The nights are growing shorter and there's an eerie chill in the air, All Hallow's Eve is nearly upon us! Get your Home in shape for the season by earning a collection of spooky buildings and decorations with the Home: Halloween Episode Event, and help Cassandra with her Halloween Party prep with the Halloween Candy Party Event!

Event Duration:

• PDT (UTC -7): Tuesday, October 18, 2022 5:00 PM - Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:59 PM
• CEST/CET (UTC +2/+1): Wednesday, October 19, 2022 2:00 AM CEST - Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12:59 AM CET
• AEDT (UTC +11): Wednesday, October 19, 2022 11:00 AM - Wednesday, October 5, 2022 10:59 AM

Event Details:

• Experience Querencia’s first Halloween and earn yourself some proper decor!
• Requirements: Lv. 200 and above (Zero characters must have completed up to Chapter 2). Your character must have completed the Home tutorial quest.
• Accept the ‘[Home] Autumn, Pumpkins, Halloween!’ scenario quest by talking to the Caretaker inside your Home.
  • Your character must be Lv. 200 and above to start this quest.
  • If you started the scenario quest, but would like to complete it on a different character, you can use the ‘Reset quest progress’ option on the Home UI.
• If you don’t have a Home yet, check out our v.234 patch notes for more information! 
• Once the scenario quest is complete, you can accept the ‘[Home] Halloween Home Party’ quest from the star event notifier on the left side of the screen.
  • Your character must be Lv. 101 and above to start this quest.
• In order to obtain special Halloween-themed furnishings, you’ll be given an option to send your Caretaker shopping for them! You can select from the following:
  • Build Pack
    • Shopping Time: 16 hours
    • Cannot obtain duplicates
  • Large Halloween Furnishings Pack
    • Shopping Time: 10 hours
    • Can obtain duplicates
  • Small Halloween Furnishings Pack
    • Shopping Time: 5 hours
    • Can obtain duplicates
• After your Caretaker goes shopping 10 times, you can accept the ‘[Home] Halloween Home Party’ quest to receive a Halloween Fondue Fountain furnishing!
• The following furnishings have special features:
  • Awakened Jiangshi CD Player allows you to play different music.
  • Jack-O-Lantern Totem Floor Lamp and the Halloween Mini Lights change color every time they’re clicked!
  • Halloween Fondue Fountain provides a candy item, with a small chance to receive a cupcake, when a visitor clicks on it. The furnishing provides up to 10 candies max per day, until November 1 at 11:59 AM UTC. You cannot receive candy from the fountain at your own Home. You can only get 1 candy a day per character. 
    
    • Halloween Candy: Provides one of the trait +10
    • Halloween Cupcake: Provides one of the trait +50
• The scenario quest can only be done once per world.

Event Rewards:

• Build Pack (Shopping Time: 16 hours)
• Overgrown Pumpkin Patch Metal Window
• Dark Night Metal Window
• Burgundy Neon Party Roof
• Violet Neon Party Roof
• Arcadia Neon Party Roof
• Swinging Ghost And Bat
• Witch In Moonlight
• Gray Stucco Exterior Wall
• Dark Log Exterior Wall
• Terracotta Wall
• Classic Silk Wallpaper
• Overgrown Pumpkin Patch Metal Window
• Dark Night Metal Window
• Dancing Burgundy Neon Window
• Dancing Violet Neon Window
• Dancing Arcadia Neon Window
• Dark Wooden Tile
• Clay Brick Tile

• Large Halloween Furnishings Pack (Shopping Time: 10 hours)
• Awakened Jiangshi CD Player
• Guest on a Moonlit Night Large Window
• Spider Web Metal Window
• [Poster] Phantom and Pumpkin City
• [Poster] Orchid's Halloween
• [Poster] Hallowkitty Club Opening!
• Monster Bed of Pumpkin Patch
• Halloween Party Table
• Midnight Guest Hanger
• Witch's Iron Pot Fireplace
• Vampire's Rest Chair
• Gothic Iron Partition
• Halloween Candy Tree
• Jack-O-Lantern Totem Floor Lamp
• Jack-O-Lantern Mirror Ball

• Small Halloween Furnishings Pack (Shopping Time: 5 hours)
• Halloween Party Garland
• Halloween Mini Lights
• Antique Candle Holder
• [Poster] Hallowkitty's Work Studio
• [Poster] Hidden Story
• [Poster] Spooky Ghost Hunter
• Halloween Party Chair
• It's a Surprise! Fake Chair
• Skull Chocolate Fountain
• Plum Nependeath of Hell
• Light Green Nependeath of Hell
• Marigolds
• Halloween Party Balloon Package
• Ghost Armchair
• Jack-O-Lantern Mirror Ball

