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Maradan Chronicles News Archive Any important news from the Maradan Chronicles and Marapets will be posted here! Please separate news articles with either a header: === Header === or four dashes like this: ---- REMEMBER to always add the latest news to the top, not the bottom! Edit News Here On the Cover (December 2022-March 2023) Marapets: Working Title An upcoming news bulletin! 21st and 23rd December 2022: The Arinya, Astro, Basil, Bolimo, Crikey, Azul, Crindol, Equilor, Ercuw, Eyru, Leido, Oglue, Vixen, Walee and Wallop can now wear the Christmas and Ice Fairy Costumes, respectively. 6th January 2023: The Addow, Chibs, Decadal, Equilor, Ike, Justin, Kujo and Speiro can now wear the Prize Costume Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (August, September & October 2022) Marapets: The Great Return We're back! 17th: The Account Upgrades return with the new Phantom Account Upgrade Set. 22nd, 23rd & 31st August: The Restaurant and Diner have new Gourmet Food in stock (respectively, 97 and 70). 24th-30th August: The Azul, Equilor, Fasoro, Gizmo, Ike, Kujo, Leido, Reese, Sindi, and Troit can now wear the Neon Costume. A new Fire Fairy Account Upgrade Set has been released. I also am very happy to confirm that this is (I think) the last AU themed costume to be revamped! (Note: Steampunk will most likely get a redraw, so stay tuned!) 5th September: The Millionaire Chibs, Willa and Zoink have finally been updated. Also, the Millionaire's Lodge has eight new luxury items on sale - remember, you voted the Millionaire's Lodge the Shop of the Week this week and all items here are Buy 1 Get 1 Free until Sunday! We also revamped several of the older Radioactive Pets to match the new style. 7th September: The Pound, Gate of the Graveyard and Graveyard have changed 8th September: Released over 12 years ago, the Trash Heap in the City Sewers has had a much-needed revamp! 9th September: Out of respect to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, there will be no news on the site today. May she rest in peace. 17th September-12th October 2022: The Princess Costume from Trunx's Theatre mission has been updated 23rd September 2022: To celebrate the 2022 Flash Sale Event (it's back in the Account Upgrades Shop but stock is running low) we have added at least one New Pet Colour for each species of pet from the Flash Sale Event - Chibs, Daisy, Dakota, Ercuw, Gobble, Kujo, Lati, Limax, Mordo, Nino, Quell, Raulf, Sindi, Snookle, Straya, Sybri, Tasi, Vixen, Vlad, Wallop and Willa! 28th September 2022: A new Steampunk Account Upgrade Set has been released Remember, all Steampunk pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym and FREE LESSONS at the School and University until October 10th 11th October 2022: The Giftbox Shop is the latest shop to have all of its art updated When you visit the Giftbox Shop there is now a red tick next to any item you already have in your Giftbox Collection. We've also used this art revamp as a chance to release the most asked for giftbox items of the past five years of Editorials! Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (March & April 2020) Pandemic Pandemonium "Here's a spin on the ol' News format!"' 1st-11th March: There are new High Score Rewards that you can win from Quack Mafia and Monty's Great Escape, the Paffuto, Speiro, Walee, and Zetlian can now wear the Injured Costume, and several more very old and/or broken Wardrobe items have been updated. The Candle Hat is now an Ari Wig, the Stone Age Wig is now Shaggy Wig, the Rainbow Wig is now Rainbow Bangs Hair Extension and the Sea Water Female Sash is now Sea Water Blouse. The Sea Water Wig, Knitted Poncho and Striped Poncho have also been revamped and they can finally change colour. 5th March: The Monthly Checklist has been running for over 14 years and it's given out over £200,000 in FREE Account Upgrade Credit since it launched but the list itself hadn't changed or kept up with the rest of Marapets. Now that our new HTML5 Arcade Games are being released and can be played by everyone, we're finally able to launch the new and improved Monthly Checklist feature! The requirements now change each month, and some are chosen at random, so each player has a slightly different list to complete. Several prizes are reserved for those who have completed more levels of the Progress Goals. We've increased the number of prizes each month from 63 to 100 Winners and the total prize fund has increased from £1,000 to £1,157. 10th March-29th April: The Headless Basil, Crindol, Ercuw, Justin, Pucu, Troit, Vixen, Zetlian, and Zoosh have been updated to the new design. 