Buffing other players was added to combat this year! This was also the first year that the status effect bleed was introduced to Epic Week.
The RPR fleet was represented by two ships, Red and Blue, and their progress along the journey was represented by the symbols that were solved.
This was the first year that the Doubutt game ran entirely in the browser.
Every half hour players could visit the fishing page, where they would have a chance of catching a red fish, blue fish, a puffer fish, some other item, or nothing.
Crafting was introduced in Epic Week 2018 and has re-appeared several times. Crafting was the source of buffing items in 2018.