Cheat Code Day Is Back Today, and the Weekend's Rarest Catches Are Countable on One Hand

Updated 1 September 2026 · 4 min read

Today's new Lobby Hack code, GatherAndCraft, unlocks the Cheat Master Bush Sprite - plus double Dust and XP, and our tracker numbers on Storm Scout and the new Cheat Masters after Sonic Hours weekend.

Update — August 31, 2026: Today's Lobby Hack code is confirmed: GatherAndCraft redeems the Cheat Master Bush Sprite. It's gated behind Wrixel's Get Crafty story quest, so it won't accept the code until that questline hits stage 9. Details are in the section below.

Epic's weekly schedule graphic for Override: Cheat Code Day Monday, New Sprite Day Thursday, Power Hours Saturday

Image: Epic Games - the week-of-August-24 schedule graphic, via GameRant. This week's version has not been posted yet.

What Cheat Code Day does

GameRant's rundown of the August 24 edition, which it calls a weekly Monday event for the season:

Cheat Code Sprite chests spawn more often, and codes pull higher-rarity Sprites.
2x Sprite XP and 2x Sprite Dust, all 24 hours.
Three extra Portable Extractors from a Daily Quest.
A new Cartridge Hack and new Lobby Hacks.

One honest caveat: Epic itself has only ever announced these one week at a time, and Fragster made the same point after the first one - the weekly repeat is the outlets' read, not an Epic promise. This week held the pattern anyway.

Today's new code: GatherAndCraft

The Monday Lobby Hack landed today, and it's a quest-gated one rather than a free redeem. GatherAndCraft unlocks the Cheat Master Bush Sprite - the elevated version of the Bushranger Sprite that showed up earlier this season - but the Admin Panel won't accept it until you've pushed Wrixel's Get Crafty story quest to stage 9, per allthings.how's walkthrough. Once that's done, punch it into the Admin Panel from the main menu lobby exactly as written - the code isn't case-sensitive, but the spelling has to be exact.

It follows last Monday's JonesyIsGolden, which paid out the Golden Jonesy Sprite and 10,000 Sprite Dust and is still redeemable if you slept on it, per GameRant. On Quackadex, four collectors have logged a Cheat Master Bushranger so far - expect that number to move fast today now the code is out and Cheat Code Day is doubling Dust on top of it.

Either way, today is the day to spend your backlog. If you have been sitting on Cheat Codes waiting for a reason, double Dust and double XP is the reason. Mastery grinding is strictly better today than tomorrow.

What the weekend actually produced

Sonic Hours ran Saturday with Storm Scout going live mid-event. Two days later, here is what Quackadex collectors have logged - aggregates only, as always:

Storm Scout has landed. Two collectors have one: one base, one Cheat Master. Nobody has mastered it yet, and no Gold has been logged at all.
The Thursday Cheat Masters finally broke their silence, barely. One Klombo, one Shadow. Jackrabbit and Killswitch: still zero, four days in.
The code-redeemable Cheat Masters keep drifting up (Bush went from three holders to four), which fits them now dropping in matches too.

Our read: the new-wave Cheat Masters are genuinely rare, not just slow to be logged. When the same trackers picked up Storm Scout within 48 hours of release but show zero Jackrabbits since Thursday, that is a drop-rate signal. If one lands for you, log it and check the trade board before you shrug it off - scarcity this early is when a trade is worth the most.

The rest of the week, provisionally

Epic's stated pattern is three events a week - Monday, Thursday, Saturday. Until this week's graphic posts, the safe assumptions are New Sprite Day on Thursday, September 3 (the leaked-but-unannounced Sprites like Meowscles and Squibbly are the obvious candidates, per the August 21 leak - rumor until Epic names one) and Power Hours on Saturday, September 5. The Special Hours panel has both queued and will be corrected the moment Epic posts real details.

The Monastery portal event also runs through Wednesday, September 2 at 4 AM ET, per allthings.how - not a Sprite event, but it is the other thing ending this week.

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