Event Duration:

• PDT (UTC -7): Tuesday, October 25, 2022 5:00 PM - Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:59 PM
• CEST/CET (UTC +2/+1): Wednesday, October 26, 2022 2:00 AM CEST - Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12:59 AM CET
• AEDT (UTC +11): Wednesday, October 26, 2022 11:00 AM - Wednesday, October 5, 2022 10:59 AM

Event Details:

• Cassandra’s got a sweet tooth and will reward you for helping her out!
• Requirement: Lv. 101 and above (Zero characters must have completed up to Chapter 2).
• Accept the ‘[Halloween] Halloween Candy Party’ quest through either the star event notifier on the left side of the screen.
• Upon accepting the quest, Cassandra will ask you to create candies for the party. Each candy requires three ingredients.
• Check the hint Cassandra gives you for one of the three ingredients needed to make each candy. You can work together with other Maplers to figure out the other two ingredients needed.
• Click the ‘[Halloween] Halloween Candy Party’ quest when you have all the ingredients. You will get your reward after making a total of three candies.
• Hidden mission alert! Complete the hidden mission to select either the Permanent Halloween Jack-O-Lantern Mount Coupon or Permanent Halloween Ghost Mount Coupon by November 1 at 11:59 PM UTC.
• Halloween Candy Party event can be done once per world.

Event Rewards:

• Halloween Kitty Cat Ears Coupon: Tradeable within account, 7-day duration. Use the coupon to receive Halloween Kitty Cat Ears: Untradeable.

Hidden Mission Rewards: Complete the hidden mission by November 1 at 11:59 PM UTC to select one of the following:

• Permanent Halloween Jack-O-Lantern Mount Coupon: Tradeable within account, 7-day duration.
• Permanent Halloween Ghost Mount Coupon: Tradeable within account, 7-day duration.

[Updated October 13th at 9:41 AM PDT] The maintenance has been completed and we have extended Cash Shop items for 3 hours. Please restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client! Thank you for your patience.

We will be performing a scheduled minor patch on Thursday, October 13th, 2022 at 7:00 AM PDT (10:00 AM EDT / 4:00 PM CEST / 1:00 AM AEDT Oct. 14). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 3 hours, concluding around 10:00 AM PDT (1:00 PM EDT / 7:00 PM CEST / 4:00 AM AEDT Oct. 14). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Thursday, October 13, 2022
PDT (UTC -7): 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EDT (UTC -4): 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
CEST (UTC +2): 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
AEDT (UTC +11): 1:00 AM (Oct. 14) - 4:00 AM (Oct. 14)

• What will be unavailable:
  • All MapleStory game servers.
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • Server Upkeep.
  • MapleStory will be updated to v.236.2.0.
  • Fixed the issue where the 'Jack-o-Lantern Mirror Ball' item was incorrectly named 'Jack-o-Lantern Totem Floor Lamp'.
  • Fixed the issue where the quest '[Home] Yellow Marigold Bouquet', contains untranslated text when clicking on NPC Trudy.
  • Fixed the issue where the game client would crash when setting a Custom Title to the 'One with 300 Years of Inner Power' title.
  • Fixed the issue where the tooltip window for the item 'Solaria's Robe' has the item name and description swapped.
  • Fixed the issue where 'Home: Halloween' related items and architecture blueprints were not being displayed properly.
  • [Updated Oct. 12] Compensation has been distributed for the players who logged in between October 5th at 1:00 PM UTC and October 7th at 11:00 PM UTC for the extended server downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Please redeem the 350 Troupe Coins and the Compensation Box before October 27th at 11:59 PM UTC from the Gift Drop.
    • Compensation Box contains the following:
      • 2x EXP Coupon (15min) x10
      • 2x Drop Coupon (15min) x10
      • Special Medal of Honor x3

 

[Updated October 7th at 3:50 PM PDT] The maintenance has been completed and we have extended Cash Shop items for 3 hours. Please restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client! Thank you for your patience.

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance on Friday, October 7th, 2022 at 2:00 PM PDT (5:00 PM EDT / 11:00 PM CEST / 8:00 AM AEDT Oct. 8). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 3 hours, concluding around 5:00 PM PDT (8:00 PM EDT / 2:00 AM CEST Oct. 8 / 11:00 AM AEDT Oct.  8). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Friday, October 7th, 2022
PDT (UTC -7): 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
EDT (UTC -4): 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
CEST (UTC +2): 11:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Oct. 8)
AEDT (UTC +11): 8:00 AM (Oct. 8) - 11:00 AM (Oct. 8)

• What will be unavailable:
  • All MapleStory game servers.
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • The rate of Troupe Point acquisition has been adjusted, increasing to 10 Troupe Points for every monster defeated, up from 5.
  • Fixed the issue where Bebe Boxes could no longer be used.
  • Note: Please complete any daily activities before the start of this maintenance.

