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3/01/26 Renganathan prepared a short video recap covering all 35 custom levels released during the past year. We also have the first one of 2026, designed by Fjordsson.

1/01/26 Happy new year! The complete level pack has been updated, and until the end of January, you can vote for your favorite custom levels from 2025 through our bot on Discord. Feel free to join the community there to discuss your choices, see some previews of what our level designers are up to in 2026, or even just say hi. If you are short on time this month, we also have full playthroughs of all nominated maps available via YouTube links.

29/12/25 Pappy is doing an unprecedented, 24-hour Claw speedrun stream today. About one third of the way through, he has already set a new world record of 35:11, beating the previous best by ten seconds. Could we still see the first sub-35 minute run tonight? Watch the rest live on Twitch or YouTube to find out!

13/12/25 With Mauros961's City of Memes released in December, the great custom level streak of 2025 has claimed another month, and indeed the entire year. If you liked the wild and wacky parts of his previous map Katerina Creed, it is practically a foregone conclusion that you will enjoy the Claw community memes cranked up to eleven here.

30/11/25 The speedrun world record is back in Pappy's hands, and now stands at 35:21 in the any% category (BorisHR remains number one in 100% with 2h09:27). Congratulations! Meanwhile, four new maps by Zorrgull were added, or more precisely, rearranged versions of the corresponding base levels. With that, 2025 remains on track to be only the second year ever (after 2008) that saw at least one custom level released in each month.

27/11/25 TSxD updated the 2023 level of the year runner-up Arcana to v1.3, including minor redesigns and fixes, and also addressed a small bug in his Quick Saves plugin.

10/11/25 Addendum: we now also have a 100% playthrough of City in the Depth on hard mode, recorded by Apocalypse. He managed to unlock all of the achievements already, in fact -- congratulations! By the way, there might be one or two more major custom levels releasing before the end of the year, so watch this space.

3/11/25 The community response to City in the Depth has been overwhelmingly positive. Less than 24 hours from release, Renganathan became the first to achieve perfect score, and within a week, TSxD managed to defeat the boss on highest difficulty (extra mode). Also last weekend, a multiplayer game was set up by Andokai Camanis, giving everyone a chance to see all of the level's new curse powerups in action for maximum chaos.

In other news, Who Wants to Be a Clawillionaire is Virgin Snake's new and final custom level, featuring a Claw community quiz. Meanwhile, TSxD made a new discovery in level 12 that could allow speedrunners to skip most of the Aquatis boss fight.

26/10/25 At least seven years in the making, City in the Depth is finally here. Designed by wisztom using a tileset created by Martin, this custom level truly lives up to the moniker: expect new graphics, sounds, enemies, game mechanics, and a boss fight unlike anything you have ever seen in Claw. Something you may be familiar with, on the other hand, is the achievements system, making a return from Raid on the Spanish Armada. Also, be sure to check out the awesome poster TaurusII made to celebrate the occasion!

25/10/25 Virgin Snake has compiled some Claw trivia, including a bit about Aquatis that will probably surprise even long-time fans (myself included). On a related note, today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of a certain rather colorful custom level.

7/10/25 Nearly two dozen YouTube links were added in the Custom Levels section thanks to Virgin Snake, who has been tirelessly recording playthroughs of older maps dating back to the late 90s and early 00s. Among others, we now have complete video anthologies for Meezo (who made the very first custom level in 1997), Curtis Johnson, and, last but not least, Aavishkar Patel of Huggerland (and the 15-hit bear sailor urban legend) fame.

26/09/25 Another two new levels: Climb the Ladder! by Silver QB, and Mauros961's Katerina Creed, which somehow manages to combine Kirby's Air Ride music with plenty of James Bond references, and of all that deep in the Dark Woods (where 007's latest mission takes place). Before you ask, yes, cars do exist in this timeline of the Animalian Lore Realms.

23/09/25 Renganathan's excellent new custom level, based on the Township tileset, was just released. Parkour Village certainly lives up to the name, so be prepared for escalating difficulty as you progress through it. Enjoy!

4/09/25 Rebinding movement keys, an often-requested feature, is now available directly in Claw's controller configuration window thanks to TSxD's CrazyHook v1.4.5.4 update. Moreover, mouse buttons have been added to the list of available inputs.

29/08/25 Andokai's next custom level is here, well and truly completing his designer's collection. Having just revisited Puerto Lobos with Funky Town, he now has 14 maps with our highest recommendation flag, one for every single base tileset.

Also, over in the Fan Haven section, be sure to check out TaurusII's crocheted wallet: finally something to keep those jumpy coins from falling into the sewers! As a bonus, here are the patterns and notes on materials, if you also happen to be into crocheting and would like to try crafting one yourself.

24/08/25 Congratulations to BorisHR, whose record-breaking 35:57 speedrun means he is now the reigning champion is both the any% and 100% categories (as well as the first to go below the 36 minute mark in the former). In the latter, however, his lead has been shrinking as Andokai Camanis improved his personal best not once, but twice this month.

