“My Singing Monsters” is a semi-popular idle game where players collect different species of monsters on a multitude of different islands to produce beautiful songs and shiny coins. In the twelfth anniversary update, one of the community’s favorite islands was finally completed. This island is Ethereal Workshop, the home of the triple, quadruple, and quintuple element ethereal monsters.
Ethereal Workshop was added to the game in version 4.1.0 on October 11th, 2023. It was originally released with only five monsters, but immediately instituted itself as one of the best songs in “My Singing Monsters.” Over the next eleven months, new monsters were periodically added in waves. Each wave added monsters that were harder to get than the last, known as being “more unstable.” They were known as being more unstable because, in the lore of “My Singing Monsters,” the ethereal elements and the monsters that represent them are very unstable and could die if not in the right conditions.
Ethereal Workshop is also one of the most important islands in the lore of “My Singing Monsters.” The monsters that inhabit it were originally thought to be impossible to exist because of the instability of the ethereal elements. Luckily, the inside of Ethereal Island is a location able to provide enough stability to allow these monsters to exist.
Now, some may be wondering how players get these monsters. Ethereal Workshop introduces two new mechanics in the game called Attuning and Synthesizing. Upon unlocking the island, players are greeted with two structures: the Attuner and the base-level Synthesizer. The Attuner allows players to spend an amount of the currency of the island called shards ranging from 500-5,000 and an amount of time ranging from 5 hours to 20 hours attuning a Meeb to a specific ethereal element. The ethereal elements are Plasma, Shadow, Mech, Crystal, and Poison. Once a player gets one Meeb of three different elements, they may attempt to obtain a monster of that combination of elements in the Synthesizer.
The Synthesizer is an upgradable structure that allows players to obtain the monsters that are indigenous to Ethereal Workshop. The base level allows players to synthesize five out of the fifteen monsters available on Ethereal Workshop. These monsters are Yooreek, Meebkin, Gaddzooks, Blarret, and Auglur. Each wave of Ethereal Workshop allowed players to upgrade the Synthesizer another level except for the final wave.
The second wave introduced Flasque, Nitebear, and Whaill, the first ethereal quadruple element and is based on the
Plasma element. The third wave gave players Piplash and Vhenshun, the Mech quad. With wave four came X’rt and Pentumbra, the Shadow quad. In wave five was Teeter-Tauter and Rhysmuth, the Crystal quad. Wave six released the final ethereal quad, who is the Poison quad named Oogiddy.
After this wave, players were hoping and praying that the quintuple element ethereal would release, and the Play Your Part contest for 2024 gave them what they were waiting for. The seventh and final wave of Ethereal Workshop released BeMeebEth, who is voiced by the youtuber Landon Purifoy.
Now that Ethereal Workshop has been completed, many players of “My Singing Monsters” are excited for what is coming next for the game. They are hoping for a new island with possibly new features. Of course, all they can do now is wait to see what Big Blue Bubble is cooking up behind the scenes for “My Singing Monsters.” Happy Monstering!
