Happy Mogloween! Embark on the perfect new release for your spooky weekend. Journey to the Isle of the Dead and at long last... enter the Tower of Necromancy.



Whether you are a heroic Paladin infiltrating the tower or a dark spellcaster looking to obtain its forbidden secrets... the time to enter the Tower of Necromancy is at hand. You will find it on the Isle of the Dead. Rumor has it that an unkillable Lich is the Tower's Master. How certain is this information? Not very. No hero nor necromancer that attempted to slay it has ever returned sane... or completely alive.



Find Stygis the Ferryman in DoomWood Forest. In addition to teaching you how to become a Necromancer, he can ferry you to the Isle of the Dead. You will find the tower there. How do you get inside? That part is up to you.



Some speculate that the tower itself is some sort of dark test. That each of the 13 floors is overseen by different types of dark casters where each floor tests you to see if you are worthy to move on to the next.



What is the tower? Is it really the source of all Necromancy? Who is the Tower's Master? The answers to these questions lie within...



Summoning and commanding the undead is a key skill within the tower. Perhaps some of the skills you learn within the tower will be useful again in future areas.



Your journey up the tower will be frought with peril and littered with dark new loot.

• Dark Theurgist (Full Set)
  
• Necro'Rune (Full Set)
  
• *Name is secret* Lich (Full Set)
  
• Zorlock's Shrine (Back)
  
• Necraxe (Upgradable Axe)
  
• Necrotic Cloak of the Tower (Back)
  
• Spirit Shooter (Necrotic Pew Pew)

Exactly the kind of humor you expect from Artix and the team. If you enjoyed the quirky characters on the Isle of the Dead, then wait till you get a load of floor 9.



As each trainer is unique, so are their darkly themed floors. You will be delighted to see a few "lost undead" creatures make their return to our world.



Monsters created from summoning circles in the tower can duel. We created a new "aggro type" to make this possible. Keep an eye out for these circles in major boss fights too.



Each floor is a test... of your strength, sanity, and s..... *AHHHHH!*



May the fates favor you in this dangerous new release. Be sure to take your time and enjoy the story up the tower. Next week, as promised, we will be following up this release with a challenge boss fight (As if that boss needed to be more challenging O_O). If you are enjoying the Tower of Necromancy, please let the team and me know on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. With that...

Happy Mogloween and onward... to Tower of Necromancy!

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Now your Mogloween treats can take up no inventory space at all with our first ever "Mogloween Trove!"

This new feature is available to everyone. Collect all of this year's Mogloween drops & crafts and turn them in to Mayor McPumpkins. Also earn a title and an interactive pumpkin pet that gives you year round access to the items!






Do you remember the "free collection" we released during the Breaking Benjamin battle concert? Players quested to add items to this free collection. It gave them permanent year round access to the items without taking up any inventory or bank space. We are now calling this a Trove. (Think "Treasure Trove.") A Trove is different from the seasonal collections you buy with DCs. Doing the quests to earn your trove will also give you a special title and an interactive pet which opens up your trove so you can get the items wherever you are!

• "Trick or Keep" Title & Badge
  
• uWu Pumpkin Pet (Tapping on it opens your trove)

Note: You earn the pet early in the quest line which gives you immediate access to any of the items you've turned in. If you don't complete the quests, you can continue them next Mogloween.

• Pumpkin Staff (weapon)
  
• Sword of Candycornia (weapon)
  
• Candy Apple Mace (weapon)
  
• Arachnarette's armor set
  
• Iron Bat Armor set
  
• Hurlbat (weapon)
  
• Dark Ghoulish Gourd Head (helm)
  
• All of the Skelesuits (armor)
  
• Dark Ghoulish Gourd Bobber (fishing bobber)
  
• Grave Raider (weapon)
  
• Grave Raider and Shield (weapon)
  
• Pumpkin and Dagger (weapon)
  
• Deluxe Wolf Man Mask (helm)
  
• Friendly Raven (back)
  
• Spirit of Mystcroft (bow)

Bring the spirit of Mogloween home....

