Roblox morning briefing — October 16, 2026: in-game makeup creation goes live, published avatar items can finally be fixed, and São Paulo crowns its first Showdown champions
Four developments for October 16: players can now create and buy makeup on their own avatar inside a game, published avatar items can be updated in place, Package Overrides reaches Studio beta, and Brazil's first Creator Showdown crowned team yellow.
Players can now paint makeup onto their own avatar from inside a Roblox game and save it to their inventory, and creators can finally change an avatar item they have already published. Both changes arrived on Studio's announcement board within an hour of each other on Thursday night, and a third followed after midnight.
This edition covers the 24 hours to 08:00 CEST on Friday 16 October.
Players can now make their own makeup inside a game
Roblox opened In-Experience Creation to makeup on Thursday night. 1
A player inside a supporting game can create custom eye makeup, lip makeup, face makeup, eyelashes and eyebrows, then pay for the look and save it to their inventory without leaving. 1 The saved look behaves like a UGC makeup item afterwards, and carries across any other R15 head that player owns. 1
The point of doing it in-game is fit. Roblox describes the result as "1:1 visual feedback in real-time, like applying makeup in front of a mirror", which is the answer to a makeup item that arrives and does not sit right on the head. 1
Game owners carry the setup. The account needs a Roblox Plus subscription or Premium at the 1000 or 2200 tier, the same requirement the UGC marketplace already applies. 1 The owner then buys Avatar Creation Tokens in the Creator Dashboard for each item type they want to offer: FaceMakeup, LipMakeup, EyeMakeup, EyebrowAccessory or EyelashAccessory. 1
The split is 70% of each sale to the developer, once the creation advance is recouped, composed of 30% as the item creator and 40% as the game creator. 1
Four limits bound what a Short about this can promise. Creations are for personal use, so they cannot be sold on the Marketplace, traded or resold. Makeup is R15 only. Emissives are not supported yet. And a creation that fails moderation is not refunded, though the user can appeal. 1
Roblox shipped an uncopylocked demo place called Roblox Avatar Creator, with the place file on GitHub, and lists the brushes the APIs expose: a soft brush for blush and eyeshadow, a glitter brush, metallic effects, and horizontal layering for stacking several assets into one look. 1
Roblox Creators told its 689,000 followers at 23:59 CEST that players could "design their own looks in real time". 2 The trading-news feed Rolimons carried it earlier and led on the two rules that will matter most to anyone spending on it: no trading or resale, and no refund when moderation rejects a creation. 3
Shorts angle: take one head and one theme, and let the whole Short be the paint going on in real time, then end on the same look worn in a game.
Published avatar items can finally be fixed in place
Until now an avatar item could not be changed after upload. A bad clipping cage, a texture seam or a poor thumbnail left the creator one option: upload the item again as a new asset, start the sales history from zero, and leave everyone who already bought it holding the broken version. 4
As of Thursday night, Studio updates a published item in place. The asset ID stays, the sales history stays, and existing owners receive the fixed version automatically. 4
The flow runs through the ordinary publish dialog: open the item in Studio, make the fix, click Save to Roblox, switch on "Update an existing asset", enter the asset ID you are replacing, and pay the upload fee. 4
Roblox has fenced the feature narrowly. An update must be the same item type, must look like the item owners bought, and is reviewed before it goes live; if the review rejects it, the original stays exactly as it was and the creator can resubmit. 3D accessories and layered clothing work today, and bundles do not yet. 4 Every update also costs the same upload fee as a new item of that type, because it goes through the same moderation review. 4
The same announcement reorganised Creator Dashboard for anyone with a catalogue to manage. Folders group avatar items and bundles, work for group creations as well as personal ones, allow an item in more than one folder, and are single-level with no nesting. 4 A new Recents view lists the 50 most recently uploaded items and bundles. 4 And items are now grouped by Marketplace category, the same categories shoppers browse, with the old asset-type view behind a "Categorize by Taxonomy" toggle. 4
Rolimons summarised the change for its 71,000 followers with the same three points Roblox led on: owners get the updated version automatically, asset IDs and sales history survive, and updates must preserve the original design. 5
Shorts angle: film the before-and-after on one accessory you already own, then show the same asset ID on both sides of the fix.
Package Overrides lands in Studio beta
Packages let a creator reuse the same content across several places, and customising one has meant giving up its future updates. Roblox's own example: repaint a packaged car in one place and that car stops receiving new tires and trim while every other copy moves on. 6
Package Overrides, launched as a Studio beta after midnight, records each of those edits as an override and reapplies it every time the source package updates. 6
Studio marks them in Explorer. A blue dot means you changed something, whether a property, an attribute or a parent; a green plus means you added an instance. 6 Reverting is per property from the Properties window, or in bulk from the right-click Package menu, and Control-Z undoes a revert. 6
Two rules decide what survives a merge. If you and the source package changed the same property, your value wins. If the update deletes an instance you changed, Studio drops that override. 6
The release also clears out long-standing friction: the warning dialogs on editing or reverting a package are gone, Auto-Update can stay on for a package you have edited, and version history now lists every version with its notes instead of the latest 50. 6
Turning it on takes Studio 743 or later, then File, Beta Features, and a tick on Package Overrides, followed by a restart. 6 Studio 743's own release notes went up on Thursday evening. 7
Roblox lists two known issues. In Team Create, everyone in the session should enable the beta, because edits made from a Studio without it are not tracked and a package update may overwrite them. Nested packages have a narrower bug: a parent package's update can mistake an override saved inside a nested package for a local edit, leaving the nested item on an old value. 6
Shorts angle: repaint one packaged object, push a source update, and show the paint staying on while the new parts land around it.
