The Hot Lava promotional skin is obtrusive and appears in every character's skins, please add a way to hide or remove it.

[balloony]

This new Hot Lava skin is available as every character, and displays for every single one. This essentially means that any time I open the skin menu as any character, there is an advertisement in the top left of my screen for a game I have no personal interest in. Unlike other promotional skins such as the glomglom Puft, this skin does not actually require owning the game it's advertising, and I had no clue I was opting into such a thing permanently by opening the skin chest. The only way to hide it temporarily is by enabling the "weaveable" filter, which also hides hundreds of other skins, so it's not a proper solution.

The other skins from the chest are cute and fine in their proper places, it's only this one that's so obtrusive in a way no previous skin has been. Please add some way to opt out of having this skin in my inventory. Let me unravel it, roll it back on Klei Rewards, anything. I simply don't want it!

Edited June 12 by balloony
clarification

[MikoFanboy]

It appears in every character's skins because each character's version is unique

[AliceShiki]

 

[Well-met]

alternatively let us delete those freebie goddamn skins already

[GamePlayer42]

Spools??!

6 minutes ago, Well-met said:

alternatively let us delete those freebie goddamn skins already

 

[Echsrick]

yea...it certainly not good lookin i think too...it alsol hard to tell in the game who is who then


 

20 hours ago, MikoFanboy said:

It appears in every character's skins because each character's version is unique

can you actualy tell me? how there unique? if anything any of them could be wilson...they look realy not good

[GamePlayer42]

2 minutes ago, Echsrick said:

yea...it certainly not good lookin i think too...it alsol hard to tell in the game who is who then


 

can you actualy tell me? how there unique? if anything any of them could be wilson...they look realy not good

the arms and body are different if you look really closely

[Echsrick]

then point them all out and exactly tell me who is who

[ZeRoboButler]

I both understand where your coming from but also mildly oppose it.

I get not wanting to see it all the time (kinda), and I can see how it could be... mildly inconvenient to not be able to tell at a glance what character is wearing it.

I do hope that a good middle ground can be met for those who don't care for it, and those who like it a lot. I do think it's quite funny, or even neat for some characters and could make for some fun games of "who is who".

If it some how bothers you or disrupts your game some how, I hope they can fix it, how ever that may be.  

[mima_]

On 6/12/2026 at 8:40 AM, MikoFanboy said:

It appears in every character's skins because each character's version is unique

i see there are 6 identical figure i cant differentiate between em 

i call these griefer outfit 

 

[brednas7]

3 hours ago, mima_ said:

i see there are 6 identical figure i cant differentiate between em 

Walter is shorter then the rest of the identical ones, to the right of Wortox.

That leaves Wilson, WX-78, Woodie, Wes and Warly.

[mima_]

2 hours ago, brednas7 said:

That leaves Wilson, WX-78, Woodie, Wes and Warly.

if u see Echsrick reply u will see 7 and i see walter from the picture...  so 6 identical 
u forget wolfgang 

[Cheggf]

On 6/11/2026 at 8:40 PM, MikoFanboy said:

It appears in every character's skins because each character's version is unique

Most of the unique aspects about them look like the game is just bugging out and there's accidental clipping. Things that are clearly placed on top of the suit like Winona's headband look intentional, but all the things like Wanda's hair just breaking out the top of the suit doesn't look intentional.

And even then, all of the 'unique' aspects are just not removing parts of the character's sprites. The entirety of the hazmat suit is completely identical on every single character, but some (not all) of them have random parts of their sprites still rendering. 

[brednas7]

19 hours ago, mima_ said:

if u see Echsrick reply u will see 7 and i see walter from the picture...  so 6 identical 
u forget wolfgang 

Wolfgangs arms are different than the rest and GamePlayer42 already point that out.

On 6/13/2026 at 12:05 AM, GamePlayer42 said:

the arms and body are different if you look really closely

[Nikki Darks]

Gonna have to be real here, I don't get how it's a problem that a skin for a character is in that character's skin menu... It's a tiny little square in their skins collection tab? And if you don't want to see it in the group character screen, just don't equip the said character with the said skin.

This really just seems like the final boss of whining...

