BREAKING NEWS
As predicted, King Baspinar quietly left his castle last week. With several of his knights protecting him, he headed for the BP Bank to pay for the second phase of construction at the solid gold castle he is building for his pet Wallops. A Yellow Ant Trap left at the bank by ghostface caught one of the King's knights.
After over five months in lockdown the King was unrecognisable and the bank rejected his request, with staff requesting more information. He headed to the Town Hall to try and get identification needed for the Bank and a Basic Trap left by MommaCats seriously injured another of his knights. Identification here failed - another citizen of Marada is using his name!

The King then proceeded to the Salon and Bearber for a hair cut so he'd be more recognisable. While he was here, traps left at the Power Station caught workers and pushed Marada into a Blackout. A Purple Bug Trap left by Sloth at the Salon and a Green Bug Trap left by pickle233822 at the Bearber caught more of his army.

With four of his knights seriously injured, the King headed back to his castle for his own safety. Without power, the Salon was unable to dry his hair properly so he stood in front of the Windmill to dry it. His vanity caught another knight when a Black Wooden Trap left by Lark at the Windmill injured them. ghostface, MommaCats, Sloth, pickle233822 and Lark won a Goblin Decadal Potion.

With the King safely back in his castle and his Figaro, Hump, Kaala and Mordo knights now Headless he knew now that the evil Queen Eleka was back. He sent his knights to visit the evil Beelzebub where a Black Quality Trap left by Swetanew caught another knight. With Beelzebub announcing his loyalty to Queen Eleka, he warned the King to prepare for War.

The knights then visited the Telescope to see if the Queen's attack had started. With Marada in a Blackout they couldn't see a thing! An Orange Fly Trap left here by Hunnie injured another knight. On their way back to the castle, they stopped at the Old Fairy to give her their new Blackout Photos. She didn't believe there was a blackout since they had received more electricity bills than ever before! She suggested the knights just needed new glasses for night time and to eat more carrots, so they stopped by the Glasses Shop and Vegetable Shop.

A Yellow Trap left by PJCME at the Old Fairy, a Pink Trap Door left by annera at the Glasses Shop and a Brown Ant Trap left by Tiger at the Vegetable Shop injured three more knights. Swetanew, Hunnie, PJCME, annera and Tiger won an Enchanted Goblin Decadal Plushie. The Figaro, Hump, Kaala, Kujo, Limax, Lorius, Mordo, Newth, Nino and Paffuto now have the revamped Headless Costume.

The King then called his army back to his castle immediately! Queen Eleka has launched her first attack....

All players that have left traps at the BP Bank, Town Hall, Salon, Bearber, Windmill, Beelzebub, Telescope, Old Fairy, Glasses Shop or the Vegetable Shop will receive a full set of Bonus Prizes for each place they left a trap at. If a player left traps at all 10 places, they will receive 10 sets of bonus prizes. The following players also won these prizes:

A total of 145,014 Traps have been left at 455 different areas of Marada. Now we just need to wait for King Baspinar and his army to leave his castle....

The Daily Discount was updated today to fix an error for several players and we had to reset it for everyone. You can now visit it again but any discount that was enabled for today will reset.

The new Costumes Boutique today stock its first random Account Upgrades Costume. The Moonlight Costume is on sale there for £4 AU until midnight. This means that only one more AU themed costume will appear in the shop this month, at any random day before the month ends. Since this shop now is automatically run, there will not be news updates or reminders about when they appear (unless it fits with a current event).

Players who have the Price Order Giftbox in their Giftbox Collection now have access to another new feature in their Attic. You can view all of the items in your Attic that are currently wanted by other players at the Wanted Ads. It will show the maximum price a player is offering for the item there and your items will be sorted in price order.


There are new WEEKLY perks for Bronze, Silver and Gold Shield players of the Progress Goals. Every Saturday there is a news update showing the new, randomly selected perks available for week for all those who qualify.
These are new perks which can be selected at random from next week.

