The Restock system for the main shops in Marada has been updated. You may have noticed we have replaced the old, easily abused security codes with newer ones that will guarantee only genuine players can buy the items. Codes will only show on certain items - rare, expensive or unbuyable items. As items decrease in value or demand, the security code will be automatically removed. All other items will have no security codes at all but you can only buy one of the same item every 30 seconds.

The new codes also mean that we can make Restocking more interesting. All shops can now restock items of up to rarity 40 - meaning that there are some super rare items that will only show up a few times a week or month! There are 83 new items now restocking in several different shops.












All Quests have been updated. We have increased the rewards of all quests. The layout has also been improved, with the 'Check Price' feature making it easier and faster for you to complete quests. We have also removed the old codes from quests and replaced them with the newer codes, which will only randomly show up.

The Lottery has been drawn for this week. Xirisa is the winner of the 839,800MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 14, 23, 29, 33, 42 and 47. Congratulations!

Last Week's Raffle has now ended. moonshot2525 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 3158! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!


The Game of the Week has now changed to Newth Box.


This week's Olympic Event is Weight Lifting.

Marapets is now back to normal. A week ago our DNS crashed while under attack and because it was old, we upgraded it. While upgrading that, our load balancer - which was even older and has been running constantly without any downtime for 8 years and 7 months - crashed too. It took hours to get it back online and fix it but after a couple of hours it was clear that it was dying and needed replacement. For no reason at all, as you may have noticed the past few days, it would work as normal and then suddenly lag, hang or timeout. This has been happening for the past few days, getting worse every hour - we were literally watching its disks fail one after one.

Finding a replacement this fast was not easy, especially being a weekend and getting it set up and installed this fast was not easy or cheap! However, its done and we are now finished. It is brand new, faster and more reliable. We have also put a second one on order for redundancy in the future, so if one fails we have the other for backup. Thanks for your patience :)

The Lottery has been drawn for this week. rpetite94 is the winner of the 1,153,300MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 5, 13, 14, 17, 22 and 46. Congratulations!

Last Week's Raffle has now ended. courty1 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 5787! 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 Swimming.

These new prizes have been added to the Birthday Events. There are 2 new masks to be found inviting players and 5 new unisex shirts hidden inside pinatas.



We would like to apologise for Marapets yesterday. While we are celebrating the fact that Marapets hit a decade, yesterday was our servers reminding us of the fact that some of them are 7 or 8 years old! Our load balancer, which has been really good to us for the past 6 years and 8 months, crashed and yesterday was doing whatever it wanted, whenever it wanted. Yesterday we just had to wait it out until the DNS records updated, which can take 24 hours or longer sometimes - anyone who cannot still load Marapets should restart their router, PC and flush their DNS. We've ordered a replacement that will be set up as soon as we get it. Anyway, here is the new Moonlight Troit!

The Hair Dye Shop in Lush Lake is now restocking 79 new Eyebrow Tint items. They are the same colours as hair dye and can be added to your wardrobe to change the colour of your character's eyebrows.

Yuni Brows has just been released in Lowlyhood. Visit with a Yuni Brows Coupon and you can have your character's eyebrows shaped! You can win Yuni Brows Coupon from the Hump Racing quest in Kamilah Desert.



The Upstairs of Baspinar's Castle map is no more. We have removed this old, pointless map. The Barber and Salon have been combined into a new and improved Salon in Lowlyhood.

The Lottery has been drawn for this week. RavenStormbringer is the winner of the 1,325,800MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 10, 18, 23, 27, 42 and 45. Congratulations!

Last Week's Raffle has now ended. nigel242 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 1920! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!


The Game of the Week has now changed to Leido Bounce.


This week's Olympic Event is Hurdles.

We would like to apologise for the past 10-12 hours of Site Loading Issues. It was completely out of our control. Our DNS server was under attack from a spam bot and crashed. The server is really old and didn't want to boot up again. It has taken all this time to get a nice new replacement server! The attack has been blocked and we have scheduled an upgrade of our firewall and load balancer for next month to prevent it in the future.

The Undying Woods map has been revamped. This world is almost 10 years old and has hardly changed since then! Here is the new world map, and how it looked when Marapets first opened on August 15th 2004...

