Patch Notes 2026-10-04

• Halloween Haunt map!
  • Talk to the Jack o' Lantern in the Pub to travel there. A portal next to your arrival point takes you back.
  • Daily events (once per day per Master Account, reset at 00:00 UTC), paying out Spooky Coins:
    • Bobbing for Apples: 33% chance per dunk for 25 Spooky Coins. Retry until you win.
    • Dusty Old Boxes: three hidden boxes worth 10 Spooky Coins each. They bite back, and it can kill you.
    • Trick or Treat: say "trick or treat" in front of Jakk for a 30-minute buff... or a few minutes as a monster.
    • Plants vs Zombies: clear 5 Zombies out of Farmer John's pumpkin patch for 25 Spooky Coins.
    • Pub Cat Ghosts: pet a ghost cat to help it move on for 25 Spooky Coins. You can keep petting them afterwards, just for the love of it.
    • Poring Surprise: 50,000 zeny buys three prize kills. Prizes include coins, HD ores, Transformation Scrolls, Old Card Albums and the Halloween 2026 Box.
    • Spooky Machine (Base Level 90+, every 12 hours): refine a Cracked Buckler until it breaks. Reach +10 for a Costume Sakura Witch Hat and a Skelion pet.
  • Roaming monsters wander the Haunt and drop Spooky Coins. Watch out for the two Undead Knights.
  • Halloween Merchant: spend Spooky Coins on costumes, battle manuals, Orleans Full Course, boxes (Box of Thunder, Gloom, Resentment, Drowsiness, Sunlight and Panting) and a Scatleton pet.
  • New Dungeon: Niflheim, two floors, event only!
    • Every monster can drop Card Scraps. Trade 10 to the Halloween Merchant for an Old Card Album.
    • MVP: Death Witch on floor 2, every 6 hours, with a chance at a Scatleton Crate.
  • Transformation Scrolls and Trick or Treat buffs do not work in WoE castles or Battlegrounds.
  • Kafras have dressed up for the season.
  • Full details on the wiki: Halloween Haunt
• "Auto-Cades" now only work in "Pre-Trans SE" castles (i.e. not Mardol, but Sotanaht yes).
• Battleground modes during Happy Hour are now drawn from a shuffled rotation: every mode plays once before any mode repeats (but not always in the same order).
• @voteleader now passes with 25% of your online team (minimum 3 votes) instead of a majority.
• Mobs in Dewata have returned from their migration!
  • Cendrawasih is a great source of Soft Feathers and Box of Sunlight.
  • Full details on the wiki: Dewata
• New novice event: Flame Barrage! Dodge the flames through 5 levels for Event Coins.
• Novice events now offer to discard your starter Knife and Cotton Shirt when you join.
• Custom Items wiki page has been created and will be continuously improved: Custom Items
• MATK from Moonlight Serenade is now properly applied.
• Asura Strike autocast now requires Fury and Spheres as normal.
• Fixed some typos in various BG messages (Netraul -> Neutral).
• Cursed Water and converters are now removed upon entering a pre-trans WoE castle.
• A whitelisted guild now also requires at least 12 online members to enter a castle.
• Double Casting is removed when you unequip Jeweled Bow.
• Removed the Beta Rewards NPC from the Pub (the Jack o' Lantern has taken its spot).
• Disguise Event is now run manually by the team and no longer starts on its own every 2 hours.
• AC_SHOWER is now properly a ranged attack.
• REC:
  • Added an instanced practice room: unlimited copies, so no more full practice rooms when more than 8 teams are playing. We'll keep testing this and roll it out to the other rooms if it holds up.
  • Added REC overlays for our livestreams, showing match state, score, time remaining, and each team's players with their class and whether they are alive.