By: The Modding Gazette Date: October 2023 (Updated for v098)

If you eat a salad immediately after lifting weights, the game’s metabolism tracker sometimes subtracts a day from your age. You can theoretically become a teenager again. It breaks the main story quest. Fix: Don’t eat salad after the gym. Eat a burger.

Your new life is waiting. And this time, it won’t crash when you try to open the refrigerator. Have you found other secrets in v098? Found a way to trigger the Sewer Merchant without rain? Let us know in the comments below.

If you are reading this, chances are you have spent the last several months staring at a loading screen, praying that your favorite broken life simulator would stop crashing every time you tried to buy a toothbrush. For the uninitiated, My New Life (MNL) has been a cult classic in the indie simulation space for three years—a game praised for its absurd depth but infamous for its game-breaking bugs. The “Revamp” mod series has been the community’s lifeline, but every previous version (v095, v096, v097) has felt like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.

That changed last week. The modding collective known as “Project Phoenix” dropped .

This is not a simple hotfix. This is a Lazarus event. After spending 40+ hours in the patched build, I am here to tell you that v098 is the definitive way to play MNL. Here is everything you need to know about the patch notes, the hidden features, the performance miracles, and the three new game-breaking exploits the devs accidentally introduced (and how to avoid them). To understand the significance of the v098 Patched release, you have to understand the trauma of v097.

The patcher will attempt to convert your old save. However, if you had the broken economy (houses worth $12), your character will either be a trillionaire or destitute. The community strongly recommends a fresh start. The early game in v098 has been rebalanced. The new tutorial (where you wake up in a crash-landed escape pod instead of a generic bedroom) teaches you the new mechanics much better.

My New Life Revamp v098 Patched is the gold standard for how a modding team should operate. It takes a brilliant, broken game and makes it stable, deep, and weird in all the right ways. The performance is stellar, the new content is clever, and the remaining bugs are charming rather than infuriating.