Bearon Mars

Fixes

• Leaving a run with the Menu button now keeps your distance, so a new best counts, just like when Bear bonks.
• Once Bear On Earth and Deathdogs are unlocked, they stay unlocked, rebirths included. If a rebirth locked them before, they are back.
• The weredog's change no longer ends on a white screen: the portal's light fades away and the portal closes smoothly behind Bear.
• The Wolf Busters story now plays every time Bear eats a bad steak with the Weredog skill, not just the first time.

Halloween: Death To BEAR!

• The first event, until midnight at the end of 7 November. Open it from the new Events button next to your profile on the Play Menu.
• Deathdogs has gone wrong on Choose a mission. Tap it and a portal swaps it for Death To BEAR!, a new mode for everyone while the event is on, whether or not you have found Deathdogs.
• Bear walks Deathdogs for 100,000 m, hears cries for help and finds the Blood Moon Village overrun by Zombie Bulldogs.
• An 8,000 m run under a blood red moon, with a boss every 1,000 m: Sir Rattlebones, Count Barkula, Old Strawhead, The Mummy Mastiff, Wicked Wanda, The Headless Hound and General Gnasher. Each one drops a part.
• At 7,500 m, build the Pumpkin of Souls on the crafting bench from the seven parts. Bear wears it over his head, inside his helmet, and it is yours to wear for good.
• At 8,000 m, The Jack O' Lantern, the mastermind of the war. Beat him to save the village and win him as a sidekick.
• Five power-ups found only in Death To BEAR!: the Witch's Broom, the Soul Lantern, Candy Rush, the Silver Bone and the Bat Pack. The skeletons there wear pumpkin masks.
• Pumpkin Treats, the event's own money: 500 for each of the first two bosses, 1,000 for the next four, 1,500 for the seventh and 2,500 for The Jack O' Lantern. Daily rewards and challenges pay them too.
• The event shop: the Lantern Out sticker, the Blood Moon Village background for your profile, the Skull Collar, the Blood Moon Suit, the Vampire Cape and Boo the Ghost Pup, a new sidekick. A quest wins the Monster Hunter Coat, and two challenges win Bat Ears and a Trick or Treat Bag. Your Pumpkin Treats show next to your Gummy Bears while the event is on.
• The Jack O' Lantern and Boo come with Bear on every mission, and stay yours for good. Once a run, The Jack O' Lantern gives Bear an extra life, unless a power-up saves him first: if a power-up takes the bonk, the extra life goes with it.
• A Death To BEAR! menu theme takes the place of the Deathdogs theme, with an album of new music and a title that will not keep still, and the mode has music of its own.
• When the event ends, Deathdogs comes back and Pumpkin Treats go. Everything you won or bought stays yours: outfits, sidekicks, the sticker and the background are all limited edition.

King Bulldozer

• Beat King Bulldozer, the final boss at 10,000 m in Dog Dash, and Bear climbs the tallest mountain on Mars and plants his flag on the top, with a victory song and a crown in the sky. The flag shows your Bear on your tribe's colours, or on colours that stand out against your outfit if you are not in a tribe. Then choose Keep playing or Menu.
• The first time, King Bulldozer becomes your sidekick. Every 30 seconds he does a Crater Stomp, and the barriers and bulldogs ahead turn into Gummy Bears.
• New secret outfits: the King Bulldozer Onesie and King Bulldozer's Cape.
• Beating him also wins the Summit Flag sticker: your flag on the top of a Mars mountain. Wear it on your profile straight away, or pick it later from your profile.

Daily rewards

• Daily rewards in the Logbook. Claim a reward once a day for 14 days: 50 Gummy Bears a day in the first week and 100 a day in the second. Miss a day and you carry on from where you left off.
• Day 7 brings a limited edition hat and day 14 a limited edition suit. Limited edition is a new rarity: these outfits only show in Choose Character once you have them, and they stay through rebirths. Around Christmas, New Year, Chinese New Year, Ramadan and Eid, Easter, Diwali and Halloween, they match the season.
• When a daily reward is waiting, it pops up on the Play Menu.

