H A P P Y      H A L L O W E E N ! ! !

Happy Halloween to all of our players! We hope you enjoyed our 2019 Maraween events so far.

All Witch and Midnight pets will receive DOUBLE STATS at the Gym and Elite Gym until November 8th.

All Witch, Insideout, Gothic, Vampire, Halloween, Phantom, Mad Scientist, Nefarious, Bug, Skeleton, Ghost, Witch, Dark, Zombie, Wizard, Voodoo, Vampire, Goblin, Rotten, Midnight, Killer, Headless, Mutant, Mummy, Werewolf, Nightmare, Monster, Poison or Devil pets will receive FREE COURSES at the University until November 8th.

All Witch, Insideout, Gothic, Vampire, Halloween, Phantom, Mad Scientist, Nefarious, Bug, Skeleton, Ghost, Witch, Dark, Zombie, Wizard, Voodoo, Vampire, Goblin, Rotten, Midnight, Killer, Headless, Mutant, Mummy, Werewolf, Nightmare, Monster, Poison or Devil pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym until November 14th.

And all Witch, Insideout, Gothic, Vampire, Halloween, Phantom, Mad Scientist, Nefarious, Bug, Skeleton, Ghost, Witch, Dark, Zombie, Wizard, Voodoo, Vampire, Goblin, Rotten, Midnight, Killer, Headless, Mutant, Mummy, Werewolf, Nightmare, Monster, Poison or Devil pets will receive FREE LESSONS at the School until November 14th.

These new Severed Heads are now restocking in the Halloween Treats shop.



Can you find these new Halloween Hidden Avatars?



The Chibs, Flab, Leido, Murfin, Osafo, Troit, Ushunda and Yakubi are now wearing the updated Mummy Costume.

The Mummy Costume is the latest costume to be revamped. The Mummy Mordo, Nino, Oglue, Quell, Rofling, Rusty, Sybri, Tasi, Viotto, Vixen, Xoi and Zoosh have been updated to match the new design.

A new set of limited edition Halloween items are now on sale at the Account Upgrades Shop. They will all automatically retire November 20th.




The Undying Minipets feature has new art work. We hope you like the change!

T R I C K      O R      T R E A T ?
Our Maraween Character Trick or Treat has just started. It will end automatically on November 15th. To take part in Character Trick or Treat, all you need to do is dress your character up in an approved Halloween Character Costume, . Then you can visit the profile of any player that is currently online, hit the Trick or Treat button and receive a prize every time! You can only Trick or Treat each person once per day and you will receive MP or an item. All of these item prizes will retire at the end of this event too!




Remember, there are retired Trick or Treat Costumes on sale at the Account Upgrade Shop until 31st October. The Character Costumes that will work for this event are as follows:

Beelzebub Costume, Vintage Witch Costume, Vintage Devil Costume, Vintage Pumpkin Costume, Pumpkin Costume, Dracula Costume, Black Skeleton Costume, Vintage Werewolf Costume, Lycanthrope Costume, Corpse Costume, Deceased Costume, Vintage Halloween Snowman Costume, Halloween Snowman Costume, Nefarious Fairy Costume, Nefarious Cloak Costume, Mutated Costume, Speechless Ghost Costume, Evil Ghost Costume, Grim Reaper Costume, Graveyard Keeper Costume, Supergirl Costume, Criminal Costume, Gremlin Costume, Sinner Costume, Teenage Sorcerer Costume, Teenage Witch Costume, Superboy Costume, Zombie Fairy Costume, Ghost Captain Costume, Ghost Pirate Costume, Mr Skeleton Costume, Mrs Skeleton Costume, Undead Bride Costume, Undead Groom Costume, Bloody Barber Costume, Loose Mummy Costume, Tight Mummy Costume, Red Death Costume, Black Death Costume, Frankenstein Bride Costume, Frankenstein Costume, Nurse Costume, Doctor Costume, School Uniform Costume, Headless Horseman Costume, Teenage Vampire Costume, Vampire Girl Costume, Onryo Costume, Death March Costume, Killer Sindi Costume

Elger has taken the time off from doing quests during this holiday season. Instead, you can visit her with your pet dressed up for Halloween to go Trick or Treating for FREE once every 20 minutes - Witch Pets can visit once every 15 minutes!

