Halloween Event 2023

The , the game's third ever Halloween Event, is an event that started on October 13th, 2023 at 4:07 PM PST, and lasted for three weeks, ending on November 3rd, 2023.
This event was known for being the first returning Halloween Event after the release of the Official Recode, meaning it featured entirely Recode Gameplay and was unavailable in the legacy game.
== Pre-Release Information ==
The Halloween Event 2023 starts the same day the Mystery of the Keys Event 2023 ends. Starting off the event there will be 2 new Halloween creatures, Morcanix and Cucuerpum. Angelic Warden's signature look will be live with the Halloween Event, and will be given out in a similar way to the Smore Cat plushie, through a limited time code shared with the community.
Halloween event basic info:
* 3 New activities.
* 2 Event missions.
* New items that will be added throughout the first week.
* New palettes, plushies and signature looks will be added from the second week onwards.
* Two more events will happen on the next two weeks as well.
=== Werewolf Fang Delivery ===
* Location: Redwoods
* Task: Deliver 5 werewolf fangs to complete each delivery.
** Up to 5 fangs may spawn at once, and you may hold a maximum of 5 fangs until dropped off.
** Fangs can be viewed in your inventory under Misc Items.
** These fangs are only located in Redwoods. Some may spawn on the borders, possibly in a nearby biome. 
** When spawned, they have a bright red glow and emit an eerie "whispering" sound that can be heard from a distance.
* Reward: Candy currency, trick or treat tokens, and a rare drop chance for Morcanix.
* Cooldown: 8 minutes.
=== Dungeon Maze ===
* Location: Desert
* Task: Find the correct exit point in a multi-level maze.
** When entering, the creature will spawn at a random starting point.
** Each level must be completed in less than 2 minutes.
** There are various "exits" scattered across the maze, but only one of them will be unlocked.
* Reward: Candy currency. The further progress in the maze, the higher you go, the more candy earned.
* Cooldown: 15 minutes.
During the first week, 3 levels of easy mazes will be introduced, and each following week will introduce more difficult mazes.
=== Pumpkin Smashing ===
* Locations: Flower Cove, Central Rockfaces, Pride Rocks
* Task: Interact with these pumpkins for a short activity.
** Click when the spinner is on the color to gain progress. Gain enough progress to win the minigame.
** The purple color rewards a small amount of progress, while the orange color rewards a large amount of progess.
* Reward: Candy Currency, trick or treat tokens, and a rare drop of Cucuerpum.
Creatures of Sonaria Halloween Event Teaser
HalloweenEvent2023Portal.png|Halloween Portal
Halloween2023PumpkinDecor.png|Pumpkin decor
Halloween2023PumpkinDecor2.png|Eldritch Pumpkin decor
Halloween2023VineEyeDecor.png|Eyed Vine Decor
Halloween2023PreEventMenu.png|Event menu shared by the developers before release of the event
Halloween2023GlowingFang.png|Werewolf fang delivery item, glows a bright neon hot red.
== Part 1 ==
Part 1 released on October 13th, 2023. Upon its release, 2 returning creatures, 2 new creatures, some Halloween palettes and plushies, and a new Candy event currency were added. Some decorations to the game's map were also added, including things such as pumpkins and gravestones. Alongside the beginning of the event, Invisibility got tweaked as well, so now it does not hide scent by default.
* 3 New activities.
* 2 Event missions.
* Cucuerpum Creature (New).
* Morcanix Creature (New).
* Cryptoth Creature (Old) for 10,000 Candy.
* Viracniar Creature (Old) for 5,000 Candy.
* Trick or Treat Tokens.
* New Halloween Color Palettes.
* Halloween Event Food Sources: 
** Pumpkin Pie, no extra non-ordinary effects. Cannot be eaten by photocarnivores. 
** Spicy Candy, apart from refilling hunger for all creatures except photocarnivores, it adds the Spicy status for 30 seconds, which allows a creature to gain +1 stack of burn attack per bite.
* Halloween Decor.
** This includes a change in color for terrestrial surface lava to blues and purples, and partial temporary replacement of the hurtful lava outside the volcano for these new colors.
** Redwoods also received a change, wiith graveyard decor throughout the entire region, and upon entry to the biome itself, a dark mist-like effect will darken the area to make it look like night.
* Halloween Plushies (both returning and new).
=== Missions ===
Two event missions were released during Part 1.
==== Pumpkin Smasher ====
* Mission: Smash 250 pumpkins.
** After each completion: +250 pumpkins to the quest (500, 750, 1000, etc.).
* Reward: x1 Cucuerpum species.
* Cooldown: 12 hours.
==== Werewolf Ritual ====
* Mission: Complete the Werewolf Fang Ritual 50 times.
