PET UPDATE
The Rusty pet has been revamped. We hope you like the changes!



The Rusty can now wear the baby, burnt, rainbow and stone costumes.

Everyone that has already completed the Easter Egg Hunt should have noticed that this year's hunt had a special surprise - our brand new Candyland map! It has now been released officially for every player. We hope you like the changes! Remember, you have until May 11th to enter and complete the Easter Egg Hunt if you haven't done so already. All Easter account upgrade items will also automatically retire May 4th.

NEW FEATURE
The new Microwave feature has been released in Ziranek. It is both a quest and a cooking feature. The microwave allows you to cook any two items that you have. Combine the two ingredients, cook them for the exact time needed, you may have the recipe for a brand new, Gourmet Microwave Food. Everytime you complete a microwave quest for Cooking Utensils, you will earn cooking time. Each recipe will have a required cooking time of between 1 and 60 seconds. When you find the correct recipe, your two ingredients will become a new gourmet food. Otherwise, your microwave cooking time will go down and you will have to try again. Once the recipe has been found, it can be shared with other players.

There are 15 Gourmet Microwave Food items avaliable - can you find the recipe?





Here is an example of how you can use the Microwave to cook new gourmet items.


Spaghetti Bolognese +
Vanilla Ice Cream Cone +
cook
for
3 seconds =
Spaghetti Ice Cream

TRADES UPDATE
The Trades in Gigantic Paradise have been improved. The layout and the artwork has been revamped. You can now cancel a trade you set up without needing to reject any offers it has first. You can also now accept an offer on your trade without rejecting all of the other offers first. Finally, trades that are older than 90 days are automatically cancelled and returned to your inventory. Please note that because of these new features, there could be a slight delay with your offers being processed at busy times - just wait for the Alert!



The Online List page has been updated. It now shows the newest player that is online right now. If you are feeling generous, you can use this to send them some welcome items and show new players how friendly we are! =)

The Community section has also been updated. The layout, descriptions and artwork has all been improved. The links are also now easier to navigate on tablets and mobile phones. It also shows the character of a random player online - this will be great for any random giveaways or contests you may run on the forums!

The Account Upgrades page has been updated. It has all new artwork and a brand new layout. We have removed everything that was unnecessary and made it cleaner. You can also quickly find the Monthly Checklist, Account Upgrades Shop, Capsule Machine and Giftbox Shop from the Account Upgrades page.



The News page has been updated. The new layout matches the Forums and Comments section and the icons have been improved. We have also removed the annoying 'There is new News' alert for automatic news updates, such as the Quest/Battle Challenges and the Lottery winners.

The Inventory and quick stock layout has also been changed.

Profiles now have the Sumo Sally Pass and City Goals shield added.

Finally, the layout of the School, Gym and Elite Gym has been improved. You should now find it easier to navigate.

For all players that celebrate, we would like to wish you all a Happy Easter. The Easter Bunny will hop in and out of Marada today and tomorrow only - but you have until May 11th to enter and complete the Easter Egg Hunt! We hope you all enjoyed the 2014 Easter events =)



The Account Upgrades Shop has these special new limited edition items on sale. They will automatically retire May 4th.




A new type of Minipet has been released. Gourmet Minipets are both a minipet and a gourmet food. Be careful when you use the item - 'Use Item' will add it as a minipet, while 'Eat Minipet' will feed it to your pet. The Gummi, Yolk and Bunns are the first gourmet minipets.



The Easter Bunny battle opponent has been renamed and is now called the Evil Bunny to avoid confusion.

The Capsule Machine has these new Easter themed items added. They will not be retiring.



Can you find the 'Bye Bye Bunny' Hidden Avatar?

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. pitbulllover15 is the winner of the 74,200MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 25, 1, 3, 9, 16 and 12! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. stevie898 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 5330! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Domino.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Running.
  

EASTER EGG HUNT

The 2014 Easter Egg Hunt in Candyland has just started! There are 40 new gourmet Easter Eggs hidden around the site and you have to follow the clues to find them. When you find an Easter Egg, it will be added to your Easter Basket in Candyland. Only when you find all 40 eggs can you collect them - you will receive two of each Easter Egg this year! Also, if you miss the clue, it will now be shown at your Easter Basket. You can also win MP and these new prizes...




There is one IMPORTANT RULE - you cannot list answers or give out answers on the Forums, Blogs or Club Boards, ONLY via Maramail or MaraTalk. Anyone caught giving answers anywhere publicly on the site, or linking to websites with the answers listed on the Forums or Club Boards will be banned from taking part, will have their prizes taken away from them and will be fined up to 100,000MP.