All you need to take part is a pet wearing a Halloween, Mad Scientist, Nefarious, Bug, Skeleton, Ghost, Cursed, Witch, Dark, Zombie, Vampire, Wizard, Voodoo, Phantom, Goblin, Rotten, Midnight, Insideout, Gothic, Eleka, Killer, Headless, Mutant, Mummy, Werewolf, Nightmare, Monster, Poison or Devil costume. These prizes will retire when the Elger Trick or Treat ends November 13th.

The Witch Costume was first released in October 2006 in Account Upgrades and the costume has been retired and forgotten about ever since. A new Witch Account Upgrade Set has been released, with 7 new witch themed items, a retired Witch Costume and either a Witch Enchanted Plushie or Witch Potion. This set is on sale until November 30th. You can choose if you would like the main prize to be an Enchanted Witch Plushie or Potion. There is 1 in 3 chance you will receive a limited edition Chibs instead of Azul, Feliz, Jessup, Kidlet, Murfin, Reese, Xoi or Yakubi.



The Chibs and Straya can now wear the Witch Costume.

All of the old Witch pets have been updated to match the new style.

A new Maraween Pumpkin Hunt has just started for 2019. It will last until November 21st. As you browse and play the site as normal, check out every page for a Pumpkin in a box. When you find it, click it and you may get a prize. These prizes are listed below. You may also win a Pastel Costume! The 250 different players who collect the most pumpkins will receive 1,500,000MP and a limited edition Meltin John Trading Card. The next 250 will just get a Meltin John Trading Card.

This year, 10 random players who will collect 100 pumpkins or more will win £10, 15 will receive £5 and 20 players will receive £2 Account Upgrade Credits!

WARNING : Anyone caught adding fake pumpkins to their profile, signatures, clubs or anywhere else on the site will have their account frozen for the rest of Halloween and be fined for doing so.

Collect

The Snowman has taken Halloween a little too seriously AGAIN this year! He is now only asking for Halloween Treats and he is giving out these new prizes. All of these prizes will retire when the Halloween Snowman quests end November 7th.




The Halloween Treats shop will be restocking DOUBLE STOCK at every single restock from now until November 7th.

The Decadal, Fasoro, Feliz, Lorius and Ushunda can now wear the Midnight Costume.



The Grave Robbing game in Undying Woods has been updated.

Our first and oldest game, Open Graves, has been updated. The game has new artwork to replace the 15 Years+ artwork and the MP prizes have been improved.



For a very limited time only, the Account Upgrades Shop has all of the old retired AU Trick or Treat Costumes on sale. You will receive a random costume and this offer will all automatically end October 31st. The costumes avaliable are listed below.

Black Skeleton Costume, Vintage Werewolf Costume, Lycanthrope Costume, Nefarious Fairy Costume, Nefarious Cloak Costume, Speechless Ghost Costume, Evil Ghost Costume, Grim Reaper Costume, Graveyard Keeper Costume, Supergirl Costume, Criminal Costume, Gremlin Costume, Sinner Costume, Teenage Sorcerer Costume, Teenage Witch Costume, Superboy Costume, Zombie Fairy Costume, Mr Skeleton Costume, Mrs Skeleton Costume, Undead Groom Costume, Bloody Barber Costume, Loose Mummy Costume, Tight Mummy Costume, Red Death Costume, Black Death Costume, Nurse Costume, Doctor Costume, School Uniform Costume, Headless Horseman Costume, Teenage Vampire Costume, Vampire Girl Costume, Onryo Costume, Death March Costume, Killer Sindi Costume, Beelzebub Costume, Vintage Witch Costume, Vintage Devil Costume, Vintage Pumpkin Costume, Pumpkin Costume, Dracula Costume, Undead Bride Costume, Mutated Costume, Mutant and Skeleton Skin

Back again for 2019 Maraween! The Enpiah Alien was trick or treating in Undying Woods last night and was bitten! Until November 15th, the Halloween Alien has new items that he will put up for Auction for only 1MP. These items will retire at the end of the event. If you are really lucky, you may catch a very rare or retired Halloween item! There are 5 new prizes for 2019 - you can win a maximum of one auction every 3 hours.