** After first completion: +50 rituals to the quest (100, 150, 200, etc.).
* Reward: x1 Morcanix species.
* Cooldown: 12 hours.
== Part 2 ==
Part 2 released on October 20th, 2023. Upon its release, 2 returning creatures, 1 new creature, some Halloween palettes and plushies, and a new minigame were added. Alongside the event, Eulopii and Kohikii both received redesigns.
* 1 New activity.
* 1 New Event mission.
* Wixpectr'o Creature (New).
** Obtainable through an expansion of the Maze minigame.
* Salrahn Creature (Old) for 12,000 Candy.
* Undoli Creature (Old) for 7,500 Candy.
* New Halloween Color Palettes:
** Includes Undead Color Palette.
* Halloween Plushies (both returning and new).
* 1 Mountains portal in cooldown.
=== Missions ===
One event mission was released during Part 2.
==== Escape The Maze ====
* Mission: Complete 100 Maze levels.
** After first completion: +0.
* Reward: x1 Wixpectr'o species.
* Cooldown: 12 hours.
Halloween2023RedMountainsPortal.png|Halloween Mountains Portal, in countdown
== Part 3 ==
Part 3 released on October 27th, 2023. This week had the last part of the Halloween event coming, along with some buffs (50% more candy rewards from the ), new minigame addition, and more maze floors. We also have more returning creatures and 2 new plushies for the Halloween event. Alongside the event, Therimorse released on the Death Gacha.
* 1 New activity.
* 1 New Event mission.
* Dantenos Creature (New).
** Obtainable through the Halloween Obby.
* Garra Warden Creature (Old) for 17,500 Candy.
* Sang Toare Creature (Old) for 20,000 Candy.
* All old Halloween plushies available, 2 new event plushies available in the Halloween Shop: Vampire Bat and Pig-Lantern.
=== Missions ===
One event mission was released during Part 3.
==== Traverse the Obby ====
* Mission: Complete the Halloween Obby 25 times.
** After first completion: +0.
* Reward: x1 Dantenos species.
* Cooldown: 12 hours.
== Minigames ==
=== Halloween Obby ===
* Location: Mountains (Event Part 3)
* Task: Complete the Obby.
** When entering the obstacle course, the creature will receive the "Minigame" status effect, which will reduce hunger and thirst depletion by 95%, increase growth time by 1900% (almost freezing it), disable damage, and give 150% extra stamina regeneration.
** Fliers are not allowed entry.
** All active abilities of the buttons 1-6 are disabled.
** Sitting/laying down are disabled as well.
** Sniffing and eating are NOT disabled - this is useful for when another fellow creature dies and leaves some food for the next wanderer.
* Reward: Very high chance of Dantenos and candy (first time), after receiving Dantenos, none (following times)While this was not confirmed by developers, an entire server got the species first time. When checking with an account to verify, indded, the species was obtained. Completing the obby after that gave no rewards of any kind. However, some people have reported they got it not on the first try, but a bit later on..
* Cooldown: 5 minutes.
This Obby is arguably harsher than its Mystery of the Keys Event 2023 predecessor, not only because of the more mobile parts, but because there are certain areas which cannot be done by an adult creature unless it has jump power 3 or more (for reference, its predecessor could do it with a jump power just slightly below 2). However, there is not a space where you have to find a way through a maze of invisible walls, and there is a faster chance of completing this Obby.
The use of Strafing can be extremely useful for traversing the narrowest areas.
Be careful, there's on cauldron immediately after one checkpoint where if you fall below you may get trapped inside and become soflocked unless you leave the maze.
=== Jerry's Trick-or-Treat ===
* Location: Volcano Island (Event Part 2)
* Task: Add the required ingredients (1 ghoul spirit, 1 pumpkin seed, and 1 werewolf fang) and select one of the 3 cauldrons for a prize.
** Selecting any cauldron seems to give randomly-chosen rewards, but there might be a pattern.
* Reward: Undead color palette, 15 Candy, Trick or Treat token, Wood Material Override.
* Cooldown: 5 minutes.
=== Maze ===
* Location: Desert
* Task: Find the correct exit point in a multi-level maze.
** When entering the maze, the creature will spawn at a random starting point and would receive the "Maze" status effect, which will reduce hunger and thirst depletion by 10%, increase growth time by 1900% (almost freezing it), disable damage, and give 100% extra stamina regeneration.
*** During part 3, "Maze" was repalced by the "Minigame" status effect, which reduces hunger and thirst depletion by 95%, increase growth time by 1900% (almost freezing it), disable damage, and give 150% extra stamina regeneration.