• BountyHunter Armor sublimated shirt
  
• DragonSlayer Armor sublimated shirt
  
• Mogloween Enchanted Cauldron Myx shirt

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There are many who believe that this release is cursed for real... not unlike the discovery of King Tut's tomb, or the set of The Crow. But at long last, the 13 floors of the Tower of Necromancy are scheduled to release next week. It was originally a single-player experience, but we painstakingly rebuilt it to be a multiplayer experience. Along the way we introduced new features that you will be happy to see used more widely across the game. Also, you will note, there is a lot of extra room in the tower for future "expansions".


If you have been watching our "Game Plan" then you may already know that we are getting closer to releasing the 1st phase of guilds. It is nice seeing that guild chat tab. In this pic, you can see us in the upcoming Werewolf Coliseum (the next part of Darkovia) testing guild chat.



Thank you to everyone who suggested that we do this. The login screen is now Mogloween themed :D



Thank you for being a part of AdventureQuest 3D and our online video game community. We hope you are having fun and excited for the upcoming areas and features. Also, we have Mogloween events happening across our other games too. The Flash Plugin is going poof this year, so we created a new Artix Games Launcher which lets you download and play the games... forever O_O.

Battle on!
Artix, Glisel & the AdventureQuest 3D Team



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With 40 craft-able items, secret drops, the 2020 Mogloween Collection, and slime fountain fishing, this is the largest number of Mogloween items ever to be released!




Visit the Mogloween NPC on Battleon Bridge or find Mayor McPumpkins in Mystcroft Town to see the newly added 2020 Mogloween Collection.

• "I Scream for Mogloween" badge
  
• Ghoulish Gourd Pet
  
• Hex the Cat (Pet)
  
• Witch on a Broom (travel form)
  
• Warlock on a Broom (travel form)
  
• Mogloween Bow
  
• The Caster 74.A (cosmetic rod)
  
• Jack-O-Bobber (fishing bobber)
  
• Gourdian Knight armor set
  
• Gourdian Knight Sword
  
• Fiery Gourdian Knight Helm (alternate helm)
  
• Doctor Bloodstone's armor set
  
• Wish Dealer (weapon)
  
• Cursed Wish Dealer (weapon)
  
• Batwing Broom (weapon)
  
• Xandor's Firespike Broom (weapon)

You can get these pieces individually, or save a ton of DragonCrystals by getting the entire collection which includes a badge, title, and permanent access to the collection from the bank (so you do not need to take up any inventory space.)



Trade your Candy to Andy Corn for...

• Pumpkin Staff (weapon)
  
• Sword of Candycornia (weapon)
  
• Candy Apple Mace (weapon)

Trade your Candy to Hexalina Caster for...

• Arachnarette's armor set

"He's undead! He's undead!" Doctor Trollenstein & his creation are back! Head to the mad science lab and take on the buzz saw and laser filled challenge. The door is near the fountain in the middle of the haunted town.



Stop in for a check up and gather the pieces to craft the all new Iron Bat armor set!



The spectre near the haunted mansion can help you craft the Dark Ghoulish Gourd Head! It is a flaming dark pumpkin head.



The age old seasonal sport of "bobbing for candyfish" has arrived! Turn in the Candyfish and Pumpkin Puffers you catch to Andy Corn to create...

Skelesuits

• The Black & Bone White Classic Original Skelesuit!
  "Get a gang together and find a kid named Danny to fight in the parking lot inspiring a 3 movie, 2 season television series franchise!"
  
• Red Skelesuit
  
• Blue Skelesuit
  
• Orange Skelesuit
  
• Pink Skelesuit (why.... why!?!?!)
  
• Purple Skelesuit
  
• Green Skelesuit (Not pictured because it was too awesome and we did not want to hurt the other skelesuits feelings)
  
• Gray Skelesuit (Really this is just the normal skelesuit that has been put through the wash to many times and is slightly faded.)
  

Dark Ghoulish Gourd Bobber (fishing bobber)
"Trick or treat little fishy!" (Spoiler: It's a trick)



Within the haunted Mystcroft Manor you will find a talking cauldron named Myx. Give him your pumpkin seeds to create...