30th March: We'd like to give all of our players an update on our plans for the next couple of months here at Marapets. First, we'd like to make sure all of our players are safe and well and following the current advice of health and government officials regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is an extremely stressful and emotional time for many of us and we'd like to make sure Marapets doesn't add to this, so we're pausing our random Weather Events for the next couple of months. We know that many of you are self-isolating and spending much more time at home, so we're working hard to release over a year's worth of planned new content, updates, games, features and rewards in April and May to keep you all entertained (and distracted). Twenty more pets can now wear the Fade Costume. 23rd April: The Straya can now wear the Splatter and Recycled Costumes. The Headless Straya has also been updated. Two new items are now on sale at the Giftbox Shop. The Colours Giftbox allows you to play Colours once every 8 hours instead of 16 hours - for life! This means you'll earn double the transformations for your pet's collection. The Guillotine Giftbox allows you to use the Guillotine feature once every 8 hours instead of 16 hours. We've added many new benefits that each player can unlock when they reach a certain level of our Progress Goals. There was already a lot of great benefits from being Bronze, Silver and Gold but as these are each 25 levels apart, it was time to add some perks for the levels in between! 23rd April: The Feliz, Gonk, Lati, Murfin, Nino, Ushunda, Vixen, Walee, Wallop and Yuni can now wear the Recycled Costume. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (February 2019) Mara-tine's Month It's a Kaala and it's happy to see you! 4th-9th: Vortex Park has been hit by a Tornado and is totally destroyed. The Carpenter will offer all players a fixed MP fee to fix their attic whenever these are broken. 14th: A new Valentine's Day experience has been released. Can you find it? 15th: There are new rewards that you can win from Fairy Flight. Every time you send a score that is high enough, you will win one of these new item prizes or stats for all of your pets. You will only win one prize from the High Score Rewards each time you send a score high enough. These prizes are additional to any MP, Score Points or Bonus Prizes you may also win. The Leido, Troit, Yakubi and Zola can now wear the Valentine Costume. Players who have completed all 30 Stamps for the Candyland page of their album can visit their Stamp Album and receive 10 new item prizes, a medal for their profile and 25,000MP. The Plushie Machines now have 13 new Enchanted Xoi Plushies and 13 new Xoi Plushies to be won. 16th: The Dukka Coins and Fake Dukka Coins have been updated. 17th: A new Pet Stats Giftbox is now on sale at the Giftbox Shop. Use this item and you be able to select which of your pets you would like to receive stats around the site! This will work for any feature that currently picks one of your pets at random to receive stats. You can change your Default Pets at the Pets section. As we have a LOT of places that give stats, there is a chance we may have missed somewhere. If you use the Giftbox and there is any place it doesn't work as intended, please let us know at the Help Forums so that we can add any we may have missed. Several of the oldest (and worst) Wigs have been updated. You can see the full list of changes at this Topic at the Forums. The new game rewards for Fairy Flight currently include pet stats for ALL of your pets because this is, at the moment, our one and only HTML5 Arcade Game. In 3 days' time (Feb 20th) this will revert to earning a stat for one of your pets - a random pet or a specific pet if you have the new giftbox. When we have more games, the Game of the Day and other new features will be added with different rewards and benefits for playing different games. Pet stats for ALL pets will be one of these rewards. February 22nd, 2020 is officially King Baspinar's Palladium Jubilee, an occasion to celebrate the life and 75 year reign of our monarch. He has created a huge royal spectacle, hiring Slater Park as the venue for his ceremony and bringing the circus to town. His Majesty is a perfectionist and to ensure his celebration shows exactly how rich, powerful and amazing he is, he has hired the Trickster to run the show. It's so important to the King that every citizen is having fun, he's willing to do whatever is necessary to make this happen! His carnival will leave town March 9th. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (January 2020) Changes on The Horizon! "You're no match for me, weather!"' 8th: As much as we'd love to never have any errors or bugs, sometimes these can happen. We've updated our Error page - if you ever find any errors or problems around the site, please let us know about it at the Errors or Bugs Forum so these can be fixed right away. 9th: Major changes have happened with our Friends and Feeds features. 12th: There are new Profile Settings to give you greater control over what you allow/share. You can now hide the time/date on your Activity Log so that it only shows for your friends or best friends (or no one if you set it to best friend and have none of these). The Ercuw, Eyru, Oglue, Phanty, Pucu, Tasi, Troit and Zetlian can now wear the Recycled Costume. 