Undertale creator Toby Fox's tomfoolery leaves Deltarune testers thinking an intentional nerf was actually a bug after they "independently" discovered it

Solo Undertale developer Toby Fox has been teasing the 2025 release of Deltarune's next two chapters online, recently revealing that character-flavored teas will basically become useless in Chapters 3 and 4 – a memo the game's own testers apparently didn't get.

Deltarune has been in the works for over six years now, with Fox confirming late this past fall that its long-awaited Chapters 3 and 4 would "100% come out in 2025." At the tail end of 2024, the beloved dev created an online thread with frequent updates on the coming chapters' progress, recently revealing that testing on PlayStation 5 had begun and was going well. He also alludes to content changes, like the nerfing of character-flavored tea.

"In the next Chapters, all character-flavored tea items held in inventory and storage become the item 'Rotten Tea,' which heals only 10 HP," explains Fox in a newer post on the lengthy thread. Prior to this change, players could use the tea items to heal up to 400 health points, making the shift to "Rotten Tea" a significant nerf. Not significant enough for the Deltarune testers to know about it ahead of time themselves, though, apparently.

"The bug testing team just independently discovered Rotten Tea and asked if it was a bug," as Fox puts it in a follow-up update. "Lol." It's the sort of tomfoolery the community expects of the dev now, and the comments aren't any less chaotic than the situation itself. Much like on every single post Fox adds to the thread at this point, responses see commenters editing Fox's posts to read "Deltarune tomorrow" or other silly strings of words like "tea Tea."

There's no telling when the next two chapters will finally launch, but until then, players can enjoy the first 10 or so hours of Deltarune for free on Steam or on consoles via the Nintendo Switch and the PlayStation 5. It's never too late to get into the in-progress follow-up to Fox's original 2015 gem Undertale for the first time after all, nor is it too early to replay the initial two chapters before 3 and 4 arrive – hopefully not too long from now.

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