Gold Players (Level 50+)
Silver Players (Level 25+)
Bronze Players (Level 1+)

A new Weekly Job Contest has just started. The challenge is to earn the most MP in wages this week from the Freelance Agency in Vortex Park. The top 3 players at the end of the challenge will receive a Pink Lucifer, 200,000MP and a Gold Trophy, the next 6 players will receive 150,000MP and a Silver Trophy and the next 9 players will receive 100,000MP and a Bronze Trophy. Congratulations to the winners:

Gold : Sweetangeleyes, Fork, Bengal_Momma
Silver : skycruiser1, waterlogged, blueberryfruit, SunPam, delloyd, stilla
Bronze : AuroraCopernicus, valyria, NanaKay, Roosknop, xenious, partout, fishdoctor, Beth, Sarsaparilla

The Lottery has been drawn for this week. becacat is the winner of the 6,938,000MP Jackpot. Congratulations!

Last Week's Raffle has now ended. Bengal_Momma is the winner of the Red DNA and 1,000,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 10969. Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for this week's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!

The Mission of the Week has now changed. Earn 50% more MP completing levels of Blitzen's Grotto this week.



Voting has closed and a new Shop of the Week has been decided. For the next 7 days, the School Supplies shop has a 2 for 1 sale. Every time you buy an item from this shop you will pay for one and receive two. Vote Now for next week.


All pets wearing a Genie Costume will receive Double Training stats this week at the Gym and Elite Gym. Vote Now for next week. All pets wearing a Pampered Costume will receive Double Education stats this week at the School and University. Vote Now for next week.

The traps left outside the Power Station have been cleared and the workers have returned. They are working their hardest to restore power to Marada and expect the Blackout to end at midnight.

The best thing about this unexpected Blackout is that the darkness has filled the skies with stars! This has helped the Stars Shop, now under new management, to update the last 33 items with old art to their new design.

Introducing the new and improved... Costume Boutique

The Costume Shop has been replaced with the new Costume Boutique. Over the past 16 years we've released over 7,000 different pet colours - 78 species of pet and 206 different costumes! The first item ever added to MaraPets was the Blue Costume and for the first few years of us being open, there were always some costumes in stock at the costume shop. Fast forward sixteen years and the shop is pretty much always empty and making it stock more items only crashes the prices, making the costume easier to get but no longer wanted. The 'restocking' shop model that works well for the other 100+ shops on here does not work well for Costumes.We have therefore changed the shop to the new Costume Boutique. It has all of the benefits of being random and rarer costumes showing up less often but now it will be a fixed price and accessible to all! There are 151 Costumes that have been added to the Costume Boutique, organised into 4 different groups - 19 Colour Costumes, 9 Standard Costumes, 9 Premium Costumes and 114 Account Upgrades Costumes. Every day, a new costume is randomly selected from the Prize List to be sold here for that day only.

One of these 9 Premium Costumes will be selected at random each month, to be on sale for one random day in the month for a fixed price of either MP BP or RP. You will only know what costume is on sale at the shop on the day you visit. You will not be told when a costume is back on sale here or if it will be on sale for MP, BP or RP. There are 9 Standard Costumes and four of these will be selected at random each month. Each of the four selected will be on sale for a different, random day of the month and will be sold for a fixed price of either MP BP or RP. There will also be new costumes in the future added to the Costume Boutique. There are also 114 Costumes there were released as Account Upgrades Sets over the past 16 years. Although we continue to release one or two Account Upgrade sets per month, releasing new costumes hasn't really been an option while there are SO many that aren't avaliable - it would take another 12 years+ to release them all again this way. To help with bringing some of these back automatically, the Costume Boutique also randomly selects two of these costumes each month to be on sale here for £4 Account Upgrade Credits. Each costume will only be on sale for one day of the month and this will be selected at random. This means that only 24 out of 114 of these costumes will be sold for only 24 of the 365 days in a year - it should still keep them rare and limited, without making them unattainable. Any day that a Premium, Standard or Account Upgrades Costume is not on sale at the Costume Boutique there will be one of 19 Coloured Costumes on sale instead. Like the Premium and Standard Costumes, the currency required will be randomly selected to cost MP BP or RP and the prices are fixed and shown on the Prize List.