Be sure to enter the Monthly Checklist this month! There will be 50% more winners of Account Upgrades credit this month, to celebrate 10 years of Marapets.

These new limited edition Account Upgrades items have been added for our 10th Birthday. They will retire Sept 15th.




A new Party Treasure Chest has been added to the Account Upgrades Shop. You can open this item to receive 7 different, random new items, including new clothes, shoes, belt, tiara, hat, wig, gourmet food and plushie. You will not receive duplicate items. This item will automatically retire September 15th.

Marapets is a DECADE today. That's 8,487,946,097 Page Views by 43,642,758 unique people to date. 5,416,696 accounts and 7,271,905 pets have been created. A huge thank you to all the Marapets staff, past and present, for all their hard work. Much appreciated! And of course, we never would have lasted this long without the support of all players - the number of players collecting their Loyalty prizes shows how loyal our community is!! Time to start planning our 11th Birthday party...

We have reduced the time between Party Event invites from 2 minutes to 30 seconds.

As part of the 10th Birthday celebrations, all Party, Pinata, Daylight and Moonlight pets have free training at the Gym and Elite Gym until September 15th.

The Ercuw, Kaala, Knutt, Mordo, Sindi, Speiro, Xoi and Gobble can now wear the Party Costume.

HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY MARAPETS!!!!
Our 10th Birthday Party celebrations have just started. There are many different events, giveaways and contests that will happen between now and September 15th.

King Baspinar has started his Masquerade Ball and he needs your help inviting as many online players to the fun! Visit a user's profile and hit the 'Happy Birthday' button and they will be invited to the party. Each player is different - some won't party, some will and others will have the best time ever! The respone of the character will depend on what prize you receive. You can only invite a player who is currently online and can only invite the same player once every day. Each player can only be invited once every 2 minutes. If they RSVP instantly, you will win a Party Hat or Mask you need to join the party. If they do not RSVP, you will receive MP or one of 23 new Pinatas.





The new Baspinar's Masquerade Forum has been added for the next month. This is where the party is at! You will receive 200MP per post or topic in this forum and we will be running lots of contests, giveaways, games and staff Q&As! We have hundreds of Account Upgrade credit, millions of MP and lots of great new items to give away here! This forum has a strict dress code and your character must wear one of these to enter:
Colourful Birthday Hat, Playful Birthday Hat, Striped Birthday Hat, Dotted Birthday Hat, Spotted Birthday Hat, Spotted Dots Birthday Hat, Lace Mask, Feather Mask, Checkered Dots Birthday Hat, Half Face Mask, Starry Birthday Hat, Classic Mask, Balloon Birthday Hat, Sun Mask, Long Nosed Mask, Swirly Birthday Hat, Butterfly Mask or Decade Hat



Hit any of the new Pinatas and you will find one of these new prizes inside...





You may also find the Pinata Costume inside any Pinata. The Echlin, Huthiq and Rofling can now wear this costume.



As you browse and play the site as normal, a 'Birthday Gift' may show up in a box. When you find it, click it and you are guarenteed a prize! You can win all of these new items below, MP, BP, RP, Dukka Coins and if you're lucky, Account Upgrades Credit!

At the end of the event, the top 100 players who collect the most gifts will receive 2,500,000MP and a Party Pooper Trading Card! The next 300 players will win a Party Pooper Trading Card.

12 random players who find 100 or more Gifts will also randomly win a basic coloured Decadal Potion. There will only be 3 of each colour potion released!!

Posting the 10th Birthday Cake image on profiles, siggies, etc is confusing to other players and, as usual, is not allowed. If you are asked to remove the image and do not do so, your account may be frozen until the end of the 10th Birthday celebrations.








Birthday Gift

Exactly 10 Years Ago to this minute, we were rushing around, testing and finishing off the final designs for pets, items and our the first world maps. I was 16, had just came back from my summer holiday in Portugal - where the pet names Azul and Feliz came from - and had just a few hours before we were opening! Over 150 people per hour were refreshing, waiting for us to open and our basic hosting was struggling to keep up with the demand!

Here is a screenshot of Marapets 10 years ago today...

We have just completed a major update to all Items on the site. Every single item on the site has been re-coded, fixing a lot of errors, spelling mistakes and adding useful links. When you use an item, it automatically returns you to your Inventory making everything faster and a lot easier.

