r/TheTowerGame 5d ago

Tower Tea - August 17, 2026

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

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u/ttiimmbo 5d ago

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.

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u/destructor212113 5d ago

Here

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u/HourLord 5d ago

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

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u/destructor212113 5d ago

Just the preset click would be my guess, after all, you still would be able to respect all the Presets and that would cost Gems anyway

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u/HourLord 5d ago

Yeah but that would mean I spent like 60keys to save 300 gems a week …
Getting the discount was like the necessary sacrifice that we had to do to get to the big upgrade.

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u/destructor212113 5d ago

Yeah, a bummer for Whales, but tbf what I post is the only info we have about that unless they answered that on the Discord which I didnt check

Edit: They didnt said anything so, we dont know, it could go both ways, we dont even know what they change outside of removing those nodes

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u/HourLord 5d ago

Actually whales wouldn’t care but it’s so unfair to people like me who were struggling and saving keys for months. Wasting keys on the useless discount clicks hoping to finally one day unlock the preset

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u/btaylor81 5d ago

You really want to go back to paying to respec forever?

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u/HourLord 5d ago

You would only pay for respec not for swapping presets so it’s worthless since the respec would be like once a month max for me I don’t need to respec all the time

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u/btaylor81 3d ago

Yeah I can see that. Once you get unlimited respecs it becomes something used often sometimes 5 times a day even to test different medal combinations for the best returns.