Mara really appreciates all of the players that have completed his Progress Goals to help him build a better Marapets. As an extra thank you, he is rewarding all players the following benefits for the next 7 days. These rewards change automatically every Saturday.


The Time Machine has selected the following 30 items as the prize list for the following 7 days.

The Memory game in Biala Mountain now has 6 new Bonus Prizes and 5 old items previously won from our retired Memory Pets and Marapet Keeper flash games that you can randomly win from playing this game.

A new High Score List with trophies for players who reach the highest score playing Memory has also been released.


There are also 29 High Score Rewards to be won. You will win one of these each and every time you reach a certain score - with prizes from a score as low as 2,500 up until those who manage to score 10,000 or more! Prizes for this game include the Memory Pets Soundtrack CD and Memory Pets DVD from the retired Memory Pets flash game, socks, stamp, glowing egg and gourmet food.

Prizes also include new Memory Card items. These are toys for your pet to play with but if you delete them they will earn 10 Memory Points to spend at the Memory Shop.
 Level 50 or higher players earn 20 Memory Points deleting each Memory Card item.



The Rune Rescue game also has a new High Score List.

Your loyalty is important to us! King Baspinar rewards you for how old your account is and Queen Eleka rewards you for the number of days you visit us. Mara also enters you into a FREE Progress Raffle every day that you visit us. Visit us every day of the week and you receive 8 raffle tickets. You will be entered into either a Bronze, Silver or Gold raffle depending on what level you have progressed to. Winners are announced every Friday. Congratulations to last week's winners:

The Vortex Park Diner has new gourmet minipet Waffles on the menu. Play Waffle Wobble during the famous All-You-Can-Eat Waffle Hour to win one of these delicious new Minipets! A new Temple will be released in Simeria in the future and it will ask for non-retired Gourmet Minipets (like these Waffles and Minipets wearing a soon to be released Ball of Fat Yarn) and Wild Minipets, so you can start collecting these if you want to be prepared for its release.


The Wallop can now wear the Lightning, Pixel and Sparkle Costume and the Feliz can now wear the Bootleg Costume. The Island Murfin has been updated to match the new style, completing all of the revamped pet art for this costume!

A new Weekly Quest Contest has just started. This week's quest game is Personal Trainer. The challenge is to complete as many of these Quests this week. The top 3 players at the end of the challenge will receive a Royal Costume, 200,000MP and a Gold Trophy, the next 6 players will receive 150,000MP and a Silver Trophy and the next 9 players will receive 100,000MP and a Bronze Trophy.
Congratulations to the winners:

Gold: GoddessOfKaos, timsprincess444, Sundaye
Silver: turashu, DemonOfIrony, coconut, gabbygirl95929, Wrestlinggirlzel, Boucardi
Bronze: natgirl429, atypical, vankim, Reese, chocolatemuffin4, Shizuhu, goldieha, Ollie13, Wolfenheimer


A new Ugly Contest has just started. The theme to dress up as this week is Homemade Costume. Congratulations to last week's winners of the Just Wrong theme:

Peekaboo

z1gzag

Chandelier

The Reunite game in Lowlyhood now has 37 new High Score Rewards to be won each time you reach a high enough score in this game. Remember you will win the Level Rewards the first and only time you complete a level of a game and the high score rewards are won after this. Prizes include Ink that are School supplies and new love themed plushies.

There are also new Trophies for your profile for Reunite. Complete all 40 levels of every episode to earn a gold trophy. Complete three episodes for a silver trophy or two episodes to earn bronze.

