Front Door

The **Front Door** is a location that becomes available from October 29th to October 31st in celebration of Halloween. Pets can visit other residents' **Front Doors** to trick-or-treat for candy.

## Trick-or-Treating

To go trick-or-treating while the event is active, pets need to be wearing a costume. Costumes consist of a hat and a tool. Pet owners may name the costumes (the default is blank).

Every 15 minutes, a new costumed pet may show up at the **Front Door** (assuming that a different pet isn't waiting there already). Giving the pet candy will send them off and open up the opportunity for new pets to visit.

Whenever a **Front Door** slot becomes available, a random trick-or-treater may occupy that slot. The more active hosts there are, the more chances there will be for pets to trick-or-treat. Any costume-wearing pet on an active account has a chance of appearing at a host's **Front Door**, including pets that are in the Daycare, as long as said pets were pet less than a day ago.

## Candy Milestones

There are milestones for handing out Halloween candy. When a player meets each milestone, pets will leave gifts in return, which eventually rewards the player with the Halloween-exclusive Witch's Hat. Once a player gives out their 61st candy, the count will reset to 0.

Players that don't want to give candy to a certain pet can click the small link (towards the bottom of the page) to give the candy to The Giving Tree instead. Players will still gain progress towards candy milestones by using this method, and the rejected pet will leave the house empty-handed. If a player chooses this option when they are due to receive a milestone item, they will find the item at The Giving Tree instead of receiving the item from a pet.

If a pet leaves behind a gift, the maker of that item is the owner of the pet that left behind the gift; if a player receives the milestone item while donating to The Giving Tree instead, the maker is the player. This may be relevant when considering the name of the resident that will show up in Museum entries for donated milestone items.

## Receiving Candy

When a host gives a pet candy at the **Front Door**, the owner of the trick-or-treating pet will receive the candy. Pets that receive candy will have a record in their logs: "(Pet) went trick-or-treating at (host's) house, and received (candy)!"

If the candy given by the host contains a pet's favorite flavor, the message will have extra flavor text: "(Ah! The good stuff!)", "(One of their favorites!)", or "(Just what they wanted!)"

## Trivia

When the page for the **Front Door** is loading, a random loading message displays under the "Trick or Treat!" header:

* But have you ever actually met anyone who chooses "trick"?
* But of course, there's only one right choice...
* I hope you get some nice treats!
* I mean... wine isn't food, so... it's candy, right?
* It's like that phrase has meaning beyond the individual words that make it up... (I believe they call that an "idiom".)
* It's weird that every trick-or-treater waits exactly 15 minutes after the last one shows up, isn't it?

The loading messages are not humanly visible unless the page takes a while to load.