The standings in Speed Runs are now up to date, and many YouTube links were added throughout the Custom Levels section (plus a new map, Riddle Me This by Mauros961).

13/08/25 Thanks to TaurusII's spontaneously-created masterpiece (see above), next year we will avoid a jubilee celebrating two decades of the same old TCR header art after all. See the gloriously explosive full-size version here.

12/07/25 Andokai Camanis may have completed the grand tour of all 14 tilesets earlier this year, but he is by no means done with custom level design. Another Brick in the Wall takes one more attempt at the Battlements setting, previously used in his earliest map back in 2021 -- and these four years of experience certainly have made a difference. Have fun!

7/07/25 No fewer than 10 new custom levels, including Baron FQ's Kraken's Sanctuary, Mauros961's debut Pueblo Forestal and follow-up Muelles Oscuros, plus the remainder of the Kaizo series by Virgin Snake, who decided to release it all at once for some reason.

4/06/25 Two new Kaizo levels: Ye Olde Pitfalls and Mad Wolf's Bastion, the extremely difficult versions of Township and Puerto Lobos, respectively. Virgin Snake's series already covers 8 of 14 base maps, and he now has a separate page in the Custom Levels section.

By popular request, TSxD has updated his widescreen plugin to support 16:10 resolutions (e.g. on the Steam Deck).

30/04/25 More new levels: Andokai Camanis completed his 14 tilesets collection with the Township-based Paradise City, Fjordsson continued this year's Dark Woods renaissance with In the Woods, and Virgin Snake (whose channel was added to the YouTube section in Links, by the way) released The Daunting Walls of Animalia (aka Kaizo Battlements).

4/04/25 When the old idea of a minimum treasure playthrough was revived by Virgin Snake late last month, nobody could possibly expect it would lead down a rabbit hole of rediscovered and previously unknown glitches, in particular a possible skip through solid tiles found by Zax37 and already demonstrated by Simpson1225 to offer a new, shorter route in level 10 speedruns. Moreover, Zax37 came across some assets for an arcade racing mode where Claw dies if the countdown reaches zero and checkpoints extend the timer. Quite a few new tricks for a game that will be turning 28 in five months (give or take). Fun fact: you can put an officer in a hole in the wall, as brilliantly depicted by TaurusII.

1/04/25 Instead of an April Fools joke, how about a video (by Zax37, of CrazyHook fame), showing how to get no treasure but five coins while completing La Roca? Yes, seriously.

29/03/25 Thanks to the tireless work of TSxD, the CrazyHook mod has received another update, now available in our Downloads section: v1.4.5.3 includes fixes for minor bugs and visual glitches, improved performance, one new cheat code that displays tile collision masks, and a plethora of additional API functions that should be of interest to level designers.

12/03/25 The second huge Dark Woods-based map in as many months, and the first one this year from 2024's top level designer Andokai Camanis, is here. So, without further ado: Welcome to the Jungle, we got fun and games...

10/03/25 Another month, another Claw speedrun record for Pappy: we are now down to a frankly unbelievable 36:08, and with some remaining room for improvement, too. You can watch Pappy's future attempts live on his Twitch and YouTube channels.

Meanwhile, Virgin Snake's extremely challenging rendition of base level 9, Kaizo Cove, was added to the Custom Levels section. Good luck!

25/02/25 Monolith Productions is no more: the studio behind Claw, No One Lives Forever, Blood, Shogo, and F.E.A.R. (to name a few) was dissolved by parent company WB Games today, bringing 31 years of history to an end. To all at Monolith past and present, thank you for the countless memories. May those affected by the closure find new opportunities soon.

16/02/25 Renganathan's first solo level since mid-2023, called Decisive Timberlands and based on the Dark Woods tileset, is now available. Meanwhile, Virgin Snake's series of more difficult, reimagined base game maps continues with Kaizo Footpath and Kaizo Woods.

8/02/25 Shaving nearly twenty seconds off his speedrun world record, which now stands at 37:22, Pappy improved it for the first (and, given the recent developments, likely not the last) time in 2025. Follow his runs on Twitch, usually livestreamed on weekends.

1/02/25 With 36% of total votes, Orinoco Flow is the 2024 level of the year, followed by The Poisonous Caves and Hellish Halls at 21% and 14%, respectively. Congratulations to the designers: Andokai Camanis, BorisHR & TSxD, and Cold Flame. It was an excellent lineup overall, hopefully to be matched by 2025's. Speaking of which, Kaizo Roca by Virgin Snake has already kicked off the new year. Ever thought it would be fun to tackle harder versions of base Claw levels? Go ahead and take a look at this first part of a planned series.

17/01/25 There are two weeks left in the 2024 level of the year vote, so be sure to cast yours using our Discord bot before the end of January. Unable to try all nominated maps in time? No worries: full playthroughs have been recorded for most of them, just check the Custom Levels section.

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