São Paulo crowns Brazil's first Showdown champion
Roblox's own account posted "it's showtime. we're live from São Paulo" at 21:55 CEST on Thursday, opening the third Creator Showdown and the first one held outside the United States. 8
Eight Brazilian creators competed in four teams of two across five Roblox games, chasing R$100,000 in Brazilian reais split across four places, with R$50,000 to the winners. 9
The night moved between the teams. NatashaPanda took the opening round for the orange team. 10 The red team, led by Lucas Clash ON, took a round of its own. 11 Team yellow then won two games back to back. 12 The beat-battle round ran with iBugou, the deejay, on team green. 13
At 01:32 CEST Roblox declared it. "team yellow goes GOLD. teodorokz and @SirGodenot are your showdown champs in São Paulo." 14 Teodoro and Godenot were one of the four pairs named when Roblox published the format on Wednesday. 9
Shorts angle: the crown lift is ten seconds of footage, and the prize table underneath it gives you the whole story without a single word of commentary.
Top Fall Games to Watch
Every date and time below was read this morning of 16 October from the game's own Roblox listing. Times are local (CEST).
- The Hollow — Roblox's Halloween event opens on 22 October, named in Roblox's own post of 14 October with nine entries blacked out: "nine names. nine nights." 15 Pitch: Roblox still has not published the nine games, so a name-by-name countdown has nine open slots left.
- Tower Defense Simulator — the listing reads "Night 1" this morning, with Solar Requiem Night I live and Night II tonight, Friday 16 October, at 18:00. The same update ships version 2.14.0 with a Sun and Moon Crate and a new battlepass. 16 Pitch: a two-night series, and tonight is the second one, so a Night II clip lands while the event is still running.
- Adopt Me! — Halloween Week 2 is live, Week 3 follows today at 17:05, and "Adopt Me Admin Abuse! Freebies & Chaos!" runs on Saturday 17 October at 18:00. The listing's description adds a returning Hauntlet, a new adoptable called Bolt the host, a Poltergeist Box and a Halloween sticker pack. 17 Pitch: the countdown in the game's own title is ticking today, which makes the update itself the video.
- Total Drama Island — the listing no longer carries the [OPEN BETA] label it wore yesterday, and was updated at 00:21 this morning, but it still shows no event rail. 18 Pitch: the label change is the only public signal so far, so film the label and let the comments tell you what it means.
- Dress To Impress — HALLOWEEN! on Saturday 17 October at 17:00, billed as a big Halloween update, plus Tales of the Dark King on Saturday 24 October at 17:00. 19 Pitch: two dated drops nine days apart let you film a calendar Short now and a payoff Short later.
- Forsaken — Helperbot Survivor tonight, Friday 16 October, at 01:00 on Saturday morning, described on the listing as "a new survivor". 20 Pitch: the 01:00 slot is the story, so film it live and post while the players who stayed up are still awake.
- Fisch — FischFright 3 on Saturday 17 October at 18:00, listed as a limited Halloween event. 21 Pitch: one session gives you both a new-area tour and a boss-fight clip.
- Animal Hospital — Halloween! on Saturday 17 October at 20:00, billed as an update on the game's own listing. 22 Pitch: the update lands at 20:00 on a Saturday, so a same-night clip catches the first players meeting the new content.
- Duck Duck (Tag) — the Halloween event is live and joinable now, and a second event sits on the listing: Quacks-giving on Friday 20 November at 21:30. 23 Pitch: the live event gives you footage today and the 20 November date gives you something to promise at the end.
Closing notes
Live counts read at 08:12 CEST: Steal An Egg 1,194,855 players; Brookhaven 233,669; Adopt Me! 209,825; Blox Fruits 143,869; 99 Nights in the Forest 134,713; RIVALS 90,943; Fisch 54,919; Forsaken 31,636; Dress To Impress 29,085; Animal Hospital 17,862; Tower Defense Simulator 10,447; Duck Duck 2,352; BOMBANANA! 1,516; Caramel 218; Total Drama Island 164. 24
The TextChatService takedown thread on Roblox's forum sat at 397 posts and 6,831 views this morning with no staff reply since 12 October, and the newest posts are appeals going in circles. 25 Roblox's status page reports every system operational, with the newest incident still 5 October. 26
One unconfirmed item worth watching: RoNews reported at 03:32 CEST that Roblox may be building a gifting system for avatar items, based on screenshots it did not attribute to a Roblox surface. 27
The four news sections today rest on Roblox's own announcement board, its newsroom and its X account. Every claim is attributed to whoever made it.
References
- 1Developer Forum — Makeup Now Available for In-Experience Creation
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- 6Developer Forum — Package Overrides and Usability Improvements
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- 7Developer Forum — Release Notes for 743
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- 16Tower Defense Simulator on Roblox
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- 17Adopt Me! on Roblox
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- 18Total Drama Island on Roblox
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- 19Dress To Impress on Roblox
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- 20Forsaken on Roblox
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- 21Fisch on Roblox
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- 22Animal Hospital on Roblox
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- 23Duck Duck on Roblox
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- 24Roblox games API — live player counts
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- 26Roblox Status
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