October 2026 News Archive

Beware: this year's Festival of Fears has begun and it will last until October 31st! Join Reginald in Neovia as he gives you clues in searching for 7 goodie bags all around Neopia. Just like last year, each goodie bag will give you prizes, a chilling story, and a chance to answer a trivia question for another prize. Added to this year's festival are tracks: Fright Track (free) or Absolute Horror Track (unlocked with Premium Subscription or if paid at the NC Mall) to earn even more prizes through accumulating points by participating in various festival activities and more.

• Answering Trivia Questions Correctly: 50 Points (per trivia)
• Completing Esophagor Quests: 15 Points (no limit)
• Completing Brain Tree Quests: 35 Points (once per day)
• Completing Edna's Quests: 10 Points (10 per day)
• Spinning Wheel of Misfortune: 5 Points (per spin)
• Sending Petpets into Grave Danger: 5 Points (per end of visit)
• Playing Deserted Fairground Scratchcards: 5 Points (5 per day)
• Playing Apple Bobbing: 10 Points (once per day)
• Playing Haunted Woods Hunt: 15 Points (per play)
• Playing Test Your Strength: 10 Points (4 per day)

For more information about the location of each goodie bag, what prizes are being given out this year, the answers to each goodie bag's trivia, and more, head on over to our Festival of Fears Coverage Guide.

As a reminder, while the Festival of Fears has an end date, the side event, Kanrik Chronicles does not have a time limit. Stay tuned for a helpful guide to be released sometime this week.

There is an avatar for playing with the item at the end of the free track:

Festival of Fears Fright Avatar – Have your pet play with a Eyeball Plant Pal.

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On Wednesday morning, SunnyNeo performed maintenance to update affected PHP software and implement additional safeguards to strengthen site security. We continue to closely monitor SunnyNeo and our infrastructure while working on further security enhancements and upgrades to provide additional layers of protection.

Additionaly, TNT has published an important announcement in the New Features section addressing recent security concerns and providing further clarification and tips:

A Note on Site Security

Hello Neopians! You may have seen recent reports about security vulnerabilities affecting PHP, the technology that a huge portion of the internet (Neopets included) is built on. We wanted to let you know what we’ve done about it.

As soon as these reports came out, our engineering team reviewed Neopets against them, applied the necessary updates, and put additional safeguards in place. We’ve found no evidence that any player accounts or data were affected.

We’re actively monitoring the site and will keep strengthening our defences as more details are released. We will keep you updated when anything changes. Neopets is safe to use, and you don’t need to take any action. That said, it’s never a bad time for a little account spring cleaning:

- Sign in with NeoPass. If you haven’t already, link your account to NeoPass and use it to log in. It’s our recommended way to sign in, and it means one less password to remember (or accidentally reuse!)

- Use a strong, unique password that you don’t reuse on other sites

- Make sure the email on your account is one you can still access

- Never share your password or PIN with anyone, including anyone claiming to be Neopets staff

If you ever notice something odd on your account, submit a ticket and we’ll take a look.

Thanks for playing, and thanks for your patience while we took care of this behind the scenes.

— The Neopets Team

Get ready to embrace the beauty of fall! We’re happpy to share that we’re working hard on fresh new graphics and layouts just for you! Check out our brand new Fall themed Gallery layout, complete with falling leaves!


And that’s not all! Prepare to be excited about our latest Varwolf adopts! There are 15 brand-new designs waiting for you on the adopts page, so don’t miss out! Heres a sneak peek of a few just to get you pumped~

Happy Fall!
 

Today the all new choose-your-own-adventure game Kanrik Chronicles launched. This is part of the Festival of Fears, although it will be available long after the event concludes. Note that the Trick-or-Treat bags will start October 23rd.

Read the dialogue and make your choices, guide yourself and Kanrik through this story and unlock one of four different endings. You can get one replay token by default after finishing the story once but if you want to get all four endings then you will need to visit the NC Mall for additional replay tokens.

Certain dialogue or action choices use up Energy. You start off with 8 if you are not premium, or 12 if you are. You can buy additional Energy in the NC Mall. If you hit a dead end you will need to watch an ad or wait an hour if you are not premium, although premium can just move forward right away. Each time you run out of energy you need to wait for it to refill. Non-premium refills at the rate of 1 per hour while premium refills at the rate of 2 per hour on your first playthrough, and the time reduces to 30 minutes for additional playthroughs.

