Last checked: August 17, 2026

Storage Hunters: Open World Update [Alien Invasion] – Patch Notes & What's Next

By Money Lord — Founder & Editor | Updated: August 17, 2026

Updated August 17, 2026 — Published; Alien Invasion logged from the developer's event listing.
· August 17 — Aug 22 end time re-confirmed against a tracker conflict
· August 17 — Clubs, Power Plant and Jurassic dated into history
· August 17 — live stats pulled from the games API

Alien Invasion is the live update, in since August 15, 2026 at 19:00 UTC. Per the developer's own event listing, re-checked today, it closes August 22 at 19:00 UTC — a week, not the fortnight trackers print.

What's new in Alien Invasion

Absolute Zero! published no patch notes. All that exists is the event on the game's own Roblox page: "Aliens have arrived and they're hunting for exclusive mutators. Can you help them? They're willing to offer some rewards for helping out." Everything below that line is community-sourced, and we say so.

• A limited auction area with four alien garages. The wiki lists Alien Garage 1–4; a breakdown filmed an hour after launch counted the same four tiers.
• Three event-only mutations: Probed at 4.5%, Abducted at 1%, Extraterrestrial at 0.25%. Two independent sources give identical odds. The wiki alone puts their value multipliers at 4x, 10x and 25x.
• The Alien Market. One random Alien Potion per roll for 25 Alien Coins, bought with Robux or earned by selling Cows to an alien named Rick — wiki-sourced, potion confirmed on video.
• An Alien Boss questline: nine chained wiki-listed quests, First Contact through Specimen Collection, gated on alien auction wins and Probed finds, paying Diamonds, Alien Coins and potions.
• A combined loot pool. Per the wiki, alien garages roll the Junk Yard, Back Alley, Farmyard, Shipyard, Lucky Beach and Power Plant pools plus alien-only items, minus the ended Jurassic set. A full index awards a Limited Xenologist title. One launch video counted 27 new items — single source, so provisional.

What this means for players

The loop is unchanged — bid on lockers, load winnings into a vehicle, drive to your shop, sell, reinvest. What changes is where the best rolls are: if the pooling holds, alien garages are the widest loot table in the game, drawing from six areas at once. The chase is Extraterrestrial at 0.25% for 25x, and limited-area items go unobtainable at close — anything Probed or Abducted left unsold is gone on August 23.

One correction: the Roblox description advertises "rare mutations like Gold, Diamond, Void, and Rainbow," and plenty of pages copy those four as the whole list. They are not. The wiki's ladder runs fifteen entries, Dirty at 0.8x up to Rainbow at 100x, Secret at 50x and Void at 35x between. Our money guide covers what is worth grading; Storage Hunters vs Car Flipper compares the economies.

As of August 17, 2026: 32,375 players, 76,802,081 visits, 268,976 favourites — live from the Roblox games API.

Codes with this update

Alien Invasion shipped no code. The game has never had one, there is still no redeem box in any menu as of August 17, 2026, and the wiki has no codes page. A big update is when a Roblox dev usually switches codes on; Absolute Zero! did not. Any "working codes" list is invented. Our codes page has the free in-game currency instead.

Update history

• August 15, 2026 — Alien Invasion: four alien garages, the Probed / Abducted / Extraterrestrial mutations, the Alien Market and Alien Boss questline.
• August 8, 2026 — Clubs: a social system with a shared Luck bonus and club quests, a new Luck questline, a new vehicle, and the Sandstorm weather event (Dune and Sandy mutations).
• August 1, 2026 — Nuclear Power Plant: an island area behind $7,500 net worth, reached by a ferry every 5 minutes or by Helicopter, with four garages and the Engineer's tiered "Restore The Plant" quests. It is permanent, not an event that closed.
• July 12–26, 2026 — Jurassic Event: a limited Farmyard-pool area, now ended and unobtainable.

What's next for Storage Hunters: Open World?

Late on August 16, 2026 the developers posted a second event, titled simply "Next Update", scheduled for August 22, 2026 at 19:00 UTC. Its whole description reads "Coming Soon." No features announced, so we guess at none.

That is also the best evidence for when Alien Invasion ends: the next update starts the minute the alien listing expires, and August 1, 8, 15 and 22 are all Saturdays at 19:00 UTC. Trackers and the wiki print August 29 or 30 instead, and the wiki contradicts itself across three of its own pages. We follow the developer. Watch the Roblox page or our Storage Hunters: Open World hub.

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