• Grave Raider (weapon)
  
• Grave Raider and Shield (weapon)
  
• Pumpkin and Dagger (weapon)
  
• Deluxe Wolf Man Mask (helm)

There are also additional hidden drops on some of the monsters throughout Mystcrofts maps. I am not even allowed to post pictures of them. Hop in game, get in costume and...



Artix & all of your friends here at AdventureQuest 3D

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The pumpkin-spice scented fog has opened a path way to the haunted town of Mystcroft. Everybody is in for a treat. (Maybe a trick.) Head there and get into the spirit of this spook-tacular holiday.

How to get there? Use your travel menu or speak to the creepy stranger who is standing on the bridge in town.




Mystcroft offers all kinds of creepy and spooky entertainment. Door-to-door Trick-or-Treating, a haunted manor, and monsters ready to jump out at you from all sides.

Watch the previous Mogloween video on Youtube

This release also brings back the seasonal events and dungeons such as...




Enter Mystcroft Mannor... if you dare.

Watch the original trailer video for Mystcroft Mannor




Zorbak needs your help to deaden things up a little in the Raveyard. It's not entirely clear if he was trying to resurrect the skeletons to make an undead army and accidentally made them into a dance party or if the dancing has some ebil intent, but either way... the result is a bone-rattling dance party!

Plus, you can earn two different Mogloween-themed scytheblades for your trouble.




Miss out on any favorite items? You can now get previous Mogloween collection items you missed out on, such as the Headless Horseman travel form. Talk to whatever strange character happens to appear on the bridge in your home town of Battleon.



It was a nice departure from our darker releases... but only have one week left. Head into the Battleon Social District for your last chance to get these tasty taco items from Tito.




You can still get 50% more Dragon Crystals with any package that includes DragonCrystals... including Guardian.




"I can think of 999 reasons why I should kill you-- and 1,000 of them are for science!" Next week, come on down to the lab for a free check up. Who knows, maybe you will survive the "testing." The team rebuilt the mad science lab so it was compatable with our new system. It will officially be opening next week.




The vampire vs werewolf fueled Darkovia saga (parts IV & V) are in the works. If you are not caught up on the storyline, be sure to do so now.

Watch the Darkovia Trailer on Youtube

This 2020 Mogloween collection and several gold cost items will be available in a couple weeks. Keep an eye out on Twitter for sneak peaks from the AQ3D artists, like the new pumpkin armor set from Dage.


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Taco Day? Are the players responsible for this new AdventureQuest 3D community holiday?

Players have been reminding the team daily to do "SOMETHING" for this year's Taco Day.... apparently, our community REALLY LOVES TACOS! O_O Acaulescent (AKA Tacolescent) especially has been persistently reminding Artix (Thanks Acaulescent!) But when Artix asked the team if they would make a taco item... things abruptly got outta hand. Hop on AdventureQuest 3D and join us in the Social District!



Tito the terrific taco enthusiast is in the Social District now. He's waiting to teach you how to make tacos for Taco Day. These tacos are more than just delicious crunchy goodness, they are... money. You can trade them in for items in the Taco Day Shop!



Trade in your tacos for taco items!

• Taco Commander (helm - 5 tacos)
  
• Taco Pet (20 tacos)
  
• Taculous Pet (20 tacos)
  
• Tasty Taco (Equips to your head... Taco in your mouth - 10 tacos)
  
• Taculous Head (helm - 5 tacos)
  
• Taco Shoulders (shoulders - 2 tacos)
  
• Taco Back (back - 2 tacos)
  
• Taco Libre Mask (helm - 2 tacos)
  
• Taco Libre Jumpsuit (armor - 5 tacos)
  
• Taco Bow (bow - 10 tacos)
  
• Taco Daggers (weapon - 10 tacos)
  
• Taco Bobber (2 tacos)
  
• Taco Axe (500 DC - from last year)

The Taculous rift has opened... and from it sprang this terrifyingly delicious Taculous monster. It drops Taco Seasoning, an ingredient needed to make tacos for crafting items in the Taco Shop. (Created by Xero.)



There is a daily quest which allows you to earn TWO Tacos... because the only thing better than one taco. Is two tacos.

