Olympus News

These are the Celeste modding news that appeared in Olympus, a mod manager and installer for the Everest mod loader. The news feed is managed by touhoe and cellularAutomaton (touhoe and cellularautomaton on Discord), and published through the GitHub repository of the Everest website.

Bask in the Light Under 400+ New Rooms by Donker19...

Published on December 17, 2024 Donker19 just released Ascensia, 50 rooms of tense cycle survival gameplay across 5 checkpoints, and The Nexus, 400+ rooms across 50+ maps ranging from beginner to expert! Learn the truth of the Nexus through a beautifully crafted story nested within layers & layers of secrets to uncover. It's a one-of-a-kind experience whose structure is unlike anything previously seen in the Celeste community, go check it out below!

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Spring Is Coming Late This Year!

Published on December 10, 2024 Throughout December, a multitude of different mappers have been releasing 5-room Spring Collab inspired maps! Anyone can join in on the fun and cook up a small blast to the past! Any maps that get made will be added to the gamebanana collection containing every Spring Collab December map thus far. The collection is linked below, have fun!

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39 Gusts of Wind Blow Into a Bar...

Published on November 30, 2024 Hosted by Crispybag, Where The Wind Takes You is a flowy Expert-Grandmaster map with 39 different rooms from 39 different makers! The Grandmaster rooms are optional, and an additional layer of challenge lies in the guessing game you can play at the end of each checkpoint. Can you sniff out each mapper's personal style with a limited entity palette? Find out below!

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Path of Pain? More Like Course of Cheerfulness!

Published on November 26, 2024 Kelper Nail Mini Collab is a pack with 8 maps that introduce & utilize the Nail mechanic adapted from Hollow Knight! Throughout these Beginner-Expert maps, you use an extra button (or grab) to swing your tiny sword at spikes, bubbles, or any other obstacle that stands in your way! Go click the link below to dive into a whole new world of movement possibilities!

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A New Page In Routing Has Opened!

Published on November 20, 2024 Scribbles’ Notebook is a 10-map pack made primarily by Scribbles Jevson! The gameplay ranges all the way from Beginner to Grandmaster, so there’s plenty of fresh environments and stylish routing gameplay to enjoy. It’s spent years in the making, with some maps being overhauled multiple times, so it’s jam-packed with inky detail and love. Check it out below!

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One Last Sprint!

Published on November 15, 2024 The final map for the Celeste Sightreading Competition is released! Featuring 31 maps, this heartside is jam packed with silly speedy ideas. If you want to submit your time (by November 26), you can do so by checking out the server & website linked below. Thanks for participating over the past few months, and good luck!

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The Biggest Beginner Banquet is Here!

Published on November 11, 2024 Breeze Contest is served with 75 beginner feasts, making it the largest lobby ever released with the largest heartside ever created. The maps themselves were made in just over a month, so they're all cute & breezy! No matter how skilled you are, you will be able to play & have a fantastic time with this, so check it out below!

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The Dawn of Whimsical Contests & Collabs!

Published on November 1, 2024 2 projects open to mapping have just been announced: 3 Room Jaunt Contest & Tower Collab! 3 Room Jaunt Contest is exactly what it sounds like, and more details are on the Gamebanana jam page. Jaunty! Tower Collab is inspired by 100trap maps where each minimum size room is stacked vertically. You can submit quaint 5-10 room areas that quickly explore neat ideas in tight spaces! More details can be found in the link below! Lastly, the final bimonthly prompt from tobyaaa & touhoe is gonna be 'Making Friends'. Have fun mapping!

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Birthday Collab Bonanza!

Published on October 18, 2024 In the past couple months, a buffet of birthday collabs have released! Queesle & Amity Birthday Collab, Stymph Birthday Collab, Parrot Dash Birthday Collab 2024, Valent Birthday Collab, Emie Birthday Collab, and Schnirthday Collab all have over 5 maps each! Emie Birthday Collab (Steamy Springs) has beginner-intermediate maps only, so it's accessible to most modded players! Go check out all these maps caked up with love in the link below!

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VERY IMPORTANT: Do not use Everest Stable 5048!

