Chainers opens four-day ‘Survivor Swarm’ event, adds bees to its animal roster

In Brief:

• Chainers (official site) started “The Survivor Swarm” on Aug. 6, a four-day event combining a Progression track and a Mission track. It closes Aug. 9.
• The event introduces bees as a playable animal type, teased with the line “A swarm sealed away. A promise beneath the waves. A journey that will change two worlds forever.”
• It arrives three weeks after 51 Games reworked the Reward Pool on July 17, adding a Tier 4 and raising Tier 1 daily payouts from 750 CFB to 3,000.

Chainers launched The Survivor Swarm on Aug. 6, running a Progression event and a Mission event side by side for four days and adding bees to the game’s animal lineup. The event ends Aug. 9.

The studio announced the dates on X and directed players to a Medium post for the full rules. The announcement called the new additions “our buzzzzted animals!”

How the double format works

Chainers has paired Progression and Mission events before. Progression events hand out escalating rewards as players clear themed tasks, typically running from seeds and plots up to a craftable legendary animal at the end of the track. Missions reset on daily and weekly timers, and rewards have to be claimed before the clock runs out.

An earlier Progression plus Mission pairing, “Herbs Fiction: The Final Clue,” awarded two Epic Akitas, one Epic Metal Plot, 50 Random Fertilizer, one Epic Basil Seed and one Epic Physalis Seed. The “Call of the Wild” deer event before it added six limited bundles sold only while the event ran, plus corn, radish, blueberry and purple carrot seeds. Its grand prize was an EPIC Blitzen Charger, with a LEGENDARY DEER craftable on completion.

The Swine Adventure event centered on Marty McSwine, a Rare pig worth 240,000 biopoints.

Bees weren’t new to the economy

Bees already had a role in Chainers before this week. The farm rework made honey a crafted good produced from bees and milk, used to fill the randomized daily orders NPCs post. Animals feed the biopoints system that determines Reward Pool standing, so a new animal type isn’t just cosmetic.

The rework behind it

51 Games overhauled the Reward Pools on July 17, adding a fourth tier and lifting payouts across the board. Tier 1 daily CFB went from 750 to 3,000. Increases ranged between 75% and 90% depending on the pool: roughly 75% for BNB, 79% for POL and 90% for CFB.

The stated aim was to push high-volume players into Tier 4 and clear room in Tiers 1 through 3. An earlier adjustment in the Autumn 2025 update had moved Tier 2 to 360 POL per day, up from 180, and Tier 3 to 702 POL per day, up from 360.

Payouts also moved from twice daily to four times a day in a separate patch, alongside allocation bumps of 15% for FRI, 15% for CFB and 40% for POL.

Where the token sits

FRI is gone. The Autumn 2025 update ended its distribution, pulled it from onboarding boosters, and stripped it out of missions and daily tasks starting in August, with per-account compensation for existing balances. CFB is now the soft currency behind crafting, farming, upgrades and store purchases.

CHU, the planned ecosystem token, still isn’t active in gameplay. The launch was paused and revised. 51 Games has targeted Q3 2026 for the TGE and listings, with 20% of supply unlocked at generation and the remaining 80% vesting monthly over 12 months. The conversion rate from CFB to CHU hasn’t been disclosed.

Background

Chainers is a free browser MMO from 51 Games built around farm management, crafting, character customization and mini-games. It ran on a Polygon sidechain before the September 2025 Immutable X integration, which added one-click onboarding and automatic wallet assignment for players signing in with Google, Facebook or X.

The site reports more than 1 million registered players and about 250,000 community members across its social channels.

The teaser copy is doing most of the work on story. “A swarm sealed away. A promise beneath the waves. A journey that will change two worlds forever.”