Who is this mysterious masked luchador? No body knows. He only shows up during random mini-live events... so expect a few of them this weekend with some live event coin chest reward *IF* you can defeat him.



Stay crunchy and see you in the Social District of town.

- Artix, Glisel, and the AdventureQuest 3D Team

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Hop aboard AdventureQuest 3D for a new quest for all players which unlocks a gold shop full o' loot. Talk to Gunpowder Mary in the pirate town of Lolosia to get started. But that's not all, me matey.
https://aq3d.com/news/crimson_corsair/



Beware this bottomless potion (unlimited uses) that makes your character radiate a cursed green fog for five minutes. Looks like this...



We added it to the already massive 2020 Pirate Collection for you... along with two wicked Pirate Ship bobbers for yer fishing pole.



Luck be on yer side. Ye can still be getting 50% MORE DragonCrystals with the purchase of ANY package-- for a just weee bit longer.



New features include:

• Power Variance - more variety in the power of weapon & item rewards
  
• Fishing improvements
  
• Party/Dungeon Improvements
  
• Chat improvements.
  
• PLUS! We’ve fixed all of those issues with the models we’ve received reports about, including the floating weapons.

Read the full patch notes



It may be the most authentically cursed release in AdventureQuest 3D history! Here I am, standing in the tower's library... wondering how on earth we are even going to release the first few floors next week. Keep an eye on our game's website for the story as it unfolds.
Keep an eye on our website
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Take on a new quest with Gunpowder Mary in Lolosia. The scalawag known as the Crimson Corsair has been plundering the town. Help Mary resupply all of the missing items. As a reward, you will receive the title Crimson Corsair and unlock the Crimson Corsair shop.

Be seein’ ya in game, me hearty!

Battle on!
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Avast, ye' lilly livered land lubbers-- AdventureQuest 3D be celebrating its 4th Talk Like a Pirate Day. Raid a DragonCrystal shop full o' booty to be walk'n the plank in style, har har. Ye can speak to Gunpowder Mary in Battleon (or Lolosia) to unlock this year's collection and then talk to Faith on the bridge to learn our new fishing system!



Th' collection features four amazin' piratical sets crafted by all our AQ3D artists, plus a mechanical parrot pet, four extra weapons and three travel forms! Ye will also be obtainin' th' "TERROR'S FATE" rare title and badge with yer collection!

Click here to see the whole collection!



Mages... get ready for a completely different kind of casting!

https://aq3d.com/news/fishing_trade_skill/

Faith is on the Battleon Bridge waiting to teach you how to fish. The new fishing system will take you all over Lore with new quests and new fishing NPCs.



Start your quests with Faith, and meet new fishing NPCs in other maps throughout the fishing quest line. Just equip a stat rod to start fishing. You can also talk to Fischer in the Battleon Social District to complete your progress on Faith's original fishing quests.

Click here to learn more about our new fishing skill!



Later this week we have a little bonus quest com'n yer way to help all players get in the spirit. In the meantime... Go Fish! You can raise your fishing level all the way to 50 unlocking some rewards. And as new major sagas are added, new fishing spots, levels, and rewards will be added.

Battle on!
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Do you want to know the #1 secret about being a video game creator?

Greetings and salutations friend,

Artix here.

Do you want to know the #1 secret about being a video game creator?

I have been building weekly-updated video games for millions of players for nearly 20 years...

At this point, I know lots of secrets.

And I am terrible at keeping them.

I literally put 0 stat points into secrecy.

(But my luck is maxed... which is why I am so lucky you are reading this)

If you have been getting emails or reading my posts for a while, then you already know the secret.

And it has nothing to do with undead pirates.



Although, these new armor sets and more are coming in next week's 2020 Talk Like a Pirate Day release.

Which will also include AdventureQuest 3D's big fishing release...

... which was supposed to go live this week.

But we are currently waiting for it to be approved across all of the platforms X_X



There are things you can control and things you cannot. And that is where the secret comes in.

You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can ALWAYS control how you respond to it.

And the correct response is to...

BATTLE ON!

Alternative translations...

Never give up!
Persist until you win
Stay the course.
Believe in yourself
Keep going!

It does not matter if you are making games, writing a book, chasing your life's dream, or just finishing that thing you are supposed to be working on-- but you hit "the wall".