Your loyalty is important to us! King Baspinar rewards you for how old your account is and Queen Eleka rewards you for the number of days you visit us. Queen Eleka also gives you a FREE Loyalty Raffle Ticket every day that you visit us for this Weekly Raffle. Visit us every day of the week and you receive 8 raffle tickets. Winners are announced every Wednesday. Congratulations to last week's winners:


A new Weekly Item Contest has just started. This week's item is Blue Feliz Pen. The challenge is to delete as many of this item as you can this week. You will earn 1 Point in the contest and 1 Memory Point for every Blue Feliz Pen deleted. The top 3 players at the end of the challenge will receive a Prison Pumpkin, 200,000MP and a Gold Trophy, the next 6 players will receive 150,000MP and a Silver Trophy and the next 9 players will receive 100,000MP and a Bronze Trophy. Congratulations to the winners:

Gold : Toshiyori63, Sizzle, MistressMayhem88
Silver : jack8290, colleenmurphydevlin, vankim, crisscrossy, Ollie13, valyria
Bronze : forcefire001, Amy60, Valiar, Chasm, dryless, turashu, AbbeyG, celynn, Bikini

It's almost been four days of darkness in Marada since the Power Station caused a Blackout. Business at the Candle Shop in the Kamilah Desert has never been so busy! Wick has been so busy since her 2 for 1 Sale she has renovated her store and now has 31 new items that can restock in her shop.

A new Weekly Battle Contest has just started. This week's opponent is Moonlight Fairy. You will need to have a Moonlight Fairy Trading Card in your Battle Deck. The challenge is to win as many battles against this opponent this week. The top 3 players at the end of the challenge will receive a Stellar Trading Card, 200,000MP and a Gold Trophy, the next 6 players will receive 150,000MP and a Silver Trophy and the next 9 players will receive 100,000MP and a Bronze Trophy.
Congratulations to the winners:

Gold: tommyg01, Meggy, ZyuohTheWorld
Silver: bigfatdaddybear, Pyromaniac, Poppi, Gorrby, _Dee_, Cleola
Bronze: Mccandles, cyberkitty, freemo, Fib, Ephemeral, RainbowGemstone82, Sarsaparilla, Mis, Azaura


A new Beauty Contest has just started. The theme to dress up as this week is Cheeky Time Traveler. Congratulations to last week's winners of the Marapets Inhabitant theme:

Peekaboo

Supernatural

Tribble

BREAKING NEWS
It's been almost 48 hours since Queen Eleka ordered her minions to leave Traps around Marada and over 90,000 have been left. Five hundred of these were left outside the Power Station in the City of Marada, injuring workers and pushing the whole of Marada into darkness! Ziranek needs a lot of power to function as a modern city and it doesn't take long before huge, widespread errors occur. Connect every building in Ziranek with battery power as quickly as possible. Click each wire to rotate it, connecting all of the wires with the backup battery power. You will complete each level if you manage to light up all of the LED lights in the city before the time runs out.

Our eighth level based Game has been released. Blackout has 40 levels for you to complete. Connect all of the wires to the battery power, before the time runs out, to complete a level and you'll win the Level Reward Prizes. These are one time prize rewards you will win as a bonus prize for each level.


You can play Blackout up to 3 times per day for FREE. Earn 1MP per 5 points. Earn up to the maximum of 2,000MP each play - if you complete a level with MP for its Level reward, you will receive the bonus MP too! You must send score to unlock the next level or it will not be saved. Game resets at 00:00MST.


The main item prizes for this game are retired error themed items such as the Error Troit Photo and the Error Quell Plushie, Error 51 DVD and Error Book from the 2005 'Report a Glitch' event and a Capsule Machine Token.

A new Devil Account Upgrade Set has been released, with 7 new devil themed items, a retired Devil Costume and either 5 or 6 random pieces of a new Treasure Map. This set is on sale until November 30th. There is 1 in 3 chance you will receive 6 random pieces instead of 5 - no set you purchase will have duplicate pieces. This set will be on sale for over two months because the Poera Prey Treasure Map is for access to a new feature that will not be released until the end of this month.

A new Weekly Job Contest has just started. The challenge is to earn the most MP in wages this week from the Freelance Agency in Vortex Park. The top 3 players at the end of the challenge will receive a White Psyclone, 200,000MP and a Gold Trophy, the next 6 players will receive 150,000MP and a Silver Trophy and the next 9 players will receive 100,000MP and a Bronze Trophy. Congratulations to the winners:

Gold : Sweetangeleyes, waterlogged, Roosknop
Silver : stilla, Bengal_Momma, Fork, lordsrinivas, SunPam, blueberryfruit
Bronze : Beth, valyria, partout, xenious, delloyd, skycruiser1, NanaKay, Sarsaparilla, AuroraCopernicus

The Lottery has been drawn for this week. PurpleWizard2000 is the winner of the 5,501,600MP Jackpot. Congratulations!