The Undying Fairy has been updated with new artwork.

Our first Maraween event has started. The Pot of Gold has been magically transformed into the Pumpkin of Gold. Until November 12th, only Halloween Treats can be donated. You can pick up one item from the Pumpkin of Gold every 5 minutes. New prizes will be donated randomly throughout the day.

There are 4 new prizes that will randomly be donated to the Pumpkin of Gold. These items will retire November 12th.

There will also be lots of Halloween Treats donated and the chance to grab some old retired Pumpkin of Gold prizes!

The Clock Tower in Undying Woods has been updated. To celebrate Maraween you will gain DOUBLE STATS at the Clock Tower until November 1st.


For a limited time only, the retired Haunted Treasure Chest from 2016 is back on sale at the Account Upgrades Shop. It will automatically retire October 30th.

M A R A W E E N     S E A S O N        H A S        S T A R T E D
We have SO much happening from now until October 31st, including Character Trick or Treat, Free Training, Pumpkin Hunt, the Halloween Snowman, limited edition Account Upgrade items, Elger's Trick or Treat, Beelzebub, Pumpkin of Gold, the Halloween Alien and much more!

Are you ready

A certain Halloween devil has been seen lurking around the site again. We all know how much Beelzebub loves Halloween. As usual Beelzebub has all sorts of Halloween goodies to give away to members who are getting into the Halloween spirit and have a halloween-themed character or profile. There are 2 new prizes for 2019, Beelzebub has had a makeover and he will also be giving out limited numbers of retired prizes from previous years.




You dont have to have a Halloween costume for your character, just use your imagination and dress your character in some appropriate clothes and makeup to make yourself look appropriately spooky - just be creative!

Although this is mostly a forums-based event, there will also be prizes rewarded randomly to members who are online and have something spooky about their profile, so you may still win something even if you dont have forum access.

The Worm Digging game in Gigantic Paradise has been updated. The game now has new artwork, a nicer design and higher MP prizes.

Thank you to everyone for their patience the past week or so. As you probably noticed, Marapets had over a week of loading problems, which caused a lot of weird glitches. Several of our hard disks broke at the same time and the disks they fail over to were not as fast as we're used to. To avoid any problems we've had in the past, we closed right away and tried our best to find the best long term solution and install/prepare everything in 48 hours. It took nearly 69 hours but I had to have some sleep ha!

We had plans to move away from all of our last remaining SATA disks (even at 15K RPM they are still so much slower and less reliable than SSD) but they were only here as back up.The plan was to move all of our servers from Canada to the UK in 2020 and replace it then once our Canada lease was up. Last week changed all of this, as we needed Marapets fixed ASAP. We've now extended the lease in Canada for another 24 months and completed all of the upgrades we had planned for 2020 in Canada. Marapets has been hosted in North America for the past 15 years because the majority of players are from there and it meant a faster site for those players. These days, with Cloudflare and fibre connections, it makes very little difference and is more of a hassle to have everything so far away from us.

Don't worry if that made no sense to you, all that matters is that a) we have new hardware and software now and hopefully we'll be good now for many years and b) it was a total success and we should be running the best we ever had.

We will start our Halloween events as planned shortly. Those who changed their pets to Midnight for free training should keep them midnight - midnight is a halloween theme costume and it will be included in Halloween free training.

The Basil, Paffuto, Reese and Tantua can now wear the Thunder Costume.



The Double or Nothing game has been updated with brand new artwork.

The Transubstantiation Temple and Transuranics Temple have been updated.



The Zetlian can now wear the Splatter Costume.


Fifty of the oldest Stamps have been updated with newer artwork.

The CD Shop in Ziranek has 42 new CDs restocking. Treat your pet to some of the latest music in Marada right now, with classics from Selene Dion, Hick Jagger, Meltin John and Susan Doyle and newer albums from Demi Plushato, Piggy Azalea and Justin Beaver. The artwork for 13 of the oldest CDs has also been updated.

