A total of 11 seasons – with each season lasting an entire week of 99 games and a weekend after the season – played last year before the Game Band developers put the game on a “Great Siesta” to prepare for future seasons . Now, the game is back with a series of new features, many of which seem aimed at making the game more accessible and easier to follow, especially for newbies.
A new “Feed” is being added to help fans keep track of recent events taking place on Blaseball, which was previously a challenge, as many of the updates were shared mainly in the Discord game community or on Twitter. Blaseball will also feature a season within three weeks, followed by a two-week off-season, to give fans time to catch up between events.
In addition, The Game Band has announced some other features whose implications are not yet known (according to the Blaseball mystery, of course). “Concessions” are being added, which appears to impact the voting system in some way. There will now be “weekly mysterious tarot readings”, a “Crabitat” added to the Baltimore Crabs (a team that “rose” last year to win three seasons but has not been seen since) and “Wills”, a new resource to help teams to strategize and organize to get the rule changes, buffs and other voting results they want.
Blaseball will start again on March 1, 2021, probably returning to the same format as 99 games Monday through Friday, with new games starting hourly, a postseason on Saturday and a “Slabbath” on Sunday. votes are counted and new rule changes take effect.
Rebekah Valentine is an IGN reporter. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.