be opened anywhere, and items can no longer be put on the Mob Aggro Decoy.
• Forest Warden: Forest Warden is now a boss.

Want every detail? Read our Dungeons Guide​

PVE (Dojo, Tomb, Skull Etc.) ​

• Ponds: Fish needed to capture a pond cut in half (Skyblock 150 to 75, Prison 150 to 75 and 200 to 100), and fishing runes no longer work inside ponds.
• Pond Owner Bonuses: Tomb Pond owners now actually get their +25% Tomb drops and +50% Tomb EXP. Skull Island pond owners get +25% drops and +50% EXP in Tier 2, and +35% drops and +75% EXP in Tier 3.
• Pharaoh's Tomb:
  • Crossbows now get 50% lower drop luck in the Tomb (was 40%, Skull Island stays at 40%).
  • PvP Beacons show their real 10 minute duration.
  • /tomb now lists each tier's shard and pouch drops correctly, with the Pond under Tier 2.
  • Tomb Pond kill points now count toward the pond's own tier.
  • Bastet's Shadow Pounce and the Pharaoh's Wrath attack now knock back players standing right where they strike.
• Skull Island: The Skull Backpack now costs 64 Gold Shards at the Skull Armory (no longer sold at the merchant), and /skull lists the token drops in Zone 1.
• Flash Events: The flash event drop boost now also applies to loot pool zone drops.
• Darkzone/Lightzone: Lightzone tier lore now matches the real drop tables, and the Darkzone border is now 450 blocks wide around the zone.

Want every detail? Read our Pharaoh's Tomb Guide, Skull Island Guide, and Darkzone and Lightzone Guide​

Skyblock ​

• Rookie Tour:
  • New /guide step before the spawn tour.
  • A Guide button in the tour menu.
  • Every step shows as done once you finish it.
• Minions: Refinery minions now need essence to roll Epic grades or higher.
• Conquest: The top three PvP teams now each get their own Conquest reward.
• Clue Scrolls: Cask rewards are named after what they give (192x Gold Blocks, 2x Anubis Keys, +150% and +200% EXP Boosters), and the duplicate emerald log clues now ask for Acacia and Cherry logs.
• Trade Winds: Island Top now shows Trade Winds reset and Gale times in ET.

Want every detail? Read our Skyblock Guide​

Factions ​

• Vote Fly: Voting now gives 15 minutes of flight (was 5).
• Raid Camps:
  • Clearing a Raid Camp for the first time now correctly awards its FTop point.
  • Before a reboot, active Raid Camps now refund your cannon TNT to the faction bank and send everyone to spawn.
  • The Dry Oceans camp map was restored.
• Logout: Logging out on unclaimed land, in the Lightzone, or while roaming enemy claims no longer sends you back to spawn.
• TNT Bank: /f tnt take now needs the bank withdraw permission.
• Claims: The claim warning and base claim menu now show the real raid claim expiry.
• Allies Cleanup: /f chat no longer cycles to the removed Ally channel, and the leftover ally and truce text and ally permissions button are gone.
• Weekend Bonus: /sunday now lists the Gold Shard bonus.

Want every detail? Read our Factions Raiding Guide​

Prison ​

• Sea Legs: Sea Legs can now be bought in /upgrade.
• Pickaxes: Jumping several pickaxe levels at once now gives every level reward, and netherite now breaks instantly at Efficiency 50 with no client lag.
• Gangs:
  • Gang mines now enforce their player cap and force reset cooldown.
  • The unfinished Buy One Get One upgrade was removed.
  • The hologram shows the real 10 player roster with 6 active slots (8 with upgrades).
• Plots: Locked plots now keep visitors out, and /p opens plots again instead of party.
• Dailies: The 4th daily tier now gives its listed $8,000 and 30 tokens.
• Crates: Escapist money rewards now pay their listed amounts, and the vote money reward is labeled $250.
• Black Market: Pickaxes from crates now roll as skin vouchers.
• /upgrade: /upgrades works as an alias, and the main menu Upgrades button and mana hologram now point to /upgrade.

Want every detail? Read our Prison Gangs Guide​

Bug Fixes and Misc Changes ​

Skyblock ​	Factions ​	Prison ​
Fixed runes and XP triggering on blocked sapling breaks. The Tomb Expeditions Sealed Vault intro no longer promises a Rare Key and Lodestone. Gold Shard text now points to the right Golden Merchants. The Trap Revealer and Auto Respawn dungeon perk descriptions now explain what they really do. The dungeon completion bonus line now shows your cleared %. The Wayfinder Dungeon Shop icon uses its proper model. Fixed Auction House listings for items with very long lore not showing up. Custom lore added with lore commands is now capped at 64 lines. Fixed typos on the infuser holograms. Tutorials and tips now say 600+ runes. The voting tip no longer lists a fixed fly time. Imperial Boots now show the right damage and health values.	Fixed a crash when a totem popped. Roam no longer turns off chunk loaders. Redstone hiding no longer unhides every chunk at once. Fixed faction loading that could freeze the server. Crates, envoys, and tutorials now call the Collection Chest by its item name. Removed allies from the Kamikaze rune description. Fixed Auction House listings for items with very long lore not showing up. Custom lore added with lore commands is now capped at 64 lines. Fixed typos on the infuser holograms. Tutorials and tips now say 600+ runes. The voting tip no longer lists a fixed fly time. Imperial Boots now show the right damage and health values.	Fixed the Lucky Spin, Torrent, and Glitch chance descriptions. The Helpful Man NPC opens the main menu. The unused Nobleman NPC was removed. The reset vault hologram no longer mentions Skyblock. Envoy holograms no longer advertise spawners. The lottery and loans announcements were removed. Gold Shard text now points to the right Golden Merchants, including Skull Island Tiers 2 and 3. The Trap Revealer and Auto Respawn dungeon perk descriptions now explain what they really do. The dungeon completion bonus line now shows your cleared %. The Wayfinder Dungeon Shop icon uses its proper model. Fixed Auction House listings for items with very long lore not showing up. Custom lore added with lore commands is now capped at 64 lines. Fixed typos on the infuser holograms. Tutorials and tips now say 600+ runes. The voting tip no longer lists a fixed fly time. Imperial Boots now show the right damage and health values.

Frequently Asked Questions ​

When does Pharaoh's Realm open?

• October 24th, 2026 at 3pm ET on Complex Skyblock, on Java and Bedrock.

How do I unlock Pharaoh's Realm?

• Buy the Pharaoh's Realm island upgrade (island level 21), place the portal from your Island Menu, fill its pedestals with Pharaoh Artifacts, and buy a Realm Pass.

What are Pharaoh's Champions?

• Four Egyptian god bosses (Ra, Anubis, Sobek, and Apophis) that rise in Pharaoh's Pit every 2 hours. Feed them Favor at the Brazier of Tribute, then beat them for fragments, Scarab Shards, and a Realm-wide Blessing.

How often does Complex post patch notes?

• Every Saturday, here in Announcements and on our Discord.

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