Last Week's Raffle has now ended. lovemebabydo is the winner of the Red DNA and 1,000,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 24645. Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for this week's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!

The Mission of the Week has now changed. Earn 50% more MP completing levels of Ublish's Lair this week.



Voting has closed and a new Shop of the Week has been decided. For the next 7 days, the Traps shop has a 2 for 1 sale. Every time you buy an item from this shop you will pay for one and receive two. Vote Now for next week.


All pets wearing a Radioactive Costume will receive Double Training stats this week at the Gym and Elite Gym. Vote Now for next week. All pets wearing a Aqua Costume will receive Double Education stats this week at the School and University. Vote Now for next week.

BREAKING NEWS
Traps left at the City of Marada Power Station caught workers by surprise and unfortunately injured them all. This has caused a huge Blackout pushing all of Marada into darkness! Workers predict it will take 7-8 days to fix the issue.
What happens when there is a Blackout? Well...

All Candle, Devil, Fire, Fire Fairy, Lightning, Light Fairy, Neon, Sparkle and Strobe pets will receive FREE training at the Gym and Elite Gym and FREE lessons at the School and University.

Visit the Telescope during a blackout and you'll win one of these amazingly detailed Photos of each world in Marada.
Without any power, the Operations Portal has reset to factory settings and will change the colour of any pet that uses it to black or white. No species changes will happen at the Operations Portal during a blackout.

Whenever there is a blackout event, the retired Galactic Treasure Chest is back on sale at the Account Upgrades Shop.
It will automatically retire again when power is restored to Marada.
The blackout has Baspinar's Castle and Eleka's Castle in darkness 24 hours a day. Therefore the Knutt Knight will stay sleeping and his quests cannot be completed but the Troll mission will stay open 24 hours a day. The Bank has decided to remain open throughout the blackout.

Ublish no longer needs your help finding stars for his mission - it's so dark he can see them himself and has taken a well earned vacation!

The Batteries, Candle, Glowing Egg, Health Tonic and Star Shops all have a 2 for 1 special on all items.

The grave keeper is also always asleep when you visit Grave Robbing.

And finally, these are how every Photo taken of your pet at the Photo Parlour or Webcam will look during a blackout...

Mara really appreciates all of the players that have completed his Progress Goals to help him build a better Marapets. As an extra thank you, he is rewarding all players the following benefits for the next 7 days. These rewards change automatically every Saturday.


The Time Machine has selected the following 30 items as the prize list for the following 7 days.

BREAKING NEWS
Queen Eleka was able to run her secret Wizard Academy and rebuild her Castle so far this year without King Baspinar finding out. She has been communicating with her minions through a secret, undetectable language of codes that corrupt after the first time they are read. With the Mad Scientist on his side and a nation of loyal Code Breakers right now, King Baspinar is close to cracking the code. King Baspinar is planning to leave his castle and is preparing his army to put a stop to her evil plans.

As the self-proclaimed leader of all that is dark and evil in Marada, Queen Eleka needs your help! Using as many Traps that you can all get your hands on, she wants her loyal minions to try and guess all of the places throughout Marada that the King or his army may visit and leave traps there. She has lots of nice Bonus Prize rewards for those who leave traps in the correct parts of Marada. There will be even bigger rewards for each player who catches any of King Baspinar's army. Can King Baspinar be caught too?


Prizes include 50 winners of 5,000,000MP, 40 winners of 2,500,000MP, 30 winners of £10 Account Upgrades Credit, 20 winners of £5 Account Upgrades Credit, 10 winners of £2 Account Upgrades Credit, 5 winners of an Enchanted Goblin Decadal Plushie and 5 winners of a Goblin Decadal Potion.

You have until September 13th to lay any Traps around Marada to take part. There are no limits to how many traps you can leave around Marada. The more traps you leave at a certain location, the greater the chance your trap will catch any of King Baspinar's army if they do visit that location for the top prizes. However, leaving more traps at a certain location will not earn you extra bonus prizes. The Traps Shop will be also be restocking DOUBLE STOCK until the event is over.

