Updates

What has changed in Clash Karts, newest first, from the day it went online.

23 October 2026

• All-new handling. Karts pull away steadily, roll a long way when you lift off the pedal, brake hard and reverse quickly. Once a kart is moving it turns at the same rate at any speed, pedal or not, but never on the spot, and a hard turn at speed slides wide with the nose in. Shots fly where the nose points.
• A new chase camera: higher and a little closer, looking down on the arena at a steady angle, and swinging round after your kart's nose. The view no longer widens with your speed, only for a boost.
• The six racers are rebuilt in a low-poly look, with new portraits.
• Every weapon clips onto the same chrome mount in the middle of the hood, as a chunky model of five parts at most, and fires from there. The Hot Sauce, like the Bubble Bath, no longer shows on the kart.
• Fair play: every player's game now checks the host's game against the rules. When players on at least two networks, and more than half of them, catch the host cheating, the host is taken out of the room, another player takes it over, and the cheater can't host again for 30 minutes.
• A kart moves only as fast as the match itself, however its player's controls arrive.
• If you neither drive nor fire for 90 seconds of a match in someone else's room, your seat goes to someone who will.
• Stricter names: more slurs and hate phrases are refused, in English and a few other languages, and so are names posing as staff, such as "Admin1" or "Mods".
• A report on a signed-in player keeps the name their account had at the time, so moderators can compare it with the name you saw.
• Safer sign-ins: wrong passwords from one network no longer lock you out on another, and resetting your password removes any Google sign-in linked to your account (link it again afterwards if it was yours).
• The host's game and the lobby both hold up better against players who flood them with messages.

12 October 2026

• New articles: strategy guides to King of the Mound, Derby and Bounty, a map guide to Big Wave Beach, and three pieces about the kart games Clash Karts grew from.
• The guides now match the game exactly: a kart in its spawn shield can still be bumped, the Mega Burp spins karts out up to about 7 metres away, a gumball flies about 44 metres, a Hot Sauce ram works whichever kart did the driving, and a kart has to be rolling to turn.

11 October 2026

• The game's page now says what Clash Karts is, below the game: scroll down from the menu, or press Read more.
• New guides to the four modes and the nine items, with the numbers behind every item.
• This updates page.

10 October 2026

• Every racer now drives the same beach buggy, painted in their own colour, and the item you hold rides on it where everyone can see it. The Bubble Bath alone stays hidden until you use it.
• Karts skid on their own in fast corners, more the faster they go, and straighten out by themselves when you let go of the steering.
• Skid marks, sand spray and scorch marks from blasts now show on the ground, slopes included.
• Shots leave from the weapons' barrels and fly along the slope you are on, and the Gumball Gatling sits in the middle of the nose.
• The Sandcastle Mound and the boardwalk have sloping sand sides you can drive straight up, in place of the mound's four ramps.
• Drivers keep their hands on the wheel and turn their heads to look into corners.
• The chase camera sits higher and looks down more steeply, and your ping is in the top-right corner with the knockout feed under it.

7 October 2026

• New pages: How to play, the racers and questions and answers, linked from the menu.
• www.clashkarts.com now takes you to clashkarts.com.

6 October 2026

• Optional accounts: sign in with Google, or with an email address and a password, and your progress follows you to your other devices. Guests play as before.
• When the player hosting a room leaves or drops out, another player takes over and the match carries on, with everyone's kart, score and item kept.
• Signed-in players can report an offensive name.
• New pages: About, the privacy policy and the terms of service.
• A Whoopee Cushion is live the moment it lands; it used to take most of a second.
• Buttons and settings have short text labels.
• A new Clash Karts logo, and new icons for browser tabs and home screens.

1 October 2026: Clash Karts goes online

• Six racers, nine items and four modes on Big Wave Beach: Classic, Bounty, Derby and King of the Mound, with whoever is online, in a private room with friends, or solo against computer racers.
• Coins from every match, the daily challenges and each level you gain, to spend at the Jackpot machine on kart paints and hats.
• The ink and clay look: flat cartoon shading and ink outlines on the racers, the karts and the items.
• Recorded sounds: each weapon has its own, each racer a horn of their own, and the engines are real go-kart recordings.
• Gentle steering, with karts that turn like cars: the nose goes first and the back follows.
• A loading screen, quicker return visits, lighter textures for phones short on memory, and a resolution that drops by itself when the frame rate does.