Worldlines Season 7, Frozen Volcano Dungeon & New Units Update 8.5 September 17, 2025 - Anime Vanguards
By Paquito Jr Conde | September 27, 2025
This article summarizes Update 8.5 for Anime Vanguards with a neutral, humanized overview: Worldlines Season 7 has been reset and now awards Wolf (Resurrection) at Floor 50, new events and a Frozen Volcano dungeon bring fresh modifiers, four new units and multiple bundles were added, and quality-of-life improvements and numerous bug fixes improve competitive, UI and sandbox play. Below you will find a full breakdown of new content, event details, dungeon features, shop bundles, currency display options, login reward calendars for new and returning players, and the complete bug fix log grouped by category.
Worldlines Season 7 β Season Reset & Floor 50 Reward
Worldlines Progress has been entirely reset for Worldlines Season 7. The previous Floor 50 reward (Monkey King) is now unobtainable due to the reset. In its place, players will now receive Wolf (Resurrection) as the new Floor 50 reward. Corresponding floor rewards such as Trait Rerolls and other milestone rewards are once again available for claiming following the reset.
New Player Rewards & Login Reward Calendar
New players joining Anime Vanguards for the first time will now receive a special Login Reward Calendar. This calendar includes over 220+ Trait Rerolls, the Ackers Unit and the necessary resources to evolve him. The new player login calendar is designed to accelerate early game progression and provide an enjoyable new player onboarding experience.
Returning players who have not logged in for three weeks or longer will receive a separate Returning Player Rewards package. Log in one time per day for a week to claim powerful rewards, including 220+ Trait Rerolls and other meta-relevant resources.
Events β Update 8.5 Event Calendar & Evolution Madness
Update 8.5 introduces 4 brand-new events plus several returning events. Notable event highlights include the Event Calendar and Evolution Madness, which temporarily modifies evolution and essence drop rates:
- Evolution Madness: doubled green essence from Legend stages for the event duration; evolution costs for older champions reduced by half. Duration: 5 days.
- Event Calendar: rotating events and login calendars for new and returning players.
Sandbox & Synthesis Additions
All Update 8.0 units have been added to Sandbox mode for free experimentation. All Update 8.0 Legend Stage evolution items are available inside Synthesis.
New Bundles in the Store
Four bundles were added to the in-game store. Each bundle contains skins, currencies, and rerolls:
- 1,999 β Pride Skin Bundle
- Final Boss skin for Iscanur (Pride) β includes Iscanur cursor, 100 Trait Rerolls, 6,000 Gems, 25,000 Gold.
- 1,999 β Awakened Skin Bundle
- Ascended skin for Monkey King (Awakened) β 100 Trait Rerolls, 6,000 Gems, 25,000 Gold.
- 9,999 β Innocent Wrath Bundle
- 500 Trait Rerolls, 150 Stat Chips, 20,000 Gems, 200,000 Gold.
- 9,999 β Dragon Mount Bundle
- Cucumber Mount, 400 Trait Rerolls, 150 Stat Chips, 20,000 Gems, 200,000 Gold.
LateUpdate additional offers: 100 Rerolls (LVL 30+), AngryMan (20 Rerolls LVL 30+), InnocentAnger: 5,000 Gems, 20 Stat Chips, 5 Phoenix Shards.
New Dungeon β Frozen Volcano (Features & Drops)
The brand-new dungeon Frozen Volcano introduces a dynamic encounter with waves of Namakian Soldiers and boss clashes (Brolzi, Roku, Vogita) that transform the battlefield. Key dungeon features:
- Dragon Tokens as a dungeon currency used in the Dungeon Shop.
- Remote Quest Evolution item and chance-based dungeon drops.
- 20% chance to obtain Rogita on victory if you have only Friezo equipped.
- New Innocent Wrath OST available in game (copyright-free) with a volume slider in the bottom-right.
Modifier Cards (Dungeon Mechanics)
Every 5 waves you choose 1 of 3 Additive Modifier Cards. Frozen Volcano also offers 4 exclusive Starter Modifier Cards:
- Tyrant Destroyer β Friezo Boss spawns with half health.
- Sphere Finder β start the match with 2 Dragon Spheres.
- High Class β start with 10,000 Yen and boost income by 40%.
- Tyrant Arrives β makes unit slots unplaceable initially, makes upgrades and placements free, grants Monarch trait to the first slot unit.
Dragon Spheres
Every 3 waves, the Boss Friezo spawns at a random side of the map near the player. Killing this boss awards 1 Dragon Sphere β make sure to destroy him before he disappears.
Dungeon Shop
Use Dungeon Dragon Tokens from Frozen Volcano to purchase items:
- Chili Familiar
- Trait Rerolls
- Remote Quest Evolution item
- Space Pod Evolution item
- Fused Jacket Evolution item
- Gold, Essence Stones, Stat Chips
New Units & Where to Find Them
Update 8.5 adds 4 new units. Sources and spawn locations include:
- Vanguard Quest
- Brolzi Super
- Special Banner
- Lord Friezo
- Dungeon Drop
- Rogita
- Worldlines Floor 50 β Wolf (Resurrection)
Press a unit card to view normal and shiny variants. If images do not display correctly, refresh the page and try again.
