Thank you for playing Pikmin Bloom!
Starting October 5 at 0:00 UTC, the refresh timing for mushrooms that no one has joined will change.
Currently, their type and size refreshes globally at around 18:00 UTC every day. Following this update, they will refresh daily at around 3:00 local time in each region.
As a result, the exact refresh time may vary depending on your region.
You are destroying player in US and EU. Letting those Taiwan spoofer taking all of our mushrooms. When we wake up, all the giant event, large element mushrooms are taken
Keep it at 20:00 or around that time. Or at midnight if it needs to feel “Right”.
Nobody is awake at 3AM, and Refreshes earlier in the day helps those who have many mushrooms around themselves (like in cities, even in rural-er places) that aren’t the best (small/medium/events). That also gives a chance to use unspent mushroom attempts on mushrooms better suited to their wishes.
Not to mention that if this is done due to the (ongoing and insanely out-of-control) spoofer situation, this won’t help; many countries are asleep during their Wake-up hours, not to mention they (the spoofers) have automated systems that search for mushrooms and plant without any barriers that stop them.
All around a (pardon my gen-z-ness;) “L move”.
Seconding this. The situation was bad enough already, but at least we were able to scout our surroundings before the spoofers woke up and came…
Third-ing this.
The fact that (at least where I lived) mushrooms changed at 19:00 meant that If I had bad shrooms around Me, I would at least have an opportunity to save one or more of my tries and try for better ones
I mean yeah, it’s a problem in here and PokéGo, but at least there the game is more instanced; everything here affects everyone else equally; which is horribly and painfully.
The 3am local refresh time was an obvious move to give the asian timezones free-reign on the global mushrooms, especially when giants come into play on the weekends.
Dumb move, you’re meant to milk the GPS spoofers for cash, not give them the worldwide free slots on newly refreshed mushrooms. Get it together, Scopely.
This Saturday I woke up, all giant mushrooms around my area are all taken by Taiwanese spoofer. B4 this reset time changes, we can wait till 18:00 UTC and we will have much more available giant mushrooms. Now we can only do normal mushrooms in weekend. I am quitting this game. Thx for this change
It’s 3AM currently.
20 minutes after my refresh window, the local Large water shroom gets INSTANTLY 5-Slotted.
The only reason why I won’t go there is because a) it’s pretty far away; b) I am exhausted and on the verge of sleep death, and c) ITS 3 AM.
Idk folks, should I stop playing?
I want to tell you to hang in there, but it’s just a game, so I wouldn’t blame you for quitting if it’s pissing you off too much 
I’m also based in Europe, and I gave up on large elemental mushrooms after this change.
If things get worse and the cons start to outweigh the pros, I think I’ll stop playing too.
To the Scopely admin: Things have gotten MUCH WORSE since this update. Please revert it!
Same here in New Zealand! We used to get up at 6 or 7 and be able to go out for a walk and find a couple of mushrooms while we’re at it. Now at 3 am when no one is awake and even in the countryside, giants get taken within minutes… also see trails of flower planting on non-roads everywhere… not sure what this change of refresh timing is intended to do, but it’s just frustrating for local players.
I thought the fact that the refresh is local instead of global it would be better. IDK tho, I’ve never had a problem with spoofers. That’s too bad people are having a worse experience tho, super sad if it’s so bad you want to quit. I usually rely on friends to call me to giant and large mushrooms tho. If you’re only relying on finding mushrooms locally then it can often be difficult to find open giant mushrooms no matter where you are.
Yes! Last month I used coins to join giant mushrooms because I have so many calls to good strong battles. This month I had very few calls. I had to drive 30 minutes to find a Giant as all the people who woke up in the middle of the night called people from other locations to join in Saturday. All giants were full with very low strength battles by the time I woke up . Sunday- I was the person calling. I woke up at 4am and suddenly noticed giants. But no one was awake in my area, so yes of course I called friends for Europe and Asia. But not I live in the Pacific Standard Time Zone, and so all the giant mushrooms are gone and people in Europe and Asia aren’t calling me because their weekend is done!!! This has such a huge advantage to people in Time zones that start the weekend before others.
Changing the mushroom refresh time to 3 AM obviously benefits spoofers from Asia, who take over all the giant and rare mushrooms while US players are still asleep. Is this the definition of discrimination? Is this really the kind of impression you want to create for your global brand?
If you believe that a universal 3 AM refresh time represents “equity,” the overwhelming complaints and negative reviews tell a completely different story. If you choose to ignore this reality and refuse to make adjustments, your company is actively fostering discrimination and inequity within the community—turning what should be a fun, relaxing game into an unfair and frustrating experience.
What a ridiculous update. For the European and American regions, having the reset time at 3:00 AM just makes it easier for “spoofers” from Taiwan to swoop in and snatch up the mushrooms while the local players are fast asleep.
This update has greatly diminished my enjoyment of the game, I enjoyed having a 1/2 PM refresh to get me to check the game at least twice daily and planning out my drive to and from work. Now frankly I don’t feel motivated to go out of my way anymore, the vast majority of mushrooms I would consider good have been taken. The amount of Larges I see upon wake up that are already at 5+ players at six am, very rarely do I get a chance to join/find these anymore. Please readjust the time frame for mushroom refreshes either to the old system or a refresh in the middle of the day.
I genuinely gave the new 3:00 AM mushroom refresh system a fair chance, but I still cannot accept it.
Rare Large and Elemental mushrooms now appear while local North American players are asleep. By the time we wake up, we are forced to pick through whatever mushrooms others have left behind in our own neighborhoods.
Local players who are physically present are the ones being disadvantaged, while spoofers occupy every desirable mushroom without any consideration or respect for the local community. This is completely backwards.
The new system has completely taken away the excitement of looking forward to mushroom refreshes, leaving nothing but frustration and disappointment.
This is a serious fairness issue. I strongly urge the Pikmin Bloom team to restore the previous 18:00 UTC refresh schedule, so local players have a fair opportunity to enjoy the game during their normal waking hours.
This is a terrible update. I always loved having two intervals per day in which mushrooms spawned, it felt more alive! But now we are stuck with one set of mushrooms everyday… I haven’t been affected by spoofers yet but this is horrible to people who are harmed by them. Please revert this! I want to attack many event mushrooms for the 5th anniversary, but this isn’t a good look.
I will add this plea to boost this topic-
If You’re (yes, You, Scopley) won’t add any Anti-spoofing/-cheating mechanics, at least change the time to 18:00 or similar each day; At least there was a risk/reward element, if the mushrooms that day weren’t up to snuff, you had an opportunity to get more, better ones
Changing the refresh window to afternoon/sundown would be much more player- (not spoofer-) friendly; also more engaging, as (at least for me) the rush to plan/get to a particular mushroom that has spawned was exhilarating.
Not to mention that just the fact that the mushrooms refresh mechanic didn’t survive the Spooferpocalypse (but to be frank; not many mechanics Did.)
I love this game, and more embarrassingly, have spent more than would be healthy for a app like this (For scopley’s case, i would be in the top 40-20% of spenders… probably; not bragging, i just hope that this can interest the money-focused people working at scopley), and the only thing holding me back from stopping is A) the other walking games are much more micro-managerial than PB, and B) I have still a sunk-cost mentality, keeping me from dropping it outright.
I also am passionate enough about this to write multiple essay-length posts/comments on this site; seriously, what are you doing?