 

[Updated October 5, 2022 at 7:05 PM PDT] We have applied fixes to the servers and completed maintenance. We have extended Cash Shop items for 7 hours. Thank you for your patience.

[Updated October 5, 2022 at 4:22 PM PDT] We have identified the cause of the issue and are in the process of doing internal verification for the fixes. We do not have an ETA to share at this time but will continue to update this post as the situation progresses. We appreciate your patience!

Hi Maplers,

We have decided to bring all servers down in order to investigate the root cause of the channel crashes that have been coming after the v.236 Midnight Carnival update maintenance and address it as soon as possible. We apologize for the downtime and will provide an update at the top of this post when we can.

- The MapleStory Team

 

Halloween is approaching and Maple World is preparing for the Night Troupe and various Halloween-themed events! Hunt monsters and participate in events to raise your Festival Designer Rank and use the Festival Decorating to design the festival! More buildings means more passive skills that benefit all characters eligible for the event. Earn bonus EXP with the Ride Attractions or obtain growth enhancements like Arcane Symbols from the Human Cannonball Attraction! Increasing your Festival Designer Rank will also unlock handy bonuses such as a Character Burninator or the Safety Zone. Special activities like the Giant Iceberg Breaker Festival will be available to help you earn additional Troupe Points in addition to the other events. A special Home story chapter is also available, leading to a new Shopping category for Halloween-themed Furnishings! The Midnight Carnival awaits!

Read the Midnight Carnival Patch Notes here!

[Updated October 5th at 11:56 AM PDT] The maintenance has been completed and we have extended Cash Shop items for 6 hours. Please restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client! Thank you for your patience.

We will be performing a scheduled game update on Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 at 6:00 AM PDT (9:00 AM EDT / 3:00 PM CEST / 12:00 AM AEDT Oct. 6). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 6 hours, concluding around 12:00 PM PDT (3:00 PM EDT / 9:00 PM CEST / 6:00 AM AEDT Oct. 6). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Wednesday, October 5th, 2022
PDT (UTC -7): 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM
EDT (UTC -4): 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
CEST (UTC +2): 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
AEDT (UTC +11): 12:00 AM (Oct. 6) - 6:00 AM (Oct. 6)

• What will be unavailable:
• All MapleStory game servers.
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • Server Upkeep.
  • MapleStory will be updated to v.236.1.
  • Patch notes for v.236 Midnight Carnival are now available. https://maplestory.nexon.net/news/74810/v-233-destiny-remastered-patch-notes

 

Join Community Manager Ezrabell in the next Community Livestream as he previews the upcoming events and contents in v.236 Midnight Carnival! Grab your snacks and prepare for an adventure of fun in this upcoming livestream. Join us on any of the platforms listed below this Friday, September 30th at 4:00 PM PDT (7:00 PM EDT).

CM Ezrabell will be on the test client previewing the upcoming content in v.236 Midnight Carnival! Join the stream for an early look at the new events and contents arriving in this update. There will also be giveaways throughout the stream! We will be giving away the exclusive Songless Bird Mount along with some handy consumables like Onyx Apples! Make sure you don't miss out on the fun~ See you Friday!

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We will be performing a scheduled cash shop maintenance on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 5:00 AM PDT (8:00 AM EDT / 2:00 PM CEST / 10:00 PM AEST). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 2 hours, concluding around 7:00 AM PDT (10:00 AM EDT / 4:00 PM CEST/ 12:00 AM AEST Sep. 30). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Thursday, September 29th, 2022
PDT (UTC -7): 5:00 AM - 7:00 AM
EDT (UTC -4): 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
CEST (UTC +2): 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
AEST (UTC +10): 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM Sep. 30

• What will be unavailable:
  • Cash Shop and billing functions.
  • MapleStory will still be accessible during this maintenance and normal gameplay will be possible.
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • Backend upgrades to the Cash Shop Servers.

 

 

Join Community Manager Ghiblee in the next Community Livestream! Join us on any of the platforms listed below this Wednesday, September 28th at 3:00 PM PDT (6:00 PM EDT).

CM Ghiblee will be hanging out on Bera and reminiscing about all her favorite memories with the community as she says her final goodbye! There will also be giveaways throughout the stream for some Holiday Latte Chairs and some Onyx Apples! Make sure you don't miss out on the fun~ See you Wednesday!

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