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.

New Silly Collab From The Chinese Community!

Published on April 8, 2025 A sequel to the ever-wacky LPL Collab, P2P Collab has over 40 maps full of wacky visuals and never-before-seen gimmicks. Together with a ridiculously innovative lobby and an overarching story, go check out all of the unabashedly fun maps cooked up in the spirit of freedom!

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10 New Excellent Exploration Experiences!

Published on March 31, 2025 Crossroad Contest is a 10 map contest centered around "macrorouting" where you explore and piece together puzzle pieces in a large map in order to solve steps of progression (not too different from a metroidvania). Maps range from Beginner and Trivial to Low Grandmaster and Confusing. Every single map offers a unique experience, so it's definitely worth checking out all of them in the link below!

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The Unknown... The Abstract... The Imaginative...

Published on March 22, 2025 The deadline of Esoterica Contest has arrived, resulting in a whopping 37 entries! Many of these maps push the boundaries of what a custom map can look & feel like with abstract visuals and unorthodox gameplay. One of the entries, WELCOME TO MEGALOPHOBIA, has 2+ hours of original music and plenty of runtime to match. If any of this piques your interest, then click the link below!

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Ricky's Machines Are Upon Us...

Published on March 16, 2025 Born from a scrapped collab, this 30+ room map fleshed out its dystopian metropolis even more for the standalone release! City of Broken Dreams by ricky06 features 15+ of minutes custom music by Thegur90, custom-coded mechanics, and low expert gameplay that requires only the base tech taught in vanilla. In the link below, find out whether the line dividing dreams and reality is just an illusion...

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A Fusion Birthday Heartside?

Published on March 12, 2025 In each of the 10+ giant rooms, this Crispybag passion project fuses a map from his own catalogue with a map from Donker19's catalogue! It even has music from Freeka and Abicus_Null to help motivate you throughout this Yellow Grandmaster gauntlet! If you haven't played the original maps, that's okay! There are plenty of tutorial rooms to help familiarize you with the wacky mechanics. If this wacky wholesome birthday adventure sounds up your alley, click the link below!

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What If Anyone Could Be A Judge?

Published on March 4, 2025 Welcome to Community Voice Contest! As a reward for beating this contest, you can vote to influence how maps will place. The maps range from Beginner to Low Expert, but you can even skip 3 maps if you’re having trouble! More details can be found in a Google Doc linked on the Gamebanana page below. Opinions are subjective, so just have fun with it!

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After Half A Year In Construction…

Published on February 9, 2025 Nightingale City is out! With 200+ rooms ranging from Beginner-Advanced, this laid-back urban exploration map has many surprises hiding in the girders. Follow the branching paths, collect plenty of berries, and learn some brand new crazy movement in the link below!

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New Year Map Pack Bonanza!

Published on January 12, 2025 This new year has brought a lot of celebration, festivity, and most importantly, epic map packs! In the past month, a couple Secret Santa-likes have released, including Secret Father Frost Collab from the Russian community with 16 maps, and Zucchinicord Secret Santa (from Zucchinicord) with 24 maps! Additionally, the Chinese community released the Lantern-Tea Contest 2024 (which is linked below) with 12 epic maps! With difficulties across the board, you can take a peeksy into any of these warm & frosty packs for a good time!

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Celeste’s #1 Biggest Metroidvania Just Got Deeper!

Published on December 28, 2024 Introducing 250+ new rooms, Secret of Celeste Mountain 3.0 is finally out! With new bosses, new abilities, and years of polish, there’s nearly no bottom to the amount of exploration in this sprawling metroidvania. Capped out at mid expert, this adventure has plenty of layers of techless challenges, so check it out below!

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Pompeii Is Up In Flames Again?!

Published on December 25, 2024 Mount Vesuvius is an 80+ room map that starts out at Advanced difficulty and steadily ramps up to green GM+1 at the end! With a development process that begun in 2020, this map’s complexity, creativity, & heat only ratchets up as the climb continues! Go & experience peak by clicking the link below!

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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).