Ian has changed into Daylight Kidlet and your Enchanted Daylight Kidlet Plushie has now lost its magical power

The Bakery in Candyland and the Flower Shop in Puchalla Village have been updated.

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble!





The Gobble can now wear the Chibi Costume.



The Negative, Prison, Starry and Underwater Gobble have also been updated.

The Collections section is now complete. All 18 different collections, including pet collections have been updated. The layout and artwork for them all has improved and they have all been re-coded to load faster. The pet collections have been added to this page, allowing you to view all of your pets at once. They all also have missing lists now.

The Fishing in Jenoa has been updated. New prizes have been added and the MP pay outs have been increased. You may also pick up a new Dukka Treasure Chest that has a random Dukka Coin inside! As soon as Jenoa gets a revamp, this feature will be moving from Jenoa to Minipet Island.




The Aquarium in Jenoa has been redrawn. All previous Fish Minipets have also been revamped.

The Chibs can now wear the Fat, Plushie and Underwater Costumes.



The Quests and Missions pages have been updated.

With our 10th Birthday less than 4 days away, the King Baspinar Loyalty System now has new prizes for players who have been with us for 10 Years!





We are in the process of editing all 27,426 items on Marapets so that the Price Checker and site search will give more useful information. Items that are not on sale in a shop will soon tell you where they come from, with a useful link to the feature.

The Vixen, Walee and Willa can now wear the Chibi Costume.



These new items have been added to the Capsule Machine.




Show off how rich you are with this new Jumbo Diamond Ring now on sale at the Antique Shop.


The Jewellery Shop is now restocking these new items for your character to wear.




This new Pearl Necklace has been added to the Millionaire's Lodge in Jenoa.

The Lottery has been drawn for this week. Carlz2 is the winner of the 3,033,200MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 24, 28, 31, 34, 38 and 42. Congratulations!

Last Week's Raffle has now ended. Luvmeluvr is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 494! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!


The Game of the Week has now changed to Phanty Quest.


This week's Olympic Event is Weight Lifting.

The Decadal can now wear the Baby, Nightmare and Party Costumes.



The Dukka Coin Exchange and Rapunzel's Tower have been updated.

The Marapets Account Protection Guarantee has been updated. Although it should be clear to most players, we ask you all to review the changes.

The Doyle, Kaala and Lati can now wear the Chibi Costume.



All non-restocking Shops in Marada have been re-coded. They have moved over to the new 'Shops' system recently released, allowing for better integration into the site. The main change is that you will now be awarded RP from purchases at all stores, excluding the RP shops and Dukka Coin Exchange. Another useful change is that using 'Price Checker' on any of the items in these shops will show you the price, stock level and a quick link to the shop. This means that if the Charity Shop has an item in stock, the price checker will link to this item at half price first! The Pirate Ship and Treasure Map shops have new shopkeepers too.


You can now add Lipsticks, Hair Dye, Eye and Face Makeup to your Wardrobes. They are no longer one use items, meaning that you can collect them all and change your style all the time for free. The new wardrobes make these items a lot better, as you can try on all of the different make up until you get the right look.

NEW QUEST
In the hot and dry heat of Kamilah Desert, these Hump pets have just finished a race. They are too thirsty to race again and need your help! Each Hump below wants you to bring them a different drink before they will race again. If you are the first to quench their thirst, they will race for you. Every Hump has different odds of winning the race. If your Hump wins the race, you will win MP. If a Hump wins at 30 to 1, you will win 15,000MP. If your Hump loses the race, you will win a consolation prize of 250MP and a Yuni Brows Coupon.



Hump Racing has been added to the Kamilah Desert map and Quests page.

Zetzilla is back! Ever since he destroyed the first City of Marada, Zetzilla has had a reputation as being evil and scary. When he first moved to Gigantic Paradise there was widespread panic but he has finally found a place where his size and strength is normal. He believes that being strong and powerful is a good thing and everyday he chooses a random colour and species of Marapets and pays for their Gym and Elite Gym training. Zetzilla has been added to the Gigantic Paradise map.


All Hairy Echlin receive FREE Gym & Elite Gym training today

Blogs have been updated. The layout and artwork has been improved. You can also click the text on any of your blog posts to edit the blog. You can now once again report blogs and blog comments to staff.