All Midnight pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym and FREE LESSONS at the School until October 15th.

There seems to be a lot of confusion recently about changes to the Marapets Layout. Over the next couple of months, Marapets will be becoming more Mobile Friendly. Players on mobiles, tablets and desktops will all be able to play Marapets just as easy as each other. For the past 15 years, we've been 100% made for desktop computers. It has taken us many years to gradually change the site, so that it works well on mobile. Some of these changes are already here but many are not. When it is finished, hopefully by the end of the year, it will be clear why we have been making changes around the site. Until then, there may be the ocasional mis-aligned text, some text that is too big, some that is too small, random white space, etc. None of this should effect the way that Marapets can be played - the site will still work as it should, it just may not look it's best. If you find any parts of the site where the design makes it difficult to play, please report it on the Help Forums. In the mean time, please be patient with us - the end result will be worth it!

Basil can now wear the Baby Costume and the Minipet Astro has been updated to the newer design.


The winners of the 15th Birthday Hunt have been announced. If you were a winner, you will have received your prizes and the alert by now.
Congratulations to the following winners of:
Forum Art Contest : Succulents, Nim, Overalls, Wheeker, robot
Forum Doll Contest : waffle, Florence, Lumos, Snookles, Ateez
Party Costume : LittleKitten570, Gylly, PURPLE232, batouttaheck, Rumor, Cleola, xxMelyndaxx, Hunnie, misstree, crazyee1521, Detain, raenarabbit, Bastean, ShockWave, zumadays
£15 Account Upgrade Credit : Yikes, kanrise, fOOt, Dream51296, Dianne, gabbygirl95929, shellan82, Neko, daisylou16, Cleola, JavannaLynn, becacat, Rellycanth, Spiderman, littleheart50
Decadal Birthday Hunt Prize : Joanne, MaplePrincess, dreamer4darkness, GarlandsOfGrace, Mordo, laughATme, Lumos, lhdc, _DragonLady_, Quill, marapetuniverse, Sinner, Patrick, Pukwudgie, Selection

A new Midnight Account Upgrade Set has been released, with 7 new midnight themed items, a retired Midnight Costume and either a Midnight Enchanted Plushie or Midnight Potion. This set is on sale until October 25th. You can choose if you would like the main prize to be an Enchanted Midnight Plushie or Potion. There is 1 in 3 chance you will receive a limited edition Mordo instead of Crindol, Gonk, Grint, Paffuto, Reese, Tantua, Xoi or Zetlian.





The Mordo and Reese can now wear the Midnight Costume.


All 21 Midnight pets have been updated to the new style - we hope you like the changes!

Summer is nearly over in Marada but the Apollo, Kissy, Pyri, Spoopy, Sugarmites, Dapurtle, Kuork, Scorpi, Sue and Yoop minipets can now wear the Ball of Summer Yarn.




We have a new Summer Layout - we finally have all 4 seasons in Marada! We have also changed the site's layout - it's much wider now and the 'reminder' box has moved. It will take a few more months for the whole site to be finished but we're working on hard on making Marapets more responsive, so that it fits better and is easier to play on all browsers and devices. This means you may experience mis-aligned or messy pages here and there as we make the switch. If you notice any that are really bad, please let us know on the Help Forums.



The Ice Cream shop has six new items restocking.



The Tombola drink prizes have been updated. They are now gourmet items and there are 12 new items to be won.

The Basil, Dakota, Fasoro, Feliz, Ike, Jessup, Sindi, Speiro, Yakubi and Zoink can now wear the Checkered Costume. This means that all 77 pets can now wear this costume!

The old Sushi items have all been updated to newer artwork.

The Voodoo Costume is the latest costume to be revamped. The Voodoo Ercuw, Fasoro, Tantua and Troit have been updated to the newer design. The Decadal and Huthiq can now wear this costume. Remember, you can win this costume from The Fates mission.

All Fairy pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym and FREE LESSONS at the School until October 6th.

The Poera, Rusty, Straya, Vixen and Willa can now wear the Fairy Costume that is still on sale at Account Upgrades.