17th: There are 8 new species of DNA Minipet that can now be cloned at the Laboratory. The Fasafo and Azow have also been updated. 24th & 25th: Fairy Flight is the first of many new Arcade Games we have on the way to replace the Flash Games we retired beginning this year. Now that our new Arcade Games are being released, we can finally reveal some of the changes intended for the old flash games without ruining the surprise! The 46 Video Game bonus prizes that could be won from each of the flash games will remain as items on the game but now restock at the Video Games Shop for Score Points. The 29 Stamps and 20 Glowing Egg Flash Game Bonus Prizes that could be won from our old games are now restocking in the Stamps and Glowing Egg shops. 27th: The Winner has been added to the Minipet Island world map and the Rewards page. There are even more winners today, as the Santa Claws New Year Raffle has been announced. 28th: An unexpected, dangerous Storm has hit Marada. It's different to the Rain that Marada has recently experienced and it's like no weather the residents of Marada have ever experienced! As soon as we know more about it, we will let you know.. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (September 2019) September Recap One day...oh glorious day! We have introduced an new format of news: a monthly recap of what happened on Marapets! 6th: Our Maintenance is now complete, so you should finally notice the difference. Marapets is 15 Years Old and is pretty huge in terms of content and data. Any small server hardware or software upgrade here is a massive undertaking, but this was the biggest change in many, many years. We upgraded both the hardware, software and network MaraPets uses. It has taken months of hard work to make sure as much was done without closing the site and without much downtime or errors. MaraPets was still running on a version of PHP5 (released in 2012, supported until 2014) and although we have had many upgrades of hardware and software since then, we had to finally update everything and bring it to 2019! This meant much of the site had to be re-coded, servers needed newer operating systems and our newer database software required much of the site to be changed to be compatible. To update 15 years of MaraPets in less than 6 weeks was not easy! We would like to apologise for the last 48 hours of random Server Errors and issues some players have had. In hindsight we should have closed for longer - we estimated how much time we could complete the move in but didn't take into account how tired/bad we would feel doing it all so fast on very little sleep. The move is complete now and we should be running better than ever! It will still take another week or so to make sure everything is 100% working - MaraSites for example are still disabled - but it shouldn't be anything major now and we should be running better than we have ever. As always, we'd like to thank everyone for their patience while we made the move, those who helped test and the Account Upgrade buyers who have helped keep Marapets constantly improving. To celebrate the move, you can all visit the Vault and use the code I-LOVE-PICKLE-JUICE-LIKE-I-LOVE-SERVER-ERRORS to receive a FREE gift from us. 10th: The Astro, Azul, Gizmo, Hump, Huthiq, Lorius, Mordo, Nino, Phanty and Zoosh can now wear the Checkered Costume. Alerts have a new design and also allow you to browse and delete similar alerts. This should make it a lot easier for you to find important alerts and to delete the less important alerts at once. The MP, BP, RP, and AU Icons all around the site have been updated and have a newer design. The Transmogrification Temple has been updated with new artwork and when you complete it, it will also be easier to select the Limited Edition pet you would like. 17th: We have improved the way the site layout handles Pages. The new system is much smarter and fits better with the site design. It handles larger pages much better and is easier for those on mobile to use. There is also the option to enter and skip to the exact page you need to find by entering the number at the beginning. This was a huge update, editing many old parts of the site so if you find any places where pages exist and the page isn't working as it should, please let us know in Help Forums. The Straya can now wear the Headless, Love, Negative, and Rainbow Costumes. We have updated the artwork for Bagels - some of the oldest items on the site. 25th: The old Sushi items have all been updated to newer artwork. 29th: 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 occasional misaligned text, some text that is too big, some that are too small, random white space, etc. None of this should affect 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 meantime, 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. 29th: The CDs 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. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (August 2019) August Recap You feelin' lucky, punk? We have introduced a new format of news: a monthly recap of what happened on Marapets! 1st: The Gobble, Jessup, Lati, Murfin, Osafo, Poera, Raulf, Renat, Tantua, Troit, Vlad and Zetlian can now wear the Sewers Costume. This means that all 77 pets can now wear this costume! 3rd: A new Light Account Upgrade Set has been released, with 7 new light themed items, a retired Light Costume and either a Light Enchanted Plushie or Light Potion. This set is on sale until September 22nd. You can choose if you would like the main prize to be an Enchanted Ercuw Plushie or Potion. There is 1 in 3 chance you will receive a limited edition Ercuw instead of Azul, Bolimo, Jessup or Xoi. 9th: Our new Time Machine has opened in Vortex Park. 10th: There are new rewards for players who complete certain levels of the Progress Goals. Every Saturday, one of the following new perks is randomly selected for Bronze, Silver and Gold Shield players. 11th: There is a new way to earn Recycle Points - from recycling these new Used Newspaper and Used Magazine items that you will receive every time you read a Newspaper or Magazine item to one of your pets. 15th: Marapets is 15 Years Old!!!! We're officially in our 16th year of existence and while our 2 new 15th Birthday Party events maybe are familiar, we have so much new stuff on the way! 27th: MaraPets will be down for Scheduled Maintenance later this week. We have been working for months preparing for this move so that it is as smooth as possible. We are moving to new, faster servers with new versions of operating systems, PHP and database software. Our current database server has an internal operating system glitch which at times, makes us crash. There isn't anything we can do about it apart from reboot once it happens, but there isn't always someone online to do it. It happened today and as I was asleep and missed it, we had over 2 hours of downtime. This is one of the many reasons for the move but those who have been temporarily moved to the new system this week to help test have all noticed how much faster the site is! We will keep you updated and give plenty of notice before we close, and we estimate that the maintenance would take 6 to 12 hours. All 77 pets now have the updated Mutant Costume design - we hope you like the changes! Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (July 2019) Jumpin' July See the other blogs for details! The action has been fast and frenzied at this year's Summer Event, but alas, like all good things, it has come to an end. Huge thanks to all for such a spirited outfit that has turned out to be among the best yet. See you again next year! Wait... WHAT?! The winners of this year's Band Camp have been announced. Congratulations to Marching Band and their legions of loyal supporters. Now that the results are out, you can view your final personal rankings as well as visit the grand opening of this year's Prize Shop. Enjoy! I wonder what's in the Prize Shop this time! Yes, there's so many to choose from-- wait, on the Glam Metal side, we can only get a burger? The effort you put into supporting your Band not only helped to improve their standing in the Camp, but it also earned you prize points for use at the Prize Shop. Now that Band Camp has come to a close, it's time for you to have a look around and decide how you want to spend those hard-earned prize points. Yay! And only the top 150 winners only get Tunes' Trading Card... Someone has to pay... PANGILOW!! To be continued... Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (June 2019) BAND CAMP Keeping this timeless is going to be tricky... Our new summer event will start midnight June 1st. All players are automatically invited to join a Band Camp. Bandleaders have put you into either a Marching Band or Ro--er, Glam Metal Band and will start giving you challenges to complete right away. There are over 30 different types of challenges you could be asked to complete - including collecting vinyl records, marching around Marada, going to band practice, defeating spirits [that possess the villagers of You-Cylinder to become Perilous Pals] by playing instruments at full force, and playing Does Anyone Know the Lyrics?! You will earn a point for your team-- er, band after you complete each challenge and you may also win an MP or item prize. All prizes retire at the end of the event. Now you're a man And Todd's to blame He gives pets a bad name We play our-- STOP PLAYING THAT!!! Ok, sorry... I HAVE BIGGER SPEAKERS. There are 30 different badge--I mean, grammies for you to collect - one for each day in June. Complete 20 or more challenges each day and you will receive the grammy. After you complete all the required challenges, you may complete more to advance your team and earn prize shop points. Earn all 30 grammies for a Gold Trophy on your profile, 20 for silver and 10 for bronze. The more grammies you earn, the more prizes that will unlock for you to win. This means that a small amount of the item prizes can only be won from players who earn 20 or more badges! Time to put a little trophy room in my home... At the end of the event, the winning band will receive extra bonus prizes - so keep earning points for your band! There will also be prizes for the top 100 players who earn the most points and the Bandleaders will also randomly give Account Upgrade Credits to 10 random team players who receive a grammy each day. Complete different challenges for the right band and get extra goodies! Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (May 2019) Look What's Changed at Marapets Sir/Madam, have you seen all of the Changes at MaraPets? There have been too many updates to the site recently to list them all here, so this is just a quick update of some of the major ones. We have changed the way that future Account Upgrades are released, starting with the newest Spring Set. Each set will come with a choice of either an Enchanted Plushie or a Potion. We have relaunched one of the oldest games on the site. Test Your Strength has brand new artwork and there are new prizes to be won! The Christmas Treasure Map has been renamed to the Ice Caves Treasure Map. The Ice Caves were first released in January 2007 and wasn't a very useful feature. It has been over 12 years since it was first released. In those 12 years, Marapets has changed a lot. We've relaunched the Ice Caves last April making it a much more useful feature. All of these changes have meant that more and more players have wanted or needed this map. Pieces 1, 6 and 12 were always much rarer and have never been on sale with the other pieces in Treasure Map Shop. These pieces are now on sale for RP in this shop, at much, much higher prices than the other pieces. November 2006 was when the Trunx Theatre mission was first released. The artwork was over 13 years old! The mission has been relaunched with brand new artwork and new Phanty Potions and Enchanted Plushies to win. A new Price Order Giftbox, Pixie Dice Giftbox, Drew Giftbox, Bingo Giftbox, and Jelly Castle Giftbox are on sale at the Giftbox Shop. Every single Reward feature has been updated. You can now see how close you are to the next reward much more easily. Pet rewards will show your default pet, but you can visit each rewards page and click the 'View All Pets' button to see how close each of your pets is to the next reward. The Site Layout has been updated and improved. We have tried to keep everything as much the same as we could, but it may still take some time to get used to the changes. If you click on the main character artwork on every page, such as a shopkeeper or game character, it will return you to the feature. The top right corner of every feature has a 'Return to' button to go back to the world it is from. We have replaced most smaller text links with bigger, easy to click buttons. Whenever you need to select an item or pet you now do so by clicking it, rather than tiny little radio form buttons that are difficult on mobile devices. Bigger buttons, larger text and many other changes have been made almost everywhere to make the site easier for all. The majority of the site has Suggested Links at the bottom with links, in alphabetical order, to features that are similar or useful. If you find a page or any feature that is missing or would be useful, please let us know in the Editorial so that we can keep improving it. The Lush Fountain has had a major update. It will now show every single item your doll is wearing. Click on any and it will show you every colour that you can change it to. There is no longer a difficult form for you to fill in and it is 100% mobile friendly! If you are on a Drew quest, the fountain has been updated to show you which clothing needs changing and also brings the colour you need to change right to the top. You can also now use the Lush Fountain for wardrobe items like Hair Dye, Lipsticks, etc to update those much easier and see every colour you have. There is also an option for these to only show Hair Dye colours that match colours you have unlocked from Glowing Eggs! The Bubble Pit was recently changed (actually fixed) so that when Pleon is busy, she will tell you to come back tomorrow. This was an original feature of the Bubble Pit but the odds of it happening were so rare that it hardly ever happened. Players who battle often also have the Battle Giftbox which automatically heals their pets after every battle so have never noticed/reported that the Bubble Pit was in fact broken for so many years. The Olympics is back and better than ever! There are now 30 different competitions, each with different stat requirements. These also update every 10 minutes, getting harder or easier throughout the day. A new Olympic Event happens on the 15th of every month for pets to compete in all 30 categories, with huge prizes to be won! To enter, your pet will need to win 1st Place in