With thousands solving more of Queen Eleka's secret language in Code Breaker, King Baspinar is optimistic that he can translate this language by the end of this week! He has hired Enpiah's top scientist to crack it all and find out what her new evil plan is.

The Mad Scientist rewards players for their pet's Science Stats trained from the School. The higher your pet's Science stats are, the greater Mad Scientist will reward them. You will receive prizes for each of your pet's science stat levels - the higher you train, the more you are rewarded! There are currently prizes for 150 or more Science Stats.

The Toxic Potion, one of the oldest (and most useless items) on the site, has been added as a prize. Over fifteen years ago it was added to the site as a possible battle item that never happened. It was retired and left to rot. It is now a Poison item (it will kill your pet) that any species of pet can drink.


The Mad Scientist has been added to the Enpiah world map and the Rewards page.

Your loyalty is important to us! King Baspinar rewards you for how old your account is and Queen Eleka rewards you for the number of days you visit us. Mara also enters you into a FREE Progress Raffle every day that you visit us. Visit us every day of the week and you receive 8 raffle tickets. You will be entered into either a Bronze, Silver or Gold raffle depending on what level you have progressed to. Winners are announced every Friday. Congratulations to last week's winners:

A new Weekly Quest Contest has just started. This week's quest game is Microwave. The challenge is to complete as many of these Quests this week. The top 3 players at the end of the challenge will receive a British Costume, 200,000MP and a Gold Trophy, the next 6 players will receive 150,000MP and a Silver Trophy and the next 9 players will receive 100,000MP and a Bronze Trophy.
Congratulations to the winners:

Gold: Ichikurasaishi, kabocha, snowflake1089
Silver: Thirindra, Stockmon, Valiar, Thehermit, Sundaye, Tribble
Bronze: DemonOfIrony, Drag0nPr1ncess, grandmaof9, androidflesh, ducksoup, Animegirl5756, ClumsyMarionette, Nikon, MandiJo


A new Ugly Contest has just started. The theme to dress up as this week is Just Wrong. Congratulations to last week's winners of the 70's, 80's or 90's theme:

Peekaboo

Monica

Tribble

Your loyalty is important to us! King Baspinar rewards you for how old your account is and Queen Eleka rewards you for the number of days you visit us. Queen Eleka also gives you a FREE Loyalty Raffle Ticket every day that you visit us for this Weekly Raffle. Visit us every day of the week and you receive 8 raffle tickets. Winners are announced every Wednesday. Congratulations to last week's winners:


A new Weekly Item Contest has just started. This week's item is Daisy Notepad. The challenge is to delete as many of this item as you can this week. You will earn 1 Point in the contest and 1 Memory Point for every Daisy Notepad deleted. The top 3 players at the end of the challenge will receive a Merry Hot Chocolate, 200,000MP and a Gold Trophy, the next 6 players will receive 150,000MP and a Silver Trophy and the next 9 players will receive 100,000MP and a Bronze Trophy. Congratulations to the winners:

Gold : Ichikurasaishi, pothos, lunathewolf2235
Silver : schummzo, Wallflowers, Edanix, delloyd, Retired, forcefire001
Bronze : nicecat2, OtokoMarcel, vankim, HylianPaladin, whostdve, Valiar, TheGoodMadame, Corrupt, YummyTummyEatsBirds

The Gizmo Gravity game in Vortex Park now has 7 new Bonus Prizes that you can randomly win from playing this game and a new High Score List with trophies for players who reach the highest score.

There are also 18 new High Score Rewards to be won. You will win one of these each and every time you reach a certain score - with prizes from a score as low as 50 up until those who manage to score 1,000 or more! Prizes for this game include gourmet food, DVD, Stamp, CD or Wig.

There are also 11 new Magnet items to be won. These are currently toys for your pet to play with but in the future, these will also be single use items you can use during a Battle. They will steal health from an opponent and heal your pet - the rarer the magnet, the more health it can take!