Clue 'The Easter Bunny is back this year
Spreading all his Easter Cheer
Eggs will be found if you follow his lead
To get it all done it's endurance you'll need'

WARNING : You are only allowed ONE account on Marapets. Anyone found to be receiving Easter Egg Hunt items from more than one account will have their account frozen for multiple account abuse.
Using family and friends accounts to gain Easter Egg Hunt items is against the rules.

Can you find the 'Happy Easter 2014' Hidden Avatar?



The Easter Egg Hunt will finish May 11th and all Easter Eggs and Prizes will retire. Make sure you complete it before this date!

The Newths have been working hard all week to patch the Computer Virus causing massive disruption in Ziranek. Once a city of the future, Ziranek become dated and unprotected against the hackers of today. To remove every trace of the virus, the whole city was reformatted with the latest operating system and all hardware was upgraded. Thanks to all of your help, the Snowman has sent out enough computer parts to clear the virus from the rest of Marada. The Ziranek map has been revamped, the Snowman is back to normal, the event is now over and all corrupt items are retired. The evil Huthiq from Enpiah that caused all of this mess is a criminal and needs to be caught! Look out for him...

NEW FEATURE
A couple months ago, tishalook ran an official Marapets Clothing Design Contest on the Graphics Forum and the entries we received were so good, we decided to create a permanent Fashion Show feature in Lowlyhood. If you have an idea for new character clothing on Marapets, enter and make your ideas a reality! Simply draw your ideas onto one of our Male and Female bases and email it to us. You can even print it off and design it by hand, scan or take a photo of it and then email it to us. Then everytime that we receive enough entries, we will pick winners and our artists will create them for the site. Lucky winners will be released in the news, win 100,000MP, a Fashion Show Medal for their profile, receive a set of the items they helped to design and be permanently added to the Fashion Show winners gallery!

Congratulations to our first Fashion Show Winners - Decomposition, sassygrl93731174, gregoentre, Sorci, Anatidaephobia, GERARDWAYmcr, lolalex, Angrybunny, mumu35, lolalex, Reichenbach, JahLove and Toyboks!

You can now view their entries at the Fashion Show page in Lowlyhood. The items that they helped to design have been added to the Vending Machine.



If you have access to the Vending Machine you can now win these new clothing items!

ZIRANEK EVENT
The Newths and the Ziranek geeks have been working day and night to find a patch to the computer virus in Ziranek. A newer, more upgraded version of Ziranek will be ready this Friday - virus free! This means that you all have until Friday, April 18th for this event to finish. The Computer Parts store has been revamped and to help you complete more Snowman quests during this event, it is now restocking more items! All Corrupt items from this event will retire on Friday at the end of this event.



Can you find the 'Corrupted' Hidden Avatar?

EASTER EVENT
The Easter Bunny has made her debut appearance in Marada! Decorate your profile and dress up your character for the celebrations, in pinks and golds and purples. The Easter Bunny will be visiting profiles and you may get rewarded for those who impress her. The Easter Bunny is not like Beelzebub, she is shy and easily scared away! Be nice and she will be running contests, games and giveaways on the Forums - a few lucky winners will receive a retired Lati Potion or Easter Costume, retired Easter Eggs and other great items! Naughty players will scare her away or receive only Carrots.




You do not have to have an easter/spring costume, you can dress up your doll in pinks, golds and purples, brown for a chocolate look or green colours a spring look.

If you are a younger player and you do not have access to Forums you can still take part. The Easter Bunny will visit profiles selected randomly from the Online list so make sure you are ready in case she drops by!

Want to help out? - send us items to the account 'Easter Bunny' for us to use as prizes!

A reminder that the annual Easter Egg Hunt will be starting later this week. This year will be better than ever, with a special suprise in store for all of those who find all 40 Easter Eggs and complete the hunt. Don't miss out!

Can you find the 'Hoppy Easter' Hidden Avatar?

GIFTBOX UPDATE
The Giftbox items on the Account Upgrades page have been improved. Every Giftbox item has been revamped and they are all now on sale in a brand new Giftbox Shop. Every single Giftbox has had their item description updated, so there should be no more confusion over what each one does! The most confusing 'Transmogrification Time Giftbox' has been renamed to 'Transmogrification Repeat Giftbox' and before you buy in the shop, a pop-up confirmation alert now asks you to confirm your purchase to stop accidental buys! There is also a 'what does this do?' link for each Giftbox so you can easily see what each one is for. Finally, once you have used a Giftbox, the boxes telling you about them will be removed from those sections of the site. For example, the Double Crystals Giftbox message will be removed from Elger quests page once you have used one.