Published on October 6, 2024 Everest Stable 5048 is broken and can corrupt save data. If you've already updated to this version, immediately back up your save data and upgrade to the latest stable release (5052).

100 Consecutive Days Of Mapping?!

Published on September 15, 2024 The World Tower is a new 100 room map by Nyan where 1 minimum-size room was made every single day for 100 days! There are 10 unique checkpoints with completely distinct deco & entity palettes, and 2 original tracks by Freeka. The heights this map reaches in ingenuity & polish need to be played to be believed, go check it out below!

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Shadowdropping Mayhem!

Published on September 9, 2024 Over the past week, 2 new Celeste directs have dropped, featuring some banger new mods! And 4 of those mods are already on Gamebanana, including Green Bindweed Demo - an open-world beginner map, I Wanna Steal The Mechanic - a 30+ room gm map, vitheckery - a 15 room gm map with 300+ unique entities, & Chroma - a superfecta-like collab crafted by members of the Japanese community. Check all these maps out, but Chroma is linked below!

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A New Zucchini Contest Has Been Brewed!

Published on September 5, 2024 The 4th edition of Zucchini Contest, Perilous Potionscape, has hit the shelves with 24 concoctions, each brewed in only 8-ish hours. But that's not all! Each mapper spun The Wheel™ of over 500 prompts multiple times throughout the mapping period, leading to some deviously silly consequences. Go play this wildly magical contest with the link below!

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Over 20 Bits and/or Pieces Are Out Now!

Published on September 2, 2024 The Bits & Pieces Collab is a comfy collab that started in 2020, created by a bunch of people who hung out in Celestenet at the time. With over 20 maps and no distinct theme, there’s plenty of crazy & cool ideas, and it generally leans towards lower difficulties more-so than the average collab. Check it out below!

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Intermediate Contest is here!

Published on August 27, 2024 The Intermediate Contest is out! Hosted by Ru and Donker19, it features a lobby with 25 maps ranging from intermediate to somewhat harder. Check it out or read the judging results (courtesy of judges Ru, Donker19 and Banana23) via the link below!

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2024 Blind Race Maps Are Out!

Published on August 20, 2024 Both The Climate Crisis, made for Fangame Marathon, and Jellyfish Trilogy, made for Fangame Summer Feast, are out! TCC was made mainly by Tear, Spooooky, and Ricky06 with music from TyKim, while Jellyfish Trilogy was made mainly by Holia with music from q_is_sleeping. Both have 15+ extremely polished rooms of grandmaster, and both can be found in the Gamebanana collection linked below. Feel free to test your routing prowess, good luck, and have fun!

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Christmas in August!

Published on August 5, 2024 Secret Santa Collab 2024 is finally out! Featuring 61 maps across 3 lobbies, over 100 collaborators worked on this project. The gimmick of this collab is that each mapper wrote a prompt for their ideal gift & another mapper crafted it in secret. Each and every gift in this collab is packed with so much love & Christmas cheer, so don't waste time & go meet Granta below!

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Don’t Get Dizzy!

Published on August 1, 2024 For the final Music Translation Contest 2 post, the 3rd place entry is You Spin Me Round by CoryD! This funky map will have you bouncing & grooving to the legendary 80s hit with its unbelievably smooth setups & rhythmic usage of Grab Swap Blocks. Sporting over 20 rooms with glossy shades of purple & orange, you'll never wanna stop spinning! Check it out below!

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Theo… I’m going GOD MODE…

Published on July 31, 2024 Next in line in 2nd place for Music Translation Contest 2 is GOD MODE by Spooooky! This pulse-pounding map perfectly blends improvisational infinite dash free-for-alls with more straightforward & varied techspam. Dodging seekers at a breakneck pace in this intensely crimson factory, you’re bound to transcend humanity. Go give it a go in the link below!

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The Winning MTC2 Map!

Published on July 30, 2024 The Music Translation Contest 2 results are out, so it's time to showcase the top 3 winning maps here in Olympus News! First off, the 1st place entry (out of 124!) is bone skull by Donker19! Translating a song by glass beach featuring over 3000 lines of dialogue, this story-driven map takes you through a serene beach, a dilapidated neighborhood, and so much more. This map won for some very good reasons, which you can find out in the link below!

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