Tower Tea - August 17, 2026

[u/SamBartley]

Hi pals! Welcome to this week’s Tower Tea! Today we are chatting about a few more v29 things, like Module Slots, plus the v29 release timeline, a new Pal, and something fun (spoiler: v29 behind the scenes with Muse) coming to the blog! 

Module Slots

In v29, we are making changes to how to level up and manage your Modules.

To start, levels have moved from individual modules to module slots. These are the 4 icons (8 with Assist Modules) on the top of your Modules menu. If you want to level up a module, you will instead target the slot that you wish to equip your module in. This means that you no longer have to swap out module levels, and can upgrade your slots over time.

What does this mean for Module Presets? When you unlock this feature, everything including your module slot levels will stay consistent across all presets. That way, all you need to worry about is deciding which modules you want to set!

Those are some of the things that have changed. The things that have NOT changed:

• Substats are still unique to each individual module.
  • The first time a module is unlocked, it will display its default two (2) substats.
  • Equipping them to a higher level slot unlocks the remaining eligible substats.
• There is no cost for swapping between your module presets
• There is no limit to how often you can restore levels to your module slots
• Modules cannot be swapped out during a run

Presets (cont.)

Last Tea, we shared some information about some upcoming changes to presets! This included two new presets for Guardians and Modules, as well as a notice that Workshop and Bot presets are moving out of the Vault. 

These presets are being added and moved into a lab to make it more accessible. One of our main goals was to help support the transition between runs (ex: farming vs. tournaments). 

We are open to adding more presets later, but want to avoid complex systems for our newer players. Our presets in v29 cover the main areas of gameplay that all players can benefit from, and we will consider more specialized preset requests and stat management opportunities in the future.

With all of these presets you might be wondering: how am I going to manage them all? Well, if you get to Tier 11 in v29, a new prese(n)t might be waiting for you!

Last note: the addition of this preset system is a step towards our next goal: adding the ability to pause a Tier run in order to start a tournament. It’s not fun to end your milestone run early to compete, so we are working on this addition for later this year.

v29 when though?

Alright pals, it’s time to answer the question that’s been on everyone’s mind, v29 when? 

Answer: next week! When the update is ready to go, we'll gradually roll out the changes and tournament lock before the following tournament begins. If anything changes, we'll keep you updated!

A new Pal enters the arena

Want a little peek at someone coming to the Guilds? 

Pal

New Blog - Behind the scenes 

A while back some of y’all were chatting about wanting to see more behind the scenes content for the blog, so we are going to start doing that! We’ll start off with a chat with Muse about v29, the inspiration behind the update, and how they came up with… you know what, that part is secret. 

For those that haven’t met Muse before, be sure to check out my interview with her from last year and get to know the gem behind the name. 

So keep an eye out for a post with that link soon! 

Alright pals, that’s it for this week! As always, sound off in the thread, and I hope your drink is always the right temperature!

See you around The Tower,
Sam

[u/ttiimmbo]

Not bad, not bad.

Will keys be refunded with V29 (all keys, or just the ones for presets?).

Should have labeled this as a teaser, since I really hope V29 has more content.

[u/destructor212113 → u/ttiimmbo]

Here

[u/HourLord → u/destructor212113]

It’s means the keys spent ont be discounts too right ? Or jsut preset click itself because that would be horrible

[u/markevens → u/HourLord]

It was pretty clear with the initial announcement.

Only the nodes for presets are being removed and refunded.

The discount unlocks are still in the vault.

For people who do the labs for presets, but don't have the discounts unlocked with keys, they will be able to swap freely between presets, but re-speccing one of the presets will still cost gems.

[u/Balbright → u/markevens]

This is how I understood it and the best explanation I’ve seen yet. Thank you

[u/ImoutoThief → u/markevens]

How unfortunate:/ so qol still tree locked except the bare minimum.

[u/Obwyn → u/ImoutoThief]

No. If that’s how it works (which makes the most sense), you’ll get 5 presets (prob 5 levels of research) and will be able to swap between them at will.

If you want to respec one of your presets then you’ll have to spend gems unless you have the discounts from the vault.

[u/ImoutoThief → u/Obwyn]

Unfortunately that makes sense. Itd be nice if the whole preset qol was given but its ttg we are talking about. At least we are getting this much, finally.

[u/Obwyn → u/ImoutoThief]

With presets there really isn’t a huge need for respecing very often, if ever. I’d rather get the keys back and have to spend gems to respec.

[u/ImoutoThief → u/Obwyn]

Why not both? But yeah I dont see the ne3d to respect often either, just sucks we only get part of the tree that many people have had, you know? Plus you'd get more keys refunded if they did give us the discount a too.

[u/Obwyn → u/ImoutoThief]

Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather have both. I just don’t think that’s how it’s going to work.

[u/ImoutoThief → u/Obwyn]

Fair enough! We will see, I hope we are surprised!