Growtopia/Removed Content

Since the development of Growtopia began, there has been a lot of content added to the game that can no longer be accessed by any means, except by going through old archives.

This page documents only removed content that is currently not in the game.

Features

Ubisoft Club Rewards

Main article: Ubisoft Club Rewards

The Ubisoft Club Rewards system was one of the few features available only to the discontinued console edition of Growtopia. By earning achievements, players could obtain exclusive tokens, which would be able to be traded for unique items.

Four of the exclusive items obtained through this system has been added to the PC/mobile version of Growtopia: Glowing Shirt, Plunger, The Brother Hood, and the Unicorn. One, however, is still yet to be added: the Energy Drink.

Items

Lock

Lock
Item's method of obtaining is currently unknown.
In-game description is not available.

Lock, as its name might suggest, was a solid lock foreground block which was an early template for locks in the game. This item was scrapped from the game in its beta stage. It seemingly behaved in a similar manner to the Huge Lock, and had the same design as well.

The item was completely overwritten by Portcullis, along with its data and sprite.

Accessing another player to the Lock

Below is a piece of text from item_definitions.txt, a file that was included in certain older builds of the game, indicating that Lock once existed in the game:^[1]

add_item|60|Lock|TYPE_LOCK|MATERIAL_WOOD|VISUAL_EFFECT_NONE|STORAGE_SINGLE_FRAME_IN_TILESHEET|0|0|tiles_lock.rttex|0|0|TILE_COLLISION_SOLID|10|5|
setup_seed|61|seed1|0|seed2|0|seconds_to_bloom|0|max_fruit|0|bg_color|0,0,0,0|fg_color|0,0,0,0|

Painting: Dink On Fire

https://growtopiawiki.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/uploads/8/8f/ItemSprites.png Painting: Dink On Fire
Item's method of obtaining is currently unknown.
In-game description is not available.

Painting: Dink On Fire was a background block which was scrapped from the game in its beta stage. Its sprite featured the protagonist of Dink Smallwood behind a fiery explosion, thus the name, "Dink On Fire".

The item was completely overwritten by Painting: Dink Duck, along with its data and sprite.

An old screenshot of Painting: Dink On Fire

Below is a piece of text from item_definitions.txt, indicating that Painting: Dink On Fire once existed in the game:^[1]

add_item|110|Painting: Dink On Fire|TYPE_BACKGROUND|MATERIAL_WOOD|VISUAL_EFFECT_NONE|STORAGE_SINGLE_FRAME_IN_TILESHEET|1|0|tiles_paintings.rttex|0|0|TILE_COLLISION_NONE|3|8|
setup_seed|111|seed1|5|seed2|71|seconds_to_bloom|0|max_fruit|0|bg_color|0,0,0,0|fg_color|0,0,0,0|

Nyan Hat / Taco Dog

Main article: Turtle Hat

Nyan Hat
1 could be obtained from purchasing the item itself for 25,000 gems in the Growtopia Store.
"NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN"

The Nyan Hat was a hat item which was added alongside Phonecats Hat on March 7, 2013. Both items were based on the Nyan Cat internet meme.

In May 2013, Christopher Torres, the copyright owner of Nyan Cat, sued Warner Bros. for an unauthorized usage of the character.^[2] In light of this, the developers decided to alter the Nyan Hat's design in order to avoid any copyright issue themselves.

Taco Dog
1 could be obtained from purchasing the item itself for 25,000 gems in the Growtopia Store.
In-game description is not available.

Per fan suggestion, the Taco Dog was introduced on May 11, 2013 as the Nyan Hat's replacement. While the Taco Dog seemed like a good idea at that time, it was soon discovered that the Taco Dog was another creation of Torres. A poll was soon posted, asking the playerbase for ideas for the second redesign.^[3]

The possible choices for the redesign at that time were Yerfdog, Piggy Bank, Turtle, Kitty, and Puppy. The poll closed on May 13, with Turtle winning 45.12% of the votes. The Turtle Hat was then rolled out on May 16. A teaser was first posted on the RTsoft forums hours before its release.^[4]

A comparison between the Nyan Hat, Taco Dog, and Turtle Hat

A Burglar

Main article: A Burglar

A Burglar
Item's method of obtaining is currently unknown.
In-game description is not available.

A Burglar was a solid SFX foreground block which was added as part of the GROWTECHPHARMA world event on May 16, 2013, a day before the addition of Zombie Defense Pack. When a player punched the block, it played a hurt animation and said, "Ow, Stop!".

The item was completely overwritten by Tombstone, along with its data and sprite. Its sound effect is now played only when an Awkward Friendly Unicorn is punched.

The textures of A Burglar
A Burglar, as could be seen in the world GROWTECHPHARMA

Energy Drink

Energy Drink
Redeem for 20 in the Ubisoft Club Rewards.
"Full of completely harmless and almost certainly all-natural chemicals guaranteed by totally-trustworthy GrowTech engineers to sharpen your wits! Grants a 30% bonus to all XP gained for 5 whole days after you drink it!"

The Energy Drink was a consumable redeemable as a rare Ubisoft Club Reward.

When consumed, it granted the XP Buff: Energy Drinks mod to the player, which gave a 30% bonus to all XP gained by the player for 5 days.

Energy Drink's store button
Energy Drink's mod

Textures

Phonecats Hat

Main article: Phonecats Hat

The Phonecats Hat is an unobtainable hat item which was added on March 7, 2013, exclusively given to Phonecats/pcats (YouTube: phonecatss) for his contributions as a content creator during Growtopia's early stages.^[5]

Its old design was similar to the Nyan Hat, both of which were based on the Nyan Cat internet meme. The item's sprite was changed sometime between SummerFest 2013 and Rise of the Desert Dragons (a few months after Nyan Hat was replaced by Turtle Hat) in order to prevent any legal issue.^[6]^[7]

A comparison between the unused sprite and the one currently in use

Pineapple

Main article: Pineapple

The Pineapple is a splicable consumable which was added as part of Super Pineapple Party 2015.

Before Super Pineapple Party 2016, the Pineapple had a different sprite (found in tiles_page4.rttex). The sprite was seemingly changed in order to match the one used for Weather Machine - Pineapples.

A comparison between the unused sprite and the one currently in use

Black Cat Ears

Main article: Black Cat Ears

The Black Cat Ears is an unsplicable hat item which was added as part of Player Appreciation Week 2019 Day 3 on August 21, 2019.

An update on August 23, 2019 saw a redesign to the Black Cat Ears. JamSandwich, who worked as part of the developer team, pushed for this change after reviewing the playerbase's reaction towards the previous design.^[8] The old sprites could be found in player_cosmetics1.rttex and player_cosmetics1_icon.rttex, and no longer exist in the current versions of the files.

The old replaced textures of Black Cat Ears
The new replaced textures of Black Cat Ears

Ubisoft Club Rewards

Main article: Ubisoft Club Rewards

As explained above, the Ubisoft Club Rewards were available only to the discontinued console edition of Growtopia. Several old sprites of the items have been found.