any of the Olympic competitions they enter. The more they win, the higher their level, the more chance they will win the Olympics on the 15th! Pets who make it to Ultimate category of any event and win 1st Place will automatically be entered into a new Olympian group where they can earn higher Olympic points than before! The stats needed to enter as Olympian increase by 1 every time the pet wins 1st Place. They will also have a new medal for their pet's profile. The Olympics Shop has 18 new items on sale for you to spend your Olympic Points on. A new Giveaways feature has been released in Lowlyhood. Players can donate any (or all) of their MP to this feature and it will be added to the prize pot. Whenever there is MP in this prize pot, all players can visit here for FREE once every 2 hours to empty a piggy bank and grab some of the prize pot! The more MP in the prize pot, the more they can grab! Every time you donate MP to this Giveaways feature, your total donated will increase. The top 100 players who donate the most will be listed on the Walk of Fame in Lowlyhood. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (April 2019) The Time is Now! You know you want me We would like to give you all a heads up that the Cartoon Costume was first released in February 2014 in Account Upgrades and the costume has been retired and forgotten about ever since. And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... 3... 2... 1... ... April Fool's! We also recommend checking out the new Goals if you haven't already. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. A new version of the Easter and Lava Account Upgrades have been released, with 15 new themed items. The Photo Parlour has been improved and has brand new artwork. Staff also have a new system in place now where they can upload and release new photos and plates to the site later the same day. We have completed all 77 different pet Potions. All of the basic colour pets now have a potion and the older items have been released or revamped. Potions with a different costume will updated gradually, so you may notice some change at random times in the future. The Ferris Wheel has been updated with new artwork. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (March 2019) Welcome to Leprechaun Month! Get your Gold! We have been busy working on a new and improved Load Balancer for the site. At the moment, whenever you load a page on Marapets it will select one of the many server nodes at random. While this obviously works most of the time, there are times when certain servers receive a much higher amount of traffic than others. At peak times this has sometimes caused 'time out' errors or a slower load time. Our new load balancer will distribute the load properly and will put a stop to these issues. It will also allow us to expand the number of server nodes so that the site continues to load as quickly as possible. This should go live on Monday and you should not notice any downtime. Marapets has had 100.00% uptime performance so far for the whole of 2019 and we are constantly working to make sure this remains. Thank you for all of the Account Upgrade buyers who have helped us to manage this! The St Patrick's Day Event has just started. When ye complete o' of me quests between now and March 31st, ye will win one o' these new prizes. When ye receive a prize from me, I'll tell ye how many minutes ye should wait before ye win another bonus prize from completing a quest. A cute little baby Eyru has just entered Marada! 1... 2... 3... Awwwwwww! What on earth is this?!?! Another baby pet?!? Arghhh!! No more babies!!! NOOOOOO.... Wait! Stop!!! No more baby pets please. Marapets artists, if ye are reading this please come up with Pirates instead! Nobody wants a baby Marapet anyway... Isn't the Baby Bolimo adorable? If ye manage to get your hands on a Baby Costume, one could belong to ya! WHAT?!?!?!? - No, please no... that is the last Baby Marapet we are going ta do, right? Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (November 2018) Elfember Comes Early! Lots of Fun! It seems the Christmas Elf woke up today and thought it was December 2017 so... the Carol Singing event from last year will run until midnight today. For a limited time only, the retired Steampunk Treasure Chest is back on sale at the Account Upgrades Shop. It will all automatically retire November 29th. The Astro, Gizmo and Kaala can now wear the Sewers Costume Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (August 2018) Now that the maintenance is finished, here it is! Time to partaaaay!! Due to the lag being really annoying because of us trying to complete the maintenance online, it was completed a lot quicker with the site taken offline. The site was closed for 3-4 days to complete the maintenance much, much faster. Now that that's all over... HAPPY 14TH BIRTHDAY MARAPETS!!!! Our 14th Birthday Party celebrations have finally started! We need 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 response 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 30 seconds. You will receive MP or one of 25 new Pinatas as a prize. Hey, save some cake for the staff! 