Customizable Currency Display
Players can now fully customize which currencies are shown on-screen. Up to 5 currencies may be displayed simultaneously. Toggle currencies include:
- Gems
- Monarch Token
- Command Seal
- Iced Tea
- Auric Coin
- Gold
- Present
- Flowers
- Trophies
- Trait Rerolls
Quality of Life (QoL) & UI Improvements
- New custom loading screens for lobby and stages replace the old teleport screens.
- Hide Familiars toggle added to both in-game and lobby settings.
- DIR (Damage In Range) counter replaced with eDPS β average damage per unit across unique enemies over time.
- Tournament Elemental Buffs replaced with a Banned Element system: 3 Banned Element totals (two most-used elements + one random).
- Unit Bans removed from tournaments.
- In-match Quest Tracker gains a close/open button.
- Sandbox Mode now has a Select Map button for quicker map switching.
- Added Objective Tracking to the Evolve UI to track evolution item progress in-match.
- Modifier Cards and card selection visuals reworked with improved designs and animations.
- Rerolling a selected Familiar now pre-selects it for reroll automatically in the Familiars UI.
- Fracture screens now feature a lightning theme matching the gamemode.
- Added a "Show Area Helpers" toggle in lobby settings to enable/disable clickable area teleport icons.
- Changed Reimu's luck passive to no longer require placement to proc.
- Self-obtainments still appear in chat even with Disable Global Messages turned on.
- When loading into the game, pop-up UIs such as Daily Rewards appear in a set order one-by-one instead of all at once.
- NPCs without custom art in dialogue frames now display the NPC model while speaking.
- Rarity frames slightly redesigned with sparkles.
Audio
New Innocent Wrath OST added β accessible using the in-game volume slider in the bottom-right. The track is copyright-free.
Complete Bug Fix Log
Unit Issues
- Fixed The King (Apostle) getting debuffed by Love Train on the tracks At The Edge Of The World Raid.
- Fixed Aurin (Nuclear Giant) spawning placement locations on paths spawned by the eclipse.
- Fixed Bodobi causing softlock when swapping units if Bodobi mind-controls that unit while swapping.
- Fixed Gilgamesh (King of Heroes) "King of the World" passive not working correctly.
- Fixed Koguro (Unsealed) not buffed by Sukuno's finger if placed after Sukuno.
- Fixed The King (Apostle) getting debuffed in curse debuff portals.
- Fixed Quetzalcoal not buffing herself from Lover of Humanity passive.
- Fixed Newsman (Forecast) causing Snail enemies to float.
- Fixed certain unit cosmetic skins that merge with the player not loading properly.
- Fixed Koguro (Unsealed) teleporting to demons spawned by The Falcon (Of Light) when activating domain.
- Fixed Song Jinwu and Igros shadow spawn ranges at base.
- Fixed Byeken (Ronin) "Get Over Here!" ability inconsistency.
- Fixed Gilgamesh losing an additional 12% DMG when units are placed in his range.
- Fixed Brisket (Yo-Yo) viewport and placement location bugs in matches.
- Fixed Vogita Super (Awakened) Proud Warrior SPA buff remaining when swapping back to Roku (Super 3).
- Fixed Iscanur (Pride) not gaining hour stacks from empty team slots in Odyssey modes.
- Fixed swapping teams while burning units with Iscanur (Pride).
- Fixed Gazelle (Zombie) cosmetic wings and tail lacking animations.
Gameplay Related Issues
- Fixed Vanguard unit nuke cutscenes playing even with Unit VFX disabled.
- Fixed player FOV breaking when using 2 or more cutscene abilities simultaneously.
- Fixed Eclipse event appearing in Sandbox incorrectly.
- Fixed new EX stages appearing in the Challenge Stage pool unexpectedly.
- Fixed opening portals while riding certain mounts spawning the portal at the mount start position instead of current position.
- Fixed Auto-Sell units with Traits also selling mythic units.
- Fixed being unable to purchase "Common Culling" in Limitless Odyssey.
- Fixed Ruined City Raid Act 1 using Act 2 scaling when hitting replay after a win/loss.
- Fixed pop-up tutorials failing to grant rewards such as Gems, Gold and Trait Rerolls upon completion.
Competitive Related Issues
- Fixed claiming leaderboard rewards with a full inventory causing the unit to be lost.
- Fixed The Falcon marking opponent enemies/towers, resulting in extra demon spawns in PVP.
- Fixed Falcon Eclipse Demons healing enemy mobs in PVP.
- Fixed Quick Swap not working in Unit Selection menu (PVP).
UI Related Issues
- Fixed Anniversary Rewards visually not stopping count at Day 7.
- Fixed player profiles showing placeholder text "zzzzzz" if viewed before full load.
- Fixed Evo Item Quests visually showing nil/nil when progressed.
- Fixed Win/Lose game screens showing nil/XP for some units.
- Fixed Sukuno Cleave passive missing tooltip and flavor text.
- Fixed Sukuno passives not specifying DOT duration visually.
- Fixed Press It and Quick Charge modifiers not visually updating ability cooldowns in Unit UI.
- Fixed abilities being visually usable while under Mind Control.
- Fixed certain DOT effects lacking explicit duration text.
For more patch information and specific numbers or bug report follow-ups, check the official Anime Vanguards community announcements and developer update threads.