[Jussatoon]

2 hours ago, Nikki Darks said:

This really just seems like the final boss of whining...

There's always a bigger fish.

[knner14]

i honestly love that theyre all really similar, i find that very funny. though i do agree that theyre a little too samey, particularly for the characters that dont have the extra details. i dont think it necessarily needs to be changed but i think theyd be a lot more fun if they were adjusted to be more distinguishable. theres not any other skins i could think of that would require to pay attention to their idle animation or examine the player to know what character theyre playing, although im sure theres some that still have that problem that i just dont have in mind right now.

• wilson should have his hair showing even though it'd be covered by the mask realistically. theyre already not easy to take seriously (and i doubt theyre supposed to be) and his hair is pretty iconic both to the game and just to wilson specifically. itd also just be funny to see a person in a hazmat suit with wilson's hair style prominently sticking out.
• the mask should conform to each character's base head shape. even just looking at them all together, you can point out what character's mask is bigger or disproportionate to what they actually look like. and itd just look nicer and be more fun if it looked more like the cast of the game dressing up in the same costume rather than variations of the same body.

 

some smaller things i noticed but dont mind: wanda's hair bun shows up but wickerbottom's hair bun doesnt. maybe thats just because wickerbottom's hair is just part of her head sprite though while wanda's is animated separetely. all the character's also use the same glove sprites despite the fact that a lot of the characters typically have unique looking hands (wendy & wigfrid's are small, wolfgang's are big, wormwood and webber have a single "finger", wurt's are stubby). wormwood's is interesting, you'd expect for his head root to stick out but instead they chose to just have the leaves and flower show in front of the mask. i kinda like it that way but i can see other people really disliking it.

[Echsrick]

10 hours ago, Nikki Darks said:

Gonna have to be real here, I don't get how it's a problem that a skin for a character is in that character's skin menu... It's a tiny little square in their skins collection tab? And if you don't want to see it in the group character screen, just don't equip the said character with the said skin.

This really just seems like the final boss of whining...

ok but how to make others not use it?

[Popian]

A thing in common for ones without distinctive features is that the things that they can do for you are indirect or otherwise vanilla, so what you would usually ask them is "do you have x?" instead of "can you do y?" Another thing is that the ones that do use existing symbols layered on top (Wormwood special to see bloom).

If you do want features for everyone you can look at what can be carried over from the defaults.

Wilson: vest
Woodie: shirt
Wes:
Warly: vest
Walter: shirt
Wonkey: tail and feet (Wortox has horns so can tell apart, maybe not at first glance)

I think it might have been decided against because it doesn't look good?

[ZeRoboButler]

45 minutes ago, Echsrick said:

ok but how to make others not use it?

you... would like other people... to not use the free skin they got as a login reward? Not sure there would be a reality in which this happens unless of course you...

Yeah never-mind, that's just not realistic my friend. I'm starting to think that perhaps, this isn't a hill worth dying on, heck I'm not sure the hill is even worth climbing to begin with. 

Just feels like a "making a mountain out of a mole hill" situation, I get it if you would like it to show up elsewhere in the skin library, I could understand wanting to convert it into spools but that... I don't want to laugh about it, but it seems silly now.

[Echsrick]

7 minutes ago, ZeRoboButler said:

you... would like other people... to not use the free skin they got as a login reward? Not sure there would be a reality in which this happens unless of course you...

Yeah never-mind, that's just not realistic my friend. I'm starting to think that perhaps, this isn't a hill worth dying on, heck I'm not sure the hill is even worth climbing to begin with. 

Just feels like a "making a mountain out of a mole hill" situation, I get it if you would like it to show up elsewhere in the skin library, I could understand wanting to convert it into spools but that... I don't want to laugh about it, but it seems silly now.

i think the problem is more so that instead of the skin being there the problem is more so it looks too much same for each character

[ZeRoboButler]

31 minutes ago, Echsrick said:

i think the problem is more so that instead of the skin being there the problem is more so it looks too much same for each character

Nah that is a fair statement, would be nice for some little changes to make it more obvious. It almost shows off how cool some of the characters designs are like what glaring features does each character have silhouette wise, willow and her curls, webbers legs, Wickers glasses or wortox's horns show off pretty nicely. Others not so much...