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 guaranteed a prize! You can win all of these new Gift Bags below, MP 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 1,500,000MP and a Party Monster Trading Card! The next 300 players will win a Party Monster Trading Card. Of course I'm related to the Ushunda. I mean, who doesn't know that? Open any of the new Gift Bags and you will find one of these new prizes inside... Is it a Chibi? Is it a Chubs? No... it's a Chibs Doll... 0_o Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (July 2018) The Song is ended! The Safari Has Ended! Congratulations to Camp Pamba and their legions of loyal supporters. The final results were 915,797 for Camp Pamba vs 843,553 for Camp Jani. Well done for everyone who took part in this event. Head on over to the 'Stats' page of your Profile to claim your prizes and purchase any last Safari AUs. And check out our Marapets Safari article to learn about all the awesome prizes each challenge offers! Lastly, don't forget to get your team gear from the Account Upgrades Shop before July 25th, it won't be made available again until next Safari! Congratulations! For your participation in this year's Safari, a shiny new badge has been added to your profile. Also, your prize points are ready for you to spend in the Prize Shop. Enjoy! Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (June 2018) MARAPETS SAFARI Time to safari!! Our new summer event started midnight June 1st. All players are automatically invited to join a Safari Camp. Park Rangers have put you into either Camp Pamba or Camp Jani and will start giving you challenges to complete right away. There are over 30 different types of challenges you could be asked to complete - including discovering new species, going on expeditions, buying exotic foods, and playing Gobbled-ball! You will earn a point for your team after you complete each challenge and you may also win an MP or item prize. All prizes retire at the end of the event. Of course she's half caracal and half goat. I mean, who doesn't know that? Maybe this wasn't the best decision after all... There are 30 different expedition badges for you to collect - one for each day in June. Complete 20 or more challenges each day and you will receive the badge. After you complete all the required challenges, you may complete more to advance your team and earn prize shop points. Earn all 30 badges for a Gold Trophy on your profile, 20 for silver, and 10 for bronze. The more badges you earn, the more prizes that will unlock for you to win. This means that a small amount of the item prizes can only be won from players who earn 20 or more badges! Those badges will be mine! At the end of the event, the winning team will receive extra bonus prizes - so keep earning points for your team! There will also be prizes for the top 100 players who earn the most points and the Park Rangers will also randomly give Account Upgrade Credits to 10 random team players who receive a badge each day. Brilliant play from Camp Pamba there, back to you in the studio. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previously on the Cover (March 2018) AU OUT OF BUSINESS!!! Uh oh... this can't be good... Hmm, we certainly hope everyone has a few Mermaid Costumes in their attic, and wish the bogus Fortune Teller would have said something; but we are doomed... Well, the Leopard Account Upgrade has been the first in history to receive so much backlash, and the instructions being the preferred Treasure Map for the Enchanted Plushie Machine... Well, this can't be good. Rumors that this has also made a huge impact on the Maintenance Newths, meaning that things will be nasty for the Help Forums in Marada for a while. There's been talk about a new world and all, but what could it all mean? Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... On the Previous Cover (September 2014) The End is Nigh! So long, Decadal folks! News-A-Snookle: Yes, that's right, folks, the end (of this year's party) is nigh! To summarize all the happenings: 1. King Baspinar's Masquerade Ball: some didn't party, some did and others had the best time ever! 2. The top 100 players who collected the most gifts got 2,500,000MP and a Party Pooper Trading Card! 3. 12 random players who found 100 or more Gifts also randomly won a basic coloured Decadal Potion. 4. There were 50% more winners of Account Upgrades credit all throughout August, to celebrate 10 years of Marapets. 5. As part of the 10th Birthday celebrations, all Party, Pinata, Daylight and Moonlight pets had free training at the Gym and Elite Gym. 6. The Daylight, Moonlight, Monster, and Cartoon Account Upgrades will retire soon. ...And that's it! We'll see you on the other side. We won't be rocking back and forth in our office chairs clutching our Toppy plushies while the party fun's over... probably. And so, the status quo returns to normal... -ish. Also, thanks again for all your patience during the maintenance. We hope it wasn't too stressful. Some of us actually went outside. That ended... poorly. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... On the previous cover (August 2014) HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY MARAPETS! Time to partaaaay!! (once again) Marapets' 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! Oh wait, wrong king... The response of the character will depend on what prize you receive. 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 Marapets Staff 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! That's more like it. 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 guaranteed a prize! You can win all of these new items below, MP, BP, RP, Dukka Coins and if you're lucky, Account Upgrades Credit! Someone mentioned money? I'm all ears! 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. You'll never be able to get me again! Teeheeheeheehee! Pink 10th Birthday Balloon Sprinkled Blue Doughnut Circus Male Costume Firework Gun Green 10 Year Plushie Party Gumball Party Hat Lamp Sprinkled Pink Doughnut Party Hat Stamp Party Lollipop Orange 10 Year Plushie Party Pooper Plushie Party Time Clock Present Bomb Purple 10 Year Plushie Slice of Blueberry Cake Sprinkled Doughnut Elegant Dress Deci Yellow 10th Birthday Balloon Circus Female Costume Marapets is a DECADE this year. 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, the people at Marapets never would have lasted this long without the support of all players - the number of players collecting their Loyalty prizes shows how loyal the Marapets community is!! Time to start planning our 11th Birthday party... The Marapets Staff has 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. Ercuw Gobble Kaala Knutt Mordo Sindi Speiro Xoi 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. Fasoro Party Dress Vlad Party Suit Murfin Party Dress 10th Birthday Plushie Sindi Party Dress Snookle Party Dress 10th Birthday Potato Snookle Party Suit Vlad Party Dress Murfin Party Suit 10 Years Stamp Fasoro Party Suit 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. Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Previous Cover (Early 2010) MARAPETS MADE IT TO MOBYGAMES! Marapets MobyGames Entry!!! It took a while but finally Marapets has been accepted as a "gaming site" and its games made it to [1] MobyGames. It took a month to gather all the information and sources to be able to list Marapets there in the Browser Game category; where you can find such flash games as [2] Shoot the Fatty and [3] Sokoban. A BIG THANK YOU to MobyGames for giving me this opportunity! Click here for more details!...! Halloween News Oct 2009 WHAT'S NEW AT MARAPETS?! HALLOWEEN has finally arrived at Marapets! The festivities have started with a NEVER BEFORE seen [4] Mr. Beelzebub who's supposed to be the #1 Devil in Marapets! Click here to see Maradan Chronicles past news!... Dukka Piracy News Sept 2009 WHAT'S NEW AT MARAPETS?! A BRAND NEW never before seen event has begun in Marapets! The Dukka Piracy event which is somewhat similar to the past Marapets wars. Due to Ian being hospitalized the Undying Festival has been canceled this year. Marapets 5th Birthday celebrations are somewhat late as well, but Ian has notified that they will occur very soon!!! Previous Cover (Early 2007) MARAPETS MADE IT TO JELLYNEO! A small change in content... The JN staff have been talking about this for a while now, and they've all come to a decision. Lately, they have been playing Marapets a lot more than Neopets. (Thanks, to an unnamed staffer. D:) We're not gonna lie... Marapets is so much better than Neopets. With that in mind, allow me to unveil to you their "latest" endeavour... Jellymara.net!! Over the course of the next few weeks, they'll be converting all of our content over to everything Marapets. From the avatar listings to our Item Database. All of the Neopets stuff will be tossed away and replaced with Marapets goodness. (If anyone is interested in a hard copy of the JN item database, just email us!) Since they're going to be going all Marapets, they disabled the rest of the Neopian themes. The only one available now is called "Jellymara", which everyone else is using. If you're using the portal, head over to the main site to check it out! Also, the address "www.jellymara.net" will automatically redirect to JN for now. Until they get more established as a Marapets website, they'll keep the JN domain, and then move on over to the JM domain. (JM... I like it better than JN already!) So, we hope you like this change and that you'll sign up with Marapets today. They're having a war right now between King Baspinar and Queen Eleka, so sign up now to participate in the exciting plot! PSSST.... April Fool's! Click here for more details!...!

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