Trading

• Trade with your friends: Gummy Bears, Diamond Bears and limited edition outfits. Open a friend's profile and press Trade. Trading opens after your first rebirth, for both of you.
• Starting a trade costs 250 Gummy Bears. You get them back if the trade is declined, cancelled or runs out of time, or if nothing is traded.
• Both players accept, then both check everything once more and confirm. Nothing moves until you have both confirmed, and any change means you both accept again.
• In a trade you can send a + to ask for more, or one of ten emojis.

Back to school

• Bear On Earth sometimes passes a school. Go in, pick one of three doors and find Mr Emmett's classroom. The other two classrooms are locked for now: coming soon.
• Flip Mr Emmett's coin for the test: computers and IT (it lands that way 7 times in 10), or Harrogate. Study the information sheet first: pick it up, zoom in, turn it round and flip it over.
• Ten questions, three lives. Lose all three and Mr Emmett throws his chicken tikka masala, then drives home to Bradford, City Hall, fountains and all.
• Pass and Mr Emmett becomes your sidekick. He gives Bear three extra lives in every run, if you can answer three of his questions each time.
• Mr Emmett speaks with a real Bradford voice.

Stickers and poses

• Profile stickers, won at big moments: the Summit Flag, Earthling, On the Lead, Top Marks, Wolf Buster, Reborn, and a few secret ones. Ones you have already earned are yours straight away, and stickers stay through rebirths.
• Pick your background and your sticker on your profile, from two strips under Bear: scroll left and right through them. Locked ones show a padlock and say how to win them.
• Drag your sticker anywhere on your profile picture, and everyone sees it where you put it.
• Every profile now shows nine stats. Best run is the longest run in any mission, in place of a best for each one, and time played and bosses beaten are new.
• Choose a pose for Bear on your profile picture: stand, wave or leap. Your sidekick strikes the same pose.
• Your profile picture can show your sidekick next to Bear. Switch it on or off in Settings, under Account.

And more

• Turn music, voices and sound effects up or down on their own, in Settings under Audio. The TV announcer is quieter.
• Before you confirm a trade, a plain summary shows everything you give and everything you get, with a warning if you get nothing back.
• The first time the Mo Manor story finishes, you choose whether it plays every time you press Play. You can change it later in Settings, under Gameplay.
• The Tribe Pass costs 1,000 Gummy Bears to unlock, up from 500. If it is yours already, it stays yours.
• The Tribe Pass pays 100 Gummy Bears a level, up from 50, and every 10th level pays 250 Gummy Bears and 10 Diamond Bears.
• Badges no longer pay out by themselves: earn one, then press Claim in the Logbook. A dot on the Logbook button means something is waiting.
• Jet has a new voice, with a proper Yorkshire accent.
• Every story in the game shows Arta Mo © at the bottom, from start to finish.