Because there are four endings, there are indeed four avatars (and fonts).

Kanrik Chronicles - Neutral Ending Avatar – Play through Kanrik Chronicles and get the Neutral Ending.

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Kanrik Chronicles - Good Ending Avatar – Play through Kanrik Chronicles and get the Good Ending.

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Kanrik Chronicles - Bad Ending Avatar – Play through Kanrik Chronicles and get the Bad Ending.

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The annual Halloween NC Event, the Haunted Mansion, officially starts today. New this year is all Premium Subscribers will be able to get an extra bonus prize aside from this year's prizes. Be sure to purchase this year's Spider Lanterns in the NC Mall to get started!

Our Haunted Mansion coverage guide has been updated for reference.

Happy Jetsam Day! Jetsam can now be painted Origami! The Shipwreck Scavenger Jetsam outfit can be found at Maractite Marvels. Our Rainbow Pool database has been updated!

Pet Day NC Mystery Capsules (including 5- and 10-packs) has been released to celebrate Jetsam Day.

Jetsam Day Y28 Mini Mystery Capsule See Preview

The October #NEOPETS contest has been launched and this time it's a little different than the previous three! It was already teased in a recent editorial that it would be Birthday themed, but now we officially have more details.

There will be two different categories for this round, both of which will see the winners be able to be written into Neopets history:

Category 1 : Create an In-game item for Neopets.com
Design a Birthday-Themed item to be canonized on the classic site. You will be credited in the item description and be granted your item! 10 winners will have their item brought to life! 

Category 2 : Digital art for a puzzle game in the companion app 
Draw a piece of digital art which will be showcased in our new puzzle game, "A Piece of Neopia" which will be available in the companion app.

There are additional guidelines on the submission form. As usual you can submit up to two pieces with a maximum of one per category. There will only be one wearable winner in category one but other items like books, petpetpets, toys, etc. are encouraged otherwise. The minimum resolution for category two is 1080 x 1080, but it does still have to be square. For additional rules, tips, and more check out our guide.

Submissions will be accepted NOW until October 31st at 11:59pm NST.

Over the last few weeks the Companion App has added some new features. Check out our guide to see all about Coltzan's Shrine, the Safety Deposit Box, and Fruit Machine.

It should be noted that Fruit Machine should let you spin once on site and then a second time in the app instead of both on the app. It seems to be glitchy for some people, however. It has been confirmed the avatar is available to earn where it wasn't before upon its initial migration to the app, possibly in part due to the fact it was put on the app shortly after the change was made to be awarded via Cheops plant in addition to Puntec.

Avatars in general should be available to earn on the app and many have in fact been confirmed to be obtainable. Most recently with the SDB update the Rubbish avatar was discovered to be earned from discarding through the SDB. So you avatar hunters need not worry about doing things on the main site versus the app.

Happy Bori Day! Bori can now be painted 25th Anniversary! The Castle Planner Bori outfit can be found at Uni's Clothing Shop. Our Rainbow Pool database has been updated!

Pet Day NC Mystery Capsules (including 5- and 10-packs) has been released to celebrate Bori Day.

Bori Day Y28 Mini Mystery Capsule See Preview

An all new plushie will be coming to you soon! On October 14th you can start preordering a Halloween Uni. Plushies will cost $29.99 and will be shipped sometime in March. There is no mention of any RIC this time.

Update 10/14: it did not launch today at noon as expected. However, it seems ambassadors are taking feedback on the plushie before launch so if you have thoughts reach out with them.

As promised, our Food Club guide has officially been updated to reflect the new converted Food Club on-site. In case you missed it, the Food Club was updated on the morning of October 5th, making it both aesthetically pleasing and mobile-friendly. 

We've also been diligently working behind-the-scenes updating and creating other guides that have had converted on-site or been added to the Neopets: Companion App. Be sure to check out the Fruit Machine guide, the General Store guide, the Soup Kitchen guide, the Hidden Tower guide, the Igloo Garage Sale guide, and the Money Tree guide. We've even created a brand new JubJub Blackjack game guide to reflect on-site and on the companion app play, too!

Additionally,  due to a few consistent Themed rounds of the Customisation Contest running we have done some tweaking to our guide to make sure you know all about how this new contest works. We have also updated the prize section to include all twelve (yes, 12!) possible trophies you can obtain from the contest.

