Taskbar Hero Plague Zone Update Adds New Area, Level 90 Items, and Free Skin
The update delivers the long-announced Plague Zone content and the Twilight Wanderers skin promised as compensation for the earlier server outage.
Reporting from 2 sources: Automaton, Game Spark.
Nugem Studio and Tesseract Studio released the Plague Zone update for the free-to-play idle RPG Taskbar Hero. The update adds a new high-difficulty area entered through the portal UI on Nightmare, Hell, and Torment difficulties, gated by a contamination meter. It also adds level 90 equipment and accessories, an appearance system, new runes, and the Twilight Wanderers skin, distributed free until September 17 as compensation for a recent server outage.
Entering Plague Zone requires clearing stages 1-10 on the chosen difficulty and holding at least 30 contamination. The meter drains while inside and forces a return to normal areas at zero, recovering over time whether online or offline. The zone drops fewer chests than normal areas but offers Celestial-grade and above items, with chests stored separately and managed through dedicated rune nodes.
The update adds 27 Plague Zone rune nodes and 17 nodes for chest drop rate and wave count, plus level 90 gear tradable on the market as Type C. The Twilight Wanderers skin is free until September 17, then becomes purchasable.
- Plague Zone (new area): entered via portal UI on Nightmare, Hell, and Torment after clearing stages 1-10
- Contamination system: required to enter, drains while inside, recovers over time
- Level 90 items: equipment and accessories, tradable on the market as Type C
- New special attributes
- Statistics function
- New runes: 27 Plague Zone nodes and 17 chest drop rate and wave count nodes
- Settings UI options: item level display, socket display, screen transparency
- Appearance system: changes hero illustration, in-game image, and animation
- Twilight Wanderers skin: free until September 17 as server issue compensation
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.