• Your name in the corner of the Play Menu is now a button, with a profile icon. Tap it to open your profile: Bear in the outfit you are wearing, your main numbers, your rebirth tier and your tribe. A red number on it means something is waiting: a friend request, a tribe invitation or a Tribe Pass reward.
• Your profile can have a background: Mars, Earth or a secret one. They unlock the same way the menu themes do. Other players see the one you pick.
• Friends: search for a friend by their username and send a request. Once they accept, you can see each other's Bears, who is playing now, and when the others last played. You can also see the friends you share.
• Tribes: join one for free, or make your own for 1,000 Gummy Bears. Give it a name and put a banner together from 16 icons, 10 colours and 4 patterns. The Tribes tab has a search box.
• A tribe can be open or closed. Anyone can join an open tribe while there is room. A closed tribe needs an invitation, and any member can invite a friend from the Friends list.
• A tribe levels up from the Gummy Bears its members earn, and a higher level makes room for more members. The tribe's page shows how much each member has given.
• Tribe Pass: unlock it for 500 Gummy Bears and it is yours for good. Every level your tribe reaches then pays you 50 Gummy Bears, and every 10th level a Diamond Bear too. Levels the tribe reached before you joined do not count.
• A weekly tribe challenge, Monday to Sunday: the tribe earns 2,000 Gummy Bears for each member. Reach it and every member who helped gets 150 Gummy Bears.
• Leaving a tribe costs 350 Gummy Bears, or what you have if that is less. Only the leader can disband a tribe, hand the lead to another member, or take a member out. The leader can also rename the tribe for 250 Gummy Bears, once a week, or change its banner for 100.
• The Leaderboard has three tabs: Players, Tribes and Friends.
• The Play Menu tells you when a friend accepts your request, when you are invited to a tribe, when you are taken out of one, and when your tribe is disbanded.
• Another player's profile and a tribe's page have a Report button, with three reasons to pick from. A report goes to Arta Mo.
• Rebirths are cheaper to start: the first costs 5,000 Gummy Bears, then 7,500, then 10,000, then 15,000, and 5,000 more each time after that. Once you have had enough rebirths for the whole skill tree, there are no more to do.
• A noticeboard pops up on the Play Menu after each update, once, with a short animation of what is new. To see it again, press Open the noticeboard on this page. Open your profile and press How it works for a quick guide to profiles, friends and tribes.

A new way in

• The game has an opening. Press any button on the first picture, of Bear floating over Mars, and it plays: the picture, the title, and a loading scene where Bear tries on outfits while your save loads.
• It ends on the Play Menu, which is now the first screen you see. Press Play to sign in and start: the sign-in page has become a popup, and the opening story now plays after you press Play.
• The bottom corners of the Play Menu show which account is signed in, and have an About button and the TikTok and Instagram buttons.
• The Play Menu has slimmer buttons, and fits the screen better on laptops and on small phones.
• The Mo Manor story plays every time you press Play. To see it only once each time you open the game, switch it off in Settings, under Gameplay.
• Nerf: Octoalien Power, Postman Power, the skeleton's Bone Bonus and the golden boxers' Boxer Boost now last 20 seconds, down from 30.

Themes and albums

• The main menu has themes: Mars, Earth and a secret one. Earth opens when you unlock Bear On Earth. Pick one in Settings, under Theme, where each has a preview.
• Each theme has its own album of music, with the tunes from its mission and some new ones. The menus play the album of the theme that is on.
• Settings has a music player, under Audio: see what is playing, pause it, skip forwards or back, pick a song, or loop one.
• Settings is sorted into tabs: General, Audio, Theme, Gameplay and Account.

Challenges and a bigger wardrobe

• Fourteen new outfits to earn and buy: scarves, chains and collars for Bear's neck, new hats, and new things to carry on his back. There are some for every mission.
• Six new secret outfits are hidden around the game. One of them is waiting for whoever wears Simo's Royal Robe.
• Simo's Royal Robe has been remade: gold brocade, an ermine mantle and fur cuffs.
• A daily challenge and a weekly challenge in the Logbook. The daily one pays 50 Gummy Bears and the weekly one 150, and everyone gets the same ones.
• The Logbook also has six new badges, your place on the leaderboard, and a page of every secret hint with a tick on the ones you have found.
• News from Arta Mo can now appear on the main menu.
• The leaderboard can show a coloured tag next to a player's username.
• Bear on Mars is on TikTok and Instagram. The buttons are on the information page, under Contact us.

Easier on a phone

• Choose Character on a phone: Bear stays on screen while you scroll through the outfits. Hold the phone sideways and he stands on the left, with the outfits on the right.
• On a small screen, unlocks and power-up messages no longer cover the run. They wait behind a bell in the corner: tap it to pause and read them.
• Bear's laser eyes in Click A Ship fire from his eyes, even in the middle of a jump.
• A new secret outfit is hidden in the opening story. Have a good look round the Mo Manor.