** Each level must be completed within a set amount of time.
*** The first 3 levels are 2 minutes.
*** The fourth level is 4 minutes.
*** The fifth level is 6 minutes.
*** The sixth level is 7 minutes.
*** The seventh level is 8 minutes.
*** The eighth level is 12 minutes.
** There are various "exits" scattered throughout the maze, but only one of them will be unlocked on each level. Unless explicitly told otherwise, all exits have a cyan glow.
** Fliers are not allowed entry.
** All active abilities of the buttons 1-6 are disabled.
** Sitting/laying down are disabled as well.
** Sniffing and eating are NOT disabled - this is useful for when another fellow creature dies and leaves some food for the next wanderer.
* Reward: Guaranteed Candy currency, rare drop chance for Ghoul Spirits, per level. The further progress in the maze, the more candy earned.
** Part 2: also a very rare drop chance for Wixpectr'o upon completing each level.
** Part 3: Wixpectr'o is now not obtainable from completing a level, but from completing the entire maze.
** Ghoul Spirits can be viewed in your inventory under Misc Items.
*** Ghoul Spirits have the description: "Rare Recipe Item for Halloween 2023 mission!".
* Cooldown: 15 minutes (parts 1 and 2), 8 minutes (part 3).
** This cooldown only applies if the maze is completed up to the end, or if the player presses the "leave maze" button. Failing the maze in time or menuing avoids the cooldown. This can be potentially used to farm levels faster for the Escape The Maze mission, at the cost of less total maze-travel rewards.
During the first week, 3 levels of easy mazes were introduced, and each following week will introduce more difficult mazes. During part 2, 3 new overgrown-themed floors were added. During part 3, 2 new levels were added, an ice maze, and an invisible maze; apart from changing the darkness/night visual effect by a thick dark green fog up to the ice maze.
* Regular dungeon mazes look like a flat castle dungeon, are mostly empty and only have some wall torches for illumination, as well as some rope and giant carcasses decorating end-points and rooms.
* Overgrown dungeons possess a lot of moss/grass-like and rocky decorations on the floor, have replaced the wall torches for glowing floor Jack O'Lanterns, and are not necessarily flat in surface, with some areas being elevated.
* The ice maze resembles the first maze levels, only bigger, with far more wide and empty corridors and rooms (with so far only ropes being spotted), a bluish/whitish fog, giant falling snowflake effects, and a general frozen feeling, with the ropes being partially covered in ice. These level's exits have a warmer red color that makes them easier to spot.
* The invisible maze has solid floors, walls, and ceiling for the boundary of the maze itself. This maze has a 2-floor system creatures will need to navigate to find the valid exist. There will be 3 entrances and exits with the total size of the maze being the same dimensions as Maze 3 (500x500) due to its more difficult nature.
It is recommended to play during the daytime for better vision to navigate easier, jumping may sometimes help if an area has poor vision due to decor obstacles, such as the overgrown flora, pumpkins and rocks; while on the last floor jumping may be necessary to access two of the three exits. A useful tactic is to do like on real-life caves, always stick to one side of the wall to travel the entire maze. If desperate, the use of the camera function can be extremely useful in seeing better and finding hidden exits.
* On the first three levels, there's little time so performing the stick-to-a-side trick will not usually work in time, especially on the third maze, which while still being easier, it has a more complex pattern - remembering the door's placements or using the camera to discover their locations is far faster and useful.
* On the overgrown mazes, the extra time makes the real-cave strategy ideal; and the amount of decor, elevations and rocky formations leaves the camera option a waste of time.
* On the ice maze, camera mode turns out extremely useful once again at spotting things, especially since the topology of that maze may make any creature using the stick-to-a-side technique wander in circles if they are not careful, and the size may make a creature waste a long time before noticing that they have stuck to the wrong wall.
* On the invisible maze, it is important to have the normal camera field of view inside an invisible wall, and preferably close to the ground, increasing the apparent reflectiveness of the walls and making them more visible - also helps with spotting invisible ramps and holes.
Do not worry about creatures flying up to the maze area — while they are not limited by the walls and their damage and abilities are not disabled, they still cannot harm those inside the maze.
=== Pumpkin Smashing ===
* Locations: Flower Cove, Central Rockfaces, Pride Rocks
* Task: Interact with these pumpkins for a short activity.
** Click when the spinner is on the color to gain progress. Gain enough progress to win the minigame.
** The purple color rewards a small amount of progress, while the orange color rewards a large amount of progress.
** Clicking while the spinner is in the dark area will cause some progress to be lost.
** 25 pumpkins spawn across the area.
* Reward: Guaranteed Candy currency, uncommon chance for x1 Pumpkin Seed, uncommon chance for x5 Shooms, rare chance for x1 Trick or Treat Token, and a rare drop chance for Cucuerpum.
