Pixels Release Tier 5 Update with NFT land Slot Deeds, Deconstructor overhaul

In Brief:

• Pixels rolled out Tier 5 on April 15, adding 105 recipes, new crafting and resource industries and a reworked Deconstruction system.
• T5 industries sit only on NFT Lands, require Slot Deeds that grant 20% of a parcel’s T5 capacity each and expire after 30 days.
• Existing Tier 1-4 industries remain intact, and players earn surplus on T5 items.

Pixels rolled out Tier 5 on April 15, layering a slot-based land system, a retooled Deconstruction mechanic and 105 recipes onto its crafting economy.

The update touches only NFT parcels. T5 industries don’t compete with Tier 1-4 buildings for space, and existing lower-tier setups stay in place. Landholders will also earn surplus on T5 items, Pixels said in a post on The Pixels Post.

Slot deeds and renewal

NFT landholders pick up T5 Slot Deeds at the Pixels HQ Store in Terra Villa, next to Barney’s Bazaarn. Each deed grants 20% of a land’s T5 capacity. Deeds split into two types, one for Crafting industries and one for Resource-Giving industries, and players need separate deeds for each.

Slots last 30 days. Renewing them requires a Preservation Rune, crafted at the Quantum Recombinator in Pixels HQ and gated behind Overall Level 30. Runes are tradable.

If a slot lapses, industries stacked over the land’s limit stop producing. To restore output, players remove buildings over the cap or buy a fresh deed.

Deconstruction replaces The Machine

The system previously called The Machine has been renamed the Deconstructor. It still sits in the Ministry of Innovation but now breaks down select industries in exchange for materials used to craft T5 tools.

Each run consumes a Hearth Fragment, a percentage-chance drop from Hearths when depositing or sabotaging with Yieldstones at Overall Level 95 or higher. Players convert an industry to inactive at an adjacent machine, feed the Fragment to the Deconstructor, place the deactivated building and wait out a timer. Output ranges from two to five items, common to rare.

Ten industries can be deconstructed: eight T5 kits plus the Silk Slug Hutch and Fishing Pond. The process yields seven new materials: Aether Twig, Aetherforge Ore, Refined Resin, Cloudcap Fruit, Moonberry Fruit, Dream Mint Fruit and Collapsed Core. Most come from specific industries. Collapsed Core drops from every deconstructable building.

New industries

T5 Crafting adds the Master Metalworking, Woodworking, Stoneshaping, Stove and Sushi Kits, plus an Estate Winery Kit. Resource-Giving additions are Verdant Soil, the Hammeroot Tree and the Master Mine Kit. Forge 3, a new industry craftable at a Tier 5 Metalworking Bench, produces higher-tier tools and potions.

Wineries, rods, XP

Wineries rolled out across every tier with hard caps: 30 at T5, 13 at T4, 22 at T3, 25 at T2 and 30 at T1. Lifetime supply is capped at 150, 200, 250, 300 and 400 respectively.

Fishing rods now scale across five tiers. T1 sells at the Seaside Stash for 2,200 Buoy Bucks, a price cut. T2 through T5 are crafted at the Woodworking Station. Durability climbs from 200 uses at T1 to 4,500 at T5. Rod tier determines which fish a player can catch. Existing Upgraded Fishing Rods have been converted to T4 Upgraded Rods.

Forestry XP per log jumped sharply. T1 moves from 4 to 7, T2 from 10 to 30, T3 from 17 to 80 and T4 from 25 to 120. T5 enters at 500.

Other changes

Bountyfall’s first quest now gates at Overall Level 10, and the Offering timer extends to four hours. New tasks have been added.

Animal care saw several tweaks. T4 Potion baby IV hatch rates went up, adult chickens drop offspring more often, Turkey feed amounts were corrected across life stages and Gathering Satchel durability moved from 180 to 250.

All Sushi Boats are now edible, and Sushi tasks joined the taskboard. Eighty existing recipes received balance updates. New Merchant Fleet contracts went live.

Crops harvested by another player that then die forfeit any yield bonus.