Switches and dates

• The Alpha skill has a switch. Once you have learned it, tap it on the skill tree to choose whether Bear starts each run as a weredog.
• The update log says when each update arrived.
• The Logbook and the Leaderboard have swapped places on the main menu.

Aliens, lasers and a leaderboard

• Aliens have landed in Dog Dash. The bulldogs are bulldog aliens now, and an octoalien has taken over the postman's round on Mars. Bite him for double Gummy Bears.
• Four new Dog Dash power-ups: Force Bubble, Gummy Magnet, Star Power and Warp Boots.
• Bear zaps ships with laser eyes in Click A Ship.
• Two new skills on the skill tree, Laser Sweep and Bear Pack, bring power-ups to Click A Ship: every ship zapped at once, or two more Bears to help.
• A leaderboard of the top 100 players, ranked by Gummy Bears, showing what each Bear is wearing.
• Usernames. You pick one when you sign up, and it is the name on the leaderboard.
• Rebirth points are now Diamond Bears, and diamond ships are harder to find.
• A rebirth is a proper fresh start: Gummy Bears, Diamond Bears and bought outfits reset, and Planet Deathdogs and Bear On Earth have to be won back. Secret outfits and sidekicks stay. (Changed since: Bear On Earth and Planet Deathdogs now stay open after a rebirth.)
• Steak Thirst lasts 10 seconds. Steaks and golden boxers turn up a little less often.
• The weredog stops for a howl when he turns, and howls again every minute.
• New music all through the Wolf Busters story.
• Play as an app: add Bear on Mars to your phone's home screen and it opens full screen.
• Jet is now Jet Golds.
• This update log, and a way to get in touch.

Bosses, steaks and the weredog

• A boss fight every 1000 m in Dog Dash: ten bosses, ending with King Bulldozer at 10,000 m.
• A steak every 350 m. Steak Thirst gives Bear wild eyes and a double jump.
• Some steaks have gone off. With the right skill, a bad one starts the secret Wolf Busters story and turns Bear into a weredog.
• A secret Wolf sidekick and the Werewolf Onesie.
• Rebirth and the skill tree, with permanent skills to learn.
• Diamond ships in Click A Ship.

Sideways or upright

• Play with your phone held sideways or upright. The game asks the first time, and you can change it in Settings.

Tidying up

• The story behind the game moved to its own button on the main menu.
• Start again from scratch, if you want to, from Settings.
• Rush Ride takes 1500 m to recharge.

Skeletons and a newsreader

• The Story: why this game was made, and a picture of the real Bear.
• Skeletons stroll about Planet Deathdogs. Bite one for a Bone Bonus.
• The graveyard throws a party, with its own tune, whenever a power-up is running.
• A secret outfit hidden in the opening story's news report.
• Choose your own keyboard keys for biting and pausing.

The Logbook

• Bear's Logbook: your stats, and badges that pay out Gummy Bears.
• Deathdogs power-ups: Ghost Cloak, Candy Cauldron, Bone Shield and Fight Treat.
• Spooky outfits to buy, and more secrets to find.
• Outfits now have a rarity, from Common to Mythic.

Planet Deathdogs

• Planet Deathdogs, a secret haunted mission. Something in the opening story opens the way.
• Zombie Bulldogs and turn-based Dog Fights.
• Cerberus, a three-headed boss who can become a sidekick. Ride him with Rush Ride.
• More secrets tucked into the opening story.
• Each mission has its own music.

Zombie Bullman

• Zombie Bullman, a secret sidekick buried in the opening story.
• Bear got more expressions, and the main menu got music.

The postman and the story

• A postman on his round. Bite him for double Gummy Bears and a secret outfit.
• The opening story of how Bear ended up on Mars.
• Jet and the TV got real voices.

Gummy Bears, outfits and Bear On Earth

• Gummy Bears to collect, and outfits to spend them on in Choose Character.
• The lucky golden boxers.
• Bear On Earth, with Jet, a proper brew and a Yorkshire pudding.
• The first secret outfits.

• Click A Ship and Dog Dash, the first two missions.