** Pumpkin Seeds can be viewed in your inventory under Misc Items.
*** Pumpkin seeds have the description: "Rare Recipe Item for Halloween 2023 mission".
=== Werewolf Fang Ritual ===
* Location: Redwoods
* Task: Deliver 5 werewolf fangs to complete each delivery.
** Up to 5 fangs may spawn at once, and you may hold a maximum of 5 fangs until dropped off.
** Fangs can be viewed in your inventory under Misc Items.
*** Fangs have the description "Deliver Fangs for the Halloween 2023 mission".
** These fangs are only located in Redwoods. Some may spawn on the borders, possibly in a nearby biome. 
** When spawned, they have a bright red glow and emit an eerie grave "whispering" sound that can be heard from a distance. When picked up, they produce a pitched-up whispering sound.
* Reward: Common chance for Candy currency, uncommon chance for Trick or Treat Tokens, very rare chance for Morcanix.
* Cooldown: 8 minutes.
HW2023WerewolfFang.png|Werewolf Fang item
HW2023PumpkinSeed.png|Pumpkin Seed item
HW2023GhoulSpirit.png|Ghoul Spirit item
== Event Shop ==
The Halloween Event Shop has three main tabs.
* Featured: features exclusive Halloween event creatures paid with , as well as bundles.
* Candy: allows players to purchase Candy event currency.
* Items: contains all purchasable Halloween event items, including creatures, plushies, and material/color palettes.
=== Creatures ===
Creatures that are available for purchase in the event shop.
Part 	Creature(s) Added	Cost
Part 1	 	10,000 Candy
Part 1	 	5,000 Candy
Part 2	 	12,000 Candy
Part 2	 	7,500 Candy
Part 3	 	17,500 Candy
Part 3	 	20,000 Candy
=== Plushies ===
Plushies that are available for purchase in the event shop.
Part 		Name 	Effect 	Cost
Part 1		Cat 	Adds 1 offensive bleed 	1,500 Candy
Part 1		Ghost 	Adds 7.5% bleed-block 	500 Candy
Part 1		Magic Frog 	Adds a chance to nest a creature with the Bewitched Mutation, and a chance to become Bewitched mutated at age 100	
Part 2		Owl 	Increases nightvision by 1 	2,000 Candy
Part 3		Dragon 	Adds 10% poison block and 0.5 offensive poison. 	3,000 Candy
Part 3		Pig-Lantern	Adds 0.5 Burn Attack. 	2,000 Candy
Part 3		Vampire Bat	Adds 2.5% Block Bleed and +1 Defensive Bleed. 	1,500 Candy
=== Palettes and Materials ===
Material palettes and color palettes that are available for purchase in the event shop.
Part 	Name 		Cost
Part 1	Candy Corn 		100 Candy
Part 1	Demon 		300 Candy
Part 1	Gargoyle 		3,500 Candy
Part 1	Graveyard Ruins		500 Candy
Part 2	Ectoplasm 		4,500 Candy
Part 2	Witch's Brew 		1,000 Candy
Part 3	Vampire 		5,500 Candy
Part 3	Wraith 		2,500 Candy
=== Candy ===
 Candy currency that is available for purchase in the event shop.
Robux	Candy
 	300 Candy
 	850 Candy
 	2,550 Candy
 	7,700 Candy
 	16,100 Candy
 	50,000 Candy
=== Bundles ===
 bundles that are available for purchase in the event shop's featured section.
Name 	Bundle Items	Cost
Halloween Nester 	
* x2 Magic Frog plushies	
Trick or Treater 	
* +25% Candy earnings
* +25% creature drop luck	
Master Trick or Treater	
* +50% Candy earnings
* x2 creature drop chance
* x2 Magic Frog plushies
* x25 Trick or Treat Tokens	
=== Products ===
 features that are available for purchase in the event shop.
Name 	Effect	Cost
x1 Guaranteed Creature Drop	
Guarantees 1 creature drop from the next event minigame completed.	
x2 Guaranteed Creature Drop	
Guarantees a creature drop from the next two event minigames completed.	
== Trivia ==
* This is the first event to contain a Premium-only mutation, bewitched, whose premium item (Magic Frog), may allow other event-related mutations to happen to the user outside the event.
* During the first few hours of the events release, the maze had a now-patched bug where if you spam-clicked the correct exits, it would repeatedly give candies, and those candies remained.
* The map during that event can be found here.
HalloweenPotionLava.png|Temporary terrestrial surface lava
JerryHalloween2023.png|Jerry featuring the Trick or Treat minigame
== Notes ==
Category:Events
Category:Main Events