The Giftbox section of every player's profile has been updated. They are now organised alphabetically, link back to the Giftbox Shop and has a progress bar of how many you have collected.

The Account Upgrades page has been updated with new links to the Giftbox Shop, Account Upgrades Shop and the Monthly Checklist - where you can win Account Upgrades credits for FREE each month. Yes, we will remove the 15,000MP entry fee next month so it is actually FREE to enter!

ACCOUNT UPGRADES
The limited edition Account Upgrade items section is now a new Shop. This will make it easier and faster for us to release new items for sale. It also now has a pop-up confirmation alert to stop accidental purchases. Items will also automatically retire, at midnight, on the date items in the shop say that they will retire.

For a limited time only, this shop now has random pieces of the Vending Machine Instructions and Sumo Sally Pass for sale. The Sumo Sally pass will automatically retire May 15th and the Steampunk Treasure Chest will automatically retire April 25th.

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. JadeDragonLady is the winner of the 45,100MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 12, 6, 23, 21, 9 and 3! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. hpcybrcn is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 5251! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Shoot the Fatty.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Running.
  

NEW EVENT
Breaking news from Biala! The computer virus that hit the city of Ziranek has been spreading around Marada! Items restocked recently for FREE in Ziranek were infected and spread around Marada by the Snowman quests. The Snowman has become corrupted and is now asking for Computer Parts to be sent to players online, to replace their infected parts. Until a patch is found for Ziranek, the snowman may reward you with these Corrupt items.

NEW EVENT
A hacker from Enpiah has managed to spread a computer virus in Ziranek. Once a world filled with the latest technology, in recent years has become dated and unprotected. All pets of Marada are being advised to stay away from this world until the Newths find a way to fix the damage these Huthiq hackers have caused. But for those willing to risk it, all Shops in Ziranek are now FREE. You can now buy items from the Appliances, Batteries, Computer Parts, CDs, DVDs and Glowing Eggs shops for 0MP until further notice. Each player can buy one item from a Ziranek shop every 5 minutes.


Just a reminder that Easter Sunday is April 20th and our annual Easter Egg Hunt will start next week. Don't miss out!

The Snowman in Biala has been redrawn. We hope you like the changes!



There are 4 new Seeds restocking to grow these 4 new Organic Minipets.

Here is a preview of a new Alien Costume being released soon...

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. ather is the winner of the 53,400MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 1, 12, 19, 23, 16 and 7! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. HarryPotterRulz1995 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 2948! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Battle of Baspinar.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Running.
  

The Forums have been updated. They now have a new layout and new icons. We hope you like the changes!

These new items have been added to the Recycling Centre.



Can you find these new Hidden Avatars?



The default Zola avatar has been released.

NOTICE - this news was an April Fool's Day joke and is not a real event.

NEW EVENT
It has been a week since the Pot of Gold event where Zetzilla ate all 1,001,605 items that were donated. He was so full that he has stayed quiet since. Now it seems all of those Baby Costumes he ate have given him the taste for pets too! He has randomly been biting the heads off of your pets.

For the next 7 days, you need to search Marapets for the missing pet heads. Just like the pumpkin hunt, these heads will randomly show up on the page. The more heads that you find, the more prizes you will win. At the end of the event, if every missing head is found, your pets will return to normal! The top 100 players who find the most pet heads will receive a Headless Costume and 1,000,000MP!







There are now 11 new Headless Pets. Basil, Daisy, Echlin, Hump, Kujo, Lorius, Pucu, Willa, Xoi, Zola and Zoosh.

The Recycling Centre in the City of Marada has been redrawn. There are also new items now on sale.




These new Recycled Pets have been released. The Rofling, Viotto and Snookle are redraws and the Leido is new.

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. LilyahnaDamien is the winner of the 84,800MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 23, 6, 21, 8, 18 and 22! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. vivia is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 3203! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Plasma Wars.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Weight Lifting.
  

NEW FEATURE
A new Capsule Machine has opened in Nimbus. It is filled with special Capsules containing many rare and exciting items. Insert a Capsule Machine Token and you will receive a random item. You can use it once every 12 hours. If you are really lucky, you may win a restricted Zola pet! The Capsule Machine Tokens are avaliable at the Account Upgrades page.

As the Capsule Machine can only used once every 12 hours you cannot send Tokens to other players to use the Capsule Machine on your behalf and to send you the item they win. That is putting your account at an unfair advantage over other players and is not permitted.








The Zola can now wear the Baby Costume.