Happy Eyrie Day! Eyrie can now be painted toy! The Golden Eyrie outfit can be found at Cog's Togs. Our Rainbow Pool database has been updated!

Pet Day NC Mystery Capsules (including 5- and 10-packs) has been released to celebrate Eyrie Day.

Eyrie Day Y28 Mini Mystery Capsule See Preview

A new portal post and email blast has gone out today for all the cool stuff happening across Neopia and beyond.

It also mentions that there will be some quality of life changes to Quest Log next month, but no more information than that.

It also mentions some information about the new Battle Pass system after the mess with Faerie Festival and Premium members. That is in a separate portal post here and discusses which ones will and will not be included with Premium for events for the rest of the year, as well as looking to the future of the Battle Pass system.

In addition to the returning Festival of Fears, this month TNT are bringing an all-new choose your own adventure visual novel with Kanrick Chronicals. There will be four possible outcomes which each will have their own unique prize avatar. But don't worry! It is replayable so you can earn them all. If you do, you will unlock yet another special conmpletion prize!

Neopets partners What's Your Passion and CptnAlex Designs will be at New York Comic Con this weekend with some all new Neo York inspired merch. You can order them online as well this weekend only!

Although this actually dropped a few weeks ago, the email mentions the Mega Mini Games Collection has an all new game: Shenkuu Warrior. Our guide will be updated shortly.

Tales of Dacardia will have a new event with all new event exclusive Neopets.com rewards, including what appears to be a stamp. There will also be an all new book.

Check out the portal post (or keep an eye on your email) for all of this and more, such as a sneak peek at upcoming pet styles.

If you didn't know yet, SunnyNeo is composed of a very small group of people working hard to keep the site running. Full transparency is that we all have jobs to work, families to raise, and loved ones to spend time with. But we love what we do, and we do what we do for our Neopian community because Neopets is our nostalgic virtual home. This past August, we began to celebrate our 20th year, and we plan to keep that number growing. But we can't do it without you.

SunnyNeo is looking for volunteers to help us keep the site running.

We are looking for the following positions to be filled: guide writers, page maintenance crew, and graphic designers. Below are details of what we are looking for in each position.

Guide Writers

• Create new guides that have not been featured on our site
• Keep up with site events and create guides that reflect events such as Festival of Fear, Faerie Festival, Festival of Neggs, the Altador Cup and more.
• It is recommended to have basic HTML/CSS background knowledge.

Page Maintenance Crew

• Keep up with TNT's page conversions throughout the site and update guides accordingly to reflect the changes
• Update any guides around our site to be in uniform using mobile-friendly code
• It is recommended to have basic HTML/CSS background knowledge.

Graphic Designers

• Spew out large (guild layouts, petpage layouts, shop layouts, gallery layouts, userlookups, etc.) and small graphics (adoptables, banners, shields, etc.) each month for our community to enjoy
• Help convert old graphics into new code to match converted pages (ie: shop layouts)
• It is recommended to have HTML/CSS background knowledge. If you're only able to make graphics and not yet know how to code, please still apply.

If you're that person debating to yourself whether or not you should volunteer, here's a question for you: what do you have to lose? Volunteering for SunnyNeo can be short-term or long-term. You can volunteer at your own flexible hours, whether you'd like to help 30 minutes a day or a few hours throughout the weekend. Volunteering with SunnyNeo can be a great way to collaborate with others, experience and learn new things, and a great way to contribute to the community.

Apply with us today!

The Food Club was revamped early this morning. The new layout was not only mobile friendly, but it provided a more visual aesthetic. You can now easily see pirates and courses, making it (hopefully) easier to guess bets.

Our Food Club guide has not yet been updated to reflect the page conversion, but we will let you know once it's done!

Happy Grarrl Day! Grarrl can now be painted 8-Bit! The DJ Grarrl Times outfit can be found at Uni's Clothing Shop. Our Rainbow Pool database has been updated!

Pet Day NC Mystery Capsules (including 5- and 10-packs) has been released to celebrate Grarrl Day.

Grarrl Day Y28 Mini Mystery Capsule See Preview

A new collectible collection has hit the NC Mall called Sophie's Swamp Secrets. The first item in the NC Collectible series is now available in the NC Mall: Collectible Swamp Magic Effect

Check out our NC Collectibles guide for an overview of all items released in all of the NC Collectibles Series.

Collectible Swamp Magic Effect See Preview