Never give up.

And when you need a break to relax in between chasing your destiny, come hang out with us in AdventureQuest 3D.

And while this in no way fits inside this motivational letter, I would be silly not to remind you to take advantage of our get 50% more DragonCrystals sales this weekend... before the Pirate Collection drops next week ..



Hindsight being 2020, we should have put a Pirate there instead of the Moglin girl...

But I am neck deep in work on the Tower of Necromancy and the Dakovia Saga parts III & IV. which are coming next.



Oh.

This is your last chance to play the old fishing system before it goes poof.

See you in game.

Battle on!
Artix

P.S. Nobody knows what the "Bush Faction Gold Card" is that drops from that secret bush in the north part of town... highly recommend holding onto one before that bush goes poof too.

We are getting super close to releasing the new fishing system. It is far more fun and rewarding than the old system, and will span our world. Fishing will also be the very first trade skill. We are aiming to begin testing this week. Read on for more.



The new fishing is crazy fun. When it goes live, all you need to do is buy a fishing pole for a few gold. Then you will be able to click on fishing spots to start fishing. The mini-game challenges you to hook the fish. Catching fish can increase your fishing skill. Raising your skill higher will give you access to better poles, quests, rewards, and more challenging places to go fishing.



The artists went all out on the fishing rods! Some are themed after the zones where you are likely to get them. Each rod has a "fishing power." This will give you an edge as you fish in more challenging areas. Rods with high stats are essential to becoming a expert fisher-hero.



The upcoming release is not just for fishing... it is a new system which will allow us to add mining, lumber-jacking, cooking, and countless other trade skills to the game. Each trade skill will allow you to harvest or create things (like fish) which can then be used to build other new things (like consumables, armor, houses, guild castles, etc). Items that you harvest with a tradeskill go into a separate tab, so they will not eat up any of your previous inventory space.

In our upcoming first release, you will be able to take your Fishing level up to 50. Then we will likely increase the cap by 5-ish each time we add a major new area with water and new fish.

Note: I left mining on the screenshot for you, but you will not see that until the NEXT trade skill release XD



In the upcoming first release, you will find fishing spots appearing across the game. Higher level areas will have higher level fish. So you should train up your skill in the earlier areas. The lowest level fishing will be right when you enter town. This is also where you will meet our fishing trainer, Faith.

Note: In order to add the water and fishing spots, Dagger had to surgically redo the geometry of a lot of maps. As a bonus, when this goes live, you may be able to walk to some places that you could not before. More maps will be updated to include fishing as we have time to add them.



This story-line just went full circle! In our very first ever Artix Entertainment calendar, Faith made her debut as the fishing NPC. Then, in AQworlds she shifted towards being a beast master. All of the animals at the secret underground lab know Faith is the best. Then... in AdventureQuest 3D, she was originally the multi-class trainer. But with the upcoming fishing release, Faith returns to her original passion of taking us all fishing. On a personal note, I have never actually gone on one of Faith & Dage's legendary fishing adventures in real-life... maybe if they could create some poles like the ones we will be using in game? XD

Fishing is getting ready for testing on the PTR testing server as I write this. It should be up by Friday night.... making the live release as soon as we fix all of the issues found in testing.


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Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th. The new 2020 collection is coming soon... but until then, you can pick up returning pieces from the previous years from "Crabby" Patty in town or Gunpowder Mary in Lolosia.



Is this your first Talk Like a Pirate Day? Missing some pieces from a previous collection?

No problem! You can buy any of the items from past collections individually from "Crabby" Paddy and Gunpowder Mary. You won't get the collection badge but you will get the item you want. The 2020 collection will be available soon. Check back next week for the 2020 collection preview.

• Visit Lolosia - Open up your Adventure Menu and work on completing the Lolosia story quests.
  
• Pirate Siege - Talk to "Crabby" Paddy in Battleon to join a Team vs Team pirate siege at sea!
  
• Stock up on Dragon Crystals. The 50% boost is still going!
  
• Werk on yer pirate talk, matey.

See you in game!